Do you mean that so they would be more like Sony? There are many opportunities for alignment of the home computing and home entertainment markets (such as device integration). Hell, people started buying Apple computers again solely because of it's integration with a "home entertainment" device.
I think this is why they initially took a position with NBC as MSNBC, which is winding down. They couldn't figure out how to do anything with it.
Up 7 1/4% at the moment. No more fitting comment possible on this clown. But truth be told, I will miss him, he was just the perfect thug to abuse Microsoft in the way it so richly deserves. Though I wonder where they will find another like him, I have no doubt that they will. Karma you see.
sometimes it is nice to have a book from a class for a while after the class is over. This will also end borrowing books, or buying really cheap used books. And want to retake a class for a better score... buy the book again. Everyone pays full e-price for access to the online content for this semester.
I still have almost all of my college text books. Every now and then I pull one out of the book case and consult it on something. Hard to imagine how I'd do that over the time I've had them if they were electronic versions, particularly if they were tied to some device, which may be utterly defunct now and I couldn't just copy them onto a newer device.
Okay, so did you distinguish between its chances for success and those of the original Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl? I can't imagine the trailer for Pirates looked that promising either and the pedigree was equal.
I saw pretty much the whole movie in the trailer -- the trend these days is to put the best moments into the trailer to sell it -- if the trailer doesn't grab you, even intrigue you, but you can pretty much surmise the entire story and what a familiar pile of stereotypes you are seeing, you won't be interested and if you aren't interested you don't see it. Besides, there's lots of Summer movies to choose from, you don't have to see them all (unless it's your job.)
I saw the trailer for Despicable Me 2 and it made me laugh, I figured it probably would be pretty close to the original, which it was and still held a lot of surprises. While some people don't think much of Gru, the mix of characters keeps it fresh - I wonder how Minion Movie will fare, as too much of the little yellow dudes could make them less interesting.
... because what we REALLY need is more studios taking LESS chances...
Some of the greatest movies have been box-office flops.
Meanwhile, Big Budget Lone Ranger flopping, had Disney watching Universal rake in $800+ M on $70 M Despicable Me 2, a sequel(!)
Also, Disney buys up Pixar and then rolls out Planes - a soulless little-engine-that-could story wrapped around a cropduster dreaming of being a racer, you didn't need a crystal ball to see Disney would make Pixar movies utterly ordinary, if not below ordinary.
Wouldn't Gates be available, in the worst case that they couldn't find anyone else?
I don't think Bill is any smarter than Steve. If he were he would have suggested to Ballmer he may want to think about getting out sooner. He didn't. Having a view from outside is often better for spotting the obvious flaws those within just can't see.
Marketing. Many newer movies the marketing is close to double the budget of the production. If you can skip that and just have production cost to cover a direct to DVD release my make more money back then the work of putting it in theaters.
This
Although when you have an absolute turd like The Cat In The Hat, even marketing can only do so much - at some point it's one-half-staredness gets around faster than a fart in an elevator.
How about Young Einstein, the smash hit of Oz, starring that next megastar Yahoo Serious, which was a certainty to sweep the United States and bring record box office receipts?
To know it was not only a flop, but a typical crap-scripted Disney attempt to run another character through the PoTC money making machine.
Armie Hammer is an idiot, the movie was a stinker, out of control in more ways than budgetary and there was no conspiracy to slag heavily on it - on look at the trailer and you knew
Not so much how it was developed, but that it was released before it was really ready and a log of people were conned into buying Vista Ready PCs which had a crappy inferior Intel chipset unable to fully support. Microsoft knew and still proceeded. I still have the PDF with all the emails.
...something I saw in a cartoon once. A kids cartoon.
Or something James Bond would scoot around in with one of those things which looks like a man, but has longer hair, bulges in the top of the chest, curves and stuff. I've heard they like money and getting something called a 'tan' under a bright thing in something else called a sky. but the html and the the javascripting and php and the sql and the ldap and the HOYVIN GLAYVIN!
It would certainly bring new capacity to underwater geocaching (c:
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Investors voice their opinion when a CEx quits, usually by selling. m$ stock went up, maybe more investers are favoring Linux?
It's about the most visible slap in the face to a CEO one can imagine - In one voice, from those who matter most to him it says, "We're glad you are leaving, please make it soon."
It may be lonely at the top, but this makes it humiliating, as well.
I was thinking that in response to the Steve Jobs crowdfunding initiative to build a sculpture - perhaps we could celebrate this by crowdfunding a giant statue of Ballmer flinging a chair!
