non-existent and mostly being shown by Microsoft Partners who will probably take millions from Microsoft to not produce them.
Google will have to step up to the plate to get Android and/or Chrome OS on devices made by companies who Microsoft already sells product through. We've seen this before and Steve Ballmer knows this game is a major threat to Windows. He's already willing to spend upwards to a billion dollars just marketing Windows Phone 7. That's just the smart phone so the tablet and netbooks are going to cost Microsoft a few billion in marketing which means massive cash dropped on OEMs to ship Microsoft above all others.
I do believe this is war. Microsoft could afford to lose the smartphone segment but with Apple bringing the smartphone to the tablet, Microsoft knows that Windows is being threatened and most all their billions come from Windows. Not to mention that Google is bringing the tablet and netbook into view with Android and Chrome OS so it'll be spend spend spend to try and stop the bleeding. That didn't help Zune and does not seem to be helping Windows Phone 7 so good luck with that Mr Ballmer.
Unfortunately, I don't think MeeGo has much of a chance.
The practice of chasing the innovators worked for them for a couple of decades and did so because they could always leverage their channel partners and distribution mechanisms to make sure the Microsoft product was there on the PC before the initial innovator. They also used marketing funds to make sure those who shipped Microsoft products did well while they were putting the initial innovator out of business. But you can see from how that does not work for things like the iPod which they really can't leverage Windows so much. Look at all the Windows CE based MP3 players before the iPod, Plays-4-Sure,etc and then Zune worked out. Same for the iPhone and how Windows Mobile and Windows Phone are fairing.
It sounds like Ballmer is trying to use the same practice for the light weight tablet device and try to tie it to Windows. That's a tough sell since they will continue to have a tough time technically putting Windows on such low power, low battery drain devices and coming up with a way to forcefully tie it to desktop Windows PCs or servers. Some corporations will buy it but lots of them already have iPads and are working on getting that tied into their systems. Microsoft will have to get those companies to wait another couple of years before they even have something comparable and waiting to "be Microsoft cool" is not something IT managers do very well when they are looking for ways to "be cool" now and show they are doing something valuable on the corporate networks.
It's a new game and so far it looks like Steve is playing it the old way. But they still have lots and lots of money to throw at their partners and stop the Androids from coming. Unfortunately, they have little to no control over Apple's iPad vendors and they would probably give Steve the eye if he asked or threatened them regarding no selling iPads. We are not talking about paying $1 for every copy of MS Internet Explorer shipped like they did to destroy Netscape Navigator. We are talking hardware and somewhat expensive hardware.
So play ball Steve! Just try to show up at the correct field because it's not the one you're used to playing on. IMO
Haven't we seen this a few times already? US and China meet and agree to work on IP or pirating and then we hear of more and more Chinese PC makers putting Linux on their computers. Then we hear of a deal between China and Microsoft where Microsoft pays out millions and donates millions of licenses,etc and Windows is back to being popular. The cycle just keep repeating and will billions of potential customers, it'll probably keep on repeating itself until the public says frack it, we're sticking with Linux. oh wait, it's a communist regime so after taking millions from Microsoft they'll order Windows be used. oh well, see ya'll back here again in 5 or 6 years.
they consider every whitebox sold as a pirated copy of Windows because in their minds, without Windows it's useless so they must be using Windows on it if they are using it.
Microsoft lives in a world of their own design and uploaded to their own holodeck.
besides that, I also would not doubt many of these systems phone home since, IIRC, the EULA says Microsoft can do this.
there must be a joke in there somewhere about MS saying Linux is communism and Ballmer whining about communists pirating their software. And maybe including Gates comments on how pirating beings more Windows users later.
Why wouldn't software created by contractors and paid for with public money for a public project not fall under the same 'no copyright protection' clause?
I wonder if anyone has asked their local government office for copies of some of their software and what the response has been? My guess is that they're told it can't be released due to public safety concerns.
it would be nice to see government funded software open sourced and shared amongst governments. Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, all lobby against this because they like to get hired to implement similar stuff in each town, But even if they started small and non-critical like library systems they might finally see how cheaper it would be to share and customize from there. Yes the first implementers would have to foot most of the bill but they could then hire out some of those developers to help others bring the software online and end up being the experts for the kit. Probably cover costs over time as more and more towns hire these programmers to support them along with keeping them around to keep their own system improving.
