and that the next iteration of windows will wind up veering away from 8.
I doubt it. Microsoft is not going to back down. They absolutely, positively must have a viable touch based OS or they simply will have no role in home small business by around 2020. Their major point of leverage is their existing compatibility. They are not going to be put into an ever narrowing, ever shrinking platform.
My company has done the exact same thing. No more windows after 7. Only approved Linux variants from here on....
There is a long history of failure of companies that try to suddenly migrate from Windows. Mostly the success are:
a) Companies that had a Unix culture to begin with and thus Windows wasn't deeply entrenched. b) Companies that had owners who didn't care about the cost and were willing to make this cost ineffective.
If your deeply entrenched company makes it, terrific! But we shall see.
Windows 8 has made it very cumbersome to use the hardware, focusing largely on touch, which is wasted on a desktop.
No. Windows 8 has made it possible to transition to touch hardware while continuing to support desktop applications. Of course it sucks on the wrong hardware. And that's Microsoft's fault for allowing non-touch hardware to be supported without a substantial OS penalty.
And many legacy application software simply refuse to run on Windows 8 or later.
Windows 8 includes a VM manager. You can run those legacy applications against Windows XP. But shockingly few companies did that even with Windows 7, this seems to be more of a complaint in theory than in reality.
don't forget that you already live in a country where you can be killed without warning or due process (or made to disappear for the rest of your life) for offending the authorities.
No you can't. There is no assassination in the United States of US citizens. You most certainly can choose to comply with due process even if you live abroad. If you fail to comply, and determined to be a threat, then you can be killed. That's not without "due process" it is a more limited process.
Iranians in general see through the political BS more than Americans see through the CNN/Fox News/MSNBC charade.
America is vastly more democratic than Iran. The more democratic a government, the less the government can use violence and fear of violence to propagate its will and thus the better the propaganda.
Just as an aside, Createspace is an author services company. Amazon already had a POD print and distribution arm (Booksurge) when they bought CreateSpace.
a) Did support levels drop b) Did the drop in support levels lead to decreased prices.
The article and most of the people are answering question (a) with yes. You are answering "no". Which means you disagree with the fundamental premise of the article.
He's probably right. All other things being equal a good Domain Specific Language will crush a General Purpose Language in its domain. If Julia is much faster than R and that were unfixable it would still be far easier to write a library in Julia accessible by R than to train R users in all of Julia's concepts.
General purpose languages can sometimes get close to DSLs in effectiveness and then the greater diversity of users creates an economy of sacle and deep entrenchment which drives DSLs away. But then with a large and highly diverse user base the General Purpose language isn't able to rapidly adapt so DSLs spring up to fill niches. Some of those DSLs become incredibly successful and start to move into other domains diversifying their purpose and user base to become General Purpose Languages and the cycle repeats.
The Surface Pro 1 was excellent. Read the reviews and discussion here even at the time it came out or the comparisons of Windows 8 laptops where it was right in there with the best (example Lenovo). The Surface wasn't very good and pairing the name was frankly confusing to customers since the Surface Pro and the Surface didn't have much in common, as your post shows.
What software products haven't reduced their costs? I can think of very few categories of products who aren't something like 10% of what they cost 20 years ago especially inflation adjusted.
That's not true. Lots of software can be bundled with a service agreement that can be full service.
A lot of the "open source" software works that way. Free with no support and missing some nice add ons. $1k-5k with some telephone support and those nice add ons $2-10k / mo with high end on demand quality support $15-100k / mo with them outright doing the work.
Most customers at the retail or just above level are not willing to pay what good support costs. There are exceptions and there are companies that make money on support. But in the end Word (a low support product) beating Word Perfect (a high support product) because people valued price and some slight additional features over support is the general case. People in general are only willing to pay for light support for most of their products.
I think the current model where people buy light support with a rich eco-system of partner's programs which provide strong support is likely the best overall solution given the preferences of the purchasers.
If it is wiped it does do that. If it breaks you are supposed to be under Applecare and you get a new one.
because many people seem to have real problems with it
I haven't seen any evidence for that. I've been talking to Apple end users over the last week about this issue, and mostly in some vague non-technical way they get the SMS vs, iMessage distinction. They get that iMessage is like BBM, Lime, WhatsApp... a new style text message. They get the idea that Apple people can use iMessage and for others they have to use something else. They get that iMessage can use old texting like they had on their dumb phones. They certainly get that there is a difference between the new system they have now and the system they had then. They know their friends with dumb phones or Android use the old system. They do notice green vs. blue though interestingly they don't seem to remember which is which (i find that really odd because the blue/IMessage has all sorts of features that green/SMS doesn't support).
So no they don't seem to have real problems.
And to be honest I think you are trolling. I find it really odd that all the critics of iMessage in this thread don't know jack about it.
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I doubt it. Microsoft is not going to back down. They absolutely, positively must have a viable touch based OS or they simply will have no role in home small business by around 2020. Their major point of leverage is their existing compatibility. They are not going to be put into an ever narrowing, ever shrinking platform.
There is a long history of failure of companies that try to suddenly migrate from Windows. Mostly the success are:
a) Companies that had a Unix culture to begin with and thus Windows wasn't deeply entrenched.
b) Companies that had owners who didn't care about the cost and were willing to make this cost ineffective.
