If you assume it's an s-curve adoption rate, then the acceleration of adoption in the past month may indicate we are entering the steep part of the curve.
If it catches on at all, it'll only have a minimal market-share.
There were 700 million phones sold in 2004. ipods by comparison are selling at a 20 million unit annual run-rate, based on the last quarter.
It's doesn't have to have massive memory. Why can't it stream from your PC, for instance? You're limiting the solution to the state of the art of today. Lot's of bandwidth to phones on the horizon.
As for the falling disk problem, IBM (and more recently Apple) have announced disks with built-in accelerometers that park when they detect they are being dropped.
My point is, you don't need a high percentage of "being right" to be very successful. Who cares how often his predictions come true? He's Bill Gates, not Nostradamus.
Being very successful gets you access to the media, regardless of how often you are right.
Gates is a very competitive guy, not unlike most successful businessmen.
What did you really expect him to say? ipods will win? cell phones running linux will win? Can you say shareholder lawsuit? Even if you can't, Millberg Weiss can.
Has anyone ever done any reseach on how often Bill Gates has been right in his predictions?
I'm sure that at one time, he predicted that Microsoft would dominate the desktop computing market. It seems he made a few bucks off that, but hey, let's wait and see if it really catches on or it's just a fad.
I believe there is an excellent chance of the mp3 player and cell phone converging into a single device. There are about 1.7 billion cell phones in use today. That means all those people are already carrying around an electronic device. Give them somethign in the same form factor that also plays music and you've got a winner.
As for the part about them all running Windows, let's just say that remains to be seen.
Recoverable or not? Accrued for or not?
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If somebody takes PTO for the day they are out, the time and $$$ has already been accounted for.
If the person makes up for it by working harder or coming in over the weekend, then the lost time is recovered. Lost opportunity is another matter and harder to measure.
It isn't as simple as adding up all the hours and multiplying by the hourly wage, but then again, I don't think the target demographic of the NY Post is people with MBAs.
I like the anorexic version
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It's where you move a really skinny Ms Pacman around and force her to eat the dots.
You've had a long, tedious day at work. You have some money in the bank and decide that you need to spend some of it on yourself rather than hand it over to the Man.
but if this were me described above, I'm spending it on alcohol, or something to give me a cheap thrill.
A geek book that's going to "take an intellectual commitment on the part of the reader" isn't on my top 10 list.
And people wonder why geeks don't get laid more often.
While some OO.o supporters claim that the opposition is primarily the result of misinformed free-software zealots, Microsoft, or astroturfing (the use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular movement) by OO.o opponents, there does seem to be some concrete opposition to OO.o by the free software community.
The most visible evidence of that is that the FSF (Free Software Foundation) is "is looking for volunteers to maintain a version of OpenOffice that doesn't require a non-free Java platform."
Volunteers to lead this project are requested to contact the FSF's founder, Richard M. Stallman
You're welcome to do your own. Depending on which report you read, the number of Mac desktops is estimated to be less than or equal to the number of Linux desktops; in both cases, less than 4%.
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If you assume it's an s-curve adoption rate, then the acceleration of adoption in the past month may indicate we are entering the steep part of the curve.
No.
The breakdown of the top 15 is:
1 82.63% Mozilla
2 14.70% Microsoft Internet Explorer
3 0.46% Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
4 0.25% msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
5 0.25% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
6 0.21% Mediapartners-Google/2.1
7 0.18% Microsoft URL Control - 6.01.9782
8 0.16% Opera/8.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
9 0.10% Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
10 0.07% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
11 0.07% Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en]
12 0.02% Avant Browser (http://www.avantbrowser.com/
13 0.02% Opera/7.20 (Windows NT 5.0; U) [en]
14 0.02% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
15 0.02% Links (2.1pre17; Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r1 i686; x)
Why? Was IE above 90% market-share and fell below 90% sometime prior to 1998?
and growing
A cure for their own disease?
The disease of popularity?
Here they are, trying to address what has been an Achilles heel for them. I'm sure it will get painted here with the brushes of ridicule and scorn.
I already get unlimited GPRS for under $20/month. EDGE won't be measurably more expensive.
