Microsoft isn't bleeding. It saw a modest growth in profits in its first quarter of FY 2009. If holiday sales are poor this season. it is far better positioned than most to weather the storm.
Out on the road? Can't find an open WiFi hotspot to check google maps? Solved
I'm betting municipal wireless will be targeting residential neighborhoods, the public parks, libraries. schools, other community facilities and the central business district. But the outer loop? The eight lane expressway? A true mobile service? That strikes me as unlikely. Your best option for a map will remain a GPS.
the greatest danger of applying too many checks to your programmers is not that you'll make them unproductive, but that good programmers won't even want to work for you.'
They may not want to work for you, but, in the present climate, that weekly paycheck counts for something.
We have things like the "fairness doctrine" being kicked around in Congress to censor political speech on radio
The "Fairness Doctrine" never meant that you had to censor political speech.
It only meant that a station had to provide time to those who wanted to present an opposing point of view.
Looking back on the early years of Meet the Price, Edward R Murrow, Huntley-Brinkley, Walter Cromkite, Eric Severeid and others, what I see is a loss in civility, restraint and integrity in public discourse. The late William F Buckley was some light years removed from the populist agent provocateurs of what passes for the right wing talk show now: the Limbaughs, the O'Reillys, and their kind.
The various vendors out there need to realize that Linux may not be the future, but it's a more likely future than Windows.
Net Applications OS Trends [For 1 Dec 2208]
XP 66% -9% [from Jan 08]
Vista 20% + 8%
W2K 2% -1%
OSX Intel 7% +3%
Linux 0.8% +0.2% OSX 2% -1% All others 2% Unchanged Top Operating System Share Trends
The iPhone has 0.4% of the market.
The iPhone as a platform has existed for less than one year. But as a presence on the web it has grown to fully half the size of Linux. Operating System Market Share
The year ends as it began. If you are a hardware vendor in the home and SOHO market, there is little reason for you to look beyond OSX and Windows.
Ford did not have to compete with existing cheap cars. He was the one to pioneer the "cheap car" market.
Oldsmobile pioneered the mass produced car. In My Merry Oldsmobile Then drifted off into the fantasy land of the $4200 touring car in 1910. 725 produced in its three year run. Oldsmobile
Innovations like the electric starter first appeared on the Cadillac, but the market for the grand marque has always been fragile in the states. The Great Depression simply wiped them off the map. I wouldn't be in tbe least surprised to see Tesla cling to its upscale niche until it too has gone bankrupt.
The Prius hybrid lists for $22 K. It is backed by a corporation with enormous financial and industrial resources. I don't see the path to a mass market Tesla.
I've been waiting to read the story about how they've been hacked for years, I'm sure it's day will come...
If you have been waiting for years for Amazon to be hacked --- that tells me something about how well Amazon runs its business. If you don't check the cart before you check-out, that tell me something about you.
Since when did it tske courage to sit at your keyboard playing malacious little psychological games with an emotionally fragile thirteen year old girl?
Perhaps this story hit the geek in you just a little bit too close to home.
No-one is responsible for the death of a person who commits suicide, except the person who commits suicide.
That is far, far, too naive and heartless a response.
Impersonation and malice - the desire and intent to injure a child - as severely as it in your reach to do so - would seem to me to more than sufficient grounds to anchor a felony charge.
It is scarcely a defense in other circumstances to argue that you intended to wound and not to kill.
That it wasn't my fault the girl went into a seizure.
But if we find her body duct taped in your closet, that is all we have to know.
I doubt that anyone's defenses against suicide are so secure that they could not be broken through such a systematic campaign of psychological manipulation and abuse.
The geek seems to cherish the illusion that the Internet can remain the Wild West. But the law always comes to Deadwood and Dodge City.
Taxation is moral only to the extent that the revenues raised are used to secure our rights. As soon as government steps beyond the powers that we have granted to it, it is immoral.
That is all fine and dandy. But powers have to be defined - and notions of what is a legitimate exercise of power and what is not change over time. The American Constitution clearly defines the structure of the government. Its purpose only in the vaguest generalities. That was quite deliberate: The right to act is to be defined by those who govern today and in the future - not by those two hundred years dead. The process of constitutional amendement is difficult and rare. It is the "balance of powers" not an enshrined - one is tempted to say "embalmed" - conservative tradition that is your real defense against abuse. The US has never been conservative in that sense. It is not the Republic of an Edmund Burke.
In that sense, they're really doing what the very first car manufacturers were doing - first make something that generally works, no matter the price; then, develop the technologies to get the price down and expand the target market.
