Look, the desktop is getting irrelevant. You just need a PC of whatever-OS to access the cloud.
Microsoft has the following problems:
- does not understand the internet, thus the cloud
- it made itself an enemy of open source and open standards for ideological reasons why the competitors make smart use of it.
- the desktop is going to fade out.
- Vista is not well received. All they can possibly get with operating system investments is a sustention of their market share
- it gets difficult to sustain the stock growth rates of the past and profit expectations and investors are getting nervous and want higher dividends.
- the limits of growth hit them hard. So they go on a shopping tour and buy "old online" or share of other markets such as game consoles. Two strategies: Either you invest a whole lot of money to attempt stealing a market or you invest in overpriced online companies such as Yahoo.
The Xbox as a competitor is a reason why they won't take a Windows platform flavour. The enemy of your competitor is your friend.
It doesn't matter if the platform is released but the game console related improvements will lead to changes to the platform and the kernel, just as Windows95 was not really suitable for games Linux will be transformed through its use for gaming.
Well, you really don't need to touch the kernel and can use it precompiled. With new Desktop Environments as LXDE there is a fair chance that the complexity mistakes made with KDE and Gnome will not be made again. Ideally your hardware provider gets your hardware run with the kernel.
Indeed it demonstrates the cowardness of the Kernel developers. Ext4 included but not Reiser. A sad expression of the moral state of the kernel project. After they delayed Reiser inclusion for ages.
I think your comments are offensive. It is a real shame what Novell made out of Suse. No wonder most of them left. Maybe you can imagine that some people find the dominance of the English language quite offensive. It feels like colonialisation.
Right. But does the person who commits suicide know? When you dig into his business and his connections 'raison d'etat' or extralegal killing sounds more reasonable to me. 'Suicide' sounds honourable. Accident sounds not plausible. I am sure the authorities will investigate the case.
1. He was a key witness against Rove. If he was murdered or forced into suicide then his family and the public has the right to know. Mainstream news media reported he has been warned in advance.
2. What I do know first hand are his business partners and their business pratices. He worked in the field of the most dirty and slanderous public affairs and was no "computer guru" or simple website editor. (*)
3. The US-Republican party needs to learn decent campaigning and leave slander to the liberals. I think it is a matter of 'reason of state' to get rid off these persons. If he committed suicide that would certainly help to restore his honour.
Do I believe in conspiracy theories? -- No. Do I think he has been murdered?
Well, you know, it is like you find Al Capone in his blood below a skyscraper. He slipped on the 44th floor, a banana...
(*) This is why additionally your moral argument is wrong. These guys introduced new methods of slanderous communication to the political arena. His creator won't like his "catholic" methods.
And I do know what 'catholics' and these rogue campaigners did to my friends and me. I cannot get my life restored and no one will get me compensation for what was done to me but a cold vendetta is helpful to restore justice. If I were dictator of the US I would obliterate all of them.
I didn't see Mike a lot in the past year as everyone just hunkered down on the roles for the McCain campaign. Mike did take time out of his day to give me a call when in the summer I was a little worried about what was going to happen post election. Win or as we did, lose, everything was coming to the end and I had so many other pressures at the time that I was ready to pack it in. Mike got on the phone and with his reassuring voice told me everything would be OK and it was hard not to believe him.
We have been confidentially informed by a source we believe to be credible that Karl Rove has threatened Michael Connell, a principal witness we have identified in our King Lincoln case in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, that if he does not agree to "take the fall" for election fraud in Ohio, his wife Heather will be prosecuted for supposed lobby law violations
On September 17, 2008, a Republican election whistleblower and data security expert named Stephen Spoonamore filed a sworn affidavit filed in federal court in the above voter fraud case in which he stated that Mike Connell "agrees that the electronic voting systems in the US are not secure" and that Connell had told Spoonamore in 2007 "that he (Connell) is afraid some of the more ruthless partisans of the GOP may have exploited systems he in part worked on for this purpose." Spoonamore further explained that "Mr. Connell builds front end applications, user interfaces and web sites." Spoonamore said, "I believe however he knows who is doing that [election rigging] work, and has likely turned a blind eye to this activity. Mr. Connell is a devout Catholic. He has admitted to me that in his zeal to 'save the unborn' he may have helped others who have compromised elections. He was clearly uncomfortable when I asked directly about Ohio 2004."
