Meg just announced the turn-around will take until "2016", so Meg plans to stick around for a few years, and if nothing else, this will be good for Meg and her purse.
She said so, and you will just have to take her at her word (or SELL). I think the next few years will be good for Meg. But can she fix HP? Given so much (announced) job security, I'm fairly certain I could fix HP in that timeframe too. Or at least I'd get paid trying.
At least if she ruins HP, I can choose not to buy HP. Had she 'won' California, well that's something else and I'm more pleased she lost that election, despite her hundreds of millions spent trying to buy the right to govern it. HP might be more in Meg's league of management skills however; but I have my doubts.
Q. How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. Microsoft has declared Darkness (tm, patent-pending) to be The New Standard.
Up next, after the break, we'll learn how many (former) MSNBC copy editors it takes to change a lightbulb.
The Turkey had no gravy, because there was far far too much Greece to deal with, so everyone went Hungary. They had no choice, unless they could afford to go Dutch.
Most reliable? If you're talking about Fox News, I think you are referring to the 'fair and balanced' coverage Fox News frequently advertises. Fox isn't claiming to be any more 'reliable' for reporting news than FARS is claiming to be doing in Iran. (and If you want 'breaking news' try TMZ). If Fox were so serious about actually reporting news, they wouldn't fill all their prime-time, most-profitable hours with pundit shock-jocks like Bill O'Reilly, or Glen Beck.
Know your trademarks. Or psuedo-trademarks, or whatever. Better yet, try to understand the media industry that claims to be reporting news.
I will begrundgingly argue that Adobe's rent is more reasonable than Microsoft's, coming from my hypothetical perspective as a soho developer. Reason being is because chances are, my Requirements are for a 'big project' (to me), renting tools for 3-4+ weeks. So I'll pay $70+ and stop paying once I've delivered the project and taken off to snowboard. From this perspective, I like the short and legal contract, because that how I got paid too btw. That is a lot better than stealing photoshop (etc.) and risking malware.
Microsoft's tools are not so interesting however, from such a short-term perspective. I'm trying to think up a single similar business-case where I'd be willing to pay the rent to Microsoft as a soho business but I can't. Especially since I (further hypothetically) know about OpenOffice and Ubuntu, (and maybe GIMP and Inkscape and Drupal too, but nevermind for this Microsoft Office argument).
However let us not discount the influence of Microsoft's marketing, percentage-wise.
You have made my day with that info. Here's why: About a year ago I gave some consideration to how much time and effort (and cost) was involved keeping the floor clean in my house. The house gets very dusty quickly because of where I live. I opted against a Scooba back then primarily because the price was way out of my priorities and budget.
But I did buy an expensive mop and bucket from the local five and dime. I just stared at all the options long enough, so I wouldn't have to constantly get my hands wet wringing out the dirty wet mop. This centrifgual mop bucket is what I bought and I like it a lot. I bought several extra pads and I throw them in the washer (along with similar rags used for cleaning).
It works by pushing the mop down in the bucket, about three pumps is good. Doing so spins the mop head fast to rinse off excess water (after rinsing down in the bucket, of course).
I find simply sweeping the floor simple and effective enough for about 1 or 2 'cleanings' and the about the 3rd time I get serious with the mop and bucket.
That is interesting as I had not heard of those before. Here's a link to their site: http://www.neatorobotics.com/ although I see they only make a vacuum, and not a wet mopping thing like iRobot does. I wonder how effective the are wet mopping robots are.
Just wondering, but wouldn't it be worth it for the sake of oh, I don't know, lower hardware and space costs, energy, backup costs, ongoing risk, etc.) to virtualize those XP workstations to run in a more modern environment? As a small-business linux guy, I personally find the most cost-effective way to run any Windows requirement is by using virtual machines.
To try to answer my own question, I suppose not, because doing nothing at this point is currently perceived as the lowest-cost, lowest-risk option in your shop?
I ask because I don't have the responsibility you do, I'm just a developer and I'm curious what you think. In my own experience, I've learned to virtualize just about anything once I cloned the disk safely using dd on Linux, but I must say I worked for the skill, and broke a few things first; and clearly there's risk and cost creating even a virtual clone from the original HD, following earlier common backups bla bla bla, (and I suppose you must accept use of VMware-or-whatever drivers).
Microsoft is using the word 'whack' in their patent application. That part is unique. What is a whack really? Could be The Killer feature in Windows Phone 8.
