Have the guts to say it and then do it. PMs will get onboard when they get nervous that work won't get to clients.
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Why Nokia Is Toast
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Since you obviously need to be spoon-fed, here are the numbers for FY2010:
Total Income: >$8 BILLION
Total Profits: $679 Million
Where are these losses you are talking about?
And to back it up, just one of many sources you could have found: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ms-shifts-10-3m-xbox-360s-in-fy2010
Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award
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It's been a long-term investment - financially and in the brand. I think you will find (if you actually look at the the profits) that it has paid off big time for Microsoft and its partners. We're talking billions here and for several years now.
I believe that software algorithms are able to be used to "throw out" "dirty" data points so that your resulting 3D pointcloud is clean enough for most practical (non-scientific) uses. Or so I've been told by those performing such operations at certain national institutions. I think they know what they are talking about.
Yeah, I'm sure Google didn't offer Unisys any assistance in securing that contract. Also, GSA already had a deal with MS and backed out of it for a solution that didn't meet their requirements after forcing MS to make changes in order to get the contract in the first place. Not to mention that the Unisys deal ships yet more jobs overseas.
So, Google (via Unisys) was allowed to cheat government rules to get a contract (http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2010/12/03/gsa-cloud-microsoft.aspx), but they're going to talk about how Microsoft is breaking rules with this DoI deal? Hypocrites!
The real reason that Wave has failed to gather the following of so many other great ideas is that they launched an experimental product that they hoped would go viral and become wildly successful, but they restricted it to the smallest group of people possible: those that don't use Internet Explorer. They probably thought that the "explosion" of popularity of Wave would help them grab browser market share (or at least take it away from IE), but they failed miserably at that as IE usage is actually up now. The claim was that they were focusing their efforts on the quality of the product or some crap like that, so they didn't want to waste time on IE compatibility, but not supporting the browser that had and still has the largest share of the market is just suicide. And let's face it, it's not like it's that hard to get an AJAX app to work in IE - I did it before it was cool and that app still purrs on IE, Firefox & Safari without me really trying to support them. So it seems to me that Google deliberately "broke" Wave on IE. Which means they did the opposite of what they were claiming to do: not wasting time on IE; instead they wasted time on making it not work and wated time on trying to get browser share. Lesson learned? I doubt it. And I'm pretty sure no one here will agree or learn from the lesson, but at least I've tried. The lesson, in case you didn't get it, is: don't launch a product that people might have a hard time seeing the need for to the most restricted segment of a population: those not running IE (you can apply this to other markets, too).
Use Outlook categories. They are the same thing as tags and you can create search folders in Outlook that can act a one-click access to certain topics as a regular folder would, with the added advantage that you can have more than one tag per item (as others have mentioned). Plus, since it's already available in Outlook, you don't have to move your mail over to GMail, giving them the opportunity to capitolize on your content, unless you're into that.
Then why does my solution fix your problem? Oh, you didn't even try it, did you? You just read the first Google result that came up for the query "limited network connectivity + linux fanboy FUD -site:microsoft.com" and believed every word, didn't you?
This is a problem with your NIC, not Windows. Try changing the Link Speed in the Network Interface configuration from Auto to 100Mbps or 10Mbps (whatever your "perfect" network supports).
I came to the same conclusion about people's perception of CRTs as being inferior and mentioned it while disussing the upcoming SED -based TVs from Canon/Toshiba (SED Inc.) that will unite the quality aspects of traditional CRTs with the thinner form factor of the latest display technology. Keep in mind that several companies are planning to release Thin CRTs as well.
Re:XBConnect and Aquaduct for Multiplayer
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It's not my web site, so don't complain to me. What's "retarded" about it, anyway? I find it to be pretty useful and thoroughly informative. At the very least, it looks better than XBConnect's UI.
Re:XBConnect and Aquaduct for Multiplayer
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The one pro for XBConnect is the number of Halo players on there, but for a better experience (faster, cleaner UI, support for clans and ladders, and packet capturing written from the ground up for better performance with gaming packets vs. WinPCap that XBC and other use), try out XLink. A version with the new packet capture will be out 10/16 and is supposed to be about 10 times better than the version with WinPCap.
XLink is available for Windows, Linux on 10/16 and Mac OSX shortly thereafter.
XLink also works with PS2 and GameCube games that support LAN play. Read more about that at my tech blog.
With resolution at least comparable to CRTs, lower power consumption than plasmas without their reduced lifespan (burnout), inexpensive manufacturing and small form-factor, I think this is going to be the best bet when debuted by Toshiba/Canon next year (2005).
See here and here for more details on Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Displays.
