Yes, but Ballmer owns a fair amount of stock. As a matter of fact, Paul Allen got pissed at Bill and Steve when they were found plotting to get his stock if he happened to die (when he had cancer). As Bill considered Steve to be a model employee, as he was using his own paycheck to buy MS stock when others were not.
I believe that Ballmer understands business, he just doesn't understand technology / programming. A president of a company I was friends with pointed out that to attain and hold onto such a position, one needs to know every part of the business; that meant that if they needed to lay off 90% of the work force (doomsday scenario), he needed to know how to work the machines himself, to keep the company going. As Farscape's John Chrichton would say: "Of course you don't understand... You live in the country but you do not speak the language." For him to run MS, it's not enough to have a business degree, to be well-connected, to have friends in high places, to 'know how things are done' -> MS is a technology company, and if you do not understand the programmer's lingo, do not know whether one of your latest ideas will be judged to be bad one by them, do not know where something you're planning will lead you, technologically speaking, 5 years from now...then you do not know enough to be successful. Not just once in a while, but every day, you must be batting at the top of your game. Now, MS can survive the occasional bad idea, it can even survive two of them simultaneously; but it cannot survive them perpetually. It's not a marketing company, it does not survive on gimmicks or getting people's attention; it survives because the groundwork is continuously being laid for where it will be tomorrow. It's like a railroad, the train carrying all that gold / money / people / whatever cannot run on air, and it takes months / years to lay those rails for the big hit. Sure, programmers can work 24 / 7 for 6 months, maybe 9 months, to get you out of a bind; but they can't do that twice in a row, let alone twice in a lifetime; they burn out, and when they do, they can take everyone near them with them. I've seen it: the CIO VP has enough of the other department's shenanigans, and bolts; and when he does, he takes the top talent with him, because he knows how to speak tech; he knows just how much more to offer them that they are currently offering, and already has a relationship with them such that they trust him.
There is something odd going on lately with my machine & Explorer. I've slated it for a rebuild, as I cannot seem to find the source of the issue. The only thing I can think of is a new sound card I placed in it, an Asus Xonar D1. However, I have a doubt that it is the source of these problems.
It's strange. Explorer (task bar) will suddenly stop responding, usually when I am browsing with Chrome. Then, a minute or two later, it will be back.
Nonsense. What he's pointing out is that various members of the US government are willing to sacrifice the farm for a cow, and should be taken out back and summarily executed.
The price of finding OBL, or rather, in conducting this vaccination ruse, is already being paid; the global attempt to annihilate Polio is now in jeopardy because of it. If the history of botched American relations is anything to go by, this will come back to... inconvenience us at an ill-fated moment. And on behalf of those Americans who will be paying the price for this act of stupidity, I wish to salute all those involved for their dedication to promoting idiocy.
For some odd reason, the public seems acutely unaware that state institutions are, by and large, bankrupt. Perpetually so.
We have state governments that have sold off the buildings they own, then lease them, in the belief that this will free up a little money, and they will be able to buy new ones when their 'temporary' fiscal crisis abates. If you are taking out a reverse-mortgage on your house, you are NOT doing well. But the game appears to get 'your' people elected, who will do the spade work to slash funding for whatever they do not support, and redirect those funds to things they do support; removing the air tank from your buddy's back so you have a little more for yourself. Purely institutionalized and legal kleptocracy. What more, the people you elect have done any amount of thinking how to squeeze just a little more blood out of the machinery; to the point where iron-clad agreements are made so they cannot be challenged at a later time, state parks are sold off, and even the nails in the walls are counted as an collateral in some ledger somewhere. There is nothing to liberate from the public treasury, since it's filled with IOU's that will never be paid back.
Cutting costs, and no-bid contracts with serious, serious bribes when cutting costs isn't a factor.
You know how the astronauts feel about flying a rocket built with thousands of parts from the lowest bidders? That's kind of our infrastructure; band-aids and duct-tape on top of band-aids and duct-tape; entire designs which compare favorably with the hairiness of some of the finer aspects of the PHP programming language ("It works well enough for me, and I don't give a f*ck"); like a bomb on stilts.
