I'm curious as to why he didn't hitch up with the Drizzle guys. It sounds like he's intending to do exactly what Drizzle is doing. Surely he could have leveraged their efforts and they almost certainly would benefit from having Monty and his team around...
And then you move 250 machines to a new colo a few miles away, yet closer to a different airport. I can tell you from personally hellish experience it sucks having regional hostnames.
Name them whatever you want on the inside, then use an alias for stuff on the outside. But don't tie geography to the hosts. You'll always have to rename them if they move, even aliased. If you don't it's asking for trouble. You really don't want to have to bring up new hosts in that old data center you moved from a couple years ago, do you? That's just a great way to confuse things: "Which MSFT-MGJ-MAIL01 box is the one that's really in SNA again?"
The guy in charge of the site reliability group is going to ream some SRE a new one. He HATES unscheduled restarts of the front ends, to the point of making people figure out what the actual dollar cost of the error is.
well it makes sense. by removing DRM they've increased the value of the songs to us, so an increase in price is justified there.
but a buck a song is $10 for your average album and that's where i think the price should be without DRM. but it's a good step, i think things will balance out much more after the giants lose their control and start to die off.
Actually, the cost should have dropped, IMO. Short reason: there's no physical thing to produce, package, ship, display, etc. You make one set of MP3s, and you can sell it 100,000 times for the same production cost. Bits have near-infinite reproducibility. CDs are tied to things like the plastics commodity market, manufacturing costs, paper and fuel prices, etc. The cost to produce them over time varies, and trends upwards. MP3s just get cheaper and cheaper the more copies you sell since you're amortizing them into an increasingly infinitesimal state each time you make a sale.
I saw the Twilight soundtrack at Best Buy when I was there during my lunch break. It was $14. And for that you got an actual physical disk containing 12 songs. The disk will arguably last you forever, and during that span you can play it on devices which are even now 20 years old. Call it $1.25/song with tax. What is the entire album selling for on iTunes? If it's even close to $14 for the entire album, it's a rip-off.
Sure, the album is now DRM-free like its physical counterpart, so that mitigates a large part of the problem of you not being able to play what you bought. But it should cost like half what the actual disc costs. Trust me, the record companies see the difference in profit levels for a CD, even at $0.69/song. But that's their real problem: people are cherry-picking what songs they buy. Their grabbing the ones their friends have or what's on the radio or what's being played in school rather than an entire CD's worth of music. And Apple's cool with this, as it's designed to sell music a la carte like that. The recording industry's collective hides are chapped, however, as they're seeing whole-album sales tumble. And that's what their past profits were based on. With Amazon and ITMS and the others, they can't pack one or two hits on an album and expect you and I to shell out $16 for it.
What they really want is for you and I to buy only the entire CD and play it only on a device that they hope you can't use to copy the work in question. They tried that, it doesn't work because it's (among other things) a terrible user experience. And so they threw Apple the carrot of no DRM as long as they hit the user with the tiered pricing stick at the same time in an effort to shore up their Jurassic-era business model. You are paying for their lack of foresight when you buy music on ITMS, in other words.
THAT is why I said music on ITMS is outrageously priced. You're being forced to pay an artificially large sum for single tracks purely because their business model is built around selling entire albums containing songs of varying marketability. I think it stinks. But it stinks much less than DRM-laden music, and so I think it's a net win for consumers. YMMV.
Well, that's just one highlight that stood out in my mind as "griefing" which I wanted to relate. I've never mined, don't run missions anymore (well, every so often we'll do a few lvl 4s in order to get some cheap faction ammo and salvage for rigs), and inventing/manufacturing is a mini-game unto itself. I know guys who do nothing but building and market stuff, and they love it.
I'd say that something fun nearly always happens when I log in. It depends on how many folks are online. Our alliance isn't more than a couple hundred members, but there's almost always something to go do, even if it's camping a gate for an hour or going on a short roam. It depends on where you live and who is there with you, but I wouldn't ever call Eve boring.
They're ditching DRM. That's pro-consumer. What you're saying is that they are going to have to charge what the studios want to charge (ie, more). That's not anti-consumer enough to balance out the goodness factor of allowing people to actually play the music they buy on any device they own (which has kept me from using ITMS thus far).
I'm sorry you don't like higher prices. But you finally own what you buy. If you're still concerned about ITMS's prices, you really shouldn't have been using them in the first place as they've always been outrageously expensive.
