If people genuinely believed that sun were prepared to pay $5+ to buy back stock then the price would probably rise above that.
Granted i'm no financial expert but if you intend to buy a huge pile of stock, it's best to keep it on the downlow so that rumours dont push the price up.
I've been pretty unimpressed by Skype. True it's the only voip service that's worked out of the box behind my office firewall, and it's also free. But i've found the call quality to be a bit flaky and that it's prone to dropping calls. Quality-wise i've found freeworlddialup to be much better, although it tended to be broken a lot of the time.
I've used vonage before and was very impressed and just signed up with lingo today since their deal is too good to be true. I know how the saying goes but $20/mo for unlimited calls to US and western europe + first month free + $25 referral credit... you can't beat that.
For business use between satelite offices i'd suggest that IM might work just as well.
I was in a meeting recently where they pointed out that outsourced indian workers were 40% cheaper than real us-based employees. Still that is cited as a reason to outsource.
However that's not a huge difference to bridge. I'm also not sure that this included the more hidden costs such as lost productivity because of time-zone differences, and language barrier issues.
Outsourcing isn't a panacea to everyone's problems, hopefully we figure that out before everything crashes in india too.
As one member of my management put it "India has alsost a 24hr time difference from here, so we'll have people working round the clock"
It seems that the browser-now-known-as-firefox did this. They forked mozilla, created something quite a bit better, then worked out the kinks, and eventually it'll merge back and become mozilla.
I have no problem with gnome forking and creating a cutting edge version that's unstable for a year or two. It might reinvigorate the project so they can make something that gives kde a run for it's money.
I figured out that my main competitor for a sane inbox was the bulk email industry, so i wrote a neat little perl script to search overture every few hours and click on some sponsored links.
I'm not sure if the email companies got billed, but some of them were paying almost $10 a click!?!
If you run an advertizing campaign then they have hooks to let you feed in associated sales and you can look at your response not just in clicks per $ but in revenue per $ advertizing.
I suppose they are probably the second biggest wireless provider in the world... and i concur that they'll probably try to buy cingular at some point - if the monopolies people will let them.
We're very happy since we get excellent reception at our home and workplaces.
Out of curiosity, does your phone actually let you roam everywhere?
T-Mobile advertise free roaming but then prevent you from roaming onto other networks.
At one point i had a T-Mobile (UK) phone and a T-Mobile (US) phone. In my old appt i got excellent AT&T reception and poor TMo reception, my UK phone would let me choose either network but my US phone said I wasn't authorized to roam onto AT&T.
Bizarely when i travel within the US I can quite happily use AT&T - i just can't do it in colorado.
I live in a town of ~6000 in Colorado, and i have the choice of cable, dsl and fixed wireless. Yet other people nearby lack any choice.
I am in a developing area, but why would three companies choose to compete here, when there are plenty other similarly sized towns where they could have a monopoly.
As it stands i went for fixed wireless since its run by a local firm and they provide (so far) excellent service. Unlike comcast's army of monkies, their phone staff actually know about things like dns servers and latency.
How is this much different from something like canopy. I'm using a broadband wireless link in my home right now. I'm about 3.5 miles from the base station and a little antenna does the trick.
I called their customer service and since i missed the cutoff by 1 h 45 min (since it's of course PST) they said they'll let it slide. I got a second email confirmation from them this morning with todays date on it:)
I just picked up a 2Ghz Pentium M laptop, 60Gb disk, dvd/cdrw, 1 GB RAM, wifi, bluetooth, SXGA screen for a little over $1200.
I like apples gear, and if you look at list prices it's quite competitive with dell. But i had a coupon that took $800 off my laptop's list price, so it changes things a bit.
Googles competitors will patent every little thing and try to sue google. Any large company is in a position where they have to patent software because their competitors do.
Most of claims against breached patents can be countered by claiming the other party breached your patens.
Europe already has a great solution figured out... when gas prices hit $5/gallon suddenly cars get smaller and more efficient.
Increasing the cost and tax on gasoline to reflect the environmental impact and the impact of the US being so depedent on foreign oil, and the market will sort itself out.
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If people genuinely believed that sun were prepared to pay $5+ to buy back stock then the price would probably rise above that.
Granted i'm no financial expert but if you intend to buy a huge pile of stock, it's best to keep it on the downlow so that rumours dont push the price up.
I've been pretty unimpressed by Skype. True it's the only voip service that's worked out of the box behind my office firewall, and it's also free. But i've found the call quality to be a bit flaky and that it's prone to dropping calls. Quality-wise i've found freeworlddialup to be much better, although it tended to be broken a lot of the time.
I've used vonage before and was very impressed and just signed up with lingo today since their deal is too good to be true. I know how the saying goes but $20/mo for unlimited calls to US and western europe + first month free + $25 referral credit... you can't beat that.
For business use between satelite offices i'd suggest that IM might work just as well.
Also forgive me if my syntax is rusty, it's been a long time (thankfully) since i touched that stuff.
