Most consumers mostly consume data. Some times however they want to produce data, and in reality, at the moment, there is only one family of tablets that can do that for them, Windows based tablets running on the WinTel platform. Personally I own the Surface Pro 2 and it's as close to an ideal computer as you can come today. My iPad use has dropped significantly after getting it.
I am not the average person though since my Surface Pro 2 runs Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, Visual Studio etc. In addition it runs a Linux installation in a VM for test-deployment of Ruby stuff. I don't know any other tablet that can do that.
I love it when retards like you post idiocies like tthis.
Here is the reality. They were a Microsoft only (it seems) shop until Nov 23 of this year. Over a four day period they moved to a combination of Linux and Windows.
If I was as retarded as you are, I'd blame Linux. Thankfully for my employer I am nowhere near as retarded as you are.
Wow, you're really grasping at straws here, trying to exculpate the administration.
Funny. So you are claiming that a system that has been in place for donkeys years is broken by the current administration, even though it has basically done nothing at all to change it? Seriously?
Here's what (probably) happened, and it wasn't illegal in any way.
1/ News organizations get the information prior to 2pm, but the information is embargoed. No releases prior to 2pm.
2/ One or more news organizations transfers the information to their Chicago office. Embargo still in place.
3/ The news organization in Chicago releases the information at 2pm exactly.
No crime. No issue. Nobody got information faster than the speed of light. Nobody broke the embargo. The embargo says when information can be released, but doesn't limit the release of the information to a specific physical location.
There is only one type of person,that would consider this as news. A male scientist who's never lived with, dated nor talked to a girl, woman,or any other kind of entity of the female persuasion.
OK, so what was the nonsense about "Obama administration" about then? You do know that the fed is not the Obama administration right? You also know that the current fed chairman was appointed by an administration other than the Obama administration, right? So are you spelling deficient or knowledge deficient or are you one of those retards who thinks this current government is far worse/far better than the previous government? Hint: The similarities are far more numerous than the differences.
You do realize that your: "ultimately it's the administration that is responsible for leaking this information" directly contradicts your "the fed screwed up", right?
Really? So the Fed makes a decision. Who gets to know before two o'clock? The Fed. The news media. Either someone at the Fed leaked or someone in the news leaked through a mechanism currently not known. What is more likely?
You can't be this dumb! Seriously. If you are, please go and shoot your self in the head before you procreate, or as it would be called in your case, massively pollute the earth.
I got a Surface Pro for the wife and borrowed it on a trip to southern Europe. I brought the Pro and my iPad mini (for reading books).. As a an avid amateur photographer, the Surface Pro is an awesome device to carry. Replacing the 17" laptop I usually travel with, the weight was a huge improvement. The thing is fast, runs Lightroom and Photoshop without breaking a sweat, no problems editing video in Premiere Pro.
How expensive you feel it is is of course dependent on available income, but if you are a professional that is on the move a lot and you need a real computer that you can work on with real software, and you want it in a very small form factor. I can't think of a single device that will beat the Surface Pro. I'm definitely getting the Pro 2 version for my self.
1 - Go to the moon.
2 - Go into low-earth orbit.
3 - Have no heavy lift capability
What's next, build an optical hand-held telescope to figure out what the big round thing we once thought was cheese is?
Has nobody noticed that at NASA time is running backwards? Assuming that a government entity can accomplish anything at all if its goal is not extremely narrow and we are at war with virtually unlimited budgets, is absurd.
shutting down the Saturn V program was a huge mistake... when viewed in hindsight.
No need to view it in hindsight. Lots of people said so without the benefit of hindsight. No way you could get through the noise of the political players though. NASA is first and foremost a political organization. The real experts have far too little say in what goes on.
Not necessarily true. Windows Vista (no SP) was the top of Windows hardware requirements. Windows Vista SP1 and onwards, Windows HW requirements has dropped and speed has increased. Windows 7 was significantly faster and more HW efficient than Vista. Windows 8 generally utperforms Windows XP on the same hardware if you have a reasonably recent graphics card (even when the grapics system is not dedicated).
