Hollywood, in general, tends to support the left more than the right.
It does neither. "Hollywood", for lack of a better term, is a business. Pretty much everything they do is predicated on making money, like any other business.
You're missing the point. As I said above, there's a difference between hardcore users and genpop. My mom's a great example. A simple, lightweight email/web/skype tablet, and she's all set. And ~500Mhz of processing power is all you really need for that.
Being saying since the Pentium II days. This "always-be-upgrading-the-latest-spec" is fine for hardcore users, but for everybody else, "good enough" happened quite a few hardware generations ago. The sad part is that we're only now having this conversation.
Past tense, exactly. That "winning" strategy led to stagnation and to the current trend of IE no longer being supremely dominant. It's also worth pointing out that IE6's inertia reveals that the MS upgrade express train is not running quite like MS hoped. If I was them, I'd rather lose the browser wars than a good chunk of my customer base.
Out of curiosity, why do you think it didn't work out so well for them re: the internet?
I read a good chunk of Bill's book The Road Ahead maybe a couple of years after the internet went mainstream (the book was published in '95). His comments, thoughts and strategies showed that the man did not have clue one about what he was getting into. Oh wait, Ballmer's in charge now? Naaah, I'm still not worried.
MS as we knew it is dead. Only thing still carrying it is inertia.
Just remember come tax time next year, it's partly your taxes* that make sure MS doesn't abuse its monopoly.
Not me bub, I'm a canuck. Besides, that sentence is laughable. US regulatory agencies have become such a joke it's not funny anymore.
The very fact that employees have to be told to disclose who they are and treat other users with respect, and not to give away confidential information is yet another brick in the wall of evidence that Liberal Western society is on the downfall.
Dude, quit hogging the paint. I want to huff some too.
Aren't you wonderful? Certainly not the first idiot I've had to explain this to:
Not a big fan of Israeli policies != Anti-Jew.
The simple fact is, the US will, and has done, for Israel, shit they didn't do for any other of their so-called 'allies'. Which, on the surface, is fine by me. But don't go around like you're impartial and shit, like the US pretends to be.
Actually, no. The US political system is, by design, set up in such a way that minority blocks do wield disproportionate power. "Tyrany of the majority" wasn't just a handy catchphrase.
To be fair, I also have corporate espionage issues. For example, we do not dispose of any waste paper. It gets carried home by me, shredded, and turned into mulch via our very active compost pile at home.
If I get infected with something that wipes out/corrupts my data, they have a copy.
Yawn. The backup to the backup should be in the managing partner's house. It's ultimately his or her job anyway.
They have a dedicated IT staff that specifically manages the security and integrity of my data. I do not.
They have facilities specifically designed to safely store my data. I may not.
Talking different levels of money here, that's all. Online storage is cheaper in that regard, but is it worth what you lose by managing it yourself? For a law firm, the answer's no. For most other businesses, the answer's also no, unless you're so magnificently tiny that it just doesn't pay. Which sounds like a pretty slim market to me.
Speaking as someone who runs a small law firm, parent has it mostly right, especially in regards to the document scanner. We live and die on paper, so we make a lot of effort to keep the physical and digital versions safe. As for online storage, HDs are cheap, and even several million pages of text documents won't break anyone's bank.
I've never understood the online storage appeal for just about any commercial entity, but for a law firm, that just ain't gonna happen.
Jesus, how shortsighted you are. This is exactly one of the things Slashdot is for.
Not to mention it's Easter weekend, which makes a "slow news day" look like a frenzy of activity.
Now, there's actual things to bitch about here, like the shitty revamped UI, and the fact that moderation is in desperate need of an overhaul. Whiny shit like your post just wastes even more time then the "fluff" article you decry.
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Hollywood, in general, tends to support the left more than the right.
It does neither. "Hollywood", for lack of a better term, is a business. Pretty much everything they do is predicated on making money, like any other business.
You're missing the point. As I said above, there's a difference between hardcore users and genpop. My mom's a great example. A simple, lightweight email/web/skype tablet, and she's all set. And ~500Mhz of processing power is all you really need for that.
Being saying since the Pentium II days. This "always-be-upgrading-the-latest-spec" is fine for hardcore users, but for everybody else, "good enough" happened quite a few hardware generations ago. The sad part is that we're only now having this conversation.
It's the Retail way.
Fixed that for you.
