I'd rather not buy Office at all and use Google Docs, but I'm sure MS is happy to take $50 from me now and again when a project demands something more sophisticated. The alternative is that I stop giving them any money altogether, and while that'd be great for me, I doubt MS particularly wants to get behind that.
To be humbled, to be made to feel small or modest. Pretty standard bit of English. Seems a natural reaction to being put into a massively auspicious position. You're not a robot powered by a 1900s dictionary and a copy of Stunk and White-Out are you?
They'll release another product that protects them from being "squeezed out" by Google's growing cloud computing services? Oh no, what a terrible business that would be. Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
Cloud services is one of the few parts of MS that is both making money and growing. I'd say that's a pretty strong signal about who their customers actually are, and what those customers actually want.
You want MS to be Sony, Nintendo, or Apple. Unfortunately the dream of that MS died when the skunk works team behind the original Xbox were squeezed out. Better they become a productive business company than continue as a half-assed consumer one.
They just don't understand that they have to compete with piracy. They get mired in the moral issue and overlook the simple economic one: it's an alternative option that people can choose that for many forms of media is so much better in convenience and price that it's worth the vanishingly small chance of a comically inflated financial penalty. The "No You Shouldn't" blind spot is killing them.
To serve their stakeholders, private companies must maximise net revenue, while publicly traded companies must maximise share price. The means to achieve those two goals are not always the same, because very often the market price is decided by idiots.
So your example of a nice, predictable weapon is a stream of bullets subject to gravity and wind, or a self-guided package of explosives, while your idea of unpredictability is a collimated beam of photons.
These are basically all the possible ways to recharge a wristwatch that currently exist, except for physical mechanical contacts. This shouldn't be surprising because if there's one thing history has taught us, it's that Apple tries out practically every permutation of hardware in the R&D process. There were rumours that the "Apple tablet" would come in three screen sizes; it was later revealed that Apple had been testing three sizes on its campus to decide which one it preferred. There were rumours that they'd launch a version with no mechanical buttons; it was disclosed that Apple had tested that permutation too.
Whenever you read an Apple product rumour, before you even question the legitimacy of the source, ask yourself: is there any reason to suppose this is any more than a speculative prototype on their part?
That's a good point - a WiiU without the touchpad controller at a lower price might have been a big seller. Although they'd have to fight uphill against consumer confusion between that and the original Wii.
Wii Fit was one of the biggest successes of the original Wii. There were literally lines. So I don't see that it's so unusual that Nintendo think it'll be one of (emphasis: one of) their future product growth areas.
The WiiU's performance has little to do with it launching 18 months before the PS4 and Xbone. They could've launched a system maybe 80% as powerful as either of those using the parts available, as opposed to something that's 120% as powerful as a PS3 or 360. The low performance is a design trade-off that was necessary if they wanted to have that touchscreen controller in the box and a price south of $500. Nintendo did well betting on low prices, new input methods and low performance on the Wii; unfortunately, they bet wrong by attempting to repeat the trick in an era where mobile pricing has put cheap gaming into a "race to the bottom".
They should've staked out the high end with Sony and MS where mobile is less disruptive, but the WiiU would have been too far along in development by the time that issue became clear. (Sony have recently remarked that they could tell the Vita was going to have problems with mobile well before it launched in 2012, and have had to try to change the console's goals without the opportunity to change actual product.)
Nintendo released Wii Fit about five years ago, Walk With Me for the DS about four years ago, the 3DS with a step counter three years ago, were discussing a Wii pulse reader until two years ago, and just last year released a new version of Wii Fit that incorporates an upgraded version of Walk With Me.
I know that's a bit much to go over but you've been so spectacularly counterfactual that I have to wonder if you just hid away from gaming entirely for the last half decade to have drawn the conclusion that it was "the latest bandwagon" for the company.
Unfortunately there are lots of organisations like this and they seem to be immune. I gave up trying to figure out how many groups (Copyright Licencing Agency being the top of the list) could be claiming "licencing fees" for the right to reprint journal articles I've written*, and just wrote it off as a loss. I suspect almost everyone else the CLA is ostensibly collecting fees for too.
Nope, there's no corresponding opposite pole in the system they've created. It's a genuine magnetic monopole quasiparticle, albeit one that only exists as the product of tweaking the magnetic field of a Bose-Einstein condensate.
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He's writing content that Slashdot likes to read, and then submitting it to Slashdot, where Slashdot users decide to read it? That son of a bitch.
I'd rather not buy Office at all and use Google Docs, but I'm sure MS is happy to take $50 from me now and again when a project demands something more sophisticated. The alternative is that I stop giving them any money altogether, and while that'd be great for me, I doubt MS particularly wants to get behind that.
I think he needs to read more.
