If your resume cannot be formated in anything other than MS Office, your resume might need some more work that formatting.
Oddly. It was redone and it is improved over the older.
The one I had written in 2003 would randomly change table margins when I add or select something. I mean freaking random where the only experience close is like designing a website in IE 6 where you do one thing and all the elements freak out and go apeshit.
So many lazy IT departments use Taleo and wont accept.pdf's as they use older versions where the MBAs who work their feel if it aint broke do not fix it. This means I need.docs and.docx still. UGH.
Word 2010 is much better but margins occasionally double space in random spots still in every other program but Word.
If I had aero and the option to disable Metro or at least have it as a desktop where the desktop treats a metro app like any win32 app then ok.
I need Windows to run apps. Sorry slashdotters I really did try to live a linux only life. I need MS VS, MS expressions web, ventrillo, star wars the old republic, and yes sadly office as my resume won't be formatted correctly with any other package.
Windows 7 is old and aging and is not mobile friendly compared to Windows 8, iOS, and Android with its api's sucking battery life from apps utilizing win32. But I find hte disney colors of even the Windows 8 desktop madening!
I really did try Windows 8.1. I find it so damn ugly compared to Windows 7 where I have a sigh of relife. I thought I was old and afraid of change like those on neowin.net say we are.
I guess I can use it for occasional use like Windows Server 2012 where I setup it once and run just one app at a time and then go back to my desk and use MMC to do the real work.
But until I have my colors back and life (talking about Office 2013 too) it seems MS is extremist where they want all white, gray, and no color, and all minimalism = anti skuemorphism in that very strict interpretation.
Webkit, Opera, Netscape, and even early Mozilla all failed the acid test back in 2004. It took almost a decade before rendering was done correctly.
Mozilla before Firefox 1.5 had more rendering quirks than IE 6! Ask any website developer from that time frame?
IE 6 was a good browser back in 2001. It was just software was not that great and sucked goatballs back then and then the browser stagnated for many years.
I think your knowledge of adblock is a little dated? It has been free and available since last summer all the way back down to IE 8.
If you are corp the best way to be secure is just to not install flash or push a GPO to remove it corporate wide. Besides the marketing department wanting to see commercials flash servers no purpose at work other than being an attack vector.
I am trying to use GNU code to put in my product where I will patent and trademark it and then charge A LOT of money in return. My hope is to poison some open standards so they can use my other standard which I will have free, but all closed sourced instead in my evil plot. From there a new EULA will be introduced where upon a certain metric of time after my standard takes over the free one, I will have IP rights over anything on their computers.
I feel the need to dominate others and would love nothing more than to have my users sell all their children into slavery for my master vision of a new world order. I need to do this to feel better about myself since I am all jealous of my friends who have actual jobs and lives. I have an army of master robots on hand and plan to take the whole world hostage unless they bow to me and sign an EULA saying they only have the right to pursue their lives as their lives are a copy and not a real one. I own the real one just like Windows where you only have a copy. MS has the real one etc.
My question is which editor should I use to perform this? Vi or Emacs?
Funny IE 11 is fine and is the most recent. I would argue an older browser is less secure and IE 8 has more vulnerabilities than IE 9 and IE 10.
Yep forget better sandboxing, HTML 5 support, h.264, and lowrights mode if you are on XP still as well. Stay with the old!
Many sites and not just geek ones like my t-mobile site to pay my bill are not IE 8 compatible. If you read about the vulnerability it uses flash too. So get rid of flash and then hafl the web wont work when you want to listen to pandora or youtube music videos.
IE 8 has alot more exploits than IE 11 as it doesn't have as many modern sandboxing techniques due to compatibility for XP.
However, Chrome is getting many patches recently between versions due to flaws in blink and flash. So the idea to blame IE as still sucking is disingenuous.
The point is always upgrade your browser and OS in addition to running adblock/flashblock, or if you are a corp banning flash and java altogether. The port of adblock for IE is here.
Many IT professionals who whine about leaving XP and IE 8 behind should be FIRED. IE 11 sandbox is fine for this. If you run WIndows 7 or later both IE 9+ and Chrome have lowrights mode which restrict everything include writting to the disk with the narrow exception of %appdata.
These days most of the infections I see come from Firefox and plugins. Firefox has no lowrights mode and if anyone reading this is using XP you neglect sandboxing on all browsers and expose yourself.
