It is needed to help spread awareness that there are few distributions like motherships out there - whichever, Debian or Fedora - which we should be respectful of and grateful to for all the fun we have on a derivative product like Ubuntu - which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons of late.
...that Facebook tried to threaten action and, in doing so, suggest they had something in common to lose to Lamebook.
Forget what Lamebook has to gain from this. People are going to see Facebook and Lamebook side by side in the story and say "Facebook feels Lamebook is a threat? Did Lamebook offer something Facebook felt threatened about losing?"
What they should have done is to ignore Lamebook from the start. Its the best way to discredit them.
That point had come months ago with relatively slower phones but by no means are we at the point of no divergence.
Android needed to be customized a lot more at the beginning to be optimal on the hardware it ran on.
Android is not exactly common for every carrier/device combination with so many versions floating around. (Not to mention the varied GUI experiences)
And this craze of being the first or the fastest with software on smart phones and everything I mentioned above is going to stymie eventually to give way to a search for a consistent experience, where developers can target a single, predictable platform / marketplace. (It's the applications, stupid! Not the operating system!)
I am not vouching for MS, and I am not writing Android off. But I don't think we get how early we are in this race and how fast MS can catch up given its reach into the OEM ecosystem and the enterprise.
Walk through the offices any of the Fortune 2000 companies of today. On the ground, Microsoft has a death grip on IS infrastructure and the desktop.
People are underestimating Microsoft's trajectory in the mobile computing space.
Remember how Window 3.1 and Windows 95 took off? It needed the hardware to reach that level in order for people to adopt the GUI based desktop in enterprise as a mainstream device and not just for the book keepers and the odd manager (and of course enthusiasts in the consumer space).
Today's phones are reaching that tipping point in hardware maturity (1GHz processors and 1GB RAM) where a common software layer (the operating system) is an acceptable overhead and people can expect to do more than just text and email.
We're approaching a situation where the PC type software-OEM model is viable in the mobile space - and Microsoft has proven before that it can wield partners in such an environment to a common goal unbelievably well. And then the management of the enterprise sales.
But the problem Microsoft is now seeing is that not as many articles are being written about it as before in the press.
I guess Facebook with the farmtards, Google and Apple just have sexier stuff to report on. But that is mindshare.
In 1985, Microsoft was a $15M company, and Apple was at $300M. Things turn around. There have been several articles in the past where Microsoft has been cited as a late entrant into a space only to dominate it later. (leave antitrust out of this argument, the means are not the point of the discussion)
To call it a "dying" brand would only apply in reference to the public's short memory.
It's true that the HTML5 spec is huge on functionality but they've put in some very simple Unix type philosophies to achieve security.
The suggestion should not be to decrease HTML5 functionality - the web can't stand still on that - but to increase focus on and mitigate security threats through more policies in the HTML5 spec.
The increased functionality also allows developers to do away with some crazy workarounds (read security loop holes) to get some generally expected experiences on their web page.
Plus, as it has been pointed out earlier, the surface area for Flash and other plugins will also come down.
So while the net surface area for attacks increase, the implementations are going to be a lot more secure by design.
.. of terrorists who are planning attacks are embedded in every corner of India.
It is several times worse than all of the spy or terrorist networks in the US combined.
When you're in the situation India is, already with the incompetent politicians hindering critical issues like national security, you'll realize you don't want an external blocker to your ways of preventing terrorism.
It's going to a take a few years of US complaining about Iran & some UN resolutions to sanction Iran before there is a war.
Though the real trigger will be when the US economy is in doldrums and needs to be turned around. Nothing like war to stimulate it - and, hey, we've already set up a candidate for the war for a decade now with propaganda that demonizes Iran and the US "patience for years" for a "diplomatic solution".
(I am not supporting Iran or against the US in anyway. This post is more about how these things work)
.. to make friends and memories. Its a shame he and the other unlucky ones aboard that plane didn't have a chance to say a few words to their loved ones before their end.
May their souls rest in peace.
Condolences to their families.
A couple of points here as I'm working in the US on a H1-B, just so you know how things look from my perspective.
Why an American company would want to hire H1-B holders instead of citizens:
- Contractors are cheaper (No need for 401K, benefits etc etc)
- Contractors are easily expendable (If, Heavens forbid, we have another meltdown like 2008)
- The American company can plan inaccurately and dial the contractor workforce up or down based on budgets/company or project performance. You can basically tweak your bottom line by controlling the contractor cost. Its a luxury and has made people lazy and almost incapable of being able to accurately estimate work.
Sad truths:
- Not all H1-B visa holders are doing things which Americans themselves can't
- Many H1-B holders are poorly skilled (too bad there's no technical interview at the port of entry)
What America/ American companies can do:
- Some one mentioned 67.3% if Infosys revenues come from the NA region - care to check how much of that is from the B&FS space? Fix the Financial system. It is shamelessly bloated and is driving inflation for everyone else.
