I asked that same question of a missionary who had just come from Nigeria. His answer was that there is a culture there of "you're a clever individual if you can get the other fellow to pay for your lunch." For what it's worth...
Let's say a hooker keeps some of a John's payment from her pimp. Do you think the pimp would think "No, she didn't steal from me, she stole from the John"
That's a horrible analogy because the hooker was paid by the John, she didn't rob him. Couldn't you think of a car analogy? Something along the lines of "car buyers were scammed and the woman who was funneling the money didn't forward it to the scammers"? Oh, wait... never mind/Emily Litella
10 and a half months after release, the Blackberry Playbook finally doesn't suck.
Much.
Yeah - the option of using a BlackBerry phone's keyboard as an external keyboard for a tablet... um, never mind. What were they thinking? How did a company that was leading this industry make so many bad decisions, even after others clearly exposed what a majority of the market wants?
Breaking compatibility for market advantage is so noble of them, clearly we all must approve.
Not every Linux distro includes every package by default. If you want to install the CUPS 1.6 package, or the filters for CUPS 1.5.x that are not supported by OS X you are free to do so.
I don't know if Apple will succeed with 'driverless printing', but if they do then every platform will benefit. Sometimes moving forward means letting go of some of the past.
They claim at least one document has been faked (the climate strategy memo) and others may have been altered. If this is indeed the case, the documents aren't authentic.
The only way to prove it is to allow those they sue over this to access their email server in the discovery phase of the trial. I don't think they'd want that.
So you're saying that if Heartland was willing to lie about science then they'd be willing to lie about lying about science? Very interesting... </Artie Johnson>
It reminds me of the old days when code was efficient and had to fit onto small discs and into limited RAM and/or ROM. The original Mac ROMs were 128k, and all the apps had to run in 128k of RAM. It was amazing what could be done when it just had to fit.
I think the question is more whether anyone will care if they do release it. I think probably not.
Remember the old adage: no one ever got fired for buying IBM? In the current corporate culture it's pretty much the same for buying Microsoft.
Really?
Everyone's happy with Win 7, and IIRC Win 8 has a traditional mode, so I'm not really seeing it on the desktop, and on the tablet or mobile, MS is a non-entity.
Except that 'Metro' isn't just Windows 8, it is the future UI paradigm for Windows/Microsoft. IE 10 will have two versions, Metro and 'traditional'. I don't think MS is going to continue to create two versions in the future. Windows 9 will take things one steep further - probably a compatibility mode or VM for traditional applications - or perhaps eliminate traditional 'windowed' apps all together. Windows 8 is a transitional product release for Microsoft.
MS will not support traditional apps on the WOA platform, nor do they on the existing Windows Phone platform. I don't know if they'll be supporting traditional apps on any Windows tablet OS that runs on x86 or Acorn processors, but it's an awful lot of work to maintain separate OS products. I can see them eliminating traditional apps on future tablet OS products for x86 or Acorn (if they support them at all on the Windows 8 tablet offering).
And this is a silly point. I was going to buy a BT keyboard for my ipad on several occasions but every time I had it in my hands and walking to the register I put it back because the words in my head kept ringing..."If you need to type that much, just grab the laptop you always have with you anyways"
This is very true - for those that have laptops. As tablets become more powerful and more popular, individuals and companies will have choices to make: laptop, netbook and/or tablet? It probably won't be one of each (and may only be one if budgets continue to shrink). Some Android tablets already offer video out options, and it's not farfetched to see a tablet replacing a netbook or laptop when hooked to a docking station for some users.
It's not all about the right now. In 2, 3 or maybe 5 years, things will be very different (just look back a few years and see how far tablets and smartphones have come). I don't subscribe to the 'everything on the cloud' philosophy, but the 'cloud' isn't going away and many companies are embracing it for file & data storage. The cloud is a solution to some of the problems created by portable devices. Microsoft needs to find its place in all of this, and better pick soon because in a few years it won't be as easy to get traction, marketshare or mindshare.
