Man, you feel strongly about this issue. Jolla doesn't have to care. They will make phones appropriate for the markets they can get into the most easily, and make some starter money, and build their business from there. They don't have to conquer the world on the first day.
I have him listed as a foe on my slashdot list. I don't remember why. That is a very short list. I do recall him being something of a blowhard, and a big Microsoft fan.
A couple things. First, it's likely Google has known about this prospect for some time, and it's just us finding out about it now. They all seem like the classy sort of people who could work that out. Second, she already has three hundred million dollars. It seems unlikely she's concerned about her next employer. Agreed though, courtesy is courtesy and two weeks is the expected notice.
She was employee #20 at Google. Her estimated wealth is $300 million. I don't think she needs a parachute. She wants a shot at top dog, and that was the one thing Google couldn't give her.
Well since any new security vulnerabilities will have pretty much been in there for 14 years already, maybe the hackers will lose interest in finding any more of them - especially as it loses market share. Certainly going to the newer version from the same vendor and working through its first six years of vulnerabilities isn't going to make you any more secure.
Skinnable apps allow for easy UI modifications. They have been around for a very long time. It allows users to completely revamp the user interface in any way imaginable, which makes UI changes quite easy and inspires groups of users to contribute ever-better UI design ideas. There is no good reason why Office can't be skinnable, and offer a variety of skins for users who prefer a legacy user interface, or a different one for different situations or whatever.
Google is competing against Apple and Microsoft. These three all have a lot of fans - as in "fanatics". A fanatic is having a reality break. They will go willfully blind to overlook any flaw in the object of their fantasy, and amplify the slightest perceived flaw to high crimes and misdemeanors for no other reason than they want to promote the thing they like and prevent the other thing. Some of these fans work for these companies and are just putting their honest opinions. And then there's the profit motive, and Waggener-Edstrom. All thee have fiends as well who would come in here and bash them for subsidizing elder care or building a solar power plant or some other inescapably wonderful thing.
In life there are no perfect choices. You can't swing around a $100B company and not crush some daisies. People don't post comments to just say "meh" so comment sections naturally pit the fans against the fiends and generate ad clicks off the conflict in a diabolical scheme to get us, the commenters to generate the content that draws the viewers that see the ads that pay the rent for the employees. All three of these companies have fanatics and fiends, good points and bad.
Except Microsoft of course. We know about them.;-)
This woman is brilliant. Maybe she'll find a way. Certainly she won't have any trouble getting the press to show up for her events. Pretty CEO = Lots of clicks, therefore ad views, therefore lots of coverage. So whatever they do she won't have a hard time letting people know about it. She should exploit that as much as possible. Slashdot may as well add an icon of her mug right now.
She should also go over the top with the Community partnership, green energy, great Place to work, human interest type articles. Maybe fly a few columnists out at a time, all the time to bring Yahoo home to the local communities they serve all over the world - have an office dedicated to that. Build the community love.
Sales and process types wind up at the top of corporations after a while, and Yahoo's got more than a few of those. It probably won't take her long to find out which ones are stuffed shirts with empty hats. That part is easy. Finding the right people to sit in those chairs is hard.
Oh yeah. That's why Google completely pulled out of China over censorship and spying on their users, sending political activists and just normal people talking about forbidden subjects to work camps. Bing and Yahoo were quick to fill evil gap for them.
unlike Linux where every app has its own look and feel... this one will actually integrate well with the Windows 8 look.
That Windows 8 look and feel will be horribly out of place on XP, Vista, Windows 7.
Gee, what if apps were skinnable and people could make them look like whatever they want? And then they came with skins appropriate for the OS you want to run them on, and the UI presentation you prefer from previous versions. Wouldn't that be amazingly clever, innovative, forward thinking...
We're not paying the interest on the debt. We're reborrowing it again. There's no plan to pay that either. When China figures this out they're going to be really mad. They've been shipping us real manufactured goods for many years, and in return we've been shipping them fictional binary switches representing copies of nicely printed tissues of no inherent value. It's the Manhattan beads thing all over again.
