If Android is anticompetitive, then Bing most certainly is. Microsoft entered online search and advertising for the sole purpose of using its OS monopoly and buckets of cash to deprive others (specifically Google) of revenue. Proof? Losing more than $8Billion over the past 6 years isn't "trying to get a foot-hold". It's dumping. It's bundling. It's taking a dump in the pool so that nobody can swim there anymore.
Wow, I'd forgotten about this game. I played V&V back in 1987-ish with buddies back in junior high. We had the Marvel Super Heroes game too, for when we wanted to play "legit" super-heroes. Good times...
Oh I'm sure it'll get disgusting on this site too. Let's predict a few:
- "Made in China" = fail. - Chinese only know how to copy, not innovate. - Can't run a proper rail if you can't properly pronounce "rail". - Bad Chinese (train) drivers. - Somehow Obama's or Liberal's fault.
Last night, my son asked me "Dad, what will TV look like in 10 years?". I thought about all the great technological and social advancements that are going on. Then I thought back to how painfully long it took for digital TV and HTDV to get adopted, and how old-world media conglomerates are clinging to outdated business models. "Probably the same as today", I answered him.
IANAL or economist, but if MS is deliberately losing billions in online search and advertising solely so that they can deprive google of revenue in that industry, isn't that illegal? Dumping or bundling or something like that? I know that it's expected that a new business will lose money for years while trying to establish themselves, but if an already-established company dips into the war chest that they've amassed in one industry in order to stomp into an unrelated industry, that doesn't seem right.
In the past 5 years, MS has used revenue from its Windows and Office monopolies to subsidize over EIGHT BILLION dollars in losses for the "online services" (Bing) division.
I attended a great Azure / Sofware-as-a-Service conference a few weeks ago that hit on this exact point. The "traditional" role of IT (specify, procure, deploy, train, maintain) is diminishing.
A company like Salesforce doesn't need to try get their foot in the door with a potential customer's CIO and try arrange a multimillion dollar deal. They can sell directly to the sales group. Or even a small division or team. "A few bucks per user per month" is within any manager's purchasing authority, and requires zero infrastructure.
It's useful to add monitors to reduce frequent flipping back and forth between apps. When my developers are working on a task, it usually involves jumping between multiple activities, like coding (VS2010 and/or eclipse and/or another IDE), DBA'ing (SQL Management studio), debugging (digging through log files or web pages or custom diagnostic tools), and remotely connecting to servers (RDP or logmein). Plus they've got email, skype, PDFs, web searches, and online help going on too.
I started them out with two monitors apiece, but didn't have any qualms about adding a third when they asked for it. I'm positive that the increased productivity / decreased bitching recovered the $200 cost within the first month.
Of course, there's diminishing returns. I'd have a hard time believing that they'll benefit from a fourth monitor.
Here's my wild-ass conspiracy theory. I'm gonna link back to this post if/when it's proven true.
Skype discovered that Apple's Facetime violates their patent(s), and MS bought Skype so that they can sue Appple and cripple the iPhone. This improves Windows Phone's position in the marketplace (which, BTW, finally gets a skype client thanks to this deal).
Even though the iPhone omits flash for Apple's own selfish reasons (app store competition), not including flash is one of the nicest things that Apple ever did for iPhone users. I don't miss it a bit.
I was educated in the classic "K thru 12 then college" system, and it worked out well for me.
But in retrospect, I wish there was a way for people who can't/won't finish through grade 12 to graduate early (at grade 10 or 11) and then move on to service industry jobs or tradesmen certifications without the stigma of being a "dropout". Is this how the UK's O-Level and A-Level works? I like the idea of a 16-year old getting into cooking school or plumbing or landscaping once they've developed an adequate level of literacy and math skills (probably not Algebra II).
Most people here are focusing on what this prediction claims (great market share for WP7 in four years), but can anybody explain why they're making this prediction?
I understand that in various industries, long-term projections are a valuable tool for suppliers, investors, and more. But in a business with 6-month product cycles, what's the value in predicting so far out? Who uses this information? How? When you consider that each and every cycle brings uncertain results, there's a huge accumulation of uncertainty when you're predicting what will happen 7 or 8 cycles from now.
I'd love to hear a statistician or researcher's thoughts on this.
It's often said that there's a fine line between genius and insanity. But in many cases, people seem to straddle the line and jump back and forth between both sides. IMO Mr. Stallman is a perfect example of that.