This in mind, it seems to me the whole thing is a non-story. MS is now an also-ran in the phone biz, and has no footprint at all in the tablet market. Office or no office, it doesn't seem to matter.
But Microsoft is still a software company and MS Office is a de facto standard in most of the corporate world. Can they afford to ignore the millions of tablets that are finding their way into offices and everyday use? If a palatable alternative reigns supreme on tablets, will companies convert to the alternative in lieu of MS Office on the desktop to insure document compatibility?
Metro is going to be a disruptive change for a lot of companies, and if they're going to go through the growing pains of changing user interfaces and how they interact with devices, would moving away from MS/Windows/Office be much more effort? In the short term, yes. But in the long run?
No way. Typing on my iPad is one of the most awkward things I do in a day, but I don't blame the device.
Of course not. That would be questioning the Holy Apple, and you don't question the Holy Apple. Instead you do mental gymnastics to avoid admitting any flaw.
On the rare occasion that I need to do any real typing on my iPad I just use the keyboard dock (or a bluetooth keyboard when traveling).
I agree that most people use tablets as a consumer device, and carrying a keyboard around the office 'just in case' is ludicrous, but real productivity apps and a dock will give users the opportunity to use their tablets for more than just consuming content or casual emails, etc. Lot's of people have docks on their desk for laptops or netbooks, so why not tablets?
As long as the users can get to the content they require (not a given when documents are stored on file servers) then a tablet/dock solution will work for some users.
Lets take your argument to its logical conclusion...
Chrome will probably use a set formula to generate passwords that are strong but easy to remember. If someone asks Chrome to generate a password using the same criteria used by the person who registered the account, will it generate the same password and help someone break in to the account? If they try it multiple times will it give them enough samples to help them narrow in on the password it generated for the original user?
released a “Do Not Track” extension for Chrome called Keep My Opt-Outs that blocks advertisements that are based on browser history.
So it blocks the advertisers people have 'opted-out' from? What about all the sneaky bastards that users a)don't know about or b)don't provide an opt-out option?
Google isn't necessarily Evil, but it has proven itself untrustworthy. They are the ones who benefit most from tracking, so I'm going to vote with my browser and email provider choices. I'm not bashing Google, but these days their actions have overshadowed their motto of Do No Evil.
Good luck teaching sex ed or even physiology. The good news is that using the FCC guidelines teachers will be able to cover anything that is extremely violent.
I think this is still push back for declaring "Make Love, Not War".
Or don't make broad statements that you can't guarantee are correct and when being wrong can cost lives?
There is no way to guarantee that it is safe. Unfortunately the only safe response for the scientists and seismologists would be "Yes, there is always a risk of a deadly earthquake", which would result in no one ever believing them when it was true.
There is always rumors about a new iOS, or a new iPad or a new iPhone and somehow people get are juiced about them, in the end I just can't reconcile this enthusiams the people are having with the immorality of how these things are created. So Fuck you!
I know that Apple gets all the bad press for the Foxconn manufacturing atrocities, but keep in mind that Foxconn makes 'gadgets', and many other things, for many major companies besides Apple including Acer, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola Mobility, Nintendo, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and Vizio. The 'employment accommodations' are basically the same for any product they are making, so let's not pretend Apple is the only company who shoulders the "immorality of how these things are created".
Let's hear some of your vitriol aimed at these other companies as well, or you're just another Apple hater using Foxconn as an excuse.
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I asked that same question of a missionary who had just come from Nigeria. His answer was that there is a culture there of "you're a clever individual if you can get the other fellow to pay for your lunch." For what it's worth...
My cats must be considered geniuses.
Let's say a hooker keeps some of a John's payment from her pimp. Do you think the pimp would think "No, she didn't steal from me, she stole from the John"
That's a horrible analogy because the hooker was paid by the John, she didn't rob him. Couldn't you think of a car analogy? Something along the lines of "car buyers were scammed and the woman who was funneling the money didn't forward it to the scammers"? Oh, wait ... never mind /Emily Litella
No, that was the power button. They wanted to remove it because turning the device might expose users to a security risk.
