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Can Windows Phone 7 help Microsoft come from behind?
This week is Windows Phone 7 week. Microsoft is announcing details of the launch devices and operators, and I shall be watching and reporting with interest on the joint press conference with CEO Steve Ballmer and AT&T's Ralph de la Vega. But how significant is this launch? I think it is of considerable significance. Mobile …
It's a winner but .....
Like what I see so far. But it's going to have the brand awareness issues with each manufacturer releasing several phones running the same OS. It's trying to add multiple entry points for a wide audience but seems to me the side effect is losing the focus. That's what's killing Nokia with its Symbian. The "Microsoft" brand is no longer a cool brand. When you have a manufacturer (no mention name here) is making some crappy looking WP7 phones running exactly the same OS as a gorgeous looking one made by another manufacturer that has put more effort in, it drags everyone down. It's great to have a tighter control on the OS itself, but I reckon Microsoft should also implement an approval process to vet the actual phones on there for the purpose of ensuring the best possible user experience. Just my own opinion of cos.
No longer a cool brand?
When exactly WAS Microsoft a cool brand?
Never truly cool
but there was a time when they weren't considered to be monumentally uncool.
Look at the list in the article of areas where microsoft has poured bucketloads of money into trying to enter markets only to go nowhere and gain little to no traction at all.
The list is long and the failures epic.
By some accounts the products in question aren't totally awful, if a bit uninspired. So why do they fail?
I think their problem is that they on the one hand produce uninspired products that lack any *wow* factor plus they have engendered such vitriolic hatred amongst large populations of the geek world over the last two decades that there is little chance that any of their consumer products will take off in the way that the iProducts have.
Like it or not, geeks are the drivers of fancy new tech. They like the *wow* and they have *long* memories. If you are producing products that geeks will actively avoid while advising all their friends and family to do the same then you have little to no chance of success.
Microsoft, through their past actions have made themselves attractive to nobody other than PHB's and other boardroom types, but that has come at a cost.
A cost that they are now having to deal with.
We can only assume that you mean "Red Ring of Death"....
I have an iphone, i've played with an android phone and a palm pre both of which interested me.
As a tech head WP7 is totally uninteresting, i've yet to see anything peek my interest. I have not heard a single person mention being interested in any WP7 phones. MS WP7 is doomed.
Apple got away with things like no copy & paste from the start because everyone had significant interest in the iPhone. MS are not in the same position, MS is about the most uninteresting company out there. Not only that but they're not entering a market which already has what i'd consider nice touch based phones, the iphone practically invented that market (nice touch screen phones) and android phones are really starting to ride high.
And the final thing, IE mobile. It is junk, there's no two ways about it. IE mobile is lightyears behind the webkit browsers and Opera. Let alone Firefox mobile when Mozilla starts focusing on reducing its memory usage and improving its speed. (ok, that may be a while)
Not only that but IE now has a popular stigma which will affect WP7. The days of it just being stigmatised for viruses, bugs etc by techies has now bled into normal culture from the tech world.
tiles and so forth
The blue tiles are a bit unpleasant to look at...I will give you that. Hopefully it can be changed to a calmer gradient gray or something. Remember Office 2007 with the default ribbon? One of the first things I did was switch it to black from the Fisher-Price blue.
The interface of Windows Mobile 7 is very intuitive, and the experience is smooth as you fling things around on the screen in a very Seadragon way. Want to rearrange something. Put your finger on it and move it. Go up a level, down a level, back, and the one thing you are thinking is smooth. The on screen interface design is super pleasant to look at with an admirable choice of font that got the attention of a professor friend of mine who specializes in typeface and design. Get one of these devices in your hands and see what you think. My decision is now which device to buy, because I know I like it.
There, you have one person who is interested in it and my bet is I am not going to be completely alone once people see these devices. And I don't work for Microsoft or for any of the telcos...or OEDs...just a geek who got the chance to get my mitts on some of the iterations.
"I have not heard a single person mention being interested in any WP7 phones. MS WP7 is doomed."
So extrapolating from that, anything not mentioned within earshot of you is doomed ?
The only thing 'dynamic' about smartphones is the jockeying for market share
MS has a 'me too' OS that adds little to the features offered by the three league leaders of Android, iOS and RIM.
I wonder what incentives MS offered/paid for anyone to even make the hardware, some of which looks a little lacklustre when compared to recent smartphone releases.
The name 'Windows' doesn't really inspire since most of us have experienced 'blue screens' and crashes.
Sorry, MS will likely never beat third place in OS sales.
I think the front page on the Windows 7 phone with all those bland looking tiles just looks nasty. It doesn't make me want to have a play at all.
Awkward timing for me - long post!
I remember a few years ago I was due an upgrade and the rep. on the phone mentioned a Windows Mobile device. The immediate reaction at the time was along the lines of, "er.. no, not a chance." I think at the time I ended up going to a Nokia N95 and I've since switched to Android.
For all the plus points of Android (for me) I can't help but feel a minimum set of hardware requirements would help it a lot and a minimum set of upgrades that each handset maker must commit to would go even further.
Fragmentation is happening to a degree because handset makers like Motorola and others release a phone, support it to a degree and then release newer handsets. The older handsets might be capable of running new versions of Android but they're either ignored in favour of the new models or release dates for updates are pushed back so long that they cause artificial and early obsolescence. The best example is a Motorola Milestone, a Motorola Droid in every way with the difference being CDMA radio instead of GSM. The difference is the Droid had Android 2.2 / FroYo many months ago yet the Milestone still has no upgrade. Sure, it's promised for release toward the end of the year but there's no reasonable explanation besides the recent release of newer phones.
