Fully agree w/ both your points. Latter one first: they could have called it Metro or something, and left the desktop Windows 8 w/ the same old Windows 7 interface. And introduced Continuum in Windows 10 for touchscreen laptops.
The lack of apps is painful, and not just that, apps that previously existed are slowly disappearing e.g. Fandango. Until recently, there were no VOIP apps, nor any video calling apps (until WhatsApp added that functionality). If one is a Uber or Lyft driver, this platform is of no use. At this point, I don't see the purpose of them introducing a new phone. The Lumias were fine - I have a Lumia 550, which is just great (aside from the apps that're not there) - Windows 10 Mobile is a significant improvement on Windows Phone 8. Microsoft needs to make the OS something that devs can fully program, and not have to go thru the Windows Store.
The Windows 8 kernel was as close to microkernel as could be imagined. I hardly see a compelling reason why a kernel has to be a POSIX compliant kernel
Muslim Brotherhood is as violent as Hamas or al Qaeda, which is why they were banned in just about every country, be it Egypt, Jordan, Syria or Saudi Arabia. Ayman al Zawahiri was originally from that group, and dedicated himself to putting Sayyed Qutb's vision into action. Sayyed Qutb being the founder of that organization. It's not about both using the Quran: it's about both being derivative organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood
Venezuela is struggling today because its economy is based on oil, and oil prices are low.
All the politics, within Venezuela and among other nations is factions attempting to exploit the situation to gain power.
No, a big part of the problem was that they gave away oil for free to countries like Cuba and other Latin American countries to bribe them to support Hugo Chavez. Such a practice would have a quick way of bankrupting one, no matter how rich one is.
You could get an iPhone SE, and be fine. Same camera resolution, practically same configuration, except that it has the earphone jack, but is somewhat smaller.
He did the first part of the work well: wiping out the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Problem was when he got into the nation-building projects - both Afghanistan & Iraq.
That is what included things like declaring them both Islamic states, so that when an Afghan apostatized and was sentenced to death, not by the Taliban but by the Karzai regime, he had to be taken out of the country. And in Iraq, toppling Saddam and replacing it w/ the Bush-Sharansky doctrine of democracy resulted in making Iraq a Shi'ite country, intimidating & frightening out Christians, and then handing over that country to Iran on a platter.
Trump's got it largely right: no more nation-building, and avoid wars. Of course, if Syria takes that to mean that they can get away w/ anything, that's when they'd see retaliation.
If it's a public terminal, they usually would prompt you to not save your passwords on them. Also, one would do well to wipe the browser history after their last session, if it's not happening already.
Of course, you don't use personal laptops of friends or colleagues
The assumption being that hotels would either have computer terminals in every room, or in an office center near the lobby. One then logs onto the cloud just like one accesses webmail.
In a plane, one would be lucky to have internet that doesn't suck. Better off either using the in-flight entertainment (movies or games), or playing games on one's smartphone.
Good plan, except that we'd have to translate that stuff from Mandarin, or be as willing to adapt Mandarin in our business as they've adapted English in theirs
Not just that, a country w/ a $20T debt would have more problems coughing up the dough than a country like China that's floating on cash, and which has the bulk of the world's manufacturing
They think they have a lock on the Hispanic vote, which is why they support illegal immigration, which is mainly from Latin America.
In the case of Indians, it's not so clean, particularly since Liberals have made common cause w/ Muslims everywhere, and a good percentage of the Hindu immigrant population is uncomfortable enough w/ that to go Republican, despite the GOP's stand on H1B visas.
Not exactly. The Conservatives - the ones in the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Club for Growth, et al, still believe that companies should have the freedom to hire anyone they want, even if it means making it easier to legally migrate. Their problem: Trump has run away w/ their party. When someone wins the White House by carrying states that haven't voted (R) since President Reagan's 49 state landslide in 1984, it's tough to argue w/ him, let alone stop him from calling the shots in the party.
What's new here is the Economic Nationalists - the people like Bannon, Sessions, Miller, et al, who do not believe in making it easier for companies to offshore jobs and then resume selling their wares in the US. And that's likely to become a growing and increasingly powerful faction in the GOP, displacing the classic George Will, Steve Forbes, Charles Krauthammer types who believe in letting the market simply work its magic, no shackles involved.
So Tech Mahindra has weak earnings, and it's Trump's fault? Just b'cos Tech Mahindra can't keep bringing in Indians in for every req they have. A recruiter I know told me that they have a policy of hiring only ethnic Indians (be they US or Indian citizens), and very rarely do they prefer Americans. The sooner they're driven out of the US market, the better.
Congress should pass a special law banning Tech Mahindra from using any H1Bs, L1s or anything like that. It won't hurt the industry, just losers like Tech Mahindra, Syntel, et al
I would like to say that OSX is not innovation. It's just a unix system with a decent UI. How hard is that?
Unfortunately it seems very hard, based on the experience of a lot of other systems. Things are starting to get better now in the Linux world, though.