His last chat transcript in TFA is chilling. It seems like any good I.T. guy he was online at the time. It sounds like they were under very heavy attack actually, with mortars... in the US Consulate compound? OK, now the government is beefing up security, but I wonder what was in-place before the place was destroyed.
Not only that, but the rapid path to market that Microsoft promised Nokia, was the excuse Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop wrote as the reasoning behind the 'Burning Platform' memo in February 2011. Since then Elop has gone out of his way to fire any in-house developer that is not assigned to work on Windows phones. Elop burned all that Linux expertise, because of the Microsoft Fast-track promised. Nokia also burned all those QT developers, Intel, etc. after Elop went gangbusters for Microsoft. In fact at the time Elop said the amount of bugs to ship a Linux platform was greater than the Windows Phone fast-track, (nevermind the Nokia N9 team totally proved him wrong by delivering a most-excellent phone, before they were all fired by Elop).
FWIW, Elop has also demonstrated zero Plan B, because no doubt he doesn't expect to be there for Plan B should the Plan B option even exist once he's finished.
That is pretty darn near perfect! Thanks. One of my Christmas projects is building asterisk servers to run as documented 'answering machines' associated with a www.12voip.com SIP account. Kudos!
Also, I'm thinking about moving away from a conventional dd-wrt Broadcom router setup and using a Pi as a firewall. Bringing down the cost helps buy a bunch of these, and saves electricity in the long run, and hopefully improves the firewall security too.
Hello, I'd like a plastic case, from anyone, that doesn't cost anywhere near the price of the networked/motherboard/CPU powerhouse that is Rasberry Pi. We're talking about molded, (or whatever), plastic. Relatively precision plastic I will grant you, but a small plastic box is The Specification. It doesn't even need to look pretty, just more functional than the cardboard box now in-use. -Thanks, from my entire budget for Rasberries this season.
The government did pay them $8 per day per diem while they were in space, minus costs for accomodations since they were provided with beds and shelter.
"As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps" -NY Times
When/if the water is treated sufficiently, there is not a problem. Orange County, California does this every single day for years now, and they produce a million gallons of drinking water a day. Where did you get your geek card from? This ain't exactly rocket science in 2012, and it is covered in the mainstream media too. We all must learn to use our precious resources more efficiently. Forget about trips to Mars already, (but relatively low-cost robotic instruments do it for me, I must admit). OK, the astronauts make a big deal about this waste purification technology (recently), but still.
Besides, the article above deals with sewage, which doesn't seem to be on order by AEB anywhere.
According this this article, the Amsterdam AEB facility was upgraded in 2006 to process raw sewage into energy also. "The two [new] installations will take advantage of several positive interactions, including utilization of the biogas produced from sewage sludge digestion."
how come these plants aren't being constructed where the waste is generated?
This is exactly what the city of Amsterdam decided to do for themselves, to the extent they can now look to import garbage at a profit. Let me tell you no one, I mean no one seriously overbuilds their infrastructure like the Dutch. I swear, they are an advanced society America could learn from. Not just in this example, but their health care too, (must we need to 'invent' everything ourselves? Can't America look to, and learn from others?).
Others have tried and failed, and is anyone paying attention to the highly compressed Dutch society, for example as I have previously cited how they fuel Amsterdam's electricity?
Actually, I just remembered that the financing of the Amsterdam Arena (sports stadium) was so incredibly successful, as in built on-time, on or under budget (can't recall precisely but it was very impressive!), etc. that project has earned a lot of study abroad.
The city of Amsterdam imports trash (for profit) from all over the place to generate electricity. Amsterdam is enlarging its harbor infrastructure to increase the amount of trash barges that are hoped to arrive from other countries as those countries seek to reduce waste & emmissions. Currently the CO2 from the trucks arriving at the facility is considered more wasteful than future barges.
The most-coveted data center locations surround this facility btw.
I am not ready to use the past-tense just yet. But what has been part of the process of the killing of Nokia?
There's the current CEO Elop of Microsoft, poster-boy of Microsoft. Who has nothing to show for his endeavors and has zero backup strategy.
There's the ages-old carrier boycott because Nokia once-championed phones that weren't tied down to the carrier's 'specs'
And the carriers have always hated Skype, and now that Skype is part of Microsoft, they hate they really, really hate the Nokia Microsoft phones.
