When companies transition from Microsoft's traditional licensing business to cloud-based subscriptions, it's "not a one-for-one move," Nadella told Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss
What is means: We were foolish to have sold perpetual licenses for just a one time hit. People who can move out have already moved out of MsOffice. Those who have not moved out, could not so. So we have them by their balls. We are going to make them all pay month after month to get access to their own data. Dont worry about users holding on to their old licenses. We make life hell for them, and they will eventually succumb and move to cloud and pay us our due share, our daily bread. It might be their data, but they stored it in our formats. Now they are our prisoners, we will never release them, but continue to bleed them dry.
Religion postulates a super being, powerful enough to create the entire universe, still petty enough to demand worship and obedience from insignificant creatures like humans.
This pseudo scientist, probably a cargo cultist, postulates a civilization powerful enough to make our sun go super nova, but petty enough to demand some things from us. What. could. they. possibly. want.? Unobtainium? Vibranium?
Now that the industry has admitted how dangerous these products could be, they should be held 100% responsible for securing them. Any breach, especially on a locked down device that the consumer did not or could not mess with, would be their liability.
Since the devices might outlive the companies that sold them, all such devices must carry insurance, premium paid by the manufacturer, to make good on any damage they might cause.
Only when there is an actual cost that affects their bottom line these guys will take security seriously. Forcing them to buy liability insurance will make some one look at the devices and assess the security.
Of course, I am from a high caste. Of course I am smarter than most people, but that has nothing to do with my caste. Lots of people of my high caste are dumb. And lots of people in other castes are smart.
And the next wave is going to get me too, being smart will not protect me.
BTW, if you sign off with your name Dumbass, why post as anonymous coward?
It is a free market. Some airline or the other will decide to charge a little more to all and offer smoother boarding. Sooner or later. If enough people are willing to pay that extra money for hassle free boarding, that airline will make tons of money and others will copy it.
It was not long time ago when domestic flights allowed two free checked in bags, each 70 lb. Heck, I still have those suitcases. Then it became 50 lb and then one checked in bag, and then no checked in bag. Southwest still gives free checked in bags, No preallocated seats. Still reserves A1 to A30 group for frequent fliers and people who pay...
If people valued it enough, and were willing to pay enough, all airlines would have copied it. Fact of the matter is, most people are cheap skates, they would rather stuff 70 lb into a carry on that no one could carry and save 25$.
Yes, some people will be displaced out of some jobs and have to find something else to do. No this will not be easy for some of them but it will be good for society overall. This is nothing new and has been happening continually for the entirety of the industrial revolution.
You assume you will not be one of those who will be displaced. Implicitly you see the people displaced as "them" not "me" not "us' not "my son/daughter". That makes me think you are WASP American used to being on top of the heap.
There is no such guarantee. Most likely you will be of the displaced. Think about your skill set suddenly made obsolete and you need to go back to school to get some new skill and start at the entry level again. That is what going to happen.
India and China are each three times bigger than USA by population. Indian-Americans form such a tiny microscopic slice of American population. They punch 10 times their weight. Already there are more Indian American CXOs than African-Americans or Hispanic-Americans. Same is true for the Chinese. Koreans and Indians are making big inroads into hotels and convenience stores too.
All those blue collar workers who were betrayed by both the parties who are succumbing to opioid epidemic in the rust belt... next wave is you, white collar WASPs.
Disclaimer, I am not an angry non college educated WASP feeling gloom and doom, I am an Indian-American, as you can tell from my handle.
The industrial revolution and the automation it spawned is mainly seen as good things, that increased standard of life and people who disagreed were generally laughed at as Luddites.
As productivity soared, production met all domestic demand very quickly. At that point it would have resulted in enormous unemployment and social unrest. The Luddites and the Saboteurs (sabots are wooden shoes, people who threw it into weaving mills were the original saboteurs) would have won and the industrial revolution would have been snuffed out in infancy. But...
... there were colonies. Ruled by weak and incompetent rulers, who did not know how to fight back against the well organized armies of Europe, who had been fighting for 1500 years of dark ages honing their weaponry, strategy and tactics. Quickly subjugated they provided the demand for the goods and absorbed all the increased production. Transferring accumulated wealth from these countries to the industrial economies of Europe.
When they ran out of colonies, they fought for 40 years, from 1900 to 1940 all the wars including the world wars were fight for exclusive rights to drain the last remaining wealth from the colonies.
The destruction of ways of life, cultures, livelihoods, pre industrial technical knowledge were incalculable. And actual deaths, by millions and millions. So many died.
