(3) "Harassment" is unlawful violence, a credible threat ofviolence, or a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at aspecific person that seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses theperson, and that serves no legitimate purpose.

If it were true, that would't negate the fact that MSFT is officially harassing someone on it's official channel.

Similar situation at Google Inc.

http://gawker.com/5637234/

Except action was taken by Google. No action seems to be taken by Microsoft.

Littleguru once told me that it's mainly because almost anything he says on the forum gets taken as an official MS statement, even if it's just his opinion.

Then MSFT just officially harassed someone publicly.

Wikileaks is starting to publish emails between the Syrian government and various western corporations. These are unlike the US documents published because these contain potentially sensitive financial information that could be leveraged by companies and individuals.

Is anybody aware of any teams that is mining this data and organizing it to lift any useful financial data and graph and index it?

2 short phrases, and so much unrelated spewing response.

At any rate, it's clearly too late to reverse the spell that cast your out of your cubicle and shove you back into the cube, so I can only ask:

You keep hoping that an odd passerby will take you up on your million dollar bet and by some miracle, you'd be right.

It sounds like you want to take me up on this bet? Maybe build a pool of funds with your coworkers and call me on my claim?

http://www.fusionio.com/steve-wozniak/

Woz is a major equity partner in Fusion IO, which IPO'd last year.

http://www.fusionio.com/overviews/fusion-io-supercharging-microsoft-exchange/

They are a major Microsoft solutions provider.

http://www.solidstateworks.com/18214/betonsoft-microsoft-sql-server-2012-and-fusion-io

That's why. I bet they're about to come out with something for Mobile/Windows8 based on their exchange product or something like that.

It's a puzzle as to why he would sa.....

puzzle...

http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18819046/apple-creator-wozniak-forms-mobile-start-up.htm;jsessionid=6yCUhucs-+CT9EObGEdMXA**.ecappj01

puzz..

Wozniak said wOz had secured $6 million in initial funding from well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalists Mobius Venture Capital -- the former Softbank Venture Capital -- along with Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Palo Alto Investors.

p...

Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will be chairman of the company's newly formed advisory board, which will include undisclosed "top executives and industry innovators." Draper's firm was the original backer of Hotmail, the popular free email service now owned by Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)Corp.

not such a puzzle as to why Woz is making these comments at all.

Dahat's Bob Dole posts on Channel9 ?

BTW, it seems that his job is now obsolete. Something to think about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

History repeats itself.

The standard oil of today is Sand Hill Road.

One day people will wake up and learn not to trust what they read online or the smoke and magic of internet pyramid clans. Until that day comes, I think we have a few more years in store.

The latest hit came from China where phone vendors said they didn't want to sell domestic models running the Windows Phone, because they just struggle against the cheaper Android phones.

I don't see how that's a "hit" for Nokia, but maybe the author is on medication today.

At any rate, why doesn't Microsoft just give phone OEMs in China Windows 8 mobile licensing for free?

They wanna win don't they? Why are they being so stupid with all this licensing that nobody really wants, especially not Chinese factories.

Just let go of the old ways, and compete. Then tell us about it as it's happening.

I want to chime in and say that iPhone apps on the iPad look like pixelated sh1t when upscaled.

Not saying that has anything to do with buying an iPad as the thread suggests, but it had to be said.

True, but the whole basis for the artificial inflation of the tech companies such as the one you used in your example is fueled by a pyramid of shills, private partnerships and undisclosed subsidiaries largely spearheaded by Sand Hill Road.

The public is meticulously primed for a pump which they themselves get dumped on.

I'm talking about the entire equities market

But it's never as exaggerated as it is in the tech sector. 

Why do you think Sand Hill Road made such a concerted effort to destroy traditional press?

They conspired to control everything, and now they're trying to go after Hollywood. They're literally unable to see people as anything but chess pieces. That's how bad Sand Hill Road is and they've made enough money not to stop in the foreseeable future. So you're going to get more of what you described at a higher amplification until their business model starts to turn on them.

Their pump and dump capital pipeline is so engrained in America now it's practically irremovable.

Isn't ripping people off why people get into the banking industry in the first place?

Like you're going to go through 4 years of accounting CPA and MBA training to have a boring @ss job at a bank.

They confused the interest in hobby hacking as a profitable market they could exploit.

They developed both devices and operating systems, with a fairly predictable cadence

iPad was released in April 2010, iPad 3rd gen was release March 7, 2012

3 iPad generations in 22 months.

I never thought Apple's cycle was predictable to anybody but them.

That's why they have all the traffic light BS at MacRumors

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

I think that he has probably used an iPad, to the extent that he desperately wanted to find the aspects that Microsoft first pioneered

I think Bill is the type of person who would never let themselves "fall in love" with an iPad to the point where he would use it and accept it in his every day life, THEN build a list of useful features for his own device. I also think he hand picked people at Microsoft who are also largely like this.

If you do that when the device is released and you've had one for 2-3 years, you'd quickly realize that surface is a bad idea at this point and time. It's not like a console where there is a huge effort and partnerships with closed loop game companies and long iteration cycles.

Tablets are super fast iteration cycle devices like phones.

I think the glasses are going to be exactly the same.

"He did some things better than I did," admitted Microsoft's co-founder. Gates referenced Jobs' timing and "the package that he had put together."

What about this?

What about the fact that this isn't timely?

Google glasses are timely. It sounds like Bill hasn't extensively used an iPad or Android tablet device to be saying these things. Like he hasn't used them in every day life as a normal person would.

Apple having to create a Surface-like device was "a strong possibility."

I believe he said this, but it sounds extremely incredulous.

Similar rhetoric:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~edluong/olpc/future/competition.htm#microsoft

The last thing you want to do for a shared-use computer is have it be something without a disk... and with a tiny little screen

unless it's surface right?

It would have been way funnier had Bill been the chairman of a toothpick company. I would have loved his commercials and ploys to sell toothpicks.

Gates claimed that he'd had the idea for tablets "way too early."

No, they just did it wrong. And they're doing it wrong again.

I'm going to make a bold assertion that Bill Gates doesn't even believe the things he says to the press. There's no way Apple(or Google for that matter) is going to wreck their design to copy Microsoft and he knows it. It sounds to me like he wants to make people who he believes are fans of Microsoft think that Apple wants to copy it.

Could it be that people are lured by the prospect of easy money?

Could it be the fatigue of pretending that the tech world is exciting and motivating when actually it's not and the people in charge of most of it are close to the lamest people on the planet earth?

These threads are becoming annoying, Beer. Get back to work...

alrighty.

Again, if Bill or another MSFTaire wants to take me up on it for whatever reason I will never go into, just look me up in the spark directory and get a hold of me.

I mean how could you not at least temp the notion that I'm lying? 5k is a lot of money right?

Mark MacDonald, are you game? I sell GUIDs on ebay right?

I dare Marc and or Bill to call this bet.

50% gain on half a year is simply unrealistic returns, especially for me. Think of the fool I would look if you take this bet up and I lose. You could tell your good MMORPG friends for years to come.

Let's not do a symbolic $1, and lets stay with a $1,000,000 in Las Vegas, NV as the bet with the above terms.

If I lose I will pay.

Bill Gates would be an ideal candidate for this with his history of online stock trading contests with Microsoft.

I can fulfill this deal immediately and without delay

<--- such a liar, totally call him on this