Capital is not tied to persons. After the great depression the nazi party came to power and they punished the jews in a scapegoat manner. I hope no new political movement will hunt down bankers... Capital by definition has nothing to do with people or nations or moral. Interestingly the communist intellectuals always understood that, but not the communist pratictioners who found it rather useful to slay the "capitalists". Your bank is not responsible for selling you a toxic bond if the rating was AAA. It acted in a rational way as you did when you invested in these bonds. The reasons are systemic failure. I guess the US is the only nation where the public still overstresses the personality aspect of capital with the CEOs as high priests (where is Steve Jobs gone btw.?) It is a myth. The economy is like in a cybernetic system. It is not a matter of moral to invest in Exxon or Microsoft as long as these companies generate sufficient profit, real profit or stock market gain.
In 1929 business still relied on real production, not not imaginative value, immaterial assets as market price or patents. The physical production didn't burst but the immaterial world, the stock markets, and it had great depressive effects on the economy. 2000 and 2008 we see the collapse of value that basically wasn't there in the first place. And this time keynesian intervention does not help as it was made impossible through international independence of capital. What I think our governments will come up with is a crackdown on offshore accounts. After all it is time to stop the money laundry instruments of the Russion and Chinese mafia.
Personally I wonder why they want to abandon Windows XP support at all, Windows XP looks like a perfect cash cow for me, no need for further investments, most of the bugs are fixed and you can even skin it to look like Vista.
I don't understand why they want to abandon XP. I other word, they want to leave the Netbook market to Linux. Fine with me as long it is not Xandros. If you take LXDE instead of GNOME and KDE it still provides you with all you need. The Desktop is mature. It doesn't matter which operating system you run as long as it is fast and saves your battery.
Microsoft does not get it. The Desktop is mature. You don't need to provide Vista to your users. No one likes Vista. Instead they come up with Windows 7, in other words Vista++. Be sure Windows7 will eat even more memory. And users will again say: get us XP or we switch to Linux or we switch to Mac.
The real debacle for Microsoft is the merging business of software reselling. In other words, if Microsoft does not get you a Windows license, your used software vendor will, and you also have all the old machines and their licenses you can sell for cheap. Because Microsoft is going to get "cheap XP" and zero-cost Linux as competitors of "Windows Azurecloud".
If you run XP and your computer gets damaged then why do you have to get a new XP license with your new notebook? Bundling is a total ripoff! Time to complain. In some nations the courts made bundling illegal!
The day the bundling business dies we kiss Microsoft goodbye.
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Oh, where is Altavista gone?
Search engines, you mean "live search"?
Look, the desktop is getting irrelevant. You just need a PC of whatever-OS to access the cloud.
Microsoft has the following problems:
- does not understand the internet, thus the cloud
- it made itself an enemy of open source and open standards for ideological reasons why the competitors make smart use of it.
- the desktop is going to fade out.
- Vista is not well received. All they can possibly get with operating system investments is a sustention of their market share
- it gets difficult to sustain the stock growth rates of the past and profit expectations and investors are getting nervous and want higher dividends.
- the limits of growth hit them hard. So they go on a shopping tour and buy "old online" or share of other markets such as game consoles. Two strategies: Either you invest a whole lot of money to attempt stealing a market or you invest in overpriced online companies such as Yahoo.
The Xbox as a competitor is a reason why they won't take a Windows platform flavour. The enemy of your competitor is your friend.
It doesn't matter if the platform is released but the game console related improvements will lead to changes to the platform and the kernel, just as Windows95 was not really suitable for games Linux will be transformed through its use for gaming.
Band-in-a-box is wonderful software. It serves the real user needs.
In this case it is quite obvious that the request is a 'troll' from competitors.
Basically the next generation games consoles will be based on Linux + some API.
So the solution would be to standardize SVGA?
Well, you really don't need to touch the kernel and can use it precompiled. With new Desktop Environments as LXDE there is a fair chance that the complexity mistakes made with KDE and Gnome will not be made again. Ideally your hardware provider gets your hardware run with the kernel.
Yes, but still the USB that worked previouisly fails...
Indeed it demonstrates the cowardness of the Kernel developers. Ext4 included but not Reiser. A sad expression of the moral state of the kernel project. After they delayed Reiser inclusion for ages.
Ireland is a sad English colony. As if it wasn't enough that the Irish were starved to death by the colonialists.
Well, anyway, I could be French as well.
I think your comments are offensive. It is a real shame what Novell made out of Suse. No wonder most of them left. Maybe you can imagine that some people find the dominance of the English language quite offensive. It feels like colonialisation.
It is a potential rationale for a person to commit suicide that way. It doesn't matter if it is the best way as long as the person believes it.
