It's a lost cause I'm afraid. Far too late to teach these ones right from wrong. They think us foolish for making such distinctions. To them it't just business. They truly are incapable of understanding what you are trying to tell them.
Tricking innocent third parties into helping you cheat does not absolve you of guilt when you get caught. And attempting to shift the blame onto them is likely to make them not like you even more than abusing their trust in this way.
I quit reading linuxworld years ago when it was clear they had gone over to the dark side. I don't know about the others. Just because a site is about a thing does not mean it's for that thing.
This PR campaign is going to give the opposite of the intended result, just like all of them do lately. Microsoft needs to hire a pr firm that knows what they are doing. You know what? Never mind. Carry on, love your work.
No. Was Star Trek about the PADD? The transporter, the phaser, the warp engine? No. These thing were props, devices if you will that allowed the audience to separate themselves from their cultural biases and so appreciate the story in a different way. But with rare exception these stories are all about people, their development, their conflicts and resolutions.
These phones and tablets are widgets. They are props in a story about how progress, long halted, has created pent up demand for new technologies that amuse, inform, serve, enable people. They are the vanguard of an army of ubiquitous low_power platforms embedded in almost everything that cooperate in amazing way.
But no, the future of technology is not about these gadgets. The story us about us, the people, as all good stories are.
Just for folks like you they named the new scalable UI tools "fragment". That's what they think of your "fragmentation is bad" argument. They know that fragmentation is choice - for app developers, hardware makers, carriers and users. Android buyers want choices. Otherwise they would buy an iOS device.
With this philosophy they just went from zero sales to the number one mobile OS worldwide in 26 months. I'm pretty sure it is working out for them and they are not about to change to suit your opinion. Speaking of you - are you achieving at this level? Don't you think you should be before getting too critical of something that is working out well for everybody else?
Of course Android and iOS make GREAT sense as a vm guest os on the server, as a VDI desktop for both Android and iOS in the cloud. I had hoped someone would have figured this out by now.
Yeah. See, the Android phones aren't really selling. The manufacturers just want to make them look like they're selling. So last quarter they shipped $10 billion worth of phones to a Carphone Warehose stripmall outlet in Chicago, which is now using the full boxes as construction materials to build a warehouse to house this quarter's shipment.
They've been doing this at an ever-increasing rate since October 2008, when the first Android phone shipped.
They don't have to fall to second place. They just have to lose control. Once the PC OEMs aren't afraid of them any more the rest just happens naturally. This is already happening. HP didn't buy Palm because they thought Windows was going to make a great tablet OS. Then they get sulky and start trying to twist arms like they're the 800 lb. gorilla still and their former friends stay away in droves. Dell and ASUS have similar stories.
It won't be too much longer now before it's obvious to everybody.
I'm pretty sure that if you need to have absolute confidentiality, this ain't going to do it. For that you need to pass the info verbally, without records, in an unexpected open space. Better security than that can be had by the maxim: "A secret is a fact known by one person only. If two people know it, it's information. If three people know it, it's rumor."
This is an article about Sony game system hacking. Did we really need an ad for Microsoft stuff here? It's not relevant. It's not material. It's off topic. It's rude. Go away.
For one thing the problem with aliens is, they're ALIEN. As in not only don't have the cultural cues that help us communicate, but may not even operate on the same time scales. We don't share a cultural context. We have no common symbols except math. And if you ever knew a mathematician, you would realize why this is a problem. They trend toward atheism, atavism, solipsism, and otherwise being queer. They bear watching.
And then there's the assumption that aliens are friendly with xenoforms like us. I'm not ok with that because we're not even comfortable with Southern Baptists, let along people who talk in that sing-song gibberish that goes back East. Intelligent Algae? I dunno if I'll like 'em, or if they'll like me. I'm pretty sure I can get along with the intelligent crystals though, since pissing them off takes several thousand years.
If you think carefully about this you may be able to discover a solution to your problem that doesn't involve changing things that are beyond your control or influence. The answer is implied in the question.
The phone cycle is a 730 day (two year) cycle. With 90,000 employees that's 123 units a day. Not enough to have a very significant impact on the analysis. Dell might double that, but it's still not material unless they're front-loading their adoption rate with mandatory subscriptions. I would want proof. Leak a memo, why don't you?
And proof would only make the situation worse for WiMo. The duck is dead.
You do know that you're talking about using insanely expensive anti-ballistic missile rockets to destroy incoming "rocks", right? What part of the asymmetry of that got away from you? The Earth will run out of rockets long before the moon runs out of rocks. Our moon entirely IS rocks. The rocks don't even have to launch from the side of the moon that faces us.