Maybe looking at what town or town departments are running the best and spreading that will start the idea of also sharing the software.
they had slowed some in the past 5 years though. Probably iPhone, iPad, and Android phones, Android tablets, netbooks and possibly even Chrome OS netbooks moved them to start up the smear campaign again. There have been a number of 'Microsoft is dieing' types of articles being published and the latest was how CES was a yawner for anything related to Microsoft.
We're going to start seeing more and more of these fake research efforts as Microsoft increases defending its position on top of the hill. What they don't realized is that the hill is not being rushed be any one enemy and instead, the hill is eroding from the bottom up. Fortifying the top of the hill will not do anything but keep them on top of a smaller and smaller hill. IMO
This sounds just like the kind of fodder they used and funded to feed their Microsoft Get The Facts campaign against open source software.
The good news is that, along with the marketing efforts publicizing Windows on ARM, it shows Microsoft is still unable to move to a competitive business model and must rely on anti-competitive tactics to protect their Windows based revenue stream. Oh wait, they only have a Windows based revenue stream. No wonder every funded research paper they've backed showed Windows was better, faster, and cheaper than all others.
To prove Microsoft is a Windows-only shop, where are their iPhone apps, Android apps, Blackberry apps? A software powerhouse like Microsoft would surely want to get a piece of the huge market for smartphone users right? What? No apps for any of those and instead they are only supporting efforts for their own Windows branded software? Who can not see the lockin issues and the consistent effort to only do what they think they need to do to protect Windows instead of competing and generating revenue when markets open?
This is just more of their anti-competition efforts just like the original MS "Get The Facts" marketing campaign years ago.
The great news is that it still shows open source is a target worth spending millions and even billions of dollars in marketing efforts to try and stop. IMO
DEC/Intel's Xscale was around but IIRC, they really messed up some cache issues and the 400MHz version's performance was about what the 200MHz version was. I've heard it a couple of times now that the ARM design wasn't up to the performance level needed for XO-1 so maybe PPC or MIPS might have been better at the time although I recall x86 had advantages because vendors for peripherals has x86 drivers. oh well, the good thing is that ARM Cortex designs are pretty fast and should do OLPC well.
they stabbed them in the back by not only creating a sub standard device but by also going after XO accounts and hound them to switch to the ClassmatePC. That is stabbing in the back or would it be two-faced. They were on the OLPC board and even donated lots of $$ to the project but undercut the project with their own.
And I say sub standard because the Classmate PC was not outdoor readable like the XO, it wasn't designed with the device to device mesh networking, and it was much more power hungry than the XO.. To name just a few missing features which were design elements of the XO.
One more thing, a company can not be "monopolistic" without the power to do so. OLPC had no market power to dictate anything and they have not been doing what they are doing mainly for profits like corporations such as Intel and Microsoft. Both of which do have monopoly power and have both been found guilty of using that power to protect their revenues.
I did not read the press release and will have to just to see the bits on following Microsoft further. That would be yet another dumb ass move by OLPC. I don't believe the org originally planned on dealing with Microsoft since many who left had done so after the Linux based product was shipping and Negroponte started moving closer to Microsoft.
wrong, Microsoft went in after the OLPC MOUs and signed sweet deals with these countries and fed them millions of dollars in 'special' packages. These special packages required they use Microsoft Windows software so when OLPC came back, they had to tote the Microsoft word and require the devices ran Windows.
ARM has been around for years and there was even XScale at the time along with other ARM designs. Debating performance capabilities would be appropriate since I don't think any of those ARM devices ran screens larger than 320x240. And Microsofts problems with running XP on the XO are the same problems they have today. Windows is inefficient and resource intensive for low power devices.
They should have started with ARM to begin with. Had they done that then they wouldn't have had the issues with Intel back stabbing them nor Microsoft wasting their time. Better late than never I guess.
"but rather an artifact of human consciousness", you would do well to disprove this before trying to prove the existence of some spirit being manifesting itself in the physical world. I would not doubt that it's all in the human head and because we are all of similar cranial construction, you get lots of humans projecting mental images externally.
search for child immunization concerns and you'll get lots of links about the subject and you should also see that some strange things are going on which would make any concerned parent wonder WTF is really going on.
