Also, Germany had Hitler, let's just say the gene for military genius was suppressed in him. The mistakes he made in Russia, even after Napoleon showed how not to do it, were epic. And he managed to create a two front war with Germany in the middle. What did he think the Russians and the Americans were going to when they got pissed?
Easy, talk to any engineers in any tech company and they'll tell you things that they are working on only for future flexibility. No sane tech company wouldn't have skunk works projects going. Bloomberg talks to a few Apple engineers and all of sudden the future direction of the company is known? Bloomberg is trolling.
Farmers, Hollywood, banks, and oil companies are small potatoes compared to 2/3 of the budget that goes to entitlements. And the banks paid theirs back. The rest comes in at under $50 Billion out of an approx. $3.5 Trillion yearly budget. Do get a sense of proportion, it really helps frame your points. In short, most of the money goes to the American people, and mostly those on the lower socio-economic rungs. The economy is increasingly skewed towards winners take all, so there is a certain amount of poetic justice there.
And, it will only get worse when the Me Generation, which is just starting to retire, and the Association of Arrogant Retired People start demanding that they get properly compensated for the money they paid into SS, even if it will mean they take out much more than what they put in.
What? You say. You mean the government was lying about the SS Trust Fund. The government doesn't keep your money in a mattress under Capitol Hill. They loaned it to the rest of the government because the government cannot hold money like that (and you wouldn't want them to). So when the Blue Hairs start marching on Washington for their winnings, they'll be taking it out of the general fund...you know, the one that currently pays 2/3 to the rest of America.
Ah, Windows 9 will feature...not tiles...but Pyramids!! You'll have 4 sides upon which to view the sacred artefacts. Each will call up a different aspect of the underlying app. And when you get bored, you'll be able to flip them to see their bottoms. This will reveal the inner guts to how the app connects to other apps. They will show little mechanical men moving levers, pushing buttons, etc.
In Windows 10, the Pyramids will be shown to be landing platforms for a rather nasty race of Galactic Tyrants with an affinity for ancient gods, sultry vixens, and...err...snakes in their heads. Ballmer will be revealed be non-other than Osiris, but generally wearing sexy lingerie and long blond hair.
Apple would be stupid not to explore alternatives that may only become viable years down the road. Every tech company does it. Bloomberg is just trolling.
Older workers, regardless of the industry, come in (err....well, broadly) two flavors, those that are open to new tech, ideas, whatever, and those that are adamant they stay within their old niche. The latter is, in some sense, understandable. That niche is one that has rewarded them in the past. The problem is that it may not reward them in the future.
The ones that are open to new ideas also fall into the trap of glomming onto the latest whizzy technology to come down the pipe. That will result in no sense of perspective.
What is needed is a happy mix: developers who will evaluate new tech and adopt given experience, and who will also keep past tech that still has the right punch.
This necessarily weighs older developers more than younger, you cannot teach experience. I say developer because programmer is too, what, blinkered. If you are good at development, you know your industry. If you are good programmer, it is hard to say what you are good at. Programs do something, and that something is not in a vacuum. To be a good developer, you must understand much more than being a good programmer.
Rather, you are buying software + hardware when you go with Apple. Good software costs money. You seem to be coming from the Windows world where the software costs can easily be broken out. I choose not to go that route simply because I do not like the way Windows works. I'd rather have a really nice gui on top of a 'nix for when I have to get down and dirty. MS software always struck me as rinky-dink, no forethought, and as Jobs put it, no taste.
Gates is one of the biggest reasons MS is lost in the woods today. He created a culture of dog-eat-dog in that company, and he decided everything had to be tied to One OS To Rule Them. That latter pretty much consigned MS to be software only company. Now it is starting to bite them. These aren't killer bites, they are only preventing MS from dominating new markets. Now they have to compete on merit, something Gates never forced them to do. MS is Gate's problem, not Ballmer.
I recently went to a logic conference in Poland, only one presentation used ppt, the rest were Beamer and Latex. That's more or less the way it is done through theoretical computer science and among logicians. The reason has to do with typesetting mathematics. MS seems to have worked overtime to make that as painful as possible in ppt. Apple's Keynote makes it easy so it isn't impossible on something like ppt. Frankly, I won't touch ppt unless it is the last step in a process of producing slides and the slides simply have to be in ppt so management doesn't lose its tiny brain.
That's fine when you enemy is a crook who needs a financial incentive to get off. However, if your enemy is, I don't know...pick any of the global actors, someone or organization who gets off on causing mayhem, then the calculus changes.
Just to aid the Chinese in reading the article, last night the NYT had a version of the article in Chinese characters, even the title was in Chinese. I presume the Chinese version can still be found on their site, it isn't on the main page now.
I think there may be a problem in the future with smartphone saturation. Once everyone and their brother's dog has the smartphone of their choice, the market will stagnate and Apple will need another horse to ride.
