Did I say that? No, I did not. I said "If you want growth, you don't go to Microsoft"
The local utilities give out dividends. If you want steady income, that's what you buy. It's boring. It's low risk. It's slow/minuscule/nonexistent growth.
Microsoft has lost the battle on the server end and on the mobile and embedded markets. The only place they are dominant is on the desktop, and when you have 90 percent of the market, there's not much to grow into. Microsoft suffers from a lack of imagination, stump ponds / swamps full of deadwood, and institutional inertia.
That's why the stock price and market cap of Microsoft is moribund.
Just look at that chart. Look at it, guys. It's been down and flat since 2000. Yes, that chart is split-adjusted. All Y! stock charts are split adjusted. If you want growth, Microsoft is not where you want to be.
And the outlook is not encouraging. Just look at Windows 8.
Peta gives a bad name to actual animal welfare activists, you know the ones, the ones that actually find homes for abandoned animals instead of killing them.
Don't give an animal to a PETA "shelter" unless you want it dead.
I spoke with Kravitz, who says that Phonedog never knew the password for his account. âoeNo one asked me to create the account. No one told me what to tweet there,â says Kravitz, who originally created the account because that whatâ(TM)s everyone in the tech world was doing. âoeI had no inkling then that [having a Twitter account] would become an essential part of being a so-called journalist.â
I have sympathy for the mentally ill, mostly. I found it sad when Toomalf/flamoot went over the edge with drugs and paranoia. I found his work with critterding interesting.
You, on the other hand, do nothing creative with your insanity.
Well, we're just going to have to disagree with where Metro is going. If it turns out that Metro is indeed optionall on the desktop (and not requiring an obscure registry tweak) I'll take back all I said.
And you can remind me so I can have my plate of crow.
Sure, I can ignore Metro. I even tried the Registry tweak to turn it off. It works.
For how long it's going to work, who knows.
IE is already Metro-ified. The Configure screen is halfway Metro-ified. Etc. What is being deprecated is the traditional desktop, and it's only a matter of time that Metro becomes "feature complete" across the entire OS, and then I expect the registry tweak to go away. The point of the Developer's Preview is to flesh out Metro and get devs used to making Metro applications. If you tweak the Registry to make the traditional desktop permanent, you lose/all/ of Metro and you may as well be using 7.
In the end this isn't going to affect me much. At work I'll just use Metro as I've used Windows in the past - as a program launcher and nothing more. On my own devices, I'll be using Linux and KDE. What concerns me is that I am the "known geek" and I'll be expected to know how to answer silly questions about Metro once 8 hits the general public. Gah.
Doesn't matter. What matters is that Metro is the "new way" whether you want it or not and the "not feature complete" means that Metro isn't everywhere on the system yet. I keep getting this excuse that since 8 isn't finished, my concerns are not valid all the while Microsoft is doubling down on Metro everywhere.
The paradigm of touch on the desktop is as fundamentally flawed as much as the desktop metaphor is fundamentally flawed on mobile devices. Microsoft's insistence on the same interface across all devices has been a failure for many years. Different uses demand different interfaces. Dvorak wrote a troll article about the icons a month or so back, but with that article he missed the larger picture - that touching your desktop's screen with your fingers (Metro) is as bogus as making small motions with a stylus at microscopic icons on a mobile device (the WinCE model).
And Microsoft fans keep giving excuses for the same dumb things every time.
...is the same country that fought against decimalisation of currency because it was too complicated and central heating because it weakened the spirit. - paraphrasing footnotes in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
I've been abusing Linux on a regular basis since 13 years ago.
I have Windows 8. I had to see what the hullaballoo was about that and it definitely convinced me yet again that I don't want to move back to Windows.
Good gawd, what an unusable interface Metro is without touch. I'm sure it's probably good with a touch screen, but I'm not about to go buy a 24 inch touch screen merely to smear my greasy (no matter how much I wash) finger prints all over it.
Anyway, I have digressed. I have become entrenched in Linux and see no reason why I should move back. There are simply too many advantages to sticking with Linux. Even if I do/need/ a piece of Windows software, there is always the VM or Wine.
Games? That's what emulators and consoles are for, man.
I ain't even mad. You can declare victory all you want, man.
You have yet to name a single one of my purported (by you and nobody else) other aliases here.
I'll let you in on a little secret. This is my one and only alias on Slashdot. For reals. Sockpuppetry is too much work. Only those with way too much time on their hands and/or something to hide or mental illness actually do it. So go ahead, I am anxious to see you reveal who I also am on here. It should be entertaining.
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The yield is 3 percent.
Forward Annual Dividend : 3.00%
Trailing Annual Dividend : 0.48
Trailing Annual Dividend : 1.80%
5 Year Average Dividend : 2.00%
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
Where you get 20 percent, I have no idea. Check your math.
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>Dividend not important?
Did I say that? No, I did not. I said "If you want growth, you don't go to Microsoft"
The local utilities give out dividends. If you want steady income, that's what you buy. It's boring. It's low risk. It's slow/minuscule/nonexistent growth.
Microsoft has lost the battle on the server end and on the mobile and embedded markets. The only place they are dominant is on the desktop, and when you have 90 percent of the market, there's not much to grow into. Microsoft suffers from a lack of imagination, stump ponds / swamps full of deadwood, and institutional inertia.
That's why the stock price and market cap of Microsoft is moribund.
If you want growth, go elsewhere. QED.
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BMO
Then go own stock in your local gas company.
