Dude, don't badmouth GIFs. I couldn't survive a day in my dreary corporate job without a regular dose of "Keep calm and embrace ITIL" or "I can haz ssh keys" GIFs.
We hear that over and over, but Microsoft is actually making money with Xbox. And Minecraft. And Skype. They make money in the cloud business (unlike Amazon who pours money from their retail business to keep AWS afloat).
They even made money with Yahoo, something few companies can brag about (including Yahoo).
Microsoft has been profitable every single year since 1985. That's the bottom line. There will always be people to make clever comments about the Zune and Nokia, but taking a dive for a few quarters or years is a strategy that paid off in many cases. If you start looking at how much money individual product lines made or lost at Microsoft, you're missing the point. Multiple streams of revenue, that's how you stay in business while other companies boom and bust.
They're not sexy, they're not cool, but they make money, they pay their employees well, and they give a decent dividend to their shareholders. That's a sound business in my book, and 10 years from now I'll still hold on to my MSFT stock while today's cool companies will be as relevant as Nortel or Blackberry.
That's enough information for the Democrats Youth death squads. Currently they're just trying to kill trump, but anyone who vote against Clinton/Sanders will soon be a target too.
Google don't need an apologist, what they don't like they can hide, like the death by autoerotic asphyxiation of one of their top execs in a Red Roof Inn in 2014.
His iChurch is falling apart, give the poor guy a break. He's trying to hang to his beliefs that Apple is still relevant, let him mourn that has been company on his own terms.
I am not sure whether Apple will just ship a Lightning Headset with that iPhone
What, macs4all, this wasn't covered in your iMissionary marketing material?
Oh wait I remember, Apple doesn't send material or anything to its volunteer salesforce, they let you guys find things on your own; they don't worry about you, knowing that you'll bend over no matter what.
The systemd people are desktop people. That's their focus and their background (lookup systemd and see the website where it's hosted). But not only are those people half-baking things and playing sorcerer's apprentice, they also have very little concerns for the vast majority of linux use cases, i.e. servers.
It's a fascinating situation, as if the bank tellers had taken over the bank and were making decision based on their limited exposure to how the bank was actually making money. And everybody sits around and let this happen, and other banks start doing the same. That's PhD material for sure, social science people will come up with a name for this syndrome at some point, like they did with the Stockholm syndrome. The Poettering syndrome maybe.
yum is gone, now it's dnf and do you know what dnf stands for? Absolutely nothing, the guy was just looking for a short name that wasn't taken.
Well we all know it won't live long, package management will end up in systemd like evertything else soon enough. Probably rpmctl or something like that.
I can't believe this train wreck.
But other than that and the usual pulseaudio bugs, yes, Fedora is awesome, second to none at the moment.
Yeah it was a mistake, right before Apple Music I should have included the "Attention K-Mart Shoppers" mp3s from archive.org that were discussed on Slashdot a while ago. See, those tapes were shipped to a store in Illinois instead the 80s and 90s, yet they have survived to this day, while it's a known fact that many people lose their music when they subscribe to Apple Music.
That guy is something else. He subsidized the development of twitter using the money he made with blogger, then kept a backstabbing buffoon on the twitter board because he didn't want to hurt his feeling - only to end up kicked out of his own company by the said buffoon who orchestrated a coup.
And then instead of just bitching and moaning about the situation, he went and created medium.
I'll always pay attention when that guy has something to say.
Unless Facebook comes up with a magical algorithm that cleans up shitty audio, video will have a hard time replacing text - because when all you can see is a face with a moving mouth and nothing but noise on the audio, the appeal fades significantly.
I'm not saying it does a good job. Look at the iPhone/iPad, the camera is terrible yet people use them all the time to take pictures and video. Do those devices "replace" proper cameras? Poorly, but yes they do. I can see the same thing happening with text vs video.
If you accept that people will lower their standards for the sake of convenience, then it means video will win on social media.
My first instinct would be, people won't post as much if it's all video, because they often post from public places and they would be too self-conscious to talk out loud about personal stuff when surrounded with strangers.
But then I realize that people have no shame in taking selfies and suddenly I can tell that Facebook guy is probably right. Remove inhibitions and what's left is the path to convenience, and it's a lot easier to speak than it is to write.
Only roablock is search, and you can bet there's busy bees all over the world trying to solve that.
Slashdot Mirror
Farm nerd!
No, definitely no GIFs.
Dude, don't badmouth GIFs. I couldn't survive a day in my dreary corporate job without a regular dose of "Keep calm and embrace ITIL" or "I can haz ssh keys" GIFs.
We hear that over and over, but Microsoft is actually making money with Xbox. And Minecraft. And Skype. They make money in the cloud business (unlike Amazon who pours money from their retail business to keep AWS afloat).
They even made money with Yahoo, something few companies can brag about (including Yahoo).
Microsoft has been profitable every single year since 1985. That's the bottom line. There will always be people to make clever comments about the Zune and Nokia, but taking a dive for a few quarters or years is a strategy that paid off in many cases. If you start looking at how much money individual product lines made or lost at Microsoft, you're missing the point. Multiple streams of revenue, that's how you stay in business while other companies boom and bust.
