Walt's column could be in Good Housekeeping. Maybe back in the day, reviewing gadgets on a regular basis was novel, but today Walt is indistinguishable from the crowd of gadget reviewers. The Wired article was a puff piece that vastly overstated his impact (sensationalism from Wired? I'm shocked!)
In general his columns are nontechnical and harmless almost to the point of being fluffy. Walt has good intentions but I can't put his commentary above the other hundreds of gadget dudes providing pedestrian reviews of consumer electronics.
I think you want to compare Carly to TW's Levin. For Case, the merger was a masterstroke. AOL would be in the gutter now if it hadn't tethered itself to the world's most valuable media company. It is pre-merger TW shareholders who should be out for blood, not pre-merger AOL shareholders.
That is all that can be said of the AOL/TW debacle, the worst merger in history.
You have to hand it to Steve Case though - how we managed to convince the world's most powerful and valuable media empire to sell its soul for a dialup ISP with a proprietary service is truly one of the great feats of negotiation in business history. AOL would be trading for $2 now if not for Case convincing Levin to impale TW shareholders.
The tracks use the MagicGate DRM copy-protection scheme and will work only with Sony Memory Stick-compatible devices
You would think the Betamaxalicious success of MiniDisc (yeah yeah, its big in Japan, whatever) would have taught Sony a lesson here. Its amazing, Sony has gone from being one of the smartest companies in consumer electronics to one of the dumbest in a very short period of time.
Their financials are in the crapper and they can't seem to bring anything to market to dissaude iPod buyers.
This might have been a useful strategy and it does come up from time to time but lets face it, GNUstep missed its window. What are the chances of derailing GNOME and KDE at this point? ZERO. Would you want to lose their momentum in any case? NO. Even if they aren't perfect, they are moving forward.
OBjective C may be a fine language but it is also a dead language.
Also, who even owns the code? Gosling didn't write all of it. Sun owns the trademark, they are the ones who can market a toolkit called Java, whatever that may be.
Crossing the ocean and crossing the cosmos are not the same thing. Scale matters in science. Added to which the sea can actually keep you alive if you use it wisely - the dangers of transoceanic journeys hence do not compare with interstellar travel.
If you want to send humans into space, you will need to dedicate a huge amount of the budget on comforts to keep them alive. With robotic missions you can spend the money on science. People treat human exploration as a given since they tacitly assume humans must explore the cosmos. Yet most of these people understand little about space science what is already known about the deleterious affects space has on our bodies. We are already in our perfect environment, there is no natural impetus to leave.
As a business owner, here is what I really want to know. Who is best at producing a product that meets my customer's needs the quickest and cheapest, has great uptime and the fewest bugs. I could give a rats ass how you did it
This is what I mean by "declining pattern". Technical analysis tries to predict future trends - no one cares what the NASDAQ did in 2003 at this point - you can't trade on that data any more.
I work in the finance industry and I have never heard such jargon.
If you have not even heard of simple technical analysis techniques like moving averages (I mean sheesh, its even on Yahoo Finance charts), then please list your brokerage so I know never to deal with them. My presumption is that you are lying since no one who even works in the mail room of a brokerage would claim such ignorance.
Exactly, and as I noted elsewhere, with the correct setup, your load balancer will make sure your services do not skip a beat.
There are many reasons to run a large number of cheap servers instead of a small number of expensive servers. Fault tolerance, scalability, performance...its amazing how many people still haven't clued in.
Dude. Can your cheap 4-way Xeon dynamically remove a failed processor from the running system?
WHO CARES? My load balancer automatically detects a dead server and routes requests to another one. Then I go find the dude hardware, pull it out of the rack, and throw it into the garbage. For $4k I can replace it.
By the way, using a larger number of cheap boxes gives me on average better performance and better scalability. The age of Le Grand Box for most business uses is dead.
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NASDAQ is already in a declining pattern, breaking most of its moving averages in a downward position. Google will have the privilege of IPO'ing into a general market selloff.
The next trend will be finding "coldspots" instead of "hotspots" - places you can go to live freely outside of the benevolent observation of the government.
No matter what field people work in, the best people never blame the environment. Yes this sounds like Succesories fodder, but you have to see the goal, not the obstacles. Being smart in the right tech helps, but success in tough times is more about attitude.
The processor would reconfigure itself to perform sin/cos operations in a single cycle (parallel ALUs etc.)
But this operation must have a cost. There is the analysis required to even determine that the incoming instructions require sin/cos. Then there has to be a lookup into a rule table for how to rewrite the gates to optimize for this. Then that rule needs to be applied. You have to be able to show me that this can all be done faster and cheaper than a x86 at 4Ghz just ramming it through. Maybe it can, but I am skeptical.
Any new processing alternative has to show better price/performance than what people can get today. Remember Transmeta? While they have had small successes, by no means have they take considerable share from Intel and AMD.
General purpose CPUs are fast, ubiqutous, and cheap. While compelling, this new approach is in no sense a slam-dunk in the market. Stretch will have to show a compelling case why this is a faster and cheaper alternative to the x86 (compatible) hegemony.
One inherent advantage Microsoft has over collaborative projects is that they don't need to persuade their own developers - they just point the boat and say "go here if you want to get paid". In the open source world, the consensus approach of feeding/starving projects based on their relative merits, and the unwillingness to leave anyone out in the cold definitely hampers major moves.
