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Re: S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating from AAA | The Salt Lake Tribune

jeremywa — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:01:00 -0000

Gee, how could this happen to the USA with a president raised as a communist/socialist and a Treasury Secretary who was an admitted tax cheat?

Oh, right, we also have Dingy Harry and the Scourge of San Francisco.

It is a wonder that S&P only dropped the rating by half a notch.

Re: Private Lives - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

jeremywa — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:39:12 -0000

Does anyone think that Sullivan ever had a lick of common sense? (Oops!)

Anyone?

Re: Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore? — Scobleizer

jeremywa — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:03:23 -0000

I haven't been for four years.

I got fed up with all of the problems: endless viruses, spyware, obnoxious stickers on every computer requiring removal, oceans of crapware costing hours to remove every time I got a new laptop, malware, registry errors, impossible backups, endless updates for viruses requiring more anti-virus updates requiring more time, etc., endless overhead for fixing things like fragged disks, etc.

Who needs an OS that requires so much fixing? Should the OS manufacturer not deliver a product that actually works instead of an alpha version? I want to get somewhere in my car; I want to do something with my computer. I do not want to be a car or computer mechanic. I will pay a bit more not to have the endless, irritating broken Windows problems. Only to poor and stupid must put up with Windows.

I gave up on Windows four years ago. Life is too short for the endless problems and needless complexity of dealing with an abusive monopoly completely uninterested in my efficient device use and 100% concerned with its continuing market hegemony.

Re: Matheson sides with GOP on greenhouse gas bill | The Salt Lake Tribune

jeremywa — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:52:06 -0000

This is one of the very rare times when he actually votes like a Utahn.

Do the people of his district know that he votes with Pelosi more than 93% of the time?

Why do the people of Utah have a San Francisco ultra-leftist representing them in Congress?

Re: QOTD: Just Shut It Down and Give The Money Back to The Shareholders, Right?

jeremywa — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:57:40 -0000

Dell is now taking the lead from Microsoft in the "Stupid Corporate Quote of the Day from Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. On the other hand, Steve has said so many stupid things over the years that he will surely best Lark again soon.

Re: Bismarck would smile | The Salt Lake Tribune

jeremywa — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:14:18 -0000

Of course, this is yet another incorrect quote from the Iron Chancellor.

The correct quote is: "He who sees laws and sausages being made can no longer sleep soundly."

Those who attempt to be wise should know whereof they speak.

Re: Zune Hardware's Dead: That's the Least of Microsoft's Problems

jeremywa — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:46:17 -0000

The entire company is rotting from its being a monopoly that is interested only in defending the monopolies. Everything else is a side show because no one can conceive of anything beyond the monopolies. As an example, where is the WinPad that has been predicted for a decade? It is nowhere to be found because the rotten management at MSFT has never thought beyond monopoly defense. It has never thought about actually innovating to the point where PCs are mostly irrelevant because that would impact on the monopolies, especially the Win Monopoly.

A few months ago, the horrible heap of mediocrity awakened to its worst nightmare: Apple is the largest purveyor of PCs, now that its sells the iPad.

Next, Apple will take over the crown of being the biggest OS manufacturer because the velocity of handsets and Pads is 2x-3x what PCs are.

Soon this heap of slow moving bloat and monopoly defense will be a bit player because Ballmer and his crew spent a decade on monopoly defense and charge resistance.

Pity the MSFT shareholders who stock has gone nowhere in a decade.

Re: Ah, Zune We Hardly Bought Ye

jeremywa — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:50:24 -0000

For the sake of shareholder wealth, one hopes it will soon be "Game Over!" for Ballmer. He is a shareholder wrecking ball. In ten years, the MSFT stock has dropped almost 10%.

When will the directors come to understand that Ballmer simply cannot do the job he is being paid to do: increase shareholder wealth? Is not not a single competent manager at MSFT that can replace this obviously ineffective manager?

Re: Ah, Zune We Hardly Bought Ye

jeremywa — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:44:55 -0000

This is yet a further indication of $billions squandered by the most wretched of all managers, Steve Ballmer.

At an normal, non-monopoly company, the directors would have pastured him five years ago. He has a nearly unbroken record of product failure.