Flinging a chair while jumping a shark, would be more fitting, to be blunt.
This is bad news, having Ballmer in charge of MS is a good thing as he was slowly mismanaging the company into the ground. A successor could be more competent.
Listening to financial and investment analysts this morning, not one has a kind word for Steve. He has missed every big thing while pushing Zune, Windows Vista and then Windows 8, the XBox (games are working well for Atari, right?) Metro (which may be very cool to 10% of users) the RT tablet fiasco, honestly, why does this man actually receive bonuses? He's had the company coasting along on markets it was strong in, without creating new markets. Hardly visionary.
He is still with us for the next 12 months.
Who knows? He might even get ousted after a huge sex scandal that shades what you listed. Think about it.
Maybe the board, upon hearing this, told him not to come in to work today and he can just burn up his accrued vacation until his last day.
your big fat check you may pick up on the way out and don't let the door hit you as you go
The obvious response would have been to partner with a hardware manufacturer and make a line of mid- to high-end Windows laptops and desktop computers that look and feel almost exactly like Macbooks and iMacs.
Customers want nice shiny products. If someone else is making a nicer shinier product; copy it. Most customers won't know or care that you stole the idea.
We saw this years ago when someone rolled out Ferrari branded laptops. I'm sure they are laughable by today's standards, but people bought the silly things.
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Heck, why not buy a movie studio
Do you mean that so they would be more like Sony? There are many opportunities for alignment of the home computing and home entertainment markets (such as device integration). Hell, people started buying Apple computers again solely because of it's integration with a "home entertainment" device.
I think this is why they initially took a position with NBC as MSNBC, which is winding down. They couldn't figure out how to do anything with it.
Up 7 1/4% at the moment. No more fitting comment possible on this clown. But truth be told, I will miss him, he was just the perfect thug to abuse Microsoft in the way it so richly deserves. Though I wonder where they will find another like him, I have no doubt that they will. Karma you see.
Meg Whitman. I have foreseen it.
sometimes it is nice to have a book from a class for a while after the class is over. This will also end borrowing books, or buying really cheap used books. And want to retake a class for a better score... buy the book again. Everyone pays full e-price for access to the online content for this semester.
I still have almost all of my college text books. Every now and then I pull one out of the book case and consult it on something. Hard to imagine how I'd do that over the time I've had them if they were electronic versions, particularly if they were tied to some device, which may be utterly defunct now and I couldn't just copy them onto a newer device.
This. Ballmer had one job: don't fuck up Windows.
He failed at the modest task which was his charge.
Twice.
What's the rule? Every other version of Windows you should avoid?
Okay, so did you distinguish between its chances for success and those of the original Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl? I can't imagine the trailer for Pirates looked that promising either and the pedigree was equal.
I saw pretty much the whole movie in the trailer -- the trend these days is to put the best moments into the trailer to sell it -- if the trailer doesn't grab you, even intrigue you, but you can pretty much surmise the entire story and what a familiar pile of stereotypes you are seeing, you won't be interested and if you aren't interested you don't see it. Besides, there's lots of Summer movies to choose from, you don't have to see them all (unless it's your job.)
I saw the trailer for Despicable Me 2 and it made me laugh, I figured it probably would be pretty close to the original, which it was and still held a lot of surprises. While some people don't think much of Gru, the mix of characters keeps it fresh - I wonder how Minion Movie will fare, as too much of the little yellow dudes could make them less interesting.
... because what we REALLY need is more studios taking LESS chances...
Some of the greatest movies have been box-office flops.
Meanwhile, Big Budget Lone Ranger flopping, had Disney watching Universal rake in $800+ M on $70 M Despicable Me 2, a sequel(!)
Also, Disney buys up Pixar and then rolls out Planes - a soulless little-engine-that-could story wrapped around a cropduster dreaming of being a racer, you didn't need a crystal ball to see Disney would make Pixar movies utterly ordinary, if not below ordinary.
Wasn't there a children's nursery rhyme about the loss of a kingdom for want of a nail?
Seems the concept of lack through fortune or obstruction is well known throughout history.
Wouldn't Gates be available, in the worst case that they couldn't find anyone else?
I don't think Bill is any smarter than Steve. If he were he would have suggested to Ballmer he may want to think about getting out sooner. He didn't. Having a view from outside is often better for spotting the obvious flaws those within just can't see.
