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It isnt the vendors that need to go extinct, its BigCo. BigCo buys cloud services in 2012 the way it bought time sharing in 1972, so the vendors are still using 1972 sales processes in 2012.

I'll tell you the real reason why netbooks are going extinct: because I like them. They're the ideal computing environment for me.

Hordes of apps would become extinct overnight as Microsoft built their features into new releases of Windows. But now?

The eccentric university professor is a species that is going extinct fast.

"Go extinct" doesn't mean "be all killed" or "be violently sterilized". It means that we should stop breeding these unnatural and disadvantaged animals.

All the money in the world can't revive an extinct specie for instance. Secondly, I don't like the stance you defend : fines aren't a price to pay to do whatever we want, there are to dissuade people to act in a way society don't want you to act.

I think the bottom line is that these companies have a really high probability of going extinct if they don't learn to adapt and figure out how to evolve rather than trying to do business as they have been doing for so long. The cheese moved.

The MIT approach was quite possibly impossible to implement, and the system they were building is extinct. If you want to use a computer well, you have to learn a little about computers and set aside your preconceived ideas.

Asp”, which is basically an extinct platform that almost nobody uses anymore. « Someone might tell them that URLs don't need to point to files and don't necessarily give a clue about the technology underneath.

It's not like it's the first time in history when large companies either were forced to dramatically change their business models, or became extinct because of disruption. Why would the Internet be any different?

If we didn't have immune systems the species would have long been extinct in the primordial soup. Strong systems are built from living in a hostile and competitive environment, not from living in a utopia like the first academic computer systems lived in.

The most "conservative" company would have techies that don't meet any customers come in a suit, and those are almost extinct now. In a military, depending on where you are and your rank, you could detention / penalties for not being shaved, not having your shoes shined, having a haircut that's too long by a few centimeters.

Or perhaps the sea serpents were predators, and they depended on one of the species that our bigger and more powerful ships allowed us to hunt more efficiently, and we destroyed enough of their food source that they went extinct. Much of these stories remind me of the stories of giant waves that come out of nowhere and destroy ships.

The fact that lines of bacteria go extinct does nothing to disprove the fact that bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics. Is it possible that there are antibiotics out there that can stop the newly-resistant bacteria?

If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft- hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.

But that doesn't mean we'd want to return to a world where we didn't have cars, horseshit lines the streets, whales are extinct, everybody sleeps at dusk, and the bulk of the population works in textiles or domestic service. The process of getting here wasn't easy, but all of the political upheaval and human dislocation was very necessary to build the world we have now.

My father got lucky in that he was successful in his transition out of engineering, and was 67 by the time his position went extinct, but there are a whole bunch of folks who would rather have been engineers than otherwise, but ended up missing out on a couple decades where the daily tasks of building software changed dramatically so gained less in technical expertise than they should have, and were left hanging around age 50. I have a ton of cultural criticisms of the current tech industry, but the one thing that it is absolutely getting right is valuing creation.