This late in the season for a launch it's likely there is not a lot of this product in the pipeline. Advertising products you can't deliver is stupid - a waste of effort.
Microsoft is still peopled mostly by people who don't know how to write good code, and managers who don't know good code when they see it. Not only has that not changed: it is not going to change. The organization is not, and has never been about getting the code right. It's about pushing the product, making it standard, preventing people from choosing something else through various traps. Some few 'softies are proud of their work and should be: but they are the exception, not the rule.
Your objection can't take away the fact that this really is the rule: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away." The rule is not just about performance - it's also about freedom to use your own data.
If they wanted a cheap netbook to put Linux on, Google is selling Acer's Intel-based dual-core 64bit VT-enabled chromebook with 2GB RAM and a 320GB HDD for $200.
Developers care about the potential market for their apps. With a half-billion installed base each, iOS and Android are serious contenders. If you look at the curves of adoption and the lead time for development, the choice is clear.
What matters is not what app runs on which. What matters is what platform most empowers its buyer to achieve his human goals. That is why we buy your shit.
The iOS money curve had to do with installed base. Android installed based just came even with iOS last June, on a curve to treble it by next June. Before there was little Android installed base relative to iOS, and now there is superlative installed base relative to iOS so Android has more people to buy your apps. This trend is expected to continue until Android has 2,3,10x more customers for your app because Android is moving 5x the units iOS is on a curve that takes them to infinity x.
Short story: your market data is old. Not your fault. This stuff is moving quick.
If you are an app developer and know what a Von Neumann architecture and a "Turing complete" machine is, then no, you can move your app anywhere anytime. If you grew up in the.NET world there will be a learning curve.
Yes. Actually I can do my day job on my SGS III phone mostly, and Android tablet for almost all of the rest. The Android tablet just makes it easier because the screen is bigger and my eyes are old. I can remote into hundreds of servers, research problems on Google, do Citrix to log into our trouble ticket management system and work with those perniciously incompatible Office documents on my XP/W7 desktop VMs. And I can do it remotely via VPN and 4G hotspot. My crew chiefs report in person or communicate via SMS.
What I need a Windows VM for is for the ridiculously stupid HP training website that demands that not only do you use IE, but you do it with admin privileges. Fortunately my admins can build that in Citrix too, and I can do that from my Android tablet without any fear that it's going to hose up my tablet. We can always revert the VM after it's been hosed up.
/HP should be really ashamed of their web presence.
Once upon a time phones were not personal computers. But now personal computers powered by battery, with apps and cellular voice capability also are phones. The two things converged. To say that an iPhone 5 or an SGS 3 is not a personal computer is just stupid. It insults the listener. The thing is personal, and it computes. It is a personal computer. To argue opposing this is to betray a bias for your employer because words mean things.
This artist is about to get global fame beyond her wildest hopes. Literally. Her name is all over the news and the blogs internationally. People have started their tirades on her facebook wall. One Reddit thread has 3000 balance of up/down votes and 2000 comments and will be trending for a week. It's a shame she was never represented by these copyright trolls in the first place, or she would deserve it. Maybe she should sue the trolls? Defamation of character or something?
"Mr. Raymond J. Lane is Executive Chairman of the Board of Hewlett Packard Co., since September 22, 2011. Mr. Lane served as HP's non-executive Chairman since November 2010. Mr. Lane has served as Managing Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a private equity firm, since 2000. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mr. Lane was President and Chief Operating Officer and a director of Oracle Corporation, a software company. Before joining Oracle in 1992, Mr. Lane was a senior partner of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting company. Prior to Booz Allen Hamilton, Mr. Lane served as a division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corporation, an IT services company that HP acquired in August 2008. Mr. Lane is a director of several private companies and is a former director of Quest Software, Inc." - source
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This late in the season for a launch it's likely there is not a lot of this product in the pipeline. Advertising products you can't deliver is stupid - a waste of effort.
Microsoft is still peopled mostly by people who don't know how to write good code, and managers who don't know good code when they see it. Not only has that not changed: it is not going to change. The organization is not, and has never been about getting the code right. It's about pushing the product, making it standard, preventing people from choosing something else through various traps. Some few 'softies are proud of their work and should be: but they are the exception, not the rule.
Your objection can't take away the fact that this really is the rule: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away." The rule is not just about performance - it's also about freedom to use your own data.
