The usual Microsoft fanboys at IDC and Gartner have both weighed in. They don't see Windows Phone 7 being a breakout hit - at best it gets 7 points of share before Windows Mobile resumes its long decline.
Offworld assets give poor returns given the cost of launch vehicles. They do have some value in an offworld economy yet to be developed. In that economy though, the shipping cost is more likely the determinate than the mass or volume. The delta-v is the key. It's not about serving the doomed humans on Earth. It's about saving our genome by spreading it beyond the ability of one asteroid to destroy it. We can choose to do that or we can choose to die out. It's a binary choice. If (die) else (do other stuff). The dinosaurs didn't have this choice. That makes us special. We can choose our own destiny. The asteroid will come and reshape the Earth, no matter what we wish. We can have offsite backups, or we can die out. We get to choose.
In the end I think the cost of developing a human culture that transcends our terrestrial origin and can subsist without Earth in the asteroid belt or elsewhere in the solar system, is a good thing. In the worst case it's an offsite backup for the Human race. In the best case it's a launchpad for the stars.
We've not discovered half the oil there is by far. There's still the arctic and antarctic reserves to discover. There's more oil off of Roosevelt Island than we've burned so far. Even if we tapped those, the global oil supply is a fraction of the methane clathrates that sit on every ocean floor. We'll be in Carbon fuel surplus for a hundred years or more. We should conserve it, but let's not panic. Our kids may find even more, or moot the question.
Were you aware that all of the worlds' oceans were covered in methane clathrates, and that these carbon based fuels could feed our need for carbon fuels for the next thousand years?
The safe thing about real estate investment is that they're not making any more land. Prices for houses always go up - Until the market for real-estate collapses and prices go down.
Look, there's no safe investment. Investment implies risk. The idea of investment is that you give up your money (your excess production) in return for future growth. If you do it right your money works for you (grows) while you work to earn more money, and eventually you can retire in a state where your money works and you don't have to any more. If you do it wrong you put your money in the hands of handlers who dissipate all growth with their fees, and expect you to eat the losses (401K). I'm specifically referencing Vanguard here because they're the ones that hose up my own 401K. I'm not too tore up about that because I expected this outcome and I'm not contributing.
If you're offered an opportunity to invest on the condition that you abrogate your opportunity to manage your investment on a day-to-day basis and/or to limit your choices to a basket of offered issues, then you're being sold a money sink. The program to strip you of your assets is built in to the plan. They might as well be asking you to contribute to their charity. You'll see no growth from it.
If you hope to retire someday manage your own investments. Take responsibility for your asset growth. Diversify, but do it your way. Investment advisors are motivated to churn you. They don't have your best interests in mind. Fund advisors are selling you under in other ways.
When the current correction is half of the prior measurement certain questions naturally arise about the quality of prior measurements. That does naturally lead to questions about the quality of current measurements, and perhaps about the humans conducting and evaluating the prior and current measurements. If the people are the same and the story has changed, one would expect some explanation of the delta.
These issues have everything to do with the topic. Every possible corner of the topic is covered in these issues. We have Mobile competetive field, Microsoft executive moving to competitor, deals with the devil, partnership potentials, future potentials, breach of faith and so on. We don't have the death of the moved-to company yet because Nokia is not yet in that phase of the engagement.
And yet I'm going to relent. After further consideration Nokia is too smart to be bought off by Microsoft, too big to believe in a benefit, too clever to leave their CEO ungoverned. At 30 months this guy's too new to Redmond to be an external asset unless their mindscaping has risen to Treadstone levels, and I don't believe it has. There's no evidence of a significant Scientology incursion into the Microsoft culture, which is what it would take to turn him so quick. Nokia's Board is learned enough and responsible enough to consider these issues, monitor their new CEO carefully and judge the risks. They're not dumb, and they've not reached their dotage. If he's a plant he's not going to sprout at Nokia.
I recant my objections. He may compete well and that would be a Good Thing.
If Nokia should enter into a "partnership" with Microsoft in the near future though, Nokia is an easy short. Microsoft is a competitor with trivial market share and limited resources in the space. Microsoft wants to compete in this space with Windows Phone 7. Nokia remains, and is projected to remain, the dominant player in the space. Such a partnership would gain Nokia nothing and benefit Microsoft well so it would be an abrogation of corporate responsibility for Nokia to enter into such a deal. If you see it, Nokia is PWNed. Short Nokia hard in that case and you can retire on the movement.