DMCA is for criminalizing the circumvention of DRM. The US Attorney prosecuting Kim Dotcom is Neil H. MacBride, former Microsoft meatpuppet as VP and chief counsel of the Business Software Alliance. Please do try to keep up.
So have I, and this is great if they're talking with somebody who knows sign language. I was hoping for a solution that lets them talk on the phone to everybody else, like when they get a voice call from somebody who doesn't speak sign.. I wasn't asking for a sign-language to some spoken language with visual to speech recognition translator though - I know that's a long way off. Some day though...
A universal speech translator, so I could talk with people I don't share a common language with would be nice also.
Quite the interesting comment there. Nicely done. I don't get quite so many from the 'softy fans as I used to back in the day. Maybe I should try to be more polite.
Some eight years ago a laptop and desktop came to have the capabilities almost anybody needs.
Citation needed.
It was plenty. Eight years ago was 2004. We were on Dothan by then, and the last Prescott, which means PCIe and SATA to erase the bandwidth bottleneck. Two years later was even better as we got a major leap just then. These were (are!) killer chips for software that isn't utter crud given a decent GPU. XP on these is still a great experience - especially if you match them with SSD storage. Linux on them is a great environment, and I suspect W8 will be too, though I haven't fully put it through my compatibility lab yet. Vista of course was unsatisfactory, but W7 was somewhat better and the W8 preview practically flies. I'm actually writing this on a laptop from this era - upgraded some of course . I have a more recent one but manufacturers have gone to very poor display resolution because of HDTV economies of scale and I keep that one in reserve for when I need the HDMI out or have to run virtual machines. I have no idea what sort of citation you're looking for here. This isn't some debatable thing that is even possibly in doubt.
You just contradicted your earlier statement about increased bloat in Windows.
No I didn't. For 25 years the saying has been "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away." It was working for the two of them. It has changed, and Microsoft has reportedly decided to come out with a thinner, lighter OS with Windows 8. They've killed Aero, for example, which will be fabulous for VDI. While I doubt it goes as far as Linux or BSD in this direction, reports are that it is so much thinner and lighter than W7 that it's like getting a PC upgrade to install it. My own experience seems to agree somewhat, and it seems likely the golden image when it drops will be even better. This is of course not going to help Intel: they would be down to capacitor failure incidence to force hardware upgrades, and capacitors have better lifetimes now than they did a few years ago. I'm not a big fan of W8 for other reasons, but Microsoft appears to at least have discovered a need for performance optimization that is death to Intel's upgrade cycles - and if it isn't a winner Intel isn't going to move a lot of desktop chips anyway as OEM PC sales crash again as they did with Vista before the "downgrade rights" stopgap. The change to this dynamic was quite exactly my point, and you missed it.
I'm not even exaggerating, Intel's revenue is about 50 billion compared to ARM's 500 million!
ARM's profits are adequate for their tiny staff. On a per-employee basis they make far more than Intel. By licensing the IP they allow a bigger share to their manufacturing partners like Samsung, nVidia and Apple who, if I recall correctly, are doing quite well these days. By leaving room for partner profits they benefit from having many successful partners. Somebody believes in ARM Holdings, Inc. ARMH P/E is 52 - 5x Intel's, which is an expression of the market's general confidence in their prospects for the future. ARM doesn't just design IP for mobile clients though - they do embedded devices, routers and switches, the iLO on the latest HP servers, their own server designs are in wide trials. Far more ARM processors ship today than Intel processors do - and this has always been true. You will be tempted to say, I'm sure, that Samsung is the only profitable one and if I were you I wouldn't go there because it's provably untrue.
I doubt they're worried about ARM.
This was the point of my post. I doubt it too and that makes me concerned because as I said, I am an Intel fan. They should be worried, and they should have started being worried long ago -
I would like to see some sort of smartphone for the deaf and maybe the mute - that translates inbound speech into text, and perhaps can perform text to speech so these folks can use the smartphone to communicate.
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OK that was funny.
Man, you feel strongly about this issue. Jolla doesn't have to care. They will make phones appropriate for the markets they can get into the most easily, and make some starter money, and build their business from there. They don't have to conquer the world on the first day.
