Basically, if there is a monthly charge for Windows 10, Microsoft will make more money if there are more bugs in updates. They will apparently fix the bugs only for those who are paying monthly.
I find this interesting as essentially this is what most companies already do with software, though on a different scale - annual maintenance charges that provide bug-fixes and updates. Many are moving to monthly fees so that the user has "more flexibility" around how much of a service they want to consume.
Oops, your monthly charge is usually a fair bit more than an annual charge divided by 12 months. You've got all that extra flexibility remember?
Anyone need full time access? Coincidentally your monthly fee paid annually is more than maintaining a perpetual licence...
Been using a product for a few years, and have embedded it into your processes and workflow? Must be time for (yet another) price increase!
Back OT. Monthly charges should be low enough that users are fine with the cost - a couple dollars here or there will easily slide under the radar, plus shareholders have a smoothed out (and greater) profit delivery that is less dependant on new releases. Now, your supposition that there is money to made by having more bugs? Potentially true - get your subscriber count high as they need your bugfixes. Sounds like a predatory business model. Regulation that forces vendors to return $$$ or credit subscribers (more likely) where there is disruption to their paid service service will need to be created. The chances of that seems pretty small though.
The amount of people in my neck of the woods that are baffled by how to handle a four way stop let alone a roundabout is staggering.
4 way stop intersections, as a driver in a completely different country where these are not used, they baffle me. First there gets to go first? So what happens when 2 cars turn up at the same time, crossing each others' path? So much more difficult to establish who has right of way and who should be yielding.
Give me my 2 way stops thanks - if all 4 directions have equal traffic then your road design should be updated so that you have through traffic that does not need to stop (even if that through traffic is turning a corner)
Micro-scale desalinators would be a good sink for excess electricity, with output to your dams where you have hydro for stored capacity in case of increase requirements.
Zero people will benchmarking these firmware updates that were not already planning on it. The performance degradations were entirely anticipated, given turning off HT is part of the solution.
Wrong. Our hardware evaluation team are now interested in benchmarking as Intel made too big a deal out of this.
I'd argue that both sides screwed up. The fire department should have done due diligence so they knew and tested that everything works as expected in simulated conditions before a real emergency. There is no excuse for lack of due diligence on their part.
Verizon should have, as soon as they knew their service was the problem, they should have bumped them to something truly unlimited for at least the duration of the emergency for no additional charge, then give them a couple weeks to make a correct package choice or come to a new deal.
Agreed. The FD needed to select appropriate services for their requirements, and perform exercises periodically that the services continue to meet requirements.
Verizon failed in not allowing a service rep to upgrade the plan on their own authority then kick the change up for review at a more senior level. They could have reaped some positive publicity out of this type of capability rather than what they are getting now - sure they might be correct at a contract level, but that doesn't help a popularity contest (isn't that similar to the current epipen saga and that Martin Shkreli drug price increase?), and when lives are directly at risk at that present time? Debacle.
One of my colleagues from another division sat opposite me for a few days last week, trying out a high-powered workstation (nothing super special, just a souped up workstation) that the hardware team are looking at. In that small amount time he cranked out first a CPU based then a much faster GPU algorithm for recognising and classifying road signs from our annually captured state road videos.
We're also working on a trial that retro-fits cars with devices that will allow inter-car communication plus also talk to smart roadside assets.
The rate of progress is too high to assume that machine vision and learning won't be able to handle self-driving vehicles in simple then increasing complex situations in the nearish future.
You missed the part about offering *double* the valuation forcing a sale, not just the current value price. I'd sell up for twice what I value the place for in a heartbeat.
Then I'd go looking for a replacement via normal channels.
Software's problem is actually that the companies creating it have gotten used to truly obscene profits, and built their businesses around protecting those margins rather than producing a quality product. A company producing a mature program which only needed updating to keep up with changes in the environment in which it ran and the occasional feature request could easily support itself; its owners and employees would just have to accept that they'd make a good living, but nobody was going to be a billionaire.
The owners are shareholders and demand increasing profits, so a subscription model where incremental small changes are released perfectly fits that model, regardless of the value delivered for the subscription cost.
The cost for subscription licences is massively increasing software budgets in my organisation, and the only way to reduce them is to drop users and consequently service delivery. In the meantime these companies are smoothing out revenues streams and reducing pressure to deliver something worth buying every few years - a lose-lose situation for their customers.
