The only problem with this tactic is that iPhone is only sold in two places: Apple Stores and AT&T Stores.
Perhaps that's the case in the US. In the UK, iPhones use Telefónica O2 as he carrier and 11,00 units were sold on the launch w/end in Nov. iphones sold in Germany use the T-Mobile network exclusively but i've no idea what carriers and resellers are used throughout the rest of the world.
Did you actually read the article? It's basically about how $ucky the iPhone combined with an AT&T contract is and suggests that tons of units are either being unlocked w/out activation (likely) or simply sitting on store shelves (less likely). Does that sound like an Apple-sponsored ad for their product to you?
Sheer frickin poetry-
Not all it's cracked up to be.
To win the format wars, you see,
You'll need some frickin sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads
What, like pour beer over the CPU- are you nuts? I'm not after one of those liquid-cooled gaming setups anyhow. I think you're one of those Boss fans who just likes to get the last word in.
Good point. But IBM's operations were heavily dependent on the manufacturing sector, for their IBM boxes. Such production intensive business models are much harder adapt and react quickly to the surrounding environment and IBM resultingly had a shocking period.
M$'s primary business, however, is software and services and the product ranges in this sector can be diversified, adapted and even completely changed much more quickly and easily. Over at M$ Strategic Command they realised many years back that the long-term market for their Windows and Office products would start coming under serious threat, especially from OSS products, and naturally they will retain their vice-like grip on these markets for as long as they can whilst all the while identifying new revenue streams. They're doing this last bit very well indeed, don't you think?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it was always inevitable that M$ would eventually start getting reeled in by the competition but it's a testament to their business model and strategy that it's taking everyone so damn long!
So the reason why corporate uptake for M$ Vista has been relatively slow is because.....most corporations just lurrrve M$ XP!
Guess M$ will have to dip into that $20 billion cash flow reserve of theirs and 'ride this one out'...untill they release W7, which those corporations who skipped Vista will almost certainly adopt much earlier.
Oh! I completely forgot: Apple Smuck and Linux OSS** are coming with a vengence.. to a t.v. advert near you.
**Please note that I dual-boot Vista and Kubuntu, though none of the *real users* in my company (you know - the guys who do 'business' and pay for all this stuff) are likely to change OS in the near future since they all seem pretty content achieving what they need to achieve using MS Office, Project, Adobe, SQL Server, Outlook and heaps of intranet apps that run on IE7 (some kool kids are even using Firefox now!) etc. etc. - all running on XP or Vista.
"The figure of 2 million new site compromises per year seems to be quite significant, but could be explained by virtual hosting servers with many sites on the one physical server being compromised, leading to the same vector affecting multiple sites (in some cases thousands of sites)."
Books and knowledge are meant to be freely accessible.
Where on earth did you read that? (hehe)
You may be surprised to discover that, the people who take great time and pain to write good books or produce original literary material (e.g. the stuff that provides the source of a considerable amount of the better articles cited on Wikipedia) need to pay their bills too!
They require soem form of motivation to continue feeding your hunger for the latest knowledge, works of fiction and/or other quality literature... and - believe it or not - although a slap on the back or a mention of/. is all very nice, CA$H, as they say, is still KING.
And there was me thinking the Pentagon maintained a secret black list of rogue US states they suspected of plotting to launch net-based attacks against.. eachother! My, this is not a particularly stately state of affairs to be in.
and find out what this IO business is all about. From the paper
IO involves the use of information technology, such as computer network attacks or psychological operations, to influence, disrupt, corrupt, usurp or defend information systems and the infrastructure they support. More than thirty states have developed IO capacities. But IO is also undoubtedly attractive to non-state actors like Al Qaeda, since the technology is mostly inexpensive, easy-to-use, and capable of deployment from virtually anywhere.
How do come up with thirty states? Presumably this only refers to rogue states. I notice they've left off Hawaii.
he puts most of his information in a fscking video?
Tufte's books concern interactive interface design. This primary purpose of this video is not to be an interactive interface. Instead it is a pre-recorded ('stacked in time') presentation designed to demontrate specific features of the iPhone's interface.
For example, the ability to touch screen and drag the iPhone's screen 'real estate' and the subsequent transition between interfaces, can only be demonstrated effectively in a video like this.
Note this video technology also appears to enable us to absorb information from both a visual and audio source at the same time - amazing stuff!
