The population of the Americas is now 1Bn but wasn't so 40 years ago. The reduction in number of cases to what the Americas have now is significant also because there are more people that could have been affected and are not, thanks to the efforts in eradicating the disease. A more useful measure would probably be morbidity in % of population, to show clearly how big the overall problem was then and is now.
I point out "morbidity" because death is not the only possible effect of catching this disease. While it is a useful thing to measure mortality, measles is linked to pneumonia and encephalitis, which can have significant consequences such as blindness and deafness.
To say that everything would be OK without vaccines because post-facto the disease is not killing a lot of people does not tell the whole story. If there's any obfuscation or misunderstanding of the real situation it is on the side of those who overlook the needs of a growing and mobile population.
Interestingly I've seen this sort of presentation before by someone who thought that polio eradication would have been "naturally occurring" in the USA, overlooking that in the chart she was showing the date range was one where the USA population had doubled (baby boom and huge inbound emigration after WW2). I can't imagine what side effects she was worried about that would lead to going without such strong prevention measures, even if the data shows that the reduction of cases of paralysis was big, and in terms of % of population as actually a very significant and sudden change when the polio vaccination programme started.
Salesforce (how on earth does Twitter have anything to do w/ Salesforce)?
Among many other things that SFDC and Microsoft Dynamics CRM are used for, handling customer service communications is one that has in the last few years been expanded beyond email and IRL interactions. I don't know the SFDC world, but I work in the MS camp and one addition from a few releases ago was the ability to measure "customer sentiment", by searching through Twitter, RSS and Facebook feeds. IIRC Linkedin was in a walled garden and could not be read. What some Microsoft Partners were doing, for example in the charity and higher education field, was to look for any signals that students/random people were so depressed or desperate that they used social media to announce their suicidal intent. There are other more conventional uses for this customer sentiment, related to avoid or contain customer service faux-pas that could become viral and therefore more expensive than to settle individually with one aggrieved customer.
The rationale for this sort of acquisition could include having more communications channel to what the CRM system can use (ticking another box for enterprise customers); ensuring that social media networks with 100,000,000+ users are not walled gardens beyond the reach of the graph and search facility of SFDC/Office365/etc.; Getting more behaviour and geo data for Azure/Google/SFDC/etc. to get better with their AI. All else failing, just put loads of adverts under Bing management rather than Google's. IDK:)
While it's clear that Win RT bombed, it was IMHO a step in the right direction: Make Windows simpler, make it work more like the smartphones and tablets that have been such a sales success since the last decade.
Trouble is: how to deal with the legacy applications (cue the appy app guy). Getting everyone to use the MS store looked to me like a good idea, as long as there was something there worth getting. Yes, other software houses would be annoyed with paying MS a cut of the sale, yes they would be forced to develop according to some sort of valid standard... but that's exactly omitting these things that makes the Win32 ecosystem of the XP era such a PITA and a great environment for malware and bad quality applications
I thought that in the same way that Apple kept on a solid and worthwhile market share with a few select partners and their own multimedia applications, Microsoft can/could do the same, with Office and a few good games for Windows and Xbox. The way RT was made and marketed, it looked like MS was taking things away from the userbase without giving much back. Yes, ARM SOCs and battery life were interesting but not unique; Windows 8 UI was well suited for that device, but hated by the userbase that is happy to experiment with Android, Linux, Mac OS and iOS, but are vocal about everything and anything that MS changes in their core product lines. This relationship status is "it's complicated"
For now, it looks like Lumia goes to the pile of brands that disappear, and Windows is just Windows 10, on whichever device you might want to use it. In the same way that certain apps won't download from the Google Play store if your device is not compatible, you'll find the same when trying to run apps for Windows 10 mobile that were actually just made for Windows 10 desktop/x64/whatever. It will probably work out well if MS can make their 1st party apps good enough to hold on to some sort of valuable market share (and that's probably got to be xBox & gaming related otherwise iOS and Android gaming will also leapfrog MS in that arena, while everyone is busy comparing Xbox with PS4 and Nintendo). The difference between this time and the 90s is that this market share will be of rent/licence paying customer, not a 90% of a market with a smaller % of people actually spending money. So here's to hoping that the Surface tablets, the xBox with universal appps (aka headless imac), the Surface phone and Surface AIO have something worthwhile to run on them, besides Office and a browser.