Historically there have been problems with vaccines for one so blindly accepting that all vaccines are safe because someone says they. That would be ignorant and not looking out for your childs best interest and turning a blind eye to history.
What I found interesting about what seems to be a current concern, the use of aluminum in vaccines, is the conflicting information and the lack of attention to its use in vaccines. Dr Sears writes about it and Dr Weil talks about it but get this, Dr Weil mentions that aluminum in vaccines is safe because others say it is but then goes on to say that you shouldn't use antiperspirants because it has aluminum in it and there isn't enough data on how the body handles aluminum loading.
What's worst is that there's lots of regulation regarding aluminum as injected in the blood via IV but nothing about the body absorption rates when injected into tissue as is done in vaccines. One study did conclude there was no danger but seems to have not done any of their own research but here's the kicker, they concluded that no further studies should be done. What kind of research concludes that their result is the only correct and no further research should be done? Strange isn't it. I also noticed lots of people talking about how safe aluminum in vaccines are and they most all talk about how much aluminum is injected naturally or in food products so therefore injecting infants with high doses is perfectly safe. Again, strange since putting something through your digestive system is quite different to injecting it.
So no wonder some parents would get freaked out. Going to the extreme and denying all vaccines is a known danger though but given how little time people spend trying to understand things, it's the easier route because not doing something is always easier than doing it. You sometimes have to pay down the road though.
What I saw was that IV injected aluminum is regulated to around 5 micro grams(ug) per Kg of body mass per day. 5 ug but if you look up how much aluminum is in vaccines, you'll see there are hundreds of ug in many of the vaccines and many of those are given at one time. It's said that the body can remove about 50%-70% of the aluminum per day( half life ) but you won't see where there's any requirement to check to see if the childs kidneys are fully functional.
So it is interesting that aluminum intake is regulated to tiny amounts when used in IV fluids but not when used in vaccines for children or adults for that matter.
Remember, there was 'research' which showed that smoking cigarettes was safe and lots of reports saying how safe it was.
but when you combine this _feature_ of their cloud with the marketing of their Windows Phone 7, it makes life easier when you don't have all that clutter of past emails around. Get in, see nothing, get out and get on with your life. doh!
there was a Saturday morning "cartoon" called Reboot back before Toy Story was released and it was a computer rendered "cartoon". The setting was inside a Mainframe computer and the characters were computer elements with lots of computer jargon. So I wonder what those children who watched this and had the slightest understanding of the plot/setting thought of Tron.
Anyone who never used their imagination about a world inside of a computer would probably not get todays Tron.
Reboot was fantastic to watch as an adult too. There was lots of funny computer references and fun characters. Loved it when Dot Matrix got zapped by a magnet and Phong said all she needed was some Slow Food and they got that at the 8 Bit Diner.
I beg to differ. Kids today still have little understanding of what goes on inside computers. What they now have is some form of an understanding of the use of them and equate that to "knowing computers". They will get defensive if it is implied they don't know how to use a computer(phone, iPod, etc).
30 years ago, most people heard of computers, a few worked on them doing data I/O, and fewer knew what went on inside them. It was no more magical than today but without the familiarity with them, imagination filled in and they could be presented as mystic and magical. I don't think it has to do with the current power of computers today but the fact that there are computers everywhere today. Unfortunately, there is still the complete lack of understanding of what goes on inside a computer.
Jobs does have it out for Google that's for sure. What is interesting is that, we've never seen anything which would give that any shred of truth to it. Google has said that they want to see more and more Internet connected devices and that they want to see those devices on an open Internet. Why, because it means more users eyes on their customers ads. Wasn't it some FCC spectrum they were willing to spend billions on unless it was to be used for a more open network? They make most all their money from advertising and from what I've seen, they don't charge much for using proprietary Google branded products(GMail, GVoice, GMaps, GEarth, and Google Market) on the Android platform and they give the Android platform away for free.
