First, fuck Wikileaks. Second, almost NO one stoking the Wikileak golden locks here on/. will ever read a single word of anything leaked. But they'll cheer for them like the "live in their parent's basement, eating Hot Pockets, wacking off to the gigs of pr0n on their home-built servers" dorks they are.
1. Build a prototype mock-up.
2. Hold press conference about a $35 tablet running Linux.
3. Wait for Microsoft to offer $$$ to switch to Windows.
4. Profit
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Do go to the AP link if you want to "see" it. Funny that they start their story, "It looks like an iPad." The next line should have been, "But I guess you'll never know."
It would seem many don't want the help because it's coming from the GOP. I wonder how many would refuse a cure for cancer because some right-leaning, private university discovered it. Partisanship has truly become idiotic. I know, I know, "It's all their fault!"
I think people, to some extent, are at a point where everything Microsoft doesn't hold as much sway. It used to be that Microsoft mated everything well to its OS. All of their server offerings give you Windows as the basic GUI (something I think they did TOO much of). WinCE was an attempt to do what Apple did very well, scale the basic OS down. But Apple re-wrote the GUI for the phone. WinCE looked like Windows crammed into a phone.
That said, the hurdle is very high for Microsoft. Of late, they haven't done a lot to clear hurtles, only match them at best but with lost momentum. I contend that it's an Apple / Android world on smartphones for some time to come. Microsoft has an insatiable lust for doing what everyone else does. It looks like Windows Phone 7 will be to smartphones what Bing is to Google, Zune is to iPod.
Seriously, if they're building a phone OS at this point in the game, it better offer a paradigm shift. Otherwise, it's the Kin or at best the Zune, relegated!
"The phenomenon is called backfire, and it plays an especially important role in how we shape and solidify our beliefs on immigration, the president's place of birth, welfare and other highly partisan issues."
I can see where this holds true with things like the president's birthplace but the rest of that statement is simply an attempt to relegate opinion. What belief on immigration? What about welfare? It's ironic that the piece itself is infused with partisan bias, the thing it's apparently attempting to expose.
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"GM already sells more cars in China than in the US."
While that is daunting on the one hand, on the other I won't by GM cars or trucks. They forfeited they're soul to the government. Yes, I know this is OT.
More OT, the idea that cellphones and appstores are going to essentially reshape the Internet is not just short-sighted, it's a form of tunnel vision. Eventually people are going to want better apps. And they're still going to go back to their computers where some of these apps won't even exist. The Internet is the highway, the rail system for these apps. The apps are not the system. This is more a question of what is going to hold the lion's share of the market, internet apps and services or closed-system cell-accessed apps. There will always be limitations on smartphones that a computer will overcome by pure size. Work gets done on computers and ultimately it's those applications that drive the larger economy. Cellphone apps are merely supportive. They're the pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements to the overall tools of technology.
Purge policy. This is not news, though the figure may be ambiguous. Any SA can tell you, if asked how long has the data remain untouched? You see this in database backups where they go un-queried for years. We give it 3 years then it's gone. Storing data for 3 years isn't going to break the bank, per se'.
See that's what's great about Microsoft. There so damn timely. I mean search engines come out and BAM! It only took them like nearly 10 years to come up with one.
Microsoft is always following with the intention of thinking they can do it better. They never do. The one thing they did do better was market. That's why Windows became the default OS for nearly everything. Now they're losing that battle. This app store should be cool when it comes online in what, 2014?
Once the U.S. starts implementing "hate speech" laws, the concept of free speech will be dead. It already is in places like the UK and Canada. Someone will get to decide what speech is "hate." Freedom of speech is designed to protect speech we don't like. People wanting to regulate speech they don't like are, in fact, running contrary to the constitution.
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We're not talking math theorems here. I'll take removing the problem and thus the need to "solve" it.
You, Sir, are the exception. :p
And I'm a troll, apparently.
First, fuck Wikileaks. Second, almost NO one stoking the Wikileak golden locks here on /. will ever read a single word of anything leaked. But they'll cheer for them like the "live in their parent's basement, eating Hot Pockets, wacking off to the gigs of pr0n on their home-built servers" dorks they are.
