I think the "killer" marketspeak really got going with MS. Everything they attempt to produce late to market is a - killer. It makes a marketer's world easier to understand since everything appears binary to them....they probably have difficulty picking out ties.
I think that is MS wishful thinking, i.e., it is all the OEMs' fault. By all accounts, the Galaxy thingy from Samsung counts as a decent tab. It just isn't running MS-Ware. I think the problem is that MS doesn't have it in their genes to ask "what am I doing wrong". They also do not have it in their genes to take large chances believing that everything must revolve around Winders. That is the only strategy they know and it is the only strategy they are capable of knowing.
Maybe MS is going to rely on The Foggy Cloud to side step the Dells and HPs. If The Fog takes over, and MS has a big piece of it to run all those pesky apps which used to run on Winders, then supplying small devices for Fog access might be the sweet spot in the market in a few years.
There is a point to stopping the hardware from being reused if it means you can continue to sell more software for the device. I don't think MS is only thinking about Apple here but also Google. If Google cannot get an "in" into their pad, then MS controls the ad revenue stream, the information stream on users, and any other streams driven by data through the device. MS very much wants to stop the hardware from being reused.
"The only way to ensure peace is to remain neutral.", Poland was neutral before Germany decided it didn't like them. Switzerland remained neutral through the entire war. Some would call them neutral, I would call them cowards. Remaining neutral in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
With regard to the "tree falling down": the tree is clearly not pursuing a path to fall down. We know this from a very simple piece of evidence: it hasn't fallen.
I don't having any beliefs one way or another if MS will succeed. It does seem to me that MS is banking on two concepts from their past: they can get into Corporate America better than Apple or Google, and Corporate America will want their tablets and smartphones to say Winders because their laptops and workstations do. MS has never held its customers in high regard and so I believe they think this strategy will work for them.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I don't have any faith that Corporate America has very much intelligence. What may make things different this time is that MS is late to the party leaving CA with time to try alternatives and attempts to get them integrated into their businesses. Once CA finds that RT doesn't allow them to carry over any previous MS investment except maybe their mail server infrastructure, then CA might not be so accepting. On the other hand, all MS has to do is lie their ass off about "new" technologies to come from MS and that buying into RT systems now will allow them experience the joys of this new tech...blah, blah, blah.
Yes, and he personally contributed to the foundation for the greatest cesspool of malware to ever affect the planet. Now if Gates and MS were held liable for all the screwups allowing viruses, trojans, worms, etc. running on their perverted notion of an OS and associated tentacles, they'd have been out of business long ago.
Really? I'm certainly no MS lover. However, to suggest that every company working with MS has come to tears is simply ridiculous. MS partners with hundreds of companies. The only ones that have a sore ass are the few you've read about because they've raised a bitch. MS partners with Apple, IBM, Intel, any of the box makers, etc. Them are only the big ones, there are innumerable small ones. That's what makes MS so hard to eradicate.
"Not only that, but I doubt they've paid adequate protection money to be able to cram that through the DOJ." Your evidence for believing such a thing are what, exactly?
Yeah, the Taliban poisoning girls at school shows how enlightened, and multiculti they are. Your problem is that you see no reason to ever lift a finger to fight against tyranny.
The U.S. used overwhelming force in Iraq, along with asymmetric warfare. The result was the first Arab country that is a democracy. They certainly have their troubles, not least fighting the civil war within Islam that has been going on for 1300 years. However, the Shia are no longer the kick toys of the Sunni in Iraq. The Kurds are not being gassed. Their oil producing is increasing. They at least have a fighting chance now of progressing into a real nation. I'd call that a win, it is essentially what Bush said he wanted when the U.S. went in.
A little earlier? Check out how hard the Japanese fought on Saipan, Okinowa, etc. Japanese civilians chose suicide rather than surrender. The home islands expected to be invaded and expected every last woman and child to defend them. It would have taken years to take Japan with millions of dead.
Yep, there's nothing Steve didn't cause. Yesterday, my cat rose on its hind legs and lectured me about the etiquette of keeping the litter box free. I know she got this idea from Steve.
I knew it, a Conspiracy!! Could you please tell us who's behind this, Oh Insightful One? Is it the Illuminati, I'll bet it is...with their fellow travelers, the Free Masons, trying to spackle over our freedoms. Don't forget to watch out for the black helicopters now that you are on to them.
"The internet should be neither taxed nor subsidized." Just out of curiosity, how do you think the internet gets paid for? Does it just happen spontaneously?
From my own experience (I really hope this has changed or changes), there is no support in terms of debuggers, tracers, etc. It is horrible in that regard, you are left with using print statements...in a functional language. Great, I get a linear stream of crap from a computation that has a lot of internal structure. Just the type structure error messages alone are enough knock a dead buzzard off a shit wagon at 20 paces. Would it kill the developers to at least display why something doesn't type-check rather than cough up a hairball only a computer scientist's mother could love?
I will admit that Haskell is very good for isolating algebraic/coalgebraic semantics for hardware-software languages. It was and is developed by computer scientists for computer scientists. It was never developed for engineering production systems, although we've been using it for FPGA code where we compile down to VHDL. NSA also uses a variant of Haskell called Cryptol (I think) for crypto-apps.
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I think the "killer" marketspeak really got going with MS. Everything they attempt to produce late to market is a - killer. It makes a marketer's world easier to understand since everything appears binary to them....they probably have difficulty picking out ties.
I thought it was Washington Carver crossing into Georgia on interstate 95 in his PeanutMobile.
Hell, I'm a futurist. I strongly believe I'll be there when it comes.
You'd only make Putin feel more at home.