- The education system is too expensive & not being rigorous enough & is disconnected with industry. Where I go, not going to college (albeit lower standards on average) is not an option even for my maids kids (Yes, they can scrape through financially)
- Fact: The youth here that do go to college spend so much for it, have almost none of the issues we have to contend with in developing countries (comparitively speaking) & still don't produce enough per dollar to match us. Otherwise, why the hell wouldn't an American company hire an them instead of me?
Earlier generations Indians wanted to come to the US and probably settle down. In my case (and others in my generation), you can send me back. I'd be more than happy to go back to India and be with my family. The standard of living is not very different plus its my own country. I'm just here because my company sent me to do some work. And my company itself has better margins when I work from India, FYI. (Please note this discussion is NOT about offshoring work so I won't get into that)
... in a large organization where the majority of the skill-set requirements is commoditized.
- The company finds the people expendable because most of the times the market has enough replacements - similar attitude grows amongst employees where there are enough companies out there to hire them if they cop a bad rating / demotion in a cycle.
- The company policies apply to huge sections of the employee base - as a result a wide range of work ethics / capability will get the same benefits. People won't be motivated to go the extra mile as they would still be in the same category. Often times, people in a higher category may lose faith as fundamentally, the grading systems in large comapnies struggle to reward justly.
If you want to find great / extreme work ethics, you should go to a start-up or an industry where the (talent or hard work ) vs (requirement or pay) are more closely correlated .
I suggest you get out before the environment grows on you.
Now that it's pretty clear that no intelligent person can justify Obama's winning a Nobel - there are two points we can take away with reasonable assurance :
1 - The PR reverse that Obama suffered with the Olympics 2016 pitch has been offset by some extent
2 - The Nobel Prize decisions can be influenced.
It is possible Obama would not have won the Peace prize if his pitch to bring the Olympics to Chicago was successful.
by the relatively limited Open Source "alternatives" when we want the very best hardware on offer out there.:)
(sorry. couldn't find HP's alternatives.)
While your apology is appreciated, it does not compensate me, the buyer, of non-monetary losses of your action.
I must therefore insist that we be treated as equal business partners and we get the right to reverse the transaction of buying the Kindle from Amazon. And get prompt refund.
Sincerely,
Mr.Not-Unreasonable
Slashdot Mirror
In a way, it's alright.
It is needed to help spread awareness that there are few distributions like motherships out there - whichever, Debian or Fedora - which we should be respectful of and grateful to for all the fun we have on a derivative product like Ubuntu - which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons of late.
You got the analogy wrong.
Developers from GNOME or Banshee -> Guys in Metallica who play or tune drums & guitars (They don't just clean 'em)
Canonical -> Record label company putting a shiny box on the recording (They're not Metallica)
.. this is one time we've got to stand up and salute this guy, here on Slashdot.
...Facebook wants people to be lame on Facebook and not Lamebook.
...that Facebook tried to threaten action and, in doing so, suggest they had something in common to lose to Lamebook.
Forget what Lamebook has to gain from this. People are going to see Facebook and Lamebook side by side in the story and say "Facebook feels Lamebook is a threat? Did Lamebook offer something Facebook felt threatened about losing?" What they should have done is to ignore Lamebook from the start. Its the best way to discredit them.
That point had come months ago with relatively slower phones but by no means are we at the point of no divergence.
Android needed to be customized a lot more at the beginning to be optimal on the hardware it ran on.
Android is not exactly common for every carrier/device combination with so many versions floating around. (Not to mention the varied GUI experiences)
And this craze of being the first or the fastest with software on smart phones and everything I mentioned above is going to stymie eventually to give way to a search for a consistent experience, where developers can target a single, predictable platform / marketplace. (It's the applications, stupid! Not the operating system!)
I am not vouching for MS, and I am not writing Android off. But I don't think we get how early we are in this race and how fast MS can catch up given its reach into the OEM ecosystem and the enterprise.
Walk through the offices any of the Fortune 2000 companies of today. On the ground, Microsoft has a death grip on IS infrastructure and the desktop.
People are underestimating Microsoft's trajectory in the mobile computing space.
Remember how Window 3.1 and Windows 95 took off? It needed the hardware to reach that level in order for people to adopt the GUI based desktop in enterprise as a mainstream device and not just for the book keepers and the odd manager (and of course enthusiasts in the consumer space).
Today's phones are reaching that tipping point in hardware maturity (1GHz processors and 1GB RAM) where a common software layer (the operating system) is an acceptable overhead and people can expect to do more than just text and email.
We're approaching a situation where the PC type software-OEM model is viable in the mobile space - and Microsoft has proven before that it can wield partners in such an environment to a common goal unbelievably well. And then the management of the enterprise sales.
But the problem Microsoft is now seeing is that not as many articles are being written about it as before in the press.
I guess Facebook with the farmtards, Google and Apple just have sexier stuff to report on. But that is mindshare.
In 1985, Microsoft was a $15M company, and Apple was at $300M. Things turn around. There have been several articles in the past where Microsoft has been cited as a late entrant into a space only to dominate it later. (leave antitrust out of this argument, the means are not the point of the discussion)
To call it a "dying" brand would only apply in reference to the public's short memory.