I won't bother going on with the locked bootloader for the Milestone as opposed to nothing with the Droid. These sort of tactics are not going to stop, Google isn't going to enforce minimum hardware and version update paths. Windows Phone 7 has a chance to do that and from all feedback so far the interface is buttery smooth. With it being time for an upgrade I'm now seriously considering becoming an earlier adopter as I did with Android. Unfortunately the networks are now pushing 24 month minimum contracts by overpricing 18 month contracts so I'll likely avoid upgrades, buy SIM only and that will keep me firmly in the Android court.
The author is reading too much into Verizon guy's statement. He's not going to praise WP7 until it becomes available for Verizon early next year.
What I don't understand...
...is how come the arguable largest and most prosperous software company in the world cannot work on more than one product at a time. They let IE slip years behind Firefox et al and did nothing to Windows mobile for years while first Office then Win7 took all their attention. You would think that there was only one guy there who could actually do any development work.
Interally Microsoft teams compete for funding for their project.
It seems to be a bottom up approach, the idea has to be pitched to senior levels and gain funding to go ahead. Contrast that with Apple who have management with vision and decide what product they want to develop.
If your project isn't liked by all at Microsoft then you'll end up releasing a bad product as all the other teams will try to undermine it. It's why the tablet PC failed, the head of the Office team didn't like tablets and refused to re-write Office with a touch screen interface. So it ended up being very poor to use.
Nice write up here:
That is the problem with monopolies
"They let IE slip years behind Firefox et al "
This was deliberate. When they (thought they had) won the browser wars against Netscape et al they actually made an announcement to say that "Browser development is at its pinnacle and we wont be releasing any new versions of Internet Explorer".
"and did nothing to Windows mobile for years"
Again, they thought they had the smart phone market well and truly sewn up. Nokia doesn't count because they hardly have any presence in North America. Microsoft has little interest in markets outside of their own home market.
It wasn't until apple, followed by Android, turned up that they decided that they needed to attempt to actually compete instead of simply sitting back and collecting licence fees.
You will notice that the "wins" were all in the days when MS had the clout of a PC monopoly behind it. They could pretty much mandate anything as they controlled the desktop.
Since then, they have managed to enter and stay in new markets only by throwing buckets of money behind their efforts. Money from the desktop underpins all they do and allows them the comfort of making mistake after mistake without risk to the company.
Windows 7 may succeed, but it will not be down to technical excellence. It will be down to the desktop money hose that can continue to spray marketing spiel longer than anyone else.
7 Mobile Hype
Let's see what happens when it gets to market properly. My guess is they have rushed it to make the Christmas period for 2010 a la Vista launch and when compared to what's already out there it will be feature short. You will be paying beta testers folks, Q4 2011 is when it will be nearer feature/stability ready.
One icon
That is all
Stop talking about the DDD event being a third full
Hi Tim,
While the WM7 event may have been quite empty, did you wonder why? Perhaps you should have tried to go to the London event which was heavily oversubscribed, so much so that the DDD website fell over. I did manage to get into the London event and it was completely full which paints a different picture. I'd guess that neither of the two are the true one, but please try not to base your points on developer apathy.
This week is atcually...
...Meerkat week*. It's interesting that MS decided to push the PR drones into overdrive and launch this week; was this some attempt to over-shadow Canonical (which is a minnow in the OS market, but gets a fair bit of press) whilst at the same time launch their polished turd?
As for MS stopping a monopoly (mentioned in another Reg story), please; the mobile market is quite diverse already with some establish, rising and others fading (Blackberry, Meego, Symbian, iOs, Android). This market does not need the "help" of a known monopoly abuser to remian diverse, it's doing that very well already.
*Other weeks are available, your mileage may vary.
Dumbing down
Leaving aside the 20 years of excess baggage about Which OS? ( and I say that as El Reg's only known user of OS/2 or maybe the planet's) the best assessment I ever saw of MS was that each new Windows distro was, never mind about what's under the hood, a dumbing down of the previous one. Objective - everyone from my dear Aunt Sally to Grandma Moses could use it.
Applying this philosophy means there are no surprises at all about the new Windows Mobile OS.
No, you are not....
...El Reg's only user of OS/2, I used it from v1.1 (at work, for a specific task) and at home from v2.0 through to v4.0 until it became unable to really operate on the hardware I have.
Truly a brilliant system, but under-appreciated by many,
The trouble is...
Microsoft's history with phones has been less than stellar, so they're not likely to get much market share, or even free word-of-mouth publicity, based purely on nostalgia from old Microsoft-phone owners.
Microsoft's image has taken a battering over the past few years because their product set has been ropey to say the least, and the general public has started to cotton-on to this fact too. Since Vista was launched my non-geeky friends are now prepared to buy a Mac instead of getting a Windows-based PC or laptop without me even suggesting it as a viable alternative to Windows, nobody I know has a Zune it's either iPod or Creative, even my Luddite sister uses Firefox these days. Gone are the days when everything-and-anything Microsoft produced was automatically a winner - they've gotta earn their dollars these days (which they still do, of course... but the tide is definitely turning).
Similarly, people I've spoken to dislike how Microsoft is portraying itself in the media these days. Apple is deemed as fashionable for the Starbucks crowd, Google is seen as the people's champion offering great stuff for 'free' but Microsoft isn't trendy or cool. I've yet to speak to anyone who likes the "I'm a PC and IE's porn mode was my idea" adverts as the people are not in any way endearing. Those cringeworthy adverts with Bill Gates and Seinfeld didn't help one bit, nor did the Windows 7 Launch Party videos on YouTube, nor the Photoshopped image, etc...
The XBox is probably the only Microsoft product I can think of where its image hasn't been too badly tarnished... although, then again, everyone associates it with reliability problems, even if they've supposedly resolved that now.
