Based on what you were saying, it sounds like you think they definately won't go bankrupt or out of business. I haven't lost any money until I sell the stock.
It would be great to see them make a come back. As long as they don't go under then it's just a matter of time until they can get back in gear.
So if they were to start GPLing more code, where would they finally start making the cash? GPL until it's popular and then start coming out with some new products to sell?
I think if they can get the MS-effect going just by name brand recognition that will be the only way they can pull out of the slump they are in. If only they could score a deal with one of the big vendors (Dell, HP, Compaq, whoever) to offer a pre-installed system identical to a Win system but cheaper, I think they might have a fighting chance. If I had mod-points I'd mod yours up. Someone modded me down once so I'll never have mod points now.:(
I bought Corel long long ago when it was at 13 and I got greedy and didn't sell when it made it in the mid-$40 range and look at it now. I bought more but my gut feeling is that Corel isn't going to make it. However, if they do make it, I think I'll be sitting pretty in a few years. They seem to be headed in the right direction and they seem to be working hard enough at it, but the rest of the world just doesn't seem ready for what they are doing. Photopaint was always one of my favorite tools. For doing simple photo editing I still prefer it over Photoshop. It had a certain amount of coolness that photoshop couldn't touch. I haven't used it in a while so I'm looking forward to seeing what they've done with it since the early days when I used to use it.
It seems everyone is extremely intent on pushing Linux to be THE one and only OS. I know it's a wonderful OS and I use it on one of my servers and have plans to upgrade a few other servers from MS to Linux, but I don't feel that having Linux exclusively is the way to go. I know that there will always be other operating systems, but in a theoretical world, what if linux takes over 100% completely. I can think of a ton of advantages to this, but what disadvantages would we possibly face that haven't popped up already? It seems like it might force a lot of people out of comp. sci. I mean, how many of us started learning about computers on Windows before we ever knew about Linux?
I had a domain name once that I waited 6 months for NSI to delete from their records so I could re-register it with another registrar and correct the registrant information. The reason I couldn't delete, modify it or transfer it is because a friend originally registered it with a fake entity as the registrant waaaay back in the days before we had a clue as to what was going on. So then NSI removed all the phone numbers from their site and I had to trace some numbers down through doing dns lookups on all their different records. Even after the domain had expired they wouldn't delete it for 40 days. At the 40 day mark they put it into a 5 month waiting list to be deleted, all the while they had stopped the DNS from working. So I had to wait all that time for them to delete it with my site broken and I was completely helpless. What a royal pain in the butt. If anyone needs to get in contact with them on the phone, call the operator or sales and have them transfer you to tech because you won't be able to get through to tech unless they've changed their system around.
I stand corrected! I had no idea that this existed. I will have to go buy a playstation... Or better yet, I'll go purchase Bleem and buy the CD. Still, SOM2 was never re-released.... was it?
I can go back and play all the classic nes games for hours. I owned many of them. Most of mine have been destroyed over the years going through my siblings. A lot of them are no longer available even from Ebay or FunCoLand. And if it weren't for emulators and people hard at work, I would have never been able to play Secret of Mana 2 or Final Fantasy 5 in English on SNES. Square is not losing any money from this. If anything it's helping them out by getting new players involved in that series. What a great game.
It was being developed back in the days of Win 3.1. When plenty of Dos stuff was readily available. Not to mention the hope that someday we'd be able to run our windows apps (netscape, corel, word) on linux... Of course, now netscape, corel products, and other word processing software is available so priorities have changed. But give the guy some credit. He did a lot of good for a lot of people and even though it's not as useful as it used to be. We might not have some of the other software we've got if it weren't for all his hard work.
For someone that doesn't know Linux. I downloaded it. Burnt the CD and dropped it in the drive and I was ready to go. It took me two route statements to get on the net and figure out the correct way to configure my permanent connection so that I didn't need any route statements. Top notch job in my humble opinion.
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When can they start adding midi-clorians to my blood?
Based on what you were saying, it sounds like you think they definately won't go bankrupt or out of business. I haven't lost any money until I sell the stock.
It would be great to see them make a come back. As long as they don't go under then it's just a matter of time until they can get back in gear.