Right. But does the person who commits suicide know? When you dig into his business and his connections 'raison d'etat' or extralegal killing sounds more reasonable to me. 'Suicide' sounds honourable. Accident sounds not plausible. I am sure the authorities will investigate the case.
1. He was a key witness against Rove. If he was murdered or forced into suicide then his family and the public has the right to know. Mainstream news media reported he has been warned in advance.
2. What I do know first hand are his business partners and their business pratices. He worked in the field of the most dirty and slanderous public affairs and was no "computer guru" or simple website editor. (*)
3. The US-Republican party needs to learn decent campaigning and leave slander to the liberals. I think it is a matter of 'reason of state' to get rid off these persons. If he committed suicide that would certainly help to restore his honour.
Do I believe in conspiracy theories? -- No.
Do I think he has been murdered?
Well, you know, it is like you find Al Capone in his blood below a skyscraper. He slipped on the 44th floor, a banana ...
(*) This is why additionally your moral argument is wrong. These guys introduced new methods of slanderous communication to the political arena. His creator won't like his "catholic" methods.
And I do know what 'catholics' and these rogue campaigners did to my friends and me. I cannot get my life restored and no one will get me compensation for what was done to me but a cold vendetta is helpful to restore justice. If I were dictator of the US I would obliterate all of them.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connell
It is enough for me to know that he had ties to the DCI group. The Birma-Microsoft-Exxon astroturf guys.
Read his Sourcewatch article and think about his ties with the DCI group.
Here is another one.
They also have a donation website ready for his family.
It sounds more like forced suicide, Sourcewatch:
Just look at his SourceWatch article:
Actually forced suicide has a long tradition. For instance Erwin Rommel, a German Field Marshall, better known as the "Desert Fox"
Actually a plane crash can be a means to commit suicide and ensure that your family gets life insurance.
Capital is not tied to persons. After the great depression the nazi party came to power and they punished the jews in a scapegoat manner. I hope no new political movement will hunt down bankers... Capital by definition has nothing to do with people or nations or moral. Interestingly the communist intellectuals always understood that, but not the communist pratictioners who found it rather useful to slay the "capitalists". Your bank is not responsible for selling you a toxic bond if the rating was AAA. It acted in a rational way as you did when you invested in these bonds. The reasons are systemic failure. I guess the US is the only nation where the public still overstresses the personality aspect of capital with the CEOs as high priests (where is Steve Jobs gone btw.?) It is a myth. The economy is like in a cybernetic system. It is not a matter of moral to invest in Exxon or Microsoft as long as these companies generate sufficient profit, real profit or stock market gain.
As a result of the crisis I think the US will adopt Ainternational accounting standards (IAS) which are more conservative than US-GAAP.
In 1929 business still relied on real production, not not imaginative value, immaterial assets as market price or patents. The physical production didn't burst but the immaterial world, the stock markets, and it had great depressive effects on the economy. 2000 and 2008 we see the collapse of value that basically wasn't there in the first place. And this time keynesian intervention does not help as it was made impossible through international independence of capital. What I think our governments will come up with is a crackdown on offshore accounts. After all it is time to stop the money laundry instruments of the Russion and Chinese mafia.
Personally I wonder why they want to abandon Windows XP support at all, Windows XP looks like a perfect cash cow for me, no need for further investments, most of the bugs are fixed and you can even skin it to look like Vista.
I don't understand why they want to abandon XP. I other word, they want to leave the Netbook market to Linux. Fine with me as long it is not Xandros. If you take LXDE instead of GNOME and KDE it still provides you with all you need. The Desktop is mature. It doesn't matter which operating system you run as long as it is fast and saves your battery.
Microsoft does not get it. The Desktop is mature. You don't need to provide Vista to your users. No one likes Vista. Instead they come up with Windows 7, in other words Vista++. Be sure Windows7 will eat even more memory. And users will again say: get us XP or we switch to Linux or we switch to Mac.
The real debacle for Microsoft is the merging business of software reselling. In other words, if Microsoft does not get you a Windows license, your used software vendor will, and you also have all the old machines and their licenses you can sell for cheap. Because Microsoft is going to get "cheap XP" and zero-cost Linux as competitors of "Windows Azurecloud".
If you run XP and your computer gets damaged then why do you have to get a new XP license with your new notebook? Bundling is a total ripoff! Time to complain. In some nations the courts made bundling illegal!
The day the bundling business dies we kiss Microsoft goodbye.