Look, you've been outed, and your posting history reveals what you are. Is there some point to continuing this idiocy? Do you think you're going to convince anyone?
It doesn't matter anyways. Microsoft once again is so far behind everyone else that even if their phones could get up and dance jig it wouldn't matter. Microsoft missed the boat by a couple of years or more. Nobody is going to give a crap, even if Ballmer and his weird little astroturfers like you are even right.
And therein lies the rub. Manufacturers will always be found if a product line is being underwritten by Microsoft, but these guys are still going to build Android phones for the low and middle end, so Microsoft is going to end up competing against phones built by the very manufacturers it has strategic deals with.
I have no idea what they bloody well expect. They're like two or three years late to the party. Even if Windows' latest phone OS was the greatest thing ever in history, Microsoft of all people should know that that often doesn't mean a goddamned thing. iPhone and Android have momentum. They're laps ahead of Microsoft.
As I said elsewhere, Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft's middle age. It sits atop its Windows-Office business and literally pisses money in the direction of major competitors' product lines. Has the XBox division actually paid back the massive investment? Has Microsoft ever even been able to have a successful quarter in its long sad history of web portals/search engines? And we've seen Windows phones before, and once again, Microsoft is behind the game and trying to catch up. Apple has a corner on the market, Android is everywhere. Where's Microsoft going to fit their phone in?
I won't call where Microsoft is a decline, as they're still making money hand over fist, but by and large it's selling to the same customers over and over again. I doubt, if you peeled it away, you would find much in the way of actual growth.
If he's such a wondrous business man, why have Microsoft's shares flatlined? Why, after spending millions of dollars over the last fifteen years can they still not build a web portal or search engine that garners more than a minority stake?
Ballmer is overseeing Microsoft's passage into dull corporate middle age, and Microsoft's still totally reliant on the core product base of Windows and Office that it was a decade ago.
There's no honor, let alone balls, in being a shill. I'll wager, however, you are doing it for free, which suggests on top of being a bit of a tool, you're a stupid tool.
So Spain wants out of the Common Market? I'm sure they'll do quite nicely once the customs booths pop up around the border with France. That will really help the Spanish recovery.
I don't think Facebook should be merely fined, I think it should be fined so vastly that it's very existence is put in doubt. I think CEOs, boards of directors and shareholders should be absolutely terrified to the point of pissing their pants if they create an aggregate database of people who have not given explicit permission to be in such a database. I want them to wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweats at the very thought that anyone in their data centers might even be doing it. I want them to spend a fair portion of every day worrying about it.
Why would you bother listening to anything at Al Gore event? Honestly, I only watched about ten minutes of his movie. I'm not interested in Al Gore, not one little bit. I'm interested in what scientists say, not what populizers say. Being skeptical of a non-scientist like Gore is rationale, rejecting what the large majority of experts on an entire field of research say because of what Al Gore says is just plain irrational.
Then ignore the shouting and actually read what the researchers are saying. And actually pick out researchers. Having a degree but being on the payroll of the Heartland Institute and not having published anything in any peer reviewed or primary literature in years does not make one a researcher.
Even if I were to accept this is just normal climate cycles (and basically claim that the overwhelming majority of the climatology community are liars or morons), that would still leave the fact that long-chain hydrocarbons are eventually, and probably not that far in the future, going to be come very expensive, and the whole foundation of our industrial global economy is going to become very shaky. Even if we happily keep barfing CO2 in the atmosphere by burning coal and various methane/natural gas derivatives into the atmosphere, just how do you propose to replace oil in all those non-energy industrial processes in material fabrication. How do you propose to replace the petroleum that ends in plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, and son and so forth?
Whether AGW is real or not (and I'll accept the opinions of the experts), one thing is sure, at our rate of consumption, we're going to hit one helluva lot of brick walls by the end of this century. Global warming is only one part of it, the other part being cheap long-chain hydrocarbons coming to an end means even if we burn every once of coal and methane we can get our hands on, we're faced with a shortage of epic proportions. To turn these simpler hydrocarbons into the chemically-malleable long chain hydrocarbons will take vast amounts of energy itself, and if we're just using other fossil fuels to do it, how long do you expect it all to last?
