As of 2015 it seems to be fine if Microsoft bundles IE/Bing/Onedrive/etc. with Windows as the monopolistic elephant in the room is now Apple restricting other browsers at their app store.
Not playing devil's advocate or anything, this is an interesting idea. In the same way that "customer sentiment" is gauged with this kind of tool, it may be in schools best interest to have their students' twitter and FB accounts tracked. What's private remains private if the user wants to, but if the student is writing in public "I'm feeling a bit suicidal" everyday on FB and Twitter and the school is only notified when there's a body at the bottom of a stairwell, then they might realise "oh I wish we knew what was going on".
We could even add that Tesla Inc. Is an added layer of bureaucracy between the money invested by the government and the common good that justifies spending taxpayers money on clean energy technology.
Totally agree. I suspect that if the Al Qaeda affected somehow the interests of a traditional Mafia or of a large drug cartel, they would not survive long.
I am not a huge fan of Google and what SEO/advertising has done to the www, but I have to say that these guys are in the wrong. Sabotaging the competitor and demanding "protection money" is not fair competition IMHO. I want my ISP to be a carrier, not a curator or a gatekeeper. I have Adblock and I know how to use it, thank you very much.
I don't want "convergence" between my devices. Why would anyone?
because there's a lot of people out there with their own views and needs that may not match yours?
Look at office-type tasks on a tablet. People like the idea of turning the tablet on and off instantly, but dislike having to spend extra on a normal PC to get SSDs and still fall short of that kind of performance.
The applications built for mobile are smaller and optimised for fewer tasks on a device that is less likely to require maintenance, with OS that is updated by someone else.It makes a lot of sense to want to get from this situation from one where people benefit from better ways of using PCs, while retaining the nice things about traditional PCs (like keyboards and big screens!).
Microsoft Corp. is evaluating a bid for Salesforce.com Inc., after the cloud software provider was approached by another would-be buyer, people with knowledge of the matter said.
I wasn't expecting this kind of acquisition news even if I work for n the MS Dynamics field, but then again, the Blomberg piece is written in such a way that they can't he wrong no matter what happens next.
The Dynamics CRM product/SaaS has improved a lot in the last few releases,I'd be sad to see MS lose focus on its development by having to fit a direct competitor in the product family. While in the early 2000s the Navision acquisition brought 3 products with some overlap and life moved on, I get the impression that working with sfdc would be different, especially because this company has seen and positioned themselves as anti Microsoft and as an ally of whoever could disrupt the MS Office dominance.
If you go back to the reports about the Paris attacks, they walked into the wrong office, killed the guy who gave them the right directions to find the Charlie Hebdo offices and then carried on gunning people down. Some people wrote they looked like highly trained soldiers, but to me it looked like morons with guns and uniforms catching civilians off guard.
This other pair or plonkers got trolled in Texas and probably wasn't even a big challenge to catch and shoot them. It's not nice of me to say it, but I'm not sorry they died.
I forgot to add that yes, probably there is a strong element of CYA policy. My company is not as important as MS or.gov.uk and we still have "you must have the servers and workstations running supported versions" in exchange of our SLA for support.
Assuming that IT pros outside of Slashdot are about as smart as IT pros posting on Slashdot, it's quite likely that those PCs have been replaced, reconfigured (remove network card and USB ports, seal the PC case?) or placed in different areas in their networks to mitigate the risks of running XP. Adding extended support at that price needs to be part of the solution, not the only thing they've done. Hopefully they've used that time for deploying and testing new security measures.
I drove a 2011 Mercedes E class that did just that. I called them 'polite headlights'. I'm sure other manufacturers know how to do the same kind of thing.
In other words, you're saying that everyone should be distrusted, except for those who already agree with you. Interesting how the new legislation being considered might satisfy this point of view: by having anti vaccination people all in the same schools their views will be perpetuated no matter what the rest of the people say.
Recently a mother of 7 in Australia was interviewed after all of her children caught whooping cough. She said that after filtering out all mainstream media and medical advice it made sense to not vaccinate, which was something she ended up regretting. Without perfect quarantine and with more kids in vaccine-optional schools, it will be interesting to find the long term effects of this opting-out and how the broad accusations of government and pharma corruption will fit with the predictable increase in case of avoidable disease.
