Obviously I can't mod you up. Thanks, AC. You gave me the clue I needed to understand what's going on here. AMZN is clearly one to watch closely as they're navigating more like a fighter pilot than a barge captain. There's still a lot of risk, as far more fighter jets suffer catastrophe than barges do, but it's hard to win a war from a barge.
These days a BA in Computer Science qualifies you to install Windows and Office. Over, and over, and over. And to render helpdesk assistance to the person who can't press F8 because his crumbs destroyed that function of his keyboard. Do you want to make that your career? Do you want to be the guy who really has to ask "is it plugged in?" not because it's in his script or because he wants to, but because that really usually is the answer to the problem? To clean PCs of malware? That's what's in store for you with a BA in CS.
Get a degree in business, or better yet band together with your potential schoolmates and develop a killer Android app. Then you can skip the whole college thing. They teach programming in elementary school now, but in college they still teach how to use Office applications.
Android is open source, and lets people do what they will with it. Some people will do dumb things. Almost all of the Android malware issue seems to be with people who don't have Google Play, and in places not relevant to most of us, or people who sideload apps from random websites, and such. You know, I'm fine with people deciding to take that risk and enjoying the benefit or suffering the consequences. That's what freedom is about.
When you're using Windows desktops, all your "inside" is "outside". Google at least learned after their big oops and corrected this situation. I bet Aramco didn't, and will have the issue again in nine months or so.
Hand counting has a couple advantages. The counters, being voters, have an interest in keeping things honest. They also suffer the consequences of stolen elections and so are alert to the attempts. Machines don't have these features.
Nokia's destiny is to be a filing cabinet full of patent licenses in Bellevue, Wa managed by 6 paralegals and one part-time lawyer. This fate is sealed. The full cabinet to the left is marked "Sendo" and the empty cabinet to the right is marked "Adobe".
Just because a new version is released doesn't mean the API is deprecated. Google hasn't obsoleted any APIs yet. If you code for Android 1.0, it still runs on devices that have 4.0.3. You could code an app to Android 1.0 right now and sell it, though there is no reason to unless the app doesn't require more modern uses. The modern uses are interesting though, and more likely to sell your app. It is thus through persuasion rather than forcing that Google migrates its developers to more modern versions. Microsoft though is more like "code to our latest library or get the heck out."
Bing Challenge is turning into a self-parody that defeats its purpose more than a Google ad would. I wouldn't worry about it. It's an example of how poorly Microsoft can buy advertising - and they're already a spectacle in the field in that regard. How they manage to defeat their own purposes in their advertising is a wonder to behold. If it's not deliberate it takes a special realm of incompetence to achieve this level of dissonance. It has long been my opinion that the executive team responsible for marketing so abuses their creatives that they deliberately deliver the worst possible product the executive team will accept for spite, and this metric survives across multiple generations of creatives. They give us these wonders for spite. Bill Gates wiggling his butt, really? That is proof of the premise.
I'm a huge Steve Ballmer fan. I really love the direction he's taking the company. He's taking bold risks and exploring new avenues to give stockholders the returns they deserve. His work with partners - notably HP, Dell, Sony and Nokia are laudable: he's convinced them to operate on negative margins to Microsoft's benefit, even though their stocks are plumbing decadal lows on the stock market even on the eve of a new Windows launch. The man seems to have magical powers to lure others to their doom. You gotta give him that.
I hear he's now heard about this whole "mobile" thing, and is working his legendary genius to start to study whether or not it's important. Once he figures this out we might have some innovation in mobile from Microsoft. In the meantime we'll just have to muddle along with what we can get from second tier innovators like Apple and Google.
Tell that to Microsoft, RIM or Symbian, who still have yet to ship a single dual-core phone in September 2012, nearly a year after the first quad-core phones started selling in China.
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Did you manage to post that without peeing on yourself?
Obviously I can't mod you up. Thanks, AC. You gave me the clue I needed to understand what's going on here. AMZN is clearly one to watch closely as they're navigating more like a fighter pilot than a barge captain. There's still a lot of risk, as far more fighter jets suffer catastrophe than barges do, but it's hard to win a war from a barge.
