I've had whole series of meetings involving several very senior overpaid staff that ended up with the conclusion we don't need to do actually do anything and don't need any more meetings when that was obvious to anyone with half a brain before the first meeting. And the management then effectively promoted the organiser of those meetings based on the do nothing outcome of organising unneeded meetings not costing us anything to implement...
Well said by someone who obviously has every Microsoft certification under the sun but hasn't worked in any large corporate environment or for any company older than 20 years or any company in the Financial sector that have customers and contracts and relationships that can last for several decades most of which are reliant on legacy systems including everything from Mainframes and records that exist nowhere other than microfice to 30 year old bespoke client/server systems with no hope of ever being updated due to low cost/gain ratios for the number of customers and potential processing savings involved. If you have a system that would cost $500k to update/replace but the cost of (not) maintaining that system and manual workarounds for the next 10 years will only be $100k and it still functions and is for a product that doesn't get new sales any more it won't get changed while investments in new systems for attracting new customers will get spend.
Privacy issues and rollout costs aside, Windows 10 doesn't have the business centric interface that works well in a work environment or sufficient compatibility with large amounts of legacy in house and third party applications that are business critical. Nor do most of the existing infrastructure and software management systems currently embedded in most medium to large companies work well with it. Most of these companies already have appropriate mitigations against malware, including desktop virus scanners, firewall controls including in-line scanning and content (executable) blocking, email scanning and filtering, backups, user access controls and active intrusion detection.
Not to mention that most businesses would need to embark on a large scale hardware upgrade program to make windows 10 usable due to the lack of support for older hardware.
And the processor / motherboard / graphics card marketplace for medium to high end users has never been stronger. There is more choice out there than there has been for decades. Just because the pre-assembled / convenience / low end / basic consumer marketplace is tending towards being locked down for the convenience of the manufacturers that target that demographic doesn't mean everyone is going down that path.
That's like saying the car industry is dead due to the rise in air travel.
My £500 laptop is still happily trucking on, at a good clip, with one battery replace and a SSD upgrade (surplus part after a desktop upgrade) doing what I need it to after 8 years... only thing I wish it had was USB3 ports.
The real question is how much physical trauma had the four year old child done to the phone to destroy the battery first. Phones make good banging noses when hit against other things...
When searching for a specific branded product by name and model number, as I need to make am exact like for like replacement, and the first 6 results are for the competitors of the product I searched for, instead of stores selling the specific thing I want, I can't see how this is can be called anything even close to "improving" the results.
If you disregard the first release of phones with the acknowledged fault that everyone should replace after being told to do so... and being brutal its their own fault if they haven't by now given the suppliers all have the stock sitting waiting.
In the second release we have 1 case (possible, no actual proof/acknowledgement that it was a replacement phone or if the fault was the battery or something else, and the phone wasn't tampered with which it might have been given the suspicious timing of the fault occurring) out of about 1.5 mil (given current worldwide replacement progress).
Seems like anything post-recall is just overreaction, possibly driven by some agenda other than safety.
To be honest the real indicator that there are other things than safety at play is the fact that the US (who tend to play fairly loose when it comes to consumer safety) have been all over Samsung while the EU states (who tend to be ultra consumer safety driven) have been quite happy to let Samsung sort it out without intervention.
Analysts also thought pokemon go was going to make Nintendo a ton of cash until Nintendo pointed out it wasn't... most analysts figures are just made up guesses where you can list the steps of how you made the guess.
Given the number of documented malware-like tricks (deceptive buttons, hidden options, X that means "accept", disguised and misrepresented patches, unable to disable without additional software etc.) The should have jst turned updates off argument won't stick.
As for the eula $5 limit... doesn't wash and isn't legal in a good chunk of the world as it can't trump the consumer rights laws especially when the product is actually retail priced around 25x that value.
Finally while people say "Which? is just a consumer rights group" should realise that they have a very good reputation both with consumers and with Trading Standards (or whatever they call themselves these days, stupid government "rebranding") in the UK who are the legal authority that could force Microsoft to compensate (either directly, or through the courts depending on the specific situation). There have been many Which? articles in the past that have progressed into full on legal sanctions to companies.
At no point did I say the others weren't sheep copying Apple for some features, just that in the specific instance of waterproofing (which Apple are pushing as one of the *main* features for this version) others did it first:)
There is no eventually about it. They will need replaced every month or so. This is Apples attempt to add a side door subscription charge to allow their customers to use other manufacturers headphones.
you realise that apple are the sheep with the water resist idea and there are already a number of android phones out there already with water resist? and the others managed to give water resist and keep the headphone jack? and that my 3 year old android phone is just as usable as it was when new?
But while the meme is "about the cat" the original meme is actually based on a specific photograph/video(s) of the cat that the owners published on the internet and hold copyrights on - the cat itself doesn't exist inside a computer and isn't published on the internet. While they have allowed use of the image for memes they also have chosen to require any commercial use to be licensed (using both copyright and trademark laws as appropriate).
