You need to read-over Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact. You are ignorant of many of the facts. I will not highlight all of these for you because they spill over into other arguments you have made, and I feel you need to read over his findings in order to consider yourself knowledgable about the issues at hand.
They have been trying to use the dominance of Win32 to take over the server market for years now.
This is using monopoly power in one segment to extend it to another.
OEM's were always free to make Netscape an option.
No, they didn't. Microsoft eventually prohibited OEM's from altering the installation, even to the extent that they could not provide guides for their own customers.
Its stockholders are now proud owners of AOL and Sun stock, and certainly better off than they were when they started. And the supposed purpose of antitrust law is to protect consumers, not competitors.
Stockholders are not consumers. Just because the people that own a company profited from it, doesn't mean that consumers of the industry profited.
Not to downplay your Linux router, but I think a better solution to the scenario you described is the Linksys EtherFast Cable / DSL Router. You should look into it.
What manufacturer is working on the Multitronic? Being a Porsche-ophile, and not having heard of it I assume is isn't Porsche.
Nissan is supposed to have some real nice CVT technology. And it is supposed to be on its way to the US. Honda has a CVT version of the Civic that gets good mileage, but not much pep because current production CVT technology don't allow for much torque or horsepower. If the Multitronic is by Porsche, it must handle high torque and horsepower so I'll definately look forward to it in VW's and Audi's, but I'll still to a manual in any Porsche.
Perhaps they were trying to match the performance of Ferrari's "F1" transmission. It is a "manual" gear-driven transmission that shifts automatically (faster than Mario Andretti can) -- unlike an automatic transmission (plain-jane, or Porsche's Tiptronic) which uses a torque converter and thus less performance (acceleration, gas mileage).
The value of a share of a public company is a representation of expected future revenues. It is not a representation of the current worth of an organization. Any modern financial analyst would agree. (see below) Red Hat is at an acceptable level now. The one true disgrace that pops into my mind is VA Linux. It opened at ~$300 on it's first day, and closed ~$150. It was purely a victim of hype and ignorance.
IPOs in technology, communications and biotech routinely open at twice their initial offering price or more. A correction of 10 percent in the tech sector is viewed jubilantly as a buying opportunity. And Internet start-up stocks seem to rise in direct correlation to how much money they lose from one quarter to the next.
All of which, upon reflection, is perfectly natural.
The fact is that the market never really rewards anybody for what they do today. The market rewards you for what it thinks you will do in the future. In a period of relative economic stability, earnings can be viewed as a great predictor of future performance, which is why the P/E ratio has been such an important measuring stick for so long. But in a period of relative market turbulence, like the period we're in now - when there is great consensus that the assets, infrastructure and business models of the future will be radically different than those of today - the earnings you report this quarter may have very little to do with tomorrow's earnings. --Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America (Remarks to the John's Island Club)
THen write up a leaflet fully explaining the situation in a non-biased way and provide resources for the same information from 'reliable' media. Then post a link to the document here (*.RTF would be nice), and I will print out a few dozen copies and diseminate it locally. I hope others will too.
If you're going to go about blocking access to information it is always going to backfire. The people that rely on 'easy' solutions like Cyber Patrol get what they deserve. If they are going to be close-minded enough to block information, they should at least do it themselves via their own firewall rather than handing it over to someone else that they cannot trust to look out for their best interests.
The good thing about the X-Box is that Carmack will never port Quake 3: Arena to it. That is, unless it supports OpenGL, which would go against Microsoft's strategic reasons for making the X-Box anyway (to lock people into their API's; the same reason they perverted Java). I don't see the X-Box doing too well, unless they aim it at young kiddies like Nintendo -- but young kiddies don't normally have access to DSL or Cable modems.
Unreal Tournament crashed after about five minutes worth of playtime under Windows 2000. Unreal Tournament is definately not a legacy app. This was running on my computer with no legacy hardware. I was using Windows 2000 drivers for all of my hardware. I promptly fdisked my drive and reinstalled Windows 98. Windows 2000 is hardly stable.
For precisely the same reasons you mention, the X-Box will also be a laskluster performer. The Dreamcast, and PlayStation 2 are designed for playing games, and have no of the ineffeciencies that WIntel has.
Sega Rally also has horrible slow-down problems. Chef's Love Shack had horribleload times. I'd attribute both of these to their use of Windows Crap Edition.
Very few Dreamcast games actually use Windows CE. The only one I can think of is Chef's Love Shack. The rest of the games use Sega's proprietary Dreamcast OS.
If you are into driving games (as I am), the Dreamcast has a pretty good selection and a few other gems coming out soon. So far there is Speed Devils, Crazy Taxi, Suzuki Extreme Racing, and some Indy-type game from Ubisoft. Coming up are Metropolis and Sega GT.
Other good games are Power Stone and the upcoming Power Stone 2, Wetris, Soul Caliber, and Chu Chu Rocket.
Does anyone know if Blizzard plans to release a version of the game with the game data on a DVD (rather than four CDs)? If so, when is the expected release date of the DVD version? I doubt I'll buy it on four CDs. I hate swapping discs.
AT&T WorldNet uses the.net top-level domain for their Website as well as e-mail. I believe BellSouth does the same..net gets you to their ISP homepage &.com gets you to their main homepage.
I'm with you. I see nothing wrong with DoS attacks. I see nothing wrong with DDoS attacks. They're just like protesters outside of a storefront trying to congest the flow of traffic to prevent actual traffic from getting in. The only thing these people did wrong was to gain unauthorized access to University computers and the like. Of course, in the eyes of the media, mass public, and government that is probably the lesser of the crimes. Unfortunately.
It will need mucho help because of all of the lame-ass Mario ports that will be released for the Dolphin. Not to mention that Nintendo will want to keep their high-dollar licensing scheme and the games will cost $70. Plus, I seriously doubt Nintendo's hardware is better. And, the PS2 is being released for approximately $350 in Japan -- so It'll probably be $299 in the US. Just within my limits for purchasing one. Oh yeah, and these two games: Gran Turismo 2000 & Ridge Racer 5.
Perhaps Carmack is hoping that by releasing his old source code (Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake) that somebody will implement a form of security that 1) does not rely on obfuscation or closed source 2) does not place a large performance hit in its application. That is the basis behind the GPL anyway! Carmack could be sharing his knowledge in hopes that someone else can apply their knowledge to create an open source secure version of it which he would then be able to borrow from for his next project.
I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, this is just a possibility.
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Hardware could easily be rolled up into the App Co. if needed.
You need to read-over Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact. You are ignorant of many of the facts. I will not highlight all of these for you because they spill over into other arguments you have made, and I feel you need to read over his findings in order to consider yourself knowledgable about the issues at hand.
They have been trying to use the dominance of Win32 to take over the server market for years now.
This is using monopoly power in one segment to extend it to another.
OEM's were always free to make Netscape an option.
No, they didn't. Microsoft eventually prohibited OEM's from altering the installation, even to the extent that they could not provide guides for their own customers.
Its stockholders are now proud owners of AOL and Sun stock, and certainly better off than they were when they started. And the supposed purpose of antitrust law is to protect consumers, not competitors.
Stockholders are not consumers. Just because the people that own a company profited from it, doesn't mean that consumers of the industry profited.
Not to downplay your Linux router, but I think a better solution to the scenario you described is the Linksys EtherFast Cable / DSL Router. You should look into it.
JonKatz is working on that right now! He intends to solve the problem by decreasing Slashdot's readership.
It's probably cheaper to relocate the movie to an American city if an American movie studio is going to produce it.
What manufacturer is working on the Multitronic? Being a Porsche-ophile, and not having heard of it I assume is isn't Porsche.
Nissan is supposed to have some real nice CVT technology. And it is supposed to be on its way to the US. Honda has a CVT version of the Civic that gets good mileage, but not much pep because current production CVT technology don't allow for much torque or horsepower. If the Multitronic is by Porsche, it must handle high torque and horsepower so I'll definately look forward to it in VW's and Audi's, but I'll still to a manual in any Porsche.
Perhaps they were trying to match the performance of Ferrari's "F1" transmission. It is a "manual" gear-driven transmission that shifts automatically (faster than Mario Andretti can) -- unlike an automatic transmission (plain-jane, or Porsche's Tiptronic) which uses a torque converter and thus less performance (acceleration, gas mileage).
The value of a share of a public company is a representation of expected future revenues. It is not a representation of the current worth of an organization. Any modern financial analyst would agree. (see below) Red Hat is at an acceptable level now. The one true disgrace that pops into my mind is VA Linux. It opened at ~$300 on it's first day, and closed ~$150. It was purely a victim of hype and ignorance.
IPOs in technology, communications and biotech routinely open at twice their initial offering price or more. A correction of 10 percent in the tech sector is viewed jubilantly as a buying opportunity. And Internet start-up stocks seem to rise in direct correlation to how much money they lose from one quarter to the next.
All of which, upon reflection, is perfectly natural.
The fact is that the market never really rewards anybody for what they do today. The market rewards you for what it thinks you will do in the future. In a period of relative economic stability, earnings can be viewed as a great predictor of future performance, which is why the P/E ratio has been such an important measuring stick for so long. But in a period of relative market turbulence, like the period we're in now - when there is great consensus that the assets, infrastructure and business models of the future will be radically different than those of today - the earnings you report this quarter may have very little to do with tomorrow's earnings. --Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
(Remarks to the John's Island Club)
THen write up a leaflet fully explaining the situation in a non-biased way and provide resources for the same information from 'reliable' media. Then post a link to the document here (*.RTF would be nice), and I will print out a few dozen copies and diseminate it locally. I hope others will too.
If you're going to go about blocking access to information it is always going to backfire. The people that rely on 'easy' solutions like Cyber Patrol get what they deserve. If they are going to be close-minded enough to block information, they should at least do it themselves via their own firewall rather than handing it over to someone else that they cannot trust to look out for their best interests.
Is E-books secure? Does it send vital user information back to the compnay for marketing data? Is King's book worth installing E-books?
Thanks for the info! If I could moderate you, I'd moderate you up because I'm probably going to pick one of these up this weekend.
Did you just say that the saleswoman of a mall electronics store was excited about a game coming out for Linux ?
*faints*
Windows CE is an optional OS on the Dreamcast. Sega also has it's own OS. Very few games use Windows CE, and the ones that do are under-performers.
Try as I might, I have been unable to remove the Windows CE logo from the front of my Dreamcast.
The good thing about the X-Box is that Carmack will never port Quake 3: Arena to it. That is, unless it supports OpenGL, which would go against Microsoft's strategic reasons for making the X-Box anyway (to lock people into their API's; the same reason they perverted Java). I don't see the X-Box doing too well, unless they aim it at young kiddies like Nintendo -- but young kiddies don't normally have access to DSL or Cable modems.
Unreal Tournament crashed after about five minutes worth of playtime under Windows 2000. Unreal Tournament is definately not a legacy app. This was running on my computer with no legacy hardware. I was using Windows 2000 drivers for all of my hardware. I promptly fdisked my drive and reinstalled Windows 98. Windows 2000 is hardly stable.
For precisely the same reasons you mention, the X-Box will also be a laskluster performer. The Dreamcast, and PlayStation 2 are designed for playing games, and have no of the ineffeciencies that WIntel has.
Sega Rally also has horrible slow-down problems. Chef's Love Shack had horribleload times. I'd attribute both of these to their use of Windows Crap Edition.
Very few Dreamcast games actually use Windows CE. The only one I can think of is Chef's Love Shack. The rest of the games use Sega's proprietary Dreamcast OS.
If you are into driving games (as I am), the Dreamcast has a pretty good selection and a few other gems coming out soon. So far there is Speed Devils, Crazy Taxi, Suzuki Extreme Racing, and some Indy-type game from Ubisoft. Coming up are Metropolis and Sega GT.
Other good games are Power Stone and the upcoming Power Stone 2, Wetris, Soul Caliber, and Chu Chu Rocket.
Does anyone know if Blizzard plans to release a version of the game with the game data on a DVD (rather than four CDs)? If so, when is the expected release date of the DVD version? I doubt I'll buy it on four CDs. I hate swapping discs.
AT&T WorldNet uses the .net top-level domain for their Website as well as e-mail. I believe BellSouth does the same. .net gets you to their ISP homepage & .com gets you to their main homepage.
I'm with you. I see nothing wrong with DoS attacks. I see nothing wrong with DDoS attacks. They're just like protesters outside of a storefront trying to congest the flow of traffic to prevent actual traffic from getting in. The only thing these people did wrong was to gain unauthorized access to University computers and the like. Of course, in the eyes of the media, mass public, and government that is probably the lesser of the crimes. Unfortunately.
It will need mucho help because of all of the lame-ass Mario ports that will be released for the Dolphin. Not to mention that Nintendo will want to keep their high-dollar licensing scheme and the games will cost $70. Plus, I seriously doubt Nintendo's hardware is better. And, the PS2 is being released for approximately $350 in Japan -- so It'll probably be $299 in the US. Just within my limits for purchasing one. Oh yeah, and these two games: Gran Turismo 2000 & Ridge Racer 5.
Perhaps Carmack is hoping that by releasing his old source code (Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake) that somebody will implement a form of security that 1) does not rely on obfuscation or closed source 2) does not place a large performance hit in its application. That is the basis behind the GPL anyway! Carmack could be sharing his knowledge in hopes that someone else can apply their knowledge to create an open source secure version of it which he would then be able to borrow from for his next project.
I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, this is just a possibility.