For some reason only Slashdot reported no money was lost. In the phantom transactions obviously bitcoins were transferred, yet cancelled before cash could come.
On other sites like neowin it is reporting the values are sinking below $300 a coin!
Anti Slashdot and windows fanboy site, neowin.net mentioned mini start making a comeback in Windows 9 with 3 personas. Touch first, keyboard first and voice first.
8.1 update one included jumplists for tiles and power being on the top of the screen. Yes MS heard us and is reversing.
Fact: Microsoft doesn't have a mobile strategy as Android and iOS are making a killing. WinCE which is the opposite doesn't work either.
On paper what they did makes sense. Kids today do not mind Metro and view the desktop as ugly and unintuitive. Another problem is users who get a brand new computer want to install Firefox, chrome, avast Av, paint.net, and other software. Bing shows them Trojan versions. Brothersoft and cnet are freaking evil! They install conduit search which requires a reimage to get rid of.
Ni nite and file hippo are the only 2 I can trust. So a windows Store is a blessing! Just type in Chrome and you get it etc.
In practice Windows 8 failed due to bad employees and management. Mistakes were: 1. The odd assumption that because people use jumplist on pinned apps = they want metro full screen apps with no jumplists?! 2. The designer who made the office orb in office 2007 and made our users look for 30 minutes to find print because he said muscle memory would mean people will click there anyway out of habit designing hot corners and smart screen. 3. People who focus on content are more productive without distractions = Consumption only is what we really want ala google 4. Project VP feels using muscle memory is a great strategy to sell more phones.
If fixed it can be great for laptop and mobile users as winrt really uses less battery. Windows 9 should: 1. Have taskbar that disappeared when mouse is unplugged where modern apps can be stacked, grouped, aero peaked, and run like win32. 2. Have phone, tablet, and desktop use winrt API for apps to run on all 3. Taskbar and desktop pop up if you plug in a mouse. 3. Put color back. Minimalism can have this. 4. Put tabs everywhere 5. Have sccm and ad integrate with store. Maybe allow some corporate users to use it for safe apps where it won't won't fuck things up like real win32 apps
Do this and I may use this on my next system. Windows 8 metro was rushed and implemented with incompetent employees also yes some of us are resistant to change. I am I admit as we age we like things the way they are. I am not saying that is the only reason to hate metro. Just that I see no problem using it for running server 2012 as I only do one thing at a time unlike my desktop and then walk away and remotely use MMC.
Metro is not going away folks. As computers get smaller and more embedded the need for menus and power sucking and insecure APIs go down. So what's wrong with a Windows 7 desktop with 8 applets on it?
Now Apple became evil once they became popular and Google is heading that way now. What makes you think they are any other company are different.
With market forces MS is tame now as they can't do the things they once did and consumers are not as stupid as they once were. In 1999 most users where neophytes running AOL and IE 5 thinking crashes were normal and MS is soo wonderful because they bought their first computer recently. We as geeks were the minority then. Our time passed in the 1980s.
Today these users see their ipads and wonder why the hell would they use their bloated old XP system?
MS is responding by better operating systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 8(GUI is the issue, but will be fixed by win 9) that go head to head with iOS and Android. IE now is a good browser again. Office has less formatting bugs and MS now lets you save in ODF and PDF.
That is because of old and ancient sites thinking IE must be the same as IE 6 or 7 and feeds broken code.
IE 11 breaks because it only accepts standard javascript. Many older Adobe tools like Flash CS2 see IE and feed it active* in jscript code to launch flash objects. Firefox and Chrome break on that code too but is not fed. People on slashdot say AHA proof it is not standard compliant!!! When it actually it is because it is standard compliant now.
Windows Phone has doubled marketshare and is popular in places like Italy where it is over 10% marketshare.
VC now supports c++ 11 more than Gnu.
I am not saying Microsoft is perfect and are saints. The fact is there product quality is improving. Slashdot is a different world view than everyone else.
People can't get past MS's sins because MS never really changed. They still bend the rules until they're warped and often just snap. They are still they same company in many ways.