Not since the original release of Vista. Since Vista SP1 Windows has steadily improved in performance, running faster with less hardware requirements. Windows 8, for example, is about 20% faster and leaner than Windows 7.
It's called context, and in context there is never any doubt about which Bell we are talking about. Failing to understand would be entirely blamed on your ability (or rather lack of such) to read.
The company with the largest number of sales of phone in the world, all sold at a profit, and growth in sales (slowing but growth of any sort since 2008 is a big deal) was a dead man walking?
Feature phones. Nokia was a non-entity in the smartphone market. The Nokia smartphones were absolute total junk. Non-functional pieces of shit with a disastrous operating system and no improvement in sight. I know, my company stayed with Nokia phones as standard for far too long.
Elop didn't kill Nokia in the feature phone market. In Norway Nokia is basically the only game in town for feature phones but "nobody" is buying. Elsewhere it is being killed by cheap competition.
The feature phone market was not going to keep Nokia alive for long. We can see that today. Nokia is still competing there and it's not doing their bottom line much good. Elop didn't kill the feature phone market, smartphones and cheap feature phones did. Unless Nokia became a big player in the smartphone market, it was going to go the way Nokia once had helped the dominant feature phone maker (Ericsson used to rule Nokia's world) go. Into oblivion.
On the path it was when Elop got on board Nokia was never going to be a player in the smartphone business. It's sales were OK, but only because many companies were buying the N-series due to the companies buying Nokia as a rule. The phones were utter crap and people were begging companies not to buy them but rather iPhones.
if Nokia did anything at all, they ushered in the BYOD era. Millions of employees were begging IT to be allowed to use their personal iPhones rather than the company issued Nokia shit.
So yes, Nokia was a Dead Man Walking. They were about to be crushed on feature phones (a market where they are still an important player, but a market that can no longer sustain a company like Nokia) and they had no response to (at the time) dominant Apple.
Sightseeing. If YouTube don't kone basic stuff like what constitutes a lie, you probably should not participate in any kind of discussion. The fact that someone has a different opinion about something than you doesn't mean they are lying. Please take your medications and continue this only subsequent to consulting an adult.
You seem to fail to grasp a fundamental aspect of business. A CEO's job is not to make good product, it is not to make sure he has satisfied customers, it is not to innovate, it is not to dazzle you. A CEO and his staff has one job, and one job only, to maximize shareholder value, a CEO who is not focused on maximizing shareholder value is breaking the law and can be sent to jail. If that means making good products that customers like, then so be it. If it is not, he has no business trying.
To sell at 2% of a fairly recent market cap? You think that's maximizing shareholder value?
Absolutely. Going in the direction Nokia was going, 2% of "a fairly recent market cap" is amazing. Nokia as just another Android manufacturer would have been at about 0% of "a fairly recent market cap".
If there was a lie in my post, you have failed to point it out.
Are you on drugs? Nokia was doomed long before Elop came on board. Elop did what he was supposed to do, maximize shareholder value. Symbian on smartphones was a joke. Meego was never going to happen for real (internal politics would have delayed it until it was too late). The feature phone market was where Nokia was doomed to live out its existence. Getting $7B for what was/is a corpse is a job excellently done.
'How did we go from being fucking Nokia to being eaten by a software company?'
I doubt the ones on board are asking. They know the answer: By utterly mishandling the transition to smartphones. By allowing the Symbian team to sabotage any real entry into that market. By klinging to the known. By refusing to prevent our own demise due to internal politics and strife. In other words, in exactly the same way all dominant players in a market fail once a disruptive technology comes along.
Elop didn't do anything to kill Nokia. He also might not have saved it. He did what a CEO should though. $7B is pretty close max shareholder value for what was (and perhaps still is) a corpse.
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The Windows experience requires armies of techs to keep the systems running
Nonsense. Hasn't been true for years and years.
Most consumers do just that, consume data.
Most consumers mostly consume data. Some times however they want to produce data, and in reality, at the moment, there is only one family of tablets that can do that for them, Windows based tablets running on the WinTel platform. Personally I own the Surface Pro 2 and it's as close to an ideal computer as you can come today. My iPad use has dropped significantly after getting it.
