And when you RTFA, you'll see how the author basically argues against his own 'do or die' thesis at the end of it.
here's the relevant bit, from TFA: ...there's lots of room for Microsoft. Consumers love their mobile phones, but they switch or upgrade as often as every one or two years. Also, consumers typically sign up with service providers like Verizon and AT&T and will happily switch to the next best phone. Who's to say an AT&T customer's next phone won't be a Windows Phone?
So until customers stop getting new phones every 2 years, or start caring much more about their phones OS, I don't understand why this is " officially Microsoft's last, best chance for relevance in the post-desktop computing world."
Many US defense analysts were more than happy to credit non-existent assets to the Russians to increase military spending.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap : Realizing that mere belief in the gap was an extremely effective funding source, a series of similarly nonexistent Soviet military advances were constructed in a tactic now known as "policy by press release." These included claims of a nuclear-powered bomber, supersonic VTOL flying saucers, and only a few years later, the "missile gap."
She was embarrassed by what was associated with her name. Now many, many, many more people are aware that there were embarrassing things associated with it, things that probably were nowhere near as bad as people are likely to imagine upon scanning a headline.
She will forever be that 'chick whose name search produced ciallis ads' to me and many others now.
...posting images associated with her name that are truly offensive. It would actually be a good object lesson in why not to file stupid lawsuits like this.
Why? Because you don't like Facebook? I'm not going to see it because of Facebook, I'm going to go see it because it's by Sorkin. I hate sports, and never watch ESPN, but loved 'Sports Night' A good writer can make interesting entertaining stories out of subject matter you have, or thought you had, no interest in.
Or maybe you just personally dislike someone involved with the film to the point that you wish anyone who doesn't shouldn't even exist. And that's the exact type of thinking I really wish didn't exist.
Seriously, every time there's a Facebook story on/. so many hours of potential productivity are lost to bitching. Why not use that time actively helping an alternative to what so many of you apparently despise? And if you don't care about or use social networks at all, rest assured that the millions who do by and large don't care about your sanctimonious complaints.
yes it is. In the exact same way that free speech triumphs when people have the freedom to speak out against it, as well as for it. The openness is still out there for you to make a community pea patch or whatever the hell else you would like to do with it, you don't have to use his walled garden and it is in no way stopping you from constructing your own.
For better or worse, people find the consistency of proprietary platforms preferable to the confusion that can come with open platforms. Part of 'openness' is letting the option of using both remain. Don't get all pissy if the majority of people out there have different priorities than you.
I totally agree, I was just trying to point out that TFA seems too exuberant about future prospects, and while happy for them, that isn't the aspect of the story myself and the majority of/. readers care about.
mod parent +1 interesting. As in 'I'm sure Homeland Security will find it interesting that you posted information of potential use to terrorists'
They'll probably want to 'mod you up' in person. They have an app for that too. It runs on phone book. Or rather, the phone book runs into your head repeatedly.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092010-yahoo-opens-chicken-coop-green.html
although the original link does a great job of showcasing local boosterism in a rust belt town feverishly hopeful for a better future ('Yay! 100 jobs! Some interest! The town is saved, paw'!), this link actually has details more likely to be of interest to a slashdot reader.
The long and narrow design placed in consideration of prevailing winds seems clever, sure, but I don't get the big deal over it. Maybe using common sense really is so rare as to be considered innovative.
Israel has never attacked it's neighbors in the way they have attacked Israel. Israel's attacks have been preemptive and limited to it's own immediate security needs. Israels neighbors have repeatedly attacked Israel with the express intention (still very much expressed today) of wiping it off the map and pushing every Jew into the sea.
Not that I think Israel should have nukes, but they do. And I don't find it hypocritical to deny an enemy threatening to kill you a weapon whether you have that weapon or not.
I'm actually not one of those Western folks, but you wouldn't know it from my original post. But it was with them in mind that I sacrificed strict accuracy in favor of readability. I did not think it detracted from my point. My apologies if it did.
The whole idea could be is that it doesn't prove anything, but still tells everyone who's responsible. Perhaps a threat veiled enough to not be actionable legally, but still heard loud and clear. I see pulling that off as evidence of smarts, not stupidity.
Watching the news reports on Iran's nuclear program about a month ago, I started to wonder if Israel would rely on diplomacy alone to resolve the issue. They sure didn't in 1981 when Iraq was building a nuclear reactor in Osirak, they flew in F-16s and bombed it. So it's not without precedent for the Israelis to attack Arab nuclear facilities.