I have him listed as a foe on my slashdot list. I don't remember why. That is a very short list. I do recall him being something of a blowhard, and a big Microsoft fan.
You know what irony is? It's why I don't see a * up there by your UID.
A couple things. First, it's likely Google has known about this prospect for some time, and it's just us finding out about it now. They all seem like the classy sort of people who could work that out. Second, she already has three hundred million dollars. It seems unlikely she's concerned about her next employer. Agreed though, courtesy is courtesy and two weeks is the expected notice.
This is what seems likely to me also. No chair throwing involved.
Ballmer, don't you have a meeting with Elop or something to attend to?
She was employee #20 at Google. Her estimated wealth is $300 million. I don't think she needs a parachute. She wants a shot at top dog, and that was the one thing Google couldn't give her.
Well since any new security vulnerabilities will have pretty much been in there for 14 years already, maybe the hackers will lose interest in finding any more of them - especially as it loses market share. Certainly going to the newer version from the same vendor and working through its first six years of vulnerabilities isn't going to make you any more secure.
Skinnable apps allow for easy UI modifications. They have been around for a very long time. It allows users to completely revamp the user interface in any way imaginable, which makes UI changes quite easy and inspires groups of users to contribute ever-better UI design ideas. There is no good reason why Office can't be skinnable, and offer a variety of skins for users who prefer a legacy user interface, or a different one for different situations or whatever.
Did you try the obvious place? Last post August 4, 2011. Quite the funny character.
Google is competing against Apple and Microsoft. These three all have a lot of fans - as in "fanatics". A fanatic is having a reality break. They will go willfully blind to overlook any flaw in the object of their fantasy, and amplify the slightest perceived flaw to high crimes and misdemeanors for no other reason than they want to promote the thing they like and prevent the other thing. Some of these fans work for these companies and are just putting their honest opinions. And then there's the profit motive, and Waggener-Edstrom. All thee have fiends as well who would come in here and bash them for subsidizing elder care or building a solar power plant or some other inescapably wonderful thing.
In life there are no perfect choices. You can't swing around a $100B company and not crush some daisies. People don't post comments to just say "meh" so comment sections naturally pit the fans against the fiends and generate ad clicks off the conflict in a diabolical scheme to get us, the commenters to generate the content that draws the viewers that see the ads that pay the rent for the employees. All three of these companies have fanatics and fiends, good points and bad.
Except Microsoft of course. We know about them. ;-)
This woman is brilliant. Maybe she'll find a way. Certainly she won't have any trouble getting the press to show up for her events. Pretty CEO = Lots of clicks, therefore ad views, therefore lots of coverage. So whatever they do she won't have a hard time letting people know about it. She should exploit that as much as possible. Slashdot may as well add an icon of her mug right now.
She should also go over the top with the Community partnership, green energy, great Place to work, human interest type articles. Maybe fly a few columnists out at a time, all the time to bring Yahoo home to the local communities they serve all over the world - have an office dedicated to that. Build the community love.
Sales and process types wind up at the top of corporations after a while, and Yahoo's got more than a few of those. It probably won't take her long to find out which ones are stuffed shirts with empty hats. That part is easy. Finding the right people to sit in those chairs is hard.
Oh yeah. That's why Google completely pulled out of China over censorship and spying on their users, sending political activists and just normal people talking about forbidden subjects to work camps. Bing and Yahoo were quick to fill evil gap for them.
So that's where he went...
Are some bits going to rust off or something? Software doesn't wear out.
These are all horrible, horrible things to do.
unlike Linux where every app has its own look and feel ... this one will actually integrate well with the Windows 8 look.
That Windows 8 look and feel will be horribly out of place on XP, Vista, Windows 7.
Gee, what if apps were skinnable and people could make them look like whatever they want? And then they came with skins appropriate for the OS you want to run them on, and the UI presentation you prefer from previous versions. Wouldn't that be amazingly clever, innovative, forward thinking...
We're not paying the interest on the debt. We're reborrowing it again. There's no plan to pay that either. When China figures this out they're going to be really mad. They've been shipping us real manufactured goods for many years, and in return we've been shipping them fictional binary switches representing copies of nicely printed tissues of no inherent value. It's the Manhattan beads thing all over again.
