If I were you, I'd cut my losses. I don't see anything that looks like they're anywhere close to turning this downward spiral around. They're getting their ass kicked by MS and Adobe, and there's really no money coming from us Linux guys any time soon.
To answer the question, "Should I sell now?", you should ask yourself the question, "Would I buy now?"
IMO, It is generally not a good idea to buy stock in seriously wounded companies unless you can see some evidence of improvement.
The only ones to be shafted will be the consumers.
And the investors, eventually. The insiders are liquidating huge positions. Their game is to keep the positive press going as long as possible while they cash in. Check this out: http://www.insidertrading.com/freestuff/search.asp ?search=1&criteria=rmbs
Here, CmdrTaco said "Yes, you to can be Lars!", misspelling "too" and earlier Hemos posted "macdonalds.com" instead of "mcdonalds.com".
Can someone give 1 good reason to use C++ over C?
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This is not a flame.
When you code in C, you know of how it will execute. Nothing is hidden from you. It is easy to follow. Plenty of compilers exist.
I've been programming for many years, and have dabbled in C++, but could never come up with one good reason to use it over C. Could someone help me out here?
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it made no difference. I think the KA7 / SB PCI 128 incompatibility is a genuine problem, based on the volume of people reporting it in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit.
It seems very related to the size of the sound buffer. It doesn't hang if the buffer is made to be very small, but with a large buffer, it regularly locks up and then comes back after a while.
my ABIT KA7 has problems with its Sound Blaster PCI 128. It locks up for a period of time and then comes back.
The guys in the Abit news group suggested enabling the "memory hole" in bios. This solved the problem for Windows, but slowed some Linux stuff down and took made the networking not work.
I did some digging in the Kernel development group and it looks like some high level people are on top of the problem, though.
Foot biting, not Foot shooting.
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Via is a kick-ass company. Everything they make works great and is dirt cheap.
Let's hope our president doesn't sell out Taiwan. The last thing we need is China bombing out their factories. Without Via, we'd probably be paying twice as much for motherboards.
A wild and free horse is being harassed by a pack of wolves. The horse goes to a man and says: "If I give you a ride, would you help me get these wolves?" The man agrees. He climbs on the horse's back and proceeds to pick off the wolves with arrows. The horse then says, "Thank you. You can get down now." The man says, "Yeah, right. Giddeyup."
Let's beat the wolves without selling our souls, OK?
If a secondary public offering consists in large part of insiders selling their position, it should be described as such by journalists.
If and when the insiders at VA sell large positions, I hope Slashdot reports it, whether or not it is burried in a secondary IPO.
As to whether or not the guys at RHAT should have sold their stock at a high price to the public, I'd rather them get the $$$ than some greedy speculators.
A few months back, RHAT announced that they were going to have a secondary public offering of 4M shares. If I recall correctly, that is how Slashdot reported it. Upon digging deeper, I noticed that the company was selling 2 2/3 M shares, and the insiders were selling 1 1/3 M. They assumed that investors were to stupid to notice. . .
It is nice to see the market returning to some sanity. It was a bit nauseating watching these bogus ".com" companies without a prayer sell their stock certificates to greedy idiots.
In case you didn't notice, on Feb 9, 2000, major shareholders of RHAT sold big holdings. They got $90.73 to $95 a share.
Now, Red Hat has done a lot for Linux, and I'm happy the guys who put their sweat into the company got to get rich for real, and not just on paper, but look at the stock. It's now trading in the lower $40s.
The best source of information I've ever found is Bob Brinker's radio program, "Money Talk." Bob Brinker is a genius and he is honest. He deserves the Noble prize in economics. I am continually amazed at the accuracy of his predictions and the soundness of his advice. His program is on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Check out his site: bobbrinker.com for broadcast info.
Linux One cannot possibly pull off this IPO in the face of all the negative press. They'll probably take down the whole linux market with them (if the linux crash doesn't happen on its own first).
Investors must be asking themselves how any of these companies will make money. RHAT is valued at $15B today. That means that they need to earn $150M/year just to have a very high p/e ration of 100.
LinuxCare wants to make money selling support. How many of you guys would pay a dime for support when you can get all the information you'll ever need for free.
You programmer/investors out there: think about the earnings. That is what the stock market wants. Look at IOmega. Everybody bought the stock because the liked zip drives, not thinking about the earnings. They got taken to the cleaners when the hype ended.
I hate to rain on everybody's party, but I'd rather not see us programmers take a big hit in the wallet. Let's let the wall street types do that.
The point is to cut the weasels (lawyers, robber barrons, wall street types) out of the process of delivering programming. It is a movement to eliminate the Middle Man.
Knowing nothing about printer driver under either linux or windows, that's probably a dumb question. But why not write some sort of device that utilizes win drivers?
Redhat has 137,590,000 shares circulating. If they sell another 4M shares, that's a pretty small dilution, so we wouldn't expect the stock price to drop that much. At today's price, $132, they raise $528M. At the rate they're burning $$$, they could use a half billion shot in the arm.
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You Canadians really must have emotional problems.
Here in the greatest country ever anywhere (read USA), companies fail every day and we don't take it as an affront to our nation.
My advice to you Canadians: Join the union. We could use a few extra states.
Same for Siberia. We could use a new state: West Alaska.
Dude -
If I were you, I'd cut my losses. I don't see anything that looks like they're anywhere close to turning this downward spiral around. They're getting their ass kicked by MS and Adobe, and there's really no money coming from us Linux guys any time soon.