Sound advice. She's already persuaded my sister to let her get the Companion Cube tattoo for her birthday, though. I can't see the little f***er backing down on that one now.
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iphones sold in Germany use the T-Mobile network exclusively but i've no idea what carriers and resellers are used throughout the rest of the world.
Did you actually read the article? It's basically about how $ucky the iPhone combined with an AT&T contract is and suggests that tons of units are either being unlocked w/out activation (likely) or simply sitting on store shelves (less likely).
Does that sound like an Apple-sponsored ad for their product to you?
Sheer frickin poetry-
Not all it's cracked up to be.
To win the format wars, you see,
You'll need some frickin sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads
What, like pour beer over the CPU- are you nuts? I'm not after one of those liquid-cooled gaming setups anyhow.
I think you're one of those Boss fans who just likes to get the last word in.
Yeah, Love Honey do a variety of products.
What! And risk overheating my unit and suffering a premature installation?
I want a fully recharged UMPC after two minutes of Seiko Kinetic shaking, baby!
Part II:
**Status 'F' = Fired His Ass
or two true ways, for features running over 120 minutes ;)
- a student h4ckr running cracked copies of M$ software in ma's basement
- a blogger who uses an Apple Smuck because t.v. said so
- working in a business where you and/or all your users and/or all their clients add up to less than two people
- residing somewhere in the Matrix City
But then again, you appear to know about vendor lock-in... so I can only conclude that you used to own loads of M$ software...!Slick quote. I googled it and it looks to be original.
Now how much d'ya want for it- or is it going on eBay?
Good point. But IBM's operations were heavily dependent on the manufacturing sector, for their IBM boxes. Such production intensive business models are much harder adapt and react quickly to the surrounding environment and IBM resultingly had a shocking period.
M$'s primary business, however, is software and services and the product ranges in this sector can be diversified, adapted and even completely changed much more quickly and easily. Over at M$ Strategic Command they realised many years back that the long-term market for their Windows and Office products would start coming under serious threat, especially from OSS products, and naturally they will retain their vice-like grip on these markets for as long as they can whilst all the while identifying new revenue streams. They're doing this last bit very well indeed, don't you think?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it was always inevitable that M$ would eventually start getting reeled in by the competition but it's a testament to their business model and strategy that it's taking everyone so damn long!
So the reason why corporate uptake for M$ Vista has been relatively slow is because.. ...most corporations just lurrrve M$ XP!
...untill they release W7, which those corporations who skipped Vista will almost certainly adopt much earlier.
Guess M$ will have to dip into that $20 billion cash flow reserve of theirs and 'ride this one out'
Oh! I completely forgot: Apple Smuck and Linux OSS** are coming with a vengence.. to a t.v. advert near you.
**Please note that I dual-boot Vista and Kubuntu, though none of the *real users* in my company (you know - the guys who do 'business' and pay for all this stuff) are likely to change OS in the near future since they all seem pretty content achieving what they need to achieve using MS Office, Project, Adobe, SQL Server, Outlook and heaps of intranet apps that run on IE7 (some kool kids are even using Firefox now!) etc. etc. - all running on XP or Vista.
Heh. Tommy Lee and Pammy announce they're gonna start dual-booting XP and Kubuntu.
You may be surprised to discover that, the people who take great time and pain to write good books or produce original literary material (e.g. the stuff that provides the source of a considerable amount of the better articles cited on Wikipedia) need to pay their bills too!
They require soem form of motivation to continue feeding your hunger for the latest knowledge, works of fiction and/or other quality literature... and - believe it or not - although a slap on the back or a mention of
And there was me thinking the Pentagon maintained a secret black list of rogue US states they suspected of plotting to launch net-based attacks against.. eachother!
My, this is not a particularly stately state of affairs to be in.
You must be new here.
How do come up with thirty states? Presumably this only refers to rogue states. I notice they've left off Hawaii.
For example, the ability to touch screen and drag the iPhone's screen 'real estate' and the subsequent transition between interfaces, can only be demonstrated effectively in a video like this.
Note this video technology also appears to enable us to absorb information from both a visual and audio source at the same time - amazing stuff!
**My appologies for this even more horrendous joke.
Sound advice. She's already persuaded my sister to let her get the Companion Cube tattoo for her birthday, though. I can't see the little f***er backing down on that one now.