My kids are going through this now. We teach them the alphabet at 6 months, phonetics at 10 months. By two they're reading real books and repairing their own PC. And then they fail the standard test because they won't call out the sounds of letters because to them it's baby talk too embarassing to say. But they can read at a sixth grade level, and write at third - entering kindergarten.
You normals are so fucking retarded. My boy came back from his first day of kindergarten and he had two things to say: "Other people are stupid" and "They don't even have computers". What could I say but "this is how it is. You have to get used to it."
He is who he is, a man. If you make what you are as a people to live and die with a man, then you have chosen your fate because all men die eventually. You know better than that. You've survived 100 iterations of that. What's different now?
That might need some clarification for you norms. The key term is "might". If you were that different from the norms, you would know it. You wouldn't have to have it explained to you. Some of you think you have Aspergers, but you don't. Us Aspies are way different. Hopefully you guys are mature enough now to accept us.
Maybe your feeble attempts to rescue this fucktard have something to do with your work relationship to him. He's in deep. Come swim in the tar with us. I would like that. The tar is warm. come on in.
How the hell I attracted one of the adherents of the Dear Leader, I don't know - but it were in your better interest to let it go. I'm not some blind commentor, and not disposed to let things go. I mentioned Korea in passing and for your own sake you should let it be. If you make a crusade of it, I will sleep comfortably while you pay for your hubris in a camp where rations are let every other week.
If you were a subscriber here on/. you could read back my comment history where I discussed these things at length not only with outside folks like you, but also with the senior Microsoft program manager who initially resisted, and then came around to my point of view after further outside analysis and discussion with internal experts. They didn't do it as thouroughly as I'd have liked, but they did do it. That's how Microsoft came to deprecate Autorun. I did that. Me, and me only. If you're willing to pay ten bucks and a few days to dredge it out of my comment history, more power to ya. This is/. We don't get to edit or retract here.
China's active in this stuff, as is North Korea, several former Soviet Republics, Israel, Western Europe, and most of South America. Well, to be honest, most of the planet, but everywhere else is where some proxies are. You might as well say "I don't know".
The nation-state claim is based on depth of analysis of technologies, leveraging of classified information not known to be leaked, sophistication of attacks. Also maybe on RSA's desire to say "What can we do against a the dedicated resources of a nation-state?"
This idea basically says Uncle Sam doesn't have any folks trolling the dark side of the Internet yet, where folks from all over freely share all sorts of amazing shit. They still don't get it. The dark side is where a lot of really interesting data warehouse technologies come from, years later. Most of these geeks aren't into it to do crime - it's just where the algorithm action is.
It doesn't require a nation-state's resources to do this. Fifty thousand geeks in their mom's basement will do if a hundred of them are Aspies - and they are. They'll do it for the lulz, and on their backtrace they'll drag a red herring across a nation state if it amuses them to do so. Or they'll taint the Church of Scientology instead if that's their thing this week. It would take a nation-state to fund that level of effort, to coordinate that level of action - unless they do it for free for the lulz and the aspies organize it for them for free because it's a puzzle worthy of their attention. No resources are required except the neighbor's open Wifi because Mom provides the Hot Pockets and Mountain Dew.
/Not saying it wasn't a nation-state, but have no faith in the analysis.
I know a few folks working their way up the HP org chart. Yes, there's more than a little truth in what you say. And there's a lot more "run & gun" in the sales crew than in the labs where it should be. The Touchpad was clearly very close to what they needed, but the vision just wasn't there. I think if they'd pre-released WebOS as a free Windows app that would have gone much better, as people could test-drive it before they ordered it. Too late now though.
I'd like to see them get back to their innovative roots too. And I think they have to cast off the PC for a while to get there. The PC just has no room to maneuver.
It's not easy to scale an operation the size of HP's PC setup down to something on the scale you might expect to move that sort of gear just yet. If you're buying an org, you should buy one closer to the right size for what you want to do and build it with demand. "Don't be evil" includes little stuff like "don't buy a massive global corporation and throw 90 percent of its employees out of work as you part it out for scrap."