Why would people ever stick about when about the only fun in the game is griefing and counter-griefing is beyond me, but eh. To each his own.
And overcoming long odds in a battle. And finding that needle-in-a-haystack logoffski cheating bastard. And playing market games. And exploring. And, yeah, for running around being a pest or throwing weight around, or whatever. As well as the social aspect of it. I know most of my corp in real life, so it's good to hang out.
It's not purely about griefing, but there is a lot of it. There's can flipping and high-sec ganking and all that. But mostly, for me, it's about running around trying to get into an epic fight.
In the three years I've been playing it, I've had some experiences in Eve -- real physical reactions -- that movies, TV, games, have all failed to produce. It's a very visceral experience, because you aren't just losing pixels in an internet spaceships game. You're losing time and effort, like it's being taken from the real world. I suppose that why people take it so seriously. There's been more than a few times my heart's racing, head's pounding, sweat coming down your brow. And my experiences in this regard are not unique.
But in the end, causing epic emo-rage does have a mighty strong appeal to a lot of people, myself included. It doesn't happen often, but it's a strange feeling that comes over you when it's there. For example, not too long ago I was flying around in 0.0 with a buddy, just bored, looking for ratters or a fight or whatever. A new-ish character in a frigate comes through a gate on the other side of the system. It's an obvious alt, given his corp. Buddy asks if we want to take it. Of course! Frigates and shuttles are like pinatas, small and easy to crack open, but you never know what good stuff might fall out of them.
So he fools about with it over at his gate, and it manages to get away to the other gate in the the system, where I had been. I'd jumped through while the frig was in warp, and burned it back to the gate, waiting for it to pop through. Sure enough, gate fire and there it is. A zealot against a condor doesn't make for a long fight. I'm surprised I even got a lock before he could warp off, but I got the pod, too. Not a good pilot. And if he'd been smart, he'd have seen me leave local as I jumped out and surmised what was happening. But instead of safe up and log out in the previous system, he got spooked and panicked. Too bad, so sad. It's like they say: The lessons you pay for are the ones you learn.
Normally, we'd pop the wreck, no traces and all that. But I figured I'd have a look inside. (An old friend had found a few billion in BPOs in a shuttle some months back, so I got in the habit of checking even small wrecks.) Lo and behold, what do we have here? Some high grade implants, couple T2 items, a bunch of POS-related skill books, and some BPOs -- mostly ammo and weapons but if you squint you can see the Orca BPO sitting amidst the pile.
I think we pulled around 3 billion for all the stuff that we managed to get out of there (we had some folks in his main's corp hot on our tail, and had to dodge two other camps). But the best part? Oh, the emo-tears. Tiny fists were shaking with mighty force at the cruel injustices of the Eve universe. I had some of the most hilariously angry evemails I'd ever read. I mean, the guy was pissed at me. Like, personally. My response was along the lines of "Don't run 3 billion through 0.0 unscouted and you won't have losses like that" but that only egged him on. I guess everyone in that area has a pact with everyone else, except we weren't part of the deal, being interloping evil pirates and all. Oops, his bad. We weren't blue to him, so why would he think he was blue to us? What made him think we were there for anything but shooting at people? Yeah, so it wasn't a fair fight, not in the slightest, he was right about that. But that doesn't mean I particularly care.
All good reasons, man. Valid each and every one of them. I've had words with employers over the Model M. I don't know why, but I'm a much better typist on one then not. My wrists have less fatigue at the end of the day, and my neck/shoulders don't hurt as much. I like the longer space bar, and the keyspacing is great, as I have large hands as well. A Model M goes with me to every new job, has for the last 14 years. There is no substitute.
BTW, I'm going to steal your last line for my.sig. You might want to get a new one yourself.:-)
I can't believe that they overlooked the best computer input device ever made. At home I used one made in 1989 (I've had it since 1991). At work, I use the "Quiet Touch" version from 1993. I especially like that model, as it shows I care for my coworkers. It's still 150% louder than any other keyboard, but it rocks just like a normal Model M.
All other keyboards are useless junk compared to the Model M. There's no comparison whatsoever.
BTW, if you want to use a Model M with a computer that has no ps/2 port, Clicky Keyboards sells an adapter that works great. I own three of them and haven't had any issues (even with KVMs).
