Windows PC market. None of the devices you pointed to can run MS Office 2010 nicely.
That being said, why would anyone want to run and OS that is designed for much higher screen resolutions on a device that can't run those resolutions? I want a device that has an OS that is designed to run at that resolution, like Android or iOS.
Yeah, because the (D) can do no wrong, and the (R) can do no right. Here's a summary of counter points...
1) Grandma's plug is being decided Obamacare Death Panels due to lack of unlimited government funding to keep 85 year olds alive. 2) Poor don't pay taxes, therefore all tax cuts come from the "rich".Can't give tax breaks to those who don't pay any. 3) And the Government makes 10 times what Big Oil does, off Big Oil. And I suggest you don't drive your car ever again. Ride your bike, in the snow, uphill both ways. 4) It was (D) and (R) that ruined the country. Collaborative Effort my friend. 5) That is entirely possible. After the Obamacare debacle the (D) should lose the senate. The problem is that it will be (R) that replaces them. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. 6) MAFIAA is one of the (D) party sponsors. It is Hollywood, who are hardly big sponsors of the (R) party.
The solution is not (D) or (R) but yourself. If we only took responsibility for ourselves, we would need a whole lot less governance. People who want more government usually don't want to be responsible for themselves and want big brother or momma' s teet .
To give you an idea how fast that was. The Pony Express could do the three hundred miles in less time, at a cost of far less than 88 Million $.I know gliders that have traversed the Appalachia mountains in single day, a distance that is far greater. I still think the pedal powered flight from England to France is more impressive.
100 Million is 10% of the 1 Billion (Approx) Muslims in the world. If only 10% are "radicalized" that would be the number of radical jihadian Muslims in the world. The numbers are from various sites and references, if you need them google "how many muslims are there", you'll find that 1 Billions is... rather conservative. Some places are running 1.5 Billion. 10% is arbitrary to show you just how many there could be, even if it is one in ten that are radicalized. It was to be used for conceptual purposes not as "fact".
And by Radicalized Jihadians, I mean those who are willing to strap a bomb to their chest to blow up a shopping center, or fly airplanes into buildings. Not necessarily the number who can actually pull off such a feat.
The problem with Newt is that he is probably too smart to win the (R) primaries. He'll come across as pompous and arrogant, because he knows he's smarter than... Giuliani and Palin. The left will never like him, because he has intelligence behind his positions, and because he doesn't fit the narrative of the left that only stupid people are (R). In fact, I know way too many leftwingers who think he IS stupid because he is an (R).
I personally like the guy's intelligence and breadth of knowledge on all sorts of issues. I don't agree with him much, but it is refreshing when comparing to the likes of Palin, Reid and Pilosi who just look like hacks. But again, that is the very reason he's unelectable.
Nebulous? By that do you mean "doesn't exist", or do you mean "Exists, but to what extent and who we don't know, so I'm going to pretend they don't exist at all". Because there exists people who hate America because we stand for freedom and against tyranny (supposedly). They are tyrants and dictators, and being nice to them gets you nothing. And worse, there are people who would cut your head off because you're doing something they don't like. You know, like existing. They'll toss gasoline on you and light a match because you're a "christian" or a "jew". They will hang you because your gay. They will stone you because you were raped. They will cut your head off on tape because you're a jewish reporter and to make an example out of you.
These are not common thugs.
You don't see these pictures, or hear their stories because CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/FOX/Times/Post and all the rest don't want to be portrayed as "anti muslim". What you will her on those is that Lindsay Lohan's tested positive for alcohol... again. I guess they are just anti fallen starlet.
I wouldn't call the enemies "nebulous". I'd call them what they are, Muslim Jihadians. And there may be as many as 100,000,000 of them (10% of all Muslims). That is not Nebulous , that is dark storm cloud.
Skype is just a product away from being worthless.
Android/Google are already poised to take over the market offered by Skype, with their Google Talk/Voice/Email/Cell Phone system they already have cobbled together. Microsoft has Skype and Windows (Phone 7), and maybe XBox Kinect (or whatever it is called).
