Wouldn't doubt it. It is really amazing the difference between debuting the Surface v the Nexus 7. The demos were unbelievable different.
Hell, look how the demo of Google Glass went v the Surface. A toy project performed light years better than the Surface. MS has fallen from grace, badly.
I sat and watched IO and - I just couldn't figure it out. "What does it do?" I sat there thinking. Google couldn't articulate what the Q accomplishes, how do they expect people to want to buy them? HTPC, the AppleTV, they all solve a discrete problem set. This is sort of like "hey it plugs into the wall, buy it"
But maybe 1:100 people I know use hotmail. Simply, no one does. Hell, there are probably more AOL active email addresses in my address book compared to Hotmail.
He should have gone on the extreme offensive and sued the shit out of Funny Junk once he got that letter. I found what he did amusing, as well as good for humanity (with his charity) - but in the end he let a useless website continue on churning out stolen content.
Granted, Inman said he seeked council before doing what he did, so perhaps he knew it was inevitable. The court case should be amusing, to say the least. I hope he counter sues for 200x the amount.
Much like taxing cigarettes. If cigarettes are so bad for the individual (as the government states - and anyone with a fucking brain knows) why is the government in the cigarette business? And try to be honest with yourself - the government is in the cigarette business when they make 20x the profit on a pack, compared to the cigarette company.
Taxing soda won't do anything but hand over more money to the government. It won't stop a thing and people know it.
Want to stop children drinking soda? then simply make it illegal for them to do so. (Which I don't agree with)
Government managers care about accountability, you are right. They care about not being the one being held accountable, that is about it - from my experience.
They will approve anything, as long as they can point the finger at someone else when shit goes wrong.
AT&T has been at $30 for 2GB for four fucking years now, I mean, if they upped it 1GB a year it would seem reasonable - but to keep the bandwidth static is absolute BS.
If there are misdeeds occurring at Foxconn, they haven't been exposed. Any potential problems being reported can now be brushed under the carpet of potential "bs" tied to this story.
He did a huge disservice to exposing truth, good or bad, about Foxconn. If Foxconn isn't all that bad to work for, it would have been great to know - if it is a hell hole, it would have been great to know. But, this just clouds the water in getting to the bottom of it.
Shame, because it would be great to have an unbiased report.
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Well, your comments are slightly uneducated, seeing as the "Wild West" was largely a myth http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-wild-west-of-myth-and-reality.html
Strange, because in the 1900's governments killed 100's of millions of their own citizens, through intentional famine, war, and genocide.
Not sure the last time GM killed 40,000,000 people like Mao in the Great Leap Forward.
But yeah, fuck evil corporations!
I think whoever designed reddit saw 4chan and said
I can do worse
The government has used regulation to prevent certain groups from marrying forever. The only solution is to remove them from the equation.
Wouldn't doubt it. It is really amazing the difference between debuting the Surface v the Nexus 7. The demos were unbelievable different.
Hell, look how the demo of Google Glass went v the Surface. A toy project performed light years better than the Surface. MS has fallen from grace, badly.
I sat and watched IO and - I just couldn't figure it out. "What does it do?" I sat there thinking. Google couldn't articulate what the Q accomplishes, how do they expect people to want to buy them? HTPC, the AppleTV, they all solve a discrete problem set. This is sort of like "hey it plugs into the wall, buy it"
But maybe 1:100 people I know use hotmail. Simply, no one does. Hell, there are probably more AOL active email addresses in my address book compared to Hotmail.
Should be easy to do
Are you a project manager by chance?
If it seems easy, it never is.
Thank god the "Co-CEO" mess is overwith - how about RIM make a decision where it wants to go as a company?
RIM is like a 5yo child that can't decide if it wants to play with playdough or play with its own feces.
Lord, I wouldn't worry about tinfoil conspiracies, it is straight up incompetence.
Their consultants are terrible, and I mean that in the nicest way possible.
Never heard of Funny Junk before this. But, I still have never visited their site. So, no gain for them really.
Honestly: He messed up.
He should have gone on the extreme offensive and sued the shit out of Funny Junk once he got that letter. I found what he did amusing, as well as good for humanity (with his charity) - but in the end he let a useless website continue on churning out stolen content.
Granted, Inman said he seeked council before doing what he did, so perhaps he knew it was inevitable. The court case should be amusing, to say the least. I hope he counter sues for 200x the amount.
Yeah, just like I am "asked" to pay taxes, right?
Much like taxing cigarettes. If cigarettes are so bad for the individual (as the government states - and anyone with a fucking brain knows) why is the government in the cigarette business? And try to be honest with yourself - the government is in the cigarette business when they make 20x the profit on a pack, compared to the cigarette company.
Taxing soda won't do anything but hand over more money to the government. It won't stop a thing and people know it.
Want to stop children drinking soda? then simply make it illegal for them to do so. (Which I don't agree with)
Government managers care about accountability, you are right. They care about not being the one being held accountable, that is about it - from my experience.
They will approve anything, as long as they can point the finger at someone else when shit goes wrong.
If you selectively breed crops or animals for food - breeding to extend specific traits you find desirable, how is it not the same?
Granted, it takes longer to produce the outcome you want through breeding traditionally - but you still get the same outcome in the end.
Why is "natural" GMO acceptable and this not?
anything you google, type into bing, yahoo, are all captured somewhere. Seems that they are fighting a losing war of data leakage protection.
They actually increased the GB allotment.
AT&T has been at $30 for 2GB for four fucking years now, I mean, if they upped it 1GB a year it would seem reasonable - but to keep the bandwidth static is absolute BS.
I don't mind paying, if it is fair.
They just stole from Excite?
They stole email from hotmail?
Please, on a site that bitches about patents blocking innovation we are bitching about a company seeing an idea and building their own now?
marketing by the diamond cartels.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/sharife230710.html
You seem to forget democrats controlled congress for 6 years straight. Four of Bush and two of Obama. They didn't block anything.
And they will respond to your questions.
Why would MS want any sales or support staff, which is customer facing, to be using Apple or Google products in front of customers?
It makes perfect sense, I don't see why it is news.
Based on what? I've never visited a Foxconn factory, so, it is hard to say if it is or isn't, personally.
If there are misdeeds occurring at Foxconn, they haven't been exposed. Any potential problems being reported can now be brushed under the carpet of potential "bs" tied to this story.
He did a huge disservice to exposing truth, good or bad, about Foxconn. If Foxconn isn't all that bad to work for, it would have been great to know - if it is a hell hole, it would have been great to know. But, this just clouds the water in getting to the bottom of it.
Shame, because it would be great to have an unbiased report.