> I know how to shut it down. I know how to > avoid having intrusive metro apps popping up.
Only a month to be able to perform basic tasks and make it not actively annoy you? Sign me up!
I've been using Windows and Mac OS full-time since 1995 (3.1 and 7.5.3, respectively, along with Linux in various flavors since 1998) and in all my transitions, it's been -- at most -- a matter of a few hours to get the essentials working, and then tweaks over the course of a week or so to get all the little things to my liking. (Or as close as the environment allowed.)
> Last week, Apple execs were promising big announcements, the biggest since the Jobs era.
Citation needed. What *I* heard the execs saying was that they're going to have great products this year. They have 7 months left.
And FFS, this is the DEVELOPER conference. New product announcements here are few and far between. Here's an overview of the last ten years of WWDC. If you can read that list and still be surprised or disappointed at what was or wasn't announced today, you're an idiot.
An Engineer died and went to see St. Peter who told him that he was sorry but could not let the engineer into heaven. At first the conditions bothered the engineer but after a while he started to make improvements. He added an escalator, running water, and after a couple of months even air conditioning. Of course eventualy God heard about the changes down below. God phoned up the devil and explained that a mistake had been made and that the engineer would have to be moved up to heaven. The devil said no, because he liked the changes too. God told the devil "This is your last chance. Send that engineer up here or I'll sue you!" The devil laughed and said "Ha, where are you going to find a lawyer?"
Wow. A 15-year climb from bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world and people still look at every single move Apple makes and say "wow, that's fucking dumb." Isn't it just remotely possible that Tim Cook knows what the fuck he's doing, and that there's a good reason for buying Beats? How 'bout we give it a few weeks, huh? Maybe, just maybe, the guy running Apple knows something you don't, and perhaps we should give him the benefit of the doubt just this once and see how this plays out before passing judgement?
Sorry, I must be new here.
Besides: every move Apple makes doesn't have to be some earth-shaking road to an innovation unseen since the last amazing thing they did (which everyone shit all over at the time anyway.) If Apple buys Beats or Pepsi or Whirlpool or Nabisco or whoever for $3 billion and they make more than $3 billion off of that in the near future, then it was a good investment, right? Do you know what would make Beats worth $3 billion today? IF IT EARNS $5 BILLION IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. And oh, look, that's probably what will happen. (And note that Tim Cook probably has better financial info available than a year-old Fast Company article.) Maybe Tim looked at Dre's books and decided that with Apple's awesome buying power and manufacturing prowess that they could DOUBLE the profit of Beats OVERNIGHT. They might earn that money back by next Christmas.
What, you think handwriting recognition and voice recognition are cheap? That they're no-consequence modules that can be simply bolted on to another device that somehow, magically, doesn't impact cost, performance, battery life, or complexity of use? And that adding handwriting recognition to the e-reader app itself is easy? LOL. "Low-hanging fruit?" Hardly.
Do you REALLY think OEMs want to make yet ANOTHER class of device that fits between tablet computers and dedicated e-readers? How large do you think the market is for a device that does more than an e-reader and less than a tablet? It's already a pretty compact market space with razor-thin margins. The low-end for tablets (7"+) that aren't complete junk is about $99 and the high-end is $299. (8" iPad mini) Low-end tablet PC laptops start around there. (As will the Surface, on clearance, soon.:D ) Super-cheap tablets and dedicated e-readers go down to about $59. Don't look for another product category -- especially not one with such limited appeal -- to be squeezed into this narrow range any time soon.
"Has anyone else noticed the trend towards 'community forums' where customers are basically being recruited to solve the issues of other customers while the companies selling the products causing the issues sit back and take a passive role in the process?"
Like the forums that existed on CompuServe over 20 years ago, and probably elsewhere before that? No, never noticed them.
The only problem with PowerPoint is that anyone can use it, and most people aren't capable of making compelling content. I know some people who can do great things with PowerPoint, but just like any skill, it is only possessed by a small percent of the population. The average person can't sing, dance, cook, act, paint, draw, or code exceptionally well, either. It would be like blaming Word for an abundance of badly-formatted, boring stories.