If it catches on at all, it'll only have a minimal market-share.
There were 700 million phones sold in 2004. ipods by comparison are selling at a 20 million unit annual run-rate, based on the last quarter.
It's doesn't have to have massive memory. Why can't it stream from your PC, for instance? You're limiting the solution to the state of the art of today. Lot's of bandwidth to phones on the horizon.
As for the falling disk problem, IBM (and more recently Apple) have announced disks with built-in accelerometers that park when they detect they are being dropped.
One or two per day out of how many? 3? 5? 1000?
My point is, you don't need a high percentage of "being right" to be very successful. Who cares how often his predictions come true? He's Bill Gates, not Nostradamus.
Being very successful gets you access to the media, regardless of how often you are right.
Gates is a very competitive guy, not unlike most successful businessmen.
What did you really expect him to say? ipods will win? cell phones running linux will win? Can you say shareholder lawsuit? Even if you can't, Millberg Weiss can.
Fidel, my newest friend, this is a myth. He never said that. Do some research.
Has anyone ever done any reseach on how often Bill Gates has been right in his predictions?
I'm sure that at one time, he predicted that Microsoft would dominate the desktop computing market. It seems he made a few bucks off that, but hey, let's wait and see if it really catches on or it's just a fad.
I believe there is an excellent chance of the mp3 player and cell phone converging into a single device. There are about 1.7 billion cell phones in use today. That means all those people are already carrying around an electronic device. Give them somethign in the same form factor that also plays music and you've got a winner.
As for the part about them all running Windows, let's just say that remains to be seen.
If somebody takes PTO for the day they are out, the time and $$$ has already been accounted for.
If the person makes up for it by working harder or coming in over the weekend, then the lost time is recovered. Lost opportunity is another matter and harder to measure.
It isn't as simple as adding up all the hours and multiplying by the hourly wage, but then again, I don't think the target demographic of the NY Post is people with MBAs.
It's where you move a really skinny Ms Pacman around and force her to eat the dots.
No worries. Thanks!
Maybe some people consider intellectual pursuit to be of greater importance (or of greater fulfillment) than getting laid
Spoken like a true virgin
Please note: I speak as both a man and a woman
Wow, a hermaphrodite! Cool! It must be really meaningful to you when somebody tells you to go fuck yourself, huh?
Both of which load in what seems like an order of magnitude faster than Open Office, I might add.
You've had a long, tedious day at work. You have some money in the bank and decide that you need to spend some of it on yourself rather than hand it over to the Man.
but if this were me described above, I'm spending it on alcohol, or something to give me a cheap thrill.
A geek book that's going to "take an intellectual commitment on the part of the reader" isn't on my top 10 list.
And people wonder why geeks don't get laid more often.
Yeah, the Coral Cache was getting slashdotted.
What article? It's a bunch of fucking green-tinted pictures and one line of German that says, "Hier sind die Bilder vom Ölrechner meines Kumpels:"
Maybe that says, "it's vegetable oil", but you know what? I don't speak German.
Mineral Oil is not nice stuff
Did you see the parts about flammable and a respiratory hazard?
What's next? A guy who uses gasoline for liquid cooling?
May I recommend Fluorinert FC-70?
Not Java. Fork Open Office. Write the whole thing in Lisp if you wish. If yours is the better deal, the world will beat a path to your door.
The objections seem to be emanating from rms.
While some OO.o supporters claim that the opposition is primarily the result of misinformed free-software zealots, Microsoft, or astroturfing (the use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular movement) by OO.o opponents, there does seem to be some concrete opposition to OO.o by the free software community.
The most visible evidence of that is that the FSF (Free Software Foundation) is "is looking for volunteers to maintain a version of OpenOffice that doesn't require a non-free Java platform."
Volunteers to lead this project are requested to contact the FSF's founder, Richard M. Stallman
I don't think you'll see many road warriors adopting 19-inch laptops any time soon, but that's not the intended market.
This laptop is designed for people who need casual portability, like taking the machine home with you at night or on a weekend.
You're welcome to do your own. Depending on which report you read, the number of Mac desktops is estimated to be less than or equal to the number of Linux desktops; in both cases, less than 4%.