Since Bill was replaced by Steve, it appears as though Microsoft has lost its way, lost its corporate identity, lost its sense of direction or purpose. For that reason, people don't want to be associated with it or its products - notwithstanding Stephen Fry, but like El Reg says, he's just a media whore who will use any old phone or check in to a newly-refurbsihed hotel if it gets his smug face plastered over the tabloids.
Lost its way ?
The US DOJ / other lawsuits helped Microsoft to lose its way / corporate identity / purpose. It can't be as much of the corporate criminal as it used to be able to get away with.
I'll admit, 'Uncle Fester' at the helm hasn't helped either...
Horse before Cart please
Billy boy left because he the DOJ had shown that his way of working might get him into trouble. CEO's have been sent to prison for less. And although he got away with it, he prefered to hand over nominal control to a shit catcher. He still keeps his oar in the water up at Redmond.
Ballmer (laughable though he is) inherited control of a chrome plated turd and has probably done well to keep it as shiny as it is for so long.
depends what you want from a phone
I don't give a toss about facebook updates can live without instant twitter feed and all the other social network garbage so probably not the phone for me
Good article
Ok I've been a bit harsh on The Register lately because of blatant bias against Microsoft by some authors. This article on the other hand is reasoned, fair, doesn't appear to be biased either way, and is a good portrayal of facts surrounding Windows Phone 7.
Thank you for interjecting a bit of balance amongst all the bias, it's appreciated!
Silverlight & botNet
.NET versus Java, which I judge a success even though Java has also prospered
Thanks for the laugh! I guess your judgment capabilities are bigoted?
At the least the guyz over at Sun^H^H^HOracle know what backward-compatibility actually means, even the Microsoft SQL Server team could not port their code to any one .Net runtime environment, so you need to install two different ones ... It is not cross-platform, Mono is a joke and will be dead pretty soon. Even trivial things like the .Net regular expression implementation is broken. Well, it is a mix between glob and Perl regular expressions. Why ppl waste their time on .Net, I don't know.
Silverlight? We already have flash,which is alousy pieceof crap.
Go on sell it to me then.....waiting for the pitch.......still waiting
It is killer apps MS needs to work on , take apple the Ipod is a locked down player with not the best audio format yet is is the market leader because Itunes/istore is the killer app and the same model has been applied to the Iphone APP Store which every body and the uncle has copied, all the while the Iphone is actually a bit of a shit phone.
So lets not get confused or locked in a Betamax vr's VHS its not about what is actually a better product technically is the applications or software properties which will sell it.
look at the Iphone most people you talk to think it to be the market leader in smartphones and have never heard of Symbian. Blackberry had enterprise level email, the iphone had the app store, what will MS have an OS and how many devices.
Symbian is the daddy at the moment and MS look to be copying that model but I am not sure if that is yesterday game....
one big difference between a iphone and win7: the registration process
I want a win 7 phone from orange which I believe they are carrying. How do I find one on their website? Open orange and get some news page, browse to phones and brings up a blackberry. Search by HTC and it brings up the android desire. (got an android phone at the moment, don't like it)
OK, so, click on coming soon phones and it tries to sell me a cheap alcatel. Then I see an advert at the top of the screen for win 7 but its for the mozart. So now I have to find out what the difference between an mozart and the other ones I believe it will be carrying (of which I can find no details)
When the iphone came out there was a massive picture of 1 iphone on the homepage of the website and it said 'click here to register' - so so so much easier
Re: one big difference between a iphone and win7: the registration process
The Mozart appears to be HTC's budget WP7 handset. If I were you I'd wait another week until Orange release full details on the phones they're going to supply. According to Microsoft, Orange will be supplying the Samsung Omnia 7 which is one of the best WP7 devices according to reviews.
Orange will also carry the HTC HD7 (quite good imo, definitely better than the Mozart). I'm in the same position as you, calling Orange and perusing details on their site has been a waste of time. Microsoft, Samsung, LG and HTC will give you much better information.
Not too difficult to fix
The website needs a search for mobile by OS option, and Orange are remiss in not including as Android and Symbian have long been out.
Can Windows Phone 7 help __Microsoft come from behind?__
come from behind?!
oo-er missus
Paris? well it's obvious really
The headline
Does Microsoft come from behind? - I think we should be told
Can Windows Phone 7 help Microsoft come from behind?
No. Too little, too late - oh look, no pricing details either. meh
i must disagree with the author
imo the usability/interface is terrible :( to me in general it feels rushed and half-thought out with only limited customisation possible. tends to happen when there no vision driving it.
Buy market share?
Will Microsoft simply buy market share by subsidising phones so that the operators simply fill the stores with more profitable lines -- windows phones -- than the others? E.g. drive demand from dumb punters.
The missing element is cool. The iPhone has that in buckets. Android too. RIM addicts don't care.
I guess Microsoft is just 'cheap' and possibly will be a success in that notoriously disloyal and fickle market segment: the children. Trouble is, it's not a particularly profitable market. It's either that or the pay-as-you-go market which the operators hate.
Ooh, it's such fun watching Microsoft's self-made, or is that Ballmer made, troubles. It isn't half going to cost them as RIM is so entrenched in a vertical segment whilst Google and Apple are truly fearsome adversaries.
Fight, fight, fight. Just imagine Ballmer in a Mexican wrestling mask!
Re: Buy market share?
"I guess Microsoft is just 'cheap' and possibly will be a success..."
I don't think the phones will be very profitable for the carriers.
(hardware + $XX MS OS license) > (hardware + $0 android license)
Or am I wrong here?
While there may not be a license on the OS it's self I am pretty sure there is to use a lot of the Google stuff like maps, Gmail and more importantly the market.
I have honestly no idea how WP7 will do.....
..........in the market place and I have no idea what the os is like in use since I have not yet had the opportunity to test one. However, that's no surprise since I do not own a crystal ball and the new phones have only just been released. I think I will bookmark this article because in a year or so it may well be very entertaining to remind some of my fellow Reg readers of what they said today.