We know Jobs got pissed when Google was ready to release Android and because the Google CEO was on the Apple Board of Directors, there was plenty of talk about this. When Android was released and it was obvious how good it was, Jobs got even more upset because it effectively limited their growth with the iPhone. Any other capable OS on phones would have done this too but this was Google and it was his former BoD member's company. Jobs lives in a walled garden so what he sees is sometimes much different from reality. For instance he does think that Microsoft is easier to deal with than Google. But Apple/Jobs have thrown the first punches and they are also the ones moving into the mobile ad space also so it'll just feed Jobs' hatred more. Just as Google was not an enemy of Microsoft's until Microsoft decided to enter Google's search space and advertising space and called Google their enemy well before Google even started to look like they disliked Microsoft's business methods. No I don't count MSN because that was a walled garden much like AOL was a walled garden and Google was not playing in that sector.
Jobs is just mad Android is successful and he can't make bucket loads more money off the iPhone. While unlikely, he'd be doing the same if Windows Phone 7 were in Androids shoes. IMO
there is not "Java" in Android because "Java" is a complete platform and Android is not "Java". The Dalvik virtual machine does not run Java bytecode and so it is not a "Java VM". Android does use lots of the Java class library definitions so tools used to write Java programs can be used to write Android programs if run through a bytecode converter for the Dalvik VM instead of the Java VM. This is where Sun, and now Oracle have a problem.
From what I've seen, Sun split Java up much like how Microsoft splits up a client OS and a server OS. It's an artificial split and they do it for monetary purposes only. Sun would not let mobile vendors us the full Java platform and instead required they license a special cut down version of Java called JavaME. It didn't matter that mobile devices were easily getting to the performance levels and footprint to run full Java.
I don't see Oracle having much of a leg to stand on since their class library API's are all published and there have even been many open source implementations of those class libraries which Sun nor Oracle contested.
The bundling of lots and lots of bogus patents into a case where Google or its customers will have to fight one by one and at great expense is the threat to Android. IMO
This all happened because the smartphone, netbook and tablet are growing in feature sets and demand and are a threat to Microsoft's primary income base, MS Windows OS, MS Office and even the MS Windows Server side of the income stream. Microsoft used to have lots of control over what went on preloaded computers but once Apple let the iPhone out of the bag it's been a tinderbox ready to burst into flames. When Apple showed what a well executed OS strategy could provide users without using Windows it was bad enough but it was one phone on one network by one company so it was just a thorn in Microsoft's side. Then, Google released Android to many vendors and Microsoft Windows Mobile's v6.0 was nothing new and their big 6.5 version was a major yawn. Now, we've got the iPhone OS moved onto the iPad tablet and lots of talk of Android and the ChromeOS moving to tablets and netbooks and still Microsoft has very little to compete with. What makes this worst is that Microsoft can't use much of their Windows OEM channel control to fight or stop this. The only thing they have is the legal system and they are very well versed in the legal system. They have been whipping up Partnership Agreements for years where the partner is clueless as to what they are really signing and end up losing their market just a few years later. So many companies, countries and even States have sued them over the past 20 years so they have a well polished legal division and since their technology isn't up to competing it's the only ammo they have left which has a bite.
All this because of Android but if it was not Android, it probably would have been Apple eventually. It does seem like Microsoft still has lots of OEM control considering how many years and times we've seen ARM based netbooks shown at computer conferences but none make it to market. ChromeOS might be the one product which changes that and then we'll see more of Microsoft's legal division in the press. IMO
TFA references masters in their fields and people of higher mental abilities and tried to say that it does not matter how slow you push the keys down, it's what you put down. Well then why did they not even consider what kind of mental load hunting and pecking for keys puts on the typist? I don't know about you but when I type(10 fingers) I do little to no thinking of what keys I'm pushing and spend my mental time on the concepts I'm putting down. I may suck at what I put down but I'm not spending time looking for a key or backspacing because I typed wrong and even looking for the backspace key when I do mistype.
So if coders write their code down on paper and then transpose it into the computer, TFA is good enough but I doubt that's what is happening. If they code using UML diagrams then that would be helpful too but I don't see much of that.
That might be true but it'll have to get some traction before that can really be tested. So it's more like a bullshit warning than a bullshit alert.
It really was a dumb article considering how many iPhone,Androids and Blackberrys have already been shipped. The only thing very new for 2011 is Windows Phone 7. Time will tell.
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non-existent and mostly being shown by Microsoft Partners who will probably take millions from Microsoft to not produce them.
