The expensive high-tech toy has to hit retail shelves no later then mid-October.
You must make your Black Friday targets because sales will tank after New Year's Day. That means the Steam console is at least a year off, if it materializes at all.
Steam has been a great success in PC gaming --- but console gaming is a very different world. More couch-casual and couch-social. You are most likely to be playing cooperatively or competitively with friends and family in your own living room then engaging with anonymous online partners or opponents.
Making your mark in hardware sales can burn through mountains of cash in no time flat with very little to show for it.
Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. Tami Reller retains her roles as chief financial officer and chief marketing officer and will assume responsibility for the business of Windows.
Isn't the more important story here the rise of two women to senior positions in management and engineering at Microsoft?
The software and semiconductor sectors have the lowest percentages of women among the five highest-paid executives in a company, with 4.4 percent and 2.7 percent
Julie Larson-Green is no slouch when it comes to logging the years and time at Microsoft. She joined the company 19 years ago as a program manager for Visual C++ and has worked her way up through the ranks.
Larson-Green worked hand-in-hand with Sinofsky on Microsoft Office. Before that she worked on Microsoft SharePoint and Internet Explorer. She actually led one of the most dramatic redesigns at the company when she worked on the so-called ribbon interface in Office.
''I don't even know how to explain how amazing and exciting that is to every woman who works in tech right now and probably in business across the board,'' said Michele Weisblatt, executive vice president for Women in Technology International.
''It"s not just about (the company) putting them over a division, it's about them leading the flagship product --- the money-making, revenue piece for Microsoft. It's just phenomenal.''
Women hold just a quarter of computing and mathematical jobs in the U.S., according to a 2008 report on women in technology from Catalyst, a nonprofit research organization.
''Microsoft's move is important because of its visibility as a technology and corporate giant, so girls in school who see women like Larson-Green and Reller move into such high-profile roles will carry that with them for a lifetime,''said Jenny Slade, a spokeswoman for the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Too late for criticizing now, someone has or someones have already been bribed...
"Your day in court, how did it go?"
"Someone got to the judge."
"The city council turned against you as well?"
"The same. It's all a racket,you know --- another big payoff."
It's the argument the geek whenever he is on the losing side of an encounter with the law, government or politics --- and it alienates people he desperately needs to win over.
And since the Constitution is about the rights of people and government, I also presume that the right pertains to people - not organizations. Organizations are not people, just as a pack of dogs is not a dog
"The cheese stands alone."
People organize because they are sociable. They organize because they have needs and values in common. They organize because there is strength in numbers. They organize because they neded able and effective advocates.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association are profoundly connected.
'Fifty years ago someone would have made a really offensive comment in a public space and it would have been heard by relatively few people,' said Mike Harris of free-speech group Index on Censorship
Fifty years ago would be 1962.
Radio and television broadcasters have been operating on a national and international scale since the 1920s. Newspapers and magazines since the invention of the telegraph.
Each had to come to terms with legal and ethical restraints on what could be published in an age of instant mass communication.
Statcounter and Net Applications are in agreement that the IE browser remains a strong global competitor on the laptop/desktop. Net Applications draws its stats from sites which have deep penetration into the mass consumer market.
[FYI: Net Applications posts a.41% share for Windows 8 and a 1% share for Linux. Not too shabby for an OS the geek claims no one is using.]
Note: W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser alternatives.
Tip: Global averages may not be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract hobbyists using old computers.
While it's great that it has better support, the fact that Microsoft doesn't roll out updates for the browser after release is just plain bad, meaning it will alway stay at 320
The debacle of Vista would have killed most other tech companies, but thanks to inertia and near-total monopoly, Microsoft had room to breathe while it fixed its messes.
Vista peaked with a global market share of 20 to 25 percent.
Not half bad considering that most installs can be traced back to the retail purchase of a fairly muscular and expensive 64 bit OEM Home Premium system bundle.
- Add/remove repositories for the package manager
- Install local packages using only the installation tools
- Unpack archives manually or otherwise manually add software to the system
- Compile your own software
The geek will put up with this nonsense. No one else. Not in this century.
The moment a *NIX based OS reaches out for mass market acceptance the repository becomes an App Store with a user-friendly GUI. The old tools may still be there, but no one but a geek will ever use them.
In touch based mobile, the alternatives you suggest are ludicrous.
As the Western Roman Empire fragmented and collapsed in the 5th century, the Eastern Roman Empire continued to thrive, existing for more than a thousand years until 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe.