This looks like a troll but it's not. Google "Microsoft master phone" for details. The curse of history is that those who don't learn it are doomed to repeat it.
Whenever we have a credible PDF exploit story, the slashdot fine summary always links to a reliable PDF document that explains the exploit in detail. Sorry, not buying this one.
Why do you think Microsoft paid Verizon to have their Bing app irreversibly integrated into all Verizon's Androids? Was it because they want Bing on the Androids, or because they want to do everything they can to slow down the Androids until they can launch their WP7? The more miserable they can make the Android experience, the better off they are. An integrated universal search app that can't be deactivated, removed or retargeted is just the kind of app you would want to be running to make the entire phone suck.
The curious thing is that Verizon agreed to it. That must have been a HUGE check. I hope Sprint's not dumb enough to fall for this one.
PDFs, particularly this kind of PDF hosted on a party to a legal action's site, disappear once the matter is settled. It's rude to subject the future generations of web historians to so many blank links. Also, I heard once that Windows clients have some security issues with PDF viewers that make promotion of the filetype directly less than considerate. Third party hosting at a minimum is the responsible thing to do, and reposting through a trusted translation service is also kind.
California is rather unique in this regard. In other states every 7-11 manager and carwash supervisor has an employment contract that includes a noncompete. The more this airs, the more likely the rest of us are to quit putting up with that nonsense. That would be a win for the common folk.
There's a few ways it could shake out, they could get a check, more likely they'd get access to some of Oracle's IP in exchange for Oracle getting to use some of HP's.
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They don't have to ask. Microsoft will be thoughtfully providing a Windows Phone 7 phone to every employee worldwide.
The usual Microsoft fanboys at IDC and Gartner have both weighed in. They don't see Windows Phone 7 being a breakout hit - at best it gets 7 points of share before Windows Mobile resumes its long decline.
Offworld assets give poor returns given the cost of launch vehicles. They do have some value in an offworld economy yet to be developed. In that economy though, the shipping cost is more likely the determinate than the mass or volume. The delta-v is the key. It's not about serving the doomed humans on Earth. It's about saving our genome by spreading it beyond the ability of one asteroid to destroy it. We can choose to do that or we can choose to die out. It's a binary choice. If (die) else (do other stuff). The dinosaurs didn't have this choice. That makes us special. We can choose our own destiny. The asteroid will come and reshape the Earth, no matter what we wish. We can have offsite backups, or we can die out. We get to choose.
In the end I think the cost of developing a human culture that transcends our terrestrial origin and can subsist without Earth in the asteroid belt or elsewhere in the solar system, is a good thing. In the worst case it's an offsite backup for the Human race. In the best case it's a launchpad for the stars.
We've not discovered half the oil there is by far. There's still the arctic and antarctic reserves to discover. There's more oil off of Roosevelt Island than we've burned so far. Even if we tapped those, the global oil supply is a fraction of the methane clathrates that sit on every ocean floor. We'll be in Carbon fuel surplus for a hundred years or more. We should conserve it, but let's not panic. Our kids may find even more, or moot the question.
Were you aware that all of the worlds' oceans were covered in methane clathrates, and that these carbon based fuels could feed our need for carbon fuels for the next thousand years?
The safe thing about real estate investment is that they're not making any more land. Prices for houses always go up - Until the market for real-estate collapses and prices go down.
Look, there's no safe investment. Investment implies risk. The idea of investment is that you give up your money (your excess production) in return for future growth. If you do it right your money works for you (grows) while you work to earn more money, and eventually you can retire in a state where your money works and you don't have to any more. If you do it wrong you put your money in the hands of handlers who dissipate all growth with their fees, and expect you to eat the losses (401K). I'm specifically referencing Vanguard here because they're the ones that hose up my own 401K. I'm not too tore up about that because I expected this outcome and I'm not contributing.
If you're offered an opportunity to invest on the condition that you abrogate your opportunity to manage your investment on a day-to-day basis and/or to limit your choices to a basket of offered issues, then you're being sold a money sink. The program to strip you of your assets is built in to the plan. They might as well be asking you to contribute to their charity. You'll see no growth from it.