I am not the average person though since my Surface Pro 2 runs Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, Visual Studio etc. In addition it runs a Linux installation in a VM for test-deployment of Ruby stuff. I don't know any other tablet that can do that.
I love it when retards like you post idiocies like tthis. Here is the reality. They were a Microsoft only (it seems) shop until Nov 23 of this year. Over a four day period they moved to a combination of Linux and Windows. If I was as retarded as you are, I'd blame Linux. Thankfully for my employer I am nowhere near as retarded as you are.
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Moron
Get out of your idiotic partisan mindset
Wow.
Nowhere did I say that the "current administration broke it
Time for your meds again: "Obama administration ... ultimately it's the administration that is responsible for leaking this information-
I hope you get well soon, I have heard the recovery time for brain-removal surgery is difficult.
Wow, you're really grasping at straws here, trying to exculpate the administration.
Funny. So you are claiming that a system that has been in place for donkeys years is broken by the current administration, even though it has basically done nothing at all to change it? Seriously?
Here's what (probably) happened, and it wasn't illegal in any way.
1/ News organizations get the information prior to 2pm, but the information is embargoed. No releases prior to 2pm.
2/ One or more news organizations transfers the information to their Chicago office. Embargo still in place.
3/ The news organization in Chicago releases the information at 2pm exactly.
No crime. No issue. Nobody got information faster than the speed of light. Nobody broke the embargo. The embargo says when information can be released, but doesn't limit the release of the information to a specific physical location.
There is only one type of person,that would consider this as news. A male scientist who's never lived with, dated nor talked to a girl, woman,or any other kind of entity of the female persuasion.
No matter how you look at it, the fed screwed up.
OK, so what was the nonsense about "Obama administration" about then? You do know that the fed is not the Obama administration right? You also know that the current fed chairman was appointed by an administration other than the Obama administration, right? So are you spelling deficient or knowledge deficient or are you one of those retards who thinks this current government is far worse/far better than the previous government? Hint: The similarities are far more numerous than the differences.
You do realize that your: "ultimately it's the administration that is responsible for leaking this information" directly contradicts your "the fed screwed up", right?
Really? So the Fed makes a decision. Who gets to know before two o'clock? The Fed. The news media. Either someone at the Fed leaked or someone in the news leaked through a mechanism currently not known. What is more likely?
You can't be this dumb! Seriously. If you are, please go and shoot your self in the head before you procreate, or as it would be called in your case, massively pollute the earth.
I got a Surface Pro for the wife and borrowed it on a trip to southern Europe. I brought the Pro and my iPad mini (for reading books).. As a an avid amateur photographer, the Surface Pro is an awesome device to carry. Replacing the 17" laptop I usually travel with, the weight was a huge improvement. The thing is fast, runs Lightroom and Photoshop without breaking a sweat, no problems editing video in Premiere Pro.
How expensive you feel it is is of course dependent on available income, but if you are a professional that is on the move a lot and you need a real computer that you can work on with real software, and you want it in a very small form factor. I can't think of a single device that will beat the Surface Pro. I'm definitely getting the Pro 2 version for my self.
because they have not had any long term progress
The history of NASA
1 - Go to the moon.
2 - Go into low-earth orbit.
3 - Have no heavy lift capability
What's next, build an optical hand-held telescope to figure out what the big round thing we once thought was cheese is?
Has nobody noticed that at NASA time is running backwards? Assuming that a government entity can accomplish anything at all if its goal is not extremely narrow and we are at war with virtually unlimited budgets, is absurd.
shutting down the Saturn V program was a huge mistake... when viewed in hindsight.
No need to view it in hindsight. Lots of people said so without the benefit of hindsight. No way you could get through the noise of the political players though. NASA is first and foremost a political organization. The real experts have far too little say in what goes on.
Are you on drugs?