Well even though I like (the) relatively new Unity interface, a lot of other people really don't. I think that mostly it's because while Unity is great for new users who aren't especially computer savvy, a lot of Linux professionals find it gets in the way -- and, of course, experienced old Linux hands are exactly the kind of people who visit DistroWatch.
That said, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth thinks the operating system will see 20 million new PCs sold with Ubuntu in 2012, and that's not counting people who install it. Those people will also largely be new computer users. If Ubuntu can get most of the new users coming to Linux, I think they'll be happy even if they're no longer as popular with old-guard Linux desktop users.
At first I thought I clicked on the wrong bookmark, but the style and appearance sure looks like Slashdot, however to content is apparently completely random international news.
The geek tends to believe in the technocratic notion that his specialist skills place him above the law and other social norms.
It's useful corrective to be reminded now and again that it just ain't so,
I'm wandering around various stores laughing at these 'Smart TVs' with stuff like YouTube and Netflix on them and thinking to myself 'What happens when this needs a major update in a couple of years, someone changes their interfaces or Netflix goes bust?'
You'll shop the app store or download the firmware upgrade just as you do now with your video game console or set top box.
The only idea that's sure to work is to move the city to a safer location. Or at least the parts of it most suseptible to flooding. perhaps it's because we're talking about rich white guys now instead of poor black people that we should expend billions fortifying and rebuilding those neighborhoods?
You do know that Harlem is Uptown Manhattan, right? North of Central Park?
That Manhattan Island alone has a population of 1.6 million, Long Island 7.6 million and metro New York City as a whole, 22 million?
'If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years,' writes Antonio Regalado, 'you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Ford's Model-T production line, or even the bicycle. The list goes on. Now answer this one: what's been the single biggest innovation in education? Don't worry if you come up blank. You're supposed to.'
The public school expands beyond New England and its Puritan religious roots,
The American "Red Brick" High School, vocational school and the land grant Agricultural College.
Correspondence courses and adult education
The rise of the sciences in post secondary education
The education of women, and the entry of the women into the professions.
Pre-school education and Sesame Street
The way Regalado frames the question almost insures that the techno-geek will come up blank.
The first academically credentialed correspondence courses date back to London in the 1850s. The Chautauqua Institution was reaching out to rural women in the 1880s. Radio was experimenting with "distance learning" in the 1920s.
We have engineered a law to protect ourselves from competition, and since we choose not to sell their product, we can use this law to keep them from selling their product either!"
You do understand that Tesla wants a monopoly on Tesla sales --- which, for all practical purposes, will give it a monopoly in the maintenance and service of the Tesla, and, quite likely, a monopoly in used car sales of the Tesla as well?
I can think of no other industry where it's in fact *illegal* for a manufacturer to sell their own product directly to consumers.
The motion picture industry was vertically integrated until 1948. MGM and Lowe's at the top. Paramount and Warner Brothers lower down. If you wanted decent exposure for your independent production you had to cut a deal with the majors.
Slashdot Mirror
The expensive high-tech toy has to hit retail shelves no later then mid-October.
You must make your Black Friday targets because sales will tank after New Year's Day. That means the Steam console is at least a year off, if it materializes at all.
Steam has been a great success in PC gaming --- but console gaming is a very different world. More couch-casual and couch-social. You are most likely to be playing cooperatively or competitively with friends and family in your own living room then engaging with anonymous online partners or opponents.
Making your mark in hardware sales can burn through mountains of cash in no time flat with very little to show for it.
It takes guts to stay the course,
Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. Tami Reller retains her roles as chief financial officer and chief marketing officer and will assume responsibility for the business of Windows.
Isn't the more important story here the rise of two women to senior positions in management and engineering at Microsoft?
The software and semiconductor sectors have the lowest percentages of women among the five highest-paid executives in a company, with 4.4 percent and 2.7 percent
Where Are the Women Executives in Silicon Valley?
Julie Larson-Green is no slouch when it comes to logging the years and time at Microsoft. She joined the company 19 years ago as a program manager for Visual C++ and has worked her way up through the ranks.
Larson-Green worked hand-in-hand with Sinofsky on Microsoft Office. Before that she worked on Microsoft SharePoint and Internet Explorer. She actually led one of the most dramatic redesigns at the company when she worked on the so-called ribbon interface in Office.
The Woman Behind Windows
''I don't even know how to explain how amazing and exciting that is to every woman who works in tech right now and probably in business across the board,'' said Michele Weisblatt, executive vice president for Women in Technology International.