All that is to say that IMHO, running X86 Windows applications on a yet smaller form factor scores a big fat meh from me.
Saw that a while back. The maths makes sense but does not consider whether 10-11Bn people is sustainable, how, and whether it is even desirable to have so many people on the planet. Considering how a scarce millions migrating to Western Europe from Syria/M.E. lead to political paralysis and chaos, it won't be easy to deal with many millions relocating as resources like drinking water become hard to get in India/China, or many areas in Europe and Africa that look likely to become more like desert as the global climate crisis progresses.
Maybe he just had a peek through the windows. In any case, I'd say it's odd to never/rarely see Surface pros out there. Less common than macbooks, yes, but not exactly hard to find in my experience.
It does have the effect of making a country's leadership look bad if they do not join the majority or joining, if they fail completely to make improvement.
Like the other guy posted, Donald Trump can be seen an example of someone who if elected does not intend to work towards the goals in this Accord. How does that make him look? Like a conspiracy loon, on top of other things.
In my book, "unsupported" means: "if it doesn't work, don't make warranty claims. Here's our list of supported products, save everyone's time and take your pick from there".
Now, if people want to experiment, hack, mix & match, MS won't send their armed goons to your home address to take your PCs, trample on your flowers and leave you with a 486DX4 running Windows ME (I hope).
It would make it difficult for those of us without a facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin or google+ account
Some people refuse completely to use social media; some are from an age group that does not care about social media; some use social media without connections to others, just for the purpose of logging in via FB rather than with user/pwd.
Even if this kind of information request is presented as "not mandatory but you're in trouble if you say no", there has to be a practical way to get on with life without blocking the queue if the individual says "I don't use any of those any more"
Linux is your partner. Microsoft is your master. Choose wisely.
well, when Linux is of the Google variety, then it's a partner like the overly attached girlfriend of Youtube fame. It's not that easy to choose, I think.
That's quite remarkable savings. What kind of applications do you use on your new machine? Do you use other computers when the Chromebook doesn't cut it?
In order for a new phone / tablet to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of smart devices it needs to be truly different. The rumored specs listed could be for any device!
perhaps they could include a VPN service that made all their users' search queries appear to be one single user, bonus if it appeared to come from the town of Nokia.
Could space be so big that one could fit "advanced civilisations per galaxy" in a normal distribution, leaving us alone here while most other galaxies are teeming with life, ST federation style of interactions between them, wizards with midichlorians, etc.? For all practical purposes that would be the same as being an isolated civilisation forever.
the huge gains of these individuals have been made during the administration of a president who had as wealth redistribution, a la Robin Hood, as a stated goal of his presidency.
Which country's president do you mean? The people on the list have/had careers in multinationals which were perfectly capable of moving cash across borders to suit their goals.
Hmmmm.... do you really think that this was the reason why developers flocked to iOS and Android? The expectation/hope they would not be fucked over like those who had burned fingers with Microsoft?
Or could it be that it was really clear that developing and marketing apps for iOS and Android had (has) huge market potential and straightforward way to sell apps and see the money come in.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that the reputation or history of MS dealings with partners and with their own technology was not as important as major competitors coming up and saying "Here's what you do to reach our millions of prospective buyers. We deal with distribution and growing the market, you get 70% of the sale". Between piracy, traditional distribution channels, customers used to not spending at all, there were/are plenty of reasons why developing for PC was never that straightforward. The realistic prospect of finding 10,000,000 people willing to pay you $0.70 each was a major reason, more than anything MS did or used to do.
Salesforce partnered up with Microsoft, probably to run a lot of their stuff on Azure. I mean, the Microsoft Dynamics family is probably smaller than SFDC, but they are still competitors. One day we'll probably find out that Azure runs on the Amazon cloud and Google is hosted in a farm of MacMinis from a basement in Cupertino.
