Just like "paper only" is a metaphor for the electronic document version, which is what was happening. In this case it means the engineer engaged in active management of the network instead of brainstorming ideas with the group. Presumably he intended to just investigate.
Once the bullets fly who is "bad" or "good" is irrelevant. It's force on force and history validates the winner because the winner survived to write the history. I live in a country that won this one and to expect me to feel guilty about that is a stretch.
I respect your point of view. It's not going to stop me from tapping this keg.
Every death diminishes all mankind, but the death of a man who plots the death of others in every waking hour? It's a smaller loss. I am diminished less by the loss of him than by his presence. He is the person who lightens a room by leaving it.
For myself, I don't particularly mind a fantasy movie that depicts an alternate past involving the discomfort of three Nazi combatants, the demise of some thirty combatants, and the regrettable collateral damage of some few civilians, but prevents what actually happened in real history. The history of that time is quite unpleasant. Many millions died and more millions suffered who would not have if this fantasy were true.
Look, for once could we let the partisan crap go? A bad guy is dead. That's cause for celebration. It's not an invitation for every partisan whackjob to whip out his pecker and start pissing all over everything.
We all know the drunk uncle who has to be invited to the wedding, but who can be counted upon to leave the reception cuffed in a squadcar. For today, could you try not to be him?
Also the last six or eight Al Quaida #2s. I wonder when that job will run out of applicants. Of course, now they're recruiting for the #1 slot, which draw more interest.
"Seeking: Active doer with management and PR skills. Must be nimble under fire, willing to work under adverse conditions. Frequent relocation required."
I do believe that stuffed with Chorizo and respectfully consigned to air burial is the corpse disposal method you're looking for. I'm all for the spirit of your post, but it would be a waste of good bacon.
I can confirm both gunfire and fireworks in my local area. Regrettably, I don't have any fireworks on hand today. An oversight I intent to prevent on anniversaries of this event.
Shutdown, what are you doing? You know better than to argue with me. You've been around here long enough to know that I don't make definitive statements unless I have the high ground. Your team must be growing desperate.
Out of respect for our friendship I'm going to let this one go unless you try to spell that as some concession of your point.
3,368 new users per day for period ending 1/24 is not equal to 1,711 new users per day for week ending 4/26 - and seasonal adjustments aren't going to let you rationalize the decline. That's not monotonic growth - it's declining growth. Given the expansion of the market overall it's also rapidly declining share. On the third tab, "Chart of Delta MAU/Day" there are graphs that will help you visualize the rate of declining growth versus the longer term average.
With Android and iOS each adding over 140,000 monthly active Facebook users per day and trending up - not down - it's a disaster both in raw units and in market share.
Stack these numbers up against the number of "points of sale" and it's easy to imagine that it's not every day somebody comes in and buys a WP7 device.
Of course if you really want to know what's going on you can download the data and crunch the trendlines yourself.
You're assuming that Nokia and Microsoft together actually ever get a phone to market at all. For the Sendo / Microsoft partnership to do the same thing that was not the case. It may not have even been the plan. By failing to produce a phone OS that worked on the Sendo Stinger, Microsoft got something far more valuable than the reward for succeeding: Sendo's phone IP. Best to read those contracts thoroughly.
Well obviously one of them will be along presently to point out that "nobody knows" how well WP7 is doing since release because Microsoft won't tell us. Since I know, I may as well nip that one in the bud: Abysmal is not an exaggeration. Panglozz has been scraping the Facebook user statistics weekly since November for all the major phone platforms, and has assembled that delightful analytical spreadsheet that tells us week-by-week how it's doing relative to other platforms.
Facebook user stats may not be perfect, but it's a huge sample and lines up perfectly with other reports, which seem to be bending over backwards to avoid stating the obvious truth. The phone is not selling. After six months WP7 total facebook users don't add up to two days worth of increase in iPhone and Android platforms. The user base is not there, and ultimately that's what developers care about. They don't care if it's fun to write apps for the phone. They care if there are users to use the apps - and there aren't enough to speak of. The trend is clearly in decline, so not only are the users not there, they're not ever going to be there. Writing Windows Phone apps is not going to be profitable for nearly any developer, and it's not going to make them famous either. Nokia can't save this.
Some of the numbers we've seen for WP7 are totally bogus. Obviously if nearly three times as many people downloaded the software development kit for WP7 as use WP7 for Facebook, something is amiss. Phone software development is not a 3x more common activity than Facebook posting. Somebody is trying to make it look like the thing is more popular than it actually is - perhaps by including the WP7 SDK with some other tools.
Which makes me glad that Panglozz is keeping track of this for us. It may be a little bit OCD, but it's helpful.
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what will Microsoft do now for Silverlight Linux support? Will they drop it or just go ahead and produce an actual .Net runtime for *nix?
That was quite funny.
Just like "paper only" is a metaphor for the electronic document version, which is what was happening. In this case it means the engineer engaged in active management of the network instead of brainstorming ideas with the group. Presumably he intended to just investigate.
Well for once I beat the thread: Dead Osama spam is already in your mail Bin, Laden with links to sites with drive-by exploits.