Google will have to step up to the plate to get Android and/or Chrome OS on devices made by companies who Microsoft already sells product through. We've seen this before and Steve Ballmer knows this game is a major threat to Windows. He's already willing to spend upwards to a billion dollars just marketing Windows Phone 7. That's just the smart phone so the tablet and netbooks are going to cost Microsoft a few billion in marketing which means massive cash dropped on OEMs to ship Microsoft above all others.
I do believe this is war. Microsoft could afford to lose the smartphone segment but with Apple bringing the smartphone to the tablet, Microsoft knows that Windows is being threatened and most all their billions come from Windows. Not to mention that Google is bringing the tablet and netbook into view with Android and Chrome OS so it'll be spend spend spend to try and stop the bleeding. That didn't help Zune and does not seem to be helping Windows Phone 7 so good luck with that Mr Ballmer.
Unfortunately, I don't think MeeGo has much of a chance.
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The practice of chasing the innovators worked for them for a couple of decades and did so because they could always leverage their channel partners and distribution mechanisms to make sure the Microsoft product was there on the PC before the initial innovator. They also used marketing funds to make sure those who shipped Microsoft products did well while they were putting the initial innovator out of business. But you can see from how that does not work for things like the iPod which they really can't leverage Windows so much. Look at all the Windows CE based MP3 players before the iPod, Plays-4-Sure,etc and then Zune worked out. Same for the iPhone and how Windows Mobile and Windows Phone are fairing.
It sounds like Ballmer is trying to use the same practice for the light weight tablet device and try to tie it to Windows. That's a tough sell since they will continue to have a tough time technically putting Windows on such low power, low battery drain devices and coming up with a way to forcefully tie it to desktop Windows PCs or servers. Some corporations will buy it but lots of them already have iPads and are working on getting that tied into their systems. Microsoft will have to get those companies to wait another couple of years before they even have something comparable and waiting to "be Microsoft cool" is not something IT managers do very well when they are looking for ways to "be cool" now and show they are doing something valuable on the corporate networks.
It's a new game and so far it looks like Steve is playing it the old way. But they still have lots and lots of money to throw at their partners and stop the Androids from coming. Unfortunately, they have little to no control over Apple's iPad vendors and they would probably give Steve the eye if he asked or threatened them regarding no selling iPads. We are not talking about paying $1 for every copy of MS Internet Explorer shipped like they did to destroy Netscape Navigator. We are talking hardware and somewhat expensive hardware.
So play ball Steve! Just try to show up at the correct field because it's not the one you're used to playing on. IMO
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Haven't we seen this a few times already? US and China meet and agree to work on IP or pirating and then we hear of more and more Chinese PC makers putting Linux on their computers. Then we hear of a deal between China and Microsoft where Microsoft pays out millions and donates millions of licenses,etc and Windows is back to being popular. The cycle just keep repeating and will billions of potential customers, it'll probably keep on repeating itself until the public says frack it, we're sticking with Linux. oh wait, it's a communist regime so after taking millions from Microsoft they'll order Windows be used. oh well, see ya'll back here again in 5 or 6 years.
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they consider every whitebox sold as a pirated copy of Windows because in their minds, without Windows it's useless so they must be using Windows on it if they are using it.
Microsoft lives in a world of their own design and uploaded to their own holodeck.
besides that, I also would not doubt many of these systems phone home since, IIRC, the EULA says Microsoft can do this.
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there must be a joke in there somewhere about MS saying Linux is communism and Ballmer whining about communists pirating their software. And maybe including Gates comments on how pirating beings more Windows users later.
and UR history Ballmer.
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Why wouldn't software created by contractors and paid for with public money for a public project not fall under the same 'no copyright protection' clause?
I wonder if anyone has asked their local government office for copies of some of their software and what the response has been? My guess is that they're told it can't be released due to public safety concerns.
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it would be nice to see government funded software open sourced and shared amongst governments. Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, all lobby against this because they like to get hired to implement similar stuff in each town, But even if they started small and non-critical like library systems they might finally see how cheaper it would be to share and customize from there. Yes the first implementers would have to foot most of the bill but they could then hire out some of those developers to help others bring the software online and end up being the experts for the kit. Probably cover costs over time as more and more towns hire these programmers to support them along with keeping them around to keep their own system improving.