WP7 doesn't support HTML 5
This lack of support is on purpose, because Microsoft sees HTML 5 as a natural enemy to Silverlight and a threat to Windows in general.
Microsoft just continues to refuse to support open standards.
So, everybody is supposed to have to keep downloading large proprietary plugins, that require constant patching for security holes and arbitrary changes M$ makes whenever they feel like it. And Society at large is supposed to spend millions of frustrating hours and billions of dollars making different versions of their websites, because of Microsoft's conniving little tricks.
Further, they have announced a new DRM for Silverlight. They must think we've already forgotten about all the customers who bought DRM'ed music from Microsoft. And a few years later, Microsoft turned off their DRM servers, and customers lost the ability to play back the music they had paid for. This will make for still more incompatibility and be pure annoyance to customers.
On the Developer side, sure, MS' development tools are all very well done... but they always force you to doing things that work nowhere else.
And if someone makes .Net work elsewhere, like the mono project, soon enough, you got another lame patent fight, making it rather uncertain if you can rely on any promise of being able to ever re-use anything you've done in C# outside the Microsoft garden.
I'm no fan of Java, but at least its really portable, not fake portable.
So, I will neither buy a WP7 phone, nor will I write anything for it anytime soon.
Why would I bother... WP7 is almost as restrictive as iOS.
Google doesn't tell me what to do with Android, they don't need to bother, the stack is well enough designed. They say: here, take this thing we made, have at it in any way you like...
I can run a Python interpreter/compiler on android and code away wherever I find myself with idle time on my hands...
Only with Android does the phone really belong to the customer who bought it and paid for it...
With WP7, the phone really belongs to Microsoft.
With Symbian, the phone really belongs to Nokia and their cronies, the Telcos
With iOS, the phone belongs to Steve, he even tells you when you have replace it - after a year, when the capacity of the soldered in battery drops off.
Finally, I couldn't imagine anything worse than my phone being totally integrated with Facebook...
It's almost as though there has been a stupidity epidemic
"This lack of support is on purpose, because Microsoft sees HTML 5 as a natural enemy to Silverlight and a threat to Windows in general."
Yes, that's right, HTML 5 will destroy windows with it's bitchin' hardware support and it's ability to multi-task native apps.
Step /away/ from the sharp things.
Post anonymously?
"Only with Android does the phone really belong to the customer who bought it and paid for it..."
I call BS. Google are already in a couple of positions of market dominance and are already heading down the path of monopoly abuse that the makers of WP7 got a slap for.
However good or bad WP7 actually is (and I'll reserve judgement until I see one thanks) it's not going to do well in the consumer space because they gave it the kiss of death when they named it "microsoft windows phone 7"...
/copters - I said something un-googley so they'll be looking for me..
It's too late
It's just as well the Microsoft can afford this to fail because it will.
In my many years in IT, I have never encountered a crappier or more unreliable OS than the previous incarnations of Windows Mobile. If they were giving phones away contract free, I still wouldn't take one.
My experiences with previous versions were so terrible that there is nothing that Microsoft could do to tempt me back and I would be very surprised if any material number of people felt differently to me.
They have lost the battle in the mobile sector. It's time to face facts and just abandon the idea. They will only throw good money after bad.
Then prepare ...
"My experiences with previous versions were so terrible that there is nothing that Microsoft could do to tempt me back and I would be very surprised if any material number of people felt differently to me."
... for a bit of a shock, because plenty of people have never even seen a WinMo phone, and will have no difficulty approaching a WinPho handset.
What do the consumers say about Windows Phone 7?
It's interesting to hear what an average consumer may think, or at least what their perception is as influenced by Micosoft's marketing campaign. I used Toluna QuickSurveys to run a quick survey targeting 1000 respondents living in the US, here's quick analysis of the result:
Things seem quite rosy for Microsoft this time, about 27% of the people heard about Windows Phone 7 and among them 27% has expressed their intention to buy one. Regarding the brand of choice, around 30% don't care and for the rest, LG and Samsung are more popular choices than HTC and Dell, probably due to HTC's strong positioning with Android and Dell's relatively new entry into the market.
For what people may like about Windows Phone 7, lots of people seem to be swayed by the marketing campaign as 19% prefer its new functions and interface and close to 25% mentioned its positive review. An interesting point here, around 17% like it simply because it's Microsoft. Finally, consumers seem quite optimistic about the launch with 49% believing it may help Microsoft regain some ground lost to its competitors.
See the full result at:
Interesting isn't it?
We techno-interested/or tech-pros have a tendency to assume that because we know more about this kind of stuff our opinion is some sort of guide to whether a piece of kit is going to do well or not. Sometimes we're right but sometimes we're not, primarily because we forget that we do not look at the kit in the same way as a "typical" punter. We are in orbit around the same planet as non-tech punters but we are often in a very different orbit from them - and we have a tendency to (now and then) fail to take that into account. That is one of the reasons that I am reserving judgment with regard to how WP7 will do in the market (regardless of what we might think of it, for or against, from the techie viewpoint) until we see how joe and josey punter react.
Who will bend over?
MS always come from behind, the easiest way to get you .... unexpecting.
