This makes sense for home users, however, for enterprises, they like complete control over rollout of patches. The risk of a patch causing problems that impact the business could be very costly and is avoided at all times. IT Departments like to have the patch and test it internally to ensure there is no impact to the business before rolling it out. Also keep in mind that in many enterprises, the end user doesn't have admin access and can't apply the patch anyways.
You're looking at the wrong thing. If you compare AAPL and IBM, AAPL has much more growth in revenue and income. You need to compare forward looking PE for a fair comparison of whether the stock price is justified.
Online poker, for example, the casino makes money on every hand played. They don't care if the players win or lose, they just take out their "rake". Since this is guaranteed money, why would they cheat and risk losing their players?
This doesn't mean that employees of an online casino won't cheat. AbsolutePoker and UltimateBet both had occurrences of cheating and this was detected by players and "proven" through statistical analysis and hand analysis.
Assuming a similar number of people bought a new computer that came with Vista and it took 5 months to reach the same market share as Win7 in 3 weeks, I would say that a good portion of Win7 sales is on upgrades and not new computers.
The interesting part of this is that the CEO had EA purchase his old company for a high amount of $$$ and only two years later shut it down while he personally pocketed several million.
Looking at the timeframe that Danger was acquired by MSFT and that the Danger OS was likely based on NetBSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop), it's more likely that Danger was still using NetBSD as their Server Software and this was merely a process issue. Blaming it on the "Microsoft Platform" without any real data is just spreading FUD.
Modding a car to go faster is not illegal, but other modifications (such as removing the Cats, tinting the front windshield, installing radar jammer, etc...) are illegal.
You could have a "pin" by simply having a 4 digit number the user remembers and adds onto the resulting number. It would require some mental math, however.
I see you arguing that UI should be consistent so you can remember where options are without reading them. Well, I would say that UI is really only needed for people looking for something (in which case dynamic is fine). For people who already know what they want, they would be using keyboard shortcuts anyways which beats the mouse every time.
According to the Bible, the only acceptable reason for a divorce is if your spouse committed adultery. Otherwise, if you divorce and remarry, you've committed adultery yourself. Why doesn't the church fight as hard to enforce this rule of divorce as they fight to prevent marriage?
Take a look at the most recent MSFT earnings report (which came out yesterday I believe). You can find it on www.microsoft.com the Investor Relations section.
Basically, in terms of income (not revenue):
Client (aka Windows) made $3.2 billion, Server and Tools made $1.1 billion, MSFT Business Division (I'm assuming this includes Office) made $3.3 billion, and Entertainment (includes Xbox360) made $178 million. Online Services lost $480 million.
The reality is that most businesses and home users don't want to deploy a Certificate Authority to make use of SSL. WEP, WPA, and WPA2 are "cheap" encryption solutions. If you are really worried about it, there are existing cert based solutions available that are independent of the wifi router/access point.
One thing I noticed in the Ultra Hal conversation is that it really got tripped up by typos. Humans generally don't even notice the typos and based on the context will have an understanding of what was intended. It would seem that this would be an easy way to identify bots.
I would also expect a human conversation to respond at some point with "this conversation is dumb, I'm hanging up".
The Lexus hybrids are pretty good looking. The hybrid only cars, on the other hand, are designed for aerodynamics and not style. Like it or not, hybrid only models will all have the same "fish" look.
Microsoft Research solved this problem with a growing database by using images from petfinder.com. Since there are always new cats and dogs that need to be adopted, there are an infinite number of changing images.
http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/
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He should have been more careful with putting "Spying @ Microsoft" as his occupation on Facebook
This makes sense for home users, however, for enterprises, they like complete control over rollout of patches. The risk of a patch causing problems that impact the business could be very costly and is avoided at all times. IT Departments like to have the patch and test it internally to ensure there is no impact to the business before rolling it out. Also keep in mind that in many enterprises, the end user doesn't have admin access and can't apply the patch anyways.
You're looking at the wrong thing. If you compare AAPL and IBM, AAPL has much more growth in revenue and income. You need to compare forward looking PE for a fair comparison of whether the stock price is justified.
Online poker, for example, the casino makes money on every hand played. They don't care if the players win or lose, they just take out their "rake". Since this is guaranteed money, why would they cheat and risk losing their players?
This doesn't mean that employees of an online casino won't cheat. AbsolutePoker and UltimateBet both had occurrences of cheating and this was detected by players and "proven" through statistical analysis and hand analysis.
Assuming a similar number of people bought a new computer that came with Vista and it took 5 months to reach the same market share as Win7 in 3 weeks, I would say that a good portion of Win7 sales is on upgrades and not new computers.
The interesting part of this is that the CEO had EA purchase his old company for a high amount of $$$ and only two years later shut it down while he personally pocketed several million.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96237-Analyst-Chews-Out-EA-CEO-Over-Pandemic-Closure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Easy_Transfer
You assure us anonymously without any proof? Of course.
Looking at the timeframe that Danger was acquired by MSFT and that the Danger OS was likely based on NetBSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop), it's more likely that Danger was still using NetBSD as their Server Software and this was merely a process issue. Blaming it on the "Microsoft Platform" without any real data is just spreading FUD.
Modding a car to go faster is not illegal, but other modifications (such as removing the Cats, tinting the front windshield, installing radar jammer, etc...) are illegal.
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You could have a "pin" by simply having a 4 digit number the user remembers and adds onto the resulting number. It would require some mental math, however.
If the concern is standards, then it makes more sense for the EU to require IE to adopt standards than to enforce bundling.
I see you arguing that UI should be consistent so you can remember where options are without reading them. Well, I would say that UI is really only needed for people looking for something (in which case dynamic is fine). For people who already know what they want, they would be using keyboard shortcuts anyways which beats the mouse every time.
According to the Bible, the only acceptable reason for a divorce is if your spouse committed adultery. Otherwise, if you divorce and remarry, you've committed adultery yourself. Why doesn't the church fight as hard to enforce this rule of divorce as they fight to prevent marriage?
Take a look at the most recent MSFT earnings report (which came out yesterday I believe). You can find it on www.microsoft.com the Investor Relations section. Basically, in terms of income (not revenue): Client (aka Windows) made $3.2 billion, Server and Tools made $1.1 billion, MSFT Business Division (I'm assuming this includes Office) made $3.3 billion, and Entertainment (includes Xbox360) made $178 million. Online Services lost $480 million.
The reality is that most businesses and home users don't want to deploy a Certificate Authority to make use of SSL. WEP, WPA, and WPA2 are "cheap" encryption solutions. If you are really worried about it, there are existing cert based solutions available that are independent of the wifi router/access point.
One thing I noticed in the Ultra Hal conversation is that it really got tripped up by typos. Humans generally don't even notice the typos and based on the context will have an understanding of what was intended. It would seem that this would be an easy way to identify bots. I would also expect a human conversation to respond at some point with "this conversation is dumb, I'm hanging up".
The Lexus hybrids are pretty good looking. The hybrid only cars, on the other hand, are designed for aerodynamics and not style. Like it or not, hybrid only models will all have the same "fish" look.
It's about making faces more attractive automatically. Doing it manually is easier than writing a program that will do it for you
Microsoft Research solved this problem with a growing database by using images from petfinder.com. Since there are always new cats and dogs that need to be adopted, there are an infinite number of changing images. http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/
Silverlight, unlike Flash, is designed with full accessibility support including screen readers.
Since when have pension funds been considered short term investors?
Once you get the question in text form, it would be easy for a BOT to use Google to find the answer.