The internal version of gmail was combined with the calendar, collaboration stuff, etc a while before it was released publicly. They called the project Dogfood. And holy shit everyone thought it was clever. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some reference to it. Like they'd never heard it used before. Trouble is, it was lame in the 80s-90s and it's lame in this century.
And someone with a pacemaker would bump up against your car accidentally while his shoes were wet, and possibly die. You get sued, all your possessions/savings are forfeit, and then you are (rightly) sent to prison.
That's if the "parking enforcement" person (you know, that guy who is just there to do his job making sure people don't park like self-absorbed asshats) gets a shock doesn't get you arrested first. Assuming something he touched was conductive, I guess. And he wasn't wearing gloves. And he made a good ground elsewhere. And stuff.
Not a good plan, I think. Better would be to park where you can't get a ticket, perhaps?
You say "just because a product is better (postresql) does not mean...". My response would be "Better for what?"
I've had to develop applications for both MySQL (the AdWords DB) and PostgreSQL (backend of a Fortune 100 ecommerce system), and have found that each is good at slightly different tasks and in slightly different situations. There is a lot of overlap, yes, but both products can be very capable in their respective domains. Like everything else, there are positives and negatives about both. Saying one is universally better than the other is misguided, and smacks of the "everything is a nail" approach.
You are really, seriously going to make a major life decision based on an Ask Slashdot submission? Really? You're going to do that? Trust all the forum warriors and IANALs here?
Lively was (is?) headed up by Niniane Wang, one of google's hotter engineering types. She used to work at microsoft games, and so was really pushing for a 3-D experience type thing. I personally never saw the point. But Niniane is something of a diva at google, and so she can basically do whatever she wants. Anyone cute, female and employed pre-IPO can pretty much do whatever they want no matter how pointless, come to think of it.
I tried Lively when it was an internal alpha, and just didn't understand the utility of it. I wasn't sure how they were going to monetize it, either. Or what it had to do with anything, really.
I did enjoy going to meetings Niniane held. Her being hot and all.
That was my reaction as well. When MS made the offer, Google screams "Hey! Antitrust! Too much market power!" Then they offer to do ads and stuff for Yahoo in order to fend off MS. That torpedoes the MS-Yahoo deal, with Yang thinking the Google help will keep the creaking hulk alive. I mean, the stock's at $25/share, MS is only offering $31/share. That's not much headroom to make up for, is it? Now that we have Google's search that actually works and ads that are easy to buy? Stock drops like a rock, now Google says "Well, yeah, that'd be too much market share for us too" and backs out. Yahoo is a wallflower and has to go slinking back to the MS it once spurned.
I bet we see MS come in with a $15/share offer. They can go to the board and have Yang tossed no problem. He's basically cost the stockholders $19 billion by not taking the deal. Balmer heard the Google news and absolutely wet himself in greedy glee. He's doing his best Burns imitation right now, running around in his soaked-pits shirt, rubbing his mitts together, salivating at thoughts of conquest -- at half the price no less! The man has a permachubby or he's impotent, I'm telling you.
It's going to be hilarious when MS comes rolling into Sunnyvale, showing them all how to use Windows Live SQL 2010 Express or whatever the hell they're calling it. The sales and marketing crowd at Yahoo will love it, since they'll get to run around with a monster budget and tell everyone to bow down because they work at MS. But I bet 1/3 of the Yahoo engineers are gone within three months. Half are fixing up resumes in that time for sure.
The next 6-9 months is going to be a really, really bad time to look for work in the valley.
I can't, in good conscience, purchase an EA game which has DRM. They can ban or not ban, and it doesn't matter since I won't be playing the game to begin with. I realize that they are trying to backpedal, but it's a moot point.
I used to buy EA games for my Commodore 64. I've bought a lot of EA games in the past. But no longer. All the EA games I've paid for I can still run, even the ones from 20 years ago. The new DRM-laden titles are worse than useless.
I seem to recall these sorts of things ending badly for the inhabitants when gov't funding dried up after the collapse of the USSR. Hopefully, Australia's economy can keep something like this afloat...
I fail to see what Windows has to do with your mini-rant. As a long-time Linux user, I'll shake my tiny fist along with you and tilt at all the windmills I come across, but how have you given up your privacy by using a certain operating system?