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Q&As with Ben Horowitz about his book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers. (TechCrunch, Pando Daily)
20 questions for Bill Janeway author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State. (Forbes)
Decision making
How to alleviate the dangers of decision fatigue. (Buffer)
Are you trying too hard? The case for systematic decision making. (Turnkey Analyst)
Why can't Hollywood get computers right? (David Pogue)
What the future of television looks like. (Quartz)
A little mentioned side-effect of Bitcoin: electricity consumption. (stratechery)
Why texting may be good for your kid. A Q&A with Danah Boyd author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. (Wonkblog)
What good are children? (voxEU)
There is a huge amount of fish we have no idea about. (Phys via kottke)
Six reasons why things go viral. Insights from Jonah Berger's Contagious: Why Things Catch On. (Farnam Street)
How fat hurts your brain. (Well)
Silence is the new luxury good. (TNR via @om)
A great podcast with Russ Roberts and Moises Velasquez-Manoff author of An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases. (EconTalk)
Alan Adler and the invention of the AeroPress. (Priceonomics Blog)
How Pabst Blue Ribbon became a $1 billion brand. (Quartz)
Some big names chefs are working with "big food." (Chicago Reader)
Why bananas are in trouble. (Quartz)
A fascinating story about a young runner with MS who feels no pain. (NYTimes)
An excerpt from Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by Juliet Macur. (NYTimes)
A profile of the Drive-By Truckers on the release of English Oceans. (Grantland)
Presenting the most underrated band of the 1970s: Little Feat. (Slate)
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Cool Water Acres is a private 54 acre ranch, highlighted by a 7 acre lake with spillover waterfall, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Relax in your private lakeside cabin with fully equipped kitchen stocked with country breakfast fixings, including eggs from our chickens. Cabin has AC/heat, Sat TV, bedroom with queen size bed and bath; main room has living area with fireplace, kitchen and dining area. An additional single bed provides for comfortable sleeping capacity for 3 adults. The cabin has a panoramic front porch for relaxing, and enclosed back patio area with fishing gear. A two person pedal boat is provided for exploring and fishing from your own private dock. The lake is spring fed and great for both swimming and fishing. On-site private horsemanship instruction offered.
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5 on June 16, 2012
We spent a week at coolwater acres. Julie and Joemike are very nice people loved all there animals and got to fish in there lake which i caught the biggest fish i ever caught in my life it was a Big Bass at least 9 to 10 pounds. And my husband the next day caught him a bigger Bass. I want to thank Julie and Joe for sharing there beatuful place with us. Can't wait to go back
3.8 on April 11, 2011
We just spent a delightful weekend at Cool Water Acres and loved everything about it! We were met by happy, smiling dogs and a flock of beautiful chickens. Our home-away-from-home was filled with so many fun details: fresh eggs and fruit in the fridge, a comfy couch, western print lampshade in the living room, cowboy motif quilt and shams in the bedroom, direct TV, Texas Highways magazine, a horse head switchplate in the bedroom, original wood on the porch and throughout the house and much, much more. The hosts are the coolest - very gracious and friendly. They made us feel very much at home. The dogs visited us each day. The horses let us pet them and one chicken showed her appreciation for a few vegetable scraps by laying an egg on the porch! The house has great cross-ventilation, especially in the front area, so we only used the AC to cool the house down when we returned from our day's outing. My husband enjoyed using the electric boat to do some catch and release fishing. We saw deer on the property at night. Cool Water Acres is very close to Bandera with its great music venues. Be sure to go to Mac and Ernie's Roadside Eatery just inside Tarpley on 470. What a surprise! I could go on and on, but needless to say, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and recommend the place highly!
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We just spent our 28th anniversary at Cool Water Acres. It was such a peaceful, relaxing cabin by the lake. Even in August there was a nice breeze blowing under the beautiful trees in the front yard. I enjoyed my quiet mornings sitting on the porch reading. It was wonderful.
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We just spent the weekend at this beautiful Hill Country get away and it couldn't have been better. From the moment we arrived we felt relaxed and content with the beauty of the property and the great old cabin that was our home for the weekend. We caught fish, talked to the dogs, cats, horses, chickens and donkey, swam in the clear lake and basically had one of the best weekend ever. Can't wait to return, it was perfect!
4.6 on March 02, 2008
This was our first time at a BB. It definitely will not be our last. This is a family-owned and maintained ranch. The family takes very good care of the property. The cabin was very spacious with all of the amenities of a hotel room. If you're looking for a peaceful, serene atmosphere with great views, this is the place to go to. Jon and Julie are awesome! Maggie, Rosey, Daisy, Mikey, and Gypsy (all dogs) are very welcoming and great to love on.
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We were more than impressed with this little cottage & its inkeepers. We will be returning to "our" little home away from home again this year ( in 2 weeks).
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absolutely wonderful, peaceful place to stay. Beautiful scenery. Great hosts. Best vacation we ever had
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From Bandera, go 2 miles North on Hwy 16, then turn left on FM 470 and go 3 miles to the Blue fence with entry sign Cool Water Acres.
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Bird watching, Boating, Canoeing, Fishing, Golfing, Hiking trails, Horseback riding, Horseshoes, Hunting, Kayaking, Mountain Bike trails, arrowhead and fossil hunting, on-site private horsemanship instruction, pedal boat on lake, Shopping, Sight-seeing, Swimming
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Your Intrepid Transcriber Strikes Again--- Westman
I posted in the recommended reading section.
I really liked this interview. He's one of the dudes who wrote "The New Atkins for a New You." (along with Phinney and Volek).
Thanks for the notes and the link...it is in simple enough terms that I could forward or cite it when others ask questions... it is also a good refresher for me :)
Thanks, I have been watching YouTube videos when I walk on my treadmill. I think I will watch this one!
Thanks Emel...
I find very interesting his opinion about total carbs v. Net Carbs and the absorption of fiber.
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Oracle's Larry Ellison quits as CEO – new bosses are Hurd'n'Catz
A new beginning for Larry...
...as a Tom Jones tribute act
Ofcom will not probe lesbian lizard snog in new Dr Who series
Bloody Daleks again this week
I watched the first episode with low expectations, which were met, right from the appearance of the 300 foot tall T. rex (why and how?). I lost interest when it spontaneously combusted and didn't pay attention to the rest of the episode.