Let's see for a moment of today vs 1990s 1999: -MS makes IE incompatible on purpose to destroy the last innovation left -MS strong arms OEM's -MS makes crappy products that crash. Though NT 4 shows some promise -MS makes bad things in standards like it's own versions of C++ and.doc.xls formats to prevent others from using them. A bad buggy product creates lockin as developers rely on their products hence IE 6 is still here in a few spots -MS owns the ecosystem! Apple is dead. Palm is about dead and will be dying soon -Expectations are by 2014 we will all live in a MS only world with IE 6, Crappy Windows, and desktop apps with 0 competitors! Hence why companies made IE 6 web and VB client apps
... fast foward to 2014 -IE is the most standards compliant browser which uses the least of W3C unsupported specs compared to webkit and mozilla -Windows 7 is rock solid and so is 8 (ignoring the GUI) - The 8 kernel is so improved it runs on mediocre Nokia phones with qualcom 1.5 ghz cpus and is snappy and responsive - Mobile GUI wise MS is innovating. Yes it is fashionable here at MS to bash Windows Phone if you have never run it. But interactive tiles are nice on my phone. Ask any Windows Phone user. It is not bad REALLY - Word finally doesn't botch formatting nearly as much and excel has hardly any bugs -MS goes for the more open ooxml. Yes it is not as clear as ODF I do admit that. But it is MUCH more readable as.doc has executables hidden in containers inside them?! How in hell can you read those -The ribbon UI makes things easier to find. Statistics show it... since this is slashdot someone here will say how wrong I am as he knows his 3 layers of menus so well that everyone else has to be wrong! Once learned it is really keyboard only friendly with shortcuts, and neophytes and even office pro users now use more functionality - Windows is much more secure now compared to XP - VS 2013 C++ is ahead of GNU with support. - OEM's are giving MS the finger thanks to Android - MS owns a tiny % of the smartphone/PDA market - Apple and Google are competitors
So today MS is not perfect. But we can conclude their products are 1. More standard compliant 2. More reliable 3. Better quality 4. MS is innovating more and copying less 5. Competitors now exist
I look at it this way. Companies are not your friends folks. I would not want Apple owning 90% of the market. Google would make Chrome the next IE 6 too if it owned 90% of the browser market. Infact they kind of are with Chrome only stuff. Instead of activeX it is dart and native client.
I will support companies that change. In addition, I fear Google more than MS at this point. I doubt MS will ever be the bad boy of 1999 again. It is the new IBM. Android is taking such a HUGE marketshare that I worry. In developing markets no one is buying the iPhone which is why in India Apple is remaking the iphone4s for them.
I would like to see corps using IE 11 instead of IE 8. More Windows Phone users. Also a unified Windows Phone/Windows desktop for apps what work on a desktop UI
To this very day it is so radioactive you can't get within 50 to 100 miles of it?
What would happen if let it be is it would explode under pressure like Cherynobyl into a massive radio active steam and dust cloud and the resulting fires and highly molten core would create radio active dust high into the atmosphere that would spread for thousands of miles. It would get into your lungs and would render large parts of the ocean and a 1/4th of the island uninhabitable.
So basically it would spread which would make it worse as it would not just be in molten area melting its way into a slob of molten stone, steel, and plutonium into the earth. As a result it can't ever be removed from Cherynobyl.
FYI apples from Oregon were too radioactive to eat some 6,000 miles away after that disaster! That stuff spreads like crazy.
Oddly I posted today about my Nokia expecting to get a -1 troll FAST. Surprised I got modded up.
My older android 2.x no longer receives updates and was slow as a 286 running Windows towards the end of its life.
IOS and Windows phone are light and run well on lower end hardware. Surprising since I have the same exact kernel as the desktop one believe it or not. WinCE was depreciated.
It is a badge based on reputation when you hand your resume and command a salary right? HR seems to only care how long you did something who employment gaps. Not whether a similar job you had with great recommendations proves your skills to handle this one.
2.5 million is not a lot and being paid 1 dollar a year seems appropriate. He failed and didn't get paid.
... how much money does someone really need? I'm not against Capitalism, but seriously, does one person really need $100 million, or even $20 million as an (semi?) annual salary or bonus? Does a CEO need 500 times (recent figures) the average salary of his/her own employees - you know, the people doing the actual work?
Absolutely!
A CEO of Nokia lost billions, the former CEO of Apple made 100x investment amount and changed the world. Tell me what contribution you or I did that even was 1/500 what these guys did?
I am not into CEO worship but speak the cold truth. Most CEO's do not make $20,000,000. Only a sliver of the very best and top bankers who have proven to make 10x that to their employers.
