My wife had two cats when we moved into our house and discovered one already living there. In time he would beome my favorite cat, but we got off to a rocky start. At 6:00am I awoke to a cat fight and had to throw him out of the house. The same thing happened the next day. And the following morning. This time however, I stopped to see him sitting at the door with an expectant look on his face. He had trained me.
So this time I stamped my feet and chased him around the house until I felt he was suitably freaked out. The early AM cat fights were no more. He trained me and I trained him. But he figured it out the first time. It took me three tries.
Right. I have both. My dogs are more easily trained, but my cats seem to figure out stuff by themselves. Dogs are baffled by things like cupboard doors, but most cats solve the problem fairly quickly.
But squirrels and birds are able to solve very complex obstacle courses themselves. In this sort of thinking, they put dogs to shame.
It may come to that. It occurs to me that at some point governments are going to have to agree on methods to control extra-governmental forces like the Pirate Party/Bay, Wikileaks and even Al Qaeda.
Microsoft has replaced postscript with XPS. IE and Silverlight can display XPS, so goodbye Acrobat. Silverlight does video and RIA. Goodbye Flash. Expression Blend can do what Illustrator does, although it's not as mature.
And with no one giving MS a chance of succeeding in the mobile space, the time may be right to sidestep antitrust issues.
Microsoft gets a migration path from Adobe to Silverlight. Adobe shareholders get $$$'s and not uncertainty.
The Golden Thread that the great British defence attorney, Horace Rumpole, refers to is an inalienable presumption in British Common Law, that any individual brought before the bar for judgment has a presumption of innocence in his/her favour, i.e. that we all presumed innocent until we are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to twelve good people true (our peers). This holds whether in Old Bailey, or the wilds of darkest Africa--wherever the British system of justice has taken root and grown.
By indemnifying WP7 manufacturers against patent infringement suits, MS is basically assuming any legal threats itself - on behalf of its manufacturers.
Cross licensing and proactive lawyers - both aligned to a strategy. I don't think it's any coincidence that they're touting low risk by indemnifying manufacturers against patent litigation.
Windows Phone 7 is not the patsy that Windows Mobile was. It's a threat. Nobody with a Windows Mobile device is dreading an upgrade to a competitive phone.
Name me one other mobile provider that has corporate development support already built into major corporations.
Windows Mobile was a place holder. Windows Phone 7 is a game changer.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that there are cozy relationships.
Think of it this way: There's a pack of wolves with pack members named Oracle, Apple, Microsoft and a bunch of other (mostly smaller) wolves. There's a constant vicious competition for the alpha male position, but some ground rules have been established.
Then a big ol' wolf called Google shows up. He's from another pack and doesn't necessarily play by the same ground rules. And he threatens the dominance of all three. So he's attacked viciously.
Meanwhile, a wolf from Google's (web) pack (named Amazon) uses the distraction to screw Google's bitches (by selling Android apps).
And of course there's always a lone wolf. This one is called Adobe and he's trying desperately to impregnate all the bitches in all of the packs.
And that something super stupid could be trying to compete with Microsoft in the corporate space. RIM may have a lot of Crackberry addicted managers, but Microsoft has corporate IT - who chooses which phones will be used, and whose developers will promise the moon in order to become mobile developers instead of working on budgeting system internals.
To my knowledge, Microsoft is the only dog in the hunt that is developing a plan for corporate app distribution (i.e. outside of an App Store type arrangement).
I've not got a dog in this hunt, but Windows Phone 7 stacks up very well against the competition. And when that has happened historically, they've been able to become dominant. Think about all of the corporate IT.Net developers and corporate IT phone choosers out there. Microsoft WILL quickly become relevant in the market.
And the phone is just one facet of their.Net/Silverlight strategy. There are much deeper things at work.
"Our action today merely seeks to ensure respect for our intellectual property rights infringed by Android devices; and judging by the recent actions by Apple and Oracle, we are not alone in this respect."
Android threatens the iPhone perhaps more than Windows Phone 7 does at this point.
Plus, an Apple proprietary device vs. a Microsoft operating system used by many manufacturers is a competition model that both Microsoft and Apple have been content with for a very long time. Google is an interloper.
This site has a lot of seemingly tantalizing information, but a lot of it is BS. It reported that one of Saddam's palaces had huge glass covered aquariums where sharks would swim under your feet. Now that all the palaces have been 'visited', there have been no reports of any such thing.
Put a grenade on it and it could become an interpersonal ballistic missile. Might help in clearing rooms, rather than the old fashioned way which gets soldiers hurt.
But its also cheap and available so the bad guys could get their own.
It would be interesting if someone got some English speaking German police and had them enforce the German laws on a stretch of American interstate highway. They couldn't give people tickets, of course, but they could tell them what they were doing was stupid and dangerous.
There's no correct answer to this question. It depends on the size of the organization and the nature of the system. I've worked in different companies that have been on either sides of where I thought the line should be. The line is drawn in a very different place for a 20 employee company than where it is in a 20,000 employee company.
According to a number of sites, the longest traffic jame ever was from Lyon to Paris on February 16, 1980. The congestion was 176 kilometers long (109 miles). It was caused by many people return from the skiing holidays and bad weather.
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My wife had two cats when we moved into our house and discovered one already living there. In time he would beome my favorite cat, but we got off to a rocky start. At 6:00am I awoke to a cat fight and had to throw him out of the house. The same thing happened the next day. And the following morning. This time however, I stopped to see him sitting at the door with an expectant look on his face. He had trained me.
So this time I stamped my feet and chased him around the house until I felt he was suitably freaked out. The early AM cat fights were no more. He trained me and I trained him. But he figured it out the first time. It took me three tries.
