At least Lynch didn't make the Emperor look like a reject from Studio54.
While the depcitions of the Corrino household were ludicrous, the depictions of Geidi Prime were far cheaper looking than what Lynch put together.
The acting in this series was horrible, hopefully if they do further films, they'll get more competent talent, or at least in William Hurt's case, at least keep them interested enough to stay off of sedatives.
Just that yet again stock price is a poor judge of a CEO's ability to lead a
company, or their performance, either one.
So how do you judge a CEO's abilities. considering that growth, revenues, profits, etc are factored into the stock price.
Why do you think Chambers and Gates are obsessed with market caps? Simple - market cap is everything. No other measure matters for a publically traded stock.
But I'm surrounded by people at work who print everything.
Okay, I'll say it again so you have it clear - its a dead business because margins are incredibly thin. A company like HP can't stay afloat long with printer margins.
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Are you an investor in HP? An investor in another company mentioned in your post? If so you should disclose this in your post.
You've been watching too much Matlock.
Bitching about a stock, or company management is not tantamount to stock manipulation, which you would know if you really had any idea what you are talking about when it comes to disclosures.
No. Paper-pushing is dead. You aren't going to build a multi-billion dollar business on a dead market with no margins.
Carly doesn't have the brass to pull HP off of its dependence on paper products - here is the result.
If you can't get a decent printer to work with your Linux box, you can't move your office
to Linux.
If printing is that important to you, you're nuts to even bother with linux. Its a no-brainer that you're using win2k if you absolutely have to commit to paper.
Thats all you need to know about this complete dud of a company. I don't really think Perens is going to have any impact on this Silicon Valley dinosaur.
For the last ten years HP has been a day late and a dollar short on just about any interesting innovation you can think about, with dwindling marketshare and nonexistant mindshare in unix systems.
So how have they been paying the bills? Printers. Sad but true, this tech titan is nothing more than a paper pusher. Carly has done an excellent job dragging the stock through the mud and now people are taking their money over to SUNW where at least someone understands how to market a product that has some margins of interest. I expect Sun to effectively push HP out of the server room within four years, with IBM and Compaq picking up the scraps
Most of the visuals were ripped of from Lynch, but strangely enough, looked cheaper.
The Stillsuits looked very lame - once again - done better by Lynch. The castles, guild gear, Corinno ballroom, and scenes of Geidi Prime were far far more compelling and engrossing in Lynch's film.
The acting was terrible. Gurney was made out to be a tough dimwit. The actor playing Paul was bad in so many ways I can't count. The Baron's part was grossly overacted. William Hurt obviously did not enjoy being in this series - his lines are delivered in a perfunctory fashion, like he is waiting to leave.
It doesn't seem like any of the talent in this series outside of William Hurt is ready for even network TV.
The look of almost everything in the film so far has been lifted from Lynch, with the exception of the stillsuits, which looked better in the movie.
Most of the acting is really quite bad. Even William Hurt seems to be just spitting out his lines to get them over with. Gurney's character is made out to be a bit of a doofus - nothing like the tough-as-nail Patrick Stewart rendition. The actors playing Paul, the Rev. Mother, and the Baron are equally lame.
I had high hopes for this. Too bad. It really doesn't seem worth tuning in for the next two nights.
Its not just the telcos who will be getting renumeration. All bandwidth carriers are going to start charging per bit, right down to the consumer level.
Why? Because ultimately, providing bandwidth is a sucker's deal - look at the glut in dark fiber, look at the oncoming glut in submarine fiber.
The actual cost per bit is rapidly approaching zero - without a metering system, however artificial, none of these companies will be able to stay in business.
The telco investment is only significant at the last mile, and even then, cable companies have replicated the bandwidth to 99% of the homes with telco service.
If I can bypass the telco network completely, no regulation should take place.
Oh, and don't feel too bad for the telcos - wiring up the US wasn't exacltly a sacrifice play for them. They raked in billions upon billions in profits after all the infrastructure costs had been met. I'm sorry that copper's obsolete, but hey, thats business. We don't owe them anything.