AGW or no AGW, the solutions are the same. To wean ourselves of oil as a principle energy source, to maintain it for what ultimately are far more important uses than sticking it in our goddamned gas tanks.
And which science is that? Since the overwhelming majority of climatologists think AGW is a reasonably well established fact, I'm curious as to what science you're referring to.
I'm not asking you to display reverence to anything. And science isn't a church. Strikes me that you have concocted a red herring to make it easy to ignore what you don't want to hear.
The Chinese Actions Semiconductor's audio processor family of chips (ATJ2085 and others) contains a Z80-compatible MCU together with a 24-bit dedicated DSP processor.[41] These chips are used in many MP3 and media player products.
And yet there's less ice up there. You can defer to whatever south Park episode you like, but the fact is that just what was predicted is coming about. At some point you either are going to look like a denying moron or admit, just maybe, that vomiting massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere over the last 250 years may be having some sort of an effect on things.
The Iranians were trying to develop nuclear weapons long before GWB came on the scene. They've been terrified of an American invasion since the 1979 revolution.
And they'd do it once, because if Iran ever actually launched a nuclear strike against anybody, within 12 hours, Tehran and Qom would be glowing craters.
And I think they know it. At the moment, the growing crisis appears to be between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, in no small part because of Ahmadinejad's extremist language surrounding foreign policy. It's got to the point where Khamenei is even proposing to do away with an elected president.
I have a feeling that Iran is very soon going to be too busy with internal affairs to be threatening anybody else.
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You were certainly quick out of the starting gate. Tell us, when exactly did you write your first post? Today? Yesterday? A week ago?
Look, you've been outed, and your posting history reveals what you are. Is there some point to continuing this idiocy? Do you think you're going to convince anyone?
It doesn't matter anyways. Microsoft once again is so far behind everyone else that even if their phones could get up and dance jig it wouldn't matter. Microsoft missed the boat by a couple of years or more. Nobody is going to give a crap, even if Ballmer and his weird little astroturfers like you are even right.
And therein lies the rub. Manufacturers will always be found if a product line is being underwritten by Microsoft, but these guys are still going to build Android phones for the low and middle end, so Microsoft is going to end up competing against phones built by the very manufacturers it has strategic deals with.
I have no idea what they bloody well expect. They're like two or three years late to the party. Even if Windows' latest phone OS was the greatest thing ever in history, Microsoft of all people should know that that often doesn't mean a goddamned thing. iPhone and Android have momentum. They're laps ahead of Microsoft.
As I said elsewhere, Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft's middle age. It sits atop its Windows-Office business and literally pisses money in the direction of major competitors' product lines. Has the XBox division actually paid back the massive investment? Has Microsoft ever even been able to have a successful quarter in its long sad history of web portals/search engines? And we've seen Windows phones before, and once again, Microsoft is behind the game and trying to catch up. Apple has a corner on the market, Android is everywhere. Where's Microsoft going to fit their phone in?
I won't call where Microsoft is a decline, as they're still making money hand over fist, but by and large it's selling to the same customers over and over again. I doubt, if you peeled it away, you would find much in the way of actual growth.
And then Microsoft had to wait until what? Everyone else was in the market? The fact is that Microsoft has been ahead of a trend in many many years.
If he's such a wondrous business man, why have Microsoft's shares flatlined? Why, after spending millions of dollars over the last fifteen years can they still not build a web portal or search engine that garners more than a minority stake?
Ballmer is overseeing Microsoft's passage into dull corporate middle age, and Microsoft's still totally reliant on the core product base of Windows and Office that it was a decade ago.
There's no honor, let alone balls, in being a shill. I'll wager, however, you are doing it for free, which suggests on top of being a bit of a tool, you're a stupid tool.
So Spain wants out of the Common Market? I'm sure they'll do quite nicely once the customs booths pop up around the border with France. That will really help the Spanish recovery.