Even accepting that premise, NEXTSTEP was innovation. It was unix system, but w/ a revolutionary UI, w/ a USP unmatched by any of the unixstation guys - Sun, SGI, HP, et al. Which is why both Sun & HP had it ported to SPARC and PA/RISC. OS X was taking NEXTSTEP, and making some major changes to the interface. Personally, I preferred NEXTSTEP, but I can see why Apple chose to change things from there. Just wish NEXTSTEP on SPARC had continued.
Too bad there has never been a complete NEXTSTEP like DE for either Linux or BSD. And no, WindowMaker, AfterStep et al don't count.
It's not like Jobs never did anything in the absence of Woz. When he formed Next, Inc, he didn't have any of the big names w/ him, but built that company from scratch. Ultimately, it became viable enough that when Apple kept slipping on the delivery of Copland, they ultimately acquired Next, and Jobs w/ it.
Yeah, they could have purchased Be, Inc. instead, and history would have been different. Next may then have ended up maybe as a part of Sun or SGI or HP.
Especially when he's the only surviving co-founder, so anybody who wants opinions on Apple can either go to him, or to guys like John Sculley, Michael Presner, or Gil Amelio.
How were the iPods or iPhones any iteration of what came before? Granted, w/ the iPod, Apple wasn't taking a big risk, but just introduced a new music player that looked sleeker than anything else, and then took off. They added phone features to it, and the phone market has not been the same since. What was either luck or genius on their part was targeting the elite/upscale part of the population and making their phone look like the Gucci or Prada of electronic devices and pricing them accordingly, and they got a bigger market than they even targeted. Then came the iPad, which was a major hit when it came along.
There is something to be said for a platform which in the US at least is the first choice of app developers - to the exclusion of Windows, and even giving Android a second shrift.
Not just that, Jobs was the contradiction to Woz's theory that the CEO has to be young and the company small. Apple was big in its own right, but somewhat floundering w/ just the Macs. Once he introduced the iPods and later, the iPhones & iPads, along w/ a great marketing campaign as to their applications, Apple had a breakthrough.
For them, they're probably on the relentless cost reduction crusade, which assumes that most customers would not be willing to pay for that added flexibility of expanding RAM or replacing batteries.
And I daresay they'd be right./. posters are hardly typical of the market at large
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Wasn't Windows Phone supposed to have superseded Windows Mobile? What's next, the return of the resistive touch screen??
Is anyone at the helm at Microsoft?
8.x was Windows Phone. 10 is Windows Mobile
Fully agree w/ both your points. Latter one first: they could have called it Metro or something, and left the desktop Windows 8 w/ the same old Windows 7 interface. And introduced Continuum in Windows 10 for touchscreen laptops.
The lack of apps is painful, and not just that, apps that previously existed are slowly disappearing e.g. Fandango. Until recently, there were no VOIP apps, nor any video calling apps (until WhatsApp added that functionality). If one is a Uber or Lyft driver, this platform is of no use. At this point, I don't see the purpose of them introducing a new phone. The Lumias were fine - I have a Lumia 550, which is just great (aside from the apps that're not there) - Windows 10 Mobile is a significant improvement on Windows Phone 8. Microsoft needs to make the OS something that devs can fully program, and not have to go thru the Windows Store.
The Windows 8 kernel was as close to microkernel as could be imagined. I hardly see a compelling reason why a kernel has to be a POSIX compliant kernel
Muslim Brotherhood is as violent as Hamas or al Qaeda, which is why they were banned in just about every country, be it Egypt, Jordan, Syria or Saudi Arabia. Ayman al Zawahiri was originally from that group, and dedicated himself to putting Sayyed Qutb's vision into action. Sayyed Qutb being the founder of that organization. It's not about both using the Quran: it's about both being derivative organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood
Venezuela is struggling today because its economy is based on oil, and oil prices are low.
All the politics, within Venezuela and among other nations is factions attempting to exploit the situation to gain power.
No, a big part of the problem was that they gave away oil for free to countries like Cuba and other Latin American countries to bribe them to support Hugo Chavez. Such a practice would have a quick way of bankrupting one, no matter how rich one is.
You could get an iPhone SE, and be fine. Same camera resolution, practically same configuration, except that it has the earphone jack, but is somewhat smaller.
He did the first part of the work well: wiping out the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Problem was when he got into the nation-building projects - both Afghanistan & Iraq.
That is what included things like declaring them both Islamic states, so that when an Afghan apostatized and was sentenced to death, not by the Taliban but by the Karzai regime, he had to be taken out of the country. And in Iraq, toppling Saddam and replacing it w/ the Bush-Sharansky doctrine of democracy resulted in making Iraq a Shi'ite country, intimidating & frightening out Christians, and then handing over that country to Iran on a platter.
Trump's got it largely right: no more nation-building, and avoid wars. Of course, if Syria takes that to mean that they can get away w/ anything, that's when they'd see retaliation.