On the one hand, you have Apple, which quietly rolled out iOS 4.3 with the precision of a Swiss watch. The update came a day earlier than expected, in fact. For a watch, that's pretty crappy precision;)
Usually, I'm quick to mod things (game consoles, etc), but for nearly two years I've stayed "legit" with my iPhone 3GS. I figured that as long as Apple gave me first-class features and updates, I'd stick with them.
I almost jailbroke when 4.2 came out because "find my phone" wasn't available (for free) on the 3GS, but luckily discovered a workaround to make it happen. For 4.3, I was looking forward to the WiFi hotspot feature. But today, I discover that you only get this on the iPhone 4. The 3GS just keeps the same old USB and Bluetooth tethering, renamed to "personal hotspot".
I don't begrudge Apple for being unwilling/unable to add the coolest new features to the 3GS, but if the jailbreak community can take better care of me then I guess that's where I'll have to go.
WP7 has a great solution for avoiding "page after page of little icons": a piss-poor selection of apps to download;)
Seriously though, iOS could use some shell improvements to help deal with having hundred(s) of apps. I recently condensed 11 pages of "little icons" down to 3 pages of folders. It's an improvement, but I think apple should start looking at new shell paradigms (no, not Metro!)
I share the same thoughts and experience as P and GP. Other sites in the same vein (anandtech, arstechnica) do a much better and more professional job than HardOCP. It's fair to say that Kyle drove me away from the site.
I hope that wasn't the "I never saw it so it doesn't exist" argument. I've owned two winmo phones: An ipaq that needed to be reset weekly, and a pharos that needed to be reset every day or two.
FWIW, the first reboot of my iPhone 3GS was six months after I got it. I think I've rebooted it twice more since then.
FWIW2, before I got the 3GS, I was a professional winmo developer plus a lifelong apple hater. So I had to swallow a bit of pride to pay cash dollars for the iPhone. No regrets, though.
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If Android is anticompetitive, then Bing most certainly is. Microsoft entered online search and advertising for the sole purpose of using its OS monopoly and buckets of cash to deprive others (specifically Google) of revenue. Proof? Losing more than $8Billion over the past 6 years isn't "trying to get a foot-hold". It's dumping. It's bundling. It's taking a dump in the pool so that nobody can swim there anymore.
Wow, I'd forgotten about this game. I played V&V back in 1987-ish with buddies back in junior high. We had the Marvel Super Heroes game too, for when we wanted to play "legit" super-heroes. Good times...
FYI, here's a review of it (not mine): http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9439.phtml
Oh I'm sure it'll get disgusting on this site too. Let's predict a few:
- "Made in China" = fail.
- Chinese only know how to copy, not innovate.
- Can't run a proper rail if you can't properly pronounce "rail".
- Bad Chinese (train) drivers.
- Somehow Obama's or Liberal's fault.
Last night, my son asked me "Dad, what will TV look like in 10 years?". I thought about all the great technological and social advancements that are going on. Then I thought back to how painfully long it took for digital TV and HTDV to get adopted, and how old-world media conglomerates are clinging to outdated business models. "Probably the same as today", I answered him.
IANAL or economist, but if MS is deliberately losing billions in online search and advertising solely so that they can deprive google of revenue in that industry, isn't that illegal? Dumping or bundling or something like that? I know that it's expected that a new business will lose money for years while trying to establish themselves, but if an already-established company dips into the war chest that they've amassed in one industry in order to stomp into an unrelated industry, that doesn't seem right.
In the past 5 years, MS has used revenue from its Windows and Office monopolies to subsidize over EIGHT BILLION dollars in losses for the "online services" (Bing) division.
I attended a great Azure / Sofware-as-a-Service conference a few weeks ago that hit on this exact point. The "traditional" role of IT (specify, procure, deploy, train, maintain) is diminishing.
A company like Salesforce doesn't need to try get their foot in the door with a potential customer's CIO and try arrange a multimillion dollar deal. They can sell directly to the sales group. Or even a small division or team. "A few bucks per user per month" is within any manager's purchasing authority, and requires zero infrastructure.
It's useful to add monitors to reduce frequent flipping back and forth between apps. When my developers are working on a task, it usually involves jumping between multiple activities, like coding (VS2010 and/or eclipse and/or another IDE), DBA'ing (SQL Management studio), debugging (digging through log files or web pages or custom diagnostic tools), and remotely connecting to servers (RDP or logmein). Plus they've got email, skype, PDFs, web searches, and online help going on too.