If you and I could bring that value from our ideas or skills you would be paid that too. Life can be a bumber and it sounds unfair. In actuality it really is if all you value is money. But it is the truth when it comes to economic power.
He was fired due to poor performance and investors would have fired him years earlier if Bill and him did not own almost 50% of the stock.
The parachute was there as he would not have accepted the job without nor would any good CEO. Steve Jobs is rare which is why he was worth billions when he died.
Millions is pocket change to a company that has 10's of billions in assets. It is the cost of doing business. You and I do not get that because there is hardly anything at stake if we mess up or gain if they hire us. We are easily replaceable
The tech bubble crash is really interesting to compare to the banking crash. More money was lost in the tech crash, but the impact on the economy was much less. The reason for this is because in the tech bubble, equity was lost, but in the banking crash, it was debt.
Some economists see this as an indication that banks should be financed the same way tech companies are financed, with shares of stock instead of savings. Hard to say but it's an idea worth thinking about.
Problem with that theory is it would enforce banks not to lend and to just hoard cash or pay off investor dividends to each other. Banks would get cheap like regular companies and the economy would suffer as businesses would not be able to get lines of credit going to do things like pay its bills while it waits for revenues to come back in.
A wiser solution is to consider debt an expense rather than an asset of course this wont happen as they have lobbyists and corruption on every government in the world!
For the non accounting backgrounds an asset is something that has value cash or can be turned into cash (-eg. property). So am I 1 million richer because I have some bum owing me 1 million? No he can't ever pay it! But the balance sheets say I AM RICH!!
Mathematically if you make debt an expense until the owner pays part of it back and it turns into an asset over time as it is paid that would be better wouldn't it? It would discourage lending but the economy would improve as poor people would not get loans they could not afford and it would force home prices to plummet as banks would encourage 15 year loans instead of 30 and with less debt people would have more income and so on.
I am sure with %risk calculated in and the value of the debt dynamically change as it is paid it can be a 50/50 asset and liability. It would also make it hard for banks to sell debt to each like hot potatoes while cooking their books to unrealistic insane levels.
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If your resume cannot be formated in anything other than MS Office, your resume might need some more work that formatting.
Oddly. It was redone and it is improved over the older.
The one I had written in 2003 would randomly change table margins when I add or select something. I mean freaking random where the only experience close is like designing a website in IE 6 where you do one thing and all the elements freak out and go apeshit.
So many lazy IT departments use Taleo and wont accept .pdf's as they use older versions where the MBAs who work their feel if it aint broke do not fix it. This means I need .docs and .docx still. UGH.
Word 2010 is much better but margins occasionally double space in random spots still in every other program but Word.
Shit?!
I prefer Windows on this one after Google due to it's creepiness ... but the GUI... cries.
.. but but Microsoft said they sold 200,000,000 copies and last year said IT IS AS SUCCESSFUL AS WINDOWS 7!?
How could this possible be??
YES!
If I had aero and the option to disable Metro or at least have it as a desktop where the desktop treats a metro app like any win32 app then ok.
I need Windows to run apps. Sorry slashdotters I really did try to live a linux only life. I need MS VS, MS expressions web, ventrillo, star wars the old republic, and yes sadly office as my resume won't be formatted correctly with any other package.
Windows 7 is old and aging and is not mobile friendly compared to Windows 8, iOS, and Android with its api's sucking battery life from apps utilizing win32. But I find hte disney colors of even the Windows 8 desktop madening!
I really did try Windows 8.1. I find it so damn ugly compared to Windows 7 where I have a sigh of relife. I thought I was old and afraid of change like those on neowin.net say we are.
I guess I can use it for occasional use like Windows Server 2012 where I setup it once and run just one app at a time and then go back to my desk and use MMC to do the real work.
But until I have my colors back and life (talking about Office 2013 too) it seems MS is extremist where they want all white, gray, and no color, and all minimalism = anti skuemorphism in that very strict interpretation.
... and Google is some sort of saint?
Why?
Webkit, Opera, Netscape, and even early Mozilla all failed the acid test back in 2004. It took almost a decade before rendering was done correctly.
Mozilla before Firefox 1.5 had more rendering quirks than IE 6! Ask any website developer from that time frame?
IE 6 was a good browser back in 2001. It was just software was not that great and sucked goatballs back then and then the browser stagnated for many years.