Don't know how well Google would take to being the world's largest manufacturer of Windows PCs - the software is banned on their network. Besides, Lenovo's done so poorly with IBM's PC biz their market cap is only $6.5B. Google could pick that up for less than they paid for Moto Mobility. Lenovo's probably big enough for Google - they don't have to go all the way to HP's scale. Asustek would be an even cheaper $5B and a better fit as they already make the best Android tablet.
In the PC space there is no road to real innovation. Operating margins are 5 percent at best, in a good year. You cannot differentiate with your prime products because another company owns the entire user experience. One failed product and you've left the shareholders with no profits at all. And if you experiment with new ways of doing things like Android on ARM Microsoft is going to pull your co-marketing dollars and leave you with no profits at all and no hope of getting any. The path is really just not there.
Apple did it, but look how: they built their own brand and earned a brand premium through differentiation and outstanding design. With those premiums they invested in innovation without being sucked into the trap of surrendering the user experience. With each new thing they could charge more and better premiums until they could reach escape velocity with an ecosystem that's uniquely theirs.
No PC OEM can pull that off without letting go of those no-margin PC revenues. No doubt it's a tough sell to the shareholders and the board. But it's the right thing to do. Ultimately HP cut the chains it or we'll get our innovation from new players like Samsung, HTC and so on rather than traditional PC OEMs. We've seen the future, and it ain't this.
And after you call out your business partners as greedy pigs, is that going to make them more, or less, willing to negotiate with you if you're Netflix?
No, it's really 400,000 a month and the goal is for over 2 million units this year. The Transformer 2 will be out for Christmas with 5 cores for only $500 and promises to move really well. And the Kindle Fire presold, sight unseen, over 250,000 units in the first five days of presales - on its way to an estimated 2.5 million units its first month.
The iPad is nice gear. But this race isn't over yet.
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My kids are going through this now. We teach them the alphabet at 6 months, phonetics at 10 months. By two they're reading real books and repairing their own PC. And then they fail the standard test because they won't call out the sounds of letters because to them it's baby talk too embarassing to say. But they can read at a sixth grade level, and write at third - entering kindergarten.
You normals are so fucking retarded. My boy came back from his first day of kindergarten and he had two things to say: "Other people are stupid" and "They don't even have computers". What could I say but "this is how it is. You have to get used to it."
Me too. Now what?
I was there. Intel doesn't "get" the TV biz. They're not gonna. This announcement is their admission that they don't get it.
This is sad because they were almost there. Their prior efforts were sad, but they had some prime shizzle in the pipe that had a legitimate chance.
He is who he is, a man. If you make what you are as a people to live and die with a man, then you have chosen your fate because all men die eventually. You know better than that. You've survived 100 iterations of that. What's different now?
It's pretty simple. If you think you might have Aspergers, then you don't. Aspies don't have doubt, they have unknown quantities.
That might need some clarification for you norms. The key term is "might". If you were that different from the norms, you would know it. You wouldn't have to have it explained to you. Some of you think you have Aspergers, but you don't. Us Aspies are way different. Hopefully you guys are mature enough now to accept us.
Here's an easy test: If you think you might have Aspergers, then you don't.
Maybe your feeble attempts to rescue this fucktard have something to do with your work relationship to him. He's in deep. Come swim in the tar with us. I would like that. The tar is warm. come on in.
Dude, I've been up in there. It's not what you think it is.
How the hell I attracted one of the adherents of the Dear Leader, I don't know - but it were in your better interest to let it go. I'm not some blind commentor, and not disposed to let things go. I mentioned Korea in passing and for your own sake you should let it be. If you make a crusade of it, I will sleep comfortably while you pay for your hubris in a camp where rations are let every other week.
>p.s. That is one awesome ID number you are rocking.
Thanks. It's accidental but I like it.
Your post was garbled. I want to respectfully reply, but I can't.
I have five children.
If you were a subscriber here on /. you could read back my comment history where I discussed these things at length not only with outside folks like you, but also with the senior Microsoft program manager who initially resisted, and then came around to my point of view after further outside analysis and discussion with internal experts. They didn't do it as thouroughly as I'd have liked, but they did do it. That's how Microsoft came to deprecate Autorun. I did that. Me, and me only. If you're willing to pay ten bucks and a few days to dredge it out of my comment history, more power to ya. This is /. We don't get to edit or retract here.
China's active in this stuff, as is North Korea, several former Soviet Republics, Israel, Western Europe, and most of South America. Well, to be honest, most of the planet, but everywhere else is where some proxies are. You might as well say "I don't know".
