Not if you are using the gpu for number crunching and not display power.

Come on people. This is basic stuff.

Man you people are ,myopic ass hats.

Maybe he will be too far away to connect? To remote, maybe he is number crunching fluid dynamics and hull friction while at sea?

It is for intense GPU calculation, so you didn't even have the brain power tom grok the most basic requirement.

Because with water cooling the heat magically goes away?

Does not have to be tangible. I'm not sure why you think that.

Finance is complex, and I'm not surprised Ballmer doesn't get that.
Start with Why the loss? Take a look.

They are moving into a lot of platforms. They want to be the mobile platform for all content.
It won't surprise me if Amazon opens up a way for people to have video channels, like Youtube but with a way to weed out the idiots.
Amazon is playing the long game. If they win they will be the platform everyone uses to launch need business and grow.

If the flinch and decides to cut the moves they have made to do that, in the long run they won't add up to much.
If a large financial organization didn't illegally use my money, I would use this time to Invest in Amazon,

IBM is the most adaptable company on the planet, with one of the bets R&D divisions.
It's not going anywhere.

IBM services are some of the best; especially compared to Oracle or SAP.

" Oracle is competing with (and loosing to) "
BWAHAHhahahahha.

No.

Zune is making money? Surface is turning a profit?

And frankly, I have no idea why XBox is making money. It's not very good. Yes, I have one. And a PS and a Wii. The interface, they way they do sales, the way it shoves ads at you.

who gives a shit about what these people say?
Cuban got lucky, and MS barely simmered along under Ballmer.

IBM has one of the best RnD labs in the world. So yeah, there a tech company.
It's nice of fat ass Ballmer to tell every hard working mom and pop shop restaurant their not a real business.

Call the Ubuntu specific version PwnCloud...

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

LK

Microsoft used to be THE company that sells software that corporations need (from OS to their office suites). Used to. Now Microsoft is a company clinging onto new versions of legacy software

I agree for the most part on your points. But for major products like Office, we see people here agreeing quite often that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And that is valid too... it is a good product even now. But sure, now they seem to be more interested in catching up and copying other companies' ideas than innovating; or even being clever and visionary enough to understand which companies have truly good new ideas and products before they buy them.

What I think is ironic in all this, is it is my understanding that Ballmer was at the helm for most of the time when this mental and innovative contraction took place. Even more interesting is that Microsoft stock went up when he finally left. My take on that is that he's not really qualified to make any judgements on other companies.

The big ones I can think of are Cadence SPB, Ansys HFSS, Ansys Fluent, Dassault Solidworks, Dassault Abaqus, Rocscience RS3D, Agilent ADS, Bently Microstation, PTV Vision, Intel Fortran, and Xilinx ISE.

There are more, but those are the ones I can think of we use the most off the top of my head.

Probably varies Linux distro to distro. In Windows, the MSU files are all signed by MS so the download path isn't of issue, since if it is compromised any alterations to the file would break the signature.

Want to know a big reason people have been getting Macs, that Apple doesn't like to admit? You can run Windows on them now. The Intel switch made it viable to run Windows on them, natively if you wanted, and good virtualization tech means it runs fast in OS-X. That lets people get their shiny status symbol, but still use the programs they need.

We've seen that at work (an Engineering college). Prior to the Intel conversion, there were almost no Mac users. The thing is engineering software just isn't written for the Mac. There is actually some stuff now, but even so the vast majority is Windows or Linux. Back in the PPC days, there was almost nothing. So we had only really two stubborn faculty that used Macs, one because he did no research and just played around, and one because he wrote his own code and was stubborn. However that was it, you just couldn't do your work on them.

Now? All kinds of faculty and students have Macs. PCs are still dominant, but we see a lot more Macs. However every one has Windows on it. Some it is all they have. Seriously, we have two guys who buy Macs, but have us install Windows on it, they don't use MacOS they just want the shiny toy. A number have bootcamp, and many have VMWare. Regardless, I've yet to see one, faculty, staff, or student, that didn't put Windows on it to be able to do the work they need to.

So that is no small part of how Intel helped Apple gain market share.

You'll feel relieved, then, to know that modern atypical antipsychotics work much better, and with far fewer side effects, than the old-school phenothiazines.

Glad they're working for you.