Well, considering that Germany is probably smaller than Texas and Arizona (physically), the Germans have a much smaller area to support. This is no excuse for American waste, but it is worth considering.
What is really amazing in light of this is how Canada gets by with a land mass larger than the US, and a population smaller than California.
But if you are a legal resident - i.e. you have a visa - you are entitled to free health and dental
This is a non-issue - every tech worker in the US can afford dental and health, and most tech companies offer excellent packages.
The people who are hurt by the US health care system are low-income earners who aren't going to be picking up and moving to France for two years anytime soon.
I think you should reconsider moving to either Italy or France. As a high-wage earner, your taxes will be excessive - much higher than you are used to in the US. Since you are not a citizen, you will find that you are unable to access many of the services you are paying for.
This is not a critique of the European system - just a heads up for potential expats who will invariably find themselves paying for services they cannot use.
I've noticed that people who feign bravery with a subject line vaguely referring to their willingness to give up karma to take a stand, invariably end up gaining karma as a result.
Just cruise the "ported applications" section of the website and you'll find hundreds.
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This isn't a flame, but are Gates, Ellison, McNealy etc the sort of people whose interests are represented by the EFF?
The EFF represents the technical class - who, by and large, are a youthful demographic with incomes far higher than the national average, and who tend to be more libertarian than other segments of society.
They represent a political agenda. If you support this agenda, support the EFF.
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If you want to give to the EFF, please do so, but I humbly request that you do not preempt donations to the poor and needy to feed what is essentially a political lobbying organization, one that in fact represents the interests of the most affluent members of society.
Trust me, for anyone you can name that has had any interesting life whatsoever, I can find someone who was there with them doubled over as they puked after a party, there as they voiced a sexist/racsist/whatver opinion, and someone who was there when they skipped some of their homework.
One anecdote from one of GWB's college buddies is essentially meaningless - just as meaningless as anecdotes about any candidate.
There is no doubt about it, David Boies is turning out to be the media-whore lawyer for 2000.
Dershowitz got old, and Johnny Cochrane really didn't do anything after OJ, so it falls to our main man David to show up just in the nick of time, presuming there are enough television cameras to capture his immortal smugness.
No one is proposing that you pay to use Yahoo's normal services that you use now.
Obviously it would be inane for Yahoo to start charging to search the web, send email, or do anything else you can already do for free on yahoo and other sites.
What you are probably looking at is broadband content services similar to things shaping up at web music sites such as MP3.com, and Napster, as well as broadband video.
I personally am convinced that people will pay for content if it is quality, and delivered better than what is otherwise freely available - not sure if this pans out with the rest of the users out there or not. We'll see.
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While the depcitions of the Corrino household were ludicrous, the depictions of Geidi Prime were far cheaper looking than what Lynch put together.
The acting in this series was horrible, hopefully if they do further films, they'll get more competent talent, or at least in William Hurt's case, at least keep them interested enough to stay off of sedatives.
So how do you judge a CEO's abilities. considering that growth, revenues, profits, etc are factored into the stock price.
Why do you think Chambers and Gates are obsessed with market caps? Simple - market cap is everything. No other measure matters for a publically traded stock.
Okay, I'll say it again so you have it clear - its a dead business because margins are incredibly thin. A company like HP can't stay afloat long with printer margins.
You've been watching too much Matlock.
Bitching about a stock, or company management is not tantamount to stock manipulation, which you would know if you really had any idea what you are talking about when it comes to disclosures.
No. Paper-pushing is dead. You aren't going to build a multi-billion dollar business on a dead market with no margins.
Carly doesn't have the brass to pull HP off of its dependence on paper products - here is the result.
If you can't get a decent printer to work with your Linux box, you can't move your office to Linux.
If printing is that important to you, you're nuts to even bother with linux. Its a no-brainer that you're using win2k if you absolutely have to commit to paper.
Thats all you need to know about this complete dud of a company. I don't really think Perens is going to have any impact on this Silicon Valley dinosaur.
For the last ten years HP has been a day late and a dollar short on just about any interesting innovation you can think about, with dwindling marketshare and nonexistant mindshare in unix systems.