Such is the case here. The need to more closely integrate the web rendering model and the desktop model is clear, and Microsoft is probably on to something compelling with Avalon/XAML. ActiveX was a disastrous first brush with integration but its clear they see a need and there is a need. Safe local applications integrated with the network do make sense.
On the open source side someone will have to lead to get this done - and not be afraid to leave some groups out. Epiphany should be an early victim - a "default" app no one uses.
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Market cap + assets + revenues. GE is the world's largest firm by any significant measure.
Walt's column could be in Good Housekeeping. Maybe back in the day, reviewing gadgets on a regular basis was novel, but today Walt is indistinguishable from the crowd of gadget reviewers. The Wired article was a puff piece that vastly overstated his impact (sensationalism from Wired? I'm shocked!)
In general his columns are nontechnical and harmless almost to the point of being fluffy. Walt has good intentions but I can't put his commentary above the other hundreds of gadget dudes providing pedestrian reviews of consumer electronics.
I think you want to compare Carly to TW's Levin. For Case, the merger was a masterstroke. AOL would be in the gutter now if it hadn't tethered itself to the world's most valuable media company. It is pre-merger TW shareholders who should be out for blood, not pre-merger AOL shareholders.
You have to hand it to Steve Case though - how we managed to convince the world's most powerful and valuable media empire to sell its soul for a dialup ISP with a proprietary service is truly one of the great feats of negotiation in business history. AOL would be trading for $2 now if not for Case convincing Levin to impale TW shareholders.
You would think the Betamaxalicious success of MiniDisc (yeah yeah, its big in Japan, whatever) would have taught Sony a lesson here. Its amazing, Sony has gone from being one of the smartest companies in consumer electronics to one of the dumbest in a very short period of time.
Their financials are in the crapper and they can't seem to bring anything to market to dissaude iPod buyers.
"We don't know if it works, but we know we're screwed if we don't do it".
Yes, it contains these things called fish. You can eat them.
OBjective C may be a fine language but it is also a dead language.
Also, who even owns the code? Gosling didn't write all of it. Sun owns the trademark, they are the ones who can market a toolkit called Java, whatever that may be.
Crossing the ocean and crossing the cosmos are not the same thing. Scale matters in science. Added to which the sea can actually keep you alive if you use it wisely - the dangers of transoceanic journeys hence do not compare with interstellar travel.
If you want to send humans into space, you will need to dedicate a huge amount of the budget on comforts to keep them alive. With robotic missions you can spend the money on science. People treat human exploration as a given since they tacitly assume humans must explore the cosmos. Yet most of these people understand little about space science what is already known about the deleterious affects space has on our bodies. We are already in our perfect environment, there is no natural impetus to leave.
Then you are on the wrong site. Try Forbes.com.
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This is what I mean by "declining pattern". Technical analysis tries to predict future trends - no one cares what the NASDAQ did in 2003 at this point - you can't trade on that data any more.
I work in the finance industry and I have never heard such jargon.
If you have not even heard of simple technical analysis techniques like moving averages (I mean sheesh, its even on Yahoo Finance charts), then please list your brokerage so I know never to deal with them. My presumption is that you are lying since no one who even works in the mail room of a brokerage would claim such ignorance.
Apple has moved into a post-Microsoft era with succesful consumer media products. There is absolutely no reason for these firms to merge.
There are many reasons to run a large number of cheap servers instead of a small number of expensive servers. Fault tolerance, scalability, performance...its amazing how many people still haven't clued in.
WHO CARES? My load balancer automatically detects a dead server and routes requests to another one. Then I go find the dude hardware, pull it out of the rack, and throw it into the garbage. For $4k I can replace it.
By the way, using a larger number of cheap boxes gives me on average better performance and better scalability. The age of Le Grand Box for most business uses is dead.
NASDAQ is already in a declining pattern, breaking most of its moving averages in a downward position. Google will have the privilege of IPO'ing into a general market selloff.
The next trend will be finding "coldspots" instead of "hotspots" - places you can go to live freely outside of the benevolent observation of the government.
No matter what field people work in, the best people never blame the environment. Yes this sounds like Succesories fodder, but you have to see the goal, not the obstacles. Being smart in the right tech helps, but success in tough times is more about attitude.
But this operation must have a cost. There is the analysis required to even determine that the incoming instructions require sin/cos. Then there has to be a lookup into a rule table for how to rewrite the gates to optimize for this. Then that rule needs to be applied. You have to be able to show me that this can all be done faster and cheaper than a x86 at 4Ghz just ramming it through. Maybe it can, but I am skeptical.
Any new processing alternative has to show better price/performance than what people can get today. Remember Transmeta? While they have had small successes, by no means have they take considerable share from Intel and AMD.
General purpose CPUs are fast, ubiqutous, and cheap. While compelling, this new approach is in no sense a slam-dunk in the market. Stretch will have to show a compelling case why this is a faster and cheaper alternative to the x86 (compatible) hegemony.
Such is the case here. The need to more closely integrate the web rendering model and the desktop model is clear, and Microsoft is probably on to something compelling with Avalon/XAML. ActiveX was a disastrous first brush with integration but its clear they see a need and there is a need. Safe local applications integrated with the network do make sense.
On the open source side someone will have to lead to get this done - and not be afraid to leave some groups out. Epiphany should be an early victim - a "default" app no one uses.
Come on, just look at the screenshots for GNUstep apps. Ah, I remember 1993. It was a very good year.
And no, leveraging the Mac community is irrelevant. Mac developers already have an eyecandy platform, its called Quartz.