Forgot to close the ahref link. ... my bad
Adblock for IE is here https://adblockplus.org/en/int...
I think your knowledge of adblock is a little dated? It has been free and available since last summer all the way back down to IE 8.
If you are corp the best way to be secure is just to not install flash or push a GPO to remove it corporate wide. Besides the marketing department wanting to see commercials flash servers no purpose at work other than being an attack vector.
RMS
I am trying to use GNU code to put in my product where I will patent and trademark it and then charge A LOT of money in return. My hope is to poison some open standards so they can use my other standard which I will have free, but all closed sourced instead in my evil plot. From there a new EULA will be introduced where upon a certain metric of time after my standard takes over the free one, I will have IP rights over anything on their computers.
I feel the need to dominate others and would love nothing more than to have my users sell all their children into slavery for my master vision of a new world order. I need to do this to feel better about myself since I am all jealous of my friends who have actual jobs and lives. I have an army of master robots on hand and plan to take the whole world hostage unless they bow to me and sign an EULA saying they only have the right to pursue their lives as their lives are a copy and not a real one. I own the real one just like Windows where you only have a copy. MS has the real one etc.
My question is which editor should I use to perform this? Vi or Emacs?
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Patrick Bateman
Funny IE 11 is fine and is the most recent. I would argue an older browser is less secure and IE 8 has more vulnerabilities than IE 9 and IE 10.
Yep forget better sandboxing, HTML 5 support, h.264, and lowrights mode if you are on XP still as well. Stay with the old!
Many sites and not just geek ones like my t-mobile site to pay my bill are not IE 8 compatible. If you read about the vulnerability it uses flash too. So get rid of flash and then hafl the web wont work when you want to listen to pandora or youtube music videos.
IE 8 has alot more exploits than IE 11 as it doesn't have as many modern sandboxing techniques due to compatibility for XP.
So how do you really trust them?
However, Chrome is getting many patches recently between versions due to flaws in blink and flash. So the idea to blame IE as still sucking is disingenuous.
The point is always upgrade your browser and OS in addition to running adblock/flashblock, or if you are a corp banning flash and java altogether. The port of adblock for IE is here.
Many IT professionals who whine about leaving XP and IE 8 behind should be FIRED. IE 11 sandbox is fine for this. If you run WIndows 7 or later both IE 9+ and Chrome have lowrights mode which restrict everything include writting to the disk with the narrow exception of %appdata.
These days most of the infections I see come from Firefox and plugins. Firefox has no lowrights mode and if anyone reading this is using XP you neglect sandboxing on all browsers and expose yourself.
For some reason only Slashdot reported no money was lost. In the phantom transactions obviously bitcoins were transferred, yet cancelled before cash could come.
On other sites like neowin it is reporting the values are sinking below $300 a coin!
Their governments are not corrupt like ours, or the they are government owned.
Anti Slashdot and windows fanboy site, neowin.net mentioned mini start making a comeback in Windows 9 with 3 personas. Touch first, keyboard first and voice first.
8.1 update one included jumplists for tiles and power being on the top of the screen. Yes MS heard us and is reversing.
Yes and no.
Fact: Microsoft doesn't have a mobile strategy as Android and iOS are making a killing. WinCE which is the opposite doesn't work either.
On paper what they did makes sense. Kids today do not mind Metro and view the desktop as ugly and unintuitive. Another problem is users who get a brand new computer want to install Firefox, chrome, avast Av, paint.net, and other software. Bing shows them Trojan versions. Brothersoft and cnet are freaking evil! They install conduit search which requires a reimage to get rid of.
Ni nite and file hippo are the only 2 I can trust. So a windows Store is a blessing! Just type in Chrome and you get it etc.
In practice Windows 8 failed due to bad employees and management. Mistakes were:
1. The odd assumption that because people use jumplist on pinned apps = they want metro full screen apps with no jumplists?!
2. The designer who made the office orb in office 2007 and made our users look for 30 minutes to find print because he said muscle memory would mean people will click there anyway out of habit designing hot corners and smart screen.
3. People who focus on content are more productive without distractions = Consumption only is what we really want ala google
4. Project VP feels using muscle memory is a great strategy to sell more phones.
If fixed it can be great for laptop and mobile users as winrt really uses less battery. Windows 9 should:
1. Have taskbar that disappeared when mouse is unplugged where modern apps can be stacked, grouped, aero peaked, and run like win32.