My personal favorite, of course, is the quote from a source that "we can't bury the power-lines because it costs ~one million (!) per mile"; on one hand, I am a programmer, so costs from the construction industry (renting a back-hoe, buying some PVC tubing, as well as appropriate cabling and employing several people to operate the machinery, dig the ditch, thread the cables, then bury it) are not immediately at my command; but my BS detector is throwing up a rather hideous warning here. Would anyone care to confirm or deny that this number is, with the possible exception of trying to bury power-lines in a major city which, for some odd reason, doesn't have the infrastructure there already, so much fiction?
Because 1.) that money is gone, already spent, and 2.) the only real energy independence that you can possibly hope for with current technology involves an RTG (and the DoD / DoE / DHS all frown on people inquiring about radioactive fuel sources).
Well then, it's perfectly harmless. So you shouldn't mind spending some time in one. Perhaps even some prolonged time. Perhaps you wouldn't mind some parts from the machine being quietly installed into the walls of your domicile.
Feel free to leave your address. And we apologize in advance for the (much) higher power bill.
A random poster in an internet forum frequented by scientists and engineers.
But I have a better idea. Let's grab one of the more expendable ones from the TSA, and stick 'em inside the scanner, fully powered up and constantly scanning, for a month. Unless we somehow manage to pick someone with the golden immune system of the gods, we'll know, at the end of the month, whether there is anything dangerous about these scanners. Well, immediately dangerous. If that person shows multiple metastasized tumors throughout their body, or proves to be sterile, when presumably they were healthy prior to the experiment, then we might want to run it again, a few times, on, I don't know, the congressmen who signed off on the purchase orders for these machines? Just to be sure. Somewhere around the 112th member of Congress who dies of systemic organ failure we can probably come to a consensus or something that they're probably unsafe. Maybe. I favor the selection criteria being 'the loud ones,' should we run out of cosigners on that gift to the industry of the inane.
Or we could do a blind study, and quietly install parts from one of the scanners inside the walls of the Senate or House. Well, the parts from a few of the scanners (the House / Senate is kind of big). Just so we can rule out stress, or something, from the study. Or perhaps we should install it in their offices. Finally going to make Political Science into a hard science.
Which, putting aside its usage as a political football by environmentalists, is kind of responsible for the lack of swarms of mosquitoes that have plagued this continent and a few others before its introduction. Historical journals document how good we have it now compared to the early pioneers.
As others have pointed out, consider a powerful laser operating at that frequency.
Of course, that could be used to someone's benefit -> "Now Bob, they're going to play a trick on you down at the high-energy lab, and tell you that you shouldn't walk in front of their laser; but Bob, have you ever heard of blue light, even a very bright blue light (like at that club), ever hurting anyone? Of course not; so I figure we can one up them if you show them you know about their trick by walking in front of their big blue laser when it's on. Show that you're not afraid, 'cause you got nothing to be scared from an overgrown night-light."
And if it asks "Where are you going?" then we will that MS was successful with their hostile takeover (a play off of MS's typical logo -> "Where do you want to go today?").
Completely missing the point of my post, and gp's post. Hardware isn't the issue here -> the Triumph has more than enough power to run ICS (I've run multiple betas for ICS, courtesy of Cyanogenmod); it's the networks purposefully keeping owners more than a full version point behind that IS the issue.
Tell the customers to bring it into a {network provider's} store, and they'll upgrade it for free while trying to sell them a newer phone. Missing a lot of opportunities here, many of which do not involve angering the customers; but I digress, the vast majority of us will probably be stuck on 2.3 well into the next decade.
Agreed. I have a Motorola Triumph, and while I can download hacked versions of ICS (do want), a proper / supported version seems unlikely.
The way I figure it, from the cellphone manufacturer's point of view, offering an upgrade to the latest version of Android may not be in their best interests: in doing so, they are missing out on a chance to up-sell you on a newer model. It's that brain-damaged style of thinking that infects some sectors of the global economy, and holds the rest of the human race back.
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Yes, but Ballmer owns a fair amount of stock. As a matter of fact, Paul Allen got pissed at Bill and Steve when they were found plotting to get his stock if he happened to die (when he had cancer). As Bill considered Steve to be a model employee, as he was using his own paycheck to buy MS stock when others were not.