If Windows with Bing is a sign of things to come is that there will be a subscription based offering for people who don't get Windows with a new PC. I'd be interested in seeing this go ahead, at the very least to see what's so difficult about getting Windows (and x86 Firefox) on my £99 Hudl2 tablet.
I pressed submit too soon, meant to add that the truly interesting thing will be when Windows with Bing is available in retail and Apple says NOPE, our iPads are off-limits.
He also noted that Microsoft is beginning to adopt a strategy familiar to open source vendors: give away the software, and then sell support and related products.
well I happen to work in a Microsoft "ecosystem" and this is not what I see. What Microsoft is doing is a move toward the freemium model that is so popular with everything mobile and non-x86. Freeware instead of licenses and ad hoc purchases of "Support" don't pay the rent, there's plenty of evidence for that in Linux-based software that never goes from "project" to "product"...
Today you can use the Office applications over the web for free but if you want the more advanced parts, get the credit card ready to sign up for a 12 month subscription, rather than paying license up front with annual maintenance like before. If Windows with Bing is a sign of things to come is that there will be a subscription based offering for people who don't get Windows with a new PC. I'd be interested in seeing this go ahead, at the very least to see what's so difficult about getting Windows (and x86 Firefox) on my £99 Hudl2 tablet.
You know, the nonstandard bits of that laptop look quite remarkable. Kudos to Apple to have a product line up with SSD on all laptops. The other manufacturers don't seem to have the guts to do that, let alone change the shape of keys, batteries and touchpads.
And while we are at it, let's eliminate the 24 hr day and 60 minute hour which are based on Sumerian arithmetic. Let's use digital (base 10) time. The primary unit would be the Centon (1/100th of a planetary rotation
That's just silly! We are the generation that grew with the internet tubes, we all use Swatch.beats.
e.g.: Usain Bolt did a 100m sprint in under 0.11574074074074073.beats!
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As of 2015 it seems to be fine if Microsoft bundles IE/Bing/Onedrive/etc. with Windows as the monopolistic elephant in the room is now Apple restricting other browsers at their app store.
Not playing devil's advocate or anything, this is an interesting idea. In the same way that "customer sentiment" is gauged with this kind of tool, it may be in schools best interest to have their students' twitter and FB accounts tracked. What's private remains private if the user wants to, but if the student is writing in public "I'm feeling a bit suicidal" everyday on FB and Twitter and the school is only notified when there's a body at the bottom of a stairwell, then they might realise "oh I wish we knew what was going on".
We could even add that Tesla Inc. Is an added layer of bureaucracy between the money invested by the government and the common good that justifies spending taxpayers money on clean energy technology.
Totally agree. I suspect that if the Al Qaeda affected somehow the interests of a traditional Mafia or of a large drug cartel, they would not survive long.
I for one welcome our new socialist-totalitarian-smurfist overlords.
Well, it did have less space than a Nomad and lacked wireless...
It's a stepping stone needed before having sharks with freaking lasers on their heads.
I am not a huge fan of Google and what SEO/advertising has done to the www, but I have to say that these guys are in the wrong. Sabotaging the competitor and demanding "protection money" is not fair competition IMHO. I want my ISP to be a carrier, not a curator or a gatekeeper. I have Adblock and I know how to use it, thank you very much.
I'll second that. It definitely is not as cool.
I don't want "convergence" between my devices. Why would anyone?
because there's a lot of people out there with their own views and needs that may not match yours?
Look at office-type tasks on a tablet. People like the idea of turning the tablet on and off instantly, but dislike having to spend extra on a normal PC to get SSDs and still fall short of that kind of performance.
The applications built for mobile are smaller and optimised for fewer tasks on a device that is less likely to require maintenance, with OS that is updated by someone else.It makes a lot of sense to want to get from this situation from one where people benefit from better ways of using PCs, while retaining the nice things about traditional PCs (like keyboards and big screens!).
Microsoft Corp. is evaluating a bid for Salesforce.com Inc., after the cloud software provider was approached by another would-be buyer, people with knowledge of the matter said.
I wasn't expecting this kind of acquisition news even if I work for n the MS Dynamics field, but then again, the Blomberg piece is written in such a way that they can't he wrong no matter what happens next.
The Dynamics CRM product/SaaS has improved a lot in the last few releases,I'd be sad to see MS lose focus on its development by having to fit a direct competitor in the product family. While in the early 2000s the Navision acquisition brought 3 products with some overlap and life moved on, I get the impression that working with sfdc would be different, especially because this company has seen and positioned themselves as anti Microsoft and as an ally of whoever could disrupt the MS Office dominance.