You entire post was fine except you put 'Yes' to this instead of 'No'. If there is still negotiation about terms, funding is not secured - either side can walk away at anytime.
I'd take USD$176,800 annually, same as this person.
We still have some Notes databases in use, though they're slowly being replaced. These systems typically have a bunch of group/user based security, workflow and notifications, so getting all that right can be a long process - all the simple stuff was done years ago.
I can totally see a case management system being band-aided across the decades as an entirely new system might still be more than the cost of maintenance and licensing.
I would have modded you back up but that's already done. You need to wait a little while for the non-US mods to fix up all the US/financial based trolls. We don't have any particular position re: Musk other than the tech part.
Don't know what his might do, nor do I know exactly what ours does. I do know is that our Win10 image is much more useful for laptops when it comes to moving between wired, wifi, and mobile connections. It's still in testing - and I've had my PoC device reimaged a few times - but it now seems to be on a stable channel. Also, I'm paying Microsoft for the licences, so may as well use it.
Oh and as an enterprise customer we apparently turn off all the telemetry & crapware that infests the consumer level version.
I'm the same. Even the radio in the car is tuned to the Classical FM as it has no ads and the least amount of talking. I'll stream over BT but sometimes couldn't be bothered even with that.
Ongoing contracts are contracts with prices negotiated in the past. XXXX wants a cheaper price now because they're XXXX....Please show how everyone says this is normal and expected behaviour, and not desperation.
I can tell you right now that renegotiating for cheaper prices is across multiple industries, not just automakers. I want to spend less money on something that I'm buying more volume of - it's pretty standard.
Heck I'm trying to do this with Microsoft, and you should have an idea of how that's probably going to go down. Still going to try though.
They've got tablets and laptops and huge collaborative displays. Maybe they're going to do a Surface Watch. How about a Surface Headset? Or maybe a Surface Fridge? A Surface bedside clock-radio? Surface (Cortana) speaker A Surface bath pillow? A Surface car audio system?
I think they should still be making a Surface Phone to be honest - someone's gotta be in single digit market share.
IBM is a pale shadow of their former selves, now a software and hardware reseller/consulting firm run by beancounters chasing the next quarter's numbers, institutional knowledge, experience and dependable products be damned.
IBM as a company is persona no grata in our state now, as decreed by state government. If you want to utilise IBM services you need approval from the ministers office. If you're currently using IBM products or services you need to have a transition plan, and anything that's not planned for decommission in the near future also needs approval.
Everything IBM must go.. The cost to transition is reviewed now against how much they have cost the state overall (9 figures so far) in failed projects.
It's only free once you can get it on Linux. Currently you still need Windows to play it.
Get off your high horse and accept that Windows is usually a sunk cost when buying a PC.
Using your rules, Fortnight on Linux wouldn't be free as you need hardware to install Linux. Even if you scrounge enough hardware for a working system that Linux may support, you still need to get internet access somehow to get the Linux ISO or install something like Gentoo. If you take your scrounge built PC to an internet cafe and don't buy a coffee, use their free wifi, download, install and update Linux, well you still needed to get to the cafe somehow, so that probably cost money via fuel used in a car, or the cost of public transport. Plus, you probably live somewhere that costs someone money to provide and maintain, and you need food to live, and electricity for your PC, so somewhere in there you're spending someones' money to play Fortnite.. Ergo, Linux isn't "free" either.
What would you choose, spending $100 on one patient to live one year longer while leaving 4 untreated and die without that extra year, OR spent $20 on 5 patients so each of them live for 9 months longer?
Perhaps we need to let the machine do the choosing, as it won't have empathy towards any particular person and would make the most effective choice?
Though you'd hope that weighting could not be adjusted arbitrarily to favour say, the rich, or politicians, as opposed to perhaps weighting children higher....hmmm now that would be an interesting conundrum, even worse than the original question.
If it was, you'd have seen news about here by now. The issue must therefore be non-existent, as the vast majority of consumers seem to stick with whatever's most convenient - which is whatever store is already there on the device.
This is how I'm getting a new system built, where we "don't have sufficient skilled resources" to design and code what needs doing to meet my (admittedly fairly ambiguous and ambitious) requirements. I have no programming or DB skills, nor can I see everything that's available to work with, but I'm slowly chipping away through small incremental improvements that *can* be done by our less skilled - and available - resources.