In the music business, it was PlaysForSure and now ZuneForSure - more crap layered on more crap - proving that having nearly infinite money from monopolies only makes the products worse over time if the management is lazy, obtuse and knows nothing about its real customers.

This has gone on for far too long. When will the directors do their job and replace this monumental management misfit so that shareholders do not suffer further wealth destruction?

Re: What does Microsoft do that's cool?

jeremywa — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:55:39 -0000

Microsoft is a rancid, rotting management dungheap[ that grinds out the same old monopoly defense ratcrap as it has for a decade. It is utterly incapable of producing innovation unless you count theft as innovation (Zune, WinMob, WinPho, etc.).

All it produces is derivative, tawdry junk. If you seek further proof, compare its 10 year stock price development against that of Apple.

For a device that you must daily use several/dozens of times, it makes good sense to spend 25 cents/day to buy the best and forego rancid Redmond detritus. No one really wants to use Redmond ratcrap but some cannot or will not muster the $.25/day. For them fifth rate is okay but ratcrap is not nor ever will be cool.

MSFT is the new Nokia: just barely functional is cool? I doubt it.

Re: NPR debacle continues: Ron Schiller resigns | Michael Barone | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

jeremywa — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:25:05 -0000

It is far past time to have government subsidies for the socialists at NPR.

With $trillions in debt being amassed this year, the public cannot afford more adverse propaganda.

Let NPR fight it out in the market of public opinion ON ITS OWN!

Re: Paul Krugman goes batshit stupid

jeremywa — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:22:18 -0000

Brian, it sounds very much as if you have been getting a slow motion mugging by reality. Krugman got his Nobel for Trade Policy and justifiably so.

However, the vast majority of what he writes in the Times is tedious, empty headed hackwork intended to steal some of the shine from his Nobel. Of course, since it is all slightly to the right of Trotsky (and only the Editorial Board of the NYTimes + 3 others on the Upper Weird Side do not know it) it is very much to be ignored.

Krugman is an angry, vapid throwback to the 40s with virtually no empirical support for his oracular spewings. When others do not bow to his rubbish, he goes into "full progressive" mode. It is best to ignore him 99% of the time. The other 1% - well, you know what is said about broken clocks...

Re: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Marketplace App is in Serious Need of a Major Update - ThinkMobile

jeremywa — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:46:04 -0000

I had five different WinMob phones and all exhibited this problem. I had endless problems getting the apps to load; then when they were loaded, it was always a geek exercise to get them to lodge and execute properly.

When one finally worked, I could never be certain it would work reliably. I finally gave up on WinMob. It was the typical MSFT arrangement: loads of "features", loads of "flexibility", loads of promise; no consistent delivery. Did I tell you that reloading apps was a constant frustration?

MSDFT has followed a consumer strategy that relies on a very large corporate IT staff to fix things. However, most consumers do not have an IT department to fix broken software.

I switched to Apple products 3 1/2 years ago and never looked back.

My Mac and iPhone are so boringly reliable that I consider the time that I used Windows and WinMob to have been complete wasted time and frustration.

You could not give me an MSFT product any longer. When I buy an Apple app, I know it will load and work. My days of MSFT frustration are over forever.

MSFT products, in my experience, are simply inferior goods whose frustration I do not want.

Re: Microsoft Facebook/Twitter Posts: Zune Services/Features Not Going Away - ThinkMobile

jeremywa — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:54:38 -0000

Zune services will NEVER go away. They will always PlayForSure.

If Microsoft said it, you can believe it: PlaysForSure.

Re: Caption contest! Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer.

jeremywa — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:20:16 -0000

Mine is bigger than yours; yours is Micro and soft.

Re: Nokia’s Microsoft Partnership: Does the New Strategy Add Up?

jeremywa — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:38:09 -0000

Answer to question:

Take two legendarily slow bureaucracies and put them together and you get the Ferrari of handsets. Prediction: two years until utter failure.

Re: Nokia’s Stephen Elop Talks to Mobilized About the Big Microsoft Deal (Video)

jeremywa — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:35:01 -0000

Take two legendarily slow bureaucracies and put them together and you get the Ferrari of handsets. Oh, sure.

