MS is a mature company in a mature business supplying software in a commoditized industry. Their growth days are long gone. They do have a lot of cash that have to use and one way for a mature company to grow is to purchase other companies.
TO contrast strategies: Apple is innovating and creating new markets whereas MS is going to buy into markets.
Now, if you saw some entity like Crane, Poole, and Schmidt, LLC. buy into the company, then I'd be concerned about patent trolling.
A quick way to check what a domain is to type in "www."domain letters like www.ca to see Canada's. But instead of Greenland's (Had to go to Wiki for that) I got this and it's a login for a point of sale system.
I support environmental causes (Sierra Club and others), but I for one will not support Greenpeace and I don't think they are credible. They use violence to get their message out and their founder is now a corporate consultant that shows them how to get around environmental laws and pollute.
Unfortunately, just about all reviews are garbage - even the ones by folks who purchased that items themselves. It's like they get it and see shiny package - 5 Stars!
While Tehran has given out several conflicting figures on the systems and networks struck by the malworm - 30,000 to 45,000 industrial units - debkafile's sources cite security experts as putting the figure much higher, in the region of millions. If this is true, then this cyber weapon attack on Iran would be the greatest ever.
Millions? They have that much interconnected? I mean really, when Seimens or some other industrial supplier comes in, do they automatically say, "Oh, we need to have this connected to the internet for critical software updates." ? Do they use Microsoft's updating methods?
I really can't believe that they are that careless. I think the number cited by the Iranians are mostly networks connected to the internet - non-critical networks.
1. He invented one of the most popular languages of all time. 2. This isn't your typical dime a dozen BSCS or BSEE cubical wage slave that be easily replaced. 3. Unlike the folks in #2, he can say, "I created billions of dollars worth of revenue for x,y,z"
Of course he'll get hired - even by big unimaginative corporations who like their cookie-cutter employees.
So, that particular case is one I've been drawn into over and over again for years. If we could do benchmarks on sine and cosign on intel chips compared to C. We beat C on just about everything except benchmarks on Sine and cosign.
It turns out there's a small issue with the way the sine and cosign hardware is implemented in the spec on the intel platform. And we actually work around it in software. For the ranges from plus or minus five, we are close to intel speeds. You get the larger values, where the intel thing rips. So lots of folks who use math on the Java platform because we do it accurately. We put a lot of effort into it.
The thing that I'm not sure about, the part about "benchmarks" - is he also referring to performance, as in, speed?
I actually had another sort of offer so I had actually had lunch with Andy Bechtolsheim the day he signed the papers with Scott Pinode to create Sun, and so he was actually trying to join Sun at the same time, and I would've been like employee number 4 or 5 or something
Fuuuuuuucccccck!
As employee 4 or 5, I wonder what kind of stock options he could have gotten. Meaning, could he have been a multimillionaire now?
The odds are (~70%), it will hit in an ocean somewhere. It would create one some-bitch tsunami. So, if it smacks down in the Atlantic, we can kiss all the cities on the Atlantic coast good-bye?
The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the "Tsar Bomba" of the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961, with an estimated yield of around 50 megatons.
So this impact would be 40% of the Soviet test. How badly did the Soviet test harm the Earth?
If we were more temperate about our predictions, people wouldn't dismiss them as more of the same "sky-is-falling" crapola.
In this day and age of information overload, nobody listens to you unless you make a lot of noise and say outrageous things. There's an incredibly high noise threshold to overcome.
There's no room for calm rational discussions in today's media, either. Hence the popularity of people like Glenn Beck.
The only time I've ever seen Apple come in cheaper than a competitor is with the high end all-in-one desktops - HP costs more at least back when I checked.
Yeah, the attitude was killing it. They were barely making money. What rescued Apple was its foray into electronic consumer lifestyle devices - iPod, iTouch, iPad and the services supporting those devices. Apple couldn't last as just a computer company - hence it's subtle name change from "Apple Computer, Inc" to "Apple, Inc".
Oh God! I hope not! We need Microsoft! They're the only ones that are checking the power of HP, Oracle, IBM, and most of all APPLE! MS is kind of like the United States in their power. Yeah, they fuck up quite a few things but without them, petty tyrants would have their way. Just think if Apple became the Super Power. For one, Flash would be killed.......
As bad as it sounds, they don't much care about unemployment because the unemployed don't contribute to their lifestyles.
That is absolutely true. However, have you seen how some of the primaries are going around the country? People are pretty pissed with the incumbents - the TEA Party has been getting the credit but I think it's more than that.
In November, many of those unemployed folks are going to be at the polls. We shall see......
...they'd be phasing copyright out instead of extending it.
I disagree. I think putting Copyright back to its original terms would be perfect:
The first federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790 granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term
But precedent suggests that this will serve merely to increase the demand for light. The consequence may not be just more light for the same amount of energy, but an actual increase in energy consumption, rather than the decrease hoped for by those promoting new forms of lighting.
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MS is a mature company in a mature business supplying software in a commoditized industry. Their growth days are long gone. They do have a lot of cash that have to use and one way for a mature company to grow is to purchase other companies.
TO contrast strategies: Apple is innovating and creating new markets whereas MS is going to buy into markets.
Now, if you saw some entity like Crane, Poole, and Schmidt, LLC. buy into the company, then I'd be concerned about patent trolling.
Greenland is up for sale?
The reference may say otherwise, but what about in practice? Meaning, maybe there's a bug that allows the access.