John, I read your book and I want my money back, you boring bastard!
worked
Past tense, exactly. That "winning" strategy led to stagnation and to the current trend of IE no longer being supremely dominant. It's also worth pointing out that IE6's inertia reveals that the MS upgrade express train is not running quite like MS hoped. If I was them, I'd rather lose the browser wars than a good chunk of my customer base.
Out of curiosity, why do you think it didn't work out so well for them re: the internet?
I read a good chunk of Bill's book The Road Ahead maybe a couple of years after the internet went mainstream (the book was published in '95). His comments, thoughts and strategies showed that the man did not have clue one about what he was getting into. Oh wait, Ballmer's in charge now? Naaah, I'm still not worried.
MS as we knew it is dead. Only thing still carrying it is inertia.
Just remember come tax time next year, it's partly your taxes* that make sure MS doesn't abuse its monopoly.
Not me bub, I'm a canuck. Besides, that sentence is laughable. US regulatory agencies have become such a joke it's not funny anymore.
Clearly Microsoft's agenda is to use their existing desktop monopoly to grab a monopoly in the cloud.
Since that didn't work out so well for them re: the internet, I'm not all that worried.
The very fact that employees have to be told to disclose who they are and treat other users with respect, and not to give away confidential information is yet another brick in the wall of evidence that Liberal Western society is on the downfall.
Dude, quit hogging the paint. I want to huff some too.
You're spouting Jewish-shadow-government-conspiracy bullshit.
Please, point to the part of my statement that talk about "shadow" governments, and your preposterous crap won't be so full of fail.
What, no comic book love? This reminds me think of Orion's Sun Disc, from Matt Wagner's Grendel series.
Aren't you wonderful? Certainly not the first idiot I've had to explain this to:
Not a big fan of Israeli policies != Anti-Jew.
The simple fact is, the US will, and has done, for Israel, shit they didn't do for any other of their so-called 'allies'. Which, on the surface, is fine by me. But don't go around like you're impartial and shit, like the US pretends to be.
Thanks for playing, asshole!
where a very small voting block
Actually, no. The US political system is, by design, set up in such a way that minority blocks do wield disproportionate power. "Tyrany of the majority" wasn't just a handy catchphrase.
it's rather shocking that AIPAC has enough pull in congress to be able to hold out committee chairmanships as bribes.
Only to those of you recently clued in on Israel's stranglehold over US politics.
To be fair, I also have corporate espionage issues. For example, we do not dispose of any waste paper. It gets carried home by me, shredded, and turned into mulch via our very active compost pile at home.
an awful looking hat.
You mean helmet. Heh. I just said 'helmet'.
If my building burns down, they have a copy.
If I get infected with something that wipes out/corrupts my data, they have a copy.
Yawn. The backup to the backup should be in the managing partner's house. It's ultimately his or her job anyway.
They have a dedicated IT staff that specifically manages the security and integrity of my data. I do not.
They have facilities specifically designed to safely store my data. I may not.
Talking different levels of money here, that's all. Online storage is cheaper in that regard, but is it worth what you lose by managing it yourself? For a law firm, the answer's no. For most other businesses, the answer's also no, unless you're so magnificently tiny that it just doesn't pay. Which sounds like a pretty slim market to me.
Yawn. Who didn't see this coming a million miles away?
Speaking as someone who runs a small law firm, parent has it mostly right, especially in regards to the document scanner. We live and die on paper, so we make a lot of effort to keep the physical and digital versions safe. As for online storage, HDs are cheap, and even several million pages of text documents won't break anyone's bank.
I've never understood the online storage appeal for just about any commercial entity, but for a law firm, that just ain't gonna happen.
Jesus, how shortsighted you are. This is exactly one of the things Slashdot is for.
Not to mention it's Easter weekend, which makes a "slow news day" look like a frenzy of activity.
Now, there's actual things to bitch about here, like the shitty revamped UI, and the fact that moderation is in desperate need of an overhaul. Whiny shit like your post just wastes even more time then the "fluff" article you decry.
Now, go suck your mom's cock.
Nice trolling there.
He's not trolling. He's just being uneducated when he thinks Bush the second started the practice.
Are you sure you RTFA?
Fixed that for you.
Wins again.
Flame away.
to say "Look, I'm getting some very troubling readings here that suggest that a major earthquake is imminent."
Which would have been met with, at best, polite disinterest. So, in practical terms, the result would have been the same.
I bleme the belief that the goal of an UI is to lower the required understanding (and thus salary) of the operators.
Why do you hate stockholders?