It isn't a question of there being a market for high-power desktops, it is a question of how big or small that market is. If it shrinks to any great degree because people who don't need high-power desktops are getting by with tabs, then the price of those high-power desktops will probably go up. And some manufacturer might get shaken out of the business.
At the moment, no one knows what's really happening to that market.
I do not think it is clear how much the new smart devices are cannibalizing PC sales. They seem to be but I do not think there are any really good studies yet. Once we know that, we can see how much PCs will be taken down a peg....or not. In the PC world, MS will still dominate by hook or, more likely, by crook. What scares them is a new product category based on computing devices but so far devoid of their malware.
MS has an intel based tab due for delivery in 2 month and apps for it can be side-loaded. Businesses will probably suck on these, unless winders 8 proves to be too much of a pain in the arse.
I agree. The condition is aggravated by bullying of the poor nerd in his/her formative years. When the nerd finally achieves some sort of knowledge, the nerd grasps on to it as a way to get back at the bullies...bullies which are no longer there, so the nerd transfers that feeling (towards bullies) onto the people around the nerd so that the nerd now has targets at which to shoot. Naturally, the people around the nerd react negatively to the nerd's attitude and the nerd interprets this a proof of further bullying. The cycle repeats until the nerd has watered and fed his/her complex into something really disagreeable.
Developing on a Mac is not developing in a walled garden as you seem to think. Apple knows fully well what it takes to develop apps for their garden, they aren't so stupid as to cut developers out.
Your basic punter doesn't have a problem with walled gardens. And after they've been traumatized by years of MS malware, they'll thankfully give up a bit of freedom for the freedom of knowing their little device won't come down with cyber venereal disease. This will make most punters happy. It won't make you happy but then you are only 1 of about 5% of the population that needs the non-walled garden.
I think that the number of PCs necessary for "real work" is a lot smaller than the current market. This is a major reason why pads, pods, and phones are eating into PC sales. Some tasks definitely require PCs, but you don't need one to cruise the web, look up phone numbers, and a host of other small things for which business and consumers bought PCs. And as the follow below me indicates, some real work can be done on these small devices.
Yep, that's why Intel got rid of their ARM business several years ago, it would have produced stuff that would piss on their x86 business. And other companies wouldn't buy their ARM chips because they wanted to keep Chipzilla ARMslength away.
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Also, Germany had Hitler, let's just say the gene for military genius was suppressed in him. The mistakes he made in Russia, even after Napoleon showed how not to do it, were epic. And he managed to create a two front war with Germany in the middle. What did he think the Russians and the Americans were going to when they got pissed?
Easy, talk to any engineers in any tech company and they'll tell you things that they are working on only for future flexibility. No sane tech company wouldn't have skunk works projects going. Bloomberg talks to a few Apple engineers and all of sudden the future direction of the company is known? Bloomberg is trolling.
Farmers, Hollywood, banks, and oil companies are small potatoes compared to 2/3 of the budget that goes to entitlements. And the banks paid theirs back. The rest comes in at under $50 Billion out of an approx. $3.5 Trillion yearly budget. Do get a sense of proportion, it really helps frame your points. In short, most of the money goes to the American people, and mostly those on the lower socio-economic rungs. The economy is increasingly skewed towards winners take all, so there is a certain amount of poetic justice there.
And, it will only get worse when the Me Generation, which is just starting to retire, and the Association of Arrogant Retired People start demanding that they get properly compensated for the money they paid into SS, even if it will mean they take out much more than what they put in.
What? You say. You mean the government was lying about the SS Trust Fund. The government doesn't keep your money in a mattress under Capitol Hill. They loaned it to the rest of the government because the government cannot hold money like that (and you wouldn't want them to). So when the Blue Hairs start marching on Washington for their winnings, they'll be taking it out of the general fund...you know, the one that currently pays 2/3 to the rest of America.
Ah, Windows 9 will feature...not tiles...but Pyramids!! You'll have 4 sides upon which to view the sacred artefacts. Each will call up a different aspect of the underlying app. And when you get bored, you'll be able to flip them to see their bottoms. This will reveal the inner guts to how the app connects to other apps. They will show little mechanical men moving levers, pushing buttons, etc.
In Windows 10, the Pyramids will be shown to be landing platforms for a rather nasty race of Galactic Tyrants with an affinity for ancient gods, sultry vixens, and...err...snakes in their heads. Ballmer will be revealed be non-other than Osiris, but generally wearing sexy lingerie and long blond hair.
The end is near, repent!
Ah, recursive screwing. Those bastards!!
Apple would be stupid not to explore alternatives that may only become viable years down the road. Every tech company does it. Bloomberg is just trolling.
Is there anyway we can convince you to be shot in the butt for such a lame excuse for comedy?
errr..think content, such as music, movies, etc.
Older workers, regardless of the industry, come in (err....well, broadly) two flavors, those that are open to new tech, ideas, whatever, and those that are adamant they stay within their old niche. The latter is, in some sense, understandable. That niche is one that has rewarded them in the past. The problem is that it may not reward them in the future.