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I'm curious as to why he didn't hitch up with the Drizzle guys. It sounds like he's intending to do exactly what Drizzle is doing. Surely he could have leveraged their efforts and they almost certainly would benefit from having Monty and his team around...
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Name them whatever you want on the inside, then use an alias for stuff on the outside. But don't tie geography to the hosts. You'll always have to rename them if they move, even aliased. If you don't it's asking for trouble. You really don't want to have to bring up new hosts in that old data center you moved from a couple years ago, do you? That's just a great way to confuse things: "Which MSFT-MGJ-MAIL01 box is the one that's really in SNA again?"
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He won't lose his job, though.
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You got free testing. Keep adding hardware and submitting /. stories until the system remains responsive...
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well it makes sense. by removing DRM they've increased the value of the songs to us, so an increase in price is justified there. but a buck a song is $10 for your average album and that's where i think the price should be without DRM. but it's a good step, i think things will balance out much more after the giants lose their control and start to die off.
Actually, the cost should have dropped, IMO. Short reason: there's no physical thing to produce, package, ship, display, etc. You make one set of MP3s, and you can sell it 100,000 times for the same production cost. Bits have near-infinite reproducibility. CDs are tied to things like the plastics commodity market, manufacturing costs, paper and fuel prices, etc. The cost to produce them over time varies, and trends upwards. MP3s just get cheaper and cheaper the more copies you sell since you're amortizing them into an increasingly infinitesimal state each time you make a sale.
I saw the Twilight soundtrack at Best Buy when I was there during my lunch break. It was $14. And for that you got an actual physical disk containing 12 songs. The disk will arguably last you forever, and during that span you can play it on devices which are even now 20 years old. Call it $1.25/song with tax. What is the entire album selling for on iTunes? If it's even close to $14 for the entire album, it's a rip-off.
Sure, the album is now DRM-free like its physical counterpart, so that mitigates a large part of the problem of you not being able to play what you bought. But it should cost like half what the actual disc costs. Trust me, the record companies see the difference in profit levels for a CD, even at $0.69/song. But that's their real problem: people are cherry-picking what songs they buy. Their grabbing the ones their friends have or what's on the radio or what's being played in school rather than an entire CD's worth of music. And Apple's cool with this, as it's designed to sell music a la carte like that. The recording industry's collective hides are chapped, however, as they're seeing whole-album sales tumble. And that's what their past profits were based on. With Amazon and ITMS and the others, they can't pack one or two hits on an album and expect you and I to shell out $16 for it.
What they really want is for you and I to buy only the entire CD and play it only on a device that they hope you can't use to copy the work in question. They tried that, it doesn't work because it's (among other things) a terrible user experience. And so they threw Apple the carrot of no DRM as long as they hit the user with the tiered pricing stick at the same time in an effort to shore up their Jurassic-era business model. You are paying for their lack of foresight when you buy music on ITMS, in other words.
THAT is why I said music on ITMS is outrageously priced. You're being forced to pay an artificially large sum for single tracks purely because their business model is built around selling entire albums containing songs of varying marketability. I think it stinks. But it stinks much less than DRM-laden music, and so I think it's a net win for consumers. YMMV.
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Well, that's just one highlight that stood out in my mind as "griefing" which I wanted to relate. I've never mined, don't run missions anymore (well, every so often we'll do a few lvl 4s in order to get some cheap faction ammo and salvage for rigs), and inventing/manufacturing is a mini-game unto itself. I know guys who do nothing but building and market stuff, and they love it.
I'd say that something fun nearly always happens when I log in. It depends on how many folks are online. Our alliance isn't more than a couple hundred members, but there's almost always something to go do, even if it's camping a gate for an hour or going on a short roam. It depends on where you live and who is there with you, but I wouldn't ever call Eve boring.
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They're ditching DRM. That's pro-consumer. What you're saying is that they are going to have to charge what the studios want to charge (ie, more). That's not anti-consumer enough to balance out the goodness factor of allowing people to actually play the music they buy on any device they own (which has kept me from using ITMS thus far).
I'm sorry you don't like higher prices. But you finally own what you buy. If you're still concerned about ITMS's prices, you really shouldn't have been using them in the first place as they've always been outrageously expensive.
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And overcoming long odds in a battle. And finding that needle-in-a-haystack logoffski cheating bastard. And playing market games. And exploring. And, yeah, for running around being a pest or throwing weight around, or whatever. As well as the social aspect of it. I know most of my corp in real life, so it's good to hang out.