Turning it on would also expose RIM to ridicule.
10 and a half months after release, the Blackberry Playbook finally doesn't suck. Much.
Yeah - the option of using a BlackBerry phone's keyboard as an external keyboard for a tablet ... um, never mind. What were they thinking? How did a company that was leading this industry make so many bad decisions, even after others clearly exposed what a majority of the market wants?
Standing on what little land exists here, you watch a giant red dwarf sink slowly into the horizon of a hot ocean.
What a coincidence ... I was at the same party. That sunburned dwarf was pissed when they finally fished him out of the water.
Breaking compatibility for market advantage is so noble of them, clearly we all must approve.
Not every Linux distro includes every package by default. If you want to install the CUPS 1.6 package, or the filters for CUPS 1.5.x that are not supported by OS X you are free to do so.
I don't know if Apple will succeed with 'driverless printing', but if they do then every platform will benefit. Sometimes moving forward means letting go of some of the past.
In your scenario GSM would stand for Gastrointestinal Sourced Methane.
They claim at least one document has been faked (the climate strategy memo) and others may have been altered. If this is indeed the case, the documents aren't authentic.
The only way to prove it is to allow those they sue over this to access their email server in the discovery phase of the trial. I don't think they'd want that.
So you're saying that if Heartland was willing to lie about science then they'd be willing to lie about lying about science? Very interesting ... </Artie Johnson>
It reminds me of the old days when code was efficient and had to fit onto small discs and into limited RAM and/or ROM. The original Mac ROMs were 128k, and all the apps had to run in 128k of RAM. It was amazing what could be done when it just had to fit.
I think the question is more whether anyone will care if they do release it. I think probably not.
Remember the old adage: no one ever got fired for buying IBM? In the current corporate culture it's pretty much the same for buying Microsoft.
Really?
Everyone's happy with Win 7, and IIRC Win 8 has a traditional mode, so I'm not really seeing it on the desktop, and on the tablet or mobile, MS is a non-entity.
Except that 'Metro' isn't just Windows 8, it is the future UI paradigm for Windows/Microsoft. IE 10 will have two versions, Metro and 'traditional'. I don't think MS is going to continue to create two versions in the future. Windows 9 will take things one steep further - probably a compatibility mode or VM for traditional applications - or perhaps eliminate traditional 'windowed' apps all together. Windows 8 is a transitional product release for Microsoft.
MS will not support traditional apps on the WOA platform, nor do they on the existing Windows Phone platform. I don't know if they'll be supporting traditional apps on any Windows tablet OS that runs on x86 or Acorn processors, but it's an awful lot of work to maintain separate OS products. I can see them eliminating traditional apps on future tablet OS products for x86 or Acorn (if they support them at all on the Windows 8 tablet offering).
Execute the code, not the coder.
And this is a silly point. I was going to buy a BT keyboard for my ipad on several occasions but every time I had it in my hands and walking to the register I put it back because the words in my head kept ringing..."If you need to type that much, just grab the laptop you always have with you anyways"
This is very true - for those that have laptops. As tablets become more powerful and more popular, individuals and companies will have choices to make: laptop, netbook and/or tablet? It probably won't be one of each (and may only be one if budgets continue to shrink). Some Android tablets already offer video out options, and it's not farfetched to see a tablet replacing a netbook or laptop when hooked to a docking station for some users.
It's not all about the right now. In 2, 3 or maybe 5 years, things will be very different (just look back a few years and see how far tablets and smartphones have come). I don't subscribe to the 'everything on the cloud' philosophy, but the 'cloud' isn't going away and many companies are embracing it for file & data storage. The cloud is a solution to some of the problems created by portable devices. Microsoft needs to find its place in all of this, and better pick soon because in a few years it won't be as easy to get traction, marketshare or mindshare.
And coming at it from the other side, would MS let Apple take 30% from every sale?
