I can stream music on my phone, and I often listen in the car. I don't stream music while driving because it cuts out due to cell hopping and things. I'd have to get satellite radio for a better solution.
Really. After reading the article cited by the OP (I know, right?) I think the real title of the CNN story should have been "College Age Listeners Living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA Who Have Excellent Bandwidth And Who Probably Don't Pay The Data Charges For Their Devices Opt for Streaming Over Owning"
Ding, ding, ding. I think you've got it - This isn't targeted at the Angry Birds/Netflix crowd, it's targeted at the sort of firm I work for - A dyed-in-the-wool, Windows-logo-tattoo, full time MS Enterprise consultancy. So instead of pitching glue code to get our clients' projects working on iPads and Android tablets, we can suggest they spring for Surfaces instead, and let MS figure out the bits to get their own enterprise suites (Office, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint) working on these things instead of us.
And as the chair went through the window, the few witnessing it from below heard Schmidt from through the jagged opening screaming "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!".
Steve Ballmer == John Sculley. In a world parallel to Apple's in 1993 , once Bill Gates is done financing the eradication of malaria, he shows up at MS headquarters to hand Steve Ballmer a bunch of cardboard boxes and a Sharpie, and tells him to pack his office.
There was this thing called Courier. but MS decided to kill it. I'm an Apple guy, but I'd have definitely given that thing a test drive. And if there's an Android tablet in the pipeline, I'll have a go at that as well.
Yes, logistics are an issue, but other industries do this. There are a few electric guitar manufacturers (Paul Reed Smith and Reverend come to mind) who outsource some (PRS) or all (Reverend) of their production to Korea, and then do final setup and QA in the US.
Before there was Word, there was WordStar and Word Perfect. Before Excel, there was VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3. Visio was something MS bought, not developed. And Visual Studio hit the market 7 years after HP's Softbench. Visual Basic was, I think, a real innovation.
Except for the very beginning of their history, MS generally did not make money by being first. They made it by watching others' mistakes and then arriving to the market second or third, and then by convincing CFOs that they were first.
And now that they're a huge corporation, and the development cycles for the cool stuff are really short, they're sort of in a bind. They simply can't churn out the product at the same rate as the more nimble companies. Arriving to an emerging market with Product #2 or #3 can be a win. Showing up with Product # 8, not so much. Especially if, by then, Product #1 and #2 in the market are on their 2nd release.
This helps if you are a startup, if you just want to experiment, or if you want to sneak something in at work and not have to ask to spend money. Strange but true - it's orders of magnitude easier to get money from a boss in the form of time to work on something than it is to get authorization to spend equivalent actual dollars on it.
This is one of my main reasons for FOSS use - When I'm up against a problem that my regular tool set won't deal with, my bosses are overjoyed to have me download something for free to save the day. This way, they won't have to approve a purchase, or start a ticket with the MIS group, or worry about expense reporting, which are all ways to get a delay between the problem and it's non-FOSS-powered solution. For a while, there was even a central wiki maintained where people could post mini-reviews of tools they found useful.
One interesting side-effect of this stealthy use of FOSS was that when it came up in a corporate meeting, the CEO had no idea there was that much activity in FOSS, or even that we had clients that demanded it's use. The CEO assumed that we were doing everything in C#, or ASP.NET with VS (which admittedly is a great deal of the company's business) and had little, if any, FOSS activity.
And, knowing me, 3 days into owning one I'd trip over one of the dogs and spill my pint of IPA into it and that would be that. At least I like glass topped tables, though. Can't have too many of them.
Boy, you must look a lot like me. When he asked me that question about the Beavers, I responded: "The lurid angel only flies at dusk", and so got the briefcase I needed for the rest of the mission. Fortunately, (for you and the security of the free world) you didn't know the correct passphrase.
