Why the OS wars continue…
Microsoft Watch - Marketing - Why the 'Mojave Experiment' Fails
The "Mojave Experiment" is conceptually a fresh marketing effort—at least for such a lame marketer as Microsoft. But after looking more closely at Mojave and reviewing Microsoft Watch reader comments, I have to call the experiment perhaps the worst kind of marketing.
In response to the author and those commenting on his article on why I think Mojave is not the preferred way of selling your product to your users is that it assumes the fact that "lots" of people don't like vista because they haven't seen it. I watched the video online and initially was impressed that they found that many people with such a strong opinion of the OS that weren't in IT. That says a lot about the failure to relay what the benefits of the OS are to the user base. This happens I believe because for the last 15 years Microsoft did not have to relay what the benefits were to users, there was no choice, you bought a machine you need a new OS. Linux and Mac OSX are only gaining a little traction now because they have fought to tell the story of why their OS is preferred. Mac OSX more than linux of course, but I think linux has come a long way in the past 3 years, and the mac has sold viewers "it just works". What does? no one really knows but "it" just works. For an established champ like windows that should be it's mantra, instead we get the blue screen of death, or security / virus comments, anything but it has more software than any other OS and runs on more manufacturers. Though that strength has played into a weakness in a failure to have partners deliver rock solid integration. We're back to a positive slant in apple commercials again, we build it all and it just works... but enough of that. Mojave is bad advertising, if your the one duped. If you had no opinion then it might work to sway you toward looking at it. If you had a strong opinion then your angry that they did that to other Vista bashers, and if you love vista, then you'll like mojave. But which of those classes of viewer/users were they really after?
New Kindle models this October
The electronic device I used to read the Bible has an update coming...
Report: New models of Amazon's Kindle coming
An "insider" told TechCrunch that one model, a smaller, updated version with an improved interface, would be available as early as October, in time for the holiday season. The source also said that Amazon has "skipped three or four generations" and compared the old Kindle to the first-generation iPod and the new version to the sleeker iPod Mini.TechCrunch said the second new model, which should be available next year, is shaped like a 8.5-by-11-in. sheet of paper and is much bigger than the current model, which is the size of a paperback book.
Both models will most likely come in a variety of colors and may be aimed at younger readers, according to TechCrunch.
Living idealistically
Recently when talking to some co-workers we were discussing the environment you have at work, and the manner in which you interact with your co-workers. Sometimes we seem to be extremely eager to cut others down or poke fun at them while around different sets of people. I was describing the desire to treat everyone respectfully in an uplifting manner and was told that was just to idealistic. That it was unrealistic and that no one lives that way. I wonder if they are right, I hope not, I think we just choose not to live that way.
In the past I have caught myself rationalizing why I shouldn't have try so hard, or to make excuses why I have not lived up to the example Jesus has given us. In Colossians 3 Paul tells us we should have lofty goals in regard to our actions, that settling isn't really proposed as an option. So I am trying to treat everyone as I think is befitting my understanding here in Colossians 3, failing frequently, but working at trying to improve on that performance.
Do you think we can ever over strive to be more like Jesus? I am convinced we can't but that the devil has done a great job of making us think we are too hard on ourselves. Can't we be aware of our failings without it being guilt laden? I think if anything this awareness of our imperfections and their implications should strengthen our resolve to lean on Jesus to make up that difference. But I think we just don't bother reaching for it most of the time. I know I don't. But I want to, and I want to get better at it. Maybe today I can be more like Jesus for only 5 seconds, but maybe tommorow I can do 6. I'm not implying you should keep track, that would kind of botch your ability to do it at all, but by focusing on being aware of your actions surely that brings us closer to making a difference in our actions.
Some may say, duh! and they should restart their timers, just kidding 
but I would say that thinking about how we treat each other can only be at the root of being more like Jesus. Every day he made a difference in the lives of sinners around himself, not becoming one of them to understand the sin. Just loving them enough to want to draw them away from their sins rather than ignoring them. I fear I ignore so many people because of their sins, but again doesn't that come back to how we treat each other. No one is unimportant in God's eyes, if we aren't aware of our own shortcomings then we could tend to separate ourselves from others because of their sins. So by working on myself and caring about you, enough to actually try and help you, maybe we both can draw closer to God.
If I have a choice I think I want to live idealistically.
