I don't understand. You, and your advisors, are saying it is "doomed" to fail only based on the fact that it is based on Linux and a "rumoured" price. So the only thing you know for sure is that it is based on Linux; and you conclude it is "doomed" to fail.
if their device does not succeed, it might even have the consequence of steering future people away from the idea of trying to use Linux as a viable gaming platform ever again
Even Valve not failing yet, as the device is not out yet, you and your advisors are STILL steering people away from using Linux as a gaming platform. Your phrasing it as a fear for a future event is misleading - you are making it happen right now.
This same society has a principle - eggskull principle. If someone has a very weak skull, in an argument with a stranger if the stranger hits this person with his fist to injure him but ends up killing him, the stranger gets charged with murder not just assault. Even though "not everyone" that was hit this way died.
So why such principles do not apply when the society as a whole is "guilty" ?
Fair enough. I also now recall that this connector between surface and its keyboard covers is proprietary and Microsoft was I think not ready to share it even with its OEM victims er.. I mean partners. So even if the keyboard sells, it may not be useful for other devices than the surface.
But after talking about "reason", you talked as if the American market bears any resemblance to non-american market as for pertaining to RIM. That is false, by erstwhile Nokia 's example, by RIM having done well earlier in American market, and by theoretical analysis of the magnitude of difference between American and non - American markets for mobile phone.
Subsidization exists in other markets, but Americans have an obsession for it.
Which is why it's compatible with pretty much anything from Hinduism, Judaism, and Atheism -- because at core, there's nothing supernatural to believe in.
True. But the reason is better explained here. If you ignore the superior tone of the author you'd be able to concentrate on the concept of "history centricism" that the author has introduced. That is the real reason some "religions", or in general philosophies are compatible with others and others are not.
And for the same reason, Hinduism is also compatible with Judaism and Atheism, and Christianity.
Nokia did excellently in the non-North-America market for a decade while being a distant 3rd or 4th largest player in the North America. And all the while it was the largest handset seller in the world, its market capitalization was larger than Apple's at the time.
Not an electronics company, talk about a mobile phone company. This particular market is drastically different in North America from most other places in the world. The obsession of North-Americans with not paying upfront for their mobile device is unparalleled. This completely changes the market dynamics, and makes it less profitable for the handset manufacturer. Handset manufacturers got back some of the power from the service provider only recently during the rise of iPhone, and even the n not all manufacturers have enough pricing power.
For other electronics device market, your statement might be true, but it is emphatically false for mobile phone market.
Nature is awfully inefficient. Efficiency of trees is 1-5% (chemical energy produced per joule incident light energy). A lot of the chemical energy produced by trees is useless for human consumption, and some is useless even for human consumption via an animal. E.g. stem, thick branches, some kinds of falling leaves in autumn, roots.
Animals are further 5% efficient in chemical energy consumed / chemical energy produced. Lot of energy is wasted in general cell replacement for no purpose, "thinking", moving about uselessly, beating heart, flowing blood etc. Lot of energy goes in building bones, skin, blood, fur, hair, teeth etc. which humans can't eat or even suck with any consequence.
Plus currently farms need lot of space so they need to be away from cities. So lot of energy / resources go in transportation. Artificial nutrients might need less space and thus save some of this transportation costs.
Humans have already built artificial RNA "virus". With time, we might be able to build artificial nutrients that we need. And efficiency target of 0.02% is not so great either.
I've noticed vegetarians can't take the smell of chicken eggs and fish. Mammal / bird meat cooked certain ways are also revolting for many. I've seen children who hate the smell of yogurt / mushroom. Later the same children start tolerating it. I guess that happens once they end up eating yogurt, or eating something with slight flavour from yogurt when they were exceptionally hungry; though of course I am not too sure of this theory.
So I conclude some food tastes fundamentally "bad", if there is such a thing, but the positive reinforcement of it filling one's hungry stomach slowly makes us like the food later on. The taste / flavour sort of "grows" on us.
Now the vegetarians you come across have surely not "grown" the flavour of most non-vegetarian food. So wanting to keep away from it is natural.
