Fantasy of the First Part: Carly Fiorina is capable of managing a dog fight
Fantasy of the Second Part: Meg Whitman, current CEO of HP and managing the gigantic downsizing in consequence to Fiorina's incompetence, says she didn't anticipate a downturn in PC sales. (CNN: HP's Meg Whitman: More job cuts ahead)
Sales of PCs have been enormous but there's an expectation of endless growth without a corresponding endless growth in capability in the machines. Microsoft has some mechanism for playing disco kung fu in front of a computer and it can understand that. Maybe that's good for gaming but I don't want to read Lao Tze just to figure out how to work a computer. They're too much of a pain in the ass to operate already.
The only thing that's really changed is the advent of social networks and achievement of the universal acme in instant gratification. Text messages weren't narcissistic and demanding enough because You . Need . To . Be . Looking . At . Me . Right . Now.
Wow ... really.
However, that doesn't do much for PCs because it doesn't require one. The typical social network functions are so banal and trivial that a Dick Tracy wrist radio could do them. And, what do you know ... Apple made one.
People want browsers to ... well ... browse. Sometimes it's for purpose, if looking for porno is purpose.
Microsoft and all the manufacturers they've deluded have sold a whole lot of refrigerators to eskimos but they didn't count on the eskimos learning something from it and they're running out of new eskimos who haven't heard.
Hot tip: computers don't do that much or at least nothing particularly new since they first started making them.
The above is in the context of what regular people do with them. Scientists can make fairly decent weather forecasts going out two weeks and it takes enormous computing power to do that but any kind of process like that is hardly anything you will be doing at home or ever want to do at home.
Apple is getting into device controls around the house along an idea Bill Gates and maybe a million others have considered over the years because everyone wants a smart-house ... until you have to paint it.
The smart-house idea isn't particularly radical and Apple will probably come up with a cool way to do it but why should I need some mechanism to automate feeding the critters outside. I like doing that. I like it that the orange and white one is still afraid of me but she doesn't run away quite so far each day I go out to feed them. No way I'm going to give that to a machine.
What I hate the most of all is they will want to make the computer my friend and that is not going to fucking happen. I swear to the Great God Mescalito if any computer ever says to me it will play some music it thinks I will like then I will put a bullet straight to the gulliver and blow it clean off. You stay the hell away from my music, evil metal beast.
So, did you ever figure out who the Clockwork Orange was. Hint: it's not Alex.
Fantasy of the Second Part: Meg Whitman, current CEO of HP and managing the gigantic downsizing in consequence to Fiorina's incompetence, says she didn't anticipate a downturn in PC sales. (CNN: HP's Meg Whitman: More job cuts ahead)
Sales of PCs have been enormous but there's an expectation of endless growth without a corresponding endless growth in capability in the machines. Microsoft has some mechanism for playing disco kung fu in front of a computer and it can understand that. Maybe that's good for gaming but I don't want to read Lao Tze just to figure out how to work a computer. They're too much of a pain in the ass to operate already.
The only thing that's really changed is the advent of social networks and achievement of the universal acme in instant gratification. Text messages weren't narcissistic and demanding enough because You . Need . To . Be . Looking . At . Me . Right . Now.
Wow ... really.
However, that doesn't do much for PCs because it doesn't require one. The typical social network functions are so banal and trivial that a Dick Tracy wrist radio could do them. And, what do you know ... Apple made one.
People want browsers to ... well ... browse. Sometimes it's for purpose, if looking for porno is purpose.
Microsoft and all the manufacturers they've deluded have sold a whole lot of refrigerators to eskimos but they didn't count on the eskimos learning something from it and they're running out of new eskimos who haven't heard.
Hot tip: computers don't do that much or at least nothing particularly new since they first started making them.
The above is in the context of what regular people do with them. Scientists can make fairly decent weather forecasts going out two weeks and it takes enormous computing power to do that but any kind of process like that is hardly anything you will be doing at home or ever want to do at home.
Apple is getting into device controls around the house along an idea Bill Gates and maybe a million others have considered over the years because everyone wants a smart-house ... until you have to paint it.
The smart-house idea isn't particularly radical and Apple will probably come up with a cool way to do it but why should I need some mechanism to automate feeding the critters outside. I like doing that. I like it that the orange and white one is still afraid of me but she doesn't run away quite so far each day I go out to feed them. No way I'm going to give that to a machine.
What I hate the most of all is they will want to make the computer my friend and that is not going to fucking happen. I swear to the Great God Mescalito if any computer ever says to me it will play some music it thinks I will like then I will put a bullet straight to the gulliver and blow it clean off. You stay the hell away from my music, evil metal beast.
So, did you ever figure out who the Clockwork Orange was. Hint: it's not Alex.
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