The Ford Model A was an unsophisticated vehicle except where it counted ---
in that tough, damn near indestructible, little four-cylinder engine.
If there are no trained mechanics outside the major cities, than you build a car that doesn't need a trained mechanic.
A car that can be built on an assembly line without skilled labor.
If the roads are mud, you build for mud.
You don't build for speed.
You need only the simplest of transmissions. You need only the simplest of mechanical brakes.
Ford understood that he could leverage the lack of infrastructure to support the automobile to his advantage.
The Ford Model A and Model T were basic transportation.
They were easily and cheaply "modded" into pick-up trucks, delivery fans, campers - anything you needed. The farm tractor. The stationary engine on wheels. It had everything but a PTO.
The railroads put them on tracks. Rural libraries used them as bookmobiles. The shopkeeper put his grocery or general store on wheels.
One traveling evangelist and his wife built a tiny church on a Ford body, and took to the road with a pump organ and a fold-down steeple.
That I would like to have seen, both for its innocence and its imagination.
You're a god damn twit. How do you think Tesla is paying for the R&D needed to make cars for average folks? Through selling cars that are marketed to people who don't care about paying $109K for a car. .
In 1920, there were about 22 million cars on US roads.
15 million of them Fords, with the Chevy moving up fast on the outside. The luxury car is an insignificant part of the total.
The steam and electric car is fifteen year old "luxury car" tech that is fading fast.
Henry Ford financed research by building a car for mass market sales and production. The million-seller generates a nice pile of cash.
The Stanleys produced about 500 handcrafted cars a year in its prime. There is nothing to invest in research. The Steamer doesn't have a condenser until 1915.
But no later than 1910 the horse trough on Main Street has disappeared.
Damn, that explains Alzheimer's and cancer and diabetes and stuff over a hundred years ago
Thwaw are in many ways diseases traditionally associated with old age. If most of your population dies before age fifty, you are not likely to see them listed often as the cause of death. The doctor in 1910 may not be able to advance his diagnosis beyond recording the symptoms and progress of a premature "senile dementia."
But is pay-for-bandwidth even a viable business plan anymore?
You always pay for bandwidth. Music may be less demanding than video - still, the numbers do add up. Both for the listener and the broadcaster. The geek may rant when his broadband service is capped at 250 GB a month. But there are lots of places where you can't get a tenth of that at any price.
I wouldn't argue that in the USA, if Windows is the most used OS, then second place would probably go to OS X on Macs with Linux a fairly close third. However, such is not the case for Europe and, I suspect, much of the rest of the world - Linux is definitely second place to Windows.
and about seventy-five miles back down the road.
The Net Applications webstats are global and show a 0.71% share for Linux. Operating System Market Share There is no way you can massage a statistic so pathetic into something significant.
Valve's games demand significant horsepower. They are not being played on the Linux Netbook or the XO.
You are talking about three wildly different platforms.
Direct X gives you all but a tiny fraction of the PC market and a strong second in the console market. The developer has to decide what best serves his game and his market. The developer has to justify the expense of supporting a second or third platform. The Wii will never be a graphics powerhouse - and OGL can't change that.
If you have any professional experience at all, you'd know that pictures are NEVER taken of actual work. The photos are always staged to look good.
LIFE's photo essays were always scripted before production.
The editors knew the story they wanted to tell and the photographer would be sent out to capture it on film.
He might resent the constraints.
But his logistical and technical problems are mostly solved. People know he is coming, all his ducks are in a row.
He should have no problems making his deadline and if the schedule isn't realistic or he hasn't received the proper clearances, he has the editors to blame.
Consider the lighting and composition in these photographs.
These are not candid shots.
The photograph in the archives is not, of course, the photograph in print. There would have been a dramatic loss of detail.
...he didn't pay much attention to standard values of novels; things like, say, human emotions, fast action, sex, or even much real suspense - the plot is usually "logical" and the real thrill of the reader is being taught the fine details that connect Point A to Point B. A lecturer-style, if you wish.
This is typical of the sci-fi fan who matured in the forties and was still learning his trade as a writer - and it is deadly dull stuff when translated to the big screen. In contrast, Robert Heinlein could seamlessly weave together ideas, action, story, character and tech into something that from the start was quite cinematic - and would be writers like Heinlein and Bradbury who would first escape the pulps.
Just how much money do you think it would take to do Ringworld on the same scale as it exists in most peoples heads when they read science fiction?