At this point, if I were at Google, I'd lay it out exactly this way. "We need a unified voice/video/email/chat/sms/sip product. Now!" They have the pieces, they just need to tie it all together nice and pretty. If they did that, Skype would cease to exist in short order. Because Microsoft is not nimble enough.
This has been my position for a few years now. Linux's success can be partially put on the shoulders of Microsoft. To mangle a Voltaire quote ""If Linux did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it". Linux was and is the best foil against Microsoft. Today, it is running in thousands of places where Windows and Microsoft Products aren't nor could be. Microsoft is a Windows company (I've said it before), they have one product that makes them money, and that is Microsoft Windows / Office ecosystem. Everything they do, is built around Windows.
The web, (and Google, Apple) are going to slowly eat away at the desktop marketshare of Windows in such a way that most people will miss it. It is already happening. We have Laptops and Android/iPhones that do much of what we need done day to day. And with iPad and Android tablets, they are going to further eat into desktop market.
This is why I think that Skype is going to die a slow painful death, perhaps everywhere but on Windows. It will become a Windows only product, and die on the dying market. Don't get me wrong, windows will be around for a long long time. But its influence is diminishing, but will never go away.
And all of that is made possible by Microsoft Domination in the 90s that gave rise to a little known hobby OS created by a kid in Finland. Because it was free.
No answer is an answer. Depending on who you're talking to, it could mean "yeah that is fine" or "stop, wait, don't do it", or it simply could mean "if the shit hits the fan, it is on you, but all success is on me".
Was gonna mod you up, but instead, it hit me. The problem isn't the process, it is where the process is engaged. And I think the Article and subsequent posts clearly indicate there is a time and place for process, but not everything needs to be stuck in a process.
In your case, you and your team were building tools for your own use and were doing it the quick and agile way. Dirty code that got stuff done quickly. You bypassed the systemic processes that were in place because they just got in the way.
The successful code base often starts out as UGLY spaghetti code, but eventually needs to be cleaned up.
What needs happen is your skunkworks program should be autonomous from the normal process. Only when something you've created gets noticed does it move from the skunkworks over to the normal development channel. To accomplish this, you have to be willing to hand off your code to someone who is, more than likely, going to "ruin" it by running it through the process of getting it clean and neat.
This way, you can still build fast efficient code that is messy and ugly, and the managment can get code that is functional, and everyone can work towards getting it all nice and pretty by process. Everyone wins.
Okay, to accomplish your suggestion, and remove universal consent of fiat currency, what do you suggest as a replacement for transactions of needed supplies?
I'll trade you three donkeys, two chickens and this cow for that ________
You can't toss out stupid ideas without offering an alternative. Unless you're promoting "We must do something, this is something, therefore it must be done". In which case you're not better than the 435 critters in DC.
Climate is always changing. It has been warmer, it has been cooler. It has been wetter, it has been drier. The issue is how much can we blame on CO2 verses everything else, like the sun solar cycle.
Or like the one guy I heard recently talking about the tides affecting low lying areas of Japan... trying to blame it on Global Warming and not the HUGE EARTHQUAKE the dropped the island a few feet. It is freakin religion to some of these idiots.
I'm Libertarian. My views are typically modded either "insightful" if they tend to be "left" (D) or "troll" if they are "right" (R) side of things. My thoughts are generally well thought out, and often just don't fit the whole (D) good (R) bad (or visa versa) Drone Thought.
Just a few days ago, on talking about "wars" and casualties and such, some guy posted his anti GWB death stats in Iraq. Completely ignoring the fact that since "hostilities" have ended, the death count has slowing been dwindling. But when I posted that the Afghanistan war has not only been increasing, but rather dramatically under Obama it was modded "Troll".
My point was that the liberal thought wasn't standing on its own. If deaths (simplistic point of the poster) are a measure of success or failure, then Iraq was successful under GWB (getting smaller) while Afghanistan is moving to failure under Obama.