I believe that Ballmer understands business, he just doesn't understand technology / programming. A president of a company I was friends with pointed out that to attain and hold onto such a position, one needs to know every part of the business; that meant that if they needed to lay off 90% of the work force (doomsday scenario), he needed to know how to work the machines himself, to keep the company going. As Farscape's John Chrichton would say: "Of course you don't understand... You live in the country but you do not speak the language." For him to run MS, it's not enough to have a business degree, to be well-connected, to have friends in high places, to 'know how things are done' -> MS is a technology company, and if you do not understand the programmer's lingo, do not know whether one of your latest ideas will be judged to be bad one by them, do not know where something you're planning will lead you, technologically speaking, 5 years from now...then you do not know enough to be successful. Not just once in a while, but every day, you must be batting at the top of your game. Now, MS can survive the occasional bad idea, it can even survive two of them simultaneously; but it cannot survive them perpetually. It's not a marketing company, it does not survive on gimmicks or getting people's attention; it survives because the groundwork is continuously being laid for where it will be tomorrow. It's like a railroad, the train carrying all that gold / money / people / whatever cannot run on air, and it takes months / years to lay those rails for the big hit. Sure, programmers can work 24 / 7 for 6 months, maybe 9 months, to get you out of a bind; but they can't do that twice in a row, let alone twice in a lifetime; they burn out, and when they do, they can take everyone near them with them. I've seen it: the CIO VP has enough of the other department's shenanigans, and bolts; and when he does, he takes the top talent with him, because he knows how to speak tech; he knows just how much more to offer them that they are currently offering, and already has a relationship with them such that they trust him.
There is something odd going on lately with my machine & Explorer. I've slated it for a rebuild, as I cannot seem to find the source of the issue. The only thing I can think of is a new sound card I placed in it, an Asus Xonar D1. However, I have a doubt that it is the source of these problems.
It's strange. Explorer (task bar) will suddenly stop responding, usually when I am browsing with Chrome. Then, a minute or two later, it will be back.
Nonsense. What he's pointing out is that various members of the US government are willing to sacrifice the farm for a cow, and should be taken out back and summarily executed.
The price of finding OBL, or rather, in conducting this vaccination ruse, is already being paid; the global attempt to annihilate Polio is now in jeopardy because of it. If the history of botched American relations is anything to go by, this will come back to... inconvenience us at an ill-fated moment. And on behalf of those Americans who will be paying the price for this act of stupidity, I wish to salute all those involved for their dedication to promoting idiocy.
The population is, by and large, either unaware how bankrupt the nation actually is, or how much has / is being readily spent.
For some odd reason, the public seems acutely unaware that state institutions are, by and large, bankrupt. Perpetually so.
We have state governments that have sold off the buildings they own, then lease them, in the belief that this will free up a little money, and they will be able to buy new ones when their 'temporary' fiscal crisis abates. If you are taking out a reverse-mortgage on your house, you are NOT doing well. But the game appears to get 'your' people elected, who will do the spade work to slash funding for whatever they do not support, and redirect those funds to things they do support; removing the air tank from your buddy's back so you have a little more for yourself. Purely institutionalized and legal kleptocracy. What more, the people you elect have done any amount of thinking how to squeeze just a little more blood out of the machinery; to the point where iron-clad agreements are made so they cannot be challenged at a later time, state parks are sold off, and even the nails in the walls are counted as an collateral in some ledger somewhere. There is nothing to liberate from the public treasury, since it's filled with IOU's that will never be paid back.
Cutting costs, and no-bid contracts with serious, serious bribes when cutting costs isn't a factor.
You know how the astronauts feel about flying a rocket built with thousands of parts from the lowest bidders? That's kind of our infrastructure; band-aids and duct-tape on top of band-aids and duct-tape; entire designs which compare favorably with the hairiness of some of the finer aspects of the PHP programming language ("It works well enough for me, and I don't give a f*ck"); like a bomb on stilts.
My personal favorite, of course, is the quote from a source that "we can't bury the power-lines because it costs ~one million (!) per mile"; on one hand, I am a programmer, so costs from the construction industry (renting a back-hoe, buying some PVC tubing, as well as appropriate cabling and employing several people to operate the machinery, dig the ditch, thread the cables, then bury it) are not immediately at my command; but my BS detector is throwing up a rather hideous warning here. Would anyone care to confirm or deny that this number is, with the possible exception of trying to bury power-lines in a major city which, for some odd reason, doesn't have the infrastructure there already, so much fiction?
