If it's so fucking wonderful, why can't they sell Surface and Surface RT devices? They're getting their asses kicked by iOS and Android devices. Hell, I'd say they're not even a meaningful competitor in the market place.
Clearly iPads and Android tablets (especially critters like the Nexus 7) do everything users want, because they're buying them in fucking droves.
Hell, I bet Kobo is selling more fucking Arcs than Microsoft is tablets.
The XBox is a niche product. For this scheme to work, they need people on PCs and portables to buy into it. Thus far, this is where it's failing. Maybe it will turn around, but if an app ecosystem is what Redmond is trying to create, then they're back to competing against the very mature (and very populated) iOS and Android app ecosystems.
If Microsoft folds and allows users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 with the familiar Start menu launcher, then they will undermine this goal, and yet, it's looking increasingly like they have no choice. If they don't Windows 7-ize Windows 8, they risk exactly the same situation that screwed Vista; everybody just parking at the early release. If they do Windows 7-ize Windows 8, then risk undermining the very ecosystem project they're trying to go after.
I still do 100% of my in-office work on a PC. I do pretty much 100% of my casual and recreational computing on my tablet and my smartphone. The work I do from home can be divided between "emergency" work (ie. bind daemon crashed, VM Exchange server went down), and I'll use my tablet about 50% of the time if it's just a matter of "virsh start exchange", and if it's more involved I'll pull out my notebook, and the the other 50% being working from home, where I pretty much use my notebook all the time.
So while an outright majority of my computing is in fact still on PC, that PC usage is almost completely work-related. If I'm surfing the web, writing an email to a friend or watching video, I simply don't use my PC anymore. My usage has changed substantially.
If you look at someone like my wife, whose computing is almost entirely recreational, she uses her tablet about 90% of the time (well, okay, she uses the Wii to watch Netflix, does that count?). She does do some graphic design for her hobbies, and she will pull out the notebook for that, but that's a small fraction. For the overwhelming majority of her computing needs, Microsoft and Windows are completely unimportant.
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At the very least it should be either an optional (with the default set to "no") or separate install. There are still some systems that require it. I have an old HP JetDirect I still use to put an even older HP LaserJet 4 on our network, and it's interface is a Java applet.
The OJ Simpson coverage laid the groundwork for the kind of breathless "journalism" we see today. Frankly I don't watch TV news any more. It's nauseating.
It does, however, use a metric pretty much meaningless to biology and comes with an answer that will get it some attention from the tragically retarded known as scientific journalism (and by extension, Slashdot editors).
Just knowing what a gene does no more automatically guarantees one can develop a therapy than identifying an electron confers the ability to build a battery.
If you didn't invent the gene and its function, you should have no more right to patent it than Hubble did the expansion of the universe. They are discoveries, not inventions, and if that makes monetizing them difficult, then tough.
The profit presumably comes from the therapies developed with this knowledge, just like in other fields of inquiry. Just because the discoverers of electrons or photons couldn't patent electrons and photons didn't mean novel inventions couldn't be built with the newfound insights.
You keep acting as if the mere fact that you can form an opinion gives that opinion weight.
Your opinions appear to be based on your personal ignorance. Even wtrse, you seem to hold your ignorance in high esteem, and condemn those that don't suffer your willful ignorance.
Humans evolved from apes, are apes and that is that.
What would you call ERVs? And if you don't know what they are, then you should be mightily ashamed of yourself for making such a grand declaration based upon your near total ignorance of human evolution.
The original intent of hate crimes, at east at the Federal level, was to give Federal law enforcement authorities and Federal courts the powers to arrest and convict civil rights abusers (like lynch mobs) in areas of the US where local and state authorities were profoundly unwilling to pursue such individuals.
You know, if all it took to be equal was a declaration stating "You are now equal", African-Americans would have been free in 1865. But the real world is considerably more complex, and good intentions not backed by powerful resolve and yes, sometimes force of law and even of arms, often end up becoming empty sentiments. The US government's unwillingness to protect African-Americans from institutionalized racism in the northern states and from the more overt political, judicial and legislative racism in the southern states meant all the high rhetoric of the Abolitionists, The Emancipation Proclamation, and, no kidding, even a goddamned amendment to the Constitution did little bloody good until the Executive finally started doing things like putting soldiers between vile racists and black teenagers just trying to enjoy their lawful and natural rights, supposedly guaranteed nearly a century before.
Keep a bird in a cage most of its life, then declare if free and chuck if out the window. See how that works.
