Posts by BasicChimpTheory 140 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2014
Sorry. I didn't mean to infer the market was going to do something SENSIBLE.
MSFT will recover this 2% in little time. Why? I dunno. Why was it so well valued to begin with?
If it is such a porr business decison and the market is such a good judge of, well, anything, then why was the devaulation so small when the cost was so significant?
This adjustment is a rounding error.
Strange to see an amlost universal, non-tech response from you lot on this one.
SatNav (HIYO!) has basically said "Hey, we use MS products to INTERROGATE THE DETAILS OF YOUR WORK AND EMPLOYER'S IP" and you're just all talking catty shit about the end of a tedious social media network?
Get it torgether, Commentards.
@Rob Gr
I'm not aware of Mingle but it definitely looks similar enough that if they beat Trello to market then Mingle can say they were first.
But both are clearly simple Kanban board digital-analogues.
I've worked with physical Kanbans and digital ones (i.e. JIRA, Trello) and I feel like physical ones are sometines most productive (once a group psychology lens is applied) but I've also worked in the reporting field so, yeah, go digital!
But this Planner thing looks dinky AF, without the awesome simplicity of Trello (and apparently Mingle).
This is less ripping off Trello (which is just a simple Kanban board (and it rules pretty hard because of that)) and more half-arsing JIRA.
The headline and initial few paragraphs had me hoping work would buy this (we're not allowed to use Trello, we do have JIRA but we can't set up personal boards). However, actually looking at the product video shows this thing is probably pus.
@Not Bob
Nailed it.
Currently looking at "feature" phones/developing a deep understanding of AOSP* so that I can deliberately facilitate your last sentence for myself. It does merit consideration if this is a good idea in the long run however (data-boot proximity to facial regions being eternal and all...)
*that make file is pretty intimidating for a nOOb.
@DavCrav
Your broader point is probably fair enough (let me distance myself here from my initial comment as it was at least part in jest) but this:
"And you have to remember, you aren't really very important."
is not entirely accurate.
EVERYONE constantly creates datapoints and datapoints (as opposed to proof/evidence/etc) are pretty much only valuable in aggregate. If you ignore a random nutter spouting anti-government senitment on Facebook then surely you'll miss the opportunity to defer the Facebookolution (that our governments seem to be assuring us is coming?).
Point is: storage is cheap - they'll keep everything on eneryone.
Drafting a consiracy theory. Let me know what you reckon.
1. Leader of Five-Eyes partnership wants something from Corporate Entity X.
2. Corporate Entity X does not want to cough.
3. Leader of Five-Eyes partnership offers to scratch Corporate Entity X's back if etc (Yes. Squid pro ro. /Austin Powers)
4. Corporate Entity X does not want to appear to have coughed.
5. Both parties agree to swap desireable info. Leader of Five-Eyes partnership "leaks" info that intel ACTUALLY came from shady Iraeli black hats. Leader of Five-Eyes partnership organises that Five-Eyes cabin-boy pretends he has useful info for Corporate Entity X.
6. ???
7. Profit.
Had a similar-ish thought but not about DRM exactly. It seems to me that there is an effort to better find out what files are not store-bought for reporting purposes.
They should be pretty confident that they cannot convert a pirated book into a sale so to whom might they be reporting this data?
I want to say "/tinfoilhat" but I'm afraid that I can't convince myself to do it.
The VAST number of upvotes you've earned here tells me that I need tread carefully but I do feel it is important to counter some of the points you've made here.
Let me preface the following with an admission that Windows 8 through 10 are not perfect and no contained version is my primary OS.
With that said, let us begin...
"is to not recognise what their users wanted, namely Windows 7 with modest technical improvements."
Desktop mode in Win8 was a more stable and faster booting/shutting down version of Win7. Start menu was obviously changed but you hit the start button and you could start typing for what you wanted (same as Win7) or you were presented with a very different view that happened to be SIGNIFICANTLY more confirgurable than the old start thing and this ongoing complaint is 100% resistance to change. This is for a bag-standard user. I accept that an enterprise BOFH may have valid compaints. These complaints rarely show up in these threads.
'Instead they've got off on the idea that we'd want to put our data in their cloud, be profiled in our usage and turned into lumps of meat for sale in the advertising market to the highest bidder"
Even Ubuntu beat them to this. This is Microsoft being last to the party again (think how late Bing was). This isn't proof that they are ding the wrong thing. This is proof that they can't even see where the market is LEADING THEM. Yes, the majority of the market WANTS these rubbish "features".
"The PC market is dead-ish because of Windows 8/8.1"
This does not gel with observable history. The Win8.x UI and store was a response to mobile computing having long taken over in the consumer space.
"14% share and it's free? If anyone wanted it, craved it it'd be closer to 90%."
Pretty sure you're not factoring business into this calculation here.
"Open Office is just not very good"
Nether is Office Office. Jump ship. You'll get used to it.
"I have no evidence that this is true."
I don't mean to get all English teacher "up in yo' ass" (and I will read the rest of the article post-haste) but *what* is it that you have no evidence to prove?
Only saskng this as you, presumably, were paid for writing this piece and it starts out super sloppy straight out of the gate.
"I've only once had it get out to customer code though."
Ha!
Back in my uni days, "debugging"/"testing" consisted of console echo/printf/println/etc messages.
In order to make sure none of my hacky "debugs"/"tests" made it through to an assignment submission I constantly made sure the console messages were as vulgar as humanly possible. How could I leave that in the code?
I recall a particularly bitter exchange with a professor who marked me down on working code for some reason...?
3rd party apps assume provision of an existing API where they didn't bother making an app of their own...(solid APIs are harder than apps, yo). Doesn't seem likely that they now want to EXPLODE in that space.
I work in a pretty large enterprise, Hipchat has proven to be a lot easier to stand up (against security/change management/etc) than Slack (I have person experience of attempting to get both moving on the financial vertical).
@Warm Braw
"That's tough for both publishers and advertisers, but frankly that's their problem"
Unless it impacts the content produced (full disclosure: 0% domain allowed ad-blocker here).
"there are plenty of things to do in life other than sit in front of a computer screen"
Yes, there's at least two other types of screen via which we can consume critical information!!! (full disclosure: I extremely rarely use either). Paper is cool though, I guess.
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