Nice work...
True, true...
Microsoft makes most of its money from two products, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Nearly everything else it makes loses money, sometimes deliberately. Google makes most of its money from selling Internet ads next to search results. Nearly everything else it does loses money, too.
Neither company really cares because both make so much from their core products that it simply doesn’t matter. But companies, like people, strive and dream and in this case both dream, at least sometimes, of destroying the other. Only they can’t — or won’t — do it in the end, because it is against the interests of either company to do so.
The vast majority of Google searches are, of course, done on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. It is not in Google’s real interest to displace these products, which have facilitated so much of its success. Chrome products are given away, so they bring in no revenue for Google, and they don’t even provide a better search or advertising experience for their users, the company admits. So why does Google even bother?
To keep Microsoft on its toes.
...This makes even more sense given the recent advent of Microsoft’s Bing search technology, which performs precisely the same competitive control function against Google. Bing hasn’t a hope of toppling Google as the premier search engine and Microsoft knows it. To date, Bing’s success has actually been at the expense of Google’s competitors, not Google itself.
Quelle: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/opinion/13cringely.html?_r=1
Gundam 1:1 in Odaiba (( during summer 2009, at least ))...
((earlier construction pictures: http://www.engadget.com/photos/life-sized-gundam/2079968/ ))
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/video-life-sized-gundams-back-looking-deadlier-than-ever/
Viel ist zum Thema und einem möglichen "Exempel", das an der UBS statuiert werden soll, schon geschrieben worden. Dieses Video-Interview scheint mir besonders interessant zu sein kurz vor dem Prozessbeginn...
Entweder kommt es zum teuren Befreiungsschlag ((Vergleich)) oder zu einem langjährigen Rechtsstreit, der im Anschluss auch weiteren Auslandsbanken ((erwähnt werden konkret die CS und HSBC)) blühen könnte.
PS: Nicht erst seit der Finanzhilfe durch den Bund ist auch die Schweizer Regierung und das Schweizer Banksystem für ausländische Kunden auf der Anklagebank. Ein Mosaikstein ist hochaktuell. Ohne in Verschwörungstheorien abzugleiten könnte die Affäre Tinner * ein weiteres Detail - nebst den häufiger hervorgebrachten politischen Argumenten aus Schweizer Seite ((UBS-Arbeitsplätze in den USA **, gute Dienste der Schweiz für die USA )) - darstellen. Spätestens wenn sich heraustellen sollte, dass die Akten CIA-verseucht sind und die Schweizer Regierung sich deshalb mit Händen und Füssen gegen eine Herausgabe wehrte und wehrt...
* http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/die_verworrene_affaere_tinner_im_zeitraffer_1.2982785.html
** Siehe dazu aktuell auch...
und...
http://www.nzz.ch/finanzen/nachrichten/prof_kunz_1.2977913.html
TakaraTomy is at it again ((they had a simpler device for cats a few years ago)). Somehow the little poodle doesn't look all too convinced ((picture in the link below))...
Ever wished you could, on a Tarzan-like level, communicate with fearsome beasts of the wild to make them do your bidding? Well, for folks who want to know what their dogs are thinking, TakaraTomy has revealed the BowLingual Voice device that is touted to feature a 100-word vocabulary and an LCD display that lets you know just how your pooch is feeling at the moment. Too bad only the Japanese language is supported at the moment, although we're pretty sure it won't take too long before other languages are released for the BowLingual Voice.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/07/bowlingual_voice_translates_barks.html
PS: We can finally ask dogs how the robot ball trower machine can be improved upon...
Dog Customer Service Quality Circles ahoy :)