Even under the best of circumstances, this would be a 10-20% probability. Both are looking to the other to perform life support services.

Prediction: two years until utter failure. Can you say it NOK-Kin.

Re: lady gagas vogue cover debut

jeremywa — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:16:52 -0000

Remind me again: when was her demise?

Re: In the smartphone wars was Microsoft killed off by Netscape?

jeremywa — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:53:52 -0000

All monopolies succumb to the dread of monopolies: monopoly defense.

Eventually everything is harnessed to the defense of the cash cow monopoly and nothing else is important. If there are multiple divisions, the monopoly cash-cow division is the golden throne.

Other areas are either starved or stuffed, partially because the overall entity never develops capabilities for capital budgeting or innovation. Looking at MSFT, this is obvious.

It has wasted $billions on junk: Zune and WinMob, Vista and PlaysForSure, SPoT and Encarta, etc.; it has shoveled and continues to shovel $billions away on bing with no end in sight. It wasted $billions on conceiving, designing, manufacturing, remanufacturing and fixing Xbox; the result is that Xbox can never earn a positive ROI.

Through all of this one can hear the low-level droning mantra-chant of Win/Office. Everything was geared toward defending these entities with a thousand and one variations on the themes.

Unfortunately, these activities were mostly useless because there was, at very best, marginal innovation in them. Instead of seeing what could actually be done with smaller, faster, cheaper processors, and smaller better OSes, the whole PC industry moved as a tidal wave towards crappy netbooks that ran the monopolies.

No one except Apple ever sat down with a clean piece of paper to re-conceive the iP as an Pad. Dell had a chance with its Adamo after the MBA came out but Dell is merely a stupid company run by stupid people like Michael Dell who do stupid box-assembly on top of (what is by now) simple logistics. If the jerks at Dell had thought the process through, they might have seen a glimpse of the iPad but no, Dell could not because of its Siamese joining to Windows. Dell is like a blind man trying to navigate an airplane.

The worst of the WinTel bunch is MSFT, utterly and completely Windowed. If it had re-conceived Windows for smaller, better, faster, etc. with more powerful batteries, it might have seen a hint of the iPad also. But, what the hell, who cares about the user? He HAS to use us, no matter what the objective. Monopoly arrogance is woven into everything MSFT has done, is doing and will do. After hubris come nemesis.

The sheer stupidity that inhabits the brains of people like the (Em)Ballmer is astounding. He needed to keep rethinking Windows but instead sat on his more than ample ass and poked fun at the iPod, iPhone and iPad. The jerk could no conceive that one day he would be calmly and quietly eaten by them. His arrogance is nearly boundless.

Let us hope that the two bloated heaps of rotting dung, Nokia (hardware) and Microsoft (software) join together into the largest organizational dung pile in the universe. They will join two inconceivably mediocre organizations to form what? a world class organization? Both of these organizations will attempt to compete against google and Apple with a bigger sauna in Redmond?

The sheer stupidity make one fondly hope that the announcement comes sooner rather than later so that the end can come more rapidly for both.

Re: Nokia Appears on Verge of Adopting Windows Phone, as MeeGo, Android Fade From Consideration

jeremywa — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:25:57 -0000

From Meego to Nogo.

From an operating system that does not work to an operating system that cannot work.

What a pity. My first cell phone was a Nokia and I thought it was adequate.

I had 11 WinMobs; the last was less useful and more clunky than the first.

WinPho7 handsets are now being given away for free and their value to users is their price.

MSFT has still not produced a competitive smart handset and, given its stedfast, relentless, continual design and production of mediocrity, it is unlikely ever to rise above the level of tedium.

Slam two pieces of mediocrity and what do you get? Boring junk, like WinMob.

Re: Will Nokia’s Elop Trade a Burning Platform for a Smoldering One? - ThinkMobile

jeremywa — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:31:44 -0000

Win Pho7 is a not a smoldering platform but a cold one - obsolete, too cute by half and going no where because developers have an extended history of getting screwed by MSFT - WinMob, PlaysForSure, Zune, etc.

