At one point, I worked in the mil side of weapons at Boeing.
The correct answer is not "might not". It's "will not".
Everyone in the industry knows what actually does work, and what we're talking about for the EU is not in the "workable" solutions choices.
Unless you think a 10 percent success rate with 90 percent getting through if they use all standard countermeasures is a "good thing". In real world operations with real weather, not faked tests.
Not that Iran could hit the broad side of a Polish barn - that's a fiction too.
Or, as is more likely, most of the tech people doing Marketing were rebadges from the tech side (and thus know the tech part but not how to sell) or were never tech (and thus have no idea what it is they're selling).
Which is usually the case.
One of the downsides of promotion in Tech (IT) is you go from 100 percent tech to 0-5 percent Tech overnight, in terms of job function. I could sell you a coffee cup even if you don't need it, but that doesn't make it an optimal marketing pathway.
Any time you find yourself explaining Why People Should Like Your Stuff if they Only Used It Right, it means you have failed Marketing 101 and need to turn in your diploma, because you obviously weren't paying attention in class.
I think Microsoft as a major player in the consumer market is probably going to fade. I still think they're going to be a major player in the medium-sized business and corporate world for some time to come. But as far as consumer devices go, they're so behind Apple and Android now that I just don't really see how they'll catch up.
More than 80 percent of Microsoft revenues are from corporations or parts of corporations or bonds of corporations they own.
They could stop making stuff tomorrow, and still bring in more revenue than the EU does.
I started building S-100 bus computers, hand-soldering the boards in electronics shop, and using oscilliscopes to tune my floppy drives, literally adding transistors, capacitors, wires, clock units, batteries etc.
By that measure, a cell phone is a PC. So is your HDTV. So is your laptop. So is your tablet. So is your Desktop PC (which usually is under your desk, but used to be on top of it).
Nowadays the watch on your hand (does anyone except morons buy those anymore?) has more computing power than the old mainframes with magnetic core memory did.
The question is: should I be paying some Greedmeister a fortune (20 percent of the total unit cost) for an OS, like Microsoft, or should I just roll my own OS like China does where 95 percent of all Windows computers are pirated XP clones?
He's trying to cover up for that part. Just ignore him.
Pumping out energy in wave form in the narrow band of energy we view as visible light is not the same as emitting energy across the entire spectrum, from IR (heat) to UV (rave light).
So, in short, no. Revel in your LED-equipped overlords.
Look, I actually have been on counter-terrorism ops back in my Army days.
The problem is the FBI has a tendency to label people who hack music as terrorists, in addition to the Dangerous Killing People terrorists who ARE the real threat.
Giving up your Rights and Freedoms won't make you safer, only less.
I don't know which H1-B visa sponsor got you to push this, but it's just because you're jealous of people like me going for their PhD in Electrical Engineering.
Stop hating we American-born who want to educate ourselves!
But I'm fairly sure we started with message board symbolic links first, and file attachments, which is what we used it for.
Maybe the first spam used his system, but not the first Corriere Electronique as the French would say.
(On ARPA*NET since 1978 and internal mil systems circa 1982, my old slashdot account had 4 digits but I spaced the password and the email account was an old CIS one I can't remember the number of)
Seriously, does AT&T think we can't compare the much larger data usage in Japan and South Korea in one day compared to their fake limited monthly caps?
I know you're too young to understand this, but until we created ARPA NET, which later became the Internet, there in fact was an American right to be forgotten.
You could literally move 2 states away and nobody would know who you were.
It is a recent corporate aberration that has permitted people to track you in such a manner.
Some states still retain a high Right of Privacy in their state constitutions, particularly in the West.
In fact, though they and Wall Street pre-exist the Constitution, corporations are specifically not mentioned in the Constitution, because they are only Legal Fictions, and only an insane person - or group of elderly insane people - could possibly think they were People.
Your corporate right to my data ends where I - a real Citizen - says it does.
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It took a long time to get ICBMs from the "will not work" to the "will work" stage.
The only way to build such systems is to build them flawed, learn, and iterate.
Wrong. We build cruise missiles and drones and JDAMs that worked from the get go.
When you fake the tests at the beginning, you're not providing a solution, you're covering something up.
But then, I live in the real world.
At one point, I worked in the mil side of weapons at Boeing.
The correct answer is not "might not". It's "will not".
Everyone in the industry knows what actually does work, and what we're talking about for the EU is not in the "workable" solutions choices.
Unless you think a 10 percent success rate with 90 percent getting through if they use all standard countermeasures is a "good thing". In real world operations with real weather, not faked tests.
Not that Iran could hit the broad side of a Polish barn - that's a fiction too.
I remember babysittting his kids at an Atlanta Georgia WorldCon once.
So be very very scared.
Not.
I'd estimate we have about 100 Linux machines in our lab.
They work fine.
Do they "make money"? Nope. They just work.
Or, as is more likely, most of the tech people doing Marketing were rebadges from the tech side (and thus know the tech part but not how to sell) or were never tech (and thus have no idea what it is they're selling).
