> Microsoft has proven you wrong, buddy.
Microsoft's operating systems have been preloaded on every PC sold since the early 1980's. Internet Explorer was pre-loaded on all Windows machines since 1998. Microsoft distributed Works, a freebie knockoff suite with many computers to kill off Office competitors.
Blogging/spin/FUD did not put Microsoft in it's present position.
Talk and innuendo have very limited effects compared to business practices and supply chain management, otherwise Open Source would rule the world by now.
While there will always be companies trying to infiltrate blogs as a mouthpiece, this takes a sustained effort, the expenditure of resources and a coordinated effort for it to be successful in anything but the short term.
Most companies aren't good on sustained efforts with questionable benefits and blogging is one activity that has dubious results in effecting the bottom line. Companies keep business by keeping their customers happy and there are limits to the effectiveness of spin control and FUD.
RIM used a lot of blog astroturfing against NTP and still ended up paying $620 million dollars, which was $162 million more than than if they had settled a year before.
They are 10 years late and investigating the wrong medium. I don't see anything wrong with 99 cents per song, my issues were the $21 for a CD with one decent song.
It would be nice if there were a clear vision with set objectives for the space program. It would be nice to have some set time tables for a lunar colony or a mission to Mars.
Right now there doesn't seem to be a plan for NASA other than satellite maintainence and some miscellaneous probes/rovers.
The issue regarding Google Desktop resonates across a broader horizon.
Companies don't typically supply all the tools required to be productive and employees end up resorting to 3rd party tools. Mismanagement.
It's funny to me that the reason Apple owns the music player market is so simple.
Apple's product appeals to what consumers want, consumers like it and they get sales.
Microsoft's DRM crap is design to appeal to what music labels want, and last time I checked music labels aren't the ones buying these music players, and so it flops.
Private/corporate space travel of any kind is pretty gosh darn unlikely any time in the next 30 years.
Space travel is so capital intensive that any sort of return on investment far beyond the types of horizons that motivate companies. Consider that most companies view 5 years as a "long term" investment.
I don't understand why they are offering a $10 million prize for the design when if they were serious they would have a paid engineering staff design one.
I think this is more proof these companies aren't serious at all.
The Sun, like every other object in the solar system, orbits the center of gravity in the solar system.
A star must been at least 20 Jupiter masses to induce hydrogen fusion and this would.
Considering the center of mass in the solar system just above the surface of the sun, there cannot be a companion star.
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> Microsoft has proven you wrong, buddy. Microsoft's operating systems have been preloaded on every PC sold since the early 1980's. Internet Explorer was pre-loaded on all Windows machines since 1998. Microsoft distributed Works, a freebie knockoff suite with many computers to kill off Office competitors. Blogging/spin/FUD did not put Microsoft in it's present position. Talk and innuendo have very limited effects compared to business practices and supply chain management, otherwise Open Source would rule the world by now.
While there will always be companies trying to infiltrate blogs as a mouthpiece, this takes a sustained effort, the expenditure of resources and a coordinated effort for it to be successful in anything but the short term. Most companies aren't good on sustained efforts with questionable benefits and blogging is one activity that has dubious results in effecting the bottom line. Companies keep business by keeping their customers happy and there are limits to the effectiveness of spin control and FUD. RIM used a lot of blog astroturfing against NTP and still ended up paying $620 million dollars, which was $162 million more than than if they had settled a year before.
They are 10 years late and investigating the wrong medium. I don't see anything wrong with 99 cents per song, my issues were the $21 for a CD with one decent song.
It would be nice if there were a clear vision with set objectives for the space program. It would be nice to have some set time tables for a lunar colony or a mission to Mars. Right now there doesn't seem to be a plan for NASA other than satellite maintainence and some miscellaneous probes/rovers.
The issue regarding Google Desktop resonates across a broader horizon. Companies don't typically supply all the tools required to be productive and employees end up resorting to 3rd party tools. Mismanagement.
It's funny to me that the reason Apple owns the music player market is so simple. Apple's product appeals to what consumers want, consumers like it and they get sales. Microsoft's DRM crap is design to appeal to what music labels want, and last time I checked music labels aren't the ones buying these music players, and so it flops.
Private/corporate space travel of any kind is pretty gosh darn unlikely any time in the next 30 years. Space travel is so capital intensive that any sort of return on investment far beyond the types of horizons that motivate companies. Consider that most companies view 5 years as a "long term" investment. I don't understand why they are offering a $10 million prize for the design when if they were serious they would have a paid engineering staff design one. I think this is more proof these companies aren't serious at all.
The Sun, like every other object in the solar system, orbits the center of gravity in the solar system. A star must been at least 20 Jupiter masses to induce hydrogen fusion and this would. Considering the center of mass in the solar system just above the surface of the sun, there cannot be a companion star.