It's not purely about griefing, but there is a lot of it. There's can flipping and high-sec ganking and all that. But mostly, for me, it's about running around trying to get into an epic fight.
In the three years I've been playing it, I've had some experiences in Eve -- real physical reactions -- that movies, TV, games, have all failed to produce. It's a very visceral experience, because you aren't just losing pixels in an internet spaceships game. You're losing time and effort, like it's being taken from the real world. I suppose that why people take it so seriously. There's been more than a few times my heart's racing, head's pounding, sweat coming down your brow. And my experiences in this regard are not unique.
But in the end, causing epic emo-rage does have a mighty strong appeal to a lot of people, myself included. It doesn't happen often, but it's a strange feeling that comes over you when it's there. For example, not too long ago I was flying around in 0.0 with a buddy, just bored, looking for ratters or a fight or whatever. A new-ish character in a frigate comes through a gate on the other side of the system. It's an obvious alt, given his corp. Buddy asks if we want to take it. Of course! Frigates and shuttles are like pinatas, small and easy to crack open, but you never know what good stuff might fall out of them.
So he fools about with it over at his gate, and it manages to get away to the other gate in the the system, where I had been. I'd jumped through while the frig was in warp, and burned it back to the gate, waiting for it to pop through. Sure enough, gate fire and there it is. A zealot against a condor doesn't make for a long fight. I'm surprised I even got a lock before he could warp off, but I got the pod, too. Not a good pilot. And if he'd been smart, he'd have seen me leave local as I jumped out and surmised what was happening. But instead of safe up and log out in the previous system, he got spooked and panicked. Too bad, so sad. It's like they say: The lessons you pay for are the ones you learn.
Normally, we'd pop the wreck, no traces and all that. But I figured I'd have a look inside. (An old friend had found a few billion in BPOs in a shuttle some months back, so I got in the habit of checking even small wrecks.) Lo and behold, what do we have here? Some high grade implants, couple T2 items, a bunch of POS-related skill books, and some BPOs -- mostly ammo and weapons but if you squint you can see the Orca BPO sitting amidst the pile.
I think we pulled around 3 billion for all the stuff that we managed to get out of there (we had some folks in his main's corp hot on our tail, and had to dodge two other camps). But the best part? Oh, the emo-tears. Tiny fists were shaking with mighty force at the cruel injustices of the Eve universe. I had some of the most hilariously angry evemails I'd ever read. I mean, the guy was pissed at me. Like, personally. My response was along the lines of "Don't run 3 billion through 0.0 unscouted and you won't have losses like that" but that only egged him on. I guess everyone in that area has a pact with everyone else, except we weren't part of the deal, being interloping evil pirates and all. Oops, his bad. We weren't blue to him, so why would he think he was blue to us? What made him think we were there for anything but shooting at people? Yeah, so it wasn't a fair fight, not in the slightest, he was right about that. But that doesn't mean I particularly care.
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All good reasons, man. Valid each and every one of them. I've had words with employers over the Model M. I don't know why, but I'm a much better typist on one then not. My wrists have less fatigue at the end of the day, and my neck/shoulders don't hurt as much. I like the longer space bar, and the keyspacing is great, as I have large hands as well. A Model M goes with me to every new job, has for the last 14 years. There is no substitute.
.sig. You might want to get a new one yourself. :-)
BTW, I'm going to steal your last line for my
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I can't believe that they overlooked the best computer input device ever made. At home I used one made in 1989 (I've had it since 1991). At work, I use the "Quiet Touch" version from 1993. I especially like that model, as it shows I care for my coworkers. It's still 150% louder than any other keyboard, but it rocks just like a normal Model M. All other keyboards are useless junk compared to the Model M. There's no comparison whatsoever.
BTW, if you want to use a Model M with a computer that has no ps/2 port, Clicky Keyboards sells an adapter that works great. I own three of them and haven't had any issues (even with KVMs).
-B
The internal version of gmail was combined with the calendar, collaboration stuff, etc a while before it was released publicly. They called the project Dogfood. And holy shit everyone thought it was clever. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some reference to it. Like they'd never heard it used before. Trouble is, it was lame in the 80s-90s and it's lame in this century.
-B
And someone with a pacemaker would bump up against your car accidentally while his shoes were wet, and possibly die. You get sued, all your possessions/savings are forfeit, and then you are (rightly) sent to prison.