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Basically, if there is a monthly charge for Windows 10, Microsoft will make more money if there are more bugs in updates. They will apparently fix the bugs only for those who are paying monthly.
I find this interesting as essentially this is what most companies already do with software, though on a different scale - annual maintenance charges that provide bug-fixes and updates. Many are moving to monthly fees so that the user has "more flexibility" around how much of a service they want to consume.
Oops, your monthly charge is usually a fair bit more than an annual charge divided by 12 months. You've got all that extra flexibility remember?
Anyone need full time access? Coincidentally your monthly fee paid annually is more than maintaining a perpetual licence...
Been using a product for a few years, and have embedded it into your processes and workflow? Must be time for (yet another) price increase!
Back OT. Monthly charges should be low enough that users are fine with the cost - a couple dollars here or there will easily slide under the radar, plus shareholders have a smoothed out (and greater) profit delivery that is less dependant on new releases.
Now, your supposition that there is money to made by having more bugs? Potentially true - get your subscriber count high as they need your bugfixes. Sounds like a predatory business model.
Regulation that forces vendors to return $$$ or credit subscribers (more likely) where there is disruption to their paid service service will need to be created. The chances of that seems pretty small though.
The amount of people in my neck of the woods that are baffled by how to handle a four way stop let alone a roundabout is staggering.
4 way stop intersections, as a driver in a completely different country where these are not used, they baffle me. First there gets to go first? So what happens when 2 cars turn up at the same time, crossing each others' path? So much more difficult to establish who has right of way and who should be yielding.
Give me my 2 way stops thanks - if all 4 directions have equal traffic then your road design should be updated so that you have through traffic that does not need to stop (even if that through traffic is turning a corner)
Paid to poo at work. Commuting time and pooing time are probably about equal TBH (not that much either way though).
Micro-scale desalinators would be a good sink for excess electricity, with output to your dams where you have hydro for stored capacity in case of increase requirements.
Zero people will benchmarking these firmware updates that were not already planning on it. The performance degradations were entirely anticipated, given turning off HT is part of the solution.
Wrong. Our hardware evaluation team are now interested in benchmarking as Intel made too big a deal out of this.
I'd argue that both sides screwed up. The fire department should have done due diligence so they knew and tested that everything works as expected in simulated conditions before a real emergency. There is no excuse for lack of due diligence on their part.
Verizon should have, as soon as they knew their service was the problem, they should have bumped them to something truly unlimited for at least the duration of the emergency for no additional charge, then give them a couple weeks to make a correct package choice or come to a new deal.
Agreed. The FD needed to select appropriate services for their requirements, and perform exercises periodically that the services continue to meet requirements.
Verizon failed in not allowing a service rep to upgrade the plan on their own authority then kick the change up for review at a more senior level. They could have reaped some positive publicity out of this type of capability rather than what they are getting now - sure they might be correct at a contract level, but that doesn't help a popularity contest (isn't that similar to the current epipen saga and that Martin Shkreli drug price increase?), and when lives are directly at risk at that present time?
Debacle.
We're also working on a trial that retro-fits cars with devices that will allow inter-car communication plus also talk to smart roadside assets.
The rate of progress is too high to assume that machine vision and learning won't be able to handle self-driving vehicles in simple then increasing complex situations in the nearish future.
You missed the part about offering *double* the valuation forcing a sale, not just the current value price. I'd sell up for twice what I value the place for in a heartbeat. Then I'd go looking for a replacement via normal channels.
Software's problem is actually that the companies creating it have gotten used to truly obscene profits, and built their businesses around protecting those margins rather than producing a quality product. A company producing a mature program which only needed updating to keep up with changes in the environment in which it ran and the occasional feature request could easily support itself; its owners and employees would just have to accept that they'd make a good living, but nobody was going to be a billionaire.
The owners are shareholders and demand increasing profits, so a subscription model where incremental small changes are released perfectly fits that model, regardless of the value delivered for the subscription cost.
The cost for subscription licences is massively increasing software budgets in my organisation, and the only way to reduce them is to drop users and consequently service delivery. In the meantime these companies are smoothing out revenues streams and reducing pressure to deliver something worth buying every few years - a lose-lose situation for their customers.