2. Have phone, tablet, and desktop use winrt API for apps to run on all 3. Taskbar and desktop pop up if you plug in a mouse.
3. Put color back. Minimalism can have this.
4. Put tabs everywhere
5. Have sccm and ad integrate with store. Maybe allow some corporate users to use it for safe apps where it won't won't fuck things up like real win32 apps
Do this and I may use this on my next system. Windows 8 metro was rushed and implemented with incompetent employees also yes some of us are resistant to change. I am I admit as we age we like things the way they are. I am not saying that is the only reason to hate metro. Just that I see no problem using it for running server 2012 as I only do one thing at a time unlike my desktop and then walk away and remotely use MMC.
Metro is not going away folks. As computers get smaller and more embedded the need for menus and power sucking and insecure APIs go down. So what's wrong with a Windows 7 desktop with 8 applets on it?
Those days are over.
Now Apple became evil once they became popular and Google is heading that way now. What makes you think they are any other company are different.
With market forces MS is tame now as they can't do the things they once did and consumers are not as stupid as they once were. In 1999 most users where neophytes running AOL and IE 5 thinking crashes were normal and MS is soo wonderful because they bought their first computer recently. We as geeks were the minority then. Our time passed in the 1980s.
Today these users see their ipads and wonder why the hell would they use their bloated old XP system?
MS is responding by better operating systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 8(GUI is the issue, but will be fixed by win 9) that go head to head with iOS and Android. IE now is a good browser again. Office has less formatting bugs and MS now lets you save in ODF and PDF.
That is because of old and ancient sites thinking IE must be the same as IE 6 or 7 and feeds broken code.
IE 11 breaks because it only accepts standard javascript. Many older Adobe tools like Flash CS2 see IE and feed it active* in jscript code to launch flash objects. Firefox and Chrome break on that code too but is not fed. People on slashdot say AHA proof it is not standard compliant!!! When it actually it is because it is standard compliant now.
Windows Phone has doubled marketshare and is popular in places like Italy where it is over 10% marketshare.
VC now supports c++ 11 more than Gnu.
I am not saying Microsoft is perfect and are saints. The fact is there product quality is improving. Slashdot is a different world view than everyone else.
People can't get past MS's sins because MS never really changed. They still bend the rules until they're warped and often just snap. They are still they same company in many ways.
Let's see for a moment of today vs 1990s .doc .xls formats to prevent others from using them. A bad buggy product creates lockin as developers rely on their products hence IE 6 is still here in a few spots
1999:
-MS makes IE incompatible on purpose to destroy the last innovation left
-MS strong arms OEM's
-MS makes crappy products that crash. Though NT 4 shows some promise
-MS makes bad things in standards like it's own versions of C++ and
-MS owns the ecosystem! Apple is dead. Palm is about dead and will be dying soon
-Expectations are by 2014 we will all live in a MS only world with IE 6, Crappy Windows, and desktop apps with 0 competitors! Hence why companies made IE 6 web and VB client apps
-IE is the most standards compliant browser which uses the least of W3C unsupported specs compared to webkit and mozilla
-Windows 7 is rock solid and so is 8 (ignoring the GUI)
- The 8 kernel is so improved it runs on mediocre Nokia phones with qualcom 1.5 ghz cpus and is snappy and responsive
- Mobile GUI wise MS is innovating. Yes it is fashionable here at MS to bash Windows Phone if you have never run it. But interactive tiles are nice on my phone. Ask any Windows Phone user. It is not bad REALLY
- Word finally doesn't botch formatting nearly as much and excel has hardly any bugs
-MS goes for the more open ooxml. Yes it is not as clear as ODF I do admit that. But it is MUCH more readable as
-The ribbon UI makes things easier to find. Statistics show it
- Windows is much more secure now compared to XP
- VS 2013 C++ is ahead of GNU with support.
- OEM's are giving MS the finger thanks to Android
- MS owns a tiny % of the smartphone/PDA market
- Apple and Google are competitors
So today MS is not perfect. But we can conclude their products are
1. More standard compliant
2. More reliable
3. Better quality
4. MS is innovating more and copying less
5. Competitors now exist
I look at it this way. Companies are not your friends folks. I would not want Apple owning 90% of the market. Google would make Chrome the next IE 6 too if it owned 90% of the browser market. Infact they kind of are with Chrome only stuff. Instead of activeX it is dart and native client.
