Can't wait for one to break down and smash through my roof.
Everyone seems to forget that the predominant failure mode of a car in motion is that it gently rolls to a stop on the side of the road. The predominant failure mode of a flying car in flight is far worse.
You can beat expectations all day long if the expectations are sufficiently low. Beating expectations doesn't mean shit if you are still expected to lose a shitload of money, and you can't convince anyone else to give you more money. It just means you lost a little less than the "analysts" thought you would... but you still lost money. If you are losing money, and nobody is looking to loan you any more because you've been a giant money pit your entire existence with large earth-mover sized equipment dumping stacks of cash into it never to be seen again... well, pretty soon you start "downsizing" in order to just meet payroll and keep the lights on.... much like what TFA is about.
Why buy at a premium now, when their balance sheet is a total mess? Wait for the inevitable implosion and buy the assets for pennies on the dollar. Jettison the horrible management and integrate it into your existing offerings.
You buy healthy companies. Unhealthy ones get scavenged and parted out.
As an aside, the year Apple became profitable after years of bleeding ungodly sums of money was largely on the back of them selling down their holdings in ARM after killing off the Newton. Turns out that they made far more on this joint venture then they ever did with Newton.
Except it really doesn't. You can configure iMac 27" 5K to have a 4GHz 4-core CPU, 2TB "fusion" drive (probably same hybrid thing Microsoft has here), 32GB RAM, and a Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB VRAM for $3400.
That's basically the same machine, except with an Apple logo and OS X instead of Microsoft logos and Windows 10, and no touchscreen. And, the bit that makes the touchscreen even remotely useable was patented by Apple 6 years ago so Microsoft didn't even come up with that - they can just use it through the cross-licensing agreement that the two companies share.
Is the touchscreen and Windows 10 really worth $800?
Note: I don't think he's a madman - he's too smart to actually go down the road to a full-on military engagement against NATO. I do, however, think he is beating the nationalist drum in order to bring back the glory days of the USSR that everyone seems to remember without also remembering the crushing human rights violations, the starvation and bread lines, and the ever-looming threat of nuclear oblivion between the Soviets and the West.
For the millenials that have no idea what Soviet Russia was about: everything sounds nice and rosy until you find yourself being forced into being a farmer because that's what some bureaucrat designated you as. Don't like it? Better not say anything about it, or you're off to a gulag in the next purge.
Manufactured in Israel. If it's an Intel CPU, it was designed in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA (unless it's an ancient Pentium-M). And the fabrication process and fab plant layout was also designed and tested in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA at Intel's D1X facility, as that is exactly what that facility is for - perfecting the fab design for the next node shrink. Just like the D1C and D1D facilities right next to it, which have been converted into manufacturing fabs.
Oh, and if the grandparent poster has an iPhone, the CPU was designed by Apple, in California, USA. The CPU would have been manufactured either by Samsung or TSMC, and not in the US.
They were useless before. Why would the US put interceptor weapons and radar in Eastern Europe to combat weapons that would fly north in order to hit the US?
Anyone that has bothered to look at a globe could see that these sites are meant for intercepting stuff coming from the middle east. (read: Iran)
It can still be a conspiracy if every single person isn't involved. Just because some media companies are complicit and others aren't doesn't mean it isn't happening.
People will fork out a few hundred every few years because the last trinket they bought has been obsoleted by the manufacturer prematurely, either by making the latest software run like shit (Apple, Google Nexus) or by never releasing updates to begin with even if there are egregious security problems (most of the rest of Android).
Hardware can't be remotely upgraded over Wi-Fi - there is a measure of lock-in there that cannot be dealt with.
Yeah, this seems to be the excuse that supporters of a certain candidate they like.
A leader isn't one who exclusively follows polls. A leader is one who sees what is right, and gets the polls to follow them.
Example: Where was Hillary on gay marriage? Following the pack until the polls shifted, then she ran out front and claimed she was always there, when in reality she was one of the last Democrats to get on board. Even Obama beat her to that one, and he was outed by Biden.
Where is this free Linux cloud service where I can stand up entire enterprise architectures and applications securely, robustly, with fault tolerance and multi-zone availability? How have I not heard of this service before?
Oh, because it doesn't exist and you couldn't even be bothered to read through the first 4 words of the god damn title, much less the summary.
It's like Pavlov and his dogs - the word Microsoft shows up on this site and people just start hitting submit.
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Wow, so I guess the Sennheiser bluetooth headphones that I am using with my iPhone 7+ right now isn't actually happening, because you say so.
Or, you're completely wrong. Perhaps lying for some purpose I can't undertstand.
... except for literally ANY BLUETOOTH HEADPHONE EVER.
Please at least try to know something about the products before complaining about problems that just don't exist.
Can't wait for one to break down and smash through my roof.
Everyone seems to forget that the predominant failure mode of a car in motion is that it gently rolls to a stop on the side of the road. The predominant failure mode of a flying car in flight is far worse.
You can beat expectations all day long if the expectations are sufficiently low. Beating expectations doesn't mean shit if you are still expected to lose a shitload of money, and you can't convince anyone else to give you more money. It just means you lost a little less than the "analysts" thought you would... but you still lost money. If you are losing money, and nobody is looking to loan you any more because you've been a giant money pit your entire existence with large earth-mover sized equipment dumping stacks of cash into it never to be seen again... well, pretty soon you start "downsizing" in order to just meet payroll and keep the lights on. ... much like what TFA is about.
Why buy at a premium now, when their balance sheet is a total mess? Wait for the inevitable implosion and buy the assets for pennies on the dollar. Jettison the horrible management and integrate it into your existing offerings.