That's if the "parking enforcement" person (you know, that guy who is just there to do his job making sure people don't park like self-absorbed asshats) gets a shock doesn't get you arrested first. Assuming something he touched was conductive, I guess. And he wasn't wearing gloves. And he made a good ground elsewhere. And stuff.
Not a good plan, I think. Better would be to park where you can't get a ticket, perhaps?
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Seriously! This is great news. I'm buying new hardware right now!
Be still my heart.
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Perl has, in some small way, kept me continuously employed for the last 14 years. It's really pretty surprising the utility and longevity it has.
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Until a couple months ago, that was my exact situation: My title was Software Engineer, and I lived/worked in California. I have no degree.
I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's wrong.
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You say "just because a product is better (postresql) does not mean ...". My response would be "Better for what?"
I've had to develop applications for both MySQL (the AdWords DB) and PostgreSQL (backend of a Fortune 100 ecommerce system), and have found that each is good at slightly different tasks and in slightly different situations. There is a lot of overlap, yes, but both products can be very capable in their respective domains. Like everything else, there are positives and negatives about both. Saying one is universally better than the other is misguided, and smacks of the "everything is a nail" approach.
-B
You are really, seriously going to make a major life decision based on an Ask Slashdot submission? Really? You're going to do that? Trust all the forum warriors and IANALs here?
Wow.
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Lively was (is?) headed up by Niniane Wang, one of google's hotter engineering types. She used to work at microsoft games, and so was really pushing for a 3-D experience type thing. I personally never saw the point. But Niniane is something of a diva at google, and so she can basically do whatever she wants. Anyone cute, female and employed pre-IPO can pretty much do whatever they want no matter how pointless, come to think of it.
I tried Lively when it was an internal alpha, and just didn't understand the utility of it. I wasn't sure how they were going to monetize it, either. Or what it had to do with anything, really.
I did enjoy going to meetings Niniane held. Her being hot and all.
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I'm going to save that one...
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That was my reaction as well. When MS made the offer, Google screams "Hey! Antitrust! Too much market power!" Then they offer to do ads and stuff for Yahoo in order to fend off MS. That torpedoes the MS-Yahoo deal, with Yang thinking the Google help will keep the creaking hulk alive. I mean, the stock's at $25/share, MS is only offering $31/share. That's not much headroom to make up for, is it? Now that we have Google's search that actually works and ads that are easy to buy? Stock drops like a rock, now Google says "Well, yeah, that'd be too much market share for us too" and backs out. Yahoo is a wallflower and has to go slinking back to the MS it once spurned.
I bet we see MS come in with a $15/share offer. They can go to the board and have Yang tossed no problem. He's basically cost the stockholders $19 billion by not taking the deal. Balmer heard the Google news and absolutely wet himself in greedy glee. He's doing his best Burns imitation right now, running around in his soaked-pits shirt, rubbing his mitts together, salivating at thoughts of conquest -- at half the price no less! The man has a permachubby or he's impotent, I'm telling you.
It's going to be hilarious when MS comes rolling into Sunnyvale, showing them all how to use Windows Live SQL 2010 Express or whatever the hell they're calling it. The sales and marketing crowd at Yahoo will love it, since they'll get to run around with a monster budget and tell everyone to bow down because they work at MS. But I bet 1/3 of the Yahoo engineers are gone within three months. Half are fixing up resumes in that time for sure.
The next 6-9 months is going to be a really, really bad time to look for work in the valley.
-B
I can't, in good conscience, purchase an EA game which has DRM. They can ban or not ban, and it doesn't matter since I won't be playing the game to begin with. I realize that they are trying to backpedal, but it's a moot point.
I used to buy EA games for my Commodore 64. I've bought a lot of EA games in the past. But no longer. All the EA games I've paid for I can still run, even the ones from 20 years ago. The new DRM-laden titles are worse than useless.
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I seem to recall these sorts of things ending badly for the inhabitants when gov't funding dried up after the collapse of the USSR. Hopefully, Australia's economy can keep something like this afloat...
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...move to Arizona. Problem solved.
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Only wimps use source control. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
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I fail to see what Windows has to do with your mini-rant. As a long-time Linux user, I'll shake my tiny fist along with you and tilt at all the windmills I come across, but how have you given up your privacy by using a certain operating system?
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