Which is usually the case.
One of the downsides of promotion in Tech (IT) is you go from 100 percent tech to 0-5 percent Tech overnight, in terms of job function. I could sell you a coffee cup even if you don't need it, but that doesn't make it an optimal marketing pathway.
If it's all running full-screen, then why call it Windows anymore? Why not call it Screen-Saver Explorer?
Or Microsoft Bob ...
Face it, nobody likes it.
Any time you find yourself explaining Why People Should Like Your Stuff if they Only Used It Right, it means you have failed Marketing 101 and need to turn in your diploma, because you obviously weren't paying attention in class.
(my first degree was in Marketing, fwiw)
Well, the definition does change, depending on the mission.
As some other commenters point out, there is definitely a need for a full-size keyboard but a dock and a keyboard will do the trick for many people.
Or you could just use keyboard pants like the rest of us.
Um, guy, you can't buy an iPad 3 (iPad HD) with a 24 inch screen.
You can have any size screen you want, so long as it's the exact size they sell.
One screen form to rule them all.
One screen form to bind them.
Four times the pixels for the elven kings.
And in the darkness blind them.
I think Microsoft as a major player in the consumer market is probably going to fade. I still think they're going to be a major player in the medium-sized business and corporate world for some time to come. But as far as consumer devices go, they're so behind Apple and Android now that I just don't really see how they'll catch up.
More than 80 percent of Microsoft revenues are from corporations or parts of corporations or bonds of corporations they own.
They could stop making stuff tomorrow, and still bring in more revenue than the EU does.
"Ozzie also thinks Microsoft's future as a company is strongly tied to Windows 8's reception."
They're doomed.
You can say that again. Even InfoWorld knows the Metro UI in Win8 is a dead end.
It's Zune. On steroids.
I started building S-100 bus computers, hand-soldering the boards in electronics shop, and using oscilliscopes to tune my floppy drives, literally adding transistors, capacitors, wires, clock units, batteries etc.
By that measure, a cell phone is a PC. So is your HDTV. So is your laptop. So is your tablet. So is your Desktop PC (which usually is under your desk, but used to be on top of it).
Nowadays the watch on your hand (does anyone except morons buy those anymore?) has more computing power than the old mainframes with magnetic core memory did.
The question is: should I be paying some Greedmeister a fortune (20 percent of the total unit cost) for an OS, like Microsoft, or should I just roll my own OS like China does where 95 percent of all Windows computers are pirated XP clones?
He's trying to cover up for that part. Just ignore him.
Pumping out energy in wave form in the narrow band of energy we view as visible light is not the same as emitting energy across the entire spectrum, from IR (heat) to UV (rave light).
So, in short, no. Revel in your LED-equipped overlords.
Look, I actually have been on counter-terrorism ops back in my Army days.
The problem is the FBI has a tendency to label people who hack music as terrorists, in addition to the Dangerous Killing People terrorists who ARE the real threat.
Giving up your Rights and Freedoms won't make you safer, only less.
I don't know which H1-B visa sponsor got you to push this, but it's just because you're jealous of people like me going for their PhD in Electrical Engineering.
Stop hating we American-born who want to educate ourselves!
All we have to do is screen out the Chinese Internet connections by Satellite and Cable and it will be like nothing happened.
You don't think all those "disused" satellites in orbit are dead, do you?
I was in Canada at the time. I don't care what you say. Our funding was from our country, and his help was invaluable.
Sit on it.
He funded it, dip shiite. Electrons don't grow on trees.
But I'm fairly sure we started with message board symbolic links first, and file attachments, which is what we used it for.
Maybe the first spam used his system, but not the first Corriere Electronique as the French would say.
(On ARPA*NET since 1978 and internal mil systems circa 1982, my old slashdot account had 4 digits but I spaced the password and the email account was an old CIS one I can't remember the number of)
Using a device the size of a USB stick, we can sequence your entire DNA nowadays.
That's got a LOT more information in it.
Seriously, does AT&T think we can't compare the much larger data usage in Japan and South Korea in one day compared to their fake limited monthly caps?
It is to laugh.
Get real, AT&T.
Stop lying to the customers.
I know you're too young to understand this, but until we created ARPA NET, which later became the Internet, there in fact was an American right to be forgotten.
You could literally move 2 states away and nobody would know who you were.
It is a recent corporate aberration that has permitted people to track you in such a manner.
Some states still retain a high Right of Privacy in their state constitutions, particularly in the West.
Corporations aren't People.
In fact, though they and Wall Street pre-exist the Constitution, corporations are specifically not mentioned in the Constitution, because they are only Legal Fictions, and only an insane person - or group of elderly insane people - could possibly think they were People.
Your corporate right to my data ends where I - a real Citizen - says it does.
In fact, MYOB.
Your right to my data ends where I say explicitly that you - and you alone - can have it.
Don't like it?
Don't sign International Data Treaties with the EU and Canada which have strong Privacy rights and Liberties then.
Comprende?