Because 1.) that money is gone, already spent, and 2.) the only real energy independence that you can possibly hope for with current technology involves an RTG (and the DoD / DoE / DHS all frown on people inquiring about radioactive fuel sources).
How about if we stick someone in a machine, with it locked in full-power constant scanning mode, for a month?
The federal market for these machines is tapped out? And the associated businesses like money?
Well then, it's perfectly harmless. So you shouldn't mind spending some time in one. Perhaps even some prolonged time. Perhaps you wouldn't mind some parts from the machine being quietly installed into the walls of your domicile.
Feel free to leave your address. And we apologize in advance for the (much) higher power bill.
A random poster in an internet forum frequented by scientists and engineers.
But I have a better idea. Let's grab one of the more expendable ones from the TSA, and stick 'em inside the scanner, fully powered up and constantly scanning, for a month. Unless we somehow manage to pick someone with the golden immune system of the gods, we'll know, at the end of the month, whether there is anything dangerous about these scanners. Well, immediately dangerous. If that person shows multiple metastasized tumors throughout their body, or proves to be sterile, when presumably they were healthy prior to the experiment, then we might want to run it again, a few times, on, I don't know, the congressmen who signed off on the purchase orders for these machines? Just to be sure. Somewhere around the 112th member of Congress who dies of systemic organ failure we can probably come to a consensus or something that they're probably unsafe. Maybe. I favor the selection criteria being 'the loud ones,' should we run out of cosigners on that gift to the industry of the inane.
Or we could do a blind study, and quietly install parts from one of the scanners inside the walls of the Senate or House. Well, the parts from a few of the scanners (the House / Senate is kind of big). Just so we can rule out stress, or something, from the study. Or perhaps we should install it in their offices. Finally going to make Political Science into a hard science.
Yes, but the question stands: Is it safe?
(Well, he can ask, but the only result will be that the patient goes to a different doctor.) -> Not if he is quick enough.
"There's no 'I' in team."
"Well, they're all going to die someday anyways."
Which, putting aside its usage as a political football by environmentalists, is kind of responsible for the lack of swarms of mosquitoes that have plagued this continent and a few others before its introduction. Historical journals document how good we have it now compared to the early pioneers.
Which, arguably, is almost as dangerous as if the TSA mistakes the insulin pump for a bomb.
The Kraken.
Lol, super-tumors.
As others have pointed out, consider a powerful laser operating at that frequency.
Of course, that could be used to someone's benefit -> "Now Bob, they're going to play a trick on you down at the high-energy lab, and tell you that you shouldn't walk in front of their laser; but Bob, have you ever heard of blue light, even a very bright blue light (like at that club), ever hurting anyone? Of course not; so I figure we can one up them if you show them you know about their trick by walking in front of their big blue laser when it's on. Show that you're not afraid, 'cause you got nothing to be scared from an overgrown night-light."
And yet they are nothing compared to when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
And if it asks "Where are you going?" then we will that MS was successful with their hostile takeover (a play off of MS's typical logo -> "Where do you want to go today?").
Completely missing the point of my post, and gp's post. Hardware isn't the issue here -> the Triumph has more than enough power to run ICS (I've run multiple betas for ICS, courtesy of Cyanogenmod); it's the networks purposefully keeping owners more than a full version point behind that IS the issue.
Tell the customers to bring it into a {network provider's} store, and they'll upgrade it for free while trying to sell them a newer phone. Missing a lot of opportunities here, many of which do not involve angering the customers; but I digress, the vast majority of us will probably be stuck on 2.3 well into the next decade.
Agreed. I have a Motorola Triumph, and while I can download hacked versions of ICS (do want), a proper / supported version seems unlikely.
The way I figure it, from the cellphone manufacturer's point of view, offering an upgrade to the latest version of Android may not be in their best interests: in doing so, they are missing out on a chance to up-sell you on a newer model. It's that brain-damaged style of thinking that infects some sectors of the global economy, and holds the rest of the human race back.