Hey, thank you for detailed explanation. That makes it really clear and makes sense. It is my first freelance experience, so I am a bit disoriented. Thanks!
I used 2 step verification for my gmail. Our cell phone operator cannot receive international sms (I know, that sucks), so I used my home phone, so every time I logged in to my gmail I received a call from google voice robot to tell me the pin number. It sounded perfect at first, but when I started to actually use it, I noticed everytime I needed to login to gmail, I wasn't home. I'd call my parents so they could say me the pin or use the backup codes that google provided me with. That was so uncomfortable I had to turn it off.
My internet connection is pretty bad. The thing is, whole country is in the same shit. Guess what, google plus doesn't even load in here. I mean, facebook(even through proxy since its blocked by govt) and others are loading perfectly, maybe with some delay, but g+ is not functioning at all. All google services are suffocating with js/ajax/whothehellknowwhat stuff, that making it almost impossible to use them if you are not at some lightning speed connection. Uhh, so pissed off!
Exactly, Deskotp zune is soo cool visually, people always asking me what software I am using when they see it. Its way better than iTunes for music playback.
I saw it for the first time when my friend brought an windows phone 7 device. I was so fascinated by the Desktop zune, I didn't even properly played the phone itself(I saw it for the first time as well)
I agree with you. Here in Turkmenistan mp3 market is taken almost entirely by iPod. In contrast, pc market is almost entirely (99.9%) windows. I can't show you official statistics, but I am sure the deviation from my estimations is insignificant.
People love windows in here, they are very eager to try new versions of windows (Majority of them don't even know that something else exists). Many companies with annual revenue above 1$mln usd use Excell as a primary work station. Nobody heard about Silverlight, MS Courier tablet (even me) and other "failed" MS products. Microsoft is regarded as a safe-bet. Thats what keeps many people from buying macbooks.
Thats said, I believe that majority of the world (those who don't follow tech news) think of Microsoft as they think of Windows- stable, reliable, familiar, indispensable product (company in case of Microsoft itself).
Honest question: Whats Coke and whats Coca-Cola. In some countries they sell it as "Coke". Here in Turkmenistan it's Coca-Cola. Is it a branding stuff? Or something different?
Sony had its own approach to this(citing Yoshide Nakamura):
Our company management felt that to prepare the company for the digital network era of the 21 century, it was important to have the most appropriate organizational structure in place. That was the core reason why we created our new structure. Sony is a large company now. Our worldwide consolidated sales are over $56 billion, with 170,000 employees, but in spirit we always try to be small venture company. We want to maintain this, So when Mr.Nabuyuki Idei became president in April 1995, he gave us two slogans: "Regeneration" and "Digital Dream Kids." Thats the spirit of being small and going back to when we started Sony in 1946. So we want to make Sony smaller. Instead of having this huge corporation, he wants to organize Sony into four divisional companies so that a small venture capital spirit can be brought into management
I agree with you! Working with children I realized how amazingly fast they are able to pick up anything you teach them. I wish I had someone to teach me coding at age of 8 or something. Its just amazing seeing kids do stuff in a weeks I myself could only do after months or years of learning programming