In terms of actual money changing hands, perhaps this is a way to get a lot of business networking to go through Skype rather than other VOIP services. In a beautiful slide deck that MS is distributing, there are some ideas about how Dynamics CRM and Office365 will use Linkedin, possibly in the same way that G+ contacts can be seen from Google search results and Gmail/Hangout contacts.
In a broader "let's do stuff for money and offer other stuff for free and hope this somehow works", maybe because it's the one social network with many millions of people that could have been acquired, thus keeping MS in a game where major companies want to sell hardware, software and a variety of cloud services. Twitter does a lot less than Linkedin, Facebook/Instagram and G+ are probably not for sale, and I heard that MySpace is taken:D
It's fair these companies see a new Surface AIO and an Xbox running Windows 10 applications as an attack, but it's equally fair for Microsoft to see this move as a vertical integration strategy that was blocked in the 90s but is commonplace in this decade. Google has Nexus, Android & cloud-based services; Apple has their own stack from device to software and cloud services... why should Microsoft miss out? Not only there's profit to be made, as there's OEMs making Windows worse with bloatware and there's the risk that one of the other players locks Microsoft out of their walled garden.
If it's OK for Sony to have only their approved software running on Playstation; if it's OK for Apple to prevent 3rd party browsers to be added to iOS devices; if it's OK for Facebook to track what users are doing with their apps in and out of their website, why can't Microsoft do all of the above?
MS will be selling high end laptops, smartphones, VR headsets, AIO computers and even a headless-iMac-like-device (xbox). There will be less that 90% of PCs with their software/services on them, but MS should end up with a healthy slice of a much larger market than what existed in the 90s. Can't fault them for pursuing this.
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How's that for problem solving?
I think that the stock markets might crash if that happened.
A few notes (to waste on an AC thread):
The population of the Americas is now 1Bn but wasn't so 40 years ago. The reduction in number of cases to what the Americas have now is significant also because there are more people that could have been affected and are not, thanks to the efforts in eradicating the disease. A more useful measure would probably be morbidity in % of population, to show clearly how big the overall problem was then and is now.
I point out "morbidity" because death is not the only possible effect of catching this disease. While it is a useful thing to measure mortality, measles is linked to pneumonia and encephalitis, which can have significant consequences such as blindness and deafness.
To say that everything would be OK without vaccines because post-facto the disease is not killing a lot of people does not tell the whole story. If there's any obfuscation or misunderstanding of the real situation it is on the side of those who overlook the needs of a growing and mobile population.
Interestingly I've seen this sort of presentation before by someone who thought that polio eradication would have been "naturally occurring" in the USA, overlooking that in the chart she was showing the date range was one where the USA population had doubled (baby boom and huge inbound emigration after WW2). I can't imagine what side effects she was worried about that would lead to going without such strong prevention measures, even if the data shows that the reduction of cases of paralysis was big, and in terms of % of population as actually a very significant and sudden change when the polio vaccination programme started.
Salesforce (how on earth does Twitter have anything to do w/ Salesforce)?
Among many other things that SFDC and Microsoft Dynamics CRM are used for, handling customer service communications is one that has in the last few years been expanded beyond email and IRL interactions.
I don't know the SFDC world, but I work in the MS camp and one addition from a few releases ago was the ability to measure "customer sentiment", by searching through Twitter, RSS and Facebook feeds. IIRC Linkedin was in a walled garden and could not be read.
What some Microsoft Partners were doing, for example in the charity and higher education field, was to look for any signals that students/random people were so depressed or desperate that they used social media to announce their suicidal intent. There are other more conventional uses for this customer sentiment, related to avoid or contain customer service faux-pas that could become viral and therefore more expensive than to settle individually with one aggrieved customer.
The rationale for this sort of acquisition could include having more communications channel to what the CRM system can use (ticking another box for enterprise customers); ensuring that social media networks with 100,000,000+ users are not walled gardens beyond the reach of the graph and search facility of SFDC/Office365/etc.; Getting more behaviour and geo data for Azure/Google/SFDC/etc. to get better with their AI. :)
All else failing, just put loads of adverts under Bing management rather than Google's. IDK
While it's clear that Win RT bombed, it was IMHO a step in the right direction: Make Windows simpler, make it work more like the smartphones and tablets that have been such a sales success since the last decade.