Ringworld would be easy: the thing is so damn big you lose all sense of scale. The surface is uniformly lit and appears dead flat for a million miles in any direction. It isn't surprising, really, that the Sci-Fi Channel considered producing a low-budget mini-series a few years back.
Exactly. What I don't understand is why there are no Hollywood studios like Apple. There's one guy at the top, and if he thinks it sucks, then it doesn't go. .
Antitrust.
There was a time when the majors controlled both production and distribution.
For all practical purposes, they owned everything from the lens cap to the popcorn machine.
Each had a distinct corporate identity, which reflected their strength and position in the market.
Their ability to command talent and technical resources.
MGM releases in 1939 included Wuthering Heights, Ninotchka, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind...
A studio like Warner tended be urban and gritty, if only because it didn't have the money to be anything but urban and gritty.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft isn't bleeding. It saw a modest growth in profits in its first quarter of FY 2009. If holiday sales are poor this season. it is far better positioned than most to weather the storm.
I'm betting municipal wireless will be targeting residential neighborhoods, the public parks, libraries. schools, other community facilities and the central business district. But the outer loop? The eight lane expressway? A true mobile service? That strikes me as unlikely. Your best option for a map will remain a GPS.
Microsoft has money to spend and AAA corporate credit. Exxon-Mobil grade credit. Why shouldn't it be out shopping for bargains?
They may not want to work for you, but, in the present climate, that weekly paycheck counts for something.
The "Fairness Doctrine" never meant that you had to censor political speech.
It only meant that a station had to provide time to those who wanted to present an opposing point of view.
Looking back on the early years of Meet the Price, Edward R Murrow, Huntley-Brinkley, Walter Cromkite, Eric Severeid and others, what I see is a loss in civility, restraint and integrity in public discourse. The late William F Buckley was some light years removed from the populist agent provocateurs of what passes for the right wing talk show now: the Limbaughs, the O'Reillys, and their kind.
Net Applications OS Trends [For 1 Dec 2208]
XP 66% -9% [from Jan 08]
Vista 20% + 8%
W2K 2% -1%
OSX Intel 7% +3%
Linux 0.8% +0.2%
OSX 2% -1%
All others 2% Unchanged
Top Operating System Share Trends
The iPhone has 0.4% of the market.
The iPhone as a platform has existed for less than one year. But as a presence on the web it has grown to fully half the size of Linux. Operating System Market Share
The year ends as it began. If you are a hardware vendor in the home and SOHO market, there is little reason for you to look beyond OSX and Windows.
Facts don't seem to be essential to the Slashdot post or nod-up, either.
Oldsmobile pioneered the mass produced car. In My Merry Oldsmobile Then drifted off into the fantasy land of the $4200 touring car in 1910.
725 produced in its three year run. Oldsmobile
Innovations like the electric starter first appeared on the Cadillac, but the market for the grand marque has always been fragile in the states. The Great Depression simply wiped them off the map. I wouldn't be in tbe least surprised to see Tesla cling to its upscale niche until it too has gone bankrupt.
The Prius hybrid lists for $22 K. It is backed by a corporation with enormous financial and industrial resources. I don't see the path to a mass market Tesla.
If you have been waiting for years for Amazon to be hacked --- that tells me something about how well Amazon runs its business. If you don't check the cart before you check-out, that tell me something about you.
I can. This is Slashdot, remember, "News for nerds." Stuff that no one else gives a damn about.
The one who needed to grow a spine was Lori Drew.
Since when did it tske courage to sit at your keyboard playing malacious little psychological games with an emotionally fragile thirteen year old girl?
Perhaps this story hit the geek in you just a little bit too close to home.
and what does this prove other than that Richelieu was a law unto himself? "in the interest of France" and all that.
That is far, far, too naive and heartless a response.
Impersonation and malice - the desire and intent to injure a child - as severely as it in your reach to do so - would seem to me to more than sufficient grounds to anchor a felony charge.
It is scarcely a defense in other circumstances to argue that you intended to wound and not to kill.
That it wasn't my fault the girl went into a seizure.
But if we find her body duct taped in your closet, that is all we have to know.
I doubt that anyone's defenses against suicide are so secure that they could not be broken through such a systematic campaign of psychological manipulation and abuse.
The geek seems to cherish the illusion that the Internet can remain the Wild West. But the law always comes to Deadwood and Dodge City.
The cowboys retire or lie fallow on Boot Hill.
