Imagine how many of the problems in big cities could be solved by having more people work 6 hours per day and arriving to the workplaces at different times of the day.
Seriously - that formatting toolbar that adjusts to the task at hand looks great. Displaying it as a vertical palette rather than a horizontal ribbon like MS Office makes a lot of sense for the wide screens I use most of the time.
I have been involved in this reverse logistics business for a while and was responsible for getting a few hundred thousand mobile phones back from consumers' hands to where the devices could be processed.
There was not a big conspiracy or mistery around what happened with the phones. Despite some envious consumers disaproving or it, those phones good enough to have a market value were wiped out and sold as different grades of "used". Some would get new covers and looked new, while other were B grade and sold for less. Those at the the bottom of the pile were disassembled and sent to different recycling facilities.
Since this all happened within the EU, one of the rules was that once someone made the decision to dispose of the device, it needed to be handled as waste. In practice the phone was a phone until it got to the triage, and the triage needed to be done in the EU. I think that in terms of legislation, it was as close as possible to being useful without being impractical.
As a consumer you may be interested in finding out who the recycling partner is for your favourite brands and favourite retailers. On occasion, this will be treated as a secret because there are auctions going on for the used product and the companies are open to bids from different parties. Hopefully they will have requested correct credentials to be presented by those bidders, and that's difficult to find out.
I would only add that it's a new market with lots of margin for growth, therefore I do expect a lot of people to be interested, regardless of kool-aid drinking history. I'd expect the Windows tablet market share to grow a lot when they get MS Office to run on it, and I'm sure there's other players like Nintendo who will get a slice. Apple will probably remain the leader in the high end, Android the overall leader and who knows what follows.For me, the mini iPad is more meaningful if thought in terms of price rather than screen size. If they sell it for just above the Nexus or Kindle price, it will be yet another awesome success for them.
POS and ERP, Finance and such are covered by OpenBravo and Compiere if you really want Open Source. If not, just search for ERP in the cloud and some "pa as you go" software will probably suit what you need.
Guessing the future always has that risk of making people look like idiots 5 years down the line. What I have seen in the recent past is that at Apple stores, there's no shortage of people of all ages poking at Macbook screens after they spent a few minutes experimenting with iPhones and iPads. Give a Kindle to a smartphone user and they poke and pinch the screen.Recent industry exhibitions had hybrid products on show, and Microsoft seems to expect laptops with touchscreens to take off.
I don't think that desktops will die any time soon, but that's because I don't write blog headlines for a living. Chances are, laptops and desktops will adopt touch screens in a similar way they adopted sound cards and trackpads.
I kind of suspect that the 2013 Mars missions was something they have been planning for a while, not as a week-long project that was about to be presented to the press when there was a major power failure. There's a lot of people in India, I'm sure they are not all involved in doing the same thing as a 1 000 000 000 people team...
If these people are willing to give Linux a chance, then let them try out a live CD of something popular, like Ubuntu. If they like it, good, if they don't, no harm done. The idea of trying to accommodate Windows ways of doing things on Linux feels quite counterproductive. If people are really interested in giving some proper consideration to changing their computer tools they should start with a blank slate rather than expecting you to make Linux look and feel like the computer they are used to.
Chances are, they agreed to your "trial" of Linux just to be polite when you insisted, and may have little motivation to carry this through.
I was well aware of Valve, but not of who this guy is. Now that he picked up a few big headlines in traditional "xyz is doomed" style, I imagine he has a bit more Klout points. Congratulations Gabe.
An exit interview is giving information for nothing in return. I appreciate much more when people post their own reviews on Glassdoor.com rather than just sharing their thoughts with HR.
I don't know about ending the need for unions. We don't need to have permanent pain to go to the dentist and we don't need the threat of permanent litigation to have a lawyer retained. Why should we dismiss the services of unions when things are going well? When the litigation or conflict arises, it is certain that the company will have a legal representative, why should the employee think it's all going to be friendly and everyone will be complying with the relevant laws because the legislation is clear and fair enough?
Actually, if you head away from Central London and look in areas where detached and semi-detached houses are more abundant, you'll find plenty of power cables leading to homes. These are houses that are 100 years old (or more) with outside plumbing visible from the back as the houses were not all originally built with plumbing connecting to the public sewers. I'm talking about London TFL zones 2 and 3, not some remote and scarcely populated suburb.
I have experimented a bit with Yammer, to find that its user interface is as simple to use as Facebook and similar websites. Adding photos or any kind of document to a Yammer "repository" seems to me like it will make it easier to search and find it later on.
In comparison, my (also limited) experience with SharePoint is that if internal communications in a company were handled there rather than via email, stuff would be easier to find and actual knowledge bases for products and client projects would become easier to create and maintain.
The problem with SP (IMHO) is that it's not as easy to use as email or any common website. It is very easy to feel discouraged from using it and just keep sending email attachments all the time. I suspect that the existing developments that bridge Yammer and SP will be very useful to help the adoption of SharePoint in those 80K companies already using Yammer.
Slashdot Mirror
Then it talks to your wifi network and pops up the details of the ad.
what if you don't have internet access or some sort of proxy has restricted access to their ad server?
You might worry if they need a slashdot virgin to throw into the volcano.
yes, like when Truman Burbank sailed into that wall....
"I'd like to know what the exact problem is they can't overcome[...]"
perhaps an arrow in the knee?