To answer the question, "Should I sell now?", you should ask yourself the question, "Would I buy now?"
IMO, It is generally not a good idea to buy stock in seriously wounded companies unless you can see some evidence of improvement.
Good luck to you, dude.
Not to mention that their stooge Rambus is trying to milk us for every dram chip manufactured using their so-called intellectual property.
The only ones to be shafted will be the consumers.
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And the investors, eventually. The insiders are liquidating huge positions. Their game is to keep the positive press going as long as possible while they cash in. Check this out:
http://www.insidertrading.com/freestuff/search.as
couldn't slashdot use a proofreader?
Here, CmdrTaco said "Yes, you to can be Lars!", misspelling "too" and earlier Hemos posted "macdonalds.com" instead of "mcdonalds.com".
This is not a flame.
When you code in C, you know of how it will execute. Nothing is hidden from you. It is easy to follow. Plenty of compilers exist.
I've been programming for many years, and have dabbled in C++, but could never come up with one good reason to use it over C. Could someone help me out here?
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it made no difference. I think the KA7 / SB PCI 128 incompatibility is a genuine problem, based on the volume of people reporting it in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit.
It seems very related to the size of the sound buffer. It doesn't hang if the buffer is made to be very small, but with a large buffer, it regularly locks up and then comes back after a while.
my ABIT KA7 has problems with its Sound Blaster PCI 128. It locks up for a period of time and then comes back.
The guys in the Abit news group suggested enabling the "memory hole" in bios. This solved the problem for Windows, but slowed some Linux stuff down and took made the networking not work.
I did some digging in the Kernel development group and it looks like some high level people are on top of the problem, though.
Check the headline.
Its bus is a huge advantage over the crippled 66MHz Celerons.
And, according to VIA and Micron, DDR SDRAM and chipsets should be coming on line soon, which will take full advantage of the bus.
Amazing.
This guy gets a zero when the guy who's totally wrong with his figures gets a two.
They plan to keep the Cyrix brand alive.
Via is a kick-ass company. Everything they make works great and is dirt cheap.
Let's hope our president doesn't sell out Taiwan. The last thing we need is China bombing out their factories. Without Via, we'd probably be paying twice as much for motherboards.
A wild and free horse is being harassed by a pack of wolves. The horse goes to a man and says: "If I give you a ride, would you help me get these wolves?" The man agrees. He climbs on the horse's back and proceeds to pick off the wolves with arrows. The horse then says, "Thank you. You can get down now." The man says, "Yeah, right. Giddeyup."
Let's beat the wolves without selling our souls, OK?
If a secondary public offering consists in large part of insiders selling their position, it should be described as such by journalists.
If and when the insiders at VA sell large positions, I hope Slashdot reports it, whether or not it is burried in a secondary IPO.
As to whether or not the guys at RHAT should have sold their stock at a high price to the public, I'd rather them get the $$$ than some greedy speculators.
A few months back, RHAT announced that they were going to have a secondary public offering of 4M shares. If I recall correctly, that is how Slashdot reported it. Upon digging deeper, I noticed that the company was selling 2 2/3 M shares, and the insiders were selling 1 1/3 M. They assumed that investors were to stupid to notice. . .
It is nice to see the market returning to some sanity. It was a bit nauseating watching these bogus ".com" companies without a prayer sell their stock certificates to greedy idiots.
Nice bike site. I'll keep in mind.
In case you didn't notice, on Feb 9, 2000, major shareholders of RHAT sold big holdings. They got $90.73 to $95 a share.
Now, Red Hat has done a lot for Linux, and I'm happy the guys who put their sweat into the company got to get rich for real, and not just on paper, but look at the stock. It's now trading in the lower $40s.
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You know those frogs. They'll sell anything to anybody.
Is it just me, or are these new ad cookies coming from Slashdot brand new?
It is highly honorable to defy unjust laws.
And what's with the drugs dig? You're a Bonehead.
The best source of information I've ever found is Bob Brinker's radio program, "Money Talk." Bob Brinker is a genius and he is honest. He deserves the Noble prize in economics. I am continually amazed at the accuracy of his predictions and the soundness of his advice. His program is on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Check out his site: bobbrinker.com for broadcast info.
Anybody agreee with me?
Linux One cannot possibly pull off this IPO in the face of all the negative press. They'll probably take down the whole linux market with them (if the linux crash doesn't happen on its own first).
Investors must be asking themselves how any of these companies will make money. RHAT is valued at $15B today. That means that they need to earn $150M/year just to have a very high p/e ration of 100.
LinuxCare wants to make money selling support. How many of you guys would pay a dime for support when you can get all the information you'll ever need for free.
You programmer/investors out there: think about the earnings. That is what the stock market wants. Look at IOmega. Everybody bought the stock because the liked zip drives, not thinking about the earnings. They got taken to the cleaners when the hype ended.
I hate to rain on everybody's party, but I'd rather not see us programmers take a big hit in the wallet. Let's let the wall street types do that.
The point is to cut the weasels (lawyers, robber barrons, wall street types) out of the process of delivering programming. It is a movement to eliminate the Middle Man.
Knowing nothing about printer driver under either linux or windows, that's probably a dumb question. But why not write some sort of device that utilizes win drivers?
Redhat has 137,590,000 shares circulating. If they sell another 4M shares, that's a pretty small dilution, so we wouldn't expect the stock price to drop that much. At today's price, $132, they raise $528M. At the rate they're burning $$$, they could use a half billion shot in the arm.