On the other other hand, Office enjoys ridiculous market share and makes a staggering amount of money.
Office makes so much money due to monopoly rents. MS can charge an arm and a leg for software that has remained, in terms of core functionality, unchanged for at least the last two decades. If Nokia wanted someone who was good at leveraging an existing monopoly, Elop would be a great choice. My guess is they wanted someone who might help them create groundbreaking new products and catch up to the industry leaders who are rapidly leaving them in the dust. On paper Elop isn't that guy. Maybe there's more too him. Maybe deep inside there's a radical innovator waiting to come out, like a fierce little alien leaping from some space colonist's body. But I remain skeptical.
I find it humorous that so many Slashdotters bag on Facebook users, who are apparently self-absorbed. Tell me you don't give a rat's ass how your Slashdot comments are moderated. Tell me you've never looked to see how many people are interested in reading your comments. I know there will always be those who profess to be completely disinterested in their social standing in Slashdot, but methinks the number who actually don't give a damn is smaller than the number who make that claim.
Are you asserting that everyone who signs up is presented with a copy of the UCMJ before they sign? Because that would be a necessary step for your assertion to be true, and I don't believe they are.
I hear what you're saying, but most of us civilians don't walk around with copies of the Constitution and statute books, either. In the military the people who tell you what to do have a tremendous amount of power over you, but they are also subject to intense scrutiny from their higher ups. The UCMJ applies all the way through the food chain, and believe me, when a servicemember writes his Congresscritter, things happen.
As Pharmboy points out, it's far from perfect. But having served in the Army and having obtained a JD later, I find military justice more transparent, less subject to bias, and fairer overall.
You will probably also be annoyed at Jonathan Swift. His dastardly pamphlet, "A Modest Proposal" is even more onerous than phantomfive's obvious stupidity.
A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system. Aspects include the operating system receiving a command to initiate shut down, and automatically terminating graphical user interface (GUI) applications that delay shut down which do not have top level windows. Also, aspects provide a user, through a graphical user interface, the ability to automatically terminate all running applications in response to determining that a running GUI application has a top level window.
Obviously you haven't been paying attention in history class. It's well known that Leonardo de Caprio's wood-and-graphite-composite corkscrew blade helicopter-Transformers were in heavy use during the early 1700s, especially in New Brunswick, East Anglia, and Muscovy. If only they had survived the onslaught of the steam-powered Brazilian Aero-Bombardment Fleet, we'd have a better historical record of those unbelievable flying machines.
"Notice the update at the end of the article pointing out that Sherman is seeking for voluntary agreements with said partners and not to enact broader laws without their cooperation."
In other words, we prefer an encounter wherein we're armed to the teeth with lawyers, and can kneecap you at our leisure.
Microsoft is the enemy of open source, pure and simple.
I think that used to be the case, but Microsoft seems to have a more nuanced view now. They recognize that Linux is a strategic threat, but that doesn't mean that any and all open source projects are similarly dangerous to their core interests. They have far more than Linux to contend with these days, and they're finding allies in unlikely places.
That said, Microsoft has flip-flopped so many times on open source it remains to be seen whether they truly understand that they've lost the ideological war over open source (and more importantly, free software).
The last thing we need is for mundane society to catch up with the trend...
Yes, what he said. Please, for the love of God, do not spread knowledge! Keep us elites strong, and let the masses rot! The last thing we want is an economy that can keep up. When the ship goes down, I want to be the rat sitting on the tallest mast.
I don't know any of the details about the failed business, but even in the best of economic climates, the odds are against you.
The odds are against you when you start a small business. Therefore nobody should start a small business, and these people are venal and stupid for having done so, and deserve a fiery death, rather than a comic book savior.
Designers, like everyone else in service industries, are competing against everyone in the market. There's no more hiding. You have to demonstrate value. It's not easy to show non-designers what the value of good design is, but good designers are effective communicators; if you can't communicate your value to clients, you shouldn't expect them to pay the rates many designers are used to charging.
On the flip side, I'm reminded of this reminder of the value a truly skilled, experienced designer can deliver.
And even after thousands of people started mocking the iPhone for not having it, Apple continued to ignore the complaints. That's the part I find so hard to believe.
Apple has a better grip on consumer psychology than most companies. Promise and don't deliver, and you get lambasted. Far better to quietly work on improving the product without responding to every request from customers. Apple's sales figures show that the initial lack of copy and paste was not a game-ending omission on their part.
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On the other other hand, Office enjoys ridiculous market share and makes a staggering amount of money.
Office makes so much money due to monopoly rents. MS can charge an arm and a leg for software that has remained, in terms of core functionality, unchanged for at least the last two decades. If Nokia wanted someone who was good at leveraging an existing monopoly, Elop would be a great choice. My guess is they wanted someone who might help them create groundbreaking new products and catch up to the industry leaders who are rapidly leaving them in the dust. On paper Elop isn't that guy. Maybe there's more too him. Maybe deep inside there's a radical innovator waiting to come out, like a fierce little alien leaping from some space colonist's body. But I remain skeptical.