Imagine how many of the problems in big cities could be solved by having more people work 6 hours per day and arriving to the workplaces at different times of the day.
I'm tempted go to the Ecuador embassy and play this really loud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
Seriously - that formatting toolbar that adjusts to the task at hand looks great. Displaying it as a vertical palette rather than a horizontal ribbon like MS Office makes a lot of sense for the wide screens I use most of the time.
Hi.
I have been involved in this reverse logistics business for a while and was responsible for getting a few hundred thousand mobile phones back from consumers' hands to where the devices could be processed.
There was not a big conspiracy or mistery around what happened with the phones. Despite some envious consumers disaproving or it, those phones good enough to have a market value were wiped out and sold as different grades of "used". Some would get new covers and looked new, while other were B grade and sold for less. Those at the the bottom of the pile were disassembled and sent to different recycling facilities.
Since this all happened within the EU, one of the rules was that once someone made the decision to dispose of the device, it needed to be handled as waste. In practice the phone was a phone until it got to the triage, and the triage needed to be done in the EU. I think that in terms of legislation, it was as close as possible to being useful without being impractical.
As a consumer you may be interested in finding out who the recycling partner is for your favourite brands and favourite retailers. On occasion, this will be treated as a secret because there are auctions going on for the used product and the companies are open to bids from different parties. Hopefully they will have requested correct credentials to be presented by those bidders, and that's difficult to find out.
I would only add that it's a new market with lots of margin for growth, therefore I do expect a lot of people to be interested, regardless of kool-aid drinking history. I'd expect the Windows tablet market share to grow a lot when they get MS Office to run on it, and I'm sure there's other players like Nintendo who will get a slice. Apple will probably remain the leader in the high end, Android the overall leader and who knows what follows.For me, the mini iPad is more meaningful if thought in terms of price rather than screen size. If they sell it for just above the Nexus or Kindle price, it will be yet another awesome success for them.
POS and ERP, Finance and such are covered by OpenBravo and Compiere if you really want Open Source. If not, just search for ERP in the cloud and some "pa as you go" software will probably suit what you need.
no idea what you're going on about
Guessing the future always has that risk of making people look like idiots 5 years down the line. What I have seen in the recent past is that at Apple stores, there's no shortage of people of all ages poking at Macbook screens after they spent a few minutes experimenting with iPhones and iPads. Give a Kindle to a smartphone user and they poke and pinch the screen.Recent industry exhibitions had hybrid products on show, and Microsoft seems to expect laptops with touchscreens to take off.
I don't think that desktops will die any time soon, but that's because I don't write blog headlines for a living. Chances are, laptops and desktops will adopt touch screens in a similar way they adopted sound cards and trackpads.
I kind of suspect that the 2013 Mars missions was something they have been planning for a while, not as a week-long project that was about to be presented to the press when there was a major power failure. There's a lot of people in India, I'm sure they are not all involved in doing the same thing as a 1 000 000 000 people team...
Looks like nuclear power is a bit like credit cards...
If these people are willing to give Linux a chance, then let them try out a live CD of something popular, like Ubuntu. If they like it, good, if they don't, no harm done. The idea of trying to accommodate Windows ways of doing things on Linux feels quite counterproductive. If people are really interested in giving some proper consideration to changing their computer tools they should start with a blank slate rather than expecting you to make Linux look and feel like the computer they are used to.
Chances are, they agreed to your "trial" of Linux just to be polite when you insisted, and may have little motivation to carry this through.
I was well aware of Valve, but not of who this guy is. Now that he picked up a few big headlines in traditional "xyz is doomed" style, I imagine he has a bit more Klout points. Congratulations Gabe.
An exit interview is giving information for nothing in return. I appreciate much more when people post their own reviews on Glassdoor.com rather than just sharing their thoughts with HR.
huh? in what way was Vista unstable?
I don't know about ending the need for unions. We don't need to have permanent pain to go to the dentist and we don't need the threat of permanent litigation to have a lawyer retained. Why should we dismiss the services of unions when things are going well? When the litigation or conflict arises, it is certain that the company will have a legal representative, why should the employee think it's all going to be friendly and everyone will be complying with the relevant laws because the legislation is clear and fair enough?
no vampire hunting? not even as a hobby?
Actually, if you head away from Central London and look in areas where detached and semi-detached houses are more abundant, you'll find plenty of power cables leading to homes. These are houses that are 100 years old (or more) with outside plumbing visible from the back as the houses were not all originally built with plumbing connecting to the public sewers. I'm talking about London TFL zones 2 and 3, not some remote and scarcely populated suburb.
They just would not surrender!
F*@# everything! we're doing 5 buffers!
The original webpage of the Ofcom website has no indication of that cost to make an appeal. They do however welcome feedback on this consultation: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/infringement-implementation/howtorespond/
I have experimented a bit with Yammer, to find that its user interface is as simple to use as Facebook and similar websites. Adding photos or any kind of document to a Yammer "repository" seems to me like it will make it easier to search and find it later on.
In comparison, my (also limited) experience with SharePoint is that if internal communications in a company were handled there rather than via email, stuff would be easier to find and actual knowledge bases for products and client projects would become easier to create and maintain.
The problem with SP (IMHO) is that it's not as easy to use as email or any common website. It is very easy to feel discouraged from using it and just keep sending email attachments all the time. I suspect that the existing developments that bridge Yammer and SP will be very useful to help the adoption of SharePoint in those 80K companies already using Yammer.