Sure, there is a bit of illogical meat hatred there, somewhere in this behaviour.
Alas, the keyboard is tied to the platform, which is tied to Windows 8. I suspect they'll only be available via purchasing a Surface for some considerable time
Microsoft has downplayed this, particularly when they allowed Vista to ship with lower system requirements
Surely mistake is the kindest explanation for this.
Paying : having to buy a touchscreen, using funds from one's own pocket? If this is not paying, nothing is.
For : the causal relationship is obvious.
Shill : you are trying to deny such clear facts, shill is the kindest description you can receive by this. Less kind ones could be "idiot" or the like.
Fuel efficiency is related to the weight of vehicles by at most the second power, in most cases it is nearly directly proportional. Road wear is proportional to about the fourth power of vehicle weight.
So owners of smaller vehicles do pay a lot more for the damage they cause to the roads.
This is slashdot. There's an article, called TFA, and while nobody reads it, there is a general tendency to keep the discussion limited to the title of the story, some going so far as even reading the summary and discussing about that (gasp). This one's about Microsoft, not Apple. You can use apple.slashdot.org if you can't control mentioning Apple in every sentence you type.
Well, Google is an example that fulfills all the requirements. It is not general purpose, more like an expert system, but it's AI e.g. spam control is getting very good. They have teams whose only job is to disrupt their own datacenters, the goal being no service disruption. The disrupt teams are getting increasingly ambitious.
Wow, so slashdot's discussions are "completely one-sided", but its moderation is the perfect troll detector? I hope you are not claiming ignorance of the fact that slashdot readers, whom you accuse of Microsoft hatred, are themselves the major part of moderation here?
Yes, I quote Patten as this quote is an exquisite way to put the very correct observation. And I disagree with many of his other statements and actions, something you cannot say about your relationship with Microsoft which is that of bootlicker-bootlickee.
So you still don't have any serious condemnation for Microsoft, looks like it is a subject of serious pay-cut. You can suggest your management to allow a few serious sounding but ultimately pointless condemnations to save the asses of shills like you. But they may not care about your asses.
You're just putting words in my mouth now. I called it a problem, which signifies that I acknowledge it does matter
Well, the problem being major or not was offtopic. It was not being discussed. Either you disagree with the person posting that this is a behaviour and not good; or you agree. Which you didn't even mention explicitly, but you directly went on to discuss the offtopic subject - whether or not the problem was major.
As to the problem actually being major, well it is a hidden user interface artifact you are dealing with, every bit helps when making it easy to use. With such an obvious issue, where is the every bit being done by Microsoft?
As for corporate overlords, it says a lot about you that you figure everyone with an opinion contrary to yours must be getting paid to think as they do. Good luck with that mindset in life.
I have read at least hundred of your posts. All of them strongly defending Microsoft, none of them pointing out the least of an issue with their products, and almost none on any other topic. As General Patten said "When everyone's thinking alike, someone isn't thinking", which is true. At best you could be an unthinking fanboy, I didn't really say you were being paid. But since you take that allegation yourself, you might have a point.
You know, sheep are famous for a reason - they naturally agree with each other, at least in the direction to take when grazing. It is NOT normal for a human to always agree with a mega corporation on hundreds of non-trivial topics.
The only thing I'm handwaving away here is the direction of an animation.
You are saying that something must be a "major problem" for it to matter, in a piece of Software that is enormously costly to produce.Which is idiotic. Luckily for you the TFA and the windows 8 feature on topic , both are "animations", so you may not be in trouble with your corporate masters.
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I don't understand. You, and your advisors, are saying it is "doomed" to fail only based on the fact that it is based on Linux and a "rumoured" price. So the only thing you know for sure is that it is based on Linux; and you conclude it is "doomed" to fail.
if their device does not succeed, it might even have the consequence of steering future people away from the idea of trying to use Linux as a viable gaming platform ever again
Even Valve not failing yet, as the device is not out yet, you and your advisors are STILL steering people away from using Linux as a gaming platform. Your phrasing it as a fear for a future event is misleading - you are making it happen right now.