I think that is MS wishful thinking, i.e., it is all the OEMs' fault. By all accounts, the Galaxy thingy from Samsung counts as a decent tab. It just isn't running MS-Ware. I think the problem is that MS doesn't have it in their genes to ask "what am I doing wrong". They also do not have it in their genes to take large chances believing that everything must revolve around Winders. That is the only strategy they know and it is the only strategy they are capable of knowing.
Maybe MS is going to rely on The Foggy Cloud to side step the Dells and HPs. If The Fog takes over, and MS has a big piece of it to run all those pesky apps which used to run on Winders, then supplying small devices for Fog access might be the sweet spot in the market in a few years.
There is a point to stopping the hardware from being reused if it means you can continue to sell more software for the device. I don't think MS is only thinking about Apple here but also Google. If Google cannot get an "in" into their pad, then MS controls the ad revenue stream, the information stream on users, and any other streams driven by data through the device. MS very much wants to stop the hardware from being reused.
Yeah, the nerve of him trying to stop The Q Man from slaughtering his own people. What was Obama thinking?
"The only way to ensure peace is to remain neutral.", Poland was neutral before Germany decided it didn't like them. Switzerland remained neutral through the entire war. Some would call them neutral, I would call them cowards. Remaining neutral in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
With regard to the "tree falling down": the tree is clearly not pursuing a path to fall down. We know this from a very simple piece of evidence: it hasn't fallen.
Iran: Say, there Mr. Google, you owe us beellions and beelions of dollars.
Google: Who are you?
Iran: The Islamic Republic of Iran, that's who, now pay up.
Google: How about we pay you in Iranian rials.
Iran: Errr....no, no, we want dollars as our currency isn't worth very much right now.
Google: Okay, we'll get back to you on that.
Iran: Hey, you Mothers just removed Iran from Google Maps.
Google: Ooops, now who are you folks again?
Apple's supply chain was built by their current CEO, Tim Cook. The most Steve Jobs does these days are receive prayers from the faithful.
English is not your native tongue.
I don't having any beliefs one way or another if MS will succeed. It does seem to me that MS is banking on two concepts from their past: they can get into Corporate America better than Apple or Google, and Corporate America will want their tablets and smartphones to say Winders because their laptops and workstations do. MS has never held its customers in high regard and so I believe they think this strategy will work for them.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I don't have any faith that Corporate America has very much intelligence. What may make things different this time is that MS is late to the party leaving CA with time to try alternatives and attempts to get them integrated into their businesses. Once CA finds that RT doesn't allow them to carry over any previous MS investment except maybe their mail server infrastructure, then CA might not be so accepting. On the other hand, all MS has to do is lie their ass off about "new" technologies to come from MS and that buying into RT systems now will allow them experience the joys of this new tech...blah, blah, blah.
Yes, and he personally contributed to the foundation for the greatest cesspool of malware to ever affect the planet. Now if Gates and MS were held liable for all the screwups allowing viruses, trojans, worms, etc. running on their perverted notion of an OS and associated tentacles, they'd have been out of business long ago.
Really? I'm certainly no MS lover. However, to suggest that every company working with MS has come to tears is simply ridiculous. MS partners with hundreds of companies. The only ones that have a sore ass are the few you've read about because they've raised a bitch. MS partners with Apple, IBM, Intel, any of the box makers, etc. Them are only the big ones, there are innumerable small ones. That's what makes MS so hard to eradicate.
"Not only that, but I doubt they've paid adequate protection money to be able to cram that through the DOJ." Your evidence for believing such a thing are what, exactly?
Yeah, the Taliban poisoning girls at school shows how enlightened, and multiculti they are. Your problem is that you see no reason to ever lift a finger to fight against tyranny.
The U.S. used overwhelming force in Iraq, along with asymmetric warfare. The result was the first Arab country that is a democracy. They certainly have their troubles, not least fighting the civil war within Islam that has been going on for 1300 years. However, the Shia are no longer the kick toys of the Sunni in Iraq. The Kurds are not being gassed. Their oil producing is increasing. They at least have a fighting chance now of progressing into a real nation. I'd call that a win, it is essentially what Bush said he wanted when the U.S. went in.
A little earlier? Check out how hard the Japanese fought on Saipan, Okinowa, etc. Japanese civilians chose suicide rather than surrender. The home islands expected to be invaded and expected every last woman and child to defend them. It would have taken years to take Japan with millions of dead.
Yep, there's nothing Steve didn't cause. Yesterday, my cat rose on its hind legs and lectured me about the etiquette of keeping the litter box free. I know she got this idea from Steve.
I knew it, a Conspiracy!! Could you please tell us who's behind this, Oh Insightful One? Is it the Illuminati, I'll bet it is...with their fellow travelers, the Free Masons, trying to spackle over our freedoms. Don't forget to watch out for the black helicopters now that you are on to them.
"the business desktop and the power user desktop isn't going away." They are if companies cannot make a profit building them.
"The internet should be neither taxed nor subsidized." Just out of curiosity, how do you think the internet gets paid for? Does it just happen spontaneously?
From my own experience (I really hope this has changed or changes), there is no support in terms of debuggers, tracers, etc. It is horrible in that regard, you are left with using print statements...in a functional language. Great, I get a linear stream of crap from a computation that has a lot of internal structure. Just the type structure error messages alone are enough knock a dead buzzard off a shit wagon at 20 paces. Would it kill the developers to at least display why something doesn't type-check rather than cough up a hairball only a computer scientist's mother could love?
I will admit that Haskell is very good for isolating algebraic/coalgebraic semantics for hardware-software languages. It was and is developed by computer scientists for computer scientists. It was never developed for engineering production systems, although we've been using it for FPGA code where we compile down to VHDL. NSA also uses a variant of Haskell called Cryptol (I think) for crypto-apps.