He is WOZ not RMS. He's allowed to like things.:-)
But seriously, there's nothing inherently wrong with the Windows phone interface.
Its just that its designed for the needs of corporations, not people.
What's actually wrong with the Windows phone, is that its from Microsoft, people with the soul of accountants, the flair of bricks, the intelligence of lawyers and the design sense of your office cubicle.
Why put them in their uniform? The kid gets naked and your tracking goes in a messy pile of laundry next to the bed he's cavorting in. Or they ditch the uniforms are go for a ride while the uniform is still reporting them as school.
Make the kids eat the chips every few days. This way you'll be able to identify their mangled remains after their car goes off the road or after they get kidnapped, murdered, their bodies set on fire after the parents cant pay the ransom....
Microsoft's accountants will eventually kill their mobile division just like they kill everything that doesn't generate sufficient cash flow, and that cash flow is considerable.
Microsoft's problems is that they are a victim of their own success.
They never see that they were used by an entire market sector to relieve the hardware OEMs from having to develop any software.
People, end-users, never bought their products. They bought the hardware, but there was no choice as to the software so it wan't a consideration.
They were never liked, they were never sought after, they were never thought about other than as something that came with the hardware.
They have almost no brand loyalty and no market presence (their ubiquity makes them entirely invisible.) Basically, nobody cares.
Unlike Linux, which is sought after by DIY computer geeks and sysadmins looking to squeeze more performance out of their boxen and who buy components from NewEgg or TigerDirect, or Apple products which are sought after by people who care about things other than specs and who make their pilgrimage to the Apple Store experience or buy on-line via iTunes, nobody really wants to put up with the crap Microsoft excretes from its cloaca in Redmond.
The new Microsoft super-phone will come with lighter, shorter and smaller tin cans and two strings for messaging redundancy.
The problem with Microsoft is that its being run by accountants, who might be well intentioned but have the creative soul of MP3 player designers, you know the "deer in the headlight" guys who never got that people just wanted to listen to their music, not play with their devices endlessly just to go from one tune to the next. (I have a cousin who was that kind of "early adopter". He also used to drive his car high as a kite while playing with the MP3 player and flicking the ash off of his roaches. Distracted driving ads were written for and because of people like him.)
Anybody who can seriously come up with an ugly brown Zune or a brain-dead Kin in this day and age should be chased from design meetings with a friggin' bull whip and a flame thrower.
What would you do if you were the head of a corporation, or, more to the point, if you were the chief bean counter?
Do you let the employees pay for their own phones so its of of your books altogether or do you pay to supply phones to your staff, with all of the supply and replacement problems that entails?
If its the employees own phones, it costs you NOTHING.
And I thought Microsoft was smart enough to know that they're not dealing with OEMs with vendor lock anymore... Oh well...
Seriously, there will be a market for both the Apple iPad with its larger surface (and iOS) and for the Amazon Kindle Fire with its lower price point (and Linux.)
Also, just as seriously, there is no mention of Microsoft or any flavor of Windows. Just sayin'...:-)
"Let us break up any bank that has more than 10% market share in retail banking. Any investment bank that has more than 10% market share."
Actually, bank size is NOT the problem. Canada only has seven banks and they are of course bigger than US banks with all their alleged competition.
'reinstate Glass-Stegall act."
That is indeed the regulation situation in Canada and Canada's economy did NOT go into the shitter.
"Let us do it peacefully when we still can do it in an orderly manner. Else someday roving mobs will be pulling out chairman of Goldman Sachs hiding in sewer pipes."
Screw peacefully, I want to see the banksters get frog marched to the Guillotine.
I say that THEY are the terrorists. The DESERVE to be treated like Quadaffi...
That way you keep the corporate family jewels safe behind the firewalls and let the users roam all over the planet of they want with the iPhones, iPads or whatever.
This is a new feature created by Balmer (who's all for looking at porn, [have you seen him dance, sweat-stained armpits and all? I feel dirty just thinking of him going around shouting "Developers",]) and his lawyers (who are going to go after the ofender's website in an effort to collect advertising fees.)
I own every book that Sir Terry Prachett has written since he saw his fist dead body (being a cub reporter in them days really meant something,) and want to read every word he crafts into his great novels.
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That would be easiest for most light duty use.
and say goodbye to playing sysadmin and hardware tech for your sister.
You owe it to YOURSELF.
Just keep off the porn sites. Nobody's MAKING you go there, you schmucks.
Keep your trotters off the web.
Nor can you hardwire a targeting and firing sequence without some form of cybernetic feedback mechanism and a state machine.
But the distinctions are harder to make than you think.
Where do you cut off the hardware and cut over the state machine?
Just because a state machine requires some initialization upon activation doesn't mean that it can't be implemented in hardware.
Just because you were implemented in wetware doesn't mean that you didn't develop a will.
software is just defrosted hardware.
Its possible to take ANY algorithm and cast it in silicon.
That was one of the tenets in the creation of Forth by Charles Moore.
It would be possible to implement this using a FAST Arduino microcontroller, maybe with some extra memory, and a few (2+) good (>40kHz) sonar sensors.
He is WOZ not RMS. He's allowed to like things. :-)
But seriously, there's nothing inherently wrong with the Windows phone interface.
Its just that its designed for the needs of corporations, not people.
What's actually wrong with the Windows phone, is that its from Microsoft, people with the soul of accountants, the flair of bricks, the intelligence of lawyers and the design sense of your office cubicle.