Maybe looking at what town or town departments are running the best and spreading that will start the idea of also sharing the software.
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they had slowed some in the past 5 years though. Probably iPhone, iPad, and Android phones, Android tablets, netbooks and possibly even Chrome OS netbooks moved them to start up the smear campaign again. There have been a number of 'Microsoft is dieing' types of articles being published and the latest was how CES was a yawner for anything related to Microsoft.
We're going to start seeing more and more of these fake research efforts as Microsoft increases defending its position on top of the hill. What they don't realized is that the hill is not being rushed be any one enemy and instead, the hill is eroding from the bottom up. Fortifying the top of the hill will not do anything but keep them on top of a smaller and smaller hill. IMO
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This sounds just like the kind of fodder they used and funded to feed their Microsoft Get The Facts campaign against open source software.
The good news is that, along with the marketing efforts publicizing Windows on ARM, it shows Microsoft is still unable to move to a competitive business model and must rely on anti-competitive tactics to protect their Windows based revenue stream. Oh wait, they only have a Windows based revenue stream. No wonder every funded research paper they've backed showed Windows was better, faster, and cheaper than all others.
To prove Microsoft is a Windows-only shop, where are their iPhone apps, Android apps, Blackberry apps? A software powerhouse like Microsoft would surely want to get a piece of the huge market for smartphone users right? What? No apps for any of those and instead they are only supporting efforts for their own Windows branded software? Who can not see the lockin issues and the consistent effort to only do what they think they need to do to protect Windows instead of competing and generating revenue when markets open?
This is just more of their anti-competition efforts just like the original MS "Get The Facts" marketing campaign years ago.
The great news is that it still shows open source is a target worth spending millions and even billions of dollars in marketing efforts to try and stop. IMO
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DEC/Intel's Xscale was around but IIRC, they really messed up some cache issues and the 400MHz version's performance was about what the 200MHz version was. I've heard it a couple of times now that the ARM design wasn't up to the performance level needed for XO-1 so maybe PPC or MIPS might have been better at the time although I recall x86 had advantages because vendors for peripherals has x86 drivers. oh well, the good thing is that ARM Cortex designs are pretty fast and should do OLPC well.
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they stabbed them in the back by not only creating a sub standard device but by also going after XO accounts and hound them to switch to the ClassmatePC. That is stabbing in the back or would it be two-faced. They were on the OLPC board and even donated lots of $$ to the project but undercut the project with their own.
And I say sub standard because the Classmate PC was not outdoor readable like the XO, it wasn't designed with the device to device mesh networking, and it was much more power hungry than the XO.. To name just a few missing features which were design elements of the XO.
One more thing, a company can not be "monopolistic" without the power to do so. OLPC had no market power to dictate anything and they have not been doing what they are doing mainly for profits like corporations such as Intel and Microsoft. Both of which do have monopoly power and have both been found guilty of using that power to protect their revenues.
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I did not read the press release and will have to just to see the bits on following Microsoft further. That would be yet another dumb ass move by OLPC. I don't believe the org originally planned on dealing with Microsoft since many who left had done so after the Linux based product was shipping and Negroponte started moving closer to Microsoft.
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wrong, Microsoft went in after the OLPC MOUs and signed sweet deals with these countries and fed them millions of dollars in 'special' packages. These special packages required they use Microsoft Windows software so when OLPC came back, they had to tote the Microsoft word and require the devices ran Windows.
ARM has been around for years and there was even XScale at the time along with other ARM designs. Debating performance capabilities would be appropriate since I don't think any of those ARM devices ran screens larger than 320x240. And Microsofts problems with running XP on the XO are the same problems they have today. Windows is inefficient and resource intensive for low power devices.
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They should have started with ARM to begin with. Had they done that then they wouldn't have had the issues with Intel back stabbing them nor Microsoft wasting their time. Better late than never I guess.
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"but rather an artifact of human consciousness", you would do well to disprove this before trying to prove the existence of some spirit being manifesting itself in the physical world. I would not doubt that it's all in the human head and because we are all of similar cranial construction, you get lots of humans projecting mental images externally.
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search for child immunization concerns and you'll get lots of links about the subject and you should also see that some strange things are going on which would make any concerned parent wonder WTF is really going on.