To be humbled, to be made to feel small or modest. Pretty standard bit of English. Seems a natural reaction to being put into a massively auspicious position. You're not a robot powered by a 1900s dictionary and a copy of Stunk and White-Out are you?
They'll release another product that protects them from being "squeezed out" by Google's growing cloud computing services? Oh no, what a terrible business that would be. Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
Cloud services is one of the few parts of MS that is both making money and growing. I'd say that's a pretty strong signal about who their customers actually are, and what those customers actually want.
You want MS to be Sony, Nintendo, or Apple. Unfortunately the dream of that MS died when the skunk works team behind the original Xbox were squeezed out. Better they become a productive business company than continue as a half-assed consumer one.
No, but it's nice to have confirmation, Mr. Smartass.
They just don't understand that they have to compete with piracy. They get mired in the moral issue and overlook the simple economic one: it's an alternative option that people can choose that for many forms of media is so much better in convenience and price that it's worth the vanishingly small chance of a comically inflated financial penalty. The "No You Shouldn't" blind spot is killing them.
To serve their stakeholders, private companies must maximise net revenue, while publicly traded companies must maximise share price. The means to achieve those two goals are not always the same, because very often the market price is decided by idiots.
What stops an errant stream of bullets or an incorrectly guided air-to-air missile from doing the same thing? Magic?
So your example of a nice, predictable weapon is a stream of bullets subject to gravity and wind, or a self-guided package of explosives, while your idea of unpredictability is a collimated beam of photons.
Sweet deus.
The 1990s called, they want their cool plane back.
These are basically all the possible ways to recharge a wristwatch that currently exist, except for physical mechanical contacts. This shouldn't be surprising because if there's one thing history has taught us, it's that Apple tries out practically every permutation of hardware in the R&D process. There were rumours that the "Apple tablet" would come in three screen sizes; it was later revealed that Apple had been testing three sizes on its campus to decide which one it preferred. There were rumours that they'd launch a version with no mechanical buttons; it was disclosed that Apple had tested that permutation too.
Whenever you read an Apple product rumour, before you even question the legitimacy of the source, ask yourself: is there any reason to suppose this is any more than a speculative prototype on their part?
That's a good point - a WiiU without the touchpad controller at a lower price might have been a big seller. Although they'd have to fight uphill against consumer confusion between that and the original Wii.
Wii Fit was one of the biggest successes of the original Wii. There were literally lines. So I don't see that it's so unusual that Nintendo think it'll be one of (emphasis: one of) their future product growth areas.
It's like you're accusing a tomato company of jumping on the ketchup bandwagon. They were going to be releasing ketchup this year anyway!
The WiiU's performance has little to do with it launching 18 months before the PS4 and Xbone. They could've launched a system maybe 80% as powerful as either of those using the parts available, as opposed to something that's 120% as powerful as a PS3 or 360. The low performance is a design trade-off that was necessary if they wanted to have that touchscreen controller in the box and a price south of $500. Nintendo did well betting on low prices, new input methods and low performance on the Wii; unfortunately, they bet wrong by attempting to repeat the trick in an era where mobile pricing has put cheap gaming into a "race to the bottom".
They should've staked out the high end with Sony and MS where mobile is less disruptive, but the WiiU would have been too far along in development by the time that issue became clear. (Sony have recently remarked that they could tell the Vita was going to have problems with mobile well before it launched in 2012, and have had to try to change the console's goals without the opportunity to change actual product.)
Nintendo released Wii Fit about five years ago, Walk With Me for the DS about four years ago, the 3DS with a step counter three years ago, were discussing a Wii pulse reader until two years ago, and just last year released a new version of Wii Fit that incorporates an upgraded version of Walk With Me.
I know that's a bit much to go over but you've been so spectacularly counterfactual that I have to wonder if you just hid away from gaming entirely for the last half decade to have drawn the conclusion that it was "the latest bandwagon" for the company.
Unfortunately there are lots of organisations like this and they seem to be immune. I gave up trying to figure out how many groups (Copyright Licencing Agency being the top of the list) could be claiming "licencing fees" for the right to reprint journal articles I've written*, and just wrote it off as a loss. I suspect almost everyone else the CLA is ostensibly collecting fees for too.
*Yes, you'd better believe this is fair use.
I picked them because they're the two outlets Snowden allows to publish his leaked documents.
It sounds like he debunked bad risk management, for sure. The economists you're citing sound like the sort of people who don't have life insurance.
Cheep is a bird word.
Libertarian utopia in "full of hot air" shock.
Nope, there's no corresponding opposite pole in the system they've created. It's a genuine magnetic monopole quasiparticle, albeit one that only exists as the product of tweaking the magnetic field of a Bose-Einstein condensate.
They actually coaxed a BEC into "simulating" a magnetic monopole. http://www.nature.com/news/qua...