I find it humorous that so many Slashdotters bag on Facebook users, who are apparently self-absorbed. Tell me you don't give a rat's ass how your Slashdot comments are moderated. Tell me you've never looked to see how many people are interested in reading your comments. I know there will always be those who profess to be completely disinterested in their social standing in Slashdot, but methinks the number who actually don't give a damn is smaller than the number who make that claim.
Are you asserting that everyone who signs up is presented with a copy of the UCMJ before they sign? Because that would be a necessary step for your assertion to be true, and I don't believe they are.
I hear what you're saying, but most of us civilians don't walk around with copies of the Constitution and statute books, either. In the military the people who tell you what to do have a tremendous amount of power over you, but they are also subject to intense scrutiny from their higher ups. The UCMJ applies all the way through the food chain, and believe me, when a servicemember writes his Congresscritter, things happen.
As Pharmboy points out, it's far from perfect. But having served in the Army and having obtained a JD later, I find military justice more transparent, less subject to bias, and fairer overall.
You will probably also be annoyed at Jonathan Swift. His dastardly pamphlet, "A Modest Proposal" is even more onerous than phantomfive's obvious stupidity.
Easy off stickers next year, and maybe, some time in the future, no stickers at all! And people say big corporations can't be nimble.
Fair enough, but how does the existence of a social platform used by other readers keep you from enjoying solitary book-reading?
Here's the USPTO link. The abstract:
A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system. Aspects include the operating system receiving a command to initiate shut down, and automatically terminating graphical user interface (GUI) applications that delay shut down which do not have top level windows. Also, aspects provide a user, through a graphical user interface, the ability to automatically terminate all running applications in response to determining that a running GUI application has a top level window.
Maybe we should crowdsource production of the novel. A squadron of Slashdotters armed with a few Beowulf clusters do the trick.
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh argue about whose accounts of President Obama's secret worship of Allah is more accurate.
Obviously you haven't been paying attention in history class. It's well known that Leonardo de Caprio's wood-and-graphite-composite corkscrew blade helicopter-Transformers were in heavy use during the early 1700s, especially in New Brunswick, East Anglia, and Muscovy. If only they had survived the onslaught of the steam-powered Brazilian Aero-Bombardment Fleet, we'd have a better historical record of those unbelievable flying machines.
To paraphrase Twain: Outside of a dog, an A-10 Warthog is a grunt's best friend. Inside a dog, you have other things to worry about.
"Notice the update at the end of the article pointing out that Sherman is seeking for voluntary agreements with said partners and not to enact broader laws without their cooperation."
In other words, we prefer an encounter wherein we're armed to the teeth with lawyers, and can kneecap you at our leisure.
Microsoft is the enemy of open source, pure and simple.
I think that used to be the case, but Microsoft seems to have a more nuanced view now. They recognize that Linux is a strategic threat, but that doesn't mean that any and all open source projects are similarly dangerous to their core interests. They have far more than Linux to contend with these days, and they're finding allies in unlikely places.
That said, Microsoft has flip-flopped so many times on open source it remains to be seen whether they truly understand that they've lost the ideological war over open source (and more importantly, free software).
The last thing we need is for mundane society to catch up with the trend...
Yes, what he said. Please, for the love of God, do not spread knowledge! Keep us elites strong, and let the masses rot! The last thing we want is an economy that can keep up. When the ship goes down, I want to be the rat sitting on the tallest mast.
Hey, at least one person got the joke!
I don't know any of the details about the failed business, but even in the best of economic climates, the odds are against you.
The odds are against you when you start a small business. Therefore nobody should start a small business, and these people are venal and stupid for having done so, and deserve a fiery death, rather than a comic book savior.
Instant karma, reap what you sow... how ever you put it, they're getting what they deserve.
You say that people are spending less time on Facebook than before, but whether that's a long-term trend is still unclear.
As for it being replaced by human-to-human interaction, your desire to see that happen is unrelated to whether it actually will occur.
It doesn't have to get ported to an open platform to hurt Facebook. It just has to be ported to any other platform, which is already happening.
No one is holding a gun to the person accessing a site, nor should they be holding a gun to a private business to cater to any specific crowd.
Like people who don't have pale skin?
But seriously, what are you doing after?
Designers, like everyone else in service industries, are competing against everyone in the market. There's no more hiding. You have to demonstrate value. It's not easy to show non-designers what the value of good design is, but good designers are effective communicators; if you can't communicate your value to clients, you shouldn't expect them to pay the rates many designers are used to charging. On the flip side, I'm reminded of this reminder of the value a truly skilled, experienced designer can deliver.
And even after thousands of people started mocking the iPhone for not having it, Apple continued to ignore the complaints. That's the part I find so hard to believe.
Apple has a better grip on consumer psychology than most companies. Promise and don't deliver, and you get lambasted. Far better to quietly work on improving the product without responding to every request from customers. Apple's sales figures show that the initial lack of copy and paste was not a game-ending omission on their part.
There should be a "prior art" button in the Slashdot interface.
So true. I, for one, am SICK AND TIRED OF APPLE'S ADS BOMBARDING ME EVERY DAY I USE MY MAC!!!! When, when will it stop?!
Here's an idea: Bash Apple *after* they actually implement something you hate. It's so much easier to muster evidence that way.
Silly boy. You forgot the First Rule of Apple Desktop Computing: "It's annoyance when Microsoft does it, innovation when Apple follows."