Actually, there were (and are!) debates about whether photography is art. I think that with the works of Adams, Arbus, Newton, and many, many others displayed as art the consensus was established in the last century that there is such a thing as art photography. This consensus took years to reach. I'm not a gamer, but even my limited exposure to games like Myst and Spore leads me to believe that there will be a place for games as high art. It's just a new medium, the way that photography once was. The issue with games-as-art will be in conservation - How will we preserve that art for future generations to enjoy? Keep the physical system the game originally ran on, so the developer's intent is transmitted unaltered?
dont buy this cyberwar bullshit. they are just using it as an excuse to justify internet control schemes they want to bring upon you americans. remember how terrorism was used to bring liberties-infringing 'security' measures in all aspects of life. its the same shit, repeating itself.
"...A bevy of former top US officials were given various roles to play:
John Negroponte, the former Director of National Intelligence, as the Secretary of State
Michael Chertoff, the ex DHS Secretary, as the National Security Adviser
Fran Townsend, former White House Homeland Security Advisor, as the Secretary of DHS
John McLaughlin, ex CIA deputy director, as the Director of National Intelligence
Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general, as attorney general
Charles Wald, retired Air Force general, as the Secretary of Defense
Stephen Friedman, former director of the National Economic Council, as the Treasury Secretary.
The entire scenario was thought up by Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director, and the faux attack began with malware masquerading as a free March Madness application for smartphones...."
Not only the same shit, but the same shit doled out by the same people.
...The choice of phrases like "comes knocking at my door" tells me everything about this guy: he wants to clone himself so he can finally fuck someone worthy of his love.
Boy, every now and then someone on Slashdot brings teh awesome. Hilarious!
It could always be worse. I'm sure they probably considered something like Windows Phone 7 Series Enterprise Professional before the person who had the final say in Marketing made them edit it.
African Swallow #1: "I don't wanna look at you no more, you ugly giant ring of magnets! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a clock radio and your father smelt of solder resin!"
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I can stream music on my phone, and I often listen in the car. I don't stream music while driving because it cuts out due to cell hopping and things. I'd have to get satellite radio for a better solution.
Really. After reading the article cited by the OP (I know, right?) I think the real title of the CNN story should have been "College Age Listeners Living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA Who Have Excellent Bandwidth And Who Probably Don't Pay The Data Charges For Their Devices Opt for Streaming Over Owning"
Ding, ding, ding. I think you've got it - This isn't targeted at the Angry Birds/Netflix crowd, it's targeted at the sort of firm I work for - A dyed-in-the-wool, Windows-logo-tattoo, full time MS Enterprise consultancy. So instead of pitching glue code to get our clients' projects working on iPads and Android tablets, we can suggest they spring for Surfaces instead, and let MS figure out the bits to get their own enterprise suites (Office, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint) working on these things instead of us.
And as the chair went through the window, the few witnessing it from below heard Schmidt from through the jagged opening screaming "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!".
FYI, for those who don't know the language: "Vladimir Putin" is Russian for "Chuck Norris".
Really? I thought the aphorism was: "A fool and his money are soon partying.", but maybe I need my ears checked.
I think that "Journal of Cosmology" site is one blink tag away from being the second coming of GeoCities. Man, does that hurt to look at.
Adding the word "horny" after "geek" means you must be on the staff of the Department of Redundancy Department, posting during your coffee break.
Steve Ballmer == John Sculley. In a world parallel to Apple's in 1993 , once Bill Gates is done financing the eradication of malaria, he shows up at MS headquarters to hand Steve Ballmer a bunch of cardboard boxes and a Sharpie, and tells him to pack his office.
There was this thing called Courier. but MS decided to kill it. I'm an Apple guy, but I'd have definitely given that thing a test drive. And if there's an Android tablet in the pipeline, I'll have a go at that as well.
...That you can find here.
Yes, logistics are an issue, but other industries do this. There are a few electric guitar manufacturers (Paul Reed Smith and Reverend come to mind) who outsource some (PRS) or all (Reverend) of their production to Korea, and then do final setup and QA in the US.
Before there was Word, there was WordStar and Word Perfect. Before Excel, there was VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3. Visio was something MS bought, not developed. And Visual Studio hit the market 7 years after HP's Softbench. Visual Basic was, I think, a real innovation.