So how have they been paying the bills? Printers. Sad but true, this tech titan is nothing more than a paper pusher. Carly has done an excellent job dragging the stock through the mud and now people are taking their money over to SUNW where at least someone understands how to market a product that has some margins of interest. I expect Sun to effectively push HP out of the server room within four years, with IBM and Compaq picking up the scraps
The Stillsuits looked very lame - once again - done better by Lynch. The castles, guild gear, Corinno ballroom, and scenes of Geidi Prime were far far more compelling and engrossing in Lynch's film.
The acting was terrible. Gurney was made out to be a tough dimwit. The actor playing Paul was bad in so many ways I can't count. The Baron's part was grossly overacted. William Hurt obviously did not enjoy being in this series - his lines are delivered in a perfunctory fashion, like he is waiting to leave.
It doesn't seem like any of the talent in this series outside of William Hurt is ready for even network TV.
Most of the acting is really quite bad. Even William Hurt seems to be just spitting out his lines to get them over with. Gurney's character is made out to be a bit of a doofus - nothing like the tough-as-nail Patrick Stewart rendition. The actors playing Paul, the Rev. Mother, and the Baron are equally lame.
I had high hopes for this. Too bad. It really doesn't seem worth tuning in for the next two nights.
Why? Because ultimately, providing bandwidth is a sucker's deal - look at the glut in dark fiber, look at the oncoming glut in submarine fiber.
The actual cost per bit is rapidly approaching zero - without a metering system, however artificial, none of these companies will be able to stay in business.
If I can bypass the telco network completely, no regulation should take place.
Oh, and don't feel too bad for the telcos - wiring up the US wasn't exacltly a sacrifice play for them. They raked in billions upon billions in profits after all the infrastructure costs had been met. I'm sorry that copper's obsolete, but hey, thats business. We don't owe them anything.
Damn straight I want to address the actual devices I plonked down all that money for.
What is really amazing in light of this is how Canada gets by with a land mass larger than the US, and a population smaller than California.
This is a non-issue - every tech worker in the US can afford dental and health, and most tech companies offer excellent packages.
The people who are hurt by the US health care system are low-income earners who aren't going to be picking up and moving to France for two years anytime soon.
This is not a critique of the European system - just a heads up for potential expats who will invariably find themselves paying for services they cannot use.
Go figure.
Just cruise the "ported applications" section of the website and you'll find hundreds.
The EFF represents the technical class - who, by and large, are a youthful demographic with incomes far higher than the national average, and who tend to be more libertarian than other segments of society.
They represent a political agenda. If you support this agenda, support the EFF.
If you want to give to the EFF, please do so, but I humbly request that you do not preempt donations to the poor and needy to feed what is essentially a political lobbying organization, one that in fact represents the interests of the most affluent members of society.
One anecdote from one of GWB's college buddies is essentially meaningless - just as meaningless as anecdotes about any candidate.
Dershowitz got old, and Johnny Cochrane really didn't do anything after OJ, so it falls to our main man David to show up just in the nick of time, presuming there are enough television cameras to capture his immortal smugness.
So does FreeBSD. So would any package system that intended to create a working port.
And since the packages are binary, there is no need to wait for it to compile.
FreeBSD supports binary packages as well.
You can, of course, always force it, but if you do that make sure the force is with you!
FreeBSD supports similar conflict management, and a FORCE feature.
No vendor is going to go to this trouble unless you are buying at least a hundred machines.
Its important to reward authors using the new mediums when so many are poo-pooing e-books and the web.
Obviously it would be inane for Yahoo to start charging to search the web, send email, or do anything else you can already do for free on yahoo and other sites.
What you are probably looking at is broadband content services similar to things shaping up at web music sites such as MP3.com, and Napster, as well as broadband video.
I personally am convinced that people will pay for content if it is quality, and delivered better than what is otherwise freely available - not sure if this pans out with the rest of the users out there or not. We'll see.
Netscape is all of these but not even semi-stable.
I don't see how you can even form a coherent argument with regards to the branding issues of this product when it doesn't even work.