Wait a minute. Samsung needs to differentiate and they just got motivated, and they already have plans to use Tizen, which came from Nokia and Intel's open-source Meego ambitions. Can Nokia sue Samsung, (or Google)? I don't think so! Thanks Nokia! Thanks Stephon Elop!
I'd like to argue Nokia should be suing Stephen Elop and Microsoft. Oh, wait. Seriously, now Nokia is tied to a single OS which they no longer control, and they haven't fixed anything else.
I applaud Microsoft's redesign of their franchise and I've enjoyed playing with Release Previews on VirtualBox. I've come to the conclusion Joe Sixpack and his mother are going to have a comparitively more difficult time adjusting to their Windows upgrade than they would otherwise should they be upgrading from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. But we haven't started hearing any uproar about such a thing just yet.
And you know what, I hear you on the 'resistant to change' requirement given by stakeholders, and Microsoft right about now *should* be showing the Gnome 3 devs and managers how important documentation and an implementation strategy is. Although again I can't fault them, as this series of very short videos is actually all anyone really needs:
Gnome 3 gets too much hate I think, given what they've set out to do and whatever resources their funding affords them. They're not doing anything less than Apple or Microsoft do, and most-certainly with less resources. Yet I think the upgrade noise is disproportionate given their admittedly technical user-base, and resources. And yeah, they need to make adjustments based on user-feedback, in order to actually compete.
Slashdot Mirror
I am thinking its either Slashdot has its performance artists too, or a Google-bomb smear campaign of Mr. Kowalski.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mr.+Alexander+Peter+Kowalski
But if mods are effective, Google can't see it on slashdot.
Meg just announced the turn-around will take until "2016", so Meg plans to stick around for a few years, and if nothing else, this will be good for Meg and her purse.
She said so, and you will just have to take her at her word (or SELL). I think the next few years will be good for Meg. But can she fix HP? Given so much (announced) job security, I'm fairly certain I could fix HP in that timeframe too. Or at least I'd get paid trying.
At least if she ruins HP, I can choose not to buy HP. Had she 'won' California, well that's something else and I'm more pleased she lost that election, despite her hundreds of millions spent trying to buy the right to govern it. HP might be more in Meg's league of management skills however; but I have my doubts.
Q. How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. Microsoft has declared Darkness (tm, patent-pending) to be The New Standard.
Up next, after the break, we'll learn how many (former) MSNBC copy editors it takes to change a lightbulb.
Thumbs up for In-N-Out, although I gotta give Five Guys a try since I've read this in the LA Times. Ever since I read this, the concept of fast-food being more desirable than a double-double is freaking me out. http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-five-guys-burger-mcdonalds-20120918,0,2348963.story
Here is an editorial that works to explain the carriers' boycott against Skype, (and vis-à-vis Microsoft's ownership, along with Nokia's position).
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/09/why-do-carriers-hate-skype-let-me-count-the-ways.html
The Turkey had no gravy, because there was far far too much Greece to deal with, so everyone went Hungary. They had no choice, unless they could afford to go Dutch.
Most reliable? If you're talking about Fox News, I think you are referring to the 'fair and balanced' coverage Fox News frequently advertises. Fox isn't claiming to be any more 'reliable' for reporting news than FARS is claiming to be doing in Iran. (and If you want 'breaking news' try TMZ). If Fox were so serious about actually reporting news, they wouldn't fill all their prime-time, most-profitable hours with pundit shock-jocks like Bill O'Reilly, or Glen Beck.
Know your trademarks. Or psuedo-trademarks, or whatever. Better yet, try to understand the media industry that claims to be reporting news.
I will begrundgingly argue that Adobe's rent is more reasonable than Microsoft's, coming from my hypothetical perspective as a soho developer. Reason being is because chances are, my Requirements are for a 'big project' (to me), renting tools for 3-4+ weeks. So I'll pay $70+ and stop paying once I've delivered the project and taken off to snowboard. From this perspective, I like the short and legal contract, because that how I got paid too btw. That is a lot better than stealing photoshop (etc.) and risking malware.
Microsoft's tools are not so interesting however, from such a short-term perspective. I'm trying to think up a single similar business-case where I'd be willing to pay the rent to Microsoft as a soho business but I can't. Especially since I (further hypothetically) know about OpenOffice and Ubuntu, (and maybe GIMP and Inkscape and Drupal too, but nevermind for this Microsoft Office argument).
However let us not discount the influence of Microsoft's marketing, percentage-wise.
Citation requested.
