Rebuilding your new Windows PC from the bare metal up using pristine media is part of the Windows Out Of the Box Experience. It's a three to five day ritual involving self-torment, protective incantations against mal spirits, purification of sources, and the sacrifice of newly incompatible hardware and software. It's traditional.
You are faced with overwhelming public outcry about injustice. Daily press reveals ever more injustice, fanning flames. Whitehouse petition obligates response. Congressional investigations, laws proposed to rein you in. A martyr. What to do? "Hack" your own website and make threats against the Supremes so you can take the line "We do not negotiate with terrorists." Close book, no investigation needed. Brilliant!
It is an epic rant and I cannot disagree that this is an important factor. But it adds to the article. It doesn't take away. A slower refresh cycle of Windows PC and Server shrinks Microsoft's slice of the overall pie even faster. Most certainly since as mobile devices rise in client share past 70%, demand for proprietary server-side solutions (Microsoft's server-side bread and butter) evaporates entirely.
Google Android devices now have twice the market share of Windows PCs and are growing quickly. Apple has a big slice of the pie too. That means that Microsoft's traditional strategy on the server-side of preferring IE and such is suicidal as it is seeking to leverage its market power over 20% of the clients to control the path of everybody: it's trying to be the tail wagging the dog. And that is probably why Bob Muglia left.
"For people who actually NEED the power, say folks like me who do video transcoding while running accurate physics simulations of sound propagation for commercial acoustic design and/or industrial noise abatement, and would like to still be able to work in their CAD suite with multiple detailed 3D views open, it is quite clearly NOT a "simple fact" that PCs are "insanely overpowered", that's fucking ridiculous you fool! The systems are never powerful enough."
This is just a followup to the "article deleted" problem. It has been reinstated at the original link (and the original headline in the link) but with the less dramatic headline "Microsoft Still Can’t Find Its Future. Is It Too Late for the Company?"
Apparently Forbes is learning how the Internet works. Now if they would just fix their website.
You can still find page 1 of the article in Google cache. Thanks to ~darkeye, who submitted that.
This is the same author who wrote "Sell Research in Motion. Now." That in April, 2011 as it began its precipitous dive from $53 to $6.50. His views are controversial, but he has a better track record than many official analysts.
This looks like a good service for me. Reasonable prices and strong encryption, universal cloud access. Heck of a deal. And it won't hurt my feelings to support the cause.
There is some evidence that they are technically incompetent. Their servers were crashed by one kid with a laptop downloading too many articles too fast.
It is the objection. The entire point of doing this research and writing these papers is to "expand the pool of human knowledge". That is the whole motive of "publish or perish": that knowledge be shared, tested, and built upon so that we might have progress in science. Not progress for the privileged few, but progress for all. Not progress slowed by general release of the knowledge after "forever less one day" but right away.
State prisons are different. The federal prison system doesn't have probation or parole any more unless the crime occurred before November 1, 1987. Good time can reduce a sentence to 85%, taking up to 50 days off a year. If you are sentenced to a year, you do 10+ months at least. They also tend to be generally less pleasant to be in because federal punishment is intended only for the most serious crimes and they are packed with the most serious and violent career criminals. Hence when someone is making a big deal of a minor issue, the phrase "making a federal case out of it."
These are not songs pirated for someone's amusement and profit, taking cocaine away from needy media executives. The very purpose of writing them in the first place is to put them in "the pool of human knowledge" that others may learn what they have, test them, and build upon them - that progress might advance for all mankind. Not in "forever less a day" when the copyright expires, but immediately upon publication. This nonprofit organization purports to want them disseminated, not to serve as the gatekeeper that holds them reserved for a privileged and wealthy few.
So. No wonder they didn't want Aaron prosecuted. His proposal was to actually help them fulfill their own mission. In death he has laid their hypocrisy bare.
I've read that he was offered a six month sentence in a plea bargain. Rather than take that offer (which would have given him maybe four to five months in a minimum security facility
Here is a case that expresses the duality of the situation: the judge went far above the prosecutors' recommendations. So. Once you plead guilty to 17 felonies the prosecutor's promise is no guarantee - but there will of course be no appeal. And the sentence in that case, 25 years, was for a myriad of offenses: robbery, attempted murder, kidnapping and so on was less that Ortiz prosecutor proposed for Aaron if he was put to the work of actually trying the case.
Six months offer for 17 felonies would just stoke the fires of outrage. 12 days each? So there was not ever an actual federal case in the lot? This, if true, would be an admission that they were oppressing him without due cause. Of course, there would be no record of it anyway and if were weren't actually involved in the case - say, the US Attorney's husband, we would have no way to know. Him I don't believe.
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Is he a tall sweaty bald guy with excess enthusiasm? You would think they had told him already.
Rebuilding your new Windows PC from the bare metal up using pristine media is part of the Windows Out Of the Box Experience. It's a three to five day ritual involving self-torment, protective incantations against mal spirits, purification of sources, and the sacrifice of newly incompatible hardware and software. It's traditional.
It's supposed to smoke and catch fire?
You are faced with overwhelming public outcry about injustice. Daily press reveals ever more injustice, fanning flames. Whitehouse petition obligates response. Congressional investigations, laws proposed to rein you in. A martyr. What to do? "Hack" your own website and make threats against the Supremes so you can take the line "We do not negotiate with terrorists." Close book, no investigation needed. Brilliant!
The resolution on the Samsung Nexus 10 is 2560 x 1600. No doubt this feature will be useful when they do an own-brand product spin of it.