Other people are often the problem. Therefore, it in fact does solve the problem.
No I said, "Spanish Professor?"
Spanish professor?
He can't blame Mama for this one.
1. Build a prototype mock-up.
2. Hold press conference about a $35 tablet running Linux.
3. Wait for Microsoft to offer $$$ to switch to Windows.
4. Profit
??
Do=Do not...I for suck.
Do go to the AP link if you want to "see" it. Funny that they start their story, "It looks like an iPad." The next line should have been, "But I guess you'll never know."
Pics are on the second link here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/23/india.thirty.five.dollar.laptop/
It would seem many don't want the help because it's coming from the GOP. I wonder how many would refuse a cure for cancer because some right-leaning, private university discovered it. Partisanship has truly become idiotic. I know, I know, "It's all their fault!"
I think people, to some extent, are at a point where everything Microsoft doesn't hold as much sway. It used to be that Microsoft mated everything well to its OS. All of their server offerings give you Windows as the basic GUI (something I think they did TOO much of). WinCE was an attempt to do what Apple did very well, scale the basic OS down. But Apple re-wrote the GUI for the phone. WinCE looked like Windows crammed into a phone.
That said, the hurdle is very high for Microsoft. Of late, they haven't done a lot to clear hurtles, only match them at best but with lost momentum. I contend that it's an Apple / Android world on smartphones for some time to come. Microsoft has an insatiable lust for doing what everyone else does. It looks like Windows Phone 7 will be to smartphones what Bing is to Google, Zune is to iPod.
Seriously, if they're building a phone OS at this point in the game, it better offer a paradigm shift. Otherwise, it's the Kin or at best the Zune, relegated!
Good for you. But you're not typical.
This apparently only happens on the Right.
"The phenomenon is called backfire, and it plays an especially important role in how we shape and solidify our beliefs on immigration, the president's place of birth, welfare and other highly partisan issues."
I can see where this holds true with things like the president's birthplace but the rest of that statement is simply an attempt to relegate opinion. What belief on immigration? What about welfare? It's ironic that the piece itself is infused with partisan bias, the thing it's apparently attempting to expose.
"GM already sells more cars in China than in the US."
While that is daunting on the one hand, on the other I won't by GM cars or trucks. They forfeited they're soul to the government. Yes, I know this is OT.
More OT, the idea that cellphones and appstores are going to essentially reshape the Internet is not just short-sighted, it's a form of tunnel vision. Eventually people are going to want better apps. And they're still going to go back to their computers where some of these apps won't even exist. The Internet is the highway, the rail system for these apps. The apps are not the system. This is more a question of what is going to hold the lion's share of the market, internet apps and services or closed-system cell-accessed apps. There will always be limitations on smartphones that a computer will overcome by pure size. Work gets done on computers and ultimately it's those applications that drive the larger economy. Cellphone apps are merely supportive. They're the pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements to the overall tools of technology.
Purge policy. This is not news, though the figure may be ambiguous. Any SA can tell you, if asked how long has the data remain untouched? You see this in database backups where they go un-queried for years. We give it 3 years then it's gone. Storing data for 3 years isn't going to break the bank, per se'.
I know Outpost.com preferred the head.
Exactly. If you're the only person in the filing, you might get something. If there are thousands or millions, enjoy your 35cents.
We need a Joe Dirt Lobby. :p
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See that's what's great about Microsoft. There so damn timely. I mean search engines come out and BAM! It only took them like nearly 10 years to come up with one.
Microsoft is always following with the intention of thinking they can do it better. They never do. The one thing they did do better was market. That's why Windows became the default OS for nearly everything. Now they're losing that battle. This app store should be cool when it comes online in what, 2014?
Once the U.S. starts implementing "hate speech" laws, the concept of free speech will be dead. It already is in places like the UK and Canada. Someone will get to decide what speech is "hate." Freedom of speech is designed to protect speech we don't like. People wanting to regulate speech they don't like are, in fact, running contrary to the constitution.
Well played! LOL!