You have made my day with that info. Here's why: About a year ago I gave some consideration to how much time and effort (and cost) was involved keeping the floor clean in my house. The house gets very dusty quickly because of where I live. I opted against a Scooba back then primarily because the price was way out of my priorities and budget.
But I did buy an expensive mop and bucket from the local five and dime. I just stared at all the options long enough, so I wouldn't have to constantly get my hands wet wringing out the dirty wet mop. This centrifgual mop bucket is what I bought and I like it a lot. I bought several extra pads and I throw them in the washer (along with similar rags used for cleaning).
It works by pushing the mop down in the bucket, about three pumps is good. Doing so spins the mop head fast to rinse off excess water (after rinsing down in the bucket, of course).
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Leifheit+55341+Twist+Mop+System
I find simply sweeping the floor simple and effective enough for about 1 or 2 'cleanings' and the about the 3rd time I get serious with the mop and bucket.
Oh, I almost forgot *this* is most awesome! OMFG it is so awesome. Imagine sweeping up the dust off the floor using a little dustbroom and pan. Now stop doing that and use this little Dyson DC34 cordless vacuum cleaner (for Everything) like I do: http://www.amazon.com/Dyson-DC34-cordless-vacuum-cleaner/dp/B006WS39NE/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1347946341&sr=8-18&keywords=dyson Even this most-serious former Air Force I.T. security professional raves about his little Dyson: http://taosecurity.blogspot.nl/2007/12/make-cleaning-awesome.html
Just for cleaning the regular dust build-up behind the PCs alone, that extremely well-designed vacuum is seriously worth the money!
Since I have adopted those tips, life has improved greatly.
That is interesting as I had not heard of those before. Here's a link to their site: http://www.neatorobotics.com/ although I see they only make a vacuum, and not a wet mopping thing like iRobot does. I wonder how effective the are wet mopping robots are.
Just wondering, but wouldn't it be worth it for the sake of oh, I don't know, lower hardware and space costs, energy, backup costs, ongoing risk, etc.) to virtualize those XP workstations to run in a more modern environment? As a small-business linux guy, I personally find the most cost-effective way to run any Windows requirement is by using virtual machines.
To try to answer my own question, I suppose not, because doing nothing at this point is currently perceived as the lowest-cost, lowest-risk option in your shop?
I ask because I don't have the responsibility you do, I'm just a developer and I'm curious what you think. In my own experience, I've learned to virtualize just about anything once I cloned the disk safely using dd on Linux, but I must say I worked for the skill, and broke a few things first; and clearly there's risk and cost creating even a virtual clone from the original HD, following earlier common backups bla bla bla, (and I suppose you must accept use of VMware-or-whatever drivers).
Microsoft is using the word 'whack' in their patent application. That part is unique.
What is a whack really? Could be The Killer feature in Windows Phone 8.
Patent wars are so passé. I am so ready for the anti-poach wars!
His last chat transcript in TFA is chilling. It seems like any good I.T. guy he was online at the time. It sounds like they were under very heavy attack actually, with mortars... in the US Consulate compound? OK, now the government is beefing up security, but I wonder what was in-place before the place was destroyed.
What a terrible thing to happen.
Not only that, but the rapid path to market that Microsoft promised Nokia, was the excuse Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop wrote as the reasoning behind the 'Burning Platform' memo in February 2011. Since then Elop has gone out of his way to fire any in-house developer that is not assigned to work on Windows phones. Elop burned all that Linux expertise, because of the Microsoft Fast-track promised. Nokia also burned all those QT developers, Intel, etc. after Elop went gangbusters for Microsoft. In fact at the time Elop said the amount of bugs to ship a Linux platform was greater than the Windows Phone fast-track, (nevermind the Nokia N9 team totally proved him wrong by delivering a most-excellent phone, before they were all fired by Elop).
FWIW, Elop has also demonstrated zero Plan B, because no doubt he doesn't expect to be there for Plan B should the Plan B option even exist once he's finished.
That is pretty darn near perfect! Thanks. One of my Christmas projects is building asterisk servers to run as documented 'answering machines' associated with a www.12voip.com SIP account. Kudos!
http://nerdvittles.com/?p=1784
Also, I'm thinking about moving away from a conventional dd-wrt Broadcom router setup and using a Pi as a firewall. Bringing down the cost helps buy a bunch of these, and saves electricity in the long run, and hopefully improves the firewall security too.