I started them out with two monitors apiece, but didn't have any qualms about adding a third when they asked for it. I'm positive that the increased productivity / decreased bitching recovered the $200 cost within the first month.
Of course, there's diminishing returns. I'd have a hard time believing that they'll benefit from a fourth monitor.
Here's my wild-ass conspiracy theory. I'm gonna link back to this post if/when it's proven true.
Skype discovered that Apple's Facetime violates their patent(s), and MS bought Skype so that they can sue Appple and cripple the iPhone. This improves Windows Phone's position in the marketplace (which, BTW, finally gets a skype client thanks to this deal).
Even though the iPhone omits flash for Apple's own selfish reasons (app store competition), not including flash is one of the nicest things that Apple ever did for iPhone users. I don't miss it a bit.
I was educated in the classic "K thru 12 then college" system, and it worked out well for me.
But in retrospect, I wish there was a way for people who can't/won't finish through grade 12 to graduate early (at grade 10 or 11) and then move on to service industry jobs or tradesmen certifications without the stigma of being a "dropout". Is this how the UK's O-Level and A-Level works? I like the idea of a 16-year old getting into cooking school or plumbing or landscaping once they've developed an adequate level of literacy and math skills (probably not Algebra II).
Not sure what "Algebra II" is, but many slashdotters mention taking it in grade 10 (but 9 for some; 11 for others).
FWIW, in BC (not sure about the rest of Canada), you need a minimum of grade 11 Math to graduate.
Most people here are focusing on what this prediction claims (great market share for WP7 in four years), but can anybody explain why they're making this prediction?
I understand that in various industries, long-term projections are a valuable tool for suppliers, investors, and more. But in a business with 6-month product cycles, what's the value in predicting so far out? Who uses this information? How? When you consider that each and every cycle brings uncertain results, there's a huge accumulation of uncertainty when you're predicting what will happen 7 or 8 cycles from now.
I'd love to hear a statistician or researcher's thoughts on this.
Then where's my $300 tablet from Samsung, Motorola, or RIM?
"upgrading"? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It's often said that there's a fine line between genius and insanity. But in many cases, people seem to straddle the line and jump back and forth between both sides. IMO Mr. Stallman is a perfect example of that.
On the one hand, you have Apple, which quietly rolled out iOS 4.3 with the precision of a Swiss watch. The update came a day earlier than expected, in fact. ;)
For a watch, that's pretty crappy precision
http://intelliborn.com/mywi.html
Usually, I'm quick to mod things (game consoles, etc), but for nearly two years I've stayed "legit" with my iPhone 3GS. I figured that as long as Apple gave me first-class features and updates, I'd stick with them.
I almost jailbroke when 4.2 came out because "find my phone" wasn't available (for free) on the 3GS, but luckily discovered a workaround to make it happen.
For 4.3, I was looking forward to the WiFi hotspot feature. But today, I discover that you only get this on the iPhone 4. The 3GS just keeps the same old USB and Bluetooth tethering, renamed to "personal hotspot".
I don't begrudge Apple for being unwilling/unable to add the coolest new features to the 3GS, but if the jailbreak community can take better care of me then I guess that's where I'll have to go.
WP7 has a great solution for avoiding "page after page of little icons": a piss-poor selection of apps to download ;)
Seriously though, iOS could use some shell improvements to help deal with having hundred(s) of apps. I recently condensed 11 pages of "little icons" down to 3 pages of folders. It's an improvement, but I think apple should start looking at new shell paradigms (no, not Metro!)
FYI, this is what better research (empirical, more samples) looks like:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements
I get this error in Chrome, but the test starts okay in Firefox.
Was this the test? WooHoo!
I share the same thoughts and experience as P and GP. Other sites in the same vein (anandtech, arstechnica) do a much better and more professional job than HardOCP. It's fair to say that Kyle drove me away from the site.
Anybody got a link to the errata from ARM? Can't find it on their site.
I've got a fleet of GPS vehicle trackers that crapped out last nite when they hit "00:00 March 1st" UTC. Working with the vendor to resolve :(
I hope that wasn't the "I never saw it so it doesn't exist" argument. I've owned two winmo phones: An ipaq that needed to be reset weekly, and a pharos that needed to be reset every day or two.
FWIW, the first reboot of my iPhone 3GS was six months after I got it. I think I've rebooted it twice more since then.
FWIW2, before I got the 3GS, I was a professional winmo developer plus a lifelong apple hater. So I had to swallow a bit of pride to pay cash dollars for the iPhone. No regrets, though.