I can point to case after case of leftwingers not able to apply their own standards of expectations upon themselves as they do rightwingers (who have a completely different set of problems), and they don't like people pointing to it. Say something stupid and the left wing will nail ya for it relentlessly (Palin), but if you're Harry Reid and you say something even more stupid (US doesn't have GPS comment) and.. meh or they will make endless excuses.
Don't get me wrong, the (R) side of things isn't much better. We all know their foibles because the Leftwing Press and the Daily Show make note of every single one. I just wish they would do the same thing to Nancy and Harry that they do to Sarah and Rush. Especially since Nancy and Harry are in positions of power, while Sarah and Rush are not.
Okay, I've watched the Video twice, and read both linked articles (yeah I did) and it said that it was..
The video shows the exploit in action with Google Chrome v11.0.696.65 on Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (x64). The user is tricked into visiting a specially crafted web page hosting the exploit which will execute various payloads to ultimately download the Calculator from a remote location and launch it outside the sandbox at Medium integrity level.
Well I did see the Calculator applet get started, and I do see that it is a Microsoft Version. I did not see it get "downloaded", which is acceptable if it was a background download. But I don't know if it did, or if it simply called the local version already installed as part of the OS.
Just saying the whole thing is very skimpy and light on details and specifics.
If only AT&T would get off its ass and actually offer us FIOS. In fact, Comcast laid all sorts of Dark Fiber in my city a couple years back, so they are already poised to do FIOS cable if they really wanted. Or.. if my city would go the way I suggest and contract out FIOS deployment to all houses, and run its own switching system and lease FIOS to Comcast and AT&T or whomever.
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Windows PC market. None of the devices you pointed to can run MS Office 2010 nicely.
That being said, why would anyone want to run and OS that is designed for much higher screen resolutions on a device that can't run those resolutions? I want a device that has an OS that is designed to run at that resolution, like Android or iOS.
Yeah, because the (D) can do no wrong, and the (R) can do no right. Here's a summary of counter points ...
1) Grandma's plug is being decided Obamacare Death Panels due to lack of unlimited government funding to keep 85 year olds alive.
2) Poor don't pay taxes, therefore all tax cuts come from the "rich".Can't give tax breaks to those who don't pay any.
3) And the Government makes 10 times what Big Oil does, off Big Oil. And I suggest you don't drive your car ever again. Ride your bike, in the snow, uphill both ways.
4) It was (D) and (R) that ruined the country. Collaborative Effort my friend.
5) That is entirely possible. After the Obamacare debacle the (D) should lose the senate. The problem is that it will be (R) that replaces them. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
6) MAFIAA is one of the (D) party sponsors. It is Hollywood, who are hardly big sponsors of the (R) party.
The solution is not (D) or (R) but yourself. If we only took responsibility for ourselves, we would need a whole lot less governance. People who want more government usually don't want to be responsible for themselves and want big brother or momma' s teet .
To give you an idea how fast that was. The Pony Express could do the three hundred miles in less time, at a cost of far less than 88 Million $.I know gliders that have traversed the Appalachia mountains in single day, a distance that is far greater. I still think the pedal powered flight from England to France is more impressive.
Pastafarian is a worshipper of the false god FSM. We all know that the real god is Cthulhu
They can try. And then people will "drop" Verizon or AT&T without the ETF. The problem is who do we go to, Sprint? gahhh
100 Million is 10% of the 1 Billion (Approx) Muslims in the world. If only 10% are "radicalized" that would be the number of radical jihadian Muslims in the world. The numbers are from various sites and references, if you need them google "how many muslims are there", you'll find that 1 Billions is ... rather conservative. Some places are running 1.5 Billion. 10% is arbitrary to show you just how many there could be, even if it is one in ten that are radicalized. It was to be used for conceptual purposes not as "fact".
And by Radicalized Jihadians, I mean those who are willing to strap a bomb to their chest to blow up a shopping center, or fly airplanes into buildings. Not necessarily the number who can actually pull off such a feat.