So yeah, Automating things is how societies make progress if you carefully exclude the devastated societies from your sample space.
Originally I thought the capacity was 30.7 TB. I was like, meh! not impressed.
Then I looked at the fourth significant digit. it is 2. Yes, it is actually 30.72 TB. That 651 parts per million more than my what I originally thought. Now I am all ears, looking at it carefully, camping outside Alibaba container terminal to be the first one on the block to get it.
Very well done Dear Headline Writer, always provide very precise information. Next time, why stop with the fourth significant digit? You could be even more amazingly accurate and provide six, seven... why not go all the way to 11 significant digits! Most people have just 10 digits, so go for 11, that is a good number hard to beat.
Then you will have college grads flipping burgers. Most of the jobs that exist today does not need college degrees. Unless more jobs that need college degrees are created, creating more graduates will not help.
It is like making more stoves and utensils when there is a famine and shortage of food.
Don't blame you. Thats the problem when I speak with a tongue in the cheek. I chew my tongue to pieces, and the listener can not understand anything. Have a nice day.
General Electronic System Tracking All People Online can only be done by the governments. Private companies should not muscle into the Government functions.
Removed the post it note? Next time stick with some dark wood glue, and once it dries, peel off the note. The dirty mess will be warning enough. It won't be so easy to remove by the cubicle police.
You do it for A, A does it for B, and B does it for you, allowing you all perfect deniability, "I didn't do this!"
Back in the 70s, US Government funded NASA that kept creating technologies that the private companies used to create world dominating technologies. From ball point pens to teflon to internet....
China is using the similar model of development. The technology originally created by the government to monitor and improve the lives of its citizens using social credit score is being used by private companies for profit.
The cameras are ubiquitous, and everyone is taking pictures. Is clicking a button a creative process? With so much of anti shake tech, dynamic range tech, image processing enhancement, done by software behind the scenes, how much of artistic work is involved in these clicks?
May be only the photographs registered by paying a fee would be protected by copyright. All other photos are public domain by default.
Given the success of AI assisted video editing in swapping faces, it would be easy for state actors to create very convincing doctored video and spread them very fast. At some point the entire internet based news would be discredited.
But there is no alternative news source one can trust outside the net either. We have killed the print newspapers....
Wonder if Democracy can survive without a reliable news source...
Almost all the chips and the internet of things can be made into spyware. So essentially we need to ban all Chinese made chips and software and routers and devices...
Why do you think those campuses let you keep pets in your 'office" and have huge multi cuisine cafeteria? You are not supposed to live near the campus. You are supposed to live in the campus. And work way more than 8 hours a day. Immerse yourself with so much of company amenities, and befriend other company employees you don't think of moving to a start up. duh...
Must block all video. It is very distracting and muted video distracts and irritating. Videos with floating frame that relocates on scrolling are particularly bad. They also must be blocked.
I would not mind accepting some irritating ads from sites that I want to support. I would like the ability to whitelist the sites.
I would not mind giving Google some keywords to tailor their targeted ads. One mistyped or misclicked site, and forever I'm getting ads pitching stupid things like Beechcraft jet for 2 million dollars. What Artificial Stupidity would think I'm in the market for a jet plane?
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When companies transition from Microsoft's traditional licensing business to cloud-based subscriptions, it's "not a one-for-one move," Nadella told Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss
What is means: We were foolish to have sold perpetual licenses for just a one time hit. People who can move out have already moved out of MsOffice. Those who have not moved out, could not so. So we have them by their balls. We are going to make them all pay month after month to get access to their own data. Dont worry about users holding on to their old licenses. We make life hell for them, and they will eventually succumb and move to cloud and pay us our due share, our daily bread. It might be their data, but they stored it in our formats. Now they are our prisoners, we will never release them, but continue to bleed them dry.
This pseudo scientist, probably a cargo cultist, postulates a civilization powerful enough to make our sun go super nova, but petty enough to demand some things from us. What. could. they. possibly. want.? Unobtainium? Vibranium?
Since the devices might outlive the companies that sold them, all such devices must carry insurance, premium paid by the manufacturer, to make good on any damage they might cause.
Only when there is an actual cost that affects their bottom line these guys will take security seriously. Forcing them to buy liability insurance will make some one look at the devices and assess the security.
And the next wave is going to get me too, being smart will not protect me.
BTW, if you sign off with your name Dumbass, why post as anonymous coward?
What? One small revenge people can still take against the 1%ters is to fart as they go through first class. Want to take that away too? Elitist!