All of the money in MSFT-land cannot buy an ecosystem because too many participants got screwed in the past and MSFT cannot buy or coerce an entire market any longer; the DOJ put a stop to its efforts. Besides, the iPhone has legs for years; will MSFT have them? It is doubtful.

Each and every day, MSFT falls a bit farther behind.

By 2016-17, MSFT will be a bad memory, like Adamo.

Re: Dell promises a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet later this year

jeremywa — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:00:36 -0000

Who could possibly care what Dell does in this space? It assembles boxes with no value added. It gets the OS and grafts it with hardware from someone else.

What actual detailed software/hardware design doe it do? What value added comes from Dell?

As far as I can tell, almost nothing.

Re: Dear Microsoft, please keep your dividend

jeremywa — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:08:41 -0000

This is a joke, is it not?

Ballmer is NEVER going to be able to manage this. Here is an individual who has, as CEO, presided over the development of such unqualified shareholder value wrecking balls as:
• Tablet PC, (ten iterations, all failures)
• UMPC, (failure)
• Slate PC, (failure)
• Surface PC, (ever seen one actually work?)
• PlaysForSure, (ironic name, no?)
• Portable Media Center, (silly waste of time and money)
• Zune, (ever actually seen one in the wild?)
• Xbox, (Ballmer et al. wasted so much money on development and repairs that Xbox can never be profitable)
• KIN, (like a June bug: birth to death in record time...)
• WinMob, (a robust failure)
• Vista, (more failure)
• WinPho7, (soon to be generally regarded as a failure; currently being given away at zero cost)
• Encarta, (failed, gone)
• Money, (failed, gone)
• SPoT, (failed, gone)
• bing, (wastes $2.5Bn+ each year on what? - shareholder value increase?
• etc. (fill in many, many blanks...)
Each and every one is a thudding failure.

In the ten years since Ballmer has been CEO, the value of MSFT has gained -7% in value.

During that time, the value of AAPL has increased 3400+%. (That is no typo: almost 35X increase in value!)

It is long past time to give the money back to shareholders and put Ballmer, the shareholder value wrecking ball out to pasture so he will no longer drain the shareholder wealth of Microsoft.

Re: Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft — Scobleizer

jeremywa — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:14:46 -0000

This signals the end of "rapid strategic theft" the most important MSFT product.

Given that MSFT had done zero innovation in at least a decade, it will be a real problem.

Look at its biggest product offerings of the last 5-10 years. Each and every one is a muscular failure: Zune, Vista, bing, Xbox, Encarta, SPoT, Money, WinMob, WinPho, etc. Zune is an iPod look alike, Vista was based on Mac OS theft, bing is a google wannabe, Xbox is a resounding shareholder value failure because MSFT shoveled $billions into the toilet based on bad conception,design, engineering, sales and marketing, Encarta, SPoT and Money have disappeared beneath the waves. WinMob was a typical "We're MSFT, you have no alternative; you MUST use us." As soon as the iPhone was introduced, WinMob made a faster power dive than an F22.

WinPho has been introduced and has been dubbed "half-baked" by the WSJ another product failure from a company famous for them.

This is a company utterly bereft of any capability to innovate but that has a long and storied history of product theft combined with illegal tactics. It has grown bloated and lazy on its monopoly profits, incapable of breaking out of its mold.

It is now called upon by market forces to do that which it has never done: innovate. It is a good short-sale.

Re: My Windows Phone 7 Initial Impressions: Thumbs Up or Down? - ThinkMobile

jeremywa — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:23:37 -0000

"...there are tens of millions of feature phone users that may find Windows Phone 7 delivers a simple out of box experience, easy learning curve, rich set of out of box features, simple access to both Xbox Live and the Zune Marketplace."

Surely you jest. There are only three Zune users in the entire world and two of them have not yet been found.

How is it possible to sell a smart phone in late 2010 without cut and paste especially if it supports Office?

WinPho7 is another epic fail for MSFT like bing, Vista, WinMob, Zune, Xbox, SPoT, Encarta, Money, and the lamentable Kin, etc.

Are you discerning a pattern here? BTW: Will marooned Kin users get a discount on the WinPho7 phone? Would they take it if they did? Unlikely. Maybe MSFT can offer Zunes instead to those people.