These days a BA in Computer Science qualifies you to install Windows and Office. Over, and over, and over. And to render helpdesk assistance to the person who can't press F8 because his crumbs destroyed that function of his keyboard. Do you want to make that your career? Do you want to be the guy who really has to ask "is it plugged in?" not because it's in his script or because he wants to, but because that really usually is the answer to the problem? To clean PCs of malware? That's what's in store for you with a BA in CS.
Get a degree in business, or better yet band together with your potential schoolmates and develop a killer Android app. Then you can skip the whole college thing. They teach programming in elementary school now, but in college they still teach how to use Office applications.
Android is open source, and lets people do what they will with it. Some people will do dumb things. Almost all of the Android malware issue seems to be with people who don't have Google Play, and in places not relevant to most of us, or people who sideload apps from random websites, and such. You know, I'm fine with people deciding to take that risk and enjoying the benefit or suffering the consequences. That's what freedom is about.
Yeah, as a solo buyer it's pretty much guaranteed. BTW: How does AMZN have a PER of 312? They're awesome but they're not 20x Apple awesome.
When you're using Windows desktops, all your "inside" is "outside". Google at least learned after their big oops and corrected this situation. I bet Aramco didn't, and will have the issue again in nine months or so.
At $300 install Google is probably already losing money. Hopefully the cable tv option will be popular.
In America our Diebold electronic voting machines are so efficient that we already have the tally, and the polls don't even open for two months!
Hand counting has a couple advantages. The counters, being voters, have an interest in keeping things honest. They also suffer the consequences of stolen elections and so are alert to the attempts. Machines don't have these features.
Mo No Po Ly. Look it up.
... and it doesn't need to be.
Tell us how you really feel.
Nokia's destiny is to be a filing cabinet full of patent licenses in Bellevue, Wa managed by 6 paralegals and one part-time lawyer. This fate is sealed. The full cabinet to the left is marked "Sendo" and the empty cabinet to the right is marked "Adobe".
I'll take that as high praise. Thanks.
Just because a new version is released doesn't mean the API is deprecated. Google hasn't obsoleted any APIs yet. If you code for Android 1.0, it still runs on devices that have 4.0.3. You could code an app to Android 1.0 right now and sell it, though there is no reason to unless the app doesn't require more modern uses. The modern uses are interesting though, and more likely to sell your app. It is thus through persuasion rather than forcing that Google migrates its developers to more modern versions. Microsoft though is more like "code to our latest library or get the heck out."
Bing Challenge is turning into a self-parody that defeats its purpose more than a Google ad would. I wouldn't worry about it. It's an example of how poorly Microsoft can buy advertising - and they're already a spectacle in the field in that regard. How they manage to defeat their own purposes in their advertising is a wonder to behold. If it's not deliberate it takes a special realm of incompetence to achieve this level of dissonance. It has long been my opinion that the executive team responsible for marketing so abuses their creatives that they deliberately deliver the worst possible product the executive team will accept for spite, and this metric survives across multiple generations of creatives. They give us these wonders for spite. Bill Gates wiggling his butt, really? That is proof of the premise.
Once you root it the HD7 makes a good gPod with Android. A shame about the software.
I'm a huge Steve Ballmer fan. I really love the direction he's taking the company. He's taking bold risks and exploring new avenues to give stockholders the returns they deserve. His work with partners - notably HP, Dell, Sony and Nokia are laudable: he's convinced them to operate on negative margins to Microsoft's benefit, even though their stocks are plumbing decadal lows on the stock market even on the eve of a new Windows launch. The man seems to have magical powers to lure others to their doom. You gotta give him that.
I hear he's now heard about this whole "mobile" thing, and is working his legendary genius to start to study whether or not it's important. Once he figures this out we might have some innovation in mobile from Microsoft. In the meantime we'll just have to muddle along with what we can get from second tier innovators like Apple and Google.
Sad to see an otherwise nifty product Binged like that. I guess that's a paid ad too. An ad for Bing.
Tell that to Microsoft, RIM or Symbian, who still have yet to ship a single dual-core phone in September 2012, nearly a year after the first quad-core phones started selling in China.
"Only" 70k per day is 25 million units per year. For a tablet OS that's 18 months old that's a pretty good rate.
It only looks small against that 1.3 million figure, which is 475 million units annualized.
I just don't agree it's stuck. And I don't agree that this is a big deal at all.
Pretty much, yeah.
Android isn't Windows.
Cutting edge features of the latest OS are useful if you have a premium app that can command a premium price. No surprise here.