I will trust Intel, AMD and NVidia to sustain Moore's law as it pertains to general purpose computing, not Google. Google gets plaudits for advancing neural net hardware, if indeed they didn't just buy the tech and slap the Google brand on it, which is likely. Thw hyperbole just erodes credibility, in other words, makes me wonder how many other exaggerations will turn up in this department. Yes, it's a fact it plays Go well, and no doubt does a lot of other things well. Let's stick to the facts please. It didn't advance rendering by 7 years, it didn't advance compiling, in fact it didn't advance just about anything I do with my own computer. Putting my own jaded spin on it, it mainly advances Google's ability to invade my privacy and monetize me.
They will only put the "Nokia" name on someone's hardware, as if customers will be confused and think they are buying a rock-solid nearly indestructible device.
They never did that in the past, why would they do that now?
The Android space is already saturated with every possible permutation of price, build quality, hardware and features.
Then why is there not a single Android phone with a combination of features, quality and price that makes me want to buy it, to replace my aging Nexus 4? (Which I love except for the lack of micro-sd slot.)
The platform wasn't burning until Elop set it on fire. Nokia was still making huge loads of dough shipping ridiculously cheap candybars, more than enough to ride out a transition to smartphones. That's not a burning platform, it's a springboard. Good job trying to rewrite history.
Elop's burning platform spin was just a thin veneer invented for consumption by fools and intended to be regurgitated by minions, to distract from the borderline criminal business strategy Microsoft was engaged in. Sad to say for the human race, it was perfectly effective at that. How ironic that it ultimately ended the career of Steve Ballmer and various other of the thugs involved.
Oh, while I'm thinking of chronic idiotic stupidity, please don't wake the device up when when I connect it to power. If I want that, I'll press the power button. Google, home of hubris, does not care about user feedback. Maybe Nokia has the clout do the right thing.
They need to do what no one else is doing anymore: flip smartphones and physical keyboards.
Not really. They just need to make a high quality Android phone for a good price. No stupid annoying games like leaving out the microsd slot in order to gouge on flash pricing. Great radio. Great sound. You know, similar to their glory days but in the new form factor. I for one would buy instantly. I would be happy to buy a physical keyboard accessory from them as well. And maybe, just maybe, correct a few of the idiotic stupidities in Android, like only being able to rotate the screen to 3 of four possible orientations, and forcing the home screen to be vertical only when not everybody wants that.
Reborn Nokia drives the last stake through the heart of zombie Winphone. Stake is made of finely worked Linux heartwood with a core of phoenix feather .
The contribution here is to provide a solid theoretical footing for your "just occassionally XORing", which if done informally as you propose is more than likely to lead to surprising statistical defects. Not that I follow the proofs either, but I understand the value of the work.
Maybe Buffett thinks that there is lots of money to be made in the automobile industry. Maybe because of the number of orders Tesla received for their new model. One thing Apple was able to deliver on was satisfying a huge demand for their product. Which isn't easy and which Tesla now has to prove they can do as well.
Apple knows where the money is, they will introduce iCar with rounded corners and uglier than this.
There aren't enough chairs being thrown these days.
That's demeaning. Throwing chairs is not Ballmer's only talent, far from it. There is also monkey dancing, armpit stains, looking like Uncle Fester, the list goes on and on.
It's not free. There's a limited time free (and more or less mandatory) upgrade for users of Windows 7 and up, but anyone buying a new computer is paying for it
Indeed, the Windows license is now somewhere between 10% and 25% of the cost of a typical PC.
Billg still controls Microsoft. Nadella would be out in an instant without support from Gates.
While I too do not advocate physically harming Bill Gates, it verges on comical to suppose that the US economy would be harmed if he disappeared. Rather the opposite. At the very least, releasing even a small portion of those siloed ill-gotten gains back to productive circulation would benefit the economy.
I do not follow your logic, you did not prove anything about fairness or why the exact count of dickheads has anything to do with whether they ought to be outed.
Rich guy founder of famously abusive financial racket backs rich guy fraudster thug presidential candidate. Who woulda thunkit? Chickens lay down and prepare to be plucked.
It was not just that the community rebelled, it was that the free to use deal got steadily more oppressive as things progressed, just as those so called rebels knew it would.
Almost right, Bruce. It is engraved on the Internet that Linus actually was a real dick to Andrew. I hope Linus was never great friends with him because that would make it all the more perverse.
Youtube ads went beyond annoying long ago. They should have known this would be inevitable, after all they are smart people according to them. Nice to see Amazon sticking it in where it hurts.
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I will trust Intel, AMD and NVidia to sustain Moore's law as it pertains to general purpose computing, not Google. Google gets plaudits for advancing neural net hardware, if indeed they didn't just buy the tech and slap the Google brand on it, which is likely. Thw hyperbole just erodes credibility, in other words, makes me wonder how many other exaggerations will turn up in this department. Yes, it's a fact it plays Go well, and no doubt does a lot of other things well. Let's stick to the facts please. It didn't advance rendering by 7 years, it didn't advance compiling, in fact it didn't advance just about anything I do with my own computer. Putting my own jaded spin on it, it mainly advances Google's ability to invade my privacy and monetize me.