Marketing. Many newer movies the marketing is close to double the budget of the production. If you can skip that and just have production cost to cover a direct to DVD release my make more money back then the work of putting it in theaters.
This
Although when you have an absolute turd like The Cat In The Hat, even marketing can only do so much - at some point it's one-half-staredness gets around faster than a fart in an elevator.
I love that movie!
How about Young Einstein, the smash hit of Oz, starring that next megastar Yahoo Serious, which was a certainty to sweep the United States and bring record box office receipts?
Do you love it? Does anyone love it?
To know it was not only a flop, but a typical crap-scripted Disney attempt to run another character through the PoTC money making machine.
Armie Hammer is an idiot, the movie was a stinker, out of control in more ways than budgetary and there was no conspiracy to slag heavily on it - on look at the trailer and you knew
This. Ballmer had one job: don't fuck up Windows.
He failed at the modest task which was his charge.
Ballmer could have been in a coma and done better.
Not so much how it was developed, but that it was released before it was really ready and a log of people were conned into buying Vista Ready PCs which had a crappy inferior Intel chipset unable to fully support. Microsoft knew and still proceeded. I still have the PDF with all the emails.
This could be a good thing, but only if it reduces the price of the average content.
all prices subject to change if publisher feels he needs a bonus
Up more than 6% at the moment.
Drop from 10% up, typical profit taking. Probably Bill unloading a chunk.. more money to combat malaria and such
"Steve, could you do that again next week, the announcing your impending retirement?"
...something I saw in a cartoon once. A kids cartoon.
Or something James Bond would scoot around in with one of those things which looks like a man, but has longer hair, bulges in the top of the chest, curves and stuff. I've heard they like money and getting something called a 'tan' under a bright thing in something else called a sky. but the html and the the javascripting and php and the sql and the ldap and the HOYVIN GLAYVIN!
Some people have too much money.
And some of us don't have enough. )_:
It would certainly bring new capacity to underwater geocaching (c:
Investors voice their opinion when a CEx quits, usually by selling. m$ stock went up, maybe more investers are favoring Linux?
It's about the most visible slap in the face to a CEO one can imagine - In one voice, from those who matter most to him it says, "We're glad you are leaving, please make it soon."
It may be lonely at the top, but this makes it humiliating, as well.
How many kilos of high-value cargo would that be?
Will buying one of these put you on a watch list in one of the Wars on <noun>?
The real question is: How many seasons could they get out of it before it dives under the shark?
ask any Winklevoss you meet
*ahem* I believe the correct term is Winklevi
"Winklevi powers Activate! Form of a lawsuit!"
I dunno, not sure it's really working for me. :-/
I was thinking that in response to the Steve Jobs crowdfunding initiative to build a sculpture - perhaps we could celebrate this by crowdfunding a giant statue of Ballmer flinging a chair!
Flinging a chair while jumping a shark, would be more fitting, to be blunt.
will he come from Soviet Russia ?
He will come from Springfield in the state of $#$$$#)))(*$#*(#%%nd the next version with be HomerOS and run on the Homer XXL tablet.
edited 08/23/2013 09:04 AM whoa, weird transmission glitch right in the middle there.
This is bad news, having Ballmer in charge of MS is a good thing as he was slowly mismanaging the company into the ground. A successor could be more competent.
Listening to financial and investment analysts this morning, not one has a kind word for Steve. He has missed every big thing while pushing Zune, Windows Vista and then Windows 8, the XBox (games are working well for Atari, right?) Metro (which may be very cool to 10% of users) the RT tablet fiasco, honestly, why does this man actually receive bonuses? He's had the company coasting along on markets it was strong in, without creating new markets. Hardly visionary.
He is still with us for the next 12 months.
Who knows? He might even get ousted after a huge sex scandal that shades what you listed. Think about it.
Maybe the board, upon hearing this, told him not to come in to work today and he can just burn up his accrued vacation until his last day.
your big fat check you may pick up on the way out and don't let the door hit you as you go
nothing more to say
Zuck doesn't like to pay up, ask any Winklevoss you meet, they'll tell ya.
The obvious response would have been to partner with a hardware manufacturer and make a line of mid- to high-end Windows laptops and desktop computers that look and feel almost exactly like Macbooks and iMacs.
Customers want nice shiny products. If someone else is making a nicer shinier product; copy it. Most customers won't know or care that you stole the idea.
We saw this years ago when someone rolled out Ferrari branded laptops. I'm sure they are laughable by today's standards, but people bought the silly things.