Except for the very beginning of their history, MS generally did not make money by being first. They made it by watching others' mistakes and then arriving to the market second or third, and then by convincing CFOs that they were first.
And now that they're a huge corporation, and the development cycles for the cool stuff are really short, they're sort of in a bind. They simply can't churn out the product at the same rate as the more nimble companies. Arriving to an emerging market with Product #2 or #3 can be a win. Showing up with Product # 8, not so much. Especially if, by then, Product #1 and #2 in the market are on their 2nd release.
This helps if you are a startup, if you just want to experiment, or if you want to sneak something in at work and not have to ask to spend money. Strange but true - it's orders of magnitude easier to get money from a boss in the form of time to work on something than it is to get authorization to spend equivalent actual dollars on it.
This is one of my main reasons for FOSS use - When I'm up against a problem that my regular tool set won't deal with, my bosses are overjoyed to have me download something for free to save the day. This way, they won't have to approve a purchase, or start a ticket with the MIS group, or worry about expense reporting, which are all ways to get a delay between the problem and it's non-FOSS-powered solution. For a while, there was even a central wiki maintained where people could post mini-reviews of tools they found useful.
One interesting side-effect of this stealthy use of FOSS was that when it came up in a corporate meeting, the CEO had no idea there was that much activity in FOSS, or even that we had clients that demanded it's use. The CEO assumed that we were doing everything in C#, or ASP.NET with VS (which admittedly is a great deal of the company's business) and had little, if any, FOSS activity.
And, knowing me, 3 days into owning one I'd trip over one of the dogs and spill my pint of IPA into it and that would be that. At least I like glass topped tables, though. Can't have too many of them.
It probably would have worked if you had phrased it differently. "Sudo, open the pod bay doors, Hal" always worked for me.
Boy, you must look a lot like me. When he asked me that question about the Beavers, I responded: "The lurid angel only flies at dusk", and so got the briefcase I needed for the rest of the mission. Fortunately, (for you and the security of the free world) you didn't know the correct passphrase.
Actually, there were (and are!) debates about whether photography is art. I think that with the works of Adams, Arbus, Newton, and many, many others displayed as art the consensus was established in the last century that there is such a thing as art photography. This consensus took years to reach. I'm not a gamer, but even my limited exposure to games like Myst and Spore leads me to believe that there will be a place for games as high art. It's just a new medium, the way that photography once was. The issue with games-as-art will be in conservation - How will we preserve that art for future generations to enjoy? Keep the physical system the game originally ran on, so the developer's intent is transmitted unaltered?
dont buy this cyberwar bullshit. they are just using it as an excuse to justify internet control schemes they want to bring upon you americans. remember how terrorism was used to bring liberties-infringing 'security' measures in all aspects of life. its the same shit, repeating itself.
do NOT buy it.
From an article about the "mock cyber attack":
"...A bevy of former top US officials were given various roles to play:
The entire scenario was thought up by Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director, and the faux attack began with malware masquerading as a free March Madness application for smartphones...."
Not only the same shit, but the same shit doled out by the same people.
...The choice of phrases like "comes knocking at my door" tells me everything about this guy: he wants to clone himself so he can finally fuck someone worthy of his love.
Boy, every now and then someone on Slashdot brings teh awesome. Hilarious!
It could always be worse. I'm sure they probably considered something like Windows Phone 7 Series Enterprise Professional before the person who had the final say in Marketing made them edit it.
We have a winner. It's spidercoz. The rest of you, thanks for playing. We can all go home now.
The short answer to your question?: Han shot first.
African Swallow #1: "I don't wanna look at you no more, you ugly giant ring of magnets! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a clock radio and your father smelt of solder resin!"
African Swallow #2: "Fetchez la baguette"
Largemouth bass eat tomato sandwiches? No *wonder* I can never catch those guys! I'm using the wrong bait!
That's because they realized that they didn't have the correct value proposition for you going forward.