Trouble is: how to deal with the legacy applications (cue the appy app guy). Getting everyone to use the MS store looked to me like a good idea, as long as there was something there worth getting. Yes, other software houses would be annoyed with paying MS a cut of the sale, yes they would be forced to develop according to some sort of valid standard... but that's exactly omitting these things that makes the Win32 ecosystem of the XP era such a PITA and a great environment for malware and bad quality applications
I thought that in the same way that Apple kept on a solid and worthwhile market share with a few select partners and their own multimedia applications, Microsoft can/could do the same, with Office and a few good games for Windows and Xbox.
The way RT was made and marketed, it looked like MS was taking things away from the userbase without giving much back. Yes, ARM SOCs and battery life were interesting but not unique; Windows 8 UI was well suited for that device, but hated by the userbase that is happy to experiment with Android, Linux, Mac OS and iOS, but are vocal about everything and anything that MS changes in their core product lines. This relationship status is "it's complicated"
For now, it looks like Lumia goes to the pile of brands that disappear, and Windows is just Windows 10, on whichever device you might want to use it. In the same way that certain apps won't download from the Google Play store if your device is not compatible, you'll find the same when trying to run apps for Windows 10 mobile that were actually just made for Windows 10 desktop/x64/whatever. It will probably work out well if MS can make their 1st party apps good enough to hold on to some sort of valuable market share (and that's probably got to be xBox & gaming related otherwise iOS and Android gaming will also leapfrog MS in that arena, while everyone is busy comparing Xbox with PS4 and Nintendo). The difference between this time and the 90s is that this market share will be of rent/licence paying customer, not a 90% of a market with a smaller % of people actually spending money. So here's to hoping that the Surface tablets, the xBox with universal appps (aka headless imac), the Surface phone and Surface AIO have something worthwhile to run on them, besides Office and a browser.
All that is to say that IMHO, running X86 Windows applications on a yet smaller form factor scores a big fat meh from me.
Saw that a while back. The maths makes sense but does not consider whether 10-11Bn people is sustainable, how, and whether it is even desirable to have so many people on the planet. Considering how a scarce millions migrating to Western Europe from Syria/M.E. lead to political paralysis and chaos, it won't be easy to deal with many millions relocating as resources like drinking water become hard to get in India/China, or many areas in Europe and Africa that look likely to become more like desert as the global climate crisis progresses.
Maybe he just had a peek through the windows. In any case, I'd say it's odd to never/rarely see Surface pros out there. Less common than macbooks, yes, but not exactly hard to find in my experience.
Are there offices in the most populated parts of the US, or did you survey coffee shops only?
No more DRM than before.. For now HUAHAHAHA
OK 2017 will be the year of iPhone photos with bokeh effect. In all photos in all circumstances in all social media :)
It does have the effect of making a country's leadership look bad if they do not join the majority or joining, if they fail completely to make improvement.
Like the other guy posted, Donald Trump can be seen an example of someone who if elected does not intend to work towards the goals in this Accord. How does that make him look? Like a conspiracy loon, on top of other things.
https://twitter.com/realdonald...
Truekaiser for president!
In my book, "unsupported" means: "if it doesn't work, don't make warranty claims. Here's our list of supported products, save everyone's time and take your pick from there".
Now, if people want to experiment, hack, mix & match, MS won't send their armed goons to your home address to take your PCs, trample on your flowers and leave you with a 486DX4 running Windows ME (I hope).
It would make it difficult for those of us without a facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin or google+ account
Some people refuse completely to use social media; some are from an age group that does not care about social media; some use social media without connections to others, just for the purpose of logging in via FB rather than with user/pwd.
Even if this kind of information request is presented as "not mandatory but you're in trouble if you say no", there has to be a practical way to get on with life without blocking the queue if the individual says "I don't use any of those any more"
Linux is your partner. Microsoft is your master. Choose wisely.
well, when Linux is of the Google variety, then it's a partner like the overly attached girlfriend of Youtube fame. It's not that easy to choose, I think.