The drawing is almost certainly a derivative work of those images/videos being used for commercial use... having done some further reading the drawing in use was *not* made directly from the real life cat which pretty much ties up the copyright claim for every instance where the drawing, a derivative work of a copyrighted image, was used without licence.
As far as the trademarks go its a little more fuzzy but in initially licensing the use of trademarks from Grumpy Cat LLC for the one product the coffee company acknowledged and accepted the validity of the trademark and will make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to argue otherwise in court.
Wouldn't it be better to leverage covalent technologies unifying synergies and distributing positive flow to resolve market wide confluence reversing neutron flux?
Some people go skiing, some people go mountain climbing, some people go bake their brains on a beach, some go and stare at 'art' (classic and modern) all day, some play computer games.
Who are you to judge how someone spends their time away from work?
contract would have been "Unlimited" in data use but as far as duration they would only have had a minimum term, likely followed by monthly extensions. They are likely free to terminate ALL the Unlimited users if they wanted at this point but are choosing to only terminate those that they are losing significant money on. Seems like they are trying to be as customer focused as the economics allow them to be.
This isn't about "Unlimited". This is about a company that used to offer a particular contract structure no longer wishing to offer such structure as it is not commercially viable. The "unlimited" contracts have not been available to new customers for some time. The nearest (UK-centric) equivalent I can think of outside of telecoms would be in up to the 80s dairies used to do widespread daily morning door step deliveries of milk, however due to a number of factors (bigger car ownership, better refrigeration, more supermarkets selling milk cheaper, to name a few) the demand for doorstep deliveries dropped significantly, the areas that they offered the delivery rapidly shrunk and then understandably they stopped entirely as they were losing money. Forcing Verizon to continue to service these un-viable contracts would be like forcing the dairies to keep delivering milk to the 5 people that still wanted it no matter if it cost them £100s per delivery.
Actually it probably is... European trade rules prevent a company from "constructing" a limited market or artificially inflating prices for their goods through restrictive contracts to resellers or other like parties. Basically they have the choice of selling to the resellers or not. They aren't allowed to put restrictions (other than in some specific cases territory limits) on how the resellers sell the products or enforce minimum pricing for those products. I suspect that they need their resellers more than they know/realise and certainly more then the resellers need them (there are a dozen other brands they could be selling instead) and will back down fairly quickly when it starts impacting their bottom line.
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Not a surprise when most government contracts these days go to lowest bidder. Lowest bidder often equates to low(est) quality...
I've had whole series of meetings involving several very senior overpaid staff that ended up with the conclusion we don't need to do actually do anything and don't need any more meetings when that was obvious to anyone with half a brain before the first meeting. And the management then effectively promoted the organiser of those meetings based on the do nothing outcome of organising unneeded meetings not costing us anything to implement...
Well said by someone who obviously has every Microsoft certification under the sun but hasn't worked in any large corporate environment or for any company older than 20 years or any company in the Financial sector that have customers and contracts and relationships that can last for several decades most of which are reliant on legacy systems including everything from Mainframes and records that exist nowhere other than microfice to 30 year old bespoke client/server systems with no hope of ever being updated due to low cost/gain ratios for the number of customers and potential processing savings involved. If you have a system that would cost $500k to update/replace but the cost of (not) maintaining that system and manual workarounds for the next 10 years will only be $100k and it still functions and is for a product that doesn't get new sales any more it won't get changed while investments in new systems for attracting new customers will get spend.
Privacy issues and rollout costs aside, Windows 10 doesn't have the business centric interface that works well in a work environment or sufficient compatibility with large amounts of legacy in house and third party applications that are business critical. Nor do most of the existing infrastructure and software management systems currently embedded in most medium to large companies work well with it. Most of these companies already have appropriate mitigations against malware, including desktop virus scanners, firewall controls including in-line scanning and content (executable) blocking, email scanning and filtering, backups, user access controls and active intrusion detection.
Not to mention that most businesses would need to embark on a large scale hardware upgrade program to make windows 10 usable due to the lack of support for older hardware.
And the processor / motherboard / graphics card marketplace for medium to high end users has never been stronger. There is more choice out there than there has been for decades. Just because the pre-assembled / convenience / low end / basic consumer marketplace is tending towards being locked down for the convenience of the manufacturers that target that demographic doesn't mean everyone is going down that path.
That's like saying the car industry is dead due to the rise in air travel.
Those pesky Russians...
Wohoo! Alchemy is a thing after all!
My £500 laptop is still happily trucking on, at a good clip, with one battery replace and a SSD upgrade (surplus part after a desktop upgrade) doing what I need it to after 8 years... only thing I wish it had was USB3 ports.
The real question is how much physical trauma had the four year old child done to the phone to destroy the battery first. Phones make good banging noses when hit against other things...
The "sponsored" tags next to 3 of them.
When searching for a specific branded product by name and model number, as I need to make am exact like for like replacement, and the first 6 results are for the competitors of the product I searched for, instead of stores selling the specific thing I want, I can't see how this is can be called anything even close to "improving" the results.
If you disregard the first release of phones with the acknowledged fault that everyone should replace after being told to do so... and being brutal its their own fault if they haven't by now given the suppliers all have the stock sitting waiting.