Summary: Is funding secured? Yes.
You entire post was fine except you put 'Yes' to this instead of 'No'. If there is still negotiation about terms, funding is not secured - either side can walk away at anytime.
You couldn't pay me enough to manage Lotus Notes.
I'd take USD$176,800 annually, same as this person.
We still have some Notes databases in use, though they're slowly being replaced. These systems typically have a bunch of group/user based security, workflow and notifications, so getting all that right can be a long process - all the simple stuff was done years ago.
I can totally see a case management system being band-aided across the decades as an entirely new system might still be more than the cost of maintenance and licensing.
I would have modded you back up but that's already done. You need to wait a little while for the non-US mods to fix up all the US/financial based trolls. We don't have any particular position re: Musk other than the tech part.
I wish mod points had "disappointing" as an option. :( that's horrible.
Also, I'm paying Microsoft for the licences, so may as well use it.
Oh and as an enterprise customer we apparently turn off all the telemetry & crapware that infests the consumer level version.
I'm the same. Even the radio in the car is tuned to the Classical FM as it has no ads and the least amount of talking. I'll stream over BT but sometimes couldn't be bothered even with that.
Ongoing contracts are contracts with prices negotiated in the past. XXXX wants a cheaper price now because they're XXXX. ...Please show how everyone says this is normal and expected behaviour, and not desperation.
I can tell you right now that renegotiating for cheaper prices is across multiple industries, not just automakers. I want to spend less money on something that I'm buying more volume of - it's pretty standard.
Heck I'm trying to do this with Microsoft, and you should have an idea of how that's probably going to go down. Still going to try though.
Smells of risk avoidance if they spin out the company immediately. What other benefit is there?
I think they should still be making a Surface Phone to be honest - someone's gotta be in single digit market share.
IBM is a pale shadow of their former selves, now a software and hardware reseller/consulting firm run by beancounters chasing the next quarter's numbers, institutional knowledge, experience and dependable products be damned.
IBM as a company is persona no grata in our state now, as decreed by state government. If you want to utilise IBM services you need approval from the ministers office. If you're currently using IBM products or services you need to have a transition plan, and anything that's not planned for decommission in the near future also needs approval. Everything IBM must go.. The cost to transition is reviewed now against how much they have cost the state overall (9 figures so far) in failed projects.
It's only free once you can get it on Linux. Currently you still need Windows to play it.
Get off your high horse and accept that Windows is usually a sunk cost when buying a PC.
Using your rules, Fortnight on Linux wouldn't be free as you need hardware to install Linux. Even if you scrounge enough hardware for a working system that Linux may support, you still need to get internet access somehow to get the Linux ISO or install something like Gentoo.
If you take your scrounge built PC to an internet cafe and don't buy a coffee, use their free wifi, download, install and update Linux, well you still needed to get to the cafe somehow, so that probably cost money via fuel used in a car, or the cost of public transport.
Plus, you probably live somewhere that costs someone money to provide and maintain, and you need food to live, and electricity for your PC, so somewhere in there you're spending someones' money to play Fortnite.. Ergo, Linux isn't "free" either.
It sounds like Hognoxious was channelling your POTUS with his incoherent & run-on ramblings, but that's just an outsiders view.
What would you choose, spending $100 on one patient to live one year longer while leaving 4 untreated and die without that extra year, OR spent $20 on 5 patients so each of them live for 9 months longer?
Perhaps we need to let the machine do the choosing, as it won't have empathy towards any particular person and would make the most effective choice?
Though you'd hope that weighting could not be adjusted arbitrarily to favour say, the rich, or politicians, as opposed to perhaps weighting children higher....hmmm now that would be an interesting conundrum, even worse than the original question.
If it was, you'd have seen news about here by now. The issue must therefore be non-existent, as the vast majority of consumers seem to stick with whatever's most convenient - which is whatever store is already there on the device.
This is how I'm getting a new system built, where we "don't have sufficient skilled resources" to design and code what needs doing to meet my (admittedly fairly ambiguous and ambitious) requirements.
I have no programming or DB skills, nor can I see everything that's available to work with, but I'm slowly chipping away through small incremental improvements that *can* be done by our less skilled - and available - resources.
Has everyone forgotten AMD64?
Not here. AMD64 is my car number plate.