I will support companies that change. In addition, I fear Google more than MS at this point. I doubt MS will ever be the bad boy of 1999 again. It is the new IBM. Android is taking such a HUGE marketshare that I worry. In developing markets no one is buying the iPhone which is why in India Apple is remaking the iphone4s for them.
I would like to see corps using IE 11 instead of IE 8. More Windows Phone users. Also a unified Windows Phone/Windows desktop for apps what work on a desktop UI
Google Cherynobyl?
To this very day it is so radioactive you can't get within 50 to 100 miles of it?
What would happen if let it be is it would explode under pressure like Cherynobyl into a massive radio active steam and dust cloud and the resulting fires and highly molten core would create radio active dust high into the atmosphere that would spread for thousands of miles. It would get into your lungs and would render large parts of the ocean and a 1/4th of the island uninhabitable.
So basically it would spread which would make it worse as it would not just be in molten area melting its way into a slob of molten stone, steel, and plutonium into the earth. As a result it can't ever be removed from Cherynobyl.
FYI apples from Oregon were too radioactive to eat some 6,000 miles away after that disaster! That stuff spreads like crazy.
Oddly I posted today about my Nokia expecting to get a -1 troll FAST. Surprised I got modded up.
My older android 2.x no longer receives updates and was slow as a 286 running Windows towards the end of its life.
IOS and Windows phone are light and run well on lower end hardware. Surprising since I have the same exact kernel as the desktop one believe it or not. WinCE was depreciated.
How is that different from our work?
It is a badge based on reputation when you hand your resume and command a salary right? HR seems to only care how long you did something who employment gaps. Not whether a similar job you had with great recommendations proves your skills to handle this one.
2.5 million is not a lot and being paid 1 dollar a year seems appropriate. He failed and didn't get paid.
Absolutely!
A CEO of Nokia lost billions, the former CEO of Apple made 100x investment amount and changed the world. Tell me what contribution you or I did that even was 1/500 what these guys did?
I am not into CEO worship but speak the cold truth. Most CEO's do not make $20,000,000. Only a sliver of the very best and top bankers who have proven to make 10x that to their employers.
If you and I could bring that value from our ideas or skills you would be paid that too. Life can be a bumber and it sounds unfair. In actuality it really is if all you value is money. But it is the truth when it comes to economic power.
Steve balmer is a great example.
He was fired due to poor performance and investors would have fired him years earlier if Bill and him did not own almost 50% of the stock.
The parachute was there as he would not have accepted the job without nor would any good CEO. Steve Jobs is rare which is why he was worth billions when he died.
Millions is pocket change to a company that has 10's of billions in assets. It is the cost of doing business. You and I do not get that because there is hardly anything at stake if we mess up or gain if they hire us. We are easily replaceable
1999-2000 Tech bubble?
The tech bubble crash is really interesting to compare to the banking crash. More money was lost in the tech crash, but the impact on the economy was much less. The reason for this is because in the tech bubble, equity was lost, but in the banking crash, it was debt.
Some economists see this as an indication that banks should be financed the same way tech companies are financed, with shares of stock instead of savings. Hard to say but it's an idea worth thinking about.
Problem with that theory is it would enforce banks not to lend and to just hoard cash or pay off investor dividends to each other. Banks would get cheap like regular companies and the economy would suffer as businesses would not be able to get lines of credit going to do things like pay its bills while it waits for revenues to come back in.
A wiser solution is to consider debt an expense rather than an asset of course this wont happen as they have lobbyists and corruption on every government in the world!
For the non accounting backgrounds an asset is something that has value cash or can be turned into cash (-eg. property). So am I 1 million richer because I have some bum owing me 1 million? No he can't ever pay it! But the balance sheets say I AM RICH!!
Mathematically if you make debt an expense until the owner pays part of it back and it turns into an asset over time as it is paid that would be better wouldn't it? It would discourage lending but the economy would improve as poor people would not get loans they could not afford and it would force home prices to plummet as banks would encourage 15 year loans instead of 30 and with less debt people would have more income and so on.
I am sure with %risk calculated in and the value of the debt dynamically change as it is paid it can be a 50/50 asset and liability. It would also make it hard for banks to sell debt to each like hot potatoes while cooking their books to unrealistic insane levels.