The problem with Newt is that he is probably too smart to win the (R) primaries. He'll come across as pompous and arrogant, because he knows he's smarter than ... Giuliani and Palin. The left will never like him, because he has intelligence behind his positions, and because he doesn't fit the narrative of the left that only stupid people are (R). In fact, I know way too many leftwingers who think he IS stupid because he is an (R).
I personally like the guy's intelligence and breadth of knowledge on all sorts of issues. I don't agree with him much, but it is refreshing when comparing to the likes of Palin, Reid and Pilosi who just look like hacks. But again, that is the very reason he's unelectable.
Only half true. Free Health Care for everyone but tax payers. Tax payers are "rich" so they are evil and deserve it.
Nebulous? By that do you mean "doesn't exist", or do you mean "Exists, but to what extent and who we don't know, so I'm going to pretend they don't exist at all". Because there exists people who hate America because we stand for freedom and against tyranny (supposedly). They are tyrants and dictators, and being nice to them gets you nothing. And worse, there are people who would cut your head off because you're doing something they don't like. You know, like existing. They'll toss gasoline on you and light a match because you're a "christian" or a "jew". They will hang you because your gay. They will stone you because you were raped. They will cut your head off on tape because you're a jewish reporter and to make an example out of you.
These are not common thugs.
You don't see these pictures, or hear their stories because CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/FOX/Times/Post and all the rest don't want to be portrayed as "anti muslim". What you will her on those is that Lindsay Lohan's tested positive for alcohol ... again. I guess they are just anti fallen starlet.
I wouldn't call the enemies "nebulous". I'd call them what they are, Muslim Jihadians. And there may be as many as 100,000,000 of them (10% of all Muslims). That is not Nebulous , that is dark storm cloud.
I'm on a horse
Skype is just a product away from being worthless.
Android/Google are already poised to take over the market offered by Skype, with their Google Talk/Voice/Email/Cell Phone system they already have cobbled together. Microsoft has Skype and Windows (Phone 7), and maybe XBox Kinect (or whatever it is called).
At this point, if I were at Google, I'd lay it out exactly this way. "We need a unified voice/video/email/chat/sms/sip product. Now!" They have the pieces, they just need to tie it all together nice and pretty. If they did that, Skype would cease to exist in short order. Because Microsoft is not nimble enough.
This has been my position for a few years now. Linux's success can be partially put on the shoulders of Microsoft. To mangle a Voltaire quote ""If Linux did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it". Linux was and is the best foil against Microsoft. Today, it is running in thousands of places where Windows and Microsoft Products aren't nor could be. Microsoft is a Windows company (I've said it before), they have one product that makes them money, and that is Microsoft Windows / Office ecosystem. Everything they do, is built around Windows.
The web, (and Google, Apple) are going to slowly eat away at the desktop marketshare of Windows in such a way that most people will miss it. It is already happening. We have Laptops and Android/iPhones that do much of what we need done day to day. And with iPad and Android tablets, they are going to further eat into desktop market.
This is why I think that Skype is going to die a slow painful death, perhaps everywhere but on Windows. It will become a Windows only product, and die on the dying market. Don't get me wrong, windows will be around for a long long time. But its influence is diminishing, but will never go away.
And all of that is made possible by Microsoft Domination in the 90s that gave rise to a little known hobby OS created by a kid in Finland. Because it was free.
No answer is an answer. Depending on who you're talking to, it could mean "yeah that is fine" or "stop, wait, don't do it", or it simply could mean "if the shit hits the fan, it is on you, but all success is on me".
Know your boss.
Was gonna mod you up, but instead, it hit me. The problem isn't the process, it is where the process is engaged. And I think the Article and subsequent posts clearly indicate there is a time and place for process, but not everything needs to be stuck in a process.
In your case, you and your team were building tools for your own use and were doing it the quick and agile way. Dirty code that got stuff done quickly. You bypassed the systemic processes that were in place because they just got in the way.
