Free with every machine. Easy to get into, you could pretty much write pseudocode and tweak the proper bits and you had an actual program.
Yes, it was runtime, no, it wasn't pascal, and no it wasn't app-able.
And as a bone to throw hereabouts, it was open-source-ish. You could set the userlevel to prevent damage and reset it to inspect the source. And you could password all that too, but it was share-able by default.
But you were certainly programming a computer to do something you needed done and wasn't on the shelf.
IMHO (AIDTIAOTO) it was immensely useful and way ahead of its time.
12 years ago this would have been laughed out of the first session where it was mentioned.
Today the climate is such that the discussion is quickly to the technical side because it's just to amazingly feasible that this gets treated as A Really Good Idea, authorized and written into law.
... especially that part in the trailer where a Saturn V launch is being addressed as "Gemini 6..", morphs into a Titan II for a shot then goes back to being a Saturn V.
My iBook G4 12" is pretty dandy as a eBook reader: PDF... rotate... full screen... use the trackpad button for fwd, an arrow if you really need it.
Of course for two years now Adobe has somehow found it beyond themselves to restore the Digital Editions functionality there was back in Reader 7...somehow a Flash implementation seems to be their new choice and last check it still does not work on a current OSX machine. So here I sit with many dollars worth of eBooks in DRM'd PDFs, all useless. Adobe shrugs.
High pe implies more potential growth - that's why it's high, buyers are expecting greater future value. In apple's case it's easier to justify given their recent growth and continued prospects for same, iPhone about to go worldwide, iPod growth and increasing cpu and os share. As an investor i see very little potential for ms growth - their lunch is being eaten in what ought to be emerging / growth areas (gaming, phones and music) and their desktop / server business is static. They're both technically overvalued, but I see apple fulfilling the promise of their pe before I see ms doing the same.
I'm much less worried about a P/E of 38 in a company with growth potential in several small growing market(s) share(s) than I am about MSFT sitting at 17 P/E with nowhere to go in several mature markets.
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Free with every machine. Easy to get into, you could pretty much write pseudocode and tweak the proper bits and you had an actual program.
Yes, it was runtime, no, it wasn't pascal, and no it wasn't app-able.
And as a bone to throw hereabouts, it was open-source-ish. You could set the userlevel to prevent damage and reset it to inspect the source. And you could password all that too, but it was share-able by default.
But you were certainly programming a computer to do something you needed done and wasn't on the shelf.
IMHO (AIDTIAOTO) it was immensely useful and way ahead of its time.
Just ask Robyn and Rand Miller.
Even if you intercept the pigeon, you'll never be able to find the sender or receiver.
All you'll have is some unattributable data and a nice lunch.
OK I just know this sort of method will get mashed-up with PGP and be an FOSS project complete with a really cool pigeon icon inside of a year.
Blast. Should have called an IP lawyer.
Running 2000. Only windows machine I can stand to use after years of iBooks.
.. it was the sunglasses those rock-star astronomers were wearing.
We're done here.
Erm, they *do* have Mantovani on iTMS, right?
And the new thingy was just lying there on the bench. Yoorikah, chumps!
Innovation often enters the mainstream when someone says "they'll pay more / more often for this thingy".
Electric can openers originally existed to make more money than the saturated manual can opener market.
Beyond that, they do make sense, and "well done" to those who use it in a suddenly-obvious wonderful way.
If Apple were a normal company making a jillion dollars on Macs, you might not have ever seen the iPhone.
But then you have to factor in Steve jobs and Jonathan Ive, who don't think like normal people.
And yes, I know - the soccer ball iMac was more "because we can and you'll buy it" than "design and logic had a baby".
But hey.
12 years ago this would have been laughed out of the first session where it was mentioned.
Today the climate is such that the discussion is quickly to the technical side because it's just to amazingly feasible that this gets treated as A Really Good Idea, authorized and written into law.
Gotta say, from the TV ad, this is not the Indy we first saw...
Harrison Ford's a great actor, but in the poster he simply looks weary and bored.
The word "enough" doesn't seem to be in George Lucas' vocabulary and may not be in Spielberg's either.
... every result is followed by Woody Allen's voice going "I know, I know..."
Cause the only thing more noxiously aromatic than a ballast tank would be a steaming hot ballast tank!
Somebody call Mike Rowe...
... especially that part in the trailer where a Saturn V launch is being addressed as "Gemini 6..", morphs into a Titan II for a shot then goes back to being a Saturn V.
No, can't say as I ever saw it like that before.
Cuz this thing sounds like it promises to cure coughs, colds, itchy holes, zits, nits and swollen bits.
...for covering this story that broke in 1980.
yes, I can - and they will no longer authorize the key for it.
My iBook G4 12" is pretty dandy as a eBook reader: PDF... rotate... full screen... use the trackpad button for fwd, an arrow if you really need it.
Of course for two years now Adobe has somehow found it beyond themselves to restore the Digital Editions functionality there was back in Reader 7...somehow a Flash implementation seems to be their new choice and last check it still does not work on a current OSX machine. So here I sit with many dollars worth of eBooks in DRM'd PDFs, all useless. Adobe shrugs.
tenant?
Or behind you on the freeway: http://www.405themovie.com/Home.asp
High pe implies more potential growth - that's why it's high, buyers are expecting greater future value. In apple's case it's easier to justify given their recent growth and continued prospects for same, iPhone about to go worldwide, iPod growth and increasing cpu and os share. As an investor i see very little potential for ms growth - their lunch is being eaten in what ought to be emerging / growth areas (gaming, phones and music) and their desktop / server business is static. They're both technically overvalued, but I see apple fulfilling the promise of their pe before I see ms doing the same.
I'm much less worried about a P/E of 38 in a company with growth potential in several small growing market(s) share(s) than I am about MSFT sitting at 17 P/E with nowhere to go in several mature markets.
No, but you just gave away this guy's master password...
...otherwise compared to keeping up with the RT 3d ocean surface, slashdotting a data server would be a drop in the ocean. literally.
... they've been putting $ where the & should go.
What means this "i_b_m compatible?"
17. Steve Ballmer
16. Donald Trump
15. Susan Powter
14. Dennis Kucinich
13. Ron Popeil
12. Helen Thomas
11. Steven Segal
10. Courtney Love
9. Rob Schneider
8. Neil Bush
7. John Ashcroft
6. Dan Quayle
5. Gene Simmons
4. Kevin Federline
3. Crispin Glover
2. Ann Coulter
1. Cowboy Neal
Anyone remember which of the F-xx fighters has never been downed?