Brain Tilt

I recently read this post by Mark Cuban and wanted to add my own thoughts to it.

He’s right.  There really is no reason to wear suits anymore.  A lot of people will tell you that when you meet with your customers, you should wear suits, so that you will show them how professional you are.  And that’s crap.  Most customers don’t care what you wear, as long as you know what you are talking about.  Sure, looking professional will lend you some credibility.  However, you’ll gain more credibility by giving a well prepared, thought out, insightful, factual presentation.  Yet, for some reason, people still feel the need to wear suits or demand that subordinates wear suits to “be professional”.  It’s crap.

Why am I blogging about this, you ask??  Because I had to wear a suit to a vendor fair, where all my customers were in business casual attire.  So I had to wear the monkey suit and spend 3 hours being uncomfortable.  And when I am uncomfortable, it tends to effect my presentations.  I like to be relaxed when talking to customers, so that my conversations can flow more naturally.  Without the suit, that doesn’t happen.

Suits blow.

Looks like HP may have been acquiring trade secrets on the sly from Dell.

My only question is this: why would you steal Dell’s trade secrets??  If you’ve ever used a Dell, I’m willing to bet that you’ve had problems with them.  They are dirt cheap because they use cheap components in their machines.  Why would HP be worried about Dell making shoddy printers to match their shoddy computers??  HP has a virtual stranglehold on the pinter market and Dell’s sub-par machines wouldn’t make a dent in their market share.

But then again, HP did waste tons of money merging with Compaq.  Who knows what they thinking.

Here’s some random news stuff for today:

First, Netflix is going to start offering downloadable movies to their customers. That’s right, you’ll be able to download and watch movies on your computer. Good stuff. Especially for me, since I’ll be able to watch movies online while I’m waiting for my other DVD’s to arrive. Now if only I could figure out a way to burn them once I’ve downloaded them…

Second, Sony has announced that PS3 shipments have reached the 1 million mark. Good for you Sony. Just to bad you couldn’t produce them any faster around Christmas, when people would have sold their homes and children to get one.

Apple has announced that they will be charging a fee to certain Mac owners to be able to use wireless technologies on their computers. So, after you’ve paid $2500 for your Mac, you now have to pay to be able to use the wireless technology. Sweet. And lets not forget that Mac’s are much more expensive to to fix when something goes wrong. Remind me again why they don’t seem to gain much market share against PC’s in the computer world??

This is a follow up from yesterdays post on Apple’s iPhone.  Turns out Apple is being sued by Cisco over naming rights.  Turns out, Cisco trademarked the name iPhone in 2000.
It’ll be interesting to see how this one turns out.