It was not long time ago when domestic flights allowed two free checked in bags, each 70 lb. Heck, I still have those suitcases. Then it became 50 lb and then one checked in bag, and then no checked in bag. Southwest still gives free checked in bags, No preallocated seats. Still reserves A1 to A30 group for frequent fliers and people who pay...
If people valued it enough, and were willing to pay enough, all airlines would have copied it. Fact of the matter is, most people are cheap skates, they would rather stuff 70 lb into a carry on that no one could carry and save 25$.
Yes, some people will be displaced out of some jobs and have to find something else to do. No this will not be easy for some of them but it will be good for society overall. This is nothing new and has been happening continually for the entirety of the industrial revolution.
You assume you will not be one of those who will be displaced. Implicitly you see the people displaced as "them" not "me" not "us' not "my son/daughter". That makes me think you are WASP American used to being on top of the heap. There is no such guarantee. Most likely you will be of the displaced. Think about your skill set suddenly made obsolete and you need to go back to school to get some new skill and start at the entry level again. That is what going to happen.
India and China are each three times bigger than USA by population. Indian-Americans form such a tiny microscopic slice of American population. They punch 10 times their weight. Already there are more Indian American CXOs than African-Americans or Hispanic-Americans. Same is true for the Chinese. Koreans and Indians are making big inroads into hotels and convenience stores too.
All those blue collar workers who were betrayed by both the parties who are succumbing to opioid epidemic in the rust belt ... next wave is you, white collar WASPs.
Disclaimer, I am not an angry non college educated WASP feeling gloom and doom, I am an Indian-American, as you can tell from my handle.
As productivity soared, production met all domestic demand very quickly. At that point it would have resulted in enormous unemployment and social unrest. The Luddites and the Saboteurs (sabots are wooden shoes, people who threw it into weaving mills were the original saboteurs) would have won and the industrial revolution would have been snuffed out in infancy. But...
When they ran out of colonies, they fought for 40 years, from 1900 to 1940 all the wars including the world wars were fight for exclusive rights to drain the last remaining wealth from the colonies.
The destruction of ways of life, cultures, livelihoods, pre industrial technical knowledge were incalculable. And actual deaths, by millions and millions. So many died.
So yeah, Automating things is how societies make progress if you carefully exclude the devastated societies from your sample space.
True, and the most useless idiots are the anonymous cowards. They will be eliminated first.
Ola has already expanded into boat ride hailing business, Can Uber match it?
What? Flamebait? Who am I baiting to flame? The Headline Writer?
Then I looked at the fourth significant digit. it is 2. Yes, it is actually 30.72 TB. That 651 parts per million more than my what I originally thought. Now I am all ears, looking at it carefully, camping outside Alibaba container terminal to be the first one on the block to get it.
Very well done Dear Headline Writer, always provide very precise information. Next time, why stop with the fourth significant digit? You could be even more amazingly accurate and provide six, seven... why not go all the way to 11 significant digits! Most people have just 10 digits, so go for 11, that is a good number hard to beat.
To train low skilled low wage people to listen voices on their head? Just asking....
It is like making more stoves and utensils when there is a famine and shortage of food.
Don't blame you. Thats the problem when I speak with a tongue in the cheek. I chew my tongue to pieces, and the listener can not understand anything. Have a nice day.
General Electronic System Tracking All People Online can only be done by the governments. Private companies should not muscle into the Government functions.
You do it for A, A does it for B, and B does it for you, allowing you all perfect deniability, "I didn't do this!"
Whooooosh!
China is using the similar model of development. The technology originally created by the government to monitor and improve the lives of its citizens using social credit score is being used by private companies for profit.
May be only the photographs registered by paying a fee would be protected by copyright. All other photos are public domain by default.
But there is no alternative news source one can trust outside the net either. We have killed the print newspapers....
Wonder if Democracy can survive without a reliable news source ...
I am not an alcoholic honey. I can quit anytime. Hic..
Almost all the chips and the internet of things can be made into spyware. So essentially we need to ban all Chinese made chips and software and routers and devices ...
Why do you think those campuses let you keep pets in your 'office" and have huge multi cuisine cafeteria? You are not supposed to live near the campus. You are supposed to live in the campus. And work way more than 8 hours a day. Immerse yourself with so much of company amenities, and befriend other company employees you don't think of moving to a start up. duh...
I would not mind accepting some irritating ads from sites that I want to support. I would like the ability to whitelist the sites.
I would not mind giving Google some keywords to tailor their targeted ads. One mistyped or misclicked site, and forever I'm getting ads pitching stupid things like Beechcraft jet for 2 million dollars. What Artificial Stupidity would think I'm in the market for a jet plane?