It won't be dead within a year. Too many governments rely on its baked-in security.
Besides, why would anyone buy something different just to stick it to the 2 big corps that don't give a shit about their lemmings. (Face it. The only thing they care about are their stockholders)
IMO, Prem Watsa is just engineering the price of the stock down while freezing out other potential suitors with that "pays us 30cents/share if you sell to another" clause.
Friday BBRY was at $7.77. Watsa's offer *was* to buy it at $9.00. Today he says "he changed his mind" and then 9:30am, *someone* bought 2.5% of BBRY for $6.46. And tomorrow morning it will happen again. (just watch)
Watsa's Fairfax company is one of those predatory company that buys struggling companies, chops them up and sells the parts for more than the company was worth as a whole.
Mark my words: He will buy BBRY sooner or later and spin off BBM at a price that will cover the purchase price of BBRY as a whole.
Once the XP-lovers get burnt by a XP-only exploit and it becomes big news, they will switch. But something tells me that MS will not be happy with their choice.
IMHO: Metro exists to give MS' marketing dept the ability to says that MS has the same look and feel regardless of the device. If MS made cars and trucks, both would have air breaks, a rolling back door (like you see on rigs) and attachments for child seats.
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INFO: Even BlackBerry Z10 phones (and up) supports MP3, Ogg and FLAC natively.
Very stupid and the majority of us is proving him right.
e.g. ooh, Kardashians! Sorry, I can't care about stuff that will get me locked up or killed later. I got boobies and asses to watch.
That's because they are a corporation.
A corporation under US law is a "Person" that is superior to humans and thus cannot be faulted for anything.
Maybe if we had respectable copyright laws instead of this Infinity+1 BS.
But why bother when you can just purchase laws to suit your own monopoly.
Prior art indeed!
http://hudsandguis.com/2011/01/02/terminator-the-evolution-of-machine-vision/
That's because beheadings is porn for a corrupt government.
They imagine doing the same to any of their opponents.
Soon "Extremism"(TM) will be an automatic death sentence.
Game of Thrones, 21st century style.
But at least the rich didn't loose too much money on imperfect fruits, veggies and cattle by using antibiotics like water.
If they lost a dime it would be cataclysmic! /s
They just want to help the world be a better place...
NOW! Pay up for our patent!
No conspiracy. Just gotta to be greedy or risk getting sued by shareholders.
Does anybody have dollars to bet against my donuts that they will require the use of proprietary keywords and extensions?
Doing anything else would be so bizarre for Microsoft.
RE: if it doesn't work with a standard QAM tuner, it shouldn't count as cable TV!
Call it "Encrypted Cable TV"
Finally! Car analogies will make sense to Joe-Public because they will have lived through them.
What I'm worried about is that we just ASSUME it's secure because it's encrypted.
If the encryption is 128bit like the bank stuff or if the NSA/GCHQ get the CAs' Root certs.
If it is, this is nothing but "Security Theatre"
My predictions:
It don't matter. The NSA will simply require the root certs of all CAs and make all this work moot.
no no no
It's Pork, Profit then Principle.
People at the very bottom.
With what Texas is doing to textbooks for schools, they don't deserve it.
Also, in the states, there is this trend to not fund science that does not produce an immediately marketable product.
Oh, I forgot.
It won't be dead within a year. Too many governments rely on its baked-in security.
Besides, why would anyone buy something different just to stick it to the 2 big corps that don't give a shit about their lemmings. (Face it. The only thing they care about are their stockholders)
I have to give you points for your comment on BB's tablet. This probably has to do with the fact that BB abandoned it.
They have at least 3-4 years to go before you need to worry about that.
Subsidized phone contract last 2 years or so you'll be fine.
You should go back to whining about how bad your iPhone/Android is since nothing else is good enough.
I read what is REALLY helping them spread are all those floating bits of plastic out there.
Jellyfish spores need something to cling-to to survive.
That used to be very hard in the ocean because it's all water.
But today, thanks to plastic bits floating everywhere in the ocean, this is no longer a problem.
Wild salmon, too
Don't worry, we are making them extinct in about 10 years. /s
Please be patient!
I know. It's not "Kewl".
Your friends might laugh at you.
If you don't like the options then your current situation isn't that bad if you are not willing to vote with your wallet or feet.
Too bad only iPhones and Android phones exists.
If only there was other smart phones available...
PS: I heard that Blackberry phones let you remove almost anything you don't want and you can run android apps.
IMO, Prem Watsa is just engineering the price of the stock down while freezing out other potential suitors with that "pays us 30cents/share if you sell to another" clause.
Friday BBRY was at $7.77. Watsa's offer *was* to buy it at $9.00. Today he says "he changed his mind" and then 9:30am, *someone* bought 2.5% of BBRY for $6.46. And tomorrow morning it will happen again. (just watch)
Watsa's Fairfax company is one of those predatory company that buys struggling companies, chops them up and sells the parts for more than the company was worth as a whole.
Mark my words: He will buy BBRY sooner or later and spin off BBM at a price that will cover the purchase price of BBRY as a whole.
LOL: "Eight breaks the suck-meter."
Once the XP-lovers get burnt by a XP-only exploit and it becomes big news, they will switch.
But something tells me that MS will not be happy with their choice.
IMHO: Metro exists to give MS' marketing dept the ability to says that MS has the same look and feel regardless of the device.
If MS made cars and trucks, both would have air breaks, a rolling back door (like you see on rigs) and attachments for child seats.
CCIE was and still is one of the few Certs that I respect.
Disclaimer: I'm NOT a CCIE or in that side of IT.