Historically there have been problems with vaccines for one so blindly accepting that all vaccines are safe because someone says they. That would be ignorant and not looking out for your childs best interest and turning a blind eye to history.
What I found interesting about what seems to be a current concern, the use of aluminum in vaccines, is the conflicting information and the lack of attention to its use in vaccines. Dr Sears writes about it and Dr Weil talks about it but get this, Dr Weil mentions that aluminum in vaccines is safe because others say it is but then goes on to say that you shouldn't use antiperspirants because it has aluminum in it and there isn't enough data on how the body handles aluminum loading.
What's worst is that there's lots of regulation regarding aluminum as injected in the blood via IV but nothing about the body absorption rates when injected into tissue as is done in vaccines. One study did conclude there was no danger but seems to have not done any of their own research but here's the kicker, they concluded that no further studies should be done. What kind of research concludes that their result is the only correct and no further research should be done? Strange isn't it. I also noticed lots of people talking about how safe aluminum in vaccines are and they most all talk about how much aluminum is injected naturally or in food products so therefore injecting infants with high doses is perfectly safe. Again, strange since putting something through your digestive system is quite different to injecting it.
So no wonder some parents would get freaked out. Going to the extreme and denying all vaccines is a known danger though but given how little time people spend trying to understand things, it's the easier route because not doing something is always easier than doing it. You sometimes have to pay down the road though.
What I saw was that IV injected aluminum is regulated to around 5 micro grams(ug) per Kg of body mass per day. 5 ug but if you look up how much aluminum is in vaccines, you'll see there are hundreds of ug in many of the vaccines and many of those are given at one time. It's said that the body can remove about 50%-70% of the aluminum per day( half life ) but you won't see where there's any requirement to check to see if the childs kidneys are fully functional.
So it is interesting that aluminum intake is regulated to tiny amounts when used in IV fluids but not when used in vaccines for children or adults for that matter.
Remember, there was 'research' which showed that smoking cigarettes was safe and lots of reports saying how safe it was.
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but when you combine this _feature_ of their cloud with the marketing of their Windows Phone 7, it makes life easier when you don't have all that clutter of past emails around. Get in, see nothing, get out and get on with your life. doh!
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I painfully recall so many lectures where the instructor went over what was in the book verbatim. Gawd were those wasted hours I'd like back.
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there was a Saturday morning "cartoon" called Reboot back before Toy Story was released and it was a computer rendered "cartoon". The setting was inside a Mainframe computer and the characters were computer elements with lots of computer jargon. So I wonder what those children who watched this and had the slightest understanding of the plot/setting thought of Tron.
Anyone who never used their imagination about a world inside of a computer would probably not get todays Tron.
Reboot was fantastic to watch as an adult too. There was lots of funny computer references and fun characters. Loved it when Dot Matrix got zapped by a magnet and Phong said all she needed was some Slow Food and they got that at the 8 Bit Diner.
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I beg to differ. Kids today still have little understanding of what goes on inside computers. What they now have is some form of an understanding of the use of them and equate that to "knowing computers". They will get defensive if it is implied they don't know how to use a computer(phone, iPod, etc).
30 years ago, most people heard of computers, a few worked on them doing data I/O, and fewer knew what went on inside them. It was no more magical than today but without the familiarity with them, imagination filled in and they could be presented as mystic and magical. I don't think it has to do with the current power of computers today but the fact that there are computers everywhere today. Unfortunately, there is still the complete lack of understanding of what goes on inside a computer.
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Jobs does have it out for Google that's for sure. What is interesting is that, we've never seen anything which would give that any shred of truth to it. Google has said that they want to see more and more Internet connected devices and that they want to see those devices on an open Internet. Why, because it means more users eyes on their customers ads. Wasn't it some FCC spectrum they were willing to spend billions on unless it was to be used for a more open network? They make most all their money from advertising and from what I've seen, they don't charge much for using proprietary Google branded products(GMail, GVoice, GMaps, GEarth, and Google Market) on the Android platform and they give the Android platform away for free.