You buy healthy companies. Unhealthy ones get scavenged and parted out.
ARM was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Apple, VLSI, and Acorn Computers - they needed a low power CPU for Newton. Apple uses the ARM instruction set, but designs their own SoC and has it manufactured to their spec. It helps explain why iPhone is so much faster than Android phones in benchmarks unless the Android OEM cheats.
As an aside, the year Apple became profitable after years of bleeding ungodly sums of money was largely on the back of them selling down their holdings in ARM after killing off the Newton. Turns out that they made far more on this joint venture then they ever did with Newton.
Except it really doesn't. You can configure iMac 27" 5K to have a 4GHz 4-core CPU, 2TB "fusion" drive (probably same hybrid thing Microsoft has here), 32GB RAM, and a Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB VRAM for $3400.
That's basically the same machine, except with an Apple logo and OS X instead of Microsoft logos and Windows 10, and no touchscreen. And, the bit that makes the touchscreen even remotely useable was patented by Apple 6 years ago so Microsoft didn't even come up with that - they can just use it through the cross-licensing agreement that the two companies share.
Is the touchscreen and Windows 10 really worth $800?
You're talking like Putin isn't the madman.
Note: I don't think he's a madman - he's too smart to actually go down the road to a full-on military engagement against NATO. I do, however, think he is beating the nationalist drum in order to bring back the glory days of the USSR that everyone seems to remember without also remembering the crushing human rights violations, the starvation and bread lines, and the ever-looming threat of nuclear oblivion between the Soviets and the West.
For the millenials that have no idea what Soviet Russia was about: everything sounds nice and rosy until you find yourself being forced into being a farmer because that's what some bureaucrat designated you as. Don't like it? Better not say anything about it, or you're off to a gulag in the next purge.
Manufactured in Israel. If it's an Intel CPU, it was designed in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA (unless it's an ancient Pentium-M). And the fabrication process and fab plant layout was also designed and tested in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA at Intel's D1X facility, as that is exactly what that facility is for - perfecting the fab design for the next node shrink. Just like the D1C and D1D facilities right next to it, which have been converted into manufacturing fabs.
Oh, and if the grandparent poster has an iPhone, the CPU was designed by Apple, in California, USA. The CPU would have been manufactured either by Samsung or TSMC, and not in the US.
They were useless before. Why would the US put interceptor weapons and radar in Eastern Europe to combat weapons that would fly north in order to hit the US?
Anyone that has bothered to look at a globe could see that these sites are meant for intercepting stuff coming from the middle east. (read: Iran)
People don't seem to have a short attention span when it comes to colossal screw-ups. See: Apple's "you're holding it wrong"
Or do people around here just remember Apple's colossal screw-ups and give everyone else a pass, like some kind of golf handicap?
80% of Congress lying leaves a little over 100 elected Represenatives and Senators that don't lie.
You really think there are that many? I don't. Not an ice cream cone's chance in hell.
So it's ok for someone to be a lying piece of shit, if someone else is also a lying piece of shit.
I think I'll choose a third option, thank you.
Yeah, because words don't have different meanings in different contexts, ever.
Hint: "portrait mode" is fairly descriptive in a camera application
It can still be a conspiracy if every single person isn't involved. Just because some media companies are complicit and others aren't doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Yeah, I'm not sure how he gets "omg software innovation is amazing" from Slack or Dropbox.
Look! We can make IRC and FTP pretty! Innovative!
People will fork out a few hundred every few years because the last trinket they bought has been obsoleted by the manufacturer prematurely, either by making the latest software run like shit (Apple, Google Nexus) or by never releasing updates to begin with even if there are egregious security problems (most of the rest of Android).
Hardware can't be remotely upgraded over Wi-Fi - there is a measure of lock-in there that cannot be dealt with.
I just love how the examples of amazing software innovation given are Slack and Dropbox - Web 2.0 versions of IRC and anonymous FTP.
How about an original idea? Do those even exist anymore?
Now, have you ever seen someone wearing a watch that didn't work as a timepiece?
Yep. Any smart watch user late in the day, who doesn't keep a charger with them 24/7. Because every one of them has shit battery life.
Use case two: you are on a motorcycle, and want to use Google Maps.
Yes, this is an edge case that isn't anywhere close to justifying the asking price of one of these devices.
Yeah, this seems to be the excuse that supporters of a certain candidate they like.
A leader isn't one who exclusively follows polls. A leader is one who sees what is right, and gets the polls to follow them.
Example: Where was Hillary on gay marriage? Following the pack until the polls shifted, then she ran out front and claimed she was always there, when in reality she was one of the last Democrats to get on board. Even Obama beat her to that one, and he was outed by Biden.
Man. That's great.
Where is this free Linux cloud service where I can stand up entire enterprise architectures and applications securely, robustly, with fault tolerance and multi-zone availability? How have I not heard of this service before?
Oh, because it doesn't exist and you couldn't even be bothered to read through the first 4 words of the god damn title, much less the summary.
It's like Pavlov and his dogs - the word Microsoft shows up on this site and people just start hitting submit.
And Scotland had their own "Stay" versus "Leave" vote, and decided to stay.
Your point, please?
Because Microsoft absolutely isn't using Brexit as an excuse to hike prices.
Don't forget that believing in this science is good, but SCIENCE IS EVIL when it comes to NUCLEAR POWER and GMO FOODS! Fuck THAT science!
Brought to you by cherry-picking facts and information that align with your own narrow-minded beliefs, and hand-waiving everything else away.