I for one respect their taking direct action in the interest of their national security. And if they can do so in a way that does not cost human life, all the better.
Social networks are great at disseminating ideas and information, but nothing beats face time to motivate or sell someone on an important decision. I'm not going to take an action with real implications for making my life harder (like getting arrested at a demonstration, or 'direct action') based on something I've been sent online. But I might if someone I respect sits down and talks with me, and sells me on it.
Online discussion of issues is important, but real life follow through is essential.
Now I can watch FX without holding the remote in my hand the whole time. That network really seems to allow much louder commercials than any other network, sometimes to the point of it being too frustrating to even watch a show on it when others are trying to sleep. Often I'll resort to closed captions and just keep the volume down to far to hear the shows without straining.
So, while thankful, let me just say if I were to write an ordered list of problems for congress to resolve this would easily have a four digit line item number.
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here's the relevant bit, from TFA: ...there's lots of room for Microsoft. Consumers love their mobile phones, but they switch or upgrade as often as every one or two years. Also, consumers typically sign up with service providers like Verizon and AT&T and will happily switch to the next best phone. Who's to say an AT&T customer's next phone won't be a Windows Phone?
So until customers stop getting new phones every 2 years, or start caring much more about their phones OS, I don't understand why this is " officially Microsoft's last, best chance for relevance in the post-desktop computing world."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap : Realizing that mere belief in the gap was an extremely effective funding source, a series of similarly nonexistent Soviet military advances were constructed in a tactic now known as "policy by press release." These included claims of a nuclear-powered bomber, supersonic VTOL flying saucers, and only a few years later, the "missile gap."
[puts on pornTube]
She will forever be that 'chick whose name search produced ciallis ads' to me and many others now.
they're both BS
...posting images associated with her name that are truly offensive. It would actually be a good object lesson in why not to file stupid lawsuits like this.
no, seriously, whatever she saw is now ruined by the Steisand effect.
Or maybe you just personally dislike someone involved with the film to the point that you wish anyone who doesn't shouldn't even exist. And that's the exact type of thinking I really wish didn't exist.
Seriously, every time there's a Facebook story on /. so many hours of potential productivity are lost to bitching. Why not use that time actively helping an alternative to what so many of you apparently despise? And if you don't care about or use social networks at all, rest assured that the millions who do by and large don't care about your sanctimonious complaints.
For better or worse, people find the consistency of proprietary platforms preferable to the confusion that can come with open platforms. Part of 'openness' is letting the option of using both remain. Don't get all pissy if the majority of people out there have different priorities than you.
I totally agree, I was just trying to point out that TFA seems too exuberant about future prospects, and while happy for them, that isn't the aspect of the story myself and the majority of /. readers care about.
They'll probably want to 'mod you up' in person. They have an app for that too. It runs on phone book. Or rather, the phone book runs into your head repeatedly.
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For those who are curious, the link is about Beeffalos and not one of the other many Buffalos in the USA.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092010-yahoo-opens-chicken-coop-green.html although the original link does a great job of showcasing local boosterism in a rust belt town feverishly hopeful for a better future ('Yay! 100 jobs! Some interest! The town is saved, paw'!), this link actually has details more likely to be of interest to a slashdot reader. The long and narrow design placed in consideration of prevailing winds seems clever, sure, but I don't get the big deal over it. Maybe using common sense really is so rare as to be considered innovative.
Not that I think Israel should have nukes, but they do. And I don't find it hypocritical to deny an enemy threatening to kill you a weapon whether you have that weapon or not.
Neither the U.S. nor Israel thinks this is possible.
Why wouldn't Israel think this? They took out Saddam's surface facility, and he never got the bomb.
I'm actually not one of those Western folks, but you wouldn't know it from my original post. But it was with them in mind that I sacrificed strict accuracy in favor of readability. I did not think it detracted from my point. My apologies if it did.
The whole idea could be is that it doesn't prove anything, but still tells everyone who's responsible. Perhaps a threat veiled enough to not be actionable legally, but still heard loud and clear. I see pulling that off as evidence of smarts, not stupidity.
I for one respect their taking direct action in the interest of their national security. And if they can do so in a way that does not cost human life, all the better.
Online discussion of issues is important, but real life follow through is essential.
So, while thankful, let me just say if I were to write an ordered list of problems for congress to resolve this would easily have a four digit line item number.
And, while we're at it, can we do something about businesses that insist on using little kids in their ads
but then politicians would have to stop using kids in their ads. So that's not going to happen.
Fuck your whining.