This will upload everything you have in your Thunderbird environment. And it will take some time. At first it may look like the program has frozen, but give it a half hour or so to sort through all your Thunderbird folders, and then let it upload the mail overnight. It took me a few overnight uploads, but it was worth it.
Once you have it in Google its very searchable and flexible. You can for instance re-organize it using labels, and then re-download to Thunderbird via IMAP if you like.
Apple has $15.4 billion in cash, and as of today's closing price Adobe is worth nearly twice that at $27.5 billion. An Apple takeover would have to include a fair premium on top of that, which would make such a deal worth more than $30 billion easy.
The only way Apple could do it would be to issue stock, which would dilute its value, or take on debt. (Imagine a really big credit card.) And? Apple's stock on such a huge deal would be, um, Applesauce. Investors would flee. They usually do when big acquisitions are announced because they inject uncertainty, and investor hate uncertainty, and let's face it, Apple's on a very solid growth footing right now.
Here's the other problem: Platform Mix. As recently as 2005, the most recent year that Adobe broke the figure out, 75% of its revenue came from the Windows platform, and I'd venture to guess that that figure is about the same if slightly lower now. Watts is suggesting that an Apple-controlled Adobe would be able to encourage Windows users to switch favoring the Mac version of Adobe products, "while letting Windows versions trail behind."
Imagine buying a very expensive car, say a Jaguar, and then taking out its engine and replacing it with an inferior one. Not only have you made your car crappy to drive for yourself, but you've reduced its value substantially. Buying Adobe (which now owns Macromedia remember) and then hobbling the part of the business that brings in two-thirds to three-quarters of its revenue is a very bad business idea, and terrible way to squander Apple's hard-earned cash stockpile.
Reuters is actually doing this with reporters covering basic financial announcements. I'd post a link but my net connection is dodgy. Google Reuters + outsourcing and the first link you'll see is a story from, oddly enough, The New York Times, on this very thing.
Outsourcing is nothing more than law of competitive advantage at work. It's a basic fundamental force of economics that simply can't be stopped. Its been happening for centuries. It's just that for the first time in history, its the white collar guys who are feeling the pain because the skills of people in the developing world are catching up.
Ultimately though, outsourcing is good for the economy, though politically unpopular. When a company can save money by outsourcing one production line, it can reinvest those savings for new product development or manufacturing or other things domestically, thus creating new jobs.
Also remember that the basic churn of jobs in the U.S. is enourmous. The number of people in the employed in he U.S. both in terms of absolute numbers and as a percentage of adult population are near the highest levels they ever been.
Think I'm making it up? Try this story from The Economist (re-printed at CFO.com).
Gritch all you want about this, but it's going to continue, and any presidential candiate who tells you he's going to staunch the flow of jobs going overseas (excepting of course federal jobs) regardless of party, is selling you something they can't deliver.
Actually the secret is this: Lucas has "artistically" re-edited the scene yet again. Now Han and Greedo hug each other and Greedo keels over from a heart attack after being overcome with emotion that they're no longer enemies.....
The specifications for civilian-level GPS are an open standard that anyone can use. If China wants to build its own GPS receivers based on the U.S. it already has the right to do it. So there's no reason China can't get involved in EU's own system. I say if thats what China wants to spend their money on, its China's business. Seems China could benefit from a strong civilian GPS like system.
Everyone human living must hear Duke Ellington's Live at Newport, 1956, particularly "Diminuendo in Blue/Crescendo in Blue" which some consider the high point of Ellington's public performance career, thanks to a Paul Gonsalves trumpet solo that can only de described as divinely inspired.
Actually, in my own defense, the article does say: "The military has it own highly accurate tamper-proof encrypted signal that civilian equipment can't receive."
I didn't go into the technical particulars about the differences between them, but I think its pretty clear that there are distinct signals for civilian and military use.
It has been the policy of the Interagency GPS Board that Selective Availability would never be turned back on, mainly because there are so many civilian users the rely on the more accurate signal since it was turned off. It would be a huge public relations blunder for the government if it did.
But before SA was turned off, the Air Force had to develop a capability called "Selective Deniability" that would allow it to alter the accuracy of GPS signals over designated theater of operations. I seriously doubt that SA will be re-enabled systemwide.
Actually, the SDRAM royalties it has sought are thought to be closer to 0.75%. It was on DDR-SDRAM, which Rambus considered to be a would-be competitor to its own Direct Rambus RDRAM, that Rambus sought a royalty of 3.5%. See this story from Electronic Buyers News in 2001 concerning statements made in the trial.
American Heritage Of Invention and Technology had terrific story on Pioneer 10 some years back. I found the text here on the personal web page of its author Mark Wolverton. Worth a read if you're interested.
Plot wise yes. But don't forget that ST:III established the odd-numbered rule Star Trek sequels. Cases in point of movies that sucked.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I) Star Trek III Star Trek V Star Trek Generations (VII) Okay, whether or not it really sucked is up for debate, but other than the crash scene....I think it sucked. Star Trek: Insurrection (IX)
I've chimed in on this myself with the following story on Forbes.com: Will Apple Put Intel Inside? August 9, 2002 Rumors are buzzing that Apple computers may one day be stamped "Intel Inside." It won't happen. http://www.forbes.com/2002/08/09/0809apple.html
Slashdot Mirror
Why should Gmail get all the attention?
Because as web-based email goes, Hotmail is abysmally bad?
I recently did something very similar with mail dating back to 1993 or so in multiple mailbox formats (Eudora, PST, Thunderbird mbox, etc.)
Get a Google Apps account http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
This allows you to run a gmail interface with mail on your own domain.
If you need more than the available storage for free, you can pay for 25 gigs, but it seems like the free level will work for you.