That is all fine and dandy. But powers have to be defined - and notions of what is a legitimate exercise of power and what is not change over time. The American Constitution clearly defines the structure of the government. Its purpose only in the vaguest generalities. That was quite deliberate: The right to act is to be defined by those who govern today and in the future - not by those two hundred years dead. The process of constitutional amendement is difficult and rare. It is the "balance of powers" not an enshrined - one is tempted to say "embalmed" - conservative tradition that is your real defense against abuse. The US has never been conservative in that sense. It is not the Republic of an Edmund Burke.
The Ford Model A was an unsophisticated vehicle except where it counted ---
in that tough, damn near indestructible, little four-cylinder engine.
If there are no trained mechanics outside the major cities, than you build a car that doesn't need a trained mechanic.
A car that can be built on an assembly line without skilled labor.
If the roads are mud, you build for mud.
You don't build for speed.
You need only the simplest of transmissions. You need only the simplest of mechanical brakes.
Ford understood that he could leverage the lack of infrastructure to support the automobile to his advantage.
The Ford Model A and Model T were basic transportation.
They were easily and cheaply "modded" into pick-up trucks, delivery fans, campers - anything you needed. The farm tractor. The stationary engine on wheels. It had everything but a PTO.
The railroads put them on tracks. Rural libraries used them as bookmobiles. The shopkeeper put his grocery or general store on wheels.
One traveling evangelist and his wife built a tiny church on a Ford body, and took to the road with a pump organ and a fold-down steeple.
That I would like to have seen, both for its innocence and its imagination.
.
In 1920, there were about 22 million cars on US roads.
15 million of them Fords, with the Chevy moving up fast on the outside. The luxury car is an insignificant part of the total.
The steam and electric car is fifteen year old "luxury car" tech that is fading fast.
Henry Ford financed research by building a car for mass market sales and production. The million-seller generates a nice pile of cash.
The Stanleys produced about 500 handcrafted cars a year in its prime. There is nothing to invest in research. The Steamer doesn't have a condenser until 1915.
But no later than 1910 the horse trough on Main Street has disappeared.
Thwaw are in many ways diseases traditionally associated with old age. If most of your population dies before age fifty, you are not likely to see them listed often as the cause of death.
The doctor in 1910 may not be able to advance his diagnosis beyond recording the symptoms and progress of a premature "senile dementia."
You always pay for bandwidth. Music may be less demanding than video - still, the numbers do add up. Both for the listener and the broadcaster. The geek may rant when his broadband service is capped at 250 GB a month. But there are lots of places where you can't get a tenth of that at any price.
explain to me how much of a load Aero puts on the system when applications are running.
and about seventy-five miles back down the road.
The Net Applications webstats are global and show a 0.71% share for Linux. Operating System Market Share There is no way you can massage a statistic so pathetic into something significant.
Valve's games demand significant horsepower. They are not being played on the Linux Netbook or the XO.
You are talking about three wildly different platforms.
Direct X gives you all but a tiny fraction of the PC market and a strong second in the console market. The developer has to decide what best serves his game and his market. The developer has to justify the expense of supporting a second or third platform. The Wii will never be a graphics powerhouse - and OGL can't change that.
LIFE's photo essays were always scripted before production.
The editors knew the story they wanted to tell and the photographer would be sent out to capture it on film.
He might resent the constraints.
But his logistical and technical problems are mostly solved. People know he is coming, all his ducks are in a row.
He should have no problems making his deadline and if the schedule isn't realistic or he hasn't received the proper clearances, he has the editors to blame.
Consider the lighting and composition in these photographs.
These are not candid shots.
The photograph in the archives is not, of course, the photograph in print. There would have been a dramatic loss of detail.
This is typical of the sci-fi fan who matured in the forties and was still learning his trade as a writer - and it is deadly dull stuff when translated to the big screen.
In contrast, Robert Heinlein could seamlessly weave together ideas, action, story, character and tech into something that from the start was quite cinematic - and would be writers like Heinlein and Bradbury who would first escape the pulps.
Ringworld would be easy: the thing is so damn big you lose all sense of scale.
The surface is uniformly lit and appears dead flat for a million miles in any direction. It isn't surprising, really, that the Sci-Fi Channel considered producing a low-budget mini-series a few years back.
.
Antitrust.
There was a time when the majors controlled both production and distribution.
For all practical purposes, they owned everything from the lens cap to the popcorn machine.
Each had a distinct corporate identity, which reflected their strength and position in the market.
Their ability to command talent and technical resources.
MGM releases in 1939 included Wuthering Heights, Ninotchka, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind...
A studio like Warner tended be urban and gritty, if only because it didn't have the money to be anything but urban and gritty.