If you go back to the reports about the Paris attacks, they walked into the wrong office, killed the guy who gave them the right directions to find the Charlie Hebdo offices and then carried on gunning people down. Some people wrote they looked like highly trained soldiers, but to me it looked like morons with guns and uniforms catching civilians off guard.
This other pair or plonkers got trolled in Texas and probably wasn't even a big challenge to catch and shoot them. It's not nice of me to say it, but I'm not sorry they died.
I forgot to add that yes, probably there is a strong element of CYA policy. My company is not as important as MS or .gov.uk and we still have "you must have the servers and workstations running supported versions" in exchange of our SLA for support.
The standard rules are set out here: https://support.microsoft.com/...
A special customer like .gov.uk may have had a special contract.
Assuming that IT pros outside of Slashdot are about as smart as IT pros posting on Slashdot, it's quite likely that those PCs have been replaced, reconfigured (remove network card and USB ports, seal the PC case?) or placed in different areas in their networks to mitigate the risks of running XP. Adding extended support at that price needs to be part of the solution, not the only thing they've done. Hopefully they've used that time for deploying and testing new security measures.
I drove a 2011 Mercedes E class that did just that. I called them 'polite headlights'. I'm sure other manufacturers know how to do the same kind of thing.
In other words, you're saying that everyone should be distrusted, except for those who already agree with you. Interesting how the new legislation being considered might satisfy this point of view: by having anti vaccination people all in the same schools their views will be perpetuated no matter what the rest of the people say.
Recently a mother of 7 in Australia was interviewed after all of her children caught whooping cough. She said that after filtering out all mainstream media and medical advice it made sense to not vaccinate, which was something she ended up regretting. Without perfect quarantine and with more kids in vaccine-optional schools, it will be interesting to find the long term effects of this opting-out and how the broad accusations of government and pharma corruption will fit with the predictable increase in case of avoidable disease.
nope, if you need 3 rows of seats, the best is to get a station wagon or people carrier, not a flat-faced 4x4.
If Windows with Bing is a sign of things to come is that there will be a subscription based offering for people who don't get Windows with a new PC. I'd be interested in seeing this go ahead, at the very least to see what's so difficult about getting Windows (and x86 Firefox) on my £99 Hudl2 tablet.
I pressed submit too soon, meant to add that the truly interesting thing will be when Windows with Bing is available in retail and Apple says NOPE, our iPads are off-limits.
He also noted that Microsoft is beginning to adopt a strategy familiar to open source vendors: give away the software, and then sell support and related products.
well I happen to work in a Microsoft "ecosystem" and this is not what I see. What Microsoft is doing is a move toward the freemium model that is so popular with everything mobile and non-x86. Freeware instead of licenses and ad hoc purchases of "Support" don't pay the rent, there's plenty of evidence for that in Linux-based software that never goes from "project" to "product"...
Today you can use the Office applications over the web for free but if you want the more advanced parts, get the credit card ready to sign up for a 12 month subscription, rather than paying license up front with annual maintenance like before.
If Windows with Bing is a sign of things to come is that there will be a subscription based offering for people who don't get Windows with a new PC. I'd be interested in seeing this go ahead, at the very least to see what's so difficult about getting Windows (and x86 Firefox) on my £99 Hudl2 tablet.
So Scully will step out of the shower and realise it was just a dream?
The Russian observers weren't meant to be on board the surveillance craft, but you know how they do things in Soviet Russia...
Indeed. It was a Chinese patient, I think it's because the donor was from Congo.
Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u... and http://www.shortnews.com/start...
You know, the nonstandard bits of that laptop look quite remarkable. Kudos to Apple to have a product line up with SSD on all laptops. The other manufacturers don't seem to have the guts to do that, let alone change the shape of keys, batteries and touchpads.
And while we are at it, let's eliminate the 24 hr day and 60 minute hour which are based on Sumerian arithmetic. Let's use digital (base 10) time. The primary unit would be the Centon (1/100th of a planetary rotation
That's just silly! We are the generation that grew with the internet tubes, we all use Swatch .beats.
e.g.: Usain Bolt did a 100m sprint in under 0.11574074074074073 .beats!