The phrase is: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away."
If they wanted a cheap netbook to put Linux on, Google is selling Acer's Intel-based dual-core 64bit VT-enabled chromebook with 2GB RAM and a 320GB HDD for $200.
Oops, I forgot. The battery also.
In the law, ignoring a "turn of phrase" in a court order is called "contempt of court".
Oh, the Kindle fire. Maybe you should put some books in it. Do you want a recommend?
How did I know you would be here?
Developers care about the potential market for their apps. With a half-billion installed base each, iOS and Android are serious contenders. If you look at the curves of adoption and the lead time for development, the choice is clear.
What matters is not what app runs on which. What matters is what platform most empowers its buyer to achieve his human goals. That is why we buy your shit.
Unlike Windows the ability to force the end user to use the software is not a goal. To entice is, but enticing and forcing are different things.
Hunh? Reddit is actually turning into a major political force.
The iOS money curve had to do with installed base. Android installed based just came even with iOS last June, on a curve to treble it by next June. Before there was little Android installed base relative to iOS, and now there is superlative installed base relative to iOS so Android has more people to buy your apps. This trend is expected to continue until Android has 2,3,10x more customers for your app because Android is moving 5x the units iOS is on a curve that takes them to infinity x.
Short story: your market data is old. Not your fault. This stuff is moving quick.
If you are an app developer and know what a Von Neumann architecture and a "Turing complete" machine is, then no, you can move your app anywhere anytime. If you grew up in the .NET world there will be a learning curve.
It's new. I've been meaning to get to the store and buy the double life aftermarket battery and I will. I've been busy. Cut me some slack.
Yes. Actually I can do my day job on my SGS III phone mostly, and Android tablet for almost all of the rest. The Android tablet just makes it easier because the screen is bigger and my eyes are old. I can remote into hundreds of servers, research problems on Google, do Citrix to log into our trouble ticket management system and work with those perniciously incompatible Office documents on my XP/W7 desktop VMs. And I can do it remotely via VPN and 4G hotspot. My crew chiefs report in person or communicate via SMS.
What I need a Windows VM for is for the ridiculously stupid HP training website that demands that not only do you use IE, but you do it with admin privileges. Fortunately my admins can build that in Citrix too, and I can do that from my Android tablet without any fear that it's going to hose up my tablet. We can always revert the VM after it's been hosed up.
/HP should be really ashamed of their web presence.
Once upon a time phones were not personal computers. But now personal computers powered by battery, with apps and cellular voice capability also are phones. The two things converged. To say that an iPhone 5 or an SGS 3 is not a personal computer is just stupid. It insults the listener. The thing is personal, and it computes. It is a personal computer. To argue opposing this is to betray a bias for your employer because words mean things.
You're thinking Windows and the BSA. Android/Linux doesn't have that problem either.
Eventually the lawyers will reap what they sow. It ain't gonna be pretty.
Or to be off-planet at the time. Offsite backups people!
For the iPhone only the processor, RAM, flash memory and touchscreen display. Others totally make the box it comes in.
This artist is about to get global fame beyond her wildest hopes. Literally. Her name is all over the news and the blogs internationally. People have started their tirades on her facebook wall. One Reddit thread has 3000 balance of up/down votes and 2000 comments and will be trending for a week. It's a shame she was never represented by these copyright trolls in the first place, or she would deserve it. Maybe she should sue the trolls? Defamation of character or something?
Well apparently you also enjoy the quality, reliability and price of Samsung products then. That's what your iPhone and MacBook are made of.
I was. I slipped a digit. Make that 100,000 or half a million man years. Unless you pay your programmers a million a year.
"Mr. Raymond J. Lane is Executive Chairman of the Board of Hewlett Packard Co., since September 22, 2011. Mr. Lane served as HP's non-executive Chairman since November 2010. Mr. Lane has served as Managing Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a private equity firm, since 2000. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mr. Lane was President and Chief Operating Officer and a director of Oracle Corporation, a software company. Before joining Oracle in 1992, Mr. Lane was a senior partner of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting company. Prior to Booz Allen Hamilton, Mr. Lane served as a division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corporation, an IT services company that HP acquired in August 2008. Mr. Lane is a director of several private companies and is a former director of Quest Software, Inc." - source
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