The intra-planetary problem is even harder. Apparently there's this natural reservoir of "rocks" called the "asteroid belt". And yeah, we can see them coming for many years. But some of those rocks have the mass of Long Island, and giving the right carefully calculated push to put them either closer or further away to Jupiter as it passes is, with the right timing sufficient to cause them to intersect Cleveland, or San Bernardino. The calculations are well understood. We can launch all the nuclear weapons we want at them, and the most effect we can hope to have is to turn the rifle bullet into a shotgun blast. That's real helpful.
As we go further out, there are comets. Just a ship passing by a comet may alter its path enough - out there where the sun can be said to hold sway but not to own in fee simple - to alter the path of a comet enough to change our destiny.
Dominance of space is a defense mission. We should not get confused about that. I'm not a fan of the militarization of space, or "footballs in space", as Toynbee called it, but it is what it is. We live at the bottom of a gravity well, and the people who take control of these rocks, well, they can make a mess of it. To quote Frank Herbert in Dune, "He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing."
I was hoping somebody would bite on the Toynbee Tiles thing. There's a root article from the Atlanta Journal Constitution I'd like to read. Surely one of you geeks has a copy of the damned thing.
Did you know that at the poles of the moon there are some ridges and mountain peaks that are never, ever dark? And that quite close by there are places that are never, ever light, which contain vast quantities of an adequately dense material called Hydriotic Acid?
This is an easy one to explain. Did you study the story of Beowulf in school? Bill Gates started out with the goal to be wealthy and famous. So he created this monster. It was feeble at first, but he got a lucky hit and fed it profits and it grew strong enough to procure for him and his people the desired kingdom of wealth and fame.
By about 1982 he realized that he was already wealthier and more famous than he needed to be. He had more wealth than anybody could ever reasonably spend. Such profligate wealth does not incent your progeny to high levels of achievement. But he had many useful years left, and this big powerful monster. So he turned to hubris: The philanthropist's dream of immortal praise - to using his monster to build vast wealth with which to spend his late years dispensing with problems that have plagued mankind.
Being the Alpha geek he is and founded in the moral certainty that his deeds were ultimately for the greater good, he then set his monster upon his opponents with greater zeal than ever before. For fifteen years his monster feasted on all comers growing stronger and stronger. It laid waste to the tech landscape, utterly destroying all who opposed it and most of its allies as well. This voracious beast has no moral compass, knows not friend from foe. It knows only hunger and power. His wealth grew to unimaginable proportions. Even though he bled the monster regularly, it grew in power and hunger logarithmically.
Sometime around 1997 he realized the problem. The monster had vanquished so many enemies, had become so immortal, was so greedy and hungry, that it was in danger of becoming his legacy. In every place it achieved dominance it halted all learning, all innovation, all progress. Though he built a thousand bridges, salved a hundred diseases, found a way to feed the masses, that would not be his legacy - his monster would would wipe out all of those good deeds. It became his Grendel. The monster itself was likely to be the thing he was remembered for long after he was gone. And his name would be spat upon by the serfs who labored under its brutal tyranny. Something had to be done.
And so he pulled its teeth. Instead of bleeding it a little at a time he bled it all at once with "special dividends". And then he cut at its guts, giving it incompetent marketing execs. Knowing guile to be its greatest weapon he laid bare its lying ways before the world. And of course, he bled it still to fund his charitable endeavors, but more prodigiously than ever before. And he gave it an incompetent rider, a captain sure to find no shore - a bumbling fool that could plausibly keep it from doing too much harm.
For a decade now it's been blinded, as he was its vision. It's been bled. It's been led in circles and still it doesn't die. He's as shocked by that as you are. Still as it stumbles blindly about it subsists on bits of flesh it finds. Still it finds hopeful fools to lay down with it, expecting to arise in the morning the better for it. Still it hungers to be unleashed from this bumbling fool.
But he can't have it. If Bill Gates is to be well remembered, to achieve his immortal hero goal, the monster he unleashed upon us all must die. He'll find a way. I believe in him.
But for those hoping he's going to return and give his vision back to the monster, to revive it and restore it to its greater glory? No. That is not the plan.
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It's a lost cause I'm afraid. Far too late to teach these ones right from wrong. They think us foolish for making such distinctions. To them it't just business. They truly are incapable of understanding what you are trying to tell them.
Tricking innocent third parties into helping you cheat does not absolve you of guilt when you get caught. And attempting to shift the blame onto them is likely to make them not like you even more than abusing their trust in this way.
