The world basically hates Microsoft. There are tons of reasons for it,...
Actually in the end there is one reason the world hates Microsoft and that is because Microsoft has shown such disdain for the world that they don't even deign to hate the world.
Going back to their first major antitrust move, writing DOS2 so that present versions of Lotus 1-2-3 could not run on it. Thus giving current DOS and Lotus users problems: stick with the old DOS or give up 1-2-3 or wait till there was a DOS2 compatible 1-2-3.
At every turn Microsoft has shown again and again that they were willing to push some hardship on their users if that they could benefit from it.
There were many senior managers who used Microsoft and hated doing it for years, bordering on decades, but were stuck doing so.
Now Microsoft expects to play Lucy to the world's Charlie Brown, and does everything they can to convince to convince the world that they will not one more time pull the football away just before he kicks it. Except the world isn't as gullible as Charlie Brown.
Or to put it the way I did in the late 1990's when a friend asked my why I hated Microsoft. "Because Microsoft hates me."
Actually i was going to suggest that if he can get the code modular enough and organized enough he ight search for universities that insist that students complete some sort of independent project before getting their degree, then seeing if he can get the students and faculty interested.
It's more complex then that. Not only does it have to be profitable, it has to be more profitable then some other new project the guy is doing. And that other project is probably more fun so it has to be moore profitable enought to compensate for that.
The first is don't anticipate that AI to improve that quickly, they've been promising that for more than 40 years and still the AIs are veery limited.
The second is that in the more advanced the infrastructure and technology the native population decreases.
The third is that even though I am a conservative, I realise that socialism in some form is going to become more common with the demands for less government. Not the kind of socialism Obama pushes, but one starting at the middle class and going outward.
The fourth is that the labor week will generally be reduced. Can anyone say 20 hour work week?
The fifth is that this will lead to higher quality products that are more individualized. The extra capacity has to go somewhere.
The final thought is that it will all depend on what we do. This can be a great thing. Or there are people that believe no one should ever work that will let things go down hill. There are other people who will mess it up by insisting that everyone else work 60 hour weeks "for their own good". Both sides, or even the fight between both sides, can mess things up real good.
What are the warantee periods? Are SSDs shorter. Is it the same usage scenario -- for example using the SSD for swap?
What do the failure curves look like? I suspect for HD's it's a gaussian and for SSD's it's a skew normal distrubution with the scew leaning towards the end. Meaning a large amount of SSD fail past a certain. time while many HD still work? Have we even seen enough SSD's in the wild to see that failure yet?
"The Marching Morons" where the idiots out populate the smart people and force them to come up with fool proof devices. I just heard a drunk woman fell overboard from a cruise ship. Eventually the cruise ship turned around and picked her up 90 minutes later. She is suing the cruise line because they took to long to rescue her. In part because they didn't have sufficient safety equipment. No infrared camera for example which would have let them see a passenger in the water at night. Sound familiar?
"The Space Merchants" where advertising pervades our whole life and often times we are being tricked or forced to watch ads. Sound familiar?
Actually I don't see how the Moon can move away. That would require the Moon acquiring energy in the process, and I do not see how it can.
You are right about the Earth rotation though. A part of the enrgy will come from the Earths rotation a part from the Moons orbit. SO we will see higher tides lasting for longer times.
In the end the energy will be extracted from the Moons orbital energy causing the Moon to get a bit closer. Causing bigger tides, weirder jet streams and nastier weather.
Eventually the Moon will touch the atmosphere and start bleeding our air into space.
Then the Moon will touch the peaks of the tallest mountains will start unpredictable havoc, assuming anyones left to see it.
Do you honestly think that windows 8 is going to cause a mass migration to osx or linux? If not, then what possible incentive do MS have to improve it? Users will either buy it anyway and put up with it, or they will buy windows 7 instead, either way is fine for MS..
No. If my employer gets Windows 7 instead then he will probably just get more Office 2010 licenses. Which means I can get by with alternatives which by now can read 2010 formats. If OTOH my Windows 8 he will also get the newest office and the alternatives won't be able to read the most recent formats.