I'd far rather see some other CEO's of unnamed companies risk their lives swimming the atlantic.
I was in a meeting recently where they pointed out that outsourced indian workers were 40% cheaper than real us-based employees. Still that is cited as a reason to outsource.
However that's not a huge difference to bridge. I'm also not sure that this included the more hidden costs such as lost productivity because of time-zone differences, and language barrier issues.
Outsourcing isn't a panacea to everyone's problems, hopefully we figure that out before everything crashes in india too.
As one member of my management put it "India has alsost a 24hr time difference from here, so we'll have people working round the clock"
It seems that the browser-now-known-as-firefox did this. They forked mozilla, created something quite a bit better, then worked out the kinks, and eventually it'll merge back and become mozilla.
I have no problem with gnome forking and creating a cutting edge version that's unstable for a year or two. It might reinvigorate the project so they can make something that gives kde a run for it's money.
I figured out that my main competitor for a sane inbox was the bulk email industry, so i wrote a neat little perl script to search overture every few hours and click on some sponsored links.
I'm not sure if the email companies got billed, but some of them were paying almost $10 a click!?!
If you run an advertizing campaign then they have hooks to let you feed in associated sales and you can look at your response not just in clicks per $ but in revenue per $ advertizing.
I suppose they are probably the second biggest wireless provider in the world... and i concur that they'll probably try to buy cingular at some point - if the monopolies people will let them.
We're very happy since we get excellent reception at our home and workplaces.
Out of curiosity, does your phone actually let you roam everywhere?
T-Mobile advertise free roaming but then prevent you from roaming onto other networks.
At one point i had a T-Mobile (UK) phone and a T-Mobile (US) phone. In my old appt i got excellent AT&T reception and poor TMo reception, my UK phone would let me choose either network but my US phone said I wasn't authorized to roam onto AT&T.
Bizarely when i travel within the US I can quite happily use AT&T - i just can't do it in colorado.
I live in a town of ~6000 in Colorado, and i have the choice of cable, dsl and fixed wireless. Yet other people nearby lack any choice.
I am in a developing area, but why would three companies choose to compete here, when there are plenty other similarly sized towns where they could have a monopoly.
As it stands i went for fixed wireless since its run by a local firm and they provide (so far) excellent service. Unlike comcast's army of monkies, their phone staff actually know about things like dns servers and latency.
True, but the technology has been around and used for quite a while now.
Also i suspect that you need a radio license to run canopy, i doubt wimax is the same.
How is this much different from something like canopy. I'm using a broadband wireless link in my home right now. I'm about 3.5 miles from the base station and a little antenna does the trick.
Paid my licence fee for years and then moved to the US.
:)
Fortunately i've got no less than 3 shell accounts in the UK
Surely this is about the only category of amateur video that anyone will pay to see...
Well i told the guy on the phone that i'd cancel my order if they didn't work it out.
:)
Of course i'd have immediately reordered, but still
I called their customer service and since i missed the cutoff by 1 h 45 min (since it's of course PST) they said they'll let it slide. I got a second email confirmation from them this morning with todays date on it :)
:)
Apple you rock
I ordered a mini last night. Will i be able to get them to send a tiger upgrade or will that be another $100.
and the map could stand to about double its size.
I wish it could save a list of frequently used addresses for driving directions like yahoo does. It's painful keying them in with t9
I know about the prior art thing.
What i'm saying is that say google patent one click searching, and ask jeeves patent showing fewer search results to people on slow connections.
The idea is that if ask jeeves try to sue google for copying their idea, then google can countersue about one click searching.
It leads to a patent-deadlock situation which while it benifits neither company, it does give them some protection.
Large companies seem to amass massive numbers of patents, but they often only enforce them in countersuit situations.
While i disapprove of virtually all software patents, in a country that permits them i see little other choice than for companies to apply for them.
Sure, but i got the ram preinstalled.
I've got a radeon 9000 in this, the SXGA screen is a fairly big upgrade 1400x1050.
Still i agree that apple have become a lot more reasonable.
I just picked up a 2Ghz Pentium M laptop, 60Gb disk, dvd/cdrw, 1 GB RAM, wifi, bluetooth, SXGA screen for a little over $1200.
I like apples gear, and if you look at list prices it's quite competitive with dell. But i had a coupon that took $800 off my laptop's list price, so it changes things a bit.
Googles competitors will patent every little thing and try to sue google. Any large company is in a position where they have to patent software because their competitors do.
Most of claims against breached patents can be countered by claiming the other party breached your patens.
They actually were the first people to ever give me a $2 in my change. I thought they were shitting me.
However i'd only been living in the US for a couple of months at this point.
Europe already has a great solution figured out... when gas prices hit $5/gallon suddenly cars get smaller and more efficient.
Increasing the cost and tax on gasoline to reflect the environmental impact and the impact of the US being so depedent on foreign oil, and the market will sort itself out.