Hello, I'd like a plastic case, from anyone, that doesn't cost anywhere near the price of the networked/motherboard/CPU powerhouse that is Rasberry Pi. We're talking about molded, (or whatever), plastic. Relatively precision plastic I will grant you, but a small plastic box is The Specification. It doesn't even need to look pretty, just more functional than the cardboard box now in-use. -Thanks, from my entire budget for Rasberries this season.
The government did pay them $8 per day per diem while they were in space, minus costs for accomodations since they were provided with beds and shelter.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apollo-11s-astronauts-received-8-141240938.html
"As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps" -NY Times
When/if the water is treated sufficiently, there is not a problem. Orange County, California does this every single day for years now, and they produce a million gallons of drinking water a day. Where did you get your geek card from? This ain't exactly rocket science in 2012, and it is covered in the mainstream media too. We all must learn to use our precious resources more efficiently. Forget about trips to Mars already, (but relatively low-cost robotic instruments do it for me, I must admit). OK, the astronauts make a big deal about this waste purification technology (recently), but still.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120131-reclaimed-wastewater-for-drinking/
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/science/earth/despite-yuck-factor-treated-wastewater-used-for-drinking.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
According this this article, the Amsterdam AEB facility was upgraded in 2006 to process raw sewage into energy also. "The two [new] installations will take advantage of several positive interactions, including utilization of the biogas produced from sewage sludge digestion."
http://arizonaenergy.org/Analysis/MakingSense/waste_incineration_and_the_commu.htm
This is exactly what the city of Amsterdam decided to do for themselves, to the extent they can now look to import garbage at a profit. Let me tell you no one, I mean no one seriously overbuilds their infrastructure like the Dutch. I swear, they are an advanced society America could learn from. Not just in this example, but their health care too, (must we need to 'invent' everything ourselves? Can't America look to, and learn from others?).
Others have tried and failed, and is anyone paying attention to the highly compressed Dutch society, for example as I have previously cited how they fuel Amsterdam's electricity?
Actually, I just remembered that the financing of the Amsterdam Arena (sports stadium) was so incredibly successful, as in built on-time, on or under budget (can't recall precisely but it was very impressive!), etc. that project has earned a lot of study abroad.
The city of Amsterdam imports trash (for profit) from all over the place to generate electricity. Amsterdam is enlarging its harbor infrastructure to increase the amount of trash barges that are hoped to arrive from other countries as those countries seek to reduce waste & emmissions. Currently the CO2 from the trucks arriving at the facility is considered more wasteful than future barges.
The most-coveted data center locations surround this facility btw.
http://www.aebamsterdam.com/en/home
I am not ready to use the past-tense just yet. But what has been part of the process of the killing of Nokia?
There's the current CEO Elop of Microsoft, poster-boy of Microsoft. Who has nothing to show for his endeavors and has zero backup strategy.
There's the ages-old carrier boycott because Nokia once-championed phones that weren't tied down to the carrier's 'specs'
And the carriers have always hated Skype, and now that Skype is part of Microsoft, they hate they really, really hate the Nokia Microsoft phones.
Wait a minute. Samsung needs to differentiate and they just got motivated, and they already have plans to use Tizen, which came from Nokia and Intel's open-source Meego ambitions. Can Nokia sue Samsung, (or Google)? I don't think so! Thanks Nokia! Thanks Stephon Elop!
I'd like to argue Nokia should be suing Stephen Elop and Microsoft. Oh, wait. Seriously, now Nokia is tied to a single OS which they no longer control, and they haven't fixed anything else.
I applaud Microsoft's redesign of their franchise and I've enjoyed playing with Release Previews on VirtualBox. I've come to the conclusion Joe Sixpack and his mother are going to have a comparitively more difficult time adjusting to their Windows upgrade than they would otherwise should they be upgrading from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. But we haven't started hearing any uproar about such a thing just yet.
And you know what, I hear you on the 'resistant to change' requirement given by stakeholders, and Microsoft right about now *should* be showing the Gnome 3 devs and managers how important documentation and an implementation strategy is. Although again I can't fault them, as this series of very short videos is actually all anyone really needs:
https://www.youtube.com/user/GNOMEDesktop
Gnome 3 gets too much hate I think, given what they've set out to do and whatever resources their funding affords them. They're not doing anything less than Apple or Microsoft do, and most-certainly with less resources. Yet I think the upgrade noise is disproportionate given their admittedly technical user-base, and resources. And yeah, they need to make adjustments based on user-feedback, in order to actually compete.