It's as dumb of an idea as thinking a "do not mug me" shirt would be worthwhile in a high-crime area, and (by measure) it's probably less effective than a rock that keeps tigers away.
You can evidently use Carlin's words (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits) in notes and memos as needed because they weren't specifically listed.
"The ignition switch could go tits-up unexpectedly and crush the motherfucking shit out of the cunt unlucky enough to be driving. Replacement of this cocksucker is highly recommended. Not doing so would be double-plus ungood."
I've met with Jeffrey Gundlach to tell him how I think he should run his business. I suggested he quit trading bonds and become the guy who takes a highlighter to your receipt at Walmart.
I have no problem with this, as long as they don't put any other restrictions on me. Let me stream anything I want, host whatever I want, resell the data... whatever I want to do, as long as it's legal.
I pay for my water based on how much I use, same with electricity... I know we've all been spoiled by "unlimited" plans for so long but I really don't have any problem paying for what I'm using, as long as the prices are reasonable. (We'll see how that goes.)
... my upcoming book, "Quit Fucking Up Perfectly Good Software with Overly-'Designed', Non-User-Tested Bullshit, I'm Looking at You, Apple Mozilla Google Microsoft Adobe Slashdot and Certain People at My Company Who Shall Remain Nameless", in stores this fall.
So far it's just the cover and then 168 pages of the title being repeated but I think I'll get it wrapped up pretty soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Q: What do you want for dinner?
A: Anything's fine.
Q: How about X?
A: No.
Q: How about Y?
A: No.
Q: How about Z?
A: No.
Oh, that's a really useful invention.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m...
Jesus, it was a fucking joke. They also featured some google services during the keynote, as well as bing.
> I know how to shut it down. I know how to
> avoid having intrusive metro apps popping up.
Only a month to be able to perform basic tasks and make it not actively annoy you? Sign me up!
I've been using Windows and Mac OS full-time since 1995 (3.1 and 7.5.3, respectively, along with Linux in various flavors since 1998) and in all my transitions, it's been -- at most -- a matter of a few hours to get the essentials working, and then tweaks over the course of a week or so to get all the little things to my liking. (Or as close as the environment allowed.)
> Last week, Apple execs were promising big announcements, the biggest since the Jobs era.
Citation needed. What *I* heard the execs saying was that they're going to have great products this year. They have 7 months left.
And FFS, this is the DEVELOPER conference. New product announcements here are few and far between. Here's an overview of the last ten years of WWDC. If you can read that list and still be surprised or disappointed at what was or wasn't announced today, you're an idiot.
I beg to differ.
... at least my forearms are huge.
> Why even bother printing guns when you can just...
> assemble a fully working, untraceable and unserialed AR-15?
Because then you'd wind up with an AR-15. :D
Good old joke:
An Engineer died and went to see St. Peter who told him that he was sorry but could not let the engineer into heaven. At first the conditions bothered the engineer but after a while he started to make improvements. He added an escalator, running water, and after a couple of months even air conditioning. Of course eventualy God heard about the changes down below. God phoned up the devil and explained that a mistake had been made and that the engineer would have to be moved up to heaven. The devil said no, because he liked the changes too. God told the devil "This is your last chance. Send that engineer up here or I'll sue you!" The devil laughed and said "Ha, where are you going to find a lawyer?"
Forbes says his net worth is $20 billion, so $2 billion is actually as good-sized chunk of that.
Now he's as poor as Michael Dell.
Oh ye of little faith. I bet it will be awesome for downloading Firefox. :-)
Seriously, they should just set the homepage to firefox.com.
> hatred for Wal-Mart is a tribal identification
> thing, not a rational economic argument.
There's more to economics than how much it costs you to buy things. Have you heard about how badly they pay their employees?
There are plenty of good reasons to dislike Walmart.
Wow. A 15-year climb from bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world and people still look at every single move Apple makes and say "wow, that's fucking dumb." Isn't it just remotely possible that Tim Cook knows what the fuck he's doing, and that there's a good reason for buying Beats? How 'bout we give it a few weeks, huh? Maybe, just maybe, the guy running Apple knows something you don't, and perhaps we should give him the benefit of the doubt just this once and see how this plays out before passing judgement?