For the same reason most people prefer sex with a real partner as opposed to jerking-off to porn?
That's all.
Unfortunately, just about all reviews are garbage - even the ones by folks who purchased that items themselves. It's like they get it and see shiny package - 5 Stars!
While Tehran has given out several conflicting figures on the systems and networks struck by the malworm - 30,000 to 45,000 industrial units - debkafile's sources cite security experts as putting the figure much higher, in the region of millions. If this is true, then this cyber weapon attack on Iran would be the greatest ever.
Millions? They have that much interconnected? I mean really, when Seimens or some other industrial supplier comes in, do they automatically say, "Oh, we need to have this connected to the internet for critical software updates." ? Do they use Microsoft's updating methods?
I really can't believe that they are that careless. I think the number cited by the Iranians are mostly networks connected to the internet - non-critical networks.
2. This isn't your typical dime a dozen BSCS or BSEE cubical wage slave that be easily replaced.
3. Unlike the folks in #2, he can say, "I created billions of dollars worth of revenue for x,y,z"
Of course he'll get hired - even by big unimaginative corporations who like their cookie-cutter employees.
So, that particular case is one I've been drawn into over and over again for years. If we could do benchmarks on sine and cosign on intel chips compared to C. We beat C on just about everything except benchmarks on Sine and cosign. It turns out there's a small issue with the way the sine and cosign hardware is implemented in the spec on the intel platform. And we actually work around it in software. For the ranges from plus or minus five, we are close to intel speeds. You get the larger values, where the intel thing rips. So lots of folks who use math on the Java platform because we do it accurately. We put a lot of effort into it.
The thing that I'm not sure about, the part about "benchmarks" - is he also referring to performance, as in, speed?
I actually had another sort of offer so I had actually had lunch with Andy Bechtolsheim the day he signed the papers with Scott Pinode to create Sun, and so he was actually trying to join Sun at the same time, and I would've been like employee number 4 or 5 or something
Fuuuuuuucccccck!
As employee 4 or 5, I wonder what kind of stock options he could have gotten. Meaning, could he have been a multimillionaire now?
Would it be possible to create a version of Nemesis that doesn't suck?
The odds are (~70%), it will hit in an ocean somewhere. It would create one some-bitch tsunami. So, if it smacks down in the Atlantic, we can kiss all the cities on the Atlantic coast good-bye?
An impact by something like that is about the same as exploding a 20 megaton bomb.
So yeah, bad.
Wiki:
The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the "Tsar Bomba" of the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961, with an estimated yield of around 50 megatons.
So this impact would be 40% of the Soviet test. How badly did the Soviet test harm the Earth?
If we were more temperate about our predictions, people wouldn't dismiss them as more of the same "sky-is-falling" crapola.
In this day and age of information overload, nobody listens to you unless you make a lot of noise and say outrageous things. There's an incredibly high noise threshold to overcome.
There's no room for calm rational discussions in today's media, either. Hence the popularity of people like Glenn Beck.
What's the deal with the cursor here on Slashdot?!?! Edit ing i s becom ing a p a in i nthe ass!
The only time I've ever seen Apple come in cheaper than a competitor is with the high end all-in-one desktops - HP costs more at least back when I checked.
Cry over your Starbucks Hipster Douchebags.
Enjoy your inevitable market-share irrelevance. Again!
LOL
Ah Dude. You're telling people that do not want to be mainstream that they're products will never be mainstream.
Do you also go onto white supremacist websites and post
"You'll never be Black! Suck it Whitey!" ?
. If it saves 1 million man hours, then it's a net win for the human race . Yay.
I read an article recently that basically blames IT for the destruction of the middle class.
Yeah, the attitude was killing it. They were barely making money. What rescued Apple was its foray into electronic consumer lifestyle devices - iPod, iTouch, iPad and the services supporting those devices. Apple couldn't last as just a computer company - hence it's subtle name change from "Apple Computer, Inc" to "Apple, Inc".
DEAD.
Good riddance.
Yours In Moscow, K. Trout
Oh God! I hope not! We need Microsoft! They're the only ones that are checking the power of HP, Oracle, IBM, and most of all APPLE! MS is kind of like the United States in their power. Yeah, they fuck up quite a few things but without them, petty tyrants would have their way. Just think if Apple became the Super Power. For one, Flash would be killed .......
Die Microsoft! Die! Die! Die!
Fuck'n A!
Now I would love to see someone burn through years of karma Trolling and Flambating.
Got that Apple Fags! You too you FOSS Homos!
As bad as it sounds, they don't much care about unemployment because the unemployed don't contribute to their lifestyles.
That is absolutely true. However, have you seen how some of the primaries are going around the country? People are pretty pissed with the incumbents - the TEA Party has been getting the credit but I think it's more than that.
In November, many of those unemployed folks are going to be at the polls. We shall see ......
...they'd be phasing copyright out instead of extending it.
I disagree. I think putting Copyright back to its original terms would be perfect:
The first federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790 granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term
Source.
It's plenty of time for one to reap the rewards of their time and effort.
There are some people who make their living (some very good livings) from creating and I wouldn't want them to get corporate jobs:
David Attenborough, David McCullough, Ken Burns, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Chapelle, most of the authors for the New Yorker, and it goes on.....
Geeze!
But precedent suggests that this will serve merely to increase the demand for light. The consequence may not be just more light for the same amount of energy, but an actual increase in energy consumption, rather than the decrease hoped for by those promoting new forms of lighting.