We know Jobs got pissed when Google was ready to release Android and because the Google CEO was on the Apple Board of Directors, there was plenty of talk about this. When Android was released and it was obvious how good it was, Jobs got even more upset because it effectively limited their growth with the iPhone. Any other capable OS on phones would have done this too but this was Google and it was his former BoD member's company. Jobs lives in a walled garden so what he sees is sometimes much different from reality. For instance he does think that Microsoft is easier to deal with than Google. But Apple/Jobs have thrown the first punches and they are also the ones moving into the mobile ad space also so it'll just feed Jobs' hatred more. Just as Google was not an enemy of Microsoft's until Microsoft decided to enter Google's search space and advertising space and called Google their enemy well before Google even started to look like they disliked Microsoft's business methods. No I don't count MSN because that was a walled garden much like AOL was a walled garden and Google was not playing in that sector.
Jobs is just mad Android is successful and he can't make bucket loads more money off the iPhone. While unlikely, he'd be doing the same if Windows Phone 7 were in Androids shoes. IMO
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there is not "Java" in Android because "Java" is a complete platform and Android is not "Java". The Dalvik virtual machine does not run Java bytecode and so it is not a "Java VM". Android does use lots of the Java class library definitions so tools used to write Java programs can be used to write Android programs if run through a bytecode converter for the Dalvik VM instead of the Java VM. This is where Sun, and now Oracle have a problem.
From what I've seen, Sun split Java up much like how Microsoft splits up a client OS and a server OS. It's an artificial split and they do it for monetary purposes only. Sun would not let mobile vendors us the full Java platform and instead required they license a special cut down version of Java called JavaME. It didn't matter that mobile devices were easily getting to the performance levels and footprint to run full Java.
I don't see Oracle having much of a leg to stand on since their class library API's are all published and there have even been many open source implementations of those class libraries which Sun nor Oracle contested.
The bundling of lots and lots of bogus patents into a case where Google or its customers will have to fight one by one and at great expense is the threat to Android. IMO
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This all happened because the smartphone, netbook and tablet are growing in feature sets and demand and are a threat to Microsoft's primary income base, MS Windows OS, MS Office and even the MS Windows Server side of the income stream. Microsoft used to have lots of control over what went on preloaded computers but once Apple let the iPhone out of the bag it's been a tinderbox ready to burst into flames. When Apple showed what a well executed OS strategy could provide users without using Windows it was bad enough but it was one phone on one network by one company so it was just a thorn in Microsoft's side. Then, Google released Android to many vendors and Microsoft Windows Mobile's v6.0 was nothing new and their big 6.5 version was a major yawn. Now, we've got the iPhone OS moved onto the iPad tablet and lots of talk of Android and the ChromeOS moving to tablets and netbooks and still Microsoft has very little to compete with. What makes this worst is that Microsoft can't use much of their Windows OEM channel control to fight or stop this. The only thing they have is the legal system and they are very well versed in the legal system. They have been whipping up Partnership Agreements for years where the partner is clueless as to what they are really signing and end up losing their market just a few years later. So many companies, countries and even States have sued them over the past 20 years so they have a well polished legal division and since their technology isn't up to competing it's the only ammo they have left which has a bite.
All this because of Android but if it was not Android, it probably would have been Apple eventually. It does seem like Microsoft still has lots of OEM control considering how many years and times we've seen ARM based netbooks shown at computer conferences but none make it to market. ChromeOS might be the one product which changes that and then we'll see more of Microsoft's legal division in the press. IMO
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TFA references masters in their fields and people of higher mental abilities and tried to say that it does not matter how slow you push the keys down, it's what you put down. Well then why did they not even consider what kind of mental load hunting and pecking for keys puts on the typist? I don't know about you but when I type(10 fingers) I do little to no thinking of what keys I'm pushing and spend my mental time on the concepts I'm putting down. I may suck at what I put down but I'm not spending time looking for a key or backspacing because I typed wrong and even looking for the backspace key when I do mistype.
So if coders write their code down on paper and then transpose it into the computer, TFA is good enough but I doubt that's what is happening. If they code using UML diagrams then that would be helpful too but I don't see much of that.
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That might be true but it'll have to get some traction before that can really be tested. So it's more like a bullshit warning than a bullshit alert.
It really was a dumb article considering how many iPhone,Androids and Blackberrys have already been shipped. The only thing very new for 2011 is Windows Phone 7. Time will tell.
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