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Have the guts to say it and then do it. PMs will get onboard when they get nervous that work won't get to clients.
Since you obviously need to be spoon-fed, here are the numbers for FY2010: Total Income: >$8 BILLION Total Profits: $679 Million Where are these losses you are talking about? And to back it up, just one of many sources you could have found: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ms-shifts-10-3m-xbox-360s-in-fy2010
It's been a long-term investment - financially and in the brand. I think you will find (if you actually look at the the profits) that it has paid off big time for Microsoft and its partners. We're talking billions here and for several years now.
I believe that software algorithms are able to be used to "throw out" "dirty" data points so that your resulting 3D pointcloud is clean enough for most practical (non-scientific) uses. Or so I've been told by those performing such operations at certain national institutions. I think they know what they are talking about.
Yeah, I'm sure Google didn't offer Unisys any assistance in securing that contract. Also, GSA already had a deal with MS and backed out of it for a solution that didn't meet their requirements after forcing MS to make changes in order to get the contract in the first place. Not to mention that the Unisys deal ships yet more jobs overseas.
So, Google (via Unisys) was allowed to cheat government rules to get a contract (http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2010/12/03/gsa-cloud-microsoft.aspx), but they're going to talk about how Microsoft is breaking rules with this DoI deal? Hypocrites!
The real reason that Wave has failed to gather the following of so many other great ideas is that they launched an experimental product that they hoped would go viral and become wildly successful, but they restricted it to the smallest group of people possible: those that don't use Internet Explorer. They probably thought that the "explosion" of popularity of Wave would help them grab browser market share (or at least take it away from IE), but they failed miserably at that as IE usage is actually up now. The claim was that they were focusing their efforts on the quality of the product or some crap like that, so they didn't want to waste time on IE compatibility, but not supporting the browser that had and still has the largest share of the market is just suicide. And let's face it, it's not like it's that hard to get an AJAX app to work in IE - I did it before it was cool and that app still purrs on IE, Firefox & Safari without me really trying to support them. So it seems to me that Google deliberately "broke" Wave on IE. Which means they did the opposite of what they were claiming to do: not wasting time on IE; instead they wasted time on making it not work and wated time on trying to get browser share. Lesson learned? I doubt it. And I'm pretty sure no one here will agree or learn from the lesson, but at least I've tried. The lesson, in case you didn't get it, is: don't launch a product that people might have a hard time seeing the need for to the most restricted segment of a population: those not running IE (you can apply this to other markets, too).
Outlook has this ability via Categories, of which items can be assigned to several.
Use Outlook categories. They are the same thing as tags and you can create search folders in Outlook that can act a one-click access to certain topics as a regular folder would, with the added advantage that you can have more than one tag per item (as others have mentioned). Plus, since it's already available in Outlook, you don't have to move your mail over to GMail, giving them the opportunity to capitolize on your content, unless you're into that.
Then why does my solution fix your problem? Oh, you didn't even try it, did you? You just read the first Google result that came up for the query "limited network connectivity + linux fanboy FUD -site:microsoft.com" and believed every word, didn't you?
This is a problem with your NIC, not Windows. Try changing the Link Speed in the Network Interface configuration from Auto to 100Mbps or 10Mbps (whatever your "perfect" network supports).
I came to the same conclusion about people's perception of CRTs as being inferior and mentioned it while disussing the upcoming SED -based TVs from Canon/Toshiba (SED Inc.) that will unite the quality aspects of traditional CRTs with the thinner form factor of the latest display technology. Keep in mind that several companies are planning to release Thin CRTs as well.
So that you can use VB or C# and probably other CLR supported languages to write database code.
See here under ".NET Framework Integration."
It's not my web site, so don't complain to me. What's "retarded" about it, anyway? I find it to be pretty useful and thoroughly informative. At the very least, it looks better than XBConnect's UI.
The one pro for XBConnect is the number of Halo players on there, but for a better experience (faster, cleaner UI, support for clans and ladders, and packet capturing written from the ground up for better performance with gaming packets vs. WinPCap that XBC and other use), try out XLink. A version with the new packet capture will be out 10/16 and is supposed to be about 10 times better than the version with WinPCap.
XLink is available for Windows, Linux on 10/16 and Mac OSX shortly thereafter.
XLink also works with PS2 and GameCube games that support LAN play. Read more about that at my tech blog.
With resolution at least comparable to CRTs, lower power consumption than plasmas without their reduced lifespan (burnout), inexpensive manufacturing and small form-factor, I think this is going to be the best bet when debuted by Toshiba/Canon next year (2005). See here and here for more details on Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Displays.