MS have a very poor history of taking away market share from others, especially on a playing field that is stacked against them.
Their roaring success: DOS + Windows was not achieved by taking away market share from others (ie. Apple etc), but by going into a new market. They used illegal means to get Office in place.
Whenever they have tried to eat into an existing market where they cannot leverage Windows they have failed miserably: Zune, MSN,.... Their aquisitions are much the same: hotmail...
Doubleclick is likely to end up on the junk pile too.
The agreement (albient not spoken) of good behaviour is not with the individual journalist but with the newspaper itself. If a journalist (TV, print,...) behaves in a way that annoys new sources, the producer/editor will fire/repremand the individual journalist. Just read http://www.doublestandards.org/rothschild1.html or google for "journalist fired". The editors do this because if they let it slide, their paper will be debnied sources that cost them scoops. The relationships that the papers build is valuable.
Bloggers report to noone. In some ways that makes them potentially more objective, but because they have no sword hanging over their head they are seen as loose cannons. Justifiably so.
Just like everyone else, the PR guys choose who they respond to. They know it is important to work with the real media and blow off bloggers etc..
If you sell computer parts you suck up to Dell and blow off the Mom & Pop. If you write drivers for your hardware, you write em for XP and Vista and blow off Linux. Why the hell should someone with a blogging account get all uppity?
Sure $5bn is only 1 month of revenue, but it is still a lot of money. It is 2% of market capitalisation which people don't want spent for no reasons.
This also comes at the same time as Zune. The next shareholder's meeting needs a lot of cheerful news to offset Zune. For many years now, Visa has been hyped, and now has had a less-than-stellar delivery. That can make shareholders pissy!
I am looking to buy a MS-based computer for development (I normally use Linux). I'm looking for an XP computer, not a Vista one. The reason: The Microsoft software I want to run does not run on Vista, only on XP!
Anybody that didn't buy a Vista license would, most likely, have bought an XP license if Vista dis not exist. In other words, Vista has not really increased MS revenues.
The big sell is to MS shareholders. Somehow MS must convince the shareholders that the $5bn spent on Vista is going to be a worthwhile investment.
Why does an Australian/Kiwi wear gumboots? So the sheep can't run away when you shag it!
Does this mean sheep shagging is no longer bestiality? OTOH, if it is human, a sheep dies long before reaching the age of consent so you'd get in trouble for sex with a minor.
Hotel parking dude: "Hello sir I need the keys to your car". you:"Sure". Parking dude drives off with car never to be seen again...
With computers there is a difference. People grow up from crawling to understand the physics of hitting their fingers with a hammer etc, but computers are very different. It is very easy to pop up a phishing box that looks just like a legit box from within their computer and exploit people's ignorance.
You need to understand that most people don't understand the boundaries between their computer and "the internet". I often hear how "the computer told me to..." when it was obviously not their computer but something off a dodgy website.
Preying on people's gullibility is not acceptable.
is that bastards that work like this don't get shut down/prosecuted. Yes, users should not be that stupid.
If a girl gets raped when walking through a park alone at night, or after drinking something that a stranger gave her at a party well perhaps she was stupid. That does not let the rapist off the hook!
The form factor of the Psion 7 is great (including instant on etc), but a rejig with new hardware would make a really snappy device that would be great to use.
Definitely should be able to. It might even run a close to regular distro. The only thing getting in the way would be hardware to prevent easy running.
XP is "fat-ass" and needs as much + more resources as Linux does. If it was WinCE, that would be a different matter. Linux runs on any WinCE device, but needs to be ported and crafted (you won't be running KDE etc).
Unlike "real goods" which cost "real money" to make, a Vista product (ie. DVD + packaging) costs virtually nothing. No doubt MS is running sweet deals for retailers to get as many sales as possible.
Apart from generating revenue, MS has to prove to share holders that the $5bn that was spent on Vista development was worth doing and they can only do that by showing an increase in sales vs XP. There must be a lot of shareholders wondering whether it would have been better to just put the money in the bank and ride XP for longer. After all, anyone not buying Vista would still buy XP, so what motivates spending $5bn?
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Their roaring success: DOS + Windows was not achieved by taking away market share from others (ie. Apple etc), but by going into a new market. They used illegal means to get Office in place.
Whenever they have tried to eat into an existing market where they cannot leverage Windows they have failed miserably: Zune, MSN, .... Their aquisitions are much the same: hotmail...
Doubleclick is likely to end up on the junk pile too.
Russion is like Russion fusion. The satellite was powered by a Russian fusion reactor.
Geez folks, everyone's been dumping garbage in space. Why blame the Russians?
Bloggers report to noone. In some ways that makes them potentially more objective, but because they have no sword hanging over their head they are seen as loose cannons. Justifiably so.
By using a GA to change the bitstream, you can have evolving hardware. If the GA is itself in the hardware then it is self evolving.
If you sell computer parts you suck up to Dell and blow off the Mom & Pop. If you write drivers for your hardware, you write em for XP and Vista and blow off Linux. Why the hell should someone with a blogging account get all uppity?
was written in such simple language that even a model could understand it.
No I can count up to five, even with one hand busy!
Really good blogging and podcasting etc are the result of good editing. Encouraging volume goes against that.
With all those "though controls computer" experiments out there http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/16/g-tecs-thought- control-hat/, you should soon be able to monitor BadPeople thoughts. No need to wait until they walk funny, just nail them.
The flash parts used in these devices can only program approx 10k times before they can be expected to start failing.
This also comes at the same time as Zune. The next shareholder's meeting needs a lot of cheerful news to offset Zune. For many years now, Visa has been hyped, and now has had a less-than-stellar delivery. That can make shareholders pissy!
The same goes for any brand or buying a small development company or whatever.
I am looking to buy a MS-based computer for development (I normally use Linux). I'm looking for an XP computer, not a Vista one. The reason: The Microsoft software I want to run does not run on Vista, only on XP!
The big sell is to MS shareholders. Somehow MS must convince the shareholders that the $5bn spent on Vista is going to be a worthwhile investment.
A $1M diamond is just bloatware.
Does this mean sheep shagging is no longer bestiality? OTOH, if it is human, a sheep dies long before reaching the age of consent so you'd get in trouble for sex with a minor.
With computers there is a difference. People grow up from crawling to understand the physics of hitting their fingers with a hammer etc, but computers are very different. It is very easy to pop up a phishing box that looks just like a legit box from within their computer and exploit people's ignorance.
You need to understand that most people don't understand the boundaries between their computer and "the internet". I often hear how "the computer told me to ..." when it was obviously not their computer but something off a dodgy website.
Preying on people's gullibility is not acceptable.
Once this technology drops to $500 or so, the major use will be for voyeurism. Porn drives the internet.
You can run Linux with a lightweight software combo too (eg. http://www.puppylinux.org/).
If a girl gets raped when walking through a park alone at night, or after drinking something that a stranger gave her at a party well perhaps she was stupid. That does not let the rapist off the hook!
The form factor of the Psion 7 is great (including instant on etc), but a rejig with new hardware would make a really snappy device that would be great to use.
XP is "fat-ass" and needs as much + more resources as Linux does. If it was WinCE, that would be a different matter. Linux runs on any WinCE device, but needs to be ported and crafted (you won't be running KDE etc).
and got turned into oil. That's where fossil fuel comes from.
Apart from generating revenue, MS has to prove to share holders that the $5bn that was spent on Vista development was worth doing and they can only do that by showing an increase in sales vs XP. There must be a lot of shareholders wondering whether it would have been better to just put the money in the bank and ride XP for longer. After all, anyone not buying Vista would still buy XP, so what motivates spending $5bn?