''It"s not just about (the company) putting them over a division, it's about them leading the flagship product --- the money-making, revenue piece for Microsoft. It's just phenomenal.''
Women hold just a quarter of computing and mathematical jobs in the U.S., according to a 2008 report on women in technology from Catalyst, a nonprofit research organization.
''Microsoft's move is important because of its visibility as a technology and corporate giant, so girls in school who see women like Larson-Green and Reller move into such high-profile roles will carry that with them for a lifetime,''said Jenny Slade, a spokeswoman for the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Women rising in the ranks at tech companies
Too late for criticizing now, someone has or someones have already been bribed...
"Your day in court, how did it go?"
"Someone got to the judge."
"The city council turned against you as well?"
"The same. It's all a racket ,you know --- another big payoff."
It's the argument the geek whenever he is on the losing side of an encounter with the law, government or politics --- and it alienates people he desperately needs to win over.
Easy to make yourself, should be easy to attach to a book (or not, maybe just have it loose between the cover and first page
First editions, remember. Collectible editions.
Deface or damage a book and its resale value will plummet to the garage sale price.
And since the Constitution is about the rights of people and government, I also presume that the right pertains to people - not organizations. Organizations are not people, just as a pack of dogs is not a dog
"The cheese stands alone."
People organize because they are sociable. They organize because they have needs and values in common. They organize because there is strength in numbers. They organize because they neded able and effective advocates.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association are profoundly connected.
'Fifty years ago someone would have made a really offensive comment in a public space and it would have been heard by relatively few people,' said Mike Harris of free-speech group Index on Censorship
Fifty years ago would be 1962.
Radio and television broadcasters have been operating on a national and international scale since the 1920s. Newspapers and magazines since the invention of the telegraph.
Each had to come to terms with legal and ethical restraints on what could be published in an age of instant mass communication.
In frustration, I read the linked article, because I couldn't tell what the actual was about, from the Slashdot summary.
The question I would ask is whether or not the players in these games are drawn from the same culture, political system, and so on.
In other worlds, whether they share the same values.
The same understanding of the issues.
I can tell you pretty much ONLY the SMBs use IE anymore around here and even many of them are moving away from IE
Statcounter Top 5 Browsers
Worldwide
USA
Net Applications
Desktop Browser Market Share
Statcounter and Net Applications are in agreement that the IE browser remains a strong global competitor on the laptop/desktop. Net Applications draws its stats from sites which have deep penetration into the mass consumer market.
[FYI: Net Applications posts a .41% share for Windows 8 and a 1% share for Linux. Not too shabby for an OS the geek claims no one is using.]
w3schools
Browser Statistics
Note: W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser alternatives.
Tip: Global averages may not be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract hobbyists using old computers.
While it's great that it has better support, the fact that Microsoft doesn't roll out updates for the browser after release is just plain bad, meaning it will alway stay at 320
Automatic updates to IE10 are enabled by default.
"Tools > About Internet Explorer"
The debacle of Vista would have killed most other tech companies, but thanks to inertia and near-total monopoly, Microsoft had room to breathe while it fixed its messes.
Vista peaked with a global market share of 20 to 25 percent.
Not half bad considering that most installs can be traced back to the retail purchase of a fairly muscular and expensive 64 bit OEM Home Premium system bundle.
Let's see now, on Ubuntu you can:
- Add/remove repositories for the package manager
- Install local packages using only the installation tools
- Unpack archives manually or otherwise manually add software to the system
- Compile your own software
The geek will put up with this nonsense. No one else. Not in this century.
The moment a *NIX based OS reaches out for mass market acceptance the repository becomes an App Store with a user-friendly GUI. The old tools may still be there, but no one but a geek will ever use them.
In touch based mobile, the alternatives you suggest are ludicrous.
Most cops are corrupt fascists who bully society. Cops are just a gang.
The mod-up to "Informative" comes cheap these days.
After storm, NYC police officers, firefighters leave work to find recovery chaos back home
Think of Rome in its final days.
First question, "What do you mean by "Rome?""
As the Western Roman Empire fragmented and collapsed in the 5th century, the Eastern Roman Empire continued to thrive, existing for more than a thousand years until 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe.
Byzantine Empire
He is complaining about a $3,000 media buy that reaches a targeted audience of 1 million?
If you've just "tried" one, then you really have no room for an opinion.
* by 'all' I mean the variations in desktop UI's... KDE, Gnome, MATE, XFCE, Fluxbox, Windowmaker, and so on and so forth.