The successful code base often starts out as UGLY spaghetti code, but eventually needs to be cleaned up.
What needs happen is your skunkworks program should be autonomous from the normal process. Only when something you've created gets noticed does it move from the skunkworks over to the normal development channel. To accomplish this, you have to be willing to hand off your code to someone who is, more than likely, going to "ruin" it by running it through the process of getting it clean and neat.
This way, you can still build fast efficient code that is messy and ugly, and the managment can get code that is functional, and everyone can work towards getting it all nice and pretty by process. Everyone wins.
Just my thought
That does sound good. And if I'm pregnant then it is a MIRACLE!!!!!
Okay, to accomplish your suggestion, and remove universal consent of fiat currency, what do you suggest as a replacement for transactions of needed supplies?
You can't toss out stupid ideas without offering an alternative. Unless you're promoting "We must do something, this is something, therefore it must be done". In which case you're not better than the 435 critters in DC.
Climate is always changing. It has been warmer, it has been cooler. It has been wetter, it has been drier. The issue is how much can we blame on CO2 verses everything else, like the sun solar cycle.
Or like the one guy I heard recently talking about the tides affecting low lying areas of Japan ... trying to blame it on Global Warming and not the HUGE EARTHQUAKE the dropped the island a few feet. It is freakin religion to some of these idiots.
Sorry, but there are enough big dicks in the news these days. We don't need more.
Exception that proves the rule ;)
I'm Libertarian. My views are typically modded either "insightful" if they tend to be "left" (D) or "troll" if they are "right" (R) side of things. My thoughts are generally well thought out, and often just don't fit the whole (D) good (R) bad (or visa versa) Drone Thought.
Just a few days ago, on talking about "wars" and casualties and such, some guy posted his anti GWB death stats in Iraq. Completely ignoring the fact that since "hostilities" have ended, the death count has slowing been dwindling. But when I posted that the Afghanistan war has not only been increasing, but rather dramatically under Obama it was modded "Troll".
My point was that the liberal thought wasn't standing on its own. If deaths (simplistic point of the poster) are a measure of success or failure, then Iraq was successful under GWB (getting smaller) while Afghanistan is moving to failure under Obama.
I can point to case after case of leftwingers not able to apply their own standards of expectations upon themselves as they do rightwingers (who have a completely different set of problems), and they don't like people pointing to it. Say something stupid and the left wing will nail ya for it relentlessly (Palin), but if you're Harry Reid and you say something even more stupid (US doesn't have GPS comment) and .. meh or they will make endless excuses.
Don't get me wrong, the (R) side of things isn't much better. We all know their foibles because the Leftwing Press and the Daily Show make note of every single one. I just wish they would do the same thing to Nancy and Harry that they do to Sarah and Rush. Especially since Nancy and Harry are in positions of power, while Sarah and Rush are not.
Okay, I've watched the Video twice, and read both linked articles (yeah I did) and it said that it was ..
Well I did see the Calculator applet get started, and I do see that it is a Microsoft Version. I did not see it get "downloaded", which is acceptable if it was a background download. But I don't know if it did, or if it simply called the local version already installed as part of the OS.
Just saying the whole thing is very skimpy and light on details and specifics.
FiOS = Fiber Optic Services.
And I meant it in the "generic" terms not the TM version of it. Kind of like kleenex vs Kleenex, and bandaid vs Bandaid and aspirin vs Bayer Aspirin.
IS that okay with you? Or Did you misunderstand what I meant?
If only AT&T would get off its ass and actually offer us FIOS. In fact, Comcast laid all sorts of Dark Fiber in my city a couple years back, so they are already poised to do FIOS cable if they really wanted. Or .. if my city would go the way I suggest and contract out FIOS deployment to all houses, and run its own switching system and lease FIOS to Comcast and AT&T or whomever.
A guy can dream.
Oh, Not a "christian" either. Nice try
And this coming from an Anonymous Coward. No surprise there. It is easy to be part of a crowd. It is hard to stand out by yourself. See my sig ;)