For the PST files, upload them with Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/outlookmigration
Alternately, migrate the PSTs to Thuderbird using Emailchemy
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/
Then, if you're on a Mac (it seems you are) upload to Google Apps via the Google Email Uploader for Mac
http://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader-mac/
This will upload everything you have in your Thunderbird environment. And it will take some time. At first it may look like the program has frozen, but give it a half hour or so to sort through all your Thunderbird folders, and then let it upload the mail overnight. It took me a few overnight uploads, but it was worth it.
Once you have it in Google its very searchable and flexible. You can for instance re-organize it using labels, and then re-download to Thunderbird via IMAP if you like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhdf9_IO4w
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2009/04/an_ipod_for_the.html
I just posted this to the Byte Of The Apple blog at BusinessWeek.com in response. - AAH
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2007/11/apple_adobe_umm.html
Apple has $15.4 billion in cash, and as of today's closing price Adobe is worth nearly twice that at $27.5 billion. An Apple takeover would have to include a fair premium on top of that, which would make such a deal worth more than $30 billion easy.
The only way Apple could do it would be to issue stock, which would dilute its value, or take on debt. (Imagine a really big credit card.) And? Apple's stock on such a huge deal would be, um, Applesauce. Investors would flee. They usually do when big acquisitions are announced because they inject uncertainty, and investor hate uncertainty, and let's face it, Apple's on a very solid growth footing right now.
Here's the other problem: Platform Mix. As recently as 2005, the most recent year that Adobe broke the figure out, 75% of its revenue came from the Windows platform, and I'd venture to guess that that figure is about the same if slightly lower now. Watts is suggesting that an Apple-controlled Adobe would be able to encourage Windows users to switch favoring the Mac version of Adobe products, "while letting Windows versions trail behind."
Imagine buying a very expensive car, say a Jaguar, and then taking out its engine and replacing it with an inferior one. Not only have you made your car crappy to drive for yourself, but you've reduced its value substantially. Buying Adobe (which now owns Macromedia remember) and then hobbling the part of the business that brings in two-thirds to three-quarters of its revenue is a very bad business idea, and terrible way to squander Apple's hard-earned cash stockpile.
Sorry Brandon. Good idea? No.
Dude. You're the one who's incorrect. Here it is courtesy of the Library of Congress Thomas system, which is the final word on current bills before Congress.m p/~c109lMFmHP:e939907:
and the full billm p/~c109lMFmHP::
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c109:6:./te
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:6:./te
55,000 bridges and 46,000 miles of roadway, would be 1.2 bridges for every mile of highway. Can those numbers be right?
I think slashdot needs a new photo-oriented topic consisting only of slashdotters reading slashdot in strange slashdot-esque places.
And before anyone hammers me on this...Yes I meant to say "comparative advantage" not competitive. My bad. -A
Reuters is actually doing this with reporters covering basic financial announcements. I'd post a link but my net connection is dodgy. Google Reuters + outsourcing and the first link you'll see is a story from, oddly enough, The New York Times, on this very thing.
Outsourcing is nothing more than law of competitive advantage at work. It's a basic fundamental force of economics that simply can't be stopped. Its been happening for centuries. It's just that for the first time in history, its the white collar guys who are feeling the pain because the skills of people in the developing world are catching up. Ultimately though, outsourcing is good for the economy, though politically unpopular. When a company can save money by outsourcing one production line, it can reinvest those savings for new product development or manufacturing or other things domestically, thus creating new jobs. Also remember that the basic churn of jobs in the U.S. is enourmous. The number of people in the employed in he U.S. both in terms of absolute numbers and as a percentage of adult population are near the highest levels they ever been. Think I'm making it up? Try this story from The Economist (re-printed at CFO.com). Gritch all you want about this, but it's going to continue, and any presidential candiate who tells you he's going to staunch the flow of jobs going overseas (excepting of course federal jobs) regardless of party, is selling you something they can't deliver.
I covered this last week for Forbes.com, and got to play around with a Flipstart for about 60 seconds.7 flipstart.html
http://forbes.com/technology/2004/02/17/cx_ah_021
Actually the secret is this: Lucas has "artistically" re-edited the scene yet again. Now Han and Greedo hug each other and Greedo keels over from a heart attack after being overcome with emotion that they're no longer enemies.....
Han shoots first dammit!
The specifications for civilian-level GPS are an open standard that anyone can use. If China wants to build its own GPS receivers based on the U.S. it already has the right to do it. So there's no reason China can't get involved in EU's own system. I say if thats what China wants to spend their money on, its China's business. Seems China could benefit from a strong civilian GPS like system.
Ditch the link to Foxnews and read this story on the case from The Oregonian, the local paper in Portland.
Essential components of my collection:
Lee Morgan's "The Gigolo"
and Charles Lloyd's "Forest Flower/Soundtrack".
Everyone human living must hear Duke Ellington's Live at Newport, 1956, particularly "Diminuendo in Blue/Crescendo in Blue" which some consider the high point of Ellington's public performance career, thanks to a Paul Gonsalves trumpet solo that can only de described as divinely inspired.
Those are essential, as is anything by Dave Brubeck, starting with the obvious Time Out, Jazz Impressions of New York, Jazz Goes to College, and the recent compilation Love Songs.
There's a few suggestions that should keep you busy.
Actually, in my own defense, the article does say: "The military has it own highly accurate tamper-proof encrypted signal that civilian equipment can't receive."
I didn't go into the technical particulars about the differences between them, but I think its pretty clear that there are distinct signals for civilian and military use.
It has been the policy of the Interagency GPS Board that Selective Availability would never be turned back on, mainly because there are so many civilian users the rely on the more accurate signal since it was turned off. It would be a huge public relations blunder for the government if it did.
p ort/2003