As a child I remember plots which were challenging (at least to a 10 year old) combined with Special effects which were laughable. Now thanks to CGI the the SFX are really good but the plots vacuous, relying on retreading the same old characters and plot lines over and over, why is it always set on Earth for a start?
I think I might be 'Who'd out', but I do live in Cardiff home of the program and the 'Dr. Who Experience'. BTW for those of you thinking of visiting the Experience, it's smaller on the inside than it looks on the outside.
Pleased to meet you. I'm Joe Bloggs, MVP, vExpert, Cisco Champ
over qualified
Scanning the headlines quickly, I read that as Cisco Chimp, which seemed appropriate....
UK govt preps World War 2 energy rationing to keep the lights on
11 actually
Add in the seven nuclear powered attack submarines for accuracy although not disagreeing with impracticality of the idea
Morrisons supermarket hit by MASSIVE staff payroll data robbery
where's the data?
So Wipro was the system integrator, everything including payroll is on Morrisons own installation of Oracle eBusiness Suite. who runs the data centre and where?
How flash storage raced from glory to despair in 2013
Interesting article but:
Avago, the re-named Avaya, is buying LSI, partly for its PCIe flash card business
Surely some mistake??
IBM flashy January announcement: Wanna know what's in it?
Re: A long time in the planning?
This is nonsense, end of. Hands up who wants to keep everything on a single disk, whatever that means....
Re: A long time in the planning?
they may not make them but they still sell them
DVLA declares J14 HAD on BU14 SHT and SL14 AGS
Re: Lennon's Roller...
'Fraid not
London schoolboy cuffed for BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY
Great name, operation Rashlike. They were all over him like a rash???? Where do they get these names from??
I'd get me coat but I can't from the mobile app.
Lawsuit: Infosys abuses visas to discriminate against US staff
Re: Check out Wilco and H1B visas for a similar case going on.
what's Jeff Tweedy been up to now?? Or should this be Wipro.....
Boffins, Tunnel Tigers and Scotland's world-first power mountain
But it's not British anymore
In Wales there is the equally impressive, IMO, Dinorwig pumped storage Hydro power scheme which delivers more power, up to 1800 MW, but for a shorter period, 6 hours. There is also the smaller Tan y Grisiau station which was actually the first pumped storage power station in Britain opening two years before Cruachan.
However Tan y Grisiau, Dinorwig and Cruachan lauded here as great British achievements are now foreign owned, Cruachan by Iberdrola of Spain and the two stations in Wales by a company jointly owned by EDF and Mitsui. I'm not sure why ownership by a foreign state controlled company, EDF is 85% owned by the French Governent is a 'good thing', whilst British government ownership of strategic assets like this is a 'bad thing'.
Oracle: We WON grey market software and Solaris support case
Rimini Street
And the ongoing spat with Rimini Street??
Oracle and SAP are Big Software, but for how long?
oracle in the clouds
The latest Oracle magazine has an interesting article where they interview a real Cloud Customer
...or perhaps not.
I think it says quite a lot about Oracle cloud that they can only find a fictional company to interview!
Tesla earns first profit, Model S wins '99% perfect' rating
Re: lost almost all respect for consumer reports
Maybe a transatlantic language problem here? I think @TheVogon is referring to LPG power which is usually Butane or Propane rather that the US meaning of 'gas' which of course is 'petrol' in Europe! LPG is very clean as far as particulate emissions go and produces about 80% of the CO2 of a petrol/gasoline engine. Whether that makes LPG vehicles 'better' than an EV I couldn't say.
US Ambassador plays Game of Thrones with pirates
Re: iTunes
My question is why is it available on iTtunes in Australia but not in the UK?? BTW obviously you don't need an apple device to run iTunes.....
Brits on benefits: 'Dole office site only works on PCs over 10 YEARS OLD'
Re: Problem?
Read the article. This is not about unemployed benefit claimants, doleites scroungers or whatever derogatory label you might like to employ but is about Disability Living allowance, which can only be claimed if you have severe mobility problems or care requirements. I have not seen the website but the paper form was about 50 pages long. My wife received DLA for several months before her death last year. Dying many years before qualifying for a pension, in common with many DLA recipients, means that she saved HMG thousands of pounds so i find any implication of 'scrounging' etc pretty offensive
Master Beats: Why doesn't audio quality matter these days?
Re: It's in the ears of the beholder
I have to agree with Alistair, having heard through a related young person, that Beats (tm) is just a loudness switch you can't turn off
It's in the ears of the beholder
I'm probably a little older than Alistair Dabbs as I went to university in the late 70's. The average student then generally had a crappy mono 'record player' , or more accurately record destroyer, whilst only the more fussy/rich had a set up usually based around components from Wharfedale, Garrard and that other colossus of the cheap British 'HiFi' Clive Sinclair. At home My parents had a 'radiogram' where the quality of the wood veneer was far more important than the sound. So most people put up with sound quality far worse than today's MP3 players. I think that the average, admittedly not Hi Fi, sound quality of music that people listen to is much higher than it was 30 or 40 years ago and for most people that is good enough as it always has been. There will also always be people for whom this isn't good enough, myself included although i wouldn't go as far as:
Context is also important. If I really want to listen to music i will always prefer the source whether it's Vinyl or CD, I have never messed around much with FLAC etc, but when i am enjoying an evening around the dinner table with some of my amazingly witty and intelligent friends then MP3 is fine, plus I don't have to keep changing things. The same for listening in the car.
So chacun à son goût as Nigel Farage would say. He likes a pint or two, apparently.
Brit comic-book-guy-vs-gangsters film goes straight to Xbox Live
Re: Films not even fit for "stright to DVD"
'Tony Leary, the nice-guy owner of Junk Comics, is gearing up for one last roll of the dice. His new superhero title, The Sodomizer, launches at the British International Comic Show, and nothing will stop Tony from making it a success. Nothing except a gang of Geordie criminals ....'
