perhaps attach a keyboard on a hinge at the bottom of the screen that you could type on it and adjust the screen to whatever angle you like. You could even use it sitting on your lap. perhaps call it a 'laptop' or something. Perhaps even running a full version of Windows or another OS on a x86-64 processor.
We have committed to synergistically coordinate high-impact terrorism across multidisciplinary cells so that we may collaboratively provide access to inexpensive leadership skills in order to destroy infidels.
Congratulations! You have developed an almost infallible plan to eliminate Al Qaeda as a threat by means of buzzword-speaking management consultants! Before long they will be attempting to apply Six Sigma methodologies to suicide bombings (which will probably result in the suicide bombers, well, committing suicide.)
It worked for Metalica didn't it?
Oh, wait. I haven't listened to a Metalica song (even on the radio) since those asshats started sueing their fans back in th Napster days.
And I'm sure that I'm not the only one.
so Microsoft wants only the agile and extreme to survive, while the slackers get left behind. makes sense to me.
On the other hand Microsoft had developer preview versions of Vista for ages and yet countless applications and hardware drivers weren't ready for it's much delayed release.
Many shareholders don't care where the company is in 10 years; they care about their dollar in one year.
If only it were that long term. At best most shareholders care only about where the stock is next quarter. Some only care where it is next week. Some not even that long.
You seem to be under the misconception that there are two major political parties. In reality there is only one party that has managed to convince most people that (1) that there are two major parties, (2) there is a substantial difference between the two, and (3) that one or the other represents thier interests (and/or one or the other is out to destroy everything near and dear to you. )
So who won? You didn't win. Look around at pop music and what's being created today. Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber style music is all that anyone can make money doing nowadays. Tower Records and all of its bricks and mortar competitors went out of business long ago. So did Borders.
Oh really? Actually there is as much or more music being made today than before the big bad Internet 'destroyed' the music industry. You may not know this if you only listen to terrestrial radio but there is a lot of music being made, of every genre imaginable.
Few artists today can sell a million records. Those than can you find on the radio. The rest you have to search out. For those artists the Internet is their friend.
I have discovered a lot of new music listening to Pandora and Slacker that I would never have heard listening to the radio. Hell I've discovered entire genres that I hadn't heard of. I've watched their videos on Youtube and learned about the artists on Facebook. If you aren't a top-tier pop, hip-hop or country act the record companies are willing to put marketing muscle behind the Internet provides a way for artists to take promotion into their own hands.
In some cases the Internet even provides artists with the means to bypass the labels altogether, allowing them to be in control over their own destiny. Sure, they won't have any platinum records on the wall but for true artists it is more important than selling out your artistic vision to get a big-label record contract.
Music isn't dying. Slowly but surely the big record labels are, at least in their current form.
This is a slow train that's been coming for a long time. Richly deserved, by any measure. the US is not India, and isn't going to allow for flagrant, over the top wholesale discrimination. We've already been there, done that, and we're not going back.
Infosys is fucked.
Sell.
I'm sure they have enough US based, high-priced legal talent to drag this out indefinitely.
Heh, I remember when the Ipad was first announced. Every single "Technically minded individual on the internet" called it the dumbest thing in the world.
Except they didn't. In fact the transition from iPod to iPhone to iPad was both predicable to those technically minded and desired. In fact most technically minded people where using similar products for years. The only thing that surprised me at the time was the low price for an Apple product (I was less surprised by the iPad mini)
If I remember right the biggest criticism of the iPad was the name sounded like an internet-enabled feminine hygiene product.
The problem with the Surface RT was that it was best described by what it couldn't do.
"It's like iPad, but it doesn't run apps from the Apple store."
"It's like a Windows PC, but it doesn't run all Windows software."
"It's like a laptop, but you can't type on it in your lap.
Microsoft completely fucked up the marketing. If Surface RT came out three years ago, it would have dominated, but Apple and Android have already shaped user expectations. They created a device that runs a browser and MS Office...enough to cover 99% of computing use...and it has twice the battery life, half the weight, and a third of the cost of an comparable ultraportable laptop. It should have been a killer piece of gear, and the engineers probably thought they created something really special. Too bad Microsoft thought it would just sell itself in market where existing tablets had already gone the content-comsumption only route.
I avoided the Surface because I'm not coordinated enough to do the dance moves they show on the TV commercials.
"The head of police for Moscow's subway system..."
He knows NOTHING about technology, but wants to make decisions about it.
As someone said above, electromagnetic signals can be stopped by wrapping a phone with aluminum foil. People would not be able to use their phones on the subway, which is probably not possible anyway unless antennas have been installed in the tunnels.
If they have cell repeaters in the subway they probably already have the ability to track phones.
So you are saying evolution is like throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks? Sounds to me like some entity could have is noodily appendages guiding the whole thing.
Perhaps I'm just hungry. Pasta sounds good tonight.
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perhaps attach a keyboard on a hinge at the bottom of the screen that you could type on it and adjust the screen to whatever angle you like. You could even use it sitting on your lap. perhaps call it a 'laptop' or something. Perhaps even running a full version of Windows or another OS on a x86-64 processor.
What they really need is a mission statement.
We have committed to synergistically coordinate high-impact terrorism across multidisciplinary cells so that we may collaboratively provide access to inexpensive leadership skills in order to destroy infidels.