So getting Win 7 is a loss, though not as big a loss as going with Linux or OSX.
You look at the moves MSFT has made in the past few years and one thing becomes crystal clear...every new feature, and starting with Win 8 every new OS, its all been designed to give MICROS
Uhm No it started with DOS 2. They only got away with it because they had monopoly power. Suddenly along come things that they had a hard time to control, along with DoJ and EU restrictions muting most of their efforts and collapse.
Maybe the 3ditors just got so confused by the article.
OTOH they seem to have rejected my article on Ben Affleck playing Batman in the new Superman flick. ( I could understand if they had accepted some other submission on the topic... but no. For some reason stories about comic book characters isn't nerdy enough. )
This really started to happen 15-20 years ago. Microsoft totally missed the internet and only manage to reassert dominance by "cutting off Netscapes air supply" and subverting Java. Had MS not done so the present situation would have been the situation back then.
They did it blatantly enough to attract the attention of DoJ. Given the DoJs action as tepid as they were and the EUs action, Microsoft was limited in how forcefully they could respond this time.
The techniques that in the past were most effective for Microsoft were no longer available. The smartest thing that Bill Gates ever did was: he saw the end was coming and got out before the downturn and left Ballmer holding the bag. Had Gates not left we would still be seeing the same thing happening, probably even worse because Ballmer has probably cleaned things up a bit on the business side.
What Microsoft needs is someone to come and clean house. They have certain advantages, lots of cash, a well established code base. Market dominance in certain areas. What they need to do is restructure their development infrastructure, and not rely on being able to leverage their dominance in one area into another.
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The world basically hates Microsoft. There are tons of reasons for it, ...
Actually in the end there is one reason the world hates Microsoft and that is because Microsoft has shown such disdain for the world that they don't even deign to hate the world.
Going back to their first major antitrust move, writing DOS2 so that present versions of Lotus 1-2-3 could not run on it. Thus giving current DOS and Lotus users problems: stick with the old DOS or give up 1-2-3 or wait till there was a DOS2 compatible 1-2-3.
At every turn Microsoft has shown again and again that they were willing to push some hardship on their users if that they could benefit from it.
There were many senior managers who used Microsoft and hated doing it for years, bordering on decades, but were stuck doing so.
Now Microsoft expects to play Lucy to the world's Charlie Brown, and does everything they can to convince to convince the world that they will not one more time pull the football away just before he kicks it. Except the world isn't as gullible as Charlie Brown.
Or to put it the way I did in the late 1990's when a friend asked my why I hated Microsoft. "Because Microsoft hates me."
SO how did chm work out? You see many books in that.
Put simply the stuff I am writing is not in HTML format and never will be if I can help it.
Actually i was going to suggest that if he can get the code modular enough and organized enough he ight search for universities that insist that students complete some sort of independent project before getting their degree, then seeing if he can get the students and faculty interested.
It's more complex then that. Not only does it have to be profitable, it has to be more profitable then some other new project the guy is doing. And that other project is probably more fun so it has to be moore profitable enought to compensate for that.
Like this?
Yeah, but they are not sleasy enough.
The first is don't anticipate that AI to improve that quickly, they've been promising that for more than 40 years and still the AIs are veery limited.
The second is that in the more advanced the infrastructure and technology the native population decreases.
The third is that even though I am a conservative, I realise that socialism in some form is going to become more common with the demands for less government. Not the kind of socialism Obama pushes, but one starting at the middle class and going outward.
The fourth is that the labor week will generally be reduced. Can anyone say 20 hour work week?
The fifth is that this will lead to higher quality products that are more individualized. The extra capacity has to go somewhere.
The final thought is that it will all depend on what we do. This can be a great thing. Or there are people that believe no one should ever work that will let things go down hill. There are other people who will mess it up by insisting that everyone else work 60 hour weeks "for their own good". Both sides, or even the fight between both sides, can mess things up real good.
Except that it won't be called McDonalds, it will be called "Papa Giovani's Pizzeria". It will be family owned, prices low and a very cheerful place.
Looking through my thumb and forefinger put together in a circle.