That's quite remarkable savings. What kind of applications do you use on your new machine? Do you use other computers when the Chromebook doesn't cut it?
In order for a new phone / tablet to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of smart devices it needs to be truly different. The rumored specs listed could be for any device!
perhaps they could include a VPN service that made all their users' search queries appear to be one single user, bonus if it appeared to come from the town of Nokia.
Could space be so big that one could fit "advanced civilisations per galaxy" in a normal distribution, leaving us alone here while most other galaxies are teeming with life, ST federation style of interactions between them, wizards with midichlorians, etc.?
For all practical purposes that would be the same as being an isolated civilisation forever.
the huge gains of these individuals have been made during the administration of a president who had as wealth redistribution, a la Robin Hood, as a stated goal of his presidency.
Which country's president do you mean? The people on the list have/had careers in multinationals which were perfectly capable of moving cash across borders to suit their goals.
for a moment there I thought you were going to Godwin this. :D
don't they have USB ports in Macs any more?
Hmmmm.... do you really think that this was the reason why developers flocked to iOS and Android? The expectation/hope they would not be fucked over like those who had burned fingers with Microsoft?
Or could it be that it was really clear that developing and marketing apps for iOS and Android had (has) huge market potential and straightforward way to sell apps and see the money come in.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that the reputation or history of MS dealings with partners and with their own technology was not as important as major competitors coming up and saying "Here's what you do to reach our millions of prospective buyers. We deal with distribution and growing the market, you get 70% of the sale".
Between piracy, traditional distribution channels, customers used to not spending at all, there were/are plenty of reasons why developing for PC was never that straightforward. The realistic prospect of finding 10,000,000 people willing to pay you $0.70 each was a major reason, more than anything MS did or used to do.
it's all weird and incestuous :)
Salesforce partnered up with Microsoft, probably to run a lot of their stuff on Azure. I mean, the Microsoft Dynamics family is probably smaller than SFDC, but they are still competitors.
One day we'll probably find out that Azure runs on the Amazon cloud and Google is hosted in a farm of MacMinis from a basement in Cupertino.
In terms of actual money changing hands, perhaps this is a way to get a lot of business networking to go through Skype rather than other VOIP services. In a beautiful slide deck that MS is distributing, there are some ideas about how Dynamics CRM and Office365 will use Linkedin, possibly in the same way that G+ contacts can be seen from Google search results and Gmail/Hangout contacts.
In a broader "let's do stuff for money and offer other stuff for free and hope this somehow works", maybe because it's the one social network with many millions of people that could have been acquired, thus keeping MS in a game where major companies want to sell hardware, software and a variety of cloud services. Twitter does a lot less than Linkedin, Facebook/Instagram and G+ are probably not for sale, and I heard that MySpace is taken :D
Happy days then. Can we now have less MS-bashing and more industry-wide regulation instead?
It's fair these companies see a new Surface AIO and an Xbox running Windows 10 applications as an attack, but it's equally fair for Microsoft to see this move as a vertical integration strategy that was blocked in the 90s but is commonplace in this decade. Google has Nexus, Android & cloud-based services; Apple has their own stack from device to software and cloud services... why should Microsoft miss out?
Not only there's profit to be made, as there's OEMs making Windows worse with bloatware and there's the risk that one of the other players locks Microsoft out of their walled garden.
If it's OK for Sony to have only their approved software running on Playstation; if it's OK for Apple to prevent 3rd party browsers to be added to iOS devices; if it's OK for Facebook to track what users are doing with their apps in and out of their website, why can't Microsoft do all of the above?
MS will be selling high end laptops, smartphones, VR headsets, AIO computers and even a headless-iMac-like-device (xbox). There will be less that 90% of PCs with their software/services on them, but MS should end up with a healthy slice of a much larger market than what existed in the 90s. Can't fault them for pursuing this.
Thanks for these stats. Considering how widespread neglected gardening is, these figures are probably a meaningful sample.