So if they were to start GPLing more code, where would they finally start making the cash? GPL until it's popular and then start coming out with some new products to sell?
I think if they can get the MS-effect going just by name brand recognition that will be the only way they can pull out of the slump they are in. If only they could score a deal with one of the big vendors (Dell, HP, Compaq, whoever) to offer a pre-installed system identical to a Win system but cheaper, I think they might have a fighting chance. If I had mod-points I'd mod yours up. Someone modded me down once so I'll never have mod points now. :(
I bought Corel long long ago when it was at 13 and I got greedy and didn't sell when it made it in the mid-$40 range and look at it now. I bought more but my gut feeling is that Corel isn't going to make it. However, if they do make it, I think I'll be sitting pretty in a few years. They seem to be headed in the right direction and they seem to be working hard enough at it, but the rest of the world just doesn't seem ready for what they are doing. Photopaint was always one of my favorite tools. For doing simple photo editing I still prefer it over Photoshop. It had a certain amount of coolness that photoshop couldn't touch. I haven't used it in a while so I'm looking forward to seeing what they've done with it since the early days when I used to use it.
It seems everyone is extremely intent on pushing Linux to be THE one and only OS. I know it's a wonderful OS and I use it on one of my servers and have plans to upgrade a few other servers from MS to Linux, but I don't feel that having Linux exclusively is the way to go. I know that there will always be other operating systems, but in a theoretical world, what if linux takes over 100% completely. I can think of a ton of advantages to this, but what disadvantages would we possibly face that haven't popped up already? It seems like it might force a lot of people out of comp. sci. I mean, how many of us started learning about computers on Windows before we ever knew about Linux?
Maybe they could get it down to a couple weeks.
If it takes that long with a super computer, why not have thousands of other computers helping?
I had a domain name once that I waited 6 months for NSI to delete from their records so I could re-register it with another registrar and correct the registrant information. The reason I couldn't delete, modify it or transfer it is because a friend originally registered it with a fake entity as the registrant waaaay back in the days before we had a clue as to what was going on. So then NSI removed all the phone numbers from their site and I had to trace some numbers down through doing dns lookups on all their different records. Even after the domain had expired they wouldn't delete it for 40 days. At the 40 day mark they put it into a 5 month waiting list to be deleted, all the while they had stopped the DNS from working. So I had to wait all that time for them to delete it with my site broken and I was completely helpless. What a royal pain in the butt. If anyone needs to get in contact with them on the phone, call the operator or sales and have them transfer you to tech because you won't be able to get through to tech unless they've changed their system around.
I stand corrected! I had no idea that this existed. I will have to go buy a playstation... Or better yet, I'll go purchase Bleem and buy the CD. Still, SOM2 was never re-released.... was it?
I can go back and play all the classic nes games for hours. I owned many of them. Most of mine have been destroyed over the years going through my siblings. A lot of them are no longer available even from Ebay or FunCoLand. And if it weren't for emulators and people hard at work, I would have never been able to play Secret of Mana 2 or Final Fantasy 5 in English on SNES. Square is not losing any money from this. If anything it's helping them out by getting new players involved in that series. What a great game.
Would it be realistic to write a Gameboy emulator for the Palm Pilot?
I'm not real familiar with the Palm Pilot. Is it's only means of communicating with an infrared port or is there some sort of Lan adapter?
It was being developed back in the days of Win 3.1. When plenty of Dos stuff was readily available. Not to mention the hope that someday we'd be able to run our windows apps (netscape, corel, word) on linux... Of course, now netscape, corel products, and other word processing software is available so priorities have changed. But give the guy some credit. He did a lot of good for a lot of people and even though it's not as useful as it used to be. We might not have some of the other software we've got if it weren't for all his hard work.
This is a cool game. I've played it before. I'll have to download the demo tonight and see how it compares on Linux.
For someone that doesn't know Linux. I downloaded it. Burnt the CD and dropped it in the drive and I was ready to go. It took me two route statements to get on the net and figure out the correct way to configure my permanent connection so that I didn't need any route statements. Top notch job in my humble opinion.