"Be seeing you"
What are the warantee periods? Are SSDs shorter. Is it the same usage scenario -- for example using the SSD for swap?
What do the failure curves look like?
I suspect for HD's it's a gaussian and for SSD's it's a skew normal distrubution with the scew leaning towards the end. Meaning a large amount of SSD fail past a certain. time while many HD still work? Have we even seen enough SSD's in the wild to see that failure yet?
Can't be Delphi was sold to Embarcadero Technologies.
OMFG! Al Gore was right! The sky is falling.!!!!!!!!!
Best two 12"x9" screens ( slightly bigger then US Letter so that you accomodate the border ) on a hinge that you can reverse.
"The Marching Morons" where the idiots out populate the smart people and force them to come up with fool proof devices.
I just heard a drunk woman fell overboard from a cruise ship. Eventually the cruise ship turned around and picked her up 90 minutes later.
She is suing the cruise line because they took to long to rescue her. In part because they didn't have sufficient safety equipment. No infrared camera for example which would have let them see a passenger in the water at night. Sound familiar?
"The Space Merchants" where advertising pervades our whole life and often times we are being tricked or forced to watch ads. Sound familiar?
RIP Fredrick Pohl.
the EU will let this happen?
I don't think so, and it does have major antitrust repercussions.
what will be left of Nokia?
Actually I don't see how the Moon can move away. That would require the Moon acquiring energy in the process, and I do not see how it can.
You are right about the Earth rotation though. A part of the enrgy will come from the Earths rotation a part from the Moons orbit. SO we will see higher tides lasting for longer times.
In the end the energy will be extracted from the Moons orbital energy causing the Moon to get a bit closer. Causing bigger tides, weirder jet streams and nastier weather.
Eventually the Moon will touch the atmosphere and start bleeding our air into space.
Then the Moon will touch the peaks of the tallest mountains will start unpredictable havoc, assuming anyones left to see it.
every major country a lots of small wannabe0major countries aren't doing this. The question who is being successful.
Do you honestly think that windows 8 is going to cause a mass migration to osx or linux? If not, then what possible incentive do MS have to improve it? Users will either buy it anyway and put up with it, or they will buy windows 7 instead, either way is fine for MS. .
No. If my employer gets Windows 7 instead then he will probably just get more Office 2010 licenses. Which means I can get by with alternatives which by now can read 2010 formats. If OTOH my Windows 8 he will also get the newest office and the alternatives won't be able to read the most recent formats.
So getting Win 7 is a loss, though not as big a loss as going with Linux or OSX.
You look at the moves MSFT has made in the past few years and one thing becomes crystal clear...every new feature, and starting with Win 8 every new OS, its all been designed to give MICROS
Uhm No it started with DOS 2. They only got away with it because they had monopoly power. Suddenly along come things that they had a hard time to control, along with DoJ and EU restrictions muting most of their efforts and collapse.
That's right you sit down at a coffee shop and can connect to five free "max bars" connections.
Maybe the 3ditors just got so confused by the article.
OTOH they seem to have rejected my article on Ben Affleck playing Batman in the new Superman flick. ( I could understand if they had accepted some other submission on the topic... but no. For some reason stories about comic book characters isn't nerdy enough. )
This really started to happen 15-20 years ago. Microsoft totally missed the internet and only manage to reassert dominance by "cutting off Netscapes air supply" and subverting Java. Had MS not done so the present situation would have been the situation back then.
They did it blatantly enough to attract the attention of DoJ. Given the DoJs action as tepid as they were and the EUs action, Microsoft was limited in how forcefully they could respond this time.
The techniques that in the past were most effective for Microsoft were no longer available. The smartest thing that Bill Gates ever did was: he saw the end was coming and got out before the downturn and left Ballmer holding the bag. Had Gates not left we would still be seeing the same thing happening, probably even worse because Ballmer has probably cleaned things up a bit on the business side.
What Microsoft needs is someone to come and clean house.
They have certain advantages, lots of cash, a well established code base. Market dominance in certain areas. What they need to do is restructure their development infrastructure, and not rely on being able to leverage their dominance in one area into another.
Oh shit!