What a great super hero name, wonder his super power is???
Straight to Etch a Sketch...
It's the Peer 2.0: Martha Lane Fox now a crossbench baroness
Re: Her dad is a laugh
Actually this happened in 1991 and Batson D Sealing was an Egyptologist rather than an internet guru.
(departs with coat under a hail of stones with the crowd yelling 'Pedant! pedant!')
Microsoft: You want Office for Mac, fanboi? You'll pay Windows prices
Re: Microsoft are going to upset Mac-using execs here
'cloudy office suits' sound cool where can I buy one?
Rogue Squadron: Unit of X-wings Kickstarts in response to Death Star
Re: Supraluminal?
but no toilets or snack facilities...
Stricken 2e2 threatens data centres: Your money or your lights
the vanishing clouds
As well as the £960k demanded to keep the data centre running until the 15th the admionistrators' letter states: ( http://www.2e2.com/docs/jacqui/letter-for-non-data-centre-customer.pdf?sfvrsn=2 )
'As you will understand, we have received a number of requests from customers seeking to gain access to their data
immediately. Unfortunately, the levels of data held in the Companies' Data Centres are such that this process could
take up to 16 weeks and we will need to ensure that the integrity of third party data and security is maintained.'
That is a lot more money yet to be demanded. I assume that as the numbers of customers with data declines the demands on the remainder will go up.
This is a haemorrhoidal clusterf**k
Ten stars of CES 2013: Who made the biggest splash?
An outrageous omission
Your pub bound correspondent missed booth 35853 obviously, where they would have seen THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THING EVER.....
and it's from SPAAAAACE
Apple ships 'completely redesigned' iTunes 11
Re: They KILLED COVERFLOW!
possibly related to the patent action mentioned here, even though the judgement was subsequently reversed??
I liked Cover flow but apart from that I think it is an improvement over 10.
Android and Apple OS shares show mountain MS must climb
Re: From my weblogs...
Actually if you look at this page for data on mobile Browser/operating system market share, you will see that Apple is way ahead although Android has grown steadily. For some reason Apple users are more active in terms of internet use. I'm sure someone will have a salacious/abusive explanation for that ;-)
Harvester garners iFans with first UK Passbook e-voucher
old old ad campaign
Q. hello have you been to a Harvester before?
A. Are you telling me people come here more than once?
Google snaps bird's eye view of Olympic Village
anyone know how long.....
....it takes Google to upload new data? I ask because the Google car was all over my neighbourhood about 4 weeks ago. I have set a point of interest alert in Google but if anyone has any info....
Indian outsourcers Infosys outsource to WISCONSIN
Wipro not WinPro I assume?
Olympic Security cock-up was down to that DARN software
Not too big to fail then
This is the world's third largest private sector company with 657,000 employees, I'll repeat that 657,000 employees. It seems that none of them were available and they had to recruit 10,400 from scratch?????
'Amazon plans iPhone-killing Android mobe' – report
Re: If I was a betting person...
That'll be the iMove, a personal matter transporter
Mine's the one with a hole in the pocket as I've just found out
Apple makes Cocoa with Porridge
There may be more...
It's pretty obscure but if you dig a bit deeper, in System profiler in the syncservices log you will find this, or variants thereof:
2012-06-13 20:45:44:432|SyncServer|1994|110fd0|Server|Info| Goodnight, Gracie.
I think it is a message when the mac goes into sleep mode. 'Goodnight Gracie' was a catchprase used by George Burns to his wife Gracie Allen at the end of his radio show, and no I'm not that old, I had to look it up.
Chick-lit naughty girl MP Mensch starts own web-jabber service
sheer unaulterated brilliance
I know there is a link to the original Reg story but let's hope Menshn.com lives up to this:
BTW I think Luke Bozier is Steve Bong's pen name
Ex-Soviet space gunboats to be FOUND ON MOON
From the Almaz website 'EA owns four RRV (Reusable Reentry Vehicle) capsules and two large Salyut-Class Spacecraft. The reusable reentry capsules can carry three passengers to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).' So no actual rockets then!!
Ten... Star Wars videogame classics
I'd go with Jedi Knight Dark forces II, and its bolt on Mysteries of the Sith. I was off work recovering from a big operation and I spent weeks playing these. I still get nightmares on the MOTS level where you had to swim underwater for what seemed, and usually was, an impossible length of time. Of course it got easier when i found the cheats. One of the best things about it was that you really had to think about how to solve things.
OTOH Battle for Naboo which no-one has mentioned was absolutely dreadful.
Dear Lucas Arts I would pay for an updated Dark Forces with modern graphics quality.
Investors circle Barnes & Noble as it plans Nook spin-off
Re: Paper Books are so 20th Century
Backward and proud of it
Starck brewing 'fairly, if not very, revolutionary' Apple THING
form over function
the lemon squeezer looks very nice but is TOTALLY USELESS as an actual lemon squeezer. Not untypical of the Starckian cult's products, although I do like my Miss Sissy lamps.
Apple flooded with iPad 3 wireless connection complaints
Re: not an issue for me
if it's relevant I have a 32Gb wi-fi thingy
not an issue for me
I've done speedtest.com comparisons with my wife's iPad 2. sometimes the the iPad 2 is quicker, sometimes the iPad 3 is quicker. it does not seem to be a problem for me anyway. Likewise the overheating thing, it does get a bit warmer than the iPad 2 but never more than luke warm, strangely warmer when reading the `Guardian iPad app than watching films or playing games. Must be a liberal conspiracy thing.
.... cos i'm off to the pub now
TONIGHT, Let's ALL MAKE LOVE in SHOREDITCH
satire and fact elide....