Right. I have both. My dogs are more easily trained, but my cats seem to figure out stuff by themselves. Dogs are baffled by things like cupboard doors, but most cats solve the problem fairly quickly.
But squirrels and birds are able to solve very complex obstacle courses themselves. In this sort of thinking, they put dogs to shame.
http://www.maniacworld.com/squirrel-obstacle-course.html
It's going to have to ask you if your purchase is a gift and would presumably have you opt in at that point.
USA - Male life expectancy 75.6 years, female 80.8 years.
UK - Male life expectancy 77.2 years, female 81.6 years.
Notice how one set of numbers are larger than the others.
No, they both look like they're roughly 10 point sans serif.
The people are not an extra-governmental force. It's the basic unit from which government derives it's power. At least in the U.S.
It may come to that. It occurs to me that at some point governments are going to have to agree on methods to control extra-governmental forces like the Pirate Party/Bay, Wikileaks and even Al Qaeda.
Next they'll be reading billboards, magazines and, well, every other place where people post information for others to see.
Microsoft has replaced postscript with XPS. IE and Silverlight can display XPS, so goodbye Acrobat. Silverlight does video and RIA. Goodbye Flash. Expression Blend can do what Illustrator does, although it's not as mature.
And with no one giving MS a chance of succeeding in the mobile space, the time may be right to sidestep antitrust issues.
Microsoft gets a migration path from Adobe to Silverlight. Adobe shareholders get $$$'s and not uncertainty.
The uncertainty will come from the government.
The Golden Thread that the great British defence attorney, Horace Rumpole, refers to is an inalienable presumption in British Common Law, that any individual brought before the bar for judgment has a presumption of innocence in his/her favour, i.e. that we all presumed innocent until we are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to twelve good people true (our peers). This holds whether in Old Bailey, or the wilds of darkest Africa--wherever the British system of justice has taken root and grown.
By indemnifying WP7 manufacturers against patent infringement suits, MS is basically assuming any legal threats itself - on behalf of its manufacturers.
Good idea. And also, say, blue lines for partnerships. Maybe another color for patent licenses.
Cross licensing and proactive lawyers - both aligned to a strategy. I don't think it's any coincidence that they're touting low risk by indemnifying manufacturers against patent litigation.
Windows Phone 7 is not the patsy that Windows Mobile was. It's a threat. Nobody with a Windows Mobile device is dreading an upgrade to a competitive phone.
Name me one other mobile provider that has corporate development support already built into major corporations.
Windows Mobile was a place holder. Windows Phone 7 is a game changer.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that there are cozy relationships.
Think of it this way: There's a pack of wolves with pack members named Oracle, Apple, Microsoft and a bunch of other (mostly smaller) wolves. There's a constant vicious competition for the alpha male position, but some ground rules have been established.
Then a big ol' wolf called Google shows up. He's from another pack and doesn't necessarily play by the same ground rules. And he threatens the dominance of all three. So he's attacked viciously.
Meanwhile, a wolf from Google's (web) pack (named Amazon) uses the distraction to screw Google's bitches (by selling Android apps).
And of course there's always a lone wolf. This one is called Adobe and he's trying desperately to impregnate all the bitches in all of the packs.
And that something super stupid could be trying to compete with Microsoft in the corporate space. RIM may have a lot of Crackberry addicted managers, but Microsoft has corporate IT - who chooses which phones will be used, and whose developers will promise the moon in order to become mobile developers instead of working on budgeting system internals.
To my knowledge, Microsoft is the only dog in the hunt that is developing a plan for corporate app distribution (i.e. outside of an App Store type arrangement).
I've not got a dog in this hunt, but Windows Phone 7 stacks up very well against the competition. And when that has happened historically, they've been able to become dominant. Think about all of the corporate IT .Net developers and corporate IT phone choosers out there. Microsoft WILL quickly become relevant in the market.
And the phone is just one facet of their .Net/Silverlight strategy. There are much deeper things at work.
From the MS blog post...
"Our action today merely seeks to ensure respect for our intellectual property rights infringed by Android devices; and judging by the recent actions by Apple and Oracle, we are not alone in this respect."
Android threatens the iPhone perhaps more than Windows Phone 7 does at this point.
Plus, an Apple proprietary device vs. a Microsoft operating system used by many manufacturers is a competition model that both Microsoft and Apple have been content with for a very long time. Google is an interloper.
This site has a lot of seemingly tantalizing information, but a lot of it is BS. It reported that one of Saddam's palaces had huge glass covered aquariums where sharks would swim under your feet. Now that all the palaces have been 'visited', there have been no reports of any such thing.
I was a little disappointed by that. It went from "Best News Story Ever" to "Cool, but I'm not entirely sure that flight was demonstrated".
Still, a minor downhill incline would seem to be a reasonable requirement.
But is it true flight, or is it using ground effect?
I guess we'll need to send him off a cliff. ;)
It was a play on words, not a classification of flight dynamics.
Put a grenade on it and it could become an interpersonal ballistic missile. Might help in clearing rooms, rather than the old fashioned way which gets soldiers hurt.
But its also cheap and available so the bad guys could get their own.
Warfare could get weird.
It would be interesting if someone got some English speaking German police and had them enforce the German laws on a stretch of American interstate highway. They couldn't give people tickets, of course, but they could tell them what they were doing was stupid and dangerous.
I doubt they'd get a minute's rest.
What keys do I press to select the BFG?
There's no correct answer to this question. It depends on the size of the organization and the nature of the system. I've worked in different companies that have been on either sides of where I thought the line should be. The line is drawn in a very different place for a 20 employee company than where it is in a 20,000 employee company.
The French have them beat...
According to a number of sites, the longest traffic jame ever was from Lyon to Paris on February 16, 1980. The congestion was 176 kilometers long (109 miles). It was caused by many people return from the skiing holidays and bad weather.