If you hope to retire someday manage your own investments. Take responsibility for your asset growth. Diversify, but do it your way. Investment advisors are motivated to churn you. They don't have your best interests in mind. Fund advisors are selling you under in other ways.
Microsoft's Marc Brown had nothing to do with phones either, when he took a seat on the board of Sendo.
He was then and remained through the project, an employee of Microsoft.
When the current correction is half of the prior measurement certain questions naturally arise about the quality of prior measurements. That does naturally lead to questions about the quality of current measurements, and perhaps about the humans conducting and evaluating the prior and current measurements. If the people are the same and the story has changed, one would expect some explanation of the delta.
These issues have everything to do with the topic. Every possible corner of the topic is covered in these issues. We have Mobile competetive field, Microsoft executive moving to competitor, deals with the devil, partnership potentials, future potentials, breach of faith and so on. We don't have the death of the moved-to company yet because Nokia is not yet in that phase of the engagement.
And yet I'm going to relent. After further consideration Nokia is too smart to be bought off by Microsoft, too big to believe in a benefit, too clever to leave their CEO ungoverned. At 30 months this guy's too new to Redmond to be an external asset unless their mindscaping has risen to Treadstone levels, and I don't believe it has. There's no evidence of a significant Scientology incursion into the Microsoft culture, which is what it would take to turn him so quick. Nokia's Board is learned enough and responsible enough to consider these issues, monitor their new CEO carefully and judge the risks. They're not dumb, and they've not reached their dotage. If he's a plant he's not going to sprout at Nokia.
I recant my objections. He may compete well and that would be a Good Thing.
If Nokia should enter into a "partnership" with Microsoft in the near future though, Nokia is an easy short. Microsoft is a competitor with trivial market share and limited resources in the space. Microsoft wants to compete in this space with Windows Phone 7. Nokia remains, and is projected to remain, the dominant player in the space. Such a partnership would gain Nokia nothing and benefit Microsoft well so it would be an abrogation of corporate responsibility for Nokia to enter into such a deal. If you see it, Nokia is PWNed. Short Nokia hard in that case and you can retire on the movement.
This looks like a troll but it's not. Google "Microsoft master phone" for details. The curse of history is that those who don't learn it are doomed to repeat it.
Dedupe
Smartbooks
In the business world, there still isn't a replacement for it that's good enough.
You know, since we're in the 2010 Email Worm thread I have to ask: Is there a worse one?
What surprises me is that there's no Windows Server AD console you can use to isolate and terminate the users who fall for this nonsense.
Whenever we have a credible PDF exploit story, the slashdot fine summary always links to a reliable PDF document that explains the exploit in detail. Sorry, not buying this one.
Well let's hope that the next improvement isn't as big as this one or they'll have done away with the melting entirely.
Why do you think Microsoft paid Verizon to have their Bing app irreversibly integrated into all Verizon's Androids? Was it because they want Bing on the Androids, or because they want to do everything they can to slow down the Androids until they can launch their WP7? The more miserable they can make the Android experience, the better off they are. An integrated universal search app that can't be deactivated, removed or retargeted is just the kind of app you would want to be running to make the entire phone suck.
The curious thing is that Verizon agreed to it. That must have been a HUGE check. I hope Sprint's not dumb enough to fall for this one.
Yes, this is about negative branding.
Some of us don't mind if they fill the automat with candy, pop and paintball ammo. Your snowflakes must be particularly precious.
Some people would bitch if you hung 'em with a new rope.
PDFs, particularly this kind of PDF hosted on a party to a legal action's site, disappear once the matter is settled. It's rude to subject the future generations of web historians to so many blank links. Also, I heard once that Windows clients have some security issues with PDF viewers that make promotion of the filetype directly less than considerate. Third party hosting at a minimum is the responsible thing to do, and reposting through a trusted translation service is also kind.
California is rather unique in this regard. In other states every 7-11 manager and carwash supervisor has an employment contract that includes a noncompete. The more this airs, the more likely the rest of us are to quit putting up with that nonsense. That would be a win for the common folk.
There's a few ways it could shake out, they could get a check, more likely they'd get access to some of Oracle's IP in exchange for Oracle getting to use some of HP's.
Oh, I'm pretty sure that one ain't gonna happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw-MFeR8Frw
You guys make some neat stuff, but the license keeps it away from us.
Also, Microsoft's lawyers are completely out of their league.