DMCA is for criminalizing the circumvention of DRM. The US Attorney prosecuting Kim Dotcom is Neil H. MacBride, former Microsoft meatpuppet as VP and chief counsel of the Business Software Alliance. Please do try to keep up.
So have I, and this is great if they're talking with somebody who knows sign language. I was hoping for a solution that lets them talk on the phone to everybody else, like when they get a voice call from somebody who doesn't speak sign.. I wasn't asking for a sign-language to some spoken language with visual to speech recognition translator though - I know that's a long way off. Some day though...
A universal speech translator, so I could talk with people I don't share a common language with would be nice also.
Quite the interesting comment there. Nicely done. I don't get quite so many from the 'softy fans as I used to back in the day. Maybe I should try to be more polite.
Some eight years ago a laptop and desktop came to have the capabilities almost anybody needs.
Citation needed.
It was plenty. Eight years ago was 2004. We were on Dothan by then, and the last Prescott, which means PCIe and SATA to erase the bandwidth bottleneck. Two years later was even better as we got a major leap just then. These were (are!) killer chips for software that isn't utter crud given a decent GPU. XP on these is still a great experience - especially if you match them with SSD storage. Linux on them is a great environment, and I suspect W8 will be too, though I haven't fully put it through my compatibility lab yet. Vista of course was unsatisfactory, but W7 was somewhat better and the W8 preview practically flies. I'm actually writing this on a laptop from this era - upgraded some of course . I have a more recent one but manufacturers have gone to very poor display resolution because of HDTV economies of scale and I keep that one in reserve for when I need the HDMI out or have to run virtual machines. I have no idea what sort of citation you're looking for here. This isn't some debatable thing that is even possibly in doubt.
You just contradicted your earlier statement about increased bloat in Windows.
No I didn't. For 25 years the saying has been "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away." It was working for the two of them. It has changed, and Microsoft has reportedly decided to come out with a thinner, lighter OS with Windows 8. They've killed Aero, for example, which will be fabulous for VDI. While I doubt it goes as far as Linux or BSD in this direction, reports are that it is so much thinner and lighter than W7 that it's like getting a PC upgrade to install it. My own experience seems to agree somewhat, and it seems likely the golden image when it drops will be even better. This is of course not going to help Intel: they would be down to capacitor failure incidence to force hardware upgrades, and capacitors have better lifetimes now than they did a few years ago. I'm not a big fan of W8 for other reasons, but Microsoft appears to at least have discovered a need for performance optimization that is death to Intel's upgrade cycles - and if it isn't a winner Intel isn't going to move a lot of desktop chips anyway as OEM PC sales crash again as they did with Vista before the "downgrade rights" stopgap. The change to this dynamic was quite exactly my point, and you missed it.
I'm not even exaggerating, Intel's revenue is about 50 billion compared to ARM's 500 million!
ARM's profits are adequate for their tiny staff. On a per-employee basis they make far more than Intel. By licensing the IP they allow a bigger share to their manufacturing partners like Samsung, nVidia and Apple who, if I recall correctly, are doing quite well these days. By leaving room for partner profits they benefit from having many successful partners. Somebody believes in ARM Holdings, Inc. ARMH P/E is 52 - 5x Intel's, which is an expression of the market's general confidence in their prospects for the future. ARM doesn't just design IP for mobile clients though - they do embedded devices, routers and switches, the iLO on the latest HP servers, their own server designs are in wide trials. Far more ARM processors ship today than Intel processors do - and this has always been true. You will be tempted to say, I'm sure, that Samsung is the only profitable one and if I were you I wouldn't go there because it's provably untrue.
I doubt they're worried about ARM.
This was the point of my post. I doubt it too and that makes me concerned because as I said, I am an Intel fan. They should be worried, and they should have started being worried long ago -
The business model of newspapers died. It's not coming back. It had a long and glorious run, and it's over.
It takes a lot more than that to get a slashdot comment deleted.
I would like to see some sort of smartphone for the deaf and maybe the mute - that translates inbound speech into text, and perhaps can perform text to speech so these folks can use the smartphone to communicate.