Luke Bozier exists?? Possibly?? Don't know why though.
BMW recalls 1.3m motors over fire risk
reliable BMWs (sic)
and don't get me started on the swirl flaps ...............................
Friends Reunited rebrands as memory bank for oldsters
I preferred it in the old days when there wasn't all this nostalgia.
Left my coat at home actually cos it's so sunny
End in sight for IT jobs outsourcing massacre
Re: maybe if they
seems a bit unfair on Hugh??
Apple New iPad Wi-Fi only
it's hot stuff!!
Anyone contemplating the new iPad should visit their local Apple store (or pc world as I did). Compare them side by side. The screen is much better but worth an upgrade from an Ipad2? I doubt it. More seriously though, those extra pixels and bigger battery generate significantly more heat which you can feel if you hold both models, especially in a store environment where they have been running for hours. This has produced a lot of posts on Apple discussion pages with some people claiming it gets too hot to hold under some circumstances!
CSIRO: warming up to five degrees by 2070
Re: In the pay of who???
Oh! Don't keep us in suspense. Who is paying off the scientists? Aliens? Black helicopters? Freemasons?
New iPad: Crack open your wallets, fanbois, here's what it'll cost
Re: Holy major rip-off Batman
Deletion from photostream is only on that one device. If you have 'accidentally' taken a pic on your iPhone and you have photo stream on it will not delete that pic from any other household iDevice.
And while I'm still griping, 10.6 iTunes only allows re-download of purchased movies in the US of A.
Why I'd pay Apple more to give iPad factory workers a break
it's not just money........
As the blessed Steve made clear to Obama (http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120123/ARTICLE/301239999/2055/NEWS?Title=Apple-s-Jobs-to-Obama-jobs-aren-t-coming-back-to-U-S-), it's the massive number of skilled workers and the ability of companies like Foxconn to ramp up/down and rapidly make changes which simply cannot be matched in western Europe or the US economies. Of course there's nothing to stop Apple reducing their profit margin and insisting that the Chinese subcontractors pay their workers more.
Scalextric restarts space race with Star Wars craft
The big thing with scalextric is that you can modify and expand the layout, add cars and generally be a bit imaginative, as well as competitive. These sets are one trick ponies which will bore their owners after 10 minutes IMHO.
Microsoft prepping Office for iPad?
How old?
How is Office for MAC 2011 'years old'. Looks pretty much as horrid as Office 2010 for Windows to me!
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Our second and last vacation was to Galveston Island. My parents were generous enough to pay for our motel the 2 nights we were there. My sister and her family stayed at the other end of the island at a private beach condo with private beach clubs. We were able to go there and play with them for 2 days. The middle day, we all went to Moody Gardens. We hadn't been there for awhile, so it was nice to see all of the exhibits and animals. It was so sad to see the huge animals in the tiny little pens, though. We took Grace to the Rainforest cafe and rode the ride, which she loved. She loved playing with her cousins too and I think my parents enjoyed seeing all of their grandkids together and playing. Grace was so embarrassing at Moody Gardens though. We rented a stroller for Millie, which of course, she wouldn't sit in. Grace ended up riding in it and having my mother push her. No amount of shame or force would get her out of that stroller, and my mother was just happy as a clam to push her. So obnoxious.
A Day of Grace
It's me. It's them. It's our life together, such as we are.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Alternative homework
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Teacher rules
An idea I saw recently was to use memes to introduce your rules on the first day of school. I run a power point throughout the entire class and I love using memes and fun pictures there. They love to get the jokes and see the pics. These would be fun to throw in there as reminders too.
They just ring sooo true!
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Gamify the classroom
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
Teaching procedures
Teaching procedures
I'm saving this for later.
I'm saving this for later.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
New Quilt
I have too many scraps!!! So I'm starting a new quilt. It's a big granny square block quilt. I'm using color-coordinating scraps - all reds, all oranges, etc. I'm soooo not great at putting like colors together, but I'm hoping the white pulls them all together. It's a process, as you can see, because of all the help I get. But I feel like I'm making progress and being somewhat creative. I have no idea about the backing, etc. Maybe I'll make 2 tops, like I did for the t-shirt quilts.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Harry Potter Party event
|Quidditch cake - pretty sketch, but Grace really liked it.
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You must earn 10,000 points to post other members' whiteboard
You might have set it up as... "since gas economy is usually highest on these polls, excluding gas economy, which of these features would be most important..."
Rather than "Which of these features would be most important..." . Did you mean to phrase the question as "Which of these features (besides gas economy) would be most important ..."
back in August, 2011, you asked a poll question about how much over the limit we were doing last time pulled over. Would be interesting if you asked the poll question again now and compared results.
Twin cities! I was born and raised in Minneapolis, 20th and Como. Question, I post the maximum points everyday but never get above the 2300 points 30 day rank. What gives these others get more points?
Would you answer the two questions below: ?
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Why the change back to 200 points for each price posted instead of the more recent 400 points?
Why did we suddenly move back to 200 points (max 1000 points for the five postings) from the 400 points per posting?
can i have you change the name of my topic Count by One's to MR6's Count-Up
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British time trial champion Alex Dowsett has become the latest member to leave Team Sky. He has joined the Spanish team Movistar in a move that follows the departures of sporting director Steven De Jongh and race coach Bobby Julich. Both admitted they had taken performance-enhancing drugs in fallout from the Lance Armstrong scandal. Senior sports director Sean Yates retired from cycling Sunday. Dowsett finished eighth in the time trial at the world championships last month and narrowly missed being part of Britain's Olympic cycling team. He says, ''This isn't a decision I have taken lightly. Sky is a fantastic team and I was flattered that they wanted me to stay, but I have a new opportunity and a new chapter of my career.''
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