This same society has a principle - eggskull principle. If someone has a very weak skull, in an argument with a stranger if the stranger hits this person with his fist to injure him but ends up killing him, the stranger gets charged with murder not just assault. Even though "not everyone" that was hit this way died.
So why such principles do not apply when the society as a whole is "guilty" ?
Fair enough. I also now recall that this connector between surface and its keyboard covers is proprietary and Microsoft was I think not ready to share it even with its OEM victims er.. I mean partners. So even if the keyboard sells, it may not be useful for other devices than the surface.
But after talking about "reason", you talked as if the American market bears any resemblance to non-american market as for pertaining to RIM. That is false, by erstwhile Nokia 's example, by RIM having done well earlier in American market, and by theoretical analysis of the magnitude of difference between American and non - American markets for mobile phone.
Subsidization exists in other markets, but Americans have an obsession for it.
Which is why it's compatible with pretty much anything from Hinduism, Judaism, and Atheism -- because at core, there's nothing supernatural to believe in.
True. But the reason is better explained here. If you ignore the superior tone of the author you'd be able to concentrate on the concept of "history centricism" that the author has introduced. That is the real reason some "religions", or in general philosophies are compatible with others and others are not.
And for the same reason, Hinduism is also compatible with Judaism and Atheism, and Christianity.
Nokia did excellently in the non-North-America market for a decade while being a distant 3rd or 4th largest player in the North America. And all the while it was the largest handset seller in the world, its market capitalization was larger than Apple's at the time.
Not an electronics company, talk about a mobile phone company. This particular market is drastically different in North America from most other places in the world. The obsession of North-Americans with not paying upfront for their mobile device is unparalleled. This completely changes the market dynamics, and makes it less profitable for the handset manufacturer. Handset manufacturers got back some of the power from the service provider only recently during the rise of iPhone, and even the n not all manufacturers have enough pricing power.
For other electronics device market, your statement might be true, but it is emphatically false for mobile phone market.
Nature is awfully inefficient. Efficiency of trees is 1-5% (chemical energy produced per joule incident light energy). A lot of the chemical energy produced by trees is useless for human consumption, and some is useless even for human consumption via an animal. E.g. stem, thick branches, some kinds of falling leaves in autumn, roots.
Animals are further 5% efficient in chemical energy consumed / chemical energy produced. Lot of energy is wasted in general cell replacement for no purpose, "thinking", moving about uselessly, beating heart, flowing blood etc. Lot of energy goes in building bones, skin, blood, fur, hair, teeth etc. which humans can't eat or even suck with any consequence.
Plus currently farms need lot of space so they need to be away from cities. So lot of energy / resources go in transportation. Artificial nutrients might need less space and thus save some of this transportation costs.
Humans have already built artificial RNA "virus". With time, we might be able to build artificial nutrients that we need. And efficiency target of 0.02% is not so great either.
I've noticed vegetarians can't take the smell of chicken eggs and fish. Mammal / bird meat cooked certain ways are also revolting for many. I've seen children who hate the smell of yogurt / mushroom. Later the same children start tolerating it. I guess that happens once they end up eating yogurt, or eating something with slight flavour from yogurt when they were exceptionally hungry; though of course I am not too sure of this theory.
So I conclude some food tastes fundamentally "bad", if there is such a thing, but the positive reinforcement of it filling one's hungry stomach slowly makes us like the food later on. The taste / flavour sort of "grows" on us.
Now the vegetarians you come across have surely not "grown" the flavour of most non-vegetarian food. So wanting to keep away from it is natural.
Sure, there is a bit of illogical meat hatred there, somewhere in this behaviour.
Alas, the keyboard is tied to the platform, which is tied to Windows 8. I suspect they'll only be available via purchasing a Surface for some considerable time
Won't computer repair shops sell spares?
Where the "need" is to install Linux.
Mistake :
Microsoft has downplayed this, particularly when they allowed Vista to ship with lower system requirements
Surely mistake is the kindest explanation for this.
