If you read the posting "Mac OS X Lion Has a Browser-Only Mode" above, and keep in mind that Google are bringing Chrome OS to the table in addition to Android, then you have the answer to the puzzle: M$ want to show that they can also do that (HTML5+JS, that is). Windows 8 has a "dual personality": one can choose from two kinds of user interfaces. So sleep tight and stop worrying.
And maybe it's time someone questioned the "positioning" dogma in marketing? Pricing an inferior new product the same as your competition, when the competition makes a product that doesn't need marketing to sell, is completely out of touch.
It's because "In certain light environments glossy displays provide better color intensity and contrast ratios than matte displays." (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_display). This is also the reason a vendor provided when I asked him the same question about three years ago.
"Blu-ray discs and players are clearly superior to DVDs, offering more features and a better picture overall" -- Not really. Old movies that have been re-released in BD format have same visual resolution as on DVD. The same applies to new movies that were not shot using highdef cameras. On my 46 inch highdef tv I see no difference between, say The Bourne Identity DVD and BD.
I would say these changes are healthy for Microsoft. Come to think about it, if someone really believes M$ is in a bad position then it's time the "culprits" got going. Or maybe the Redmond folks are just looking foward to replenishing their higher ranks with younger people who don't carry the scars of the times past. Either way, predicting the demise of Microsoft (again!) has really become boring. Trial and error is the name of the game and they can afford it.
This makes perfect sense to me. Mobile phones are resource hungry, so running antimalware on them is not an option. Managed software (.NET, Java) is only half the solution, with some authority controlling which software that gets to run on those gadgets being the other half. Sorry folks if you thought you could just switch from laptop to smartphone and enjoy the same perks.
A decline in PC shipments means that everybody has 2-4 PCs at home so what people buy now, out of boredom, is smartphones. Wait until they realize the game experience on a smartphone is *so* different from that on a PC, then we'll see another surge in PC shimpents, ans so on. I wonder, who paid that reasearch company to come up with those conlusions?
They are motivated by a sense of ethics and pride. Prices for digital goods are no longer set by supply and demand, there is no negotiation process the digital "market economy". Prices are mainly driven by what Alvin Tofler identified as "power". The end user has to accept the price set by the seller or else. Companies must be profitable but who says they have to make billions of dollars in profits rather than hundreds of millions?
Of course a lot of work is required to validate and then to implement an idea. Ideas are like seeds -- to harvest, there is much time, money, and effort to put in; but without the seeds you can work your but out and spend all the time and money you want, you'll still get nothing.
Patents are ideas on paper but sometimes they are worth hundreds of milions of dollars in settlements. Those who say that ideas are not worth much most likely have never had one themselves.
They keep trying to find technical, engineering, functional reasons for why Apple is successful. Why can't they understand that people buy Apple hardware for its design, to impress their friends, because it looks different and it's "cool" and very user-friendly?
Perhaps it is true that people no longer want to spend quality time reading books, but book prices are not helping either. Michael Crichton's second to the last hardcover novel was released a year and a half before the paperback. Personally, I don't want to pay $40 for a hardcover that I only read once, maybe twice.
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Right, because we know that "small fusion reactors" can actually be built and run.
This reminds me of a posting in Joel's blog/book: "Fire and Motion".
If you read the posting "Mac OS X Lion Has a Browser-Only Mode" above, and keep in mind that Google are bringing Chrome OS to the table in addition to Android, then you have the answer to the puzzle: M$ want to show that they can also do that (HTML5+JS, that is). Windows 8 has a "dual personality": one can choose from two kinds of user interfaces. So sleep tight and stop worrying.
And maybe it's time someone questioned the "positioning" dogma in marketing? Pricing an inferior new product the same as your competition, when the competition makes a product that doesn't need marketing to sell, is completely out of touch.
It's because "In certain light environments glossy displays provide better color intensity and contrast ratios than matte displays." (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_display). This is also the reason a vendor provided when I asked him the same question about three years ago.
I'm sorry, BSA stands for... BS Association?
"Blu-ray discs and players are clearly superior to DVDs, offering more features and a better picture overall" -- Not really. Old movies that have been re-released in BD format have same visual resolution as on DVD. The same applies to new movies that were not shot using highdef cameras. On my 46 inch highdef tv I see no difference between, say The Bourne Identity DVD and BD.
not in science but in science "output", whatever that means. totally different.
A dictionary should suffice to learn that information. ;)
...then they would find those phones. Airports have the solution. In the "old times" it was the metal detector, now it's the X-ray and body scanners.
I would say these changes are healthy for Microsoft. Come to think about it, if someone really believes M$ is in a bad position then it's time the "culprits" got going. Or maybe the Redmond folks are just looking foward to replenishing their higher ranks with younger people who don't carry the scars of the times past. Either way, predicting the demise of Microsoft (again!) has really become boring. Trial and error is the name of the game and they can afford it.
The Little Ice Age is conventionally defined as a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Genghis Khan was a mass murderer and rapist. I guess people who say that Hitler would have been a world hero if he had won WWII are right, after all.
This makes perfect sense to me. Mobile phones are resource hungry, so running antimalware on them is not an option. Managed software (.NET, Java) is only half the solution, with some authority controlling which software that gets to run on those gadgets being the other half. Sorry folks if you thought you could just switch from laptop to smartphone and enjoy the same perks.
Microsoft may have been considering this move for a while. One more reason for Windows developers to switch to .NET.
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I know this sounds outrageous but you have to go to an Eastern European country to see the amount of shit that satura the media.
A decline in PC shipments means that everybody has 2-4 PCs at home so what people buy now, out of boredom, is smartphones. Wait until they realize the game experience on a smartphone is *so* different from that on a PC, then we'll see another surge in PC shimpents, ans so on. I wonder, who paid that reasearch company to come up with those conlusions?
They are motivated by a sense of ethics and pride. Prices for digital goods are no longer set by supply and demand, there is no negotiation process the digital "market economy". Prices are mainly driven by what Alvin Tofler identified as "power". The end user has to accept the price set by the seller or else. Companies must be profitable but who says they have to make billions of dollars in profits rather than hundreds of millions?
Of course a lot of work is required to validate and then to implement an idea. Ideas are like seeds -- to harvest, there is much time, money, and effort to put in; but without the seeds you can work your but out and spend all the time and money you want, you'll still get nothing.
Patents are ideas on paper but sometimes they are worth hundreds of milions of dollars in settlements. Those who say that ideas are not worth much most likely have never had one themselves.
business "penetration" should be about more than just the boss liking it.
They keep trying to find technical, engineering, functional reasons for why Apple is successful. Why can't they understand that people buy Apple hardware for its design, to impress their friends, because it looks different and it's "cool" and very user-friendly?
Watch the movie "Enemy of the State". They are in the process of destroying his credbility, should he go public with the rest of the information.
Perhaps it is true that people no longer want to spend quality time reading books, but book prices are not helping either. Michael Crichton's second to the last hardcover novel was released a year and a half before the paperback. Personally, I don't want to pay $40 for a hardcover that I only read once, maybe twice.