The ones that are open to new ideas also fall into the trap of glomming onto the latest whizzy technology to come down the pipe. That will result in no sense of perspective.
What is needed is a happy mix: developers who will evaluate new tech and adopt given experience, and who will also keep past tech that still has the right punch.
This necessarily weighs older developers more than younger, you cannot teach experience. I say developer because programmer is too, what, blinkered. If you are good at development, you know your industry. If you are good programmer, it is hard to say what you are good at. Programs do something, and that something is not in a vacuum. To be a good developer, you must understand much more than being a good programmer.
Rather, you are buying software + hardware when you go with Apple. Good software costs money. You seem to be coming from the Windows world where the software costs can easily be broken out. I choose not to go that route simply because I do not like the way Windows works. I'd rather have a really nice gui on top of a 'nix for when I have to get down and dirty. MS software always struck me as rinky-dink, no forethought, and as Jobs put it, no taste.
Gates is one of the biggest reasons MS is lost in the woods today. He created a culture of dog-eat-dog in that company, and he decided everything had to be tied to One OS To Rule Them. That latter pretty much consigned MS to be software only company. Now it is starting to bite them. These aren't killer bites, they are only preventing MS from dominating new markets. Now they have to compete on merit, something Gates never forced them to do. MS is Gate's problem, not Ballmer.
I recently went to a logic conference in Poland, only one presentation used ppt, the rest were Beamer and Latex. That's more or less the way it is done through theoretical computer science and among logicians. The reason has to do with typesetting mathematics. MS seems to have worked overtime to make that as painful as possible in ppt. Apple's Keynote makes it easy so it isn't impossible on something like ppt. Frankly, I won't touch ppt unless it is the last step in a process of producing slides and the slides simply have to be in ppt so management doesn't lose its tiny brain.
That's fine when you enemy is a crook who needs a financial incentive to get off. However, if your enemy is, I don't know...pick any of the global actors, someone or organization who gets off on causing mayhem, then the calculus changes.
Just to aid the Chinese in reading the article, last night the NYT had a version of the article in Chinese characters, even the title was in Chinese. I presume the Chinese version can still be found on their site, it isn't on the main page now.
I think there may be a problem in the future with smartphone saturation. Once everyone and their brother's dog has the smartphone of their choice, the market will stagnate and Apple will need another horse to ride.
It isn't a question of there being a market for high-power desktops, it is a question of how big or small that market is. If it shrinks to any great degree because people who don't need high-power desktops are getting by with tabs, then the price of those high-power desktops will probably go up. And some manufacturer might get shaken out of the business.
At the moment, no one knows what's really happening to that market.
I do not think it is clear how much the new smart devices are cannibalizing PC sales. They seem to be but I do not think there are any really good studies yet. Once we know that, we can see how much PCs will be taken down a peg....or not. In the PC world, MS will still dominate by hook or, more likely, by crook. What scares them is a new product category based on computing devices but so far devoid of their malware.
MS has an intel based tab due for delivery in 2 month and apps for it can be side-loaded. Businesses will probably suck on these, unless winders 8 proves to be too much of a pain in the arse.
I agree. The condition is aggravated by bullying of the poor nerd in his/her formative years. When the nerd finally achieves some sort of knowledge, the nerd grasps on to it as a way to get back at the bullies...bullies which are no longer there, so the nerd transfers that feeling (towards bullies) onto the people around the nerd so that the nerd now has targets at which to shoot. Naturally, the people around the nerd react negatively to the nerd's attitude and the nerd interprets this a proof of further bullying. The cycle repeats until the nerd has watered and fed his/her complex into something really disagreeable.
Developing on a Mac is not developing in a walled garden as you seem to think. Apple knows fully well what it takes to develop apps for their garden, they aren't so stupid as to cut developers out.
Your basic punter doesn't have a problem with walled gardens. And after they've been traumatized by years of MS malware, they'll thankfully give up a bit of freedom for the freedom of knowing their little device won't come down with cyber venereal disease. This will make most punters happy. It won't make you happy but then you are only 1 of about 5% of the population that needs the non-walled garden.
I think that the number of PCs necessary for "real work" is a lot smaller than the current market. This is a major reason why pads, pods, and phones are eating into PC sales. Some tasks definitely require PCs, but you don't need one to cruise the web, look up phone numbers, and a host of other small things for which business and consumers bought PCs. And as the follow below me indicates, some real work can be done on these small devices.
Really? Which of MS's dirty tricks can you now fail to recall? He's mugged entire industries, and he's a liar and a cheat.
And touch fills my screen with fingerprints...if I can bother to reach the 3 feet away it is from my keyboard.
Yep, that's why Intel got rid of their ARM business several years ago, it would have produced stuff that would piss on their x86 business. And other companies wouldn't buy their ARM chips because they wanted to keep Chipzilla ARMslength away.