In the second release we have 1 case (possible, no actual proof/acknowledgement that it was a replacement phone or if the fault was the battery or something else, and the phone wasn't tampered with which it might have been given the suspicious timing of the fault occurring) out of about 1.5 mil (given current worldwide replacement progress).
Seems like anything post-recall is just overreaction, possibly driven by some agenda other than safety.
To be honest the real indicator that there are other things than safety at play is the fact that the US (who tend to play fairly loose when it comes to consumer safety) have been all over Samsung while the EU states (who tend to be ultra consumer safety driven) have been quite happy to let Samsung sort it out without intervention.
...to figure out why my PC needs an alarm clock or camera app... sure these are useful on a phone but on my desktop they really are not useful.
Analysts also thought pokemon go was going to make Nintendo a ton of cash until Nintendo pointed out it wasn't... most analysts figures are just made up guesses where you can list the steps of how you made the guess.
Apple have curved edge screens? A phone model that comes with a stylus embedded?
Oh wait they do have curved screens but not the edge and not intentionally... just once you put them in your pocket for a bit.
Given the number of documented malware-like tricks (deceptive buttons, hidden options, X that means "accept", disguised and misrepresented patches, unable to disable without additional software etc.) The should have jst turned updates off argument won't stick.
As for the eula $5 limit... doesn't wash and isn't legal in a good chunk of the world as it can't trump the consumer rights laws especially when the product is actually retail priced around 25x that value.
Finally while people say "Which? is just a consumer rights group" should realise that they have a very good reputation both with consumers and with Trading Standards (or whatever they call themselves these days, stupid government "rebranding") in the UK who are the legal authority that could force Microsoft to compensate (either directly, or through the courts depending on the specific situation). There have been many Which? articles in the past that have progressed into full on legal sanctions to companies.
I sense an over-sensitive Apple fanboy ;)
At no point did I say the others weren't sheep copying Apple for some features, just that in the specific instance of waterproofing (which Apple are pushing as one of the *main* features for this version) others did it first :)
There is no eventually about it. They will need replaced every month or so. This is Apples attempt to add a side door subscription charge to allow their customers to use other manufacturers headphones.
you realise that apple are the sheep with the water resist idea and there are already a number of android phones out there already with water resist? and the others managed to give water resist and keep the headphone jack? and that my 3 year old android phone is just as usable as it was when new?
But while the meme is "about the cat" the original meme is actually based on a specific photograph/video(s) of the cat that the owners published on the internet and hold copyrights on - the cat itself doesn't exist inside a computer and isn't published on the internet. While they have allowed use of the image for memes they also have chosen to require any commercial use to be licensed (using both copyright and trademark laws as appropriate).
The drawing is almost certainly a derivative work of those images/videos being used for commercial use... having done some further reading the drawing in use was *not* made directly from the real life cat which pretty much ties up the copyright claim for every instance where the drawing, a derivative work of a copyrighted image, was used without licence.
As far as the trademarks go its a little more fuzzy but in initially licensing the use of trademarks from Grumpy Cat LLC for the one product the coffee company acknowledged and accepted the validity of the trademark and will make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to argue otherwise in court.
Wouldn't it be better to leverage covalent technologies unifying synergies and distributing positive flow to resolve market wide confluence reversing neutron flux?
Vacations are (mostly) for enjoying yourself.
Some people go skiing, some people go mountain climbing, some people go bake their brains on a beach, some go and stare at 'art' (classic and modern) all day, some play computer games.
Who are you to judge how someone spends their time away from work?
contract would have been "Unlimited" in data use but as far as duration they would only have had a minimum term, likely followed by monthly extensions. They are likely free to terminate ALL the Unlimited users if they wanted at this point but are choosing to only terminate those that they are losing significant money on. Seems like they are trying to be as customer focused as the economics allow them to be.
This isn't about "Unlimited". This is about a company that used to offer a particular contract structure no longer wishing to offer such structure as it is not commercially viable. The "unlimited" contracts have not been available to new customers for some time. The nearest (UK-centric) equivalent I can think of outside of telecoms would be in up to the 80s dairies used to do widespread daily morning door step deliveries of milk, however due to a number of factors (bigger car ownership, better refrigeration, more supermarkets selling milk cheaper, to name a few) the demand for doorstep deliveries dropped significantly, the areas that they offered the delivery rapidly shrunk and then understandably they stopped entirely as they were losing money. Forcing Verizon to continue to service these un-viable contracts would be like forcing the dairies to keep delivering milk to the 5 people that still wanted it no matter if it cost them £100s per delivery.
Actually it probably is... European trade rules prevent a company from "constructing" a limited market or artificially inflating prices for their goods through restrictive contracts to resellers or other like parties. Basically they have the choice of selling to the resellers or not. They aren't allowed to put restrictions (other than in some specific cases territory limits) on how the resellers sell the products or enforce minimum pricing for those products. I suspect that they need their resellers more than they know/realise and certainly more then the resellers need them (there are a dozen other brands they could be selling instead) and will back down fairly quickly when it starts impacting their bottom line.