I never thought about that, but you're right. MS wouldn't want to give Apple 30%, and Apple probably wouldn't want to cut MS a special deal.
Ah, Excel, the most abused piece of software in the world. Is there a problem for which it is the right solution?
It is the Swiss Army Knife of the PC world.
This in mind, it seems to me the whole thing is a non-story. MS is now an also-ran in the phone biz, and has no footprint at all in the tablet market. Office or no office, it doesn't seem to matter.
But Microsoft is still a software company and MS Office is a de facto standard in most of the corporate world. Can they afford to ignore the millions of tablets that are finding their way into offices and everyday use? If a palatable alternative reigns supreme on tablets, will companies convert to the alternative in lieu of MS Office on the desktop to insure document compatibility?
Metro is going to be a disruptive change for a lot of companies, and if they're going to go through the growing pains of changing user interfaces and how they interact with devices, would moving away from MS/Windows/Office be much more effort? In the short term, yes. But in the long run?
No way. Typing on my iPad is one of the most awkward things I do in a day, but I don't blame the device.
Of course not. That would be questioning the Holy Apple, and you don't question the Holy Apple. Instead you do mental gymnastics to avoid admitting any flaw.
On the rare occasion that I need to do any real typing on my iPad I just use the keyboard dock (or a bluetooth keyboard when traveling).
I agree that most people use tablets as a consumer device, and carrying a keyboard around the office 'just in case' is ludicrous, but real productivity apps and a dock will give users the opportunity to use their tablets for more than just consuming content or casual emails, etc. Lot's of people have docks on their desk for laptops or netbooks, so why not tablets?
As long as the users can get to the content they require (not a given when documents are stored on file servers) then a tablet/dock solution will work for some users.
Lets take your argument to its logical conclusion ...
Chrome will probably use a set formula to generate passwords that are strong but easy to remember. If someone asks Chrome to generate a password using the same criteria used by the person who registered the account, will it generate the same password and help someone break in to the account? If they try it multiple times will it give them enough samples to help them narrow in on the password it generated for the original user?
released a “Do Not Track” extension for Chrome called Keep My Opt-Outs that blocks advertisements that are based on browser history.
So it blocks the advertisers people have 'opted-out' from? What about all the sneaky bastards that users a)don't know about or b)don't provide an opt-out option?
Google isn't necessarily Evil, but it has proven itself untrustworthy. They are the ones who benefit most from tracking, so I'm going to vote with my browser and email provider choices. I'm not bashing Google, but these days their actions have overshadowed their motto of Do No Evil.
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Maybe they were thinking of the old Italian Lira. At the time of the Euro changeover a 500,000 lire note was worth € 258.23.
Good luck teaching sex ed or even physiology. The good news is that using the FCC guidelines teachers will be able to cover anything that is extremely violent.
I think this is still push back for declaring "Make Love, Not War".
Or don't make broad statements that you can't guarantee are correct and when being wrong can cost lives?
There is no way to guarantee that it is safe. Unfortunately the only safe response for the scientists and seismologists would be "Yes, there is always a risk of a deadly earthquake", which would result in no one ever believing them when it was true.
There is always rumors about a new iOS, or a new iPad or a new iPhone and somehow people get are juiced about them, in the end I just can't reconcile this enthusiams the people are having with the immorality of how these things are created. So Fuck you!
I know that Apple gets all the bad press for the Foxconn manufacturing atrocities, but keep in mind that Foxconn makes 'gadgets', and many other things, for many major companies besides Apple including Acer, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola Mobility, Nintendo, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and Vizio. The 'employment accommodations' are basically the same for any product they are making, so let's not pretend Apple is the only company who shoulders the "immorality of how these things are created".
Let's hear some of your vitriol aimed at these other companies as well, or you're just another Apple hater using Foxconn as an excuse.
until they leave the company. Or go on holiday. Or Maternity leave. Or sick. Or get promoted.
Or go home for the night and you have trouble while they're eating dinner with their family.