Posts by Mikel

Re: An eye for an eye until the whole world is blind.

Having found their mugging victim distressingly well armed, maybe Apple can now approach the interaction with mutual respect and decency.

Or, you know, what you said.

Foot: Target acquired. Fire! Fire! Fire!

>Windows 8 hasn't even been released yet, so how is it doomed? And how does is alienate users it doesn't even have yet?

Windows 8 is self-destruction. It takes time and effort even from the inside to kill a monster this big. Those revenues and profits, committed developers and customers aren't going to just go away for a tepid product - it has to be truly bad. They must be driven away with shifting targets, fragmentation, anti-customer policies, self-incompatibilities and actively bad products. They've done well quitting the mobile customers but not as well in the consumer desktop. Enterprise desktop and server are stronger than ever.

They've broken their 30+ year marriage with Intel and AMD was never all the way in their bed.

Microsoft must now estrange HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Toshiba, LG and other PC partners to kill their own viability and fade into history. Being domestically abusive isn't going to do it - they've been that for decades so they're upping their game to psychotic and an obvious threat to survival for their PC partners. At MWC Nokia will show a W8 tablet that will alienate Microsoft's PC consumer and enterprise partners being an obvious benefit of special attention, inside information and efforts traditional PC partners can't get at any price.

W8 server breaking app compat should seal the deal with everybody else. W8 server will have new features to maintain the pretense that they're trying but will be impossibly selective about hardware support and ridiculously buggy. They must pretend they have some successful strategy and are trying because that's the game they're in.

The Windows customer base has proven time and again they're not going to go away if the product is a security disaster that can't withstand 4 minutes of exposure to the Internet. Sterner measures are required to drive them away. They can achieve it. I believe in them. The monster will be killed.

It's the "Beowulf" problem. Read my post history for why this is the goal.

Transistor radio?

I'm wondering if even that can accomplished without Motorola technologies these days. Motorola invented the high-power germanium transistor and the car radio, among other things. They've been inventing for a long time. Yeah, those patents are expired - but the way such things are done these days companies walk the patents up the chain of modern technologies so that they still own the modern implementation methods.

I gave you the upvote

Theists and atheists agree that there is an omnipotent power that caused our origin and controls our destiny. The former call this "God" or other semi-equivalent terms of varying (and sometimes ambiguous) plurality, and the latter diverge in the nature of their arguments but prefer describing this as causality, gravity, physics, chaos theory, repetitive randomness creating all possibilities, free will, and P!=NP.

As sects of theists bicker about their origin myths and the nature and name of the higher power, so do atheist sects bicker about their origin theories and the name and nature of our causation.

I suppose the difference is that the former irrationally ascribe to this power a motivation that relates specifically to Men. The latter irrationally deny motivation without evidence for such denial of willful causation - which is equally a matter of unproven Faith.

It has become unacceptable to say "I don't know." That's a shame because acknowledgement of your ignorance is a prerequisite to learning. There are many things to learn yet that we must let go of this dichotomy to know. Some of these paths may actually lead to a proof or disproof of Motive, of measuring and understanding the nature of the Motive if it exists. But we have to get past this fight to discover that.

Maybe this is a test of our Faith, or of our Reason, or our ability to Hope without reason. Possibly all three, as the Universe has many dimensions.

Having now offended every single person who might read this I can only hope to achieve the most thumbs-down of any Theregister comment ever. I suppose that would be an achievement of sorts. Is there a badge for that?

@Not That Andrew

If you dance with the Devil, you WILL pay his fee.

Re:Quick Question

@Phoenix50 "Do the frothing masses who have posted on this thread so far believe the mobile market should simply consist of Apple and Android, and that eventually WP7, Blackberry, Symbian, Meego, Bada, and all the others will die a death - leaving two clear choices?"

About the others I don't care - they can live or die on their own merits. Windows Phone is special. In every place Microsoft gets traction they use it to assume control, shut down all opposition and then engage in rent-seeking behavior - halting progress at the phase they assumed control. I like progress. I like all this cool new stuff we've been getting the last couple years, and the future looks bright too now. So Microsoft can stuff it. It's not like they're even close to competetive on a tech level right now anyway.

Asus

Asus has planned a 7" tab with Tegra 3 for $250. That's going to turn your complaint around.