The nation-state claim is based on depth of analysis of technologies, leveraging of classified information not known to be leaked, sophistication of attacks. Also maybe on RSA's desire to say "What can we do against a the dedicated resources of a nation-state?"
This idea basically says Uncle Sam doesn't have any folks trolling the dark side of the Internet yet, where folks from all over freely share all sorts of amazing shit. They still don't get it. The dark side is where a lot of really interesting data warehouse technologies come from, years later. Most of these geeks aren't into it to do crime - it's just where the algorithm action is.
It doesn't require a nation-state's resources to do this. Fifty thousand geeks in their mom's basement will do if a hundred of them are Aspies - and they are. They'll do it for the lulz, and on their backtrace they'll drag a red herring across a nation state if it amuses them to do so. Or they'll taint the Church of Scientology instead if that's their thing this week. It would take a nation-state to fund that level of effort, to coordinate that level of action - unless they do it for free for the lulz and the aspies organize it for them for free because it's a puzzle worthy of their attention. No resources are required except the neighbor's open Wifi because Mom provides the Hot Pockets and Mountain Dew.
/Not saying it wasn't a nation-state, but have no faith in the analysis.
I know a few folks working their way up the HP org chart. Yes, there's more than a little truth in what you say. And there's a lot more "run & gun" in the sales crew than in the labs where it should be. The Touchpad was clearly very close to what they needed, but the vision just wasn't there. I think if they'd pre-released WebOS as a free Windows app that would have gone much better, as people could test-drive it before they ordered it. Too late now though.
I'd like to see them get back to their innovative roots too. And I think they have to cast off the PC for a while to get there. The PC just has no room to maneuver.
Mankind will journey to the stars or it will die out and all this will have been for nothing.
Oh come on now. Mars is only one planet. There are billions of them.
The rockets would very quickly become Chinese rockets, and not in a nice friendly "outsourcing" way.
It's not easy to scale an operation the size of HP's PC setup down to something on the scale you might expect to move that sort of gear just yet. If you're buying an org, you should buy one closer to the right size for what you want to do and build it with demand. "Don't be evil" includes little stuff like "don't buy a massive global corporation and throw 90 percent of its employees out of work as you part it out for scrap."
Don't know how well Google would take to being the world's largest manufacturer of Windows PCs - the software is banned on their network. Besides, Lenovo's done so poorly with IBM's PC biz their market cap is only $6.5B. Google could pick that up for less than they paid for Moto Mobility. Lenovo's probably big enough for Google - they don't have to go all the way to HP's scale. Asustek would be an even cheaper $5B and a better fit as they already make the best Android tablet.
Get a laser printer, tightwad.
In the PC space there is no road to real innovation. Operating margins are 5 percent at best, in a good year. You cannot differentiate with your prime products because another company owns the entire user experience. One failed product and you've left the shareholders with no profits at all. And if you experiment with new ways of doing things like Android on ARM Microsoft is going to pull your co-marketing dollars and leave you with no profits at all and no hope of getting any. The path is really just not there.
Apple did it, but look how: they built their own brand and earned a brand premium through differentiation and outstanding design. With those premiums they invested in innovation without being sucked into the trap of surrendering the user experience. With each new thing they could charge more and better premiums until they could reach escape velocity with an ecosystem that's uniquely theirs.
No PC OEM can pull that off without letting go of those no-margin PC revenues. No doubt it's a tough sell to the shareholders and the board. But it's the right thing to do. Ultimately HP cut the chains it or we'll get our innovation from new players like Samsung, HTC and so on rather than traditional PC OEMs. We've seen the future, and it ain't this.
And after you call out your business partners as greedy pigs, is that going to make them more, or less, willing to negotiate with you if you're Netflix?
No, it's really 400,000 a month and the goal is for over 2 million units this year. The Transformer 2 will be out for Christmas with 5 cores for only $500 and promises to move really well. And the Kindle Fire presold, sight unseen, over 250,000 units in the first five days of presales - on its way to an estimated 2.5 million units its first month.
The iPad is nice gear. But this race isn't over yet.
There are a pair of slashdot editors with unlimited modpoints who disagree on AGW. So you get this. It happens.