It's a really bad sign when you have to obfuscate product uptake percentages with amorphous terms like "modern desktops" to cover up the fact that your latest flagship software release was an unmitigated disaster. Maybe instead of blaming Microsoft's horrible missteps on Balmer we can blame them on the "Modern Microsoft execute".
There's no grand scheme or plan for 64-bits vs 32-bits. They went 64-bits simply because it's the next evolution of chip design. 64-bit processing doesn't strike at a a need today but eventually it will be beneficial and even necessary so if you're going to spend millions on an ARM design you might as well make it 64-bits.
In keeping with Boulder's progressive nature I have filed a request for referendum at city hall that would make it illegal to direct, divert, absorb, or otherwise disrupt the natural flow of flood water through the city. Unfortunately this will mean homes and businesses will be flooded beyond repair but someone must represent Mother Nature's interests.
While catastrophic drive failures make headlines what's more likely to happen during the useful service life of both HDDs and SSDs are unrecoverable media/bit errors and these may ruin your day as much as a catastrophic error. If you look at the bit error rate of any contemporary HDD and compare it to its capacity you'll come to a startling conclusion - an unrecoverable read error is rated to occur once every 2 to 5 times the full capacity of the drive is read. SSDs have about the same unrecoverable read error rate.
They're paying $130 Billion to buy the remaining 45 percent of Verizon Wireless they don't already own. They obviously have some more "diabolical" plans to maximize their investment on infrastructure, be it wired or wireless.
We're approaching the end game of fascism in America. The country has had a good run but alas humans can't stop being humans and so this country will crumble under its weight like all countries before it.
On a volume basis, now #2 worldwide, and that's against much cheaper (and even free) phones sold. On a profit basis, by far #1.
As was Blackberry.
Apple releases once per year. Given the fast pace of phone technology, in that time it is likely one of their many competitors will release something better in various ways. Apple just release again, eclipsing them. The leapfrog game will continue.
Releasing a product every year is not the same as innovating, let alone keeping pace with more nimble players
Apple just keeps making money faster than they can spend it.
That's how companies develop cash hordes. And without success in new markets that's how they lose it too.
Develops overly conservative derivative products to protect its existing business and margins?
And so has every other once-successful company who lead their respective industry. At the pinnacle of their success they looked like geniuses for protecting their market and margins. Later not so much.
Was once seen as hip and cool but now ridiculed as "my father's" device?. Yeah, right.
Every day I see elderly people fumbling with their iPhones, squinting try to understand what they see. That comes with success and the late adoption cycle, but with that comes the loss of cool, which in the smartphone industry is a tough tradeoff since older people don't upgrade nearly as often as the young'ins.
You seem to have taken a wrong online turn at Macrumors and landed here. Here's a link to get you back on track: http://www.macrumors.com/
Unless your investing in a charity or for charitable/social change reasons it's the only view that makes objective sense. A business requires a return on investment otherwise it has no reason to exist in the eyes of investors/shareholders.
The company has been stuck in idle for years and is now in reverse due to macro trend from desktops/laptops to tablets. The oft-repeated claims from private equity guys is that a company has a better chance to succeed if it doesn't have to deal with the demands of being a public company. Demands like growth, profitability, aka success. I don't get it. Maybe they can enact longer-term business plans that would torpedo the stock price if it were a public company...but isn't the idea of every public company to maximize the long term value of shareholders?
That would give a rough indication as to how many might use the fingerprint reader. My guess is not very many - I use one because the company I work for requires it to secure access to their Exchange server. But consumers?
I understand they're going to tie the fingerprint to the iTunes store login as well. Not sure if people use the store frequently enough to make that integration useful.
Rockstars beget and cultivate other rock stars, sometimes through obvious mechanisms like apprenticeships but many times passively by simply raising the standard of what is considered acceptable code. I'm amazed at the number of times I've worked with engineers who wrote poor code simply because they've never seen what good code looks like. This is especially true for our compatriots arriving from overseas, where code construction is not taught at the university and where they had no peers/rockstars to set an example. They didn't lack aptitude - they simply didn't know what was possible.
Having a single point of failure disrupt something as essential as Linux kernel development doesn't instill confidence in the business world. Why are those pull requests not filtered through a separate system running GitHub, and one with some redundancy?
LOL, remember a time when Intel competitors had to torture their RISC designs to emulate x86 instructions to even have a chance in the marketplace (they all failed anyway)? How does that feel Intel? You don't have a shot in hell for making inroads into the tablet market, especially if you arrive to the ball with an ugly mistress named Microsoft.
The read-modify-write penalty for overwriting existing data in-place is huge (even with attempts to minimize it with smart block mapping) and not worth the very minor increase in areal density. It's a bad sign that the storage industry was forced to adopt this because it means better encoding technologies are further off in the future than originally anticipated. Brick wall.
Who still consumes the majority of content on televisions? At least the demographic that advertisers care about. And most people aren't upgrading their computers/notebooks let alone even thinking about upgrading their televisions.
It's filled with shareholders selling their shares after finally realizing the company will never to return to its former glory without a strong visionary like Jobs at the helm.
News at 11 - Bob Fink blew up the house of his best friend John Ackers today in Deer Trail after mistaking him for a CIA drone. John Ackers mistook Bob's missile as a terrorist attack and blew up Deer Trail's only Mosques in retaliation.
Three bananas and I can get my monkey to crack any gesture-based Windows 8 password. And for an additional banana he'll even throw his feces at the screen.
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It's a really bad sign when you have to obfuscate product uptake percentages with amorphous terms like "modern desktops" to cover up the fact that your latest flagship software release was an unmitigated disaster. Maybe instead of blaming Microsoft's horrible missteps on Balmer we can blame them on the "Modern Microsoft execute".