They will only put the "Nokia" name on someone's hardware, as if customers will be confused and think they are buying a rock-solid nearly indestructible device.
They never did that in the past, why would they do that now?
If they go the Android route, they're dead meat.
The Android space is already saturated with every possible permutation of price, build quality, hardware and features.
Then why is there not a single Android phone with a combination of features, quality and price that makes me want to buy it, to replace my aging Nexus 4? (Which I love except for the lack of micro-sd slot.)
The platform wasn't burning until Elop set it on fire. Nokia was still making huge loads of dough shipping ridiculously cheap candybars, more than enough to ride out a transition to smartphones. That's not a burning platform, it's a springboard. Good job trying to rewrite history.
Elop's burning platform spin was just a thin veneer invented for consumption by fools and intended to be regurgitated by minions, to distract from the borderline criminal business strategy Microsoft was engaged in. Sad to say for the human race, it was perfectly effective at that. How ironic that it ultimately ended the career of Steve Ballmer and various other of the thugs involved.
Oh, while I'm thinking of chronic idiotic stupidity, please don't wake the device up when when I connect it to power. If I want that, I'll press the power button. Google, home of hubris, does not care about user feedback. Maybe Nokia has the clout do the right thing.
They need to do what no one else is doing anymore: flip smartphones and physical keyboards.
Not really. They just need to make a high quality Android phone for a good price. No stupid annoying games like leaving out the microsd slot in order to gouge on flash pricing. Great radio. Great sound. You know, similar to their glory days but in the new form factor. I for one would buy instantly. I would be happy to buy a physical keyboard accessory from them as well. And maybe, just maybe, correct a few of the idiotic stupidities in Android, like only being able to rotate the screen to 3 of four possible orientations, and forcing the home screen to be vertical only when not everybody wants that.
Reborn Nokia drives the last stake through the heart of zombie Winphone. Stake is made of finely worked Linux heartwood with a core of phoenix feather .
The contribution here is to provide a solid theoretical footing for your "just occassionally XORing", which if done informally as you propose is more than likely to lead to surprising statistical defects. Not that I follow the proofs either, but I understand the value of the work.
Many mutual funds own Berkshire stock.
Many have little to no brk exposure. Be in one of those. The glory days of brk are distant fading memory.
Maybe Buffett thinks that there is lots of money to be made in the automobile industry. Maybe because of the number of orders Tesla received for their new model. One thing Apple was able to deliver on was satisfying a huge demand for their product. Which isn't easy and which Tesla now has to prove they can do as well.
Apple knows where the money is, they will introduce iCar with rounded corners and uglier than this.
I'd love to see Warren Buffet take a bath on tech stocks. Fake folksy guy.
There aren't enough chairs being thrown these days.
That's demeaning. Throwing chairs is not Ballmer's only talent, far from it. There is also monkey dancing, armpit stains, looking like Uncle Fester, the list goes on and on.
It's not free. There's a limited time free (and more or less mandatory) upgrade for users of Windows 7 and up, but anyone buying a new computer is paying for it
Indeed, the Windows license is now somewhere between 10% and 25% of the cost of a typical PC.
...or does anyone else also think that ads have NO PLACE being in the freaking operating system?
Definitely not just you. It's just that Microsoft doesn't care what people want, Microsoft cares about what Microsoft wants.
And the PC industry is tanking at a rate of 15% a year. Does Microsoft want that?
So, really, they're the Microsoft of terrorist organizations!
You mean to say that Microsoft is not the ISIS of software organizations?
Billg still controls Microsoft. Nadella would be out in an instant without support from Gates.
While I too do not advocate physically harming Bill Gates, it verges on comical to suppose that the US economy would be harmed if he disappeared. Rather the opposite. At the very least, releasing even a small portion of those siloed ill-gotten gains back to productive circulation would benefit the economy.
Funny how you did exactly that.
I do not follow your logic, you did not prove anything about fairness or why the exact count of dickheads has anything to do with whether they ought to be outed.
Priceless comeback :)
Peter has a right to back whomever he wishes, despite what we may think.
I have a right to despise him for being the founder of Paypal and backer of wannabe facist Trump, and I am exercising that right.
Rich guy founder of famously abusive financial racket backs rich guy fraudster thug presidential candidate. Who woulda thunkit? Chickens lay down and prepare to be plucked.
It makes perfect sense because Larry's help command was really just an abbreviation for helpmegetrich.
It was not just that the community rebelled, it was that the free to use deal got steadily more oppressive as things progressed, just as those so called rebels knew it would.
Almost right, Bruce. It is engraved on the Internet that Linus actually was a real dick to Andrew. I hope Linus was never great friends with him because that would make it all the more perverse.
Youtube ads went beyond annoying long ago. They should have known this would be inevitable, after all they are smart people according to them. Nice to see Amazon sticking it in where it hurts.