Once the bullets fly who is "bad" or "good" is irrelevant. It's force on force and history validates the winner because the winner survived to write the history. I live in a country that won this one and to expect me to feel guilty about that is a stretch.
To surrender your rights you need only show up at the polling station and vote for one of the provided options.
To win back surrendered rights requires quite a bit more.
I respect your point of view. It's not going to stop me from tapping this keg.
Every death diminishes all mankind, but the death of a man who plots the death of others in every waking hour? It's a smaller loss. I am diminished less by the loss of him than by his presence. He is the person who lightens a room by leaving it.
Ok, here's on "drunk uncle". Any other volunteers?
Well then, I guess you didn't enjoy the movie.
For myself, I don't particularly mind a fantasy movie that depicts an alternate past involving the discomfort of three Nazi combatants, the demise of some thirty combatants, and the regrettable collateral damage of some few civilians, but prevents what actually happened in real history. The history of that time is quite unpleasant. Many millions died and more millions suffered who would not have if this fantasy were true.
Look, for once could we let the partisan crap go? A bad guy is dead. That's cause for celebration. It's not an invitation for every partisan whackjob to whip out his pecker and start pissing all over everything.
We all know the drunk uncle who has to be invited to the wedding, but who can be counted upon to leave the reception cuffed in a squadcar. For today, could you try not to be him?
Apparently the production of that video is now not out of the question.
Also the last six or eight Al Quaida #2s. I wonder when that job will run out of applicants. Of course, now they're recruiting for the #1 slot, which draw more interest.
"Seeking: Active doer with management and PR skills. Must be nimble under fire, willing to work under adverse conditions. Frequent relocation required."
No, that was just a very enjoyable movie.
I do believe that stuffed with Chorizo and respectfully consigned to air burial is the corpse disposal method you're looking for. I'm all for the spirit of your post, but it would be a waste of good bacon.
Dead Osama spam is already in your mail Bin, Laden with links to sites with drive-by exploits.
When fear of repercussions prevent you from doing the right thing, you're a coward.
I can confirm both gunfire and fireworks in my local area. Regrettably, I don't have any fireworks on hand today. An oversight I intent to prevent on anniversaries of this event.
I do believe President Obama said this happened "today".
Get a room.
3 out of 5 smartphone users don't do Facebook on the device.
It's been in the phones the whole time, you just had to use an app. Now it's included in the OS also.
Shutdown, what are you doing? You know better than to argue with me. You've been around here long enough to know that I don't make definitive statements unless I have the high ground. Your team must be growing desperate.
Out of respect for our friendship I'm going to let this one go unless you try to spell that as some concession of your point.
Oh, please keep modding this post down, you zealots. You're giving yourselves up and ruining your accounts thereby.
3,368 new users per day for period ending 1/24 is not equal to 1,711 new users per day for week ending 4/26 - and seasonal adjustments aren't going to let you rationalize the decline. That's not monotonic growth - it's declining growth. Given the expansion of the market overall it's also rapidly declining share. On the third tab, "Chart of Delta MAU/Day" there are graphs that will help you visualize the rate of declining growth versus the longer term average.
With Android and iOS each adding over 140,000 monthly active Facebook users per day and trending up - not down - it's a disaster both in raw units and in market share.
Stack these numbers up against the number of "points of sale" and it's easy to imagine that it's not every day somebody comes in and buys a WP7 device.
Of course if you really want to know what's going on you can download the data and crunch the trendlines yourself.
You're assuming that Nokia and Microsoft together actually ever get a phone to market at all. For the Sendo / Microsoft partnership to do the same thing that was not the case. It may not have even been the plan. By failing to produce a phone OS that worked on the Sendo Stinger, Microsoft got something far more valuable than the reward for succeeding: Sendo's phone IP. Best to read those contracts thoroughly.
Well obviously one of them will be along presently to point out that "nobody knows" how well WP7 is doing since release because Microsoft won't tell us. Since I know, I may as well nip that one in the bud: Abysmal is not an exaggeration. Panglozz has been scraping the Facebook user statistics weekly since November for all the major phone platforms, and has assembled that delightful analytical spreadsheet that tells us week-by-week how it's doing relative to other platforms.
Facebook user stats may not be perfect, but it's a huge sample and lines up perfectly with other reports, which seem to be bending over backwards to avoid stating the obvious truth. The phone is not selling. After six months WP7 total facebook users don't add up to two days worth of increase in iPhone and Android platforms. The user base is not there, and ultimately that's what developers care about. They don't care if it's fun to write apps for the phone. They care if there are users to use the apps - and there aren't enough to speak of. The trend is clearly in decline, so not only are the users not there, they're not ever going to be there. Writing Windows Phone apps is not going to be profitable for nearly any developer, and it's not going to make them famous either. Nokia can't save this.
Some of the numbers we've seen for WP7 are totally bogus. Obviously if nearly three times as many people downloaded the software development kit for WP7 as use WP7 for Facebook, something is amiss. Phone software development is not a 3x more common activity than Facebook posting. Somebody is trying to make it look like the thing is more popular than it actually is - perhaps by including the WP7 SDK with some other tools.
Which makes me glad that Panglozz is keeping track of this for us. It may be a little bit OCD, but it's helpful.