Microsoft's only real experience is as a software company. It's the OEM network that has made them into the giant they are today. I can't imagine why they would want to undermine that which has made the filthy rich.
The reason they've been manufacturing Surface on their own is simply because the manufacturers have shown such little interest in Surface and RT. I'm sure they would have been much more content just shipping out OEM licenses to the manufacturers to put on their own hardware, but the manufacturers, it seems, suspected that Windows 8 and Windows RT were going to be a debacle, and were less than keen to stick their noses out, particularly when they have Android and its large app ecosystem already there.
This boils down to Microsoft's market beginning to shrink, and Microsoft, for any number of factors (bad timing, bad luck) not being able to penetrate the tablet and mobile markets.
As to Windows 8, I think it was a huge mistake. I can well understand Metro on portable devices. It makes sense, but pushing it on to PCs and notebooks, without at least some capacity built-in to disable or hide Metro and replace it with the Start Menu, that makes no sense. I suspect very soon, if the company itself doesn't figure it out, investors are going to send a clear message, oust Ballmer and put someone in who can assure that Windows 8.1 has a proper Windows 7 mode.
I find it hard to believe that consumers have so strong an opinion of Windows 8 that it would be harming PC sales. If anything, your average consumer likes new and shiny things. I think they're trying to find a correlation where there is none because the end result is that it makes Microsoft look bad.
A few years ago, I would have agreed with you. But I've heard enough people personally (I know I know, anecdotal) who have heard that Windows 8 is too weird/difficult/strange, and they're sticking with their old PC, combined with lots of people who say they're using tablets and smart phones far more than their PC. I think Windows 8 has a bad reputation, coupled with the fact that people are doing a lot more computing on portable devices.
The worthiest praise I've personally heard of Windows 8 is "I'm getting used to it."
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I agree completely Mr. Child Molester...
Or, as people would say in the real world, are putting off A LOT of users.
Because that will be such a huge market (rolling eyes).
If it's so fucking wonderful, why can't they sell Surface and Surface RT devices? They're getting their asses kicked by iOS and Android devices. Hell, I'd say they're not even a meaningful competitor in the market place.
Clearly iPads and Android tablets (especially critters like the Nexus 7) do everything users want, because they're buying them in fucking droves.
Hell, I bet Kobo is selling more fucking Arcs than Microsoft is tablets.
The XBox is a niche product. For this scheme to work, they need people on PCs and portables to buy into it. Thus far, this is where it's failing. Maybe it will turn around, but if an app ecosystem is what Redmond is trying to create, then they're back to competing against the very mature (and very populated) iOS and Android app ecosystems.
If Microsoft folds and allows users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 with the familiar Start menu launcher, then they will undermine this goal, and yet, it's looking increasingly like they have no choice. If they don't Windows 7-ize Windows 8, they risk exactly the same situation that screwed Vista; everybody just parking at the early release. If they do Windows 7-ize Windows 8, then risk undermining the very ecosystem project they're trying to go after.
I still do 100% of my in-office work on a PC. I do pretty much 100% of my casual and recreational computing on my tablet and my smartphone. The work I do from home can be divided between "emergency" work (ie. bind daemon crashed, VM Exchange server went down), and I'll use my tablet about 50% of the time if it's just a matter of "virsh start exchange", and if it's more involved I'll pull out my notebook, and the the other 50% being working from home, where I pretty much use my notebook all the time.
So while an outright majority of my computing is in fact still on PC, that PC usage is almost completely work-related. If I'm surfing the web, writing an email to a friend or watching video, I simply don't use my PC anymore. My usage has changed substantially.
If you look at someone like my wife, whose computing is almost entirely recreational, she uses her tablet about 90% of the time (well, okay, she uses the Wii to watch Netflix, does that count?). She does do some graphic design for her hobbies, and she will pull out the notebook for that, but that's a small fraction. For the overwhelming majority of her computing needs, Microsoft and Windows are completely unimportant.
In Soviet Russia, Steve Ballmer fires you!
Of course Microsoft isn't doomed, and neither is Windows. In the enterprise world, Exchange-Office will still dominate for many years to come.
The problem is on the consumer end, where Windows is heading quickly to irrelevance.
At the very least it should be either an optional (with the default set to "no") or separate install. There are still some systems that require it. I have an old HP JetDirect I still use to put an even older HP LaserJet 4 on our network, and it's interface is a Java applet.
