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November 18, 2008

The Term "Leader"

In many news, I've read a lot about the term "leader". For example: <A Company> is the leader in <a field/software/something>. After you read enough news, you'll realize that every other company is a leader. For me, it is quite confusing, because in my (simple) perception, there should be only one leader.


Apparently, there's this thing called "leader" in "magic quadrant" (from Gartner, a company who compares companies' products in may areas). Every company who falls in that quadrant is a leader. Moreover, the so called "quadrant" is not a finite space, and I think it could contains as many "dots" (i.e companies) as possible.

As for the leader quadrant itself, imagine its rectangular shape, with "higher leader" positioned more to the top-right, and "lesser leader" positioned in bottom-left area. This morning I saw a chart showing Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Sun Microsystem as "the leader". That's basically almost everyone in the industry. And maybe they'll post their own news somewhere, stating that they are the chosen leader.

So, my point is, the term "leader" sometimes used loosely. I think I will be skeptical the next time I read about some people claims that their pencil product is the leader (in writing-with-pencil-and-paper industry), or insurance product, or programming language, or anything.

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November 2, 2008

Acquisition

A company buys another company:

  1. To acquire the technologies owned by the other company.
  2. To acquire the talents (human resource), or assets owned by other company.
  3. To add its product/solution offerings. More product = more money.
  4. To increase its market share, acquire another company means acquire its clients, and prospects (and maybe competitors).
  5. To upsell products to acquired and old clients.
  6. To kill a competitor. Buy your competitor and neglect its products, and your product will be #1 eventually. This is not recommended by the way.
  7. Too much money in pocket, need to spend somewhere. :|
*pointless post actually...*

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October 7, 2008

Beta softwares

Why people love to release beta softwares or web apps. Why don't they just name it as version 1, it's better than 0.0.1build2937 or 0.2.138.40 or other zero point zero point some cryptic numbers. Even Oracle DB starts at version 2 (because they thought people will think version 1 softwares are buggy), and Flickr was a Gamma software once (whatever that means). Just a thought.

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October 5, 2008

Underwater Life

Last night I watched an episode from TEDTalks about deep oceans, and I wonder, why those animals can live in the deepest ocean, for thousands of years, survived. The deep oceans always fascinate me. Every time I see it on TV or somewhere else, I got this excitement. It's not highly explored compared to the surface, and not so many shows on TV (e.g Animal Planet mostly shows.

I think giant squids, big jellyfishes, and other weird-shaped creatures that looks like alien from another planet are great. They could live deep underwater, in a cold and high-pressure environment, and light-less. The only light is the one that you bring. Some creatures even emit their own lights, but I don't think they really see things the way we see. You could say that they live without the sun (directly, but I think they need the sun indirectly). Deep down there, earthquakes and other phenomenon that usually considered as natural disasters happen regularly. But they live.

They live together mutually, in balance. A small shrimp eats from a crab's back, and the crab eats from an underwater-animal-that-looks-like-a-plant, which has no digestive system and eats bacteria, which come from earthquake, which happens regularly. And I imagine that a giant squid comes and wipe out all that small animals, and another bigger squid or fish eat that giant squid.

I wonder, what stops humans to live underwater like that. Maybe one day, when the surfaces are heavily polluted, people will start to look for a new place to live, in outer space or deep underwater (or both, underwater in another planet). Don't say it's impossible, because nothing is.

*pictures taken from google images*

   

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September 21, 2008

People Should Do Teleportation

I hate traffic jam. Every morning I have to spend about one hour to get to workplace from my home. It's one hour, and it happens every day. Every. Day. For the rest of your (life | career | <put your own timeframe here>). That's just the morning. What happens in the evening could be more bizarre. Let's just assume the best case scenario, one hour in the morning and another in the evening. That's two hours per day, ten hours per week, and about 22 days per year. So, why can't I spend my 22 days per year on other activities instead of driving and insulting motorcycle driver.

People say laziness is the mother of all invention. Indeed. People are too lazy to walk, and they invent cars. People are too lazy to drive, and the roads are too crowded to hold another car. So, now, it's the right time to invent. People should invent teleportation. The idea of being able to move from one place to another instantly fascinates me. A lot. To the point that I do some research about on teleportation on the net. I know, call me freak.

Let's do some biological analysis. Movement is one aspect that differentiate animals (and humans) from plants. Plants can't move, but animals and humans can. What differentiate humans and animals is the mind. Humans ride cars, motorcycles, airplanes, and on the other hand animals ride their feet (or their bellies). Humans can innovate, looking for alternatives, pushing a pedal is easier than running on a steep hill. But still, pushing a pedal on a trafficked road is not a pleasant experience, especially if you're late for something. If you can moves instantly from one place to another, that's innovation.

I can imagine, in the future, everyone will be able to do teleportation. There will be teleporter machines and spawn centers machines. Governments will provide public teleportation service, rich people will have their private, more sophisticated (and less noise) teleporters in their bedrooms and bathrooms, and a spawn center in every room. People will be able to spawn in any public spawn centers. Most office buildings will have an array of spawn centers. People could also set their spawn point to their home's spawn center, so they don't necessarily walk from nearest public spawn center. There will be minor accidents, like people spawned at the wrong place, or people spawned three days later, or people disappeared completely, and so on and so forth. The imagination is endless.

You know what kills imagination? Pessimism, realism, the word "no" and "impossible". So, let's just keep those words away for the time being, and let the imagination fills the space inside you. Think yellow (as in HBDI ).

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