It's not growing either.
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BMO
Oh, look, a softie redefining words at whim.
You're an idiot.
Here, have another chart. This is growth.
You should have bought AAPL, ya dummy.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=5y&l=off&z=l&q=l&c=aapl
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BMO
http://www.fark.com/comments/6722426/If-Fark-went-public-it-would-need-to-publish-an-annual-report-to-shareholders-Photoshop-cover
Substitute Microsoft for Fark.
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BMO
Dividends are not growth.
Learn stock basics.
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BMO
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MSFT+Interactive#symbol=MSFT;range=my
Just look at that chart. Look at it, guys. It's been down and flat since 2000. Yes, that chart is split-adjusted. All Y! stock charts are split adjusted. If you want growth, Microsoft is not where you want to be.
And the outlook is not encouraging. Just look at Windows 8.
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BMO
I chortled.
I live in New England, where we drop our Rs for people to trip over.
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BMO
Peta gives a bad name to actual animal welfare activists, you know the ones, the ones that actually find homes for abandoned animals instead of killing them.
Don't give an animal to a PETA "shelter" unless you want it dead.
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BMO
With Bitcoin you can lose all of your money overnight
Fixed.
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BMO
This seems like a really straight-forward case.
No, no it isn't. You are wrong.
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BMO
But never on a Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdkRaKgIsY
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BMO
You are a disgusting waste of oxygen.
I have sympathy for the mentally ill, mostly. I found it sad when Toomalf/flamoot went over the edge with drugs and paranoia. I found his work with critterding interesting.
You, on the other hand, do nothing creative with your insanity.
Get stuffed.
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BMO
APK is a moron.
End Transmission.
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BMO
>spam
You complain that you get modded down, yet you spam your unreadable shit everywhere.
In 10 words or less, explain yourself.
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BMO
And you don't understand sarcasm.
You are retarded.
You can't name another alias, because I don't have any.
Please, continue to prove to me that you don't "get it."
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BMO
Well, we're just going to have to disagree with where Metro is going. If it turns out that Metro is indeed optionall on the desktop (and not requiring an obscure registry tweak) I'll take back all I said.
And you can remind me so I can have my plate of crow.
Save this for later.
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BMO
Sure, I can ignore Metro. I even tried the Registry tweak to turn it off. It works.
For how long it's going to work, who knows.
IE is already Metro-ified. The Configure screen is halfway Metro-ified. Etc. What is being deprecated is the traditional desktop, and it's only a matter of time that Metro becomes "feature complete" across the entire OS, and then I expect the registry tweak to go away. The point of the Developer's Preview is to flesh out Metro and get devs used to making Metro applications. If you tweak the Registry to make the traditional desktop permanent, you lose /all/ of Metro and you may as well be using 7.
In the end this isn't going to affect me much. At work I'll just use Metro as I've used Windows in the past - as a program launcher and nothing more. On my own devices, I'll be using Linux and KDE. What concerns me is that I am the "known geek" and I'll be expected to know how to answer silly questions about Metro once 8 hits the general public. Gah.
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BMO
Doesn't matter. What matters is that Metro is the "new way" whether you want it or not and the "not feature complete" means that Metro isn't everywhere on the system yet. I keep getting this excuse that since 8 isn't finished, my concerns are not valid all the while Microsoft is doubling down on Metro everywhere.
The paradigm of touch on the desktop is as fundamentally flawed as much as the desktop metaphor is fundamentally flawed on mobile devices. Microsoft's insistence on the same interface across all devices has been a failure for many years. Different uses demand different interfaces. Dvorak wrote a troll article about the icons a month or so back, but with that article he missed the larger picture - that touching your desktop's screen with your fingers (Metro) is as bogus as making small motions with a stylus at microscopic icons on a mobile device (the WinCE model).
And Microsoft fans keep giving excuses for the same dumb things every time.
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BMO
...is the same country that fought against decimalisation of currency because it was too complicated and central heating because it weakened the spirit. - paraphrasing footnotes in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
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BMO
Yet you can't point to a single account that you think is mine.
Please, prove your point, or walk away in defeat.
Shit or get off the pot.
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BMO
The "nobody" is just you.
Again, you have made the claim that I have multiple accounts.
So name one. I want to see who else I am. Pick a name.
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BMO
I've been abusing Linux on a regular basis since 13 years ago.
I have Windows 8. I had to see what the hullaballoo was about that and it definitely convinced me yet again that I don't want to move back to Windows.
Good gawd, what an unusable interface Metro is without touch. I'm sure it's probably good with a touch screen, but I'm not about to go buy a 24 inch touch screen merely to smear my greasy (no matter how much I wash) finger prints all over it.
Anyway, I have digressed. I have become entrenched in Linux and see no reason why I should move back. There are simply too many advantages to sticking with Linux. Even if I do /need/ a piece of Windows software, there is always the VM or Wine.
Games? That's what emulators and consoles are for, man.
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BMO
I ain't even mad. You can declare victory all you want, man.
You have yet to name a single one of my purported (by you and nobody else) other aliases here.
I'll let you in on a little secret. This is my one and only alias on Slashdot. For reals. Sockpuppetry is too much work. Only those with way too much time on their hands and/or something to hide or mental illness actually do it. So go ahead, I am anxious to see you reveal who I also am on here. It should be entertaining.
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BMO
in High School, I had a 2 book a week habit.
The corner book shop in Wickford RI got a lot of my lawn-mowing money.
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BMO