Congratulations! You have developed an almost infallible plan to eliminate Al Qaeda as a threat by means of buzzword-speaking management consultants! Before long they will be attempting to apply Six Sigma methodologies to suicide bombings (which will probably result in the suicide bombers, well, committing suicide.)
It worked for Metalica didn't it?
Oh, wait. I haven't listened to a Metalica song (even on the radio) since those asshats started sueing their fans back in th Napster days.
And I'm sure that I'm not the only one.
Are you Ted Nugent by any chance?
On the other hand perhaps Blue Oyster Cult will go on tour again...
Didn't they discover a sh*tload of lithium in Afghanistan a few years ago?
The velociraptors were the sports model. Most cave people rode a triceritops or stegasaurus to work.
so Microsoft wants only the agile and extreme to survive, while the slackers get left behind. makes sense to me.
On the other hand Microsoft had developer preview versions of Vista for ages and yet countless applications and hardware drivers weren't ready for it's much delayed release.
He has a Masters degree in mathematics from RIAA University.
Many shareholders don't care where the company is in 10 years; they care about their dollar in one year.
If only it were that long term. At best most shareholders care only about where the stock is next quarter. Some only care where it is next week. Some not even that long.
since it is secret there wolud possibly be fewer congresscritters tacking on pork for their district.
That is why I always double encrypt everything in ROT-13.
You seem to be under the misconception that there are two major political parties. In reality there is only one party that has managed to convince most people that (1) that there are two major parties, (2) there is a substantial difference between the two, and (3) that one or the other represents thier interests (and/or one or the other is out to destroy everything near and dear to you. )
NSA analist: Interesting. A 14 year old girl and not one email about Justin Beiber. This warrants furthrt investigation.
Im not taking any chances. I'm going to Walk Street with a case of Lysol.
So who won? You didn't win. Look around at pop music and what's being created today. Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber style music is all that anyone can make money doing nowadays. Tower Records and all of its bricks and mortar competitors went out of business long ago. So did Borders.
Oh really? Actually there is as much or more music being made today than before the big bad Internet 'destroyed' the music industry. You may not know this if you only listen to terrestrial radio but there is a lot of music being made, of every genre imaginable.
Few artists today can sell a million records. Those than can you find on the radio. The rest you have to search out. For those artists the Internet is their friend.
I have discovered a lot of new music listening to Pandora and Slacker that I would never have heard listening to the radio. Hell I've discovered entire genres that I hadn't heard of. I've watched their videos on Youtube and learned about the artists on Facebook. If you aren't a top-tier pop, hip-hop or country act the record companies are willing to put marketing muscle behind the Internet provides a way for artists to take promotion into their own hands.
In some cases the Internet even provides artists with the means to bypass the labels altogether, allowing them to be in control over their own destiny. Sure, they won't have any platinum records on the wall but for true artists it is more important than selling out your artistic vision to get a big-label record contract.
Music isn't dying. Slowly but surely the big record labels are, at least in their current form.
What makes this sound?
clop clop clop clop BANG clop clop
An amish deive by shooting.
This is a slow train that's been coming for a long time. Richly deserved, by any measure. the US is not India, and isn't going to allow for flagrant, over the top wholesale discrimination. We've already been there, done that, and we're not going back.
Infosys is fucked.
Sell.
I'm sure they have enough US based, high-priced legal talent to drag this out indefinitely.
I hate it when the dollars get loose
All of my dollars frequently get loose.
Heh, I remember when the Ipad was first announced. Every single "Technically minded individual on the internet" called it the dumbest thing in the world.
Except they didn't. In fact the transition from iPod to iPhone to iPad was both predicable to those technically minded and desired. In fact most technically minded people where using similar products for years. The only thing that surprised me at the time was the low price for an Apple product (I was less surprised by the iPad mini)
If I remember right the biggest criticism of the iPad was the name sounded like an internet-enabled feminine hygiene product.
The problem with the Surface RT was that it was best described by what it couldn't do.
"It's like iPad, but it doesn't run apps from the Apple store." "It's like a Windows PC, but it doesn't run all Windows software." "It's like a laptop, but you can't type on it in your lap.
Microsoft completely fucked up the marketing. If Surface RT came out three years ago, it would have dominated, but Apple and Android have already shaped user expectations. They created a device that runs a browser and MS Office...enough to cover 99% of computing use...and it has twice the battery life, half the weight, and a third of the cost of an comparable ultraportable laptop. It should have been a killer piece of gear, and the engineers probably thought they created something really special. Too bad Microsoft thought it would just sell itself in market where existing tablets had already gone the content-comsumption only route.
I avoided the Surface because I'm not coordinated enough to do the dance moves they show on the TV commercials.
Hollywood accounting?
It would be Hollywood accounting if they had sold 20 million units in the last quarter but still managed to loose billions of dollars.
The Middle-Class is being redefined as people who can afford basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing and medicine.
The New American Dream.
"The head of police for Moscow's subway system..." He knows NOTHING about technology, but wants to make decisions about it. As someone said above, electromagnetic signals can be stopped by wrapping a phone with aluminum foil. People would not be able to use their phones on the subway, which is probably not possible anyway unless antennas have been installed in the tunnels.
If they have cell repeaters in the subway they probably already have the ability to track phones.
So you are saying evolution is like throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks? Sounds to me like some entity could have is noodily appendages guiding the whole thing.
Perhaps I'm just hungry. Pasta sounds good tonight.