It scares me that we even need to have this discussion.
It is an epic rant and I cannot disagree that this is an important factor. But it adds to the article. It doesn't take away. A slower refresh cycle of Windows PC and Server shrinks Microsoft's slice of the overall pie even faster. Most certainly since as mobile devices rise in client share past 70%, demand for proprietary server-side solutions (Microsoft's server-side bread and butter) evaporates entirely.
Google Android devices now have twice the market share of Windows PCs and are growing quickly. Apple has a big slice of the pie too. That means that Microsoft's traditional strategy on the server-side of preferring IE and such is suicidal as it is seeking to leverage its market power over 20% of the clients to control the path of everybody: it's trying to be the tail wagging the dog. And that is probably why Bob Muglia left.
"For people who actually NEED the power, say folks like me who do video transcoding while running accurate physics simulations of sound propagation for commercial acoustic design and/or industrial noise abatement, and would like to still be able to work in their CAD suite with multiple detailed 3D views open, it is quite clearly NOT a "simple fact" that PCs are "insanely overpowered", that's fucking ridiculous you fool! The systems are never powerful enough."
Autodesk does 3D CAD rendering in the cloud now. Imagination Technologies offers a 3D ARM based ray tracing card called Caustic R2500. Transcoding has similar solutions.
You really don't need that screaming monster under your desk any more, nor the awful costs and effort of upkeep that come with it.
This is just a followup to the "article deleted" problem. It has been reinstated at the original link (and the original headline in the link) but with the less dramatic headline "Microsoft Still Can’t Find Its Future. Is It Too Late for the Company?"
Apparently Forbes is learning how the Internet works. Now if they would just fix their website.
You can still find page 1 of the article in Google cache. Thanks to ~darkeye, who submitted that.
This is the same author who wrote "Sell Research in Motion. Now." That in April, 2011 as it began its precipitous dive from $53 to $6.50. His views are controversial, but he has a better track record than many official analysts.
Hollywood accounting.
This looks like a good service for me. Reasonable prices and strong encryption, universal cloud access. Heck of a deal. And it won't hurt my feelings to support the cause.
Here is the equivalent petition for Steve Heymann:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb
Heymann's still needs more signatures to get over the minimum required for a mandatory response.
Volkoh suffers from the same mental illness as Ortiz and Holder: they are all lawyers.
There is some evidence that they are technically incompetent. Their servers were crashed by one kid with a laptop downloading too many articles too fast.
It is the objection. The entire point of doing this research and writing these papers is to "expand the pool of human knowledge". That is the whole motive of "publish or perish": that knowledge be shared, tested, and built upon so that we might have progress in science. Not progress for the privileged few, but progress for all. Not progress slowed by general release of the knowledge after "forever less one day" but right away.
State prisons are different. The federal prison system doesn't have probation or parole any more unless the crime occurred before November 1, 1987. Good time can reduce a sentence to 85%, taking up to 50 days off a year. If you are sentenced to a year, you do 10+ months at least. They also tend to be generally less pleasant to be in because federal punishment is intended only for the most serious crimes and they are packed with the most serious and violent career criminals. Hence when someone is making a big deal of a minor issue, the phrase "making a federal case out of it."
Thank you. Of these you are the one who understood what I was saying.
You have completely misunderstood me. It happens.
Being chewed up by an insanely corrupt system, Aaron had no reason to believe this. Or anything.
Well we are talking about some serious crimes here. 6 months divided by 13 felonies is like what, 14 days each?
Yeah, maybe at least a year for a federal case, or its disproportionate to call it a felony and ruin a guy's life over.
"JSTOR's mission is to foster widespread access to the world's body of scholarly knowledge".
These are not songs pirated for someone's amusement and profit, taking cocaine away from needy media executives. The very purpose of writing them in the first place is to put them in "the pool of human knowledge" that others may learn what they have, test them, and build upon them - that progress might advance for all mankind. Not in "forever less a day" when the copyright expires, but immediately upon publication. This nonprofit organization purports to want them disseminated, not to serve as the gatekeeper that holds them reserved for a privileged and wealthy few.
So. No wonder they didn't want Aaron prosecuted. His proposal was to actually help them fulfill their own mission. In death he has laid their hypocrisy bare.
I've read that he was offered a six month sentence in a plea bargain. Rather than take that offer (which would have given him maybe four to five months in a minimum security facility
Here is a case that expresses the duality of the situation: the judge went far above the prosecutors' recommendations. So. Once you plead guilty to 17 felonies the prosecutor's promise is no guarantee - but there will of course be no appeal. And the sentence in that case, 25 years, was for a myriad of offenses: robbery, attempted murder, kidnapping and so on was less that Ortiz prosecutor proposed for Aaron if he was put to the work of actually trying the case.
Six months offer for 17 felonies would just stoke the fires of outrage. 12 days each? So there was not ever an actual federal case in the lot? This, if true, would be an admission that they were oppressing him without due cause. Of course, there would be no record of it anyway and if were weren't actually involved in the case - say, the US Attorney's husband, we would have no way to know. Him I don't believe.
Not that it matters at all. As another one of Mrs. Ortiz's victims discovered, once they have you in the system they never let you go.
You apologists for this horrifically broken system need to get a grip. This is outrageous.
Carmen asked you to stop doing this Tom. Do her a favor and stop. You are not helping her here.
Strangely I agree with this moderation. If there ever was a day when "redundant" should be an up mod, this is it.