They're not sexy, they're not cool, but they make money, they pay their employees well, and they give a decent dividend to their shareholders. That's a sound business in my book, and 10 years from now I'll still hold on to my MSFT stock while today's cool companies will be as relevant as Nortel or Blackberry.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
It's called the REACT team.
It was not the regular police, it was a special task force funded in part by big IT companies, including Apple.
But you're ok with Apple, who sent the swat to break into a reporter's home after he gave them back the new iPhone an Apple employee left in a bar?
I buy certificates from them for $5/year. It's hardly blood-sucking. The competition sells the same thing for 10x more.
That's enough information for the Democrats Youth death squads. Currently they're just trying to kill trump, but anyone who vote against Clinton/Sanders will soon be a target too.
They think only white men that own land can vote.
It's been infiltrated and corrupted by commies and anarchists over the years so it lost its purity, but that's the spirit of the electoral college.
wait did yahoo stop using bing?
Google don't need an apologist, what they don't like they can hide, like the death by autoerotic asphyxiation of one of their top execs in a Red Roof Inn in 2014.
--------> you insufferable twit
Very angry.
His iChurch is falling apart, give the poor guy a break. He's trying to hang to his beliefs that Apple is still relevant, let him mourn that has been company on his own terms.
I am not sure whether Apple will just ship a Lightning Headset with that iPhone
What, macs4all, this wasn't covered in your iMissionary marketing material?
Oh wait I remember, Apple doesn't send material or anything to its volunteer salesforce, they let you guys find things on your own; they don't worry about you, knowing that you'll bend over no matter what.
The systemd people are desktop people. That's their focus and their background (lookup systemd and see the website where it's hosted). But not only are those people half-baking things and playing sorcerer's apprentice, they also have very little concerns for the vast majority of linux use cases, i.e. servers.
It's a fascinating situation, as if the bank tellers had taken over the bank and were making decision based on their limited exposure to how the bank was actually making money. And everybody sits around and let this happen, and other banks start doing the same. That's PhD material for sure, social science people will come up with a name for this syndrome at some point, like they did with the Stockholm syndrome. The Poettering syndrome maybe.
The command yum
yum is gone, now it's dnf and do you know what dnf stands for? Absolutely nothing, the guy was just looking for a short name that wasn't taken.
Well we all know it won't live long, package management will end up in systemd like evertything else soon enough. Probably rpmctl or something like that.
I can't believe this train wreck.
But other than that and the usual pulseaudio bugs, yes, Fedora is awesome, second to none at the moment.
Yeah it was a mistake, right before Apple Music I should have included the "Attention K-Mart Shoppers" mp3s from archive.org that were discussed on Slashdot a while ago. See, those tapes were shipped to a store in Illinois instead the 80s and 90s, yet they have survived to this day, while it's a known fact that many people lose their music when they subscribe to Apple Music.
K-mart 1, Apple 0.
who is John Galt?
Pandora > Google play music (songza) > Spotify > A tape mix done by my gf in 5th grade > Apple Music.
But no Pandora in Canada I think.
The sooner greed is outlawed the better.
Yes! We badly need an Equalization of Opportunity bill.
That guy is something else. He subsidized the development of twitter using the money he made with blogger, then kept a backstabbing buffoon on the twitter board because he didn't want to hurt his feeling - only to end up kicked out of his own company by the said buffoon who orchestrated a coup.
And then instead of just bitching and moaning about the situation, he went and created medium.
I'll always pay attention when that guy has something to say.
would you be less sad if it was true but you didn't agree with it, or if it wasn't true and you did agree?
you mean... sudoctl systemctl snapctl installctl windows10ctl
output of the command:
"active/dead: upgrade was ... 9:32 am"
to view the full message, run upgrade again using a 4k monitor.
Unless Facebook comes up with a magical algorithm that cleans up shitty audio, video will have a hard time replacing text - because when all you can see is a face with a moving mouth and nothing but noise on the audio, the appeal fades significantly.
I'm not saying it does a good job. Look at the iPhone/iPad, the camera is terrible yet people use them all the time to take pictures and video. Do those devices "replace" proper cameras? Poorly, but yes they do. I can see the same thing happening with text vs video.
If you accept that people will lower their standards for the sake of convenience, then it means video will win on social media.
My first instinct would be, people won't post as much if it's all video, because they often post from public places and they would be too self-conscious to talk out loud about personal stuff when surrounded with strangers.
But then I realize that people have no shame in taking selfies and suddenly I can tell that Facebook guy is probably right. Remove inhibitions and what's left is the path to convenience, and it's a lot easier to speak than it is to write.
Only roablock is search, and you can bet there's busy bees all over the world trying to solve that.
You cannot get access to "thousands of servers" for $6. It is $6 EACH.
Their business model sucks. They should have some kind of tiered pricing model, with volume discount and loyalty programs.