I quit reading linuxworld years ago when it was clear they had gone over to the dark side. I don't know about the others. Just because a site is about a thing does not mean it's for that thing.
This PR campaign is going to give the opposite of the intended result, just like all of them do lately. Microsoft needs to hire a pr firm that knows what they are doing. You know what? Never mind. Carry on, love your work.
No. Was Star Trek about the PADD? The transporter, the phaser, the warp engine? No. These thing were props, devices if you will that allowed the audience to separate themselves from their cultural biases and so appreciate the story in a different way. But with rare exception these stories are all about people, their development, their conflicts and resolutions.
These phones and tablets are widgets. They are props in a story about how progress, long halted, has created pent up demand for new technologies that amuse, inform, serve, enable people. They are the vanguard of an army of ubiquitous low_power platforms embedded in almost everything that cooperate in amazing way.
But no, the future of technology is not about these gadgets. The story us about us, the people, as all good stories are.
Just for folks like you they named the new scalable UI tools "fragment". That's what they think of your "fragmentation is bad" argument. They know that fragmentation is choice - for app developers, hardware makers, carriers and users. Android buyers want choices. Otherwise they would buy an iOS device.
With this philosophy they just went from zero sales to the number one mobile OS worldwide in 26 months. I'm pretty sure it is working out for them and they are not about to change to suit your opinion. Speaking of you - are you achieving at this level? Don't you think you should be before getting too critical of something that is working out well for everybody else?
Of course Android and iOS make GREAT sense as a vm guest os on the server, as a VDI desktop for both Android and iOS in the cloud. I had hoped someone would have figured this out by now.
It'll do as an anchor for a mesh network, and also for media sharing.
Yeah. See, the Android phones aren't really selling. The manufacturers just want to make them look like they're selling. So last quarter they shipped $10 billion worth of phones to a Carphone Warehose stripmall outlet in Chicago, which is now using the full boxes as construction materials to build a warehouse to house this quarter's shipment.
They've been doing this at an ever-increasing rate since October 2008, when the first Android phone shipped.
They don't have to fall to second place. They just have to lose control. Once the PC OEMs aren't afraid of them any more the rest just happens naturally. This is already happening. HP didn't buy Palm because they thought Windows was going to make a great tablet OS. Then they get sulky and start trying to twist arms like they're the 800 lb. gorilla still and their former friends stay away in droves. Dell and ASUS have similar stories.
It won't be too much longer now before it's obvious to everybody.
3%? Isn't it time to lump them in with "other"?
Google is the verb "to search", ex: "I Google my dates to make sure they're not supercreeps."
Bing is the verb "to force an unwanted search engine", ex: "Verizon Binged my Droid."
I'm pretty sure that if you need to have absolute confidentiality, this ain't going to do it. For that you need to pass the info verbally, without records, in an unexpected open space. Better security than that can be had by the maxim: "A secret is a fact known by one person only. If two people know it, it's information. If three people know it, it's rumor."
When Windows Phone has this kind of market share it will be the target of hackers too.
Oh, how I hate that meme.
This is an article about Sony game system hacking. Did we really need an ad for Microsoft stuff here? It's not relevant. It's not material. It's off topic. It's rude. Go away.
For one thing the problem with aliens is, they're ALIEN. As in not only don't have the cultural cues that help us communicate, but may not even operate on the same time scales. We don't share a cultural context. We have no common symbols except math. And if you ever knew a mathematician, you would realize why this is a problem. They trend toward atheism, atavism, solipsism, and otherwise being queer. They bear watching.
And then there's the assumption that aliens are friendly with xenoforms like us. I'm not ok with that because we're not even comfortable with Southern Baptists, let along people who talk in that sing-song gibberish that goes back East. Intelligent Algae? I dunno if I'll like 'em, or if they'll like me. I'm pretty sure I can get along with the intelligent crystals though, since pissing them off takes several thousand years.
Scientology must be really big in Japan.
And it was broken in one hour. Sony never learns. It's like they really, really, really want to believe.
If you think carefully about this you may be able to discover a solution to your problem that doesn't involve changing things that are beyond your control or influence. The answer is implied in the question.
I'm thinking 2020, 2025 before it sinks below 10%. Still the number one OS in the world, by a long margin.
Windows 98 is still putting more hits than WP7.
Yeah, I know. Redundant. I'll get my coat.
The phone cycle is a 730 day (two year) cycle. With 90,000 employees that's 123 units a day. Not enough to have a very significant impact on the analysis. Dell might double that, but it's still not material unless they're front-loading their adoption rate with mandatory subscriptions. I would want proof. Leak a memo, why don't you?
