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Re: Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: April 8 - Petri

punterjoe — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 12:59:44 -0000

I find it an interesting sign of how times have changed that Elon Musk's strategy with Tesla is pretty much the same business practice that got Preston Tucker a federal indictment and choked his fledgling car company in the cradle.

Re: Microsoft’s Latest AI Experiment Heads Towards Ca’tay’strophe

punterjoe — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:40:38 -0000

Sadly, I suspect hateful, xeniophobic Tay would probably pass a Turing test, appearing indistinguishable from much of the ranting of many actual humans on social media.
So the experiment was a success - in the worst possible way?

Re: Microsoft’s Year of Living Dangerously

punterjoe — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:21:35 -0000

Although I think "Undo Pressure" is also humorously appropos given the subject matter. ;-)

Re: Ex-Microsoft Designer Explains the Move Away from Metro

punterjoe — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 07:44:16 -0000

I will accept the changes in Windows Phone because I must. Humans are adaptable. So I'll adapt because I must. But I don't have to like it.
If I were buying a phone today, it would NOT be a windows phone. All the unique attributes are being stripped out, leaving just the inherent flaws - like the barren apps environment. And the 'ability' to invoke Cortana by just grabbing your phone wrong. Even an android knockoff is a better buy now.
Changing because "it's what everyone else is doing" is a great philosophy. I think we shoud drill it into all of our kids.
If I did what everyone else did growing up, I'd be dead from a drug overdose, DUI or cancer from smoking.
I wish MS luck with the "Us too" approach.
Screw it. I'll enjoy my Windows Phone for as long as I can, then eventually migrate to some other crap-phone, because by that time, they will all be the same.
I'm not angry - despite the tone of this post. Just disheartened and profoundly disappointed.

Re: Microsoft Brings OTA TV Capabilities to Xbox One in the US and Canada

punterjoe — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:50:11 -0000

I guess this better than nothing, but given how fragile the US OTA ATSC system can be, it may not be much better.
I see broadcasters whining that viewership is steadily declining, yet they make getting their content harder - either technically or legally.
Still more reason to mourn the loss of solutions like Aereo.

Re: East Meets West 202 – Streamys or Steamys?

punterjoe — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:52:47 -0000

Happy half decade. (Half decayed?) I remember when EMW was in the single digits... my how it's grown. :)
Do you guys have any thoughts/opinions of the dust-up between Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell etc & Buzz Aldrin over Pres Obama's plan to downsize NASA? I grew up in NASA's golden age & was a big fan, but since they scrapped the later moon missions & threw together the "space-truck" LEO shuttle program, it seems like they were just killing time. It's as if the early settlers got to Ohio & stopped looking west, instead talking about how they could develop and commercialize the land they already settled. Bo-Ring! While I loved the bold missions and intrepid sense of conquest of 1960s NASA - always pushing the envelope & advancing science & medicine, I'm underwhelmed by what the manned space program has become. Maybe it should be put out of it'misery - at least until we have a mission worthy of it or it's successor. Orion is just a pork project to reinvent what we lost from the 60s. I think Obama is a big enough geek that if NASA was really breaking new ground and moving us forward as a nation, he would be one of it's biggest supporters. Maybe it's time to put the manned space program on a subsistence diet it until we find it a worthy goal.
What do you think?

Re: Weight loss update

punterjoe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:51:13 -0000

Those are excellent results! Of course the Wii probably still thinks you're fat. :p

Re: Weight loss update

punterjoe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:34:14 -0000

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