No one has time for this.
I hope so, kinda useless otherwise. Of course, only one place to buy that content from.
The are hundreds of thousands of free e-books available for the Kindle.
Free Book Collections
Baen Free Library
Munseys
The chances are quite good that you can borrow e-books formatted for the Kindle through the online services of your local public library:
Nioga Digital Home [Western New York]
And was in first place at least until August 2012
Stephen Vaughan-Nichols of ZD Net went on to say:
Well even though I like (the) relatively new Unity interface, a lot of other people really don't. I think that mostly it's because while Unity is great for new users who aren't especially computer savvy, a lot of Linux professionals find it gets in the way -- and, of course, experienced old Linux hands are exactly the kind of people who visit DistroWatch.
That said, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth thinks the operating system will see 20 million new PCs sold with Ubuntu in 2012, and that's not counting people who install it. Those people will also largely be new computer users. If Ubuntu can get most of the new users coming to Linux, I think they'll be happy even if they're no longer as popular with old-guard Linux desktop users.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-5-most-popular-linux-distributions-7000003183/
Yes, it is. It absorbed a lot of Ubuntu's user base.
I'd like a source for that claim.
Ubuntu's core appeal as a client OS is not to the hardcore FOSS and Linux geek.
In a 2012 Lifehacker poll for Linux distributions, Ubuntu and its variants received 51% of the overall vote, followed by Linux Mint with 16%.
User agent counting suggests Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution for web clients, generating between 0.5%and 0.72 of Internet traffic.
Ubuntu (operating system): Adoption and Reception
At first I thought I clicked on the wrong bookmark, but the style and appearance sure looks like Slashdot, however to content is apparently completely random international news.
The geek tends to believe in the technocratic notion that his specialist skills place him above the law and other social norms.
It's useful corrective to be reminded now and again that it just ain't so,
I'm wandering around various stores laughing at these 'Smart TVs' with stuff like YouTube and Netflix on them and thinking to myself 'What happens when this needs a major update in a couple of years, someone changes their interfaces or Netflix goes bust?'
You'll shop the app store or download the firmware upgrade just as you do now with your video game console or set top box.
The only idea that's sure to work is to move the city to a safer location. Or at least the parts of it most suseptible to flooding. perhaps it's because we're talking about rich white guys now instead of poor black people that we should expend billions fortifying and rebuilding those neighborhoods?
You do know that Harlem is Uptown Manhattan, right? North of Central Park?
That Manhattan Island alone has a population of 1.6 million, Long Island 7.6 million and metro New York City as a whole, 22 million?
If you know there is impending danger, get out of the way.
The population of Staten Island, 470,000. The population of Manhattan Island,1.6 million. The population of Long Island, 7,6 million.
The population of metropolitan New York City, 22 million.
The population of New Orleans before Katrina was pretty much the same as Staten Island today --- just under 500,000.
How do you evacuate 10 to 20 million people? Where do you house them? How do you feed them?
'If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years,' writes Antonio Regalado, 'you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Ford's Model-T production line, or even the bicycle. The list goes on. Now answer this one: what's been the single biggest innovation in education? Don't worry if you come up blank. You're supposed to.'
The public school expands beyond New England and its Puritan religious roots,
The American "Red Brick" High School, vocational school and the land grant Agricultural College.
Correspondence courses and adult education
The rise of the sciences in post secondary education
Experiment and discovery vs. rote memorization
700 Science Experiments For Everyone
The G.I.Bill of Rights.
Brown vs Board of Education
The education of women, and the entry of the women into the professions.
Pre-school education and Sesame Street
The way Regalado frames the question almost insures that the techno-geek will come up blank.
The first academically credentialed correspondence courses date back to London in the 1850s. The Chautauqua Institution was reaching out to rural women in the 1880s. Radio was experimenting with "distance learning" in the 1920s.
We have engineered a law to protect ourselves from competition, and since we choose not to sell their product, we can use this law to keep them from selling their product either!"
You do understand that Tesla wants a monopoly on Tesla sales --- which, for all practical purposes, will give it a monopoly in the maintenance and service of the Tesla, and, quite likely, a monopoly in used car sales of the Tesla as well?
Tesla sets the price and that is that.
I can think of no other industry where it's in fact *illegal* for a manufacturer to sell their own product directly to consumers.
The motion picture industry was vertically integrated until 1948. MGM and Lowe's at the top. Paramount and Warner Brothers lower down. If you wanted decent exposure for your independent production you had to cut a deal with the majors.