Sorry, I must be new here.
Besides: every move Apple makes doesn't have to be some earth-shaking road to an innovation unseen since the last amazing thing they did (which everyone shit all over at the time anyway.) If Apple buys Beats or Pepsi or Whirlpool or Nabisco or whoever for $3 billion and they make more than $3 billion off of that in the near future, then it was a good investment, right? Do you know what would make Beats worth $3 billion today? IF IT EARNS $5 BILLION IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. And oh, look, that's probably what will happen. (And note that Tim Cook probably has better financial info available than a year-old Fast Company article.) Maybe Tim looked at Dre's books and decided that with Apple's awesome buying power and manufacturing prowess that they could DOUBLE the profit of Beats OVERNIGHT. They might earn that money back by next Christmas.
They're called "tablets" and "tablet PCs".
What, you think handwriting recognition and voice recognition are cheap? That they're no-consequence modules that can be simply bolted on to another device that somehow, magically, doesn't impact cost, performance, battery life, or complexity of use? And that adding handwriting recognition to the e-reader app itself is easy? LOL. "Low-hanging fruit?" Hardly.
Do you REALLY think OEMs want to make yet ANOTHER class of device that fits between tablet computers and dedicated e-readers? How large do you think the market is for a device that does more than an e-reader and less than a tablet? It's already a pretty compact market space with razor-thin margins. The low-end for tablets (7"+) that aren't complete junk is about $99 and the high-end is $299. (8" iPad mini) Low-end tablet PC laptops start around there. (As will the Surface, on clearance, soon. :D ) Super-cheap tablets and dedicated e-readers go down to about $59. Don't look for another product category -- especially not one with such limited appeal -- to be squeezed into this narrow range any time soon.
"Has anyone else noticed the trend towards 'community forums' where customers are basically being recruited to solve the issues of other customers while the companies selling the products causing the issues sit back and take a passive role in the process?"
Like the forums that existed on CompuServe over 20 years ago, and probably elsewhere before that? No, never noticed them.
The only problem with PowerPoint is that anyone can use it, and most people aren't capable of making compelling content. I know some people who can do great things with PowerPoint, but just like any skill, it is only possessed by a small percent of the population. The average person can't sing, dance, cook, act, paint, draw, or code exceptionally well, either. It would be like blaming Word for an abundance of badly-formatted, boring stories.
And spawn a bunch of giant mutant kangaroos? DON'T THINK SO!
> With it's in ability to shop more then 1 window at a time.
> And I own an iPad, and I like it.
You're posting from it, right? :-)
Bit of a difference between that graph and this one.
It's as dumb of an idea as thinking a "do not mug me" shirt would be worthwhile in a high-crime area, and (by measure) it's probably less effective than a rock that keeps tigers away.
> Repeat after me:
> Silence
> Silence
> Silence
Um... is this a trick?
You can evidently use Carlin's words (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits) in notes and memos as needed because they weren't specifically listed.
"The ignition switch could go tits-up unexpectedly and crush the motherfucking shit out of the cunt unlucky enough to be driving. Replacement of this cocksucker is highly recommended. Not doing so would be double-plus ungood."
I've met with Jeffrey Gundlach to tell him how I think he should run his business. I suggested he quit trading bonds and become the guy who takes a highlighter to your receipt at Walmart.
Elong Musk is doing just fine without your help, thankyouverymuch.
I have no problem with this, as long as they don't put any other restrictions on me. Let me stream anything I want, host whatever I want, resell the data... whatever I want to do, as long as it's legal.
I pay for my water based on how much I use, same with electricity... I know we've all been spoiled by "unlimited" plans for so long but I really don't have any problem paying for what I'm using, as long as the prices are reasonable. (We'll see how that goes.)
... my upcoming book, "Quit Fucking Up Perfectly Good Software with Overly-'Designed', Non-User-Tested Bullshit, I'm Looking at You, Apple Mozilla Google Microsoft Adobe Slashdot and Certain People at My Company Who Shall Remain Nameless", in stores this fall.
So far it's just the cover and then 168 pages of the title being repeated but I think I'll get it wrapped up pretty soon.