Paying : having to buy a touchscreen, using funds from one's own pocket? If this is not paying, nothing is.
For : the causal relationship is obvious.
Shill : you are trying to deny such clear facts, shill is the kindest description you can receive by this. Less kind ones could be "idiot" or the like.
Microsoft has downplayed this, particularly when they allowed Vista to ship with lower system requirements
Ok, so people should pay for Microsoft's mistakes. Got it, shill.
Fuel efficiency is related to the weight of vehicles by at most the second power, in most cases it is nearly directly proportional. Road wear is proportional to about the fourth power of vehicle weight.
So owners of smaller vehicles do pay a lot more for the damage they cause to the roads.
I missed the news where Microsoft is supplying touchscreen's for free to every Window 8 victim. Could you point me to it?
thanks
This is slashdot. There's an article, called TFA, and while nobody reads it, there is a general tendency to keep the discussion limited to the title of the story, some going so far as even reading the summary and discussing about that (gasp). This one's about Microsoft, not Apple. You can use apple.slashdot.org if you can't control mentioning Apple in every sentence you type.
Well, Google is an example that fulfills all the requirements. It is not general purpose, more like an expert system, but it's AI e.g. spam control is getting very good. They have teams whose only job is to disrupt their own datacenters, the goal being no service disruption. The disrupt teams are getting increasingly ambitious.
Wow, so slashdot's discussions are "completely one-sided", but its moderation is the perfect troll detector? I hope you are not claiming ignorance of the fact that slashdot readers, whom you accuse of Microsoft hatred, are themselves the major part of moderation here?
Yes, I quote Patten as this quote is an exquisite way to put the very correct observation. And I disagree with many of his other statements and actions, something you cannot say about your relationship with Microsoft which is that of bootlicker-bootlickee.
So you still don't have any serious condemnation for Microsoft, looks like it is a subject of serious pay-cut. You can suggest your management to allow a few serious sounding but ultimately pointless condemnations to save the asses of shills like you. But they may not care about your asses.
You're just putting words in my mouth now. I called it a problem, which signifies that I acknowledge it does matter
Well, the problem being major or not was offtopic. It was not being discussed. Either you disagree with the person posting that this is a behaviour and not good; or you agree. Which you didn't even mention explicitly, but you directly went on to discuss the offtopic subject - whether or not the problem was major.
As to the problem actually being major, well it is a hidden user interface artifact you are dealing with, every bit helps when making it easy to use. With such an obvious issue, where is the every bit being done by Microsoft?
As for corporate overlords, it says a lot about you that you figure everyone with an opinion contrary to yours must be getting paid to think as they do. Good luck with that mindset in life.
I have read at least hundred of your posts. All of them strongly defending Microsoft, none of them pointing out the least of an issue with their products, and almost none on any other topic. As General Patten said "When everyone's thinking alike, someone isn't thinking", which is true. At best you could be an unthinking fanboy, I didn't really say you were being paid. But since you take that allegation yourself, you might have a point.
You know, sheep are famous for a reason - they naturally agree with each other, at least in the direction to take when grazing. It is NOT normal for a human to always agree with a mega corporation on hundreds of non-trivial topics.
The only thing I'm handwaving away here is the direction of an animation.
You are saying that something must be a "major problem" for it to matter, in a piece of Software that is enormously costly to produce.Which is idiotic. Luckily for you the TFA and the windows 8 feature on topic , both are "animations", so you may not be in trouble with your corporate masters.
Did, nothing like that, just the opposite. Or you can just RTFS, and find
the fact that Internet providers are now raking in hugeâ"in some cases, recordâ"profit margins
If the new releases were so much better, you wouldn't have to handwave problem areas with "not a major problem".
Wow, so the ISPs' bottomlines must be hurting real bad. Oh wait, you're wrong!
Try to follow the events, the animation is about a product which has had predecessors.
Microsoft is attempting a "conversion" though.
As tech people we understand so everyone must? And still nothing for what is the benefit to ISPs if they obey you?
So you cannot think from another person's point of view? It's ok, you are differently abled. US has special laws to prosecute me if I make fun of you.