Why put them in their uniform? The kid gets naked and your tracking goes in a messy pile of laundry next to the bed he's cavorting in. Or they ditch the uniforms are go for a ride while the uniform is still reporting them as school.
Make the kids eat the chips every few days. This way you'll be able to identify their mangled remains after their car goes off the road or after they get kidnapped, murdered, their bodies set on fire after the parents cant pay the ransom....
Who needs Windows? You might as well use Linux then.
What other proof do you need???
Microsoft's accountants will eventually kill their mobile division just like they kill everything that doesn't generate sufficient cash flow, and that cash flow is considerable.
Microsoft's problems is that they are a victim of their own success.
They never see that they were used by an entire market sector to relieve the hardware OEMs from having to develop any software.
People, end-users, never bought their products. They bought the hardware, but there was no choice as to the software so it wan't a consideration.
They were never liked, they were never sought after, they were never thought about other than as something that came with the hardware.
They have almost no brand loyalty and no market presence (their ubiquity makes them entirely invisible.) Basically, nobody cares.
Unlike Linux, which is sought after by DIY computer geeks and sysadmins looking to squeeze more performance out of their boxen and who buy components from NewEgg or TigerDirect, or Apple products which are sought after by people who care about things other than specs and who make their pilgrimage to the Apple Store experience or buy on-line via iTunes, nobody really wants to put up with the crap Microsoft excretes from its cloaca in Redmond.
The new Microsoft super-phone will come with lighter, shorter and smaller tin cans and two strings for messaging redundancy.
The problem with Microsoft is that its being run by accountants, who might be well intentioned but have the creative soul of MP3 player designers, you know the "deer in the headlight" guys who never got that people just wanted to listen to their music, not play with their devices endlessly just to go from one tune to the next. (I have a cousin who was that kind of "early adopter". He also used to drive his car high as a kite while playing with the MP3 player and flicking the ash off of his roaches. Distracted driving ads were written for and because of people like him.)
Anybody who can seriously come up with an ugly brown Zune or a brain-dead Kin in this day and age should be chased from design meetings with a friggin' bull whip and a flame thrower.
What would you do if you were the head of a corporation, or, more to the point, if you were the chief bean counter?
Do you let the employees pay for their own phones so its of of your books altogether or do you pay to supply phones to your staff, with all of the supply and replacement problems that entails?
If its the employees own phones, it costs you NOTHING.
And I thought Microsoft was smart enough to know that they're not dealing with OEMs with vendor lock anymore... Oh well...
They're just shoving anything that will go down the pipe as some form of fluid to build pressure.
Thinking that there's even some magic recipe for forcing cracks in shale is the height is idiocy.
They oil & gas companies are just shoving in their waste products under high pressure and, low and behold, the shale can't take the pressure.
That happens to release some natural gas some times, if they drilled close enough to some gas pockets.
I'm glad I live on granite.
spooky action at a distance " (at the heart of quantum coherence) had never been further than his salad bowl...
If its earning less than inflation while you're holding it, DUMP it. Its costing you money.
Nobody wants to look at my ugly mug anyway.
I used my cat "Wiki" as my avatar until he died and now I'm using "Ixie" for as long as she lasts.
Seriously, there will be a market for both the Apple iPad with its larger surface (and iOS) and for the Amazon Kindle Fire with its lower price point (and Linux.)
Also, just as seriously, there is no mention of Microsoft or any flavor of Windows. Just sayin'... :-)
"Let us break up any bank that has more than 10% market share in retail banking. Any investment bank that has more than 10% market share."
Actually, bank size is NOT the problem. Canada only has seven banks and they are of course bigger than US banks with all their alleged competition.
'reinstate Glass-Stegall act."
That is indeed the regulation situation in Canada and Canada's economy did NOT go into the shitter.
"Let us do it peacefully when we still can do it in an orderly manner. Else someday roving mobs will be pulling out chairman of Goldman Sachs hiding in sewer pipes."
Screw peacefully, I want to see the banksters get frog marched to the Guillotine.
I say that THEY are the terrorists. The DESERVE to be treated like Quadaffi...
Will some IBM lawyer kindly put a shotgun shell through this zombie's head once and for all?
Buy SCO's client list, disband SCO's board, take away their DNS entries and set Derle's tomb on fire so we can be done with this crap.
Get them GoToMyPC and stop worrying about it.
That way you keep the corporate family jewels safe behind the firewalls and let the users roam all over the planet of they want with the iPhones, iPads or whatever.
Boy... That Larry Ellison....
The religious leaders don't like an informed populace.
The Jesuits would like a word with you.
My last kick at the education can was in 2007 at St. Peter's College: a Jesuit college. :-)
Its a lot harder to be ignorant of the world and of your place in it when you can find just about anything, anywhere, anytime.
The religious leaders don't like an informed populace.
They just want them to memorize the Bible/Qran/Torah and do as they're told.
This is a new feature created by Balmer (who's all for looking at porn, [have you seen him dance, sweat-stained armpits and all? I feel dirty just thinking of him going around shouting "Developers",]) and his lawyers (who are going to go after the ofender's website in an effort to collect advertising fees.)
I hope he forgets all about it.
I own every book that Sir Terry Prachett has written since he saw his fist dead body (being a cub reporter in them days really meant something,) and want to read every word he crafts into his great novels.
His passing will be a great tragedy.
Hopefully it will not come to pass before he finishes his next DiskWorld®© story.