RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:The Gartner "Leader" quadrant Hello Yasch, goedendag jongen,
Thanks for your explanation. I didn't even know that it was also possible to just copy and paste pictures directly to the Stockhouse board. That also explains why I wasn't able to see any URL this time. I think that this would be the easiest way of posting pictures on this board. Why even bother then with that "
Insert Imagine" procedure? Especially when you would want to post a picture which does not originate from a website, but from your own computer for example. No need then to use
https://tinypic.com/ as suggested by
Stockhouse or the much better option
PhotoBucket.com suggested by
summerbbryze (thank you for that).
I don't think though that if you take a screenshot of a picture of the Gartner report, Gartner would be able to prevent you from using and spreading that screenshot. So that makes me wonder as to how you made that screenshot? Did you perhaps select the picture and then copy it and then try to paste it on this board? I myself use a piece of software to make screenshots and when I make them they are automatically saved as pictures to a folder on my hard disk. I really can't imagine that if I would take a screenshot that way, that I couldn't use that screenshot in the same way as any other picture. Maybe I will still change my mind later and still register to get the report so that I could try it out for myself.
Sorry people, I always try not to pollute this board too much with information that is irrelevant for most people, so I do apologize in advance, because that's what I am going to be doing now. Sometimes I just don't respond to people, because I feel I have nothing of interest to say, but at the same time I don't want to be impolite by not getting back to people. If I haven't responded to someone before, sorry it was probably because of that reason.
In response to summerbbryze (nice name by the way, very creative of you), yes I think you're right about Gartner trying to protect their reports, but there's only so little they can do. I mean even if they would technologically be able to prevent you from copying a single dot from their reports, people could still copy and spread it around by simply manually typing over their reports for example.
In response to xfybbr49gh: thanks a lot for your kind words again. But I think you are highly overestimating me and besides my contributions to this board are nothing in comparison to the contributions made by the other people you mentioned, including your very own. I sometimes see little things, which I think I could perhaps help a little bit with, and then because of my very neurotic nature I usually hesitate a lot before posting. That is, if I decide to post at all. And we shall see when Daniel Chan shows up again with a new insight, report or opinion about BlackBerry.
And Yasch, as for your knowledge of the Dutch language. Yes, that explains a lot. As we probably all know a lot of Dutch people moved to countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, mostly starting in the early 1950s. This was very much encouraged by our government at the time, because they felt and thought that our tiny country had too many people living in it. Queen Juliana has stated several times at the time that the Netherlands were full. All that because we were approaching or had just surpassed the psychologically important number of 10 million citizens. It's sad to see how many good and talented people we let go because of that delusion. Not too much later, we started bringing in huge numbers of immigrants mainly from Morroco, Suriname and Turkey. So, nowadays we have over 17 million citizens and our borders are wide open for more mass immigration, especially for Islamic people. I shall confess that I am not belonging to the group who welcomes that. In that regard, it seems we have totally different and opposites views. I fear that if things won't change, and there's no indication whatsoever that they will, we will become a minority within our very own country within a few generations, possibly even sooner. A (civil) war is in my view also a very real possibility. Not just in my country, but in most Western European countries. Anyways, that you are in Canada now, is our loss and Canada's gain. Of course I don't even know when or why your family moved to Canada, and I guess it's none of my business anyways.
No biggie you say about the registration which is required for this and for so many other things on internet. Well, I don't know, I also sometimes have my creative ways of dealing with it at times to protect my identity and such. But still, never mind, like I said, I am neurotic. By the way, I think you have a prudent wife, at least based on her insistence of wanting to keep a land line, I fully agree with that.
Then coming back to the point of the recurrence of the Professional Services revenue. I mentioned that part of the conference call before where Chen said that he hopes that it's recurring. I kind of translated/interpreted that as him saying: we are working very hard on it and it looks like it's going to be successful, but it's still in its early days and so there's no guarantee that we will succeed in making it a lasting source of income. Well something like that. Obviously I could be totally wrong, but my gut feeling was telling me that he was at least 95% sure it would indeed become recurring. A while ago I saw on Linkedin that BlackBerry was looking for a Senior Professional Services Account Manager in Germany where one of the responsibilities of that person would be: "Work to achieve aggressive territory sales quotas (typically within the $3-$8M range)". I found it interesting to see they were mentioning sales quota in this respect. But maybe I misunderstood the whole advertisement and does it have nothing to do with that recurring revenue.
The link to that job ad:
Let me see if I can indeed just copy and paste a picture by copying and pasting it here:
Well that is not as easy as it seems... when I copy and paste a picture from somewhere online it will indeed show up here (pre-post), but when I copy and try to paste it when it comes from my local computer, then for some reason it doesn't show up. Well, this clearly demonstrates I am totally clueless when it comes to computers.
Let me try and copy and paste the internet picture:
And now the same picture, but then first downloaded and then copied (after having opened it with the same browser):
Nothing shows up... I have no time to figure it out now.
Does somebody (that is if anyone actually even read the entire message, which I can understand nobody did) know perhaps if
Stockhouse has a place where you can post messages to experiment with? So that I don't need to keep bugging people with that over here? Well if not, then maybe an inactive board of a company that has gone out of business... but they probably close those.