They use Adobe's ebook DRM scheme, so I just use ePUBee to yank it out.
The OJ Simpson coverage laid the groundwork for the kind of breathless "journalism" we see today. Frankly I don't watch TV news any more. It's nauseating.
It does, however, use a metric pretty much meaningless to biology and comes with an answer that will get it some attention from the tragically retarded known as scientific journalism (and by extension, Slashdot editors).
Just knowing what a gene does no more automatically guarantees one can develop a therapy than identifying an electron confers the ability to build a battery.
If you didn't invent the gene and its function, you should have no more right to patent it than Hubble did the expansion of the universe. They are discoveries, not inventions, and if that makes monetizing them difficult, then tough.
The profit presumably comes from the therapies developed with this knowledge, just like in other fields of inquiry. Just because the discoverers of electrons or photons couldn't patent electrons and photons didn't mean novel inventions couldn't be built with the newfound insights.
All great apes, including humans, are in Hominidae, the common ancestor would have been an ape.
You keep acting as if the mere fact that you can form an opinion gives that opinion weight.
Your opinions appear to be based on your personal ignorance. Even wtrse, you seem to hold your ignorance in high esteem, and condemn those that don't suffer your willful ignorance.
Humans evolved from apes, are apes and that is that.
What would you call ERVs? And if you don't know what they are, then you should be mightily ashamed of yourself for making such a grand declaration based upon your near total ignorance of human evolution.
And what have you accomplished that leads you to believe you have some special powers of judgment capable of discerning useless from useful knowledge?
Thank goodness we've had people throughout history who weren't so dismissive of certain lines inquiry and didn't share your lack of imagination.
So the flipside of this is that Conservatives have no problem poisoning the environment. Does that sum up your position?
The original intent of hate crimes, at east at the Federal level, was to give Federal law enforcement authorities and Federal courts the powers to arrest and convict civil rights abusers (like lynch mobs) in areas of the US where local and state authorities were profoundly unwilling to pursue such individuals.
You know, if all it took to be equal was a declaration stating "You are now equal", African-Americans would have been free in 1865. But the real world is considerably more complex, and good intentions not backed by powerful resolve and yes, sometimes force of law and even of arms, often end up becoming empty sentiments. The US government's unwillingness to protect African-Americans from institutionalized racism in the northern states and from the more overt political, judicial and legislative racism in the southern states meant all the high rhetoric of the Abolitionists, The Emancipation Proclamation, and, no kidding, even a goddamned amendment to the Constitution did little bloody good until the Executive finally started doing things like putting soldiers between vile racists and black teenagers just trying to enjoy their lawful and natural rights, supposedly guaranteed nearly a century before.
Keep a bird in a cage most of its life, then declare if free and chuck if out the window. See how that works.
By all accounts Lenovo sales are up because of increased sales in China, and Apple's drop is expected to be temporary.
Microsoft's only real experience is as a software company. It's the OEM network that has made them into the giant they are today. I can't imagine why they would want to undermine that which has made the filthy rich.
The reason they've been manufacturing Surface on their own is simply because the manufacturers have shown such little interest in Surface and RT. I'm sure they would have been much more content just shipping out OEM licenses to the manufacturers to put on their own hardware, but the manufacturers, it seems, suspected that Windows 8 and Windows RT were going to be a debacle, and were less than keen to stick their noses out, particularly when they have Android and its large app ecosystem already there.
This boils down to Microsoft's market beginning to shrink, and Microsoft, for any number of factors (bad timing, bad luck) not being able to penetrate the tablet and mobile markets.
As to Windows 8, I think it was a huge mistake. I can well understand Metro on portable devices. It makes sense, but pushing it on to PCs and notebooks, without at least some capacity built-in to disable or hide Metro and replace it with the Start Menu, that makes no sense. I suspect very soon, if the company itself doesn't figure it out, investors are going to send a clear message, oust Ballmer and put someone in who can assure that Windows 8.1 has a proper Windows 7 mode.
A few years ago, I would have agreed with you. But I've heard enough people personally (I know I know, anecdotal) who have heard that Windows 8 is too weird/difficult/strange, and they're sticking with their old PC, combined with lots of people who say they're using tablets and smart phones far more than their PC. I think Windows 8 has a bad reputation, coupled with the fact that people are doing a lot more computing on portable devices.
The worthiest praise I've personally heard of Windows 8 is "I'm getting used to it."
Which is different in what way exactly from how the past two administrations dealt with NK?