The Eurozone and the EU are two different things. A collapse of the Eurozone is not a collapse of the EU.
I don't think Facebook should be merely fined, I think it should be fined so vastly that it's very existence is put in doubt. I think CEOs, boards of directors and shareholders should be absolutely terrified to the point of pissing their pants if they create an aggregate database of people who have not given explicit permission to be in such a database. I want them to wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweats at the very thought that anyone in their data centers might even be doing it. I want them to spend a fair portion of every day worrying about it.
Why would you bother listening to anything at Al Gore event? Honestly, I only watched about ten minutes of his movie. I'm not interested in Al Gore, not one little bit. I'm interested in what scientists say, not what populizers say. Being skeptical of a non-scientist like Gore is rationale, rejecting what the large majority of experts on an entire field of research say because of what Al Gore says is just plain irrational.
And I'm sure all the farmers won't mind all that water being pumped in for reclamation. So instead of an oil shortage, you'll have a water shortage.
Translation: I don't actually know what climatologists say, so I'll just keep talking about Al Gore.
Then ignore the shouting and actually read what the researchers are saying. And actually pick out researchers. Having a degree but being on the payroll of the Heartland Institute and not having published anything in any peer reviewed or primary literature in years does not make one a researcher.
Even if I were to accept this is just normal climate cycles (and basically claim that the overwhelming majority of the climatology community are liars or morons), that would still leave the fact that long-chain hydrocarbons are eventually, and probably not that far in the future, going to be come very expensive, and the whole foundation of our industrial global economy is going to become very shaky. Even if we happily keep barfing CO2 in the atmosphere by burning coal and various methane/natural gas derivatives into the atmosphere, just how do you propose to replace oil in all those non-energy industrial processes in material fabrication. How do you propose to replace the petroleum that ends in plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, and son and so forth?
Whether AGW is real or not (and I'll accept the opinions of the experts), one thing is sure, at our rate of consumption, we're going to hit one helluva lot of brick walls by the end of this century. Global warming is only one part of it, the other part being cheap long-chain hydrocarbons coming to an end means even if we burn every once of coal and methane we can get our hands on, we're faced with a shortage of epic proportions. To turn these simpler hydrocarbons into the chemically-malleable long chain hydrocarbons will take vast amounts of energy itself, and if we're just using other fossil fuels to do it, how long do you expect it all to last?
AGW or no AGW, the solutions are the same. To wean ourselves of oil as a principle energy source, to maintain it for what ultimately are far more important uses than sticking it in our goddamned gas tanks.
And which science is that? Since the overwhelming majority of climatologists think AGW is a reasonably well established fact, I'm curious as to what science you're referring to.
When oil shoots up to thousands of dollars a barrel, just imagine how much poorer you'll be.
I'm not asking you to display reverence to anything. And science isn't a church. Strikes me that you have concocted a red herring to make it easy to ignore what you don't want to hear.
I'm not clear what Al Gore has to do with this. I don't care what Al Gore has to say on anything. Why do you?
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And yet there's less ice up there. You can defer to whatever south Park episode you like, but the fact is that just what was predicted is coming about. At some point you either are going to look like a denying moron or admit, just maybe, that vomiting massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere over the last 250 years may be having some sort of an effect on things.
I wonder at what point you deniers will finally throw in the towel.
The Iranians were trying to develop nuclear weapons long before GWB came on the scene. They've been terrified of an American invasion since the 1979 revolution.
And they'd do it once, because if Iran ever actually launched a nuclear strike against anybody, within 12 hours, Tehran and Qom would be glowing craters.
And I think they know it. At the moment, the growing crisis appears to be between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, in no small part because of Ahmadinejad's extremist language surrounding foreign policy. It's got to the point where Khamenei is even proposing to do away with an elected president.
I have a feeling that Iran is very soon going to be too busy with internal affairs to be threatening anybody else.
Everybody hopes it's Davey. That guy is a supreme fucking prick. I'd strap him to the top of the rocket.