If your deeply entrenched company makes it, terrific! But we shall see.
No. Windows 8 has made it possible to transition to touch hardware while continuing to support desktop applications. Of course it sucks on the wrong hardware. And that's Microsoft's fault for allowing non-touch hardware to be supported without a substantial OS penalty.
Windows 8 includes a VM manager. You can run those legacy applications against Windows XP. But shockingly few companies did that even with Windows 7, this seems to be more of a complaint in theory than in reality.
No you can't. There is no assassination in the United States of US citizens. You most certainly can choose to comply with due process even if you live abroad. If you fail to comply, and determined to be a threat, then you can be killed. That's not without "due process" it is a more limited process.
Both Karen Kempner and Edward Zuckerberg are Jewish. They raised Mark Jewish. Mark is religiously an atheist, but he never converted out.
So yes, the Iranian judge's "let's kill the kike" is at least factually accurate.
America is vastly more democratic than Iran. The more democratic a government, the less the government can use violence and fear of violence to propagate its will and thus the better the propaganda.
Nope they have that service: https://www.createspace.com/Se...
The don't offer full on development edits which work with authors in an extended way.
The more upmarket solutions:
https://www.millcitypress.net/...
http://www.authorhouse.com/Ser...
have a more full featured version.
The authors decide how many services to buy.
Just as an aside, Createspace is an author services company. Amazon already had a POD print and distribution arm (Booksurge) when they bought CreateSpace.
https://www.createspace.com/pu...
There are two issues:
a) Did support levels drop
b) Did the drop in support levels lead to decreased prices.
The article and most of the people are answering question (a) with yes. You are answering "no". Which means you disagree with the fundamental premise of the article.
Then compare 2Q to 3Q you see a similar surge.
That for the general purpose language creates the two language problem.
Library X has a syntax Y but also a syntax from from language Z keeps bleeding through in practice vs. in a DSL where Y is clean.
He's probably right. All other things being equal a good Domain Specific Language will crush a General Purpose Language in its domain. If Julia is much faster than R and that were unfixable it would still be far easier to write a library in Julia accessible by R than to train R users in all of Julia's concepts.
General purpose languages can sometimes get close to DSLs in effectiveness and then the greater diversity of users creates an economy of sacle and deep entrenchment which drives DSLs away. But then with a large and highly diverse user base the General Purpose language isn't able to rapidly adapt so DSLs spring up to fill niches. Some of those DSLs become incredibly successful and start to move into other domains diversifying their purpose and user base to become General Purpose Languages and the cycle repeats.
4Q2013 $893m
3Q2013 $400m
Surface 1 did about $1b total
That's a pretty consistent 80-120% growth quarter over quarter. How are sales not good for a new product?
The Surface Pro 1 was excellent. Read the reviews and discussion here even at the time it came out or the comparisons of Windows 8 laptops where it was right in there with the best (example Lenovo). The Surface wasn't very good and pairing the name was frankly confusing to customers since the Surface Pro and the Surface didn't have much in common, as your post shows.
What software products haven't reduced their costs? I can think of very few categories of products who aren't something like 10% of what they cost 20 years ago especially inflation adjusted.
That's not true. Lots of software can be bundled with a service agreement that can be full service.
A lot of the "open source" software works that way.
Free with no support and missing some nice add ons.
$1k-5k with some telephone support and those nice add ons
$2-10k / mo with high end on demand quality support
$15-100k / mo with them outright doing the work.
No, often they won't. Often the cost of reboxing hits the retailer not the company.
Then when you buy make sure to pick vendors with excellent customer support. They exist and they are almost always an option.
Microsoft offers paid supported online email services. You went for the free one instead likely due to cost. Which I think makes the point.
Most customers at the retail or just above level are not willing to pay what good support costs. There are exceptions and there are companies that make money on support. But in the end Word (a low support product) beating Word Perfect (a high support product) because people valued price and some slight additional features over support is the general case. People in general are only willing to pay for light support for most of their products.
I think the current model where people buy light support with a rich eco-system of partner's programs which provide strong support is likely the best overall solution given the preferences of the purchasers.
If you are on an Android phone you are the recipient not the sender of messages. The claim was senders wouldn't know.
If it is wiped it does do that. If it breaks you are supposed to be under Applecare and you get a new one.
I haven't seen any evidence for that. I've been talking to Apple end users over the last week about this issue, and mostly in some vague non-technical way they get the SMS vs, iMessage distinction. They get that iMessage is like BBM, Lime, WhatsApp... a new style text message. They get the idea that Apple people can use iMessage and for others they have to use something else. They get that iMessage can use old texting like they had on their dumb phones. They certainly get that there is a difference between the new system they have now and the system they had then. They know their friends with dumb phones or Android use the old system. They do notice green vs. blue though interestingly they don't seem to remember which is which (i find that really odd because the blue/IMessage has all sorts of features that green/SMS doesn't support).
So no they don't seem to have real problems.
And to be honest I think you are trolling. I find it really odd that all the critics of iMessage in this thread don't know jack about it.
Yes terribly difficult by default. Setting -> Messages then right at the top iMessage to off. Stay away from programs that demanding.