And proof would only make the situation worse for WiMo. The duck is dead.
You do know that you're talking about using insanely expensive anti-ballistic missile rockets to destroy incoming "rocks", right? What part of the asymmetry of that got away from you? The Earth will run out of rockets long before the moon runs out of rocks. Our moon entirely IS rocks. The rocks don't even have to launch from the side of the moon that faces us.
The intra-planetary problem is even harder. Apparently there's this natural reservoir of "rocks" called the "asteroid belt". And yeah, we can see them coming for many years. But some of those rocks have the mass of Long Island, and giving the right carefully calculated push to put them either closer or further away to Jupiter as it passes is, with the right timing sufficient to cause them to intersect Cleveland, or San Bernardino. The calculations are well understood. We can launch all the nuclear weapons we want at them, and the most effect we can hope to have is to turn the rifle bullet into a shotgun blast. That's real helpful.
As we go further out, there are comets. Just a ship passing by a comet may alter its path enough - out there where the sun can be said to hold sway but not to own in fee simple - to alter the path of a comet enough to change our destiny.
Dominance of space is a defense mission. We should not get confused about that. I'm not a fan of the militarization of space, or "footballs in space", as Toynbee called it, but it is what it is. We live at the bottom of a gravity well, and the people who take control of these rocks, well, they can make a mess of it. To quote Frank Herbert in Dune, "He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing."
I was hoping somebody would bite on the Toynbee Tiles thing. There's a root article from the Atlanta Journal Constitution I'd like to read. Surely one of you geeks has a copy of the damned thing.
Did you know that at the poles of the moon there are some ridges and mountain peaks that are never, ever dark? And that quite close by there are places that are never, ever light, which contain vast quantities of an adequately dense material called Hydriotic Acid?
This is an easy one to explain. Did you study the story of Beowulf in school? Bill Gates started out with the goal to be wealthy and famous. So he created this monster. It was feeble at first, but he got a lucky hit and fed it profits and it grew strong enough to procure for him and his people the desired kingdom of wealth and fame.
By about 1982 he realized that he was already wealthier and more famous than he needed to be. He had more wealth than anybody could ever reasonably spend. Such profligate wealth does not incent your progeny to high levels of achievement. But he had many useful years left, and this big powerful monster. So he turned to hubris: The philanthropist's dream of immortal praise - to using his monster to build vast wealth with which to spend his late years dispensing with problems that have plagued mankind.
Being the Alpha geek he is and founded in the moral certainty that his deeds were ultimately for the greater good, he then set his monster upon his opponents with greater zeal than ever before. For fifteen years his monster feasted on all comers growing stronger and stronger. It laid waste to the tech landscape, utterly destroying all who opposed it and most of its allies as well. This voracious beast has no moral compass, knows not friend from foe. It knows only hunger and power. His wealth grew to unimaginable proportions. Even though he bled the monster regularly, it grew in power and hunger logarithmically.
Sometime around 1997 he realized the problem. The monster had vanquished so many enemies, had become so immortal, was so greedy and hungry, that it was in danger of becoming his legacy. In every place it achieved dominance it halted all learning, all innovation, all progress. Though he built a thousand bridges, salved a hundred diseases, found a way to feed the masses, that would not be his legacy - his monster would would wipe out all of those good deeds. It became his Grendel. The monster itself was likely to be the thing he was remembered for long after he was gone. And his name would be spat upon by the serfs who labored under its brutal tyranny. Something had to be done.
And so he pulled its teeth. Instead of bleeding it a little at a time he bled it all at once with "special dividends". And then he cut at its guts, giving it incompetent marketing execs. Knowing guile to be its greatest weapon he laid bare its lying ways before the world. And of course, he bled it still to fund his charitable endeavors, but more prodigiously than ever before. And he gave it an incompetent rider, a captain sure to find no shore - a bumbling fool that could plausibly keep it from doing too much harm.
For a decade now it's been blinded, as he was its vision. It's been bled. It's been led in circles and still it doesn't die. He's as shocked by that as you are. Still as it stumbles blindly about it subsists on bits of flesh it finds. Still it finds hopeful fools to lay down with it, expecting to arise in the morning the better for it. Still it hungers to be unleashed from this bumbling fool.
But he can't have it. If Bill Gates is to be well remembered, to achieve his immortal hero goal, the monster he unleashed upon us all must die. He'll find a way. I believe in him.
But for those hoping he's going to return and give his vision back to the monster, to revive it and restore it to its greater glory? No. That is not the plan.