Problem with an Ro-Ro is that though the bandwidth goes through the roof, latency becomes a bit of an issue :-)
Not necessarily true. Windows Vista (no SP) was the top of Windows hardware requirements. Windows Vista SP1 and onwards, Windows HW requirements has dropped and speed has increased. Windows 7 was significantly faster and more HW efficient than Vista. Windows 8 generally utperforms Windows XP on the same hardware if you have a reasonably recent graphics card (even when the grapics system is not dedicated).
Not since the original release of Vista. Since Vista SP1 Windows has steadily improved in performance, running faster with less hardware requirements. Windows 8, for example, is about 20% faster and leaner than Windows 7.
It's called context, and in context there is never any doubt about which Bell we are talking about. Failing to understand would be entirely blamed on your ability (or rather lack of such) to read.
The company with the largest number of sales of phone in the world, all sold at a profit, and growth in sales (slowing but growth of any sort since 2008 is a big deal) was a dead man walking?
Feature phones. Nokia was a non-entity in the smartphone market. The Nokia smartphones were absolute total junk. Non-functional pieces of shit with a disastrous operating system and no improvement in sight. I know, my company stayed with Nokia phones as standard for far too long.
Elop didn't kill Nokia in the feature phone market. In Norway Nokia is basically the only game in town for feature phones but "nobody" is buying. Elsewhere it is being killed by cheap competition.
The feature phone market was not going to keep Nokia alive for long. We can see that today. Nokia is still competing there and it's not doing their bottom line much good. Elop didn't kill the feature phone market, smartphones and cheap feature phones did. Unless Nokia became a big player in the smartphone market, it was going to go the way Nokia once had helped the dominant feature phone maker (Ericsson used to rule Nokia's world) go. Into oblivion.
On the path it was when Elop got on board Nokia was never going to be a player in the smartphone business. It's sales were OK, but only because many companies were buying the N-series due to the companies buying Nokia as a rule. The phones were utter crap and people were begging companies not to buy them but rather iPhones.
if Nokia did anything at all, they ushered in the BYOD era. Millions of employees were begging IT to be allowed to use their personal iPhones rather than the company issued Nokia shit.
So yes, Nokia was a Dead Man Walking. They were about to be crushed on feature phones (a market where they are still an important player, but a market that can no longer sustain a company like Nokia) and they had no response to (at the time) dominant Apple.
Ah, automatic spell check. Thanks Apple. The first part should be: "Sigh. If you don't know..."
Sightseeing. If YouTube don't kone basic stuff like what constitutes a lie, you probably should not participate in any kind of discussion. The fact that someone has a different opinion about something than you doesn't mean they are lying. Please take your medications and continue this only subsequent to consulting an adult.
You seem to fail to grasp a fundamental aspect of business. A CEO's job is not to make good product, it is not to make sure he has satisfied customers, it is not to innovate, it is not to dazzle you. A CEO and his staff has one job, and one job only, to maximize shareholder value, a CEO who is not focused on maximizing shareholder value is breaking the law and can be sent to jail. If that means making good products that customers like, then so be it. If it is not, he has no business trying.
To sell at 2% of a fairly recent market cap? You think that's maximizing shareholder value?
Absolutely. Going in the direction Nokia was going, 2% of "a fairly recent market cap" is amazing. Nokia as just another Android manufacturer would have been at about 0% of "a fairly recent market cap".
If there was a lie in my post, you have failed to point it out.
Are you on drugs? Nokia was doomed long before Elop came on board. Elop did what he was supposed to do, maximize shareholder value. Symbian on smartphones was a joke. Meego was never going to happen for real (internal politics would have delayed it until it was too late). The feature phone market was where Nokia was doomed to live out its existence. Getting $7B for what was/is a corpse is a job excellently done.
'How did we go from being fucking Nokia to being eaten by a software company?'
I doubt the ones on board are asking. They know the answer: By utterly mishandling the transition to smartphones. By allowing the Symbian team to sabotage any real entry into that market. By klinging to the known. By refusing to prevent our own demise due to internal politics and strife. In other words, in exactly the same way all dominant players in a market fail once a disruptive technology comes along.
Elop didn't do anything to kill Nokia. He also might not have saved it. He did what a CEO should though. $7B is pretty close max shareholder value for what was (and perhaps still is) a corpse.