If successful we can work our way down list with future kickstarters:
Ashton Kutcher
Miley Cyrus
Kate Perry
Guy from Verizon Wireless commericals
Congress
There's no grand scheme or plan for 64-bits vs 32-bits. They went 64-bits simply because it's the next evolution of chip design. 64-bit processing doesn't strike at a a need today but eventually it will be beneficial and even necessary so if you're going to spend millions on an ARM design you might as well make it 64-bits.
In keeping with Boulder's progressive nature I have filed a request for referendum at city hall that would make it illegal to direct, divert, absorb, or otherwise disrupt the natural flow of flood water through the city. Unfortunately this will mean homes and businesses will be flooded beyond repair but someone must represent Mother Nature's interests.
While catastrophic drive failures make headlines what's more likely to happen during the useful service life of both HDDs and SSDs are unrecoverable media/bit errors and these may ruin your day as much as a catastrophic error. If you look at the bit error rate of any contemporary HDD and compare it to its capacity you'll come to a startling conclusion - an unrecoverable read error is rated to occur once every 2 to 5 times the full capacity of the drive is read. SSDs have about the same unrecoverable read error rate.
They're paying $130 Billion to buy the remaining 45 percent of Verizon Wireless they don't already own. They obviously have some more "diabolical" plans to maximize their investment on infrastructure, be it wired or wireless.
We're approaching the end game of fascism in America. The country has had a good run but alas humans can't stop being humans and so this country will crumble under its weight like all countries before it.
On a volume basis, now #2 worldwide, and that's against much cheaper (and even free) phones sold. On a profit basis, by far #1.
As was Blackberry.
Apple releases once per year. Given the fast pace of phone technology, in that time it is likely one of their many competitors will release something better in various ways. Apple just release again, eclipsing them. The leapfrog game will continue.
Releasing a product every year is not the same as innovating, let alone keeping pace with more nimble players
Apple just keeps making money faster than they can spend it.
That's how companies develop cash hordes. And without success in new markets that's how they lose it too.
Develops overly conservative derivative products to protect its existing business and margins?
And so has every other once-successful company who lead their respective industry. At the pinnacle of their success they looked like geniuses for protecting their market and margins. Later not so much.
Was once seen as hip and cool but now ridiculed as "my father's" device?. Yeah, right.
Every day I see elderly people fumbling with their iPhones, squinting try to understand what they see. That comes with success and the late adoption cycle, but with that comes the loss of cool, which in the smartphone industry is a tough tradeoff since older people don't upgrade nearly as often as the young'ins.
You seem to have taken a wrong online turn at Macrumors and landed here. Here's a link to get you back on track: http://www.macrumors.com/
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Shareholders should be throwing chairs at you.
Unless your investing in a charity or for charitable/social change reasons it's the only view that makes objective sense. A business requires a return on investment otherwise it has no reason to exist in the eyes of investors/shareholders.
The company has been stuck in idle for years and is now in reverse due to macro trend from desktops/laptops to tablets. The oft-repeated claims from private equity guys is that a company has a better chance to succeed if it doesn't have to deal with the demands of being a public company. Demands like growth, profitability, aka success. I don't get it. Maybe they can enact longer-term business plans that would torpedo the stock price if it were a public company...but isn't the idea of every public company to maximize the long term value of shareholders?
That would give a rough indication as to how many might use the fingerprint reader. My guess is not very many - I use one because the company I work for requires it to secure access to their Exchange server. But consumers? I understand they're going to tie the fingerprint to the iTunes store login as well. Not sure if people use the store frequently enough to make that integration useful.
Rockstars beget and cultivate other rock stars, sometimes through obvious mechanisms like apprenticeships but many times passively by simply raising the standard of what is considered acceptable code. I'm amazed at the number of times I've worked with engineers who wrote poor code simply because they've never seen what good code looks like. This is especially true for our compatriots arriving from overseas, where code construction is not taught at the university and where they had no peers/rockstars to set an example. They didn't lack aptitude - they simply didn't know what was possible.
Having a single point of failure disrupt something as essential as Linux kernel development doesn't instill confidence in the business world. Why are those pull requests not filtered through a separate system running GitHub, and one with some redundancy?
LOL, remember a time when Intel competitors had to torture their RISC designs to emulate x86 instructions to even have a chance in the marketplace (they all failed anyway)? How does that feel Intel? You don't have a shot in hell for making inroads into the tablet market, especially if you arrive to the ball with an ugly mistress named Microsoft.
"Are my global warming carbon credits still accepted in this millennium?"
The read-modify-write penalty for overwriting existing data in-place is huge (even with attempts to minimize it with smart block mapping) and not worth the very minor increase in areal density. It's a bad sign that the storage industry was forced to adopt this because it means better encoding technologies are further off in the future than originally anticipated. Brick wall.
Who still consumes the majority of content on televisions? At least the demographic that advertisers care about. And most people aren't upgrading their computers/notebooks let alone even thinking about upgrading their televisions.
It's filled with shareholders selling their shares after finally realizing the company will never to return to its former glory without a strong visionary like Jobs at the helm.
To helps me gets my grooves on without losing my babe inside the folds of my water bed.
RIP
News at 11 - Bob Fink blew up the house of his best friend John Ackers today in Deer Trail after mistaking him for a CIA drone. John Ackers mistook Bob's missile as a terrorist attack and blew up Deer Trail's only Mosques in retaliation.
Three bananas and I can get my monkey to crack any gesture-based Windows 8 password. And for an additional banana he'll even throw his feces at the screen.