.. isn't an increase in functionality and thus the addressable attack area natural evolution of any technology ?
It's true that the HTML5 spec is huge on functionality but they've put in some very simple Unix type philosophies to achieve security.
The suggestion should not be to decrease HTML5 functionality - the web can't stand still on that - but to increase focus on and mitigate security threats through more policies in the HTML5 spec.
The increased functionality also allows developers to do away with some crazy workarounds (read security loop holes) to get some generally expected experiences on their web page.
Plus, as it has been pointed out earlier, the surface area for Flash and other plugins will also come down. So while the net surface area for attacks increase, the implementations are going to be a lot more secure by design.
.. of terrorists who are planning attacks are embedded in every corner of India.
It is several times worse than all of the spy or terrorist networks in the US combined.
When you're in the situation India is, already with the incompetent politicians hindering critical issues like national security, you'll realize you don't want an external blocker to your ways of preventing terrorism.
..before someone calls for an raid of McAllisters property saying he's been paid off by Oracle?
It's going to a take a few years of US complaining about Iran & some UN resolutions to sanction Iran before there is a war.
Though the real trigger will be when the US economy is in doldrums and needs to be turned around. Nothing like war to stimulate it - and, hey, we've already set up a candidate for the war for a decade now with propaganda that demonizes Iran and the US "patience for years" for a "diplomatic solution".
(I am not supporting Iran or against the US in anyway. This post is more about how these things work)
Agreed.
One of the mistakes Google also made with Wave was not let it show email from GMail. I had to keep switching between the two to communicate.
Making the two products seem like different worlds worked against Wave.
.. to make friends and memories. Its a shame he and the other unlucky ones aboard that plane didn't have a chance to say a few words to their loved ones before their end. May their souls rest in peace. Condolences to their families.
..is poised to look very different.
A couple of points here as I'm working in the US on a H1-B, just so you know how things look from my perspective.
Why an American company would want to hire H1-B holders instead of citizens:
- Contractors are cheaper (No need for 401K, benefits etc etc)
- Contractors are easily expendable (If, Heavens forbid, we have another meltdown like 2008)
- The American company can plan inaccurately and dial the contractor workforce up or down based on budgets/company or project performance. You can basically tweak your bottom line by controlling the contractor cost. Its a luxury and has made people lazy and almost incapable of being able to accurately estimate work.
Sad truths:
- Not all H1-B visa holders are doing things which Americans themselves can't
- Many H1-B holders are poorly skilled (too bad there's no technical interview at the port of entry)
What America/ American companies can do:
- Some one mentioned 67.3% if Infosys revenues come from the NA region - care to check how much of that is from the B&FS space? Fix the Financial system. It is shamelessly bloated and is driving inflation for everyone else.
- The education system is too expensive & not being rigorous enough & is disconnected with industry. Where I go, not going to college (albeit lower standards on average) is not an option even for my maids kids (Yes, they can scrape through financially)
- Fact: The youth here that do go to college spend so much for it, have almost none of the issues we have to contend with in developing countries (comparitively speaking) & still don't produce enough per dollar to match us. Otherwise, why the hell wouldn't an American company hire an them instead of me?
Earlier generations Indians wanted to come to the US and probably settle down. In my case (and others in my generation), you can send me back. I'd be more than happy to go back to India and be with my family. The standard of living is not very different plus its my own country. I'm just here because my company sent me to do some work. And my company itself has better margins when I work from India, FYI. (Please note this discussion is NOT about offshoring work so I won't get into that)
... in a large organization where the majority of the skill-set requirements is commoditized. - The company finds the people expendable because most of the times the market has enough replacements - similar attitude grows amongst employees where there are enough companies out there to hire them if they cop a bad rating / demotion in a cycle. - The company policies apply to huge sections of the employee base - as a result a wide range of work ethics / capability will get the same benefits. People won't be motivated to go the extra mile as they would still be in the same category. Often times, people in a higher category may lose faith as fundamentally, the grading systems in large comapnies struggle to reward justly. If you want to find great / extreme work ethics, you should go to a start-up or an industry where the (talent or hard work ) vs (requirement or pay) are more closely correlated . I suggest you get out before the environment grows on you.
Now that it's pretty clear that no intelligent person can justify Obama's winning a Nobel - there are two points we can take away with reasonable assurance : 1 - The PR reverse that Obama suffered with the Olympics 2016 pitch has been offset by some extent 2 - The Nobel Prize decisions can be influenced. It is possible Obama would not have won the Peace prize if his pitch to bring the Olympics to Chicago was successful.
to list the browsers in decreasing order of web standards compliance.
by the relatively limited Open Source "alternatives" when we want the very best hardware on offer out there. :)
(sorry. couldn't find HP's alternatives.)
While your apology is appreciated, it does not compensate me, the buyer, of non-monetary losses of your action. I must therefore insist that we be treated as equal business partners and we get the right to reverse the transaction of buying the Kindle from Amazon. And get prompt refund. Sincerely, Mr.Not-Unreasonable
IF I had a stick 100 Million light years long.
I don't think we'll ever find enough viagra for that.