Of course, they'd be completely incapable of doing things to protect against that, such as wiping browser history, disabling autocomplete, et al
If it's a public terminal, they usually would prompt you to not save your passwords on them. Also, one would do well to wipe the browser history after their last session, if it's not happening already.
Of course, you don't use personal laptops of friends or colleagues
The assumption being that hotels would either have computer terminals in every room, or in an office center near the lobby. One then logs onto the cloud just like one accesses webmail.
In a plane, one would be lucky to have internet that doesn't suck. Better off either using the in-flight entertainment (movies or games), or playing games on one's smartphone.
Ted is good. Alex is evil!
Good plan, except that we'd have to translate that stuff from Mandarin, or be as willing to adapt Mandarin in our business as they've adapted English in theirs
Not just that, a country w/ a $20T debt would have more problems coughing up the dough than a country like China that's floating on cash, and which has the bulk of the world's manufacturing
They think they have a lock on the Hispanic vote, which is why they support illegal immigration, which is mainly from Latin America.
In the case of Indians, it's not so clean, particularly since Liberals have made common cause w/ Muslims everywhere, and a good percentage of the Hindu immigrant population is uncomfortable enough w/ that to go Republican, despite the GOP's stand on H1B visas.
Not exactly. The Conservatives - the ones in the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Club for Growth, et al, still believe that companies should have the freedom to hire anyone they want, even if it means making it easier to legally migrate. Their problem: Trump has run away w/ their party. When someone wins the White House by carrying states that haven't voted (R) since President Reagan's 49 state landslide in 1984, it's tough to argue w/ him, let alone stop him from calling the shots in the party.
What's new here is the Economic Nationalists - the people like Bannon, Sessions, Miller, et al, who do not believe in making it easier for companies to offshore jobs and then resume selling their wares in the US. And that's likely to become a growing and increasingly powerful faction in the GOP, displacing the classic George Will, Steve Forbes, Charles Krauthammer types who believe in letting the market simply work its magic, no shackles involved.
So Tech Mahindra has weak earnings, and it's Trump's fault? Just b'cos Tech Mahindra can't keep bringing in Indians in for every req they have. A recruiter I know told me that they have a policy of hiring only ethnic Indians (be they US or Indian citizens), and very rarely do they prefer Americans. The sooner they're driven out of the US market, the better.
Congress should pass a special law banning Tech Mahindra from using any H1Bs, L1s or anything like that. It won't hurt the industry, just losers like Tech Mahindra, Syntel, et al
I would like to say that OSX is not innovation. It's just a unix system with a decent UI. How hard is that? Unfortunately it seems very hard, based on the experience of a lot of other systems. Things are starting to get better now in the Linux world, though.
Even accepting that premise, NEXTSTEP was innovation. It was unix system, but w/ a revolutionary UI, w/ a USP unmatched by any of the unixstation guys - Sun, SGI, HP, et al. Which is why both Sun & HP had it ported to SPARC and PA/RISC. OS X was taking NEXTSTEP, and making some major changes to the interface. Personally, I preferred NEXTSTEP, but I can see why Apple chose to change things from there. Just wish NEXTSTEP on SPARC had continued.
Too bad there has never been a complete NEXTSTEP like DE for either Linux or BSD. And no, WindowMaker, AfterStep et al don't count.
So did he find another Woz at Next, when Sculley booted him out of Apple?
Only if Jobs had left Apple to join Pepsi
It's not like Jobs never did anything in the absence of Woz. When he formed Next, Inc, he didn't have any of the big names w/ him, but built that company from scratch. Ultimately, it became viable enough that when Apple kept slipping on the delivery of Copland, they ultimately acquired Next, and Jobs w/ it.
Yeah, they could have purchased Be, Inc. instead, and history would have been different. Next may then have ended up maybe as a part of Sun or SGI or HP.
Especially when he's the only surviving co-founder, so anybody who wants opinions on Apple can either go to him, or to guys like John Sculley, Michael Presner, or Gil Amelio.
How were the iPods or iPhones any iteration of what came before? Granted, w/ the iPod, Apple wasn't taking a big risk, but just introduced a new music player that looked sleeker than anything else, and then took off. They added phone features to it, and the phone market has not been the same since. What was either luck or genius on their part was targeting the elite/upscale part of the population and making their phone look like the Gucci or Prada of electronic devices and pricing them accordingly, and they got a bigger market than they even targeted. Then came the iPad, which was a major hit when it came along.
There is something to be said for a platform which in the US at least is the first choice of app developers - to the exclusion of Windows, and even giving Android a second shrift.
Not just that, Jobs was the contradiction to Woz's theory that the CEO has to be young and the company small. Apple was big in its own right, but somewhat floundering w/ just the Macs. Once he introduced the iPods and later, the iPhones & iPads, along w/ a great marketing campaign as to their applications, Apple had a breakthrough.
For them, they're probably on the relentless cost reduction crusade, which assumes that most customers would not be willing to pay for that added flexibility of expanding RAM or replacing batteries.
And I daresay they'd be right. /. posters are hardly typical of the market at large
Actually, just sell them off to itsjihad airways. That should fix it