One of the essential problems is that, by law the management are required to maximise shareholder's value. There are lots of things that management can do that will increase shareholder's value (i.e. the value of the stock) in the short-term but may be detrimental over the long-term. Acquiring other companies is a typical action. Alternatively they might try to boost profit in the short-term by slashing staff or research budgets and then angling for a buy-out by a big multinational. All these things are easily defensible. The stock goes up, the shareholder's see their "value" increase and everyone is happy.
On the other hand we have long-term actions such as basic research that are far harder to justify to shareholders used to the instant returns of recent years.
If the stock market has less speculators we'd probably see less of the fast money which in term might lead to shareholder's valuing long term actions more. However there will always be people who attempt to make short-term returns, and while this is the case there will always be the urge to cash-in as soon as possible.
It has been shown you can shit on a plate and call it art. I now appears you can do the same and call it science. But in both cases a turd is still a turd.
Programming theory covers everything from theories of computation to software engineering. Assuming your more interested in the former than the later I suggest looking at the programming language theory weblog Lambda the Ultimate.
First off, let me apologise for trying to answer your question, as that doesn't seem to be the done thing around here.
The paper Advanced Control Flows for Flexible Graphical User Interfaces discusses how to write GUIs that have the same flexibility as web applications (back and forwards motion between states and multiple views of the application). If you have a programming language theory background the technique is continuation-passing style. If that means nothing to you just read the paper:-)
There was a time that Apple was an innovator. Now, unfortunately, they follow Microsoft and in this case they're chasing Intel. Intel's Merced will be better positioned when the 64-bit market takes off simply because they'll have been out longer and so will have better tool support.
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One of the essential problems is that, by law the management are required to maximise shareholder's value. There are lots of things that management can do that will increase shareholder's value (i.e. the value of the stock) in the short-term but may be detrimental over the long-term. Acquiring other companies is a typical action. Alternatively they might try to boost profit in the short-term by slashing staff or research budgets and then angling for a buy-out by a big multinational. All these things are easily defensible. The stock goes up, the shareholder's see their "value" increase and everyone is happy.
On the other hand we have long-term actions such as basic research that are far harder to justify to shareholders used to the instant returns of recent years.
If the stock market has less speculators we'd probably see less of the fast money which in term might lead to shareholder's valuing long term actions more. However there will always be people who attempt to make short-term returns, and while this is the case there will always be the urge to cash-in as soon as possible.
Read the paper on implementing your own post-modernism generator. It's a lot more fun than reading someone else's "postmodern" drivel and you might actually learn something doing it.
It has been shown you can shit on a plate and call it art. I now appears you can do the same and call it science. But in both cases a turd is still a turd.
Programming theory covers everything from theories of computation to software engineering. Assuming your more interested in the former than the later I suggest looking at the programming language theory weblog Lambda the Ultimate.
First off, let me apologise for trying to answer your question, as that doesn't seem to be the done thing around here.
The paper Advanced Control Flows for Flexible Graphical User Interfaces discusses how to write GUIs that have the same flexibility as web applications (back and forwards motion between states and multiple views of the application). If you have a programming language theory background the technique is continuation-passing style. If that means nothing to you just read the paper :-)
There was a time that Apple was an innovator. Now, unfortunately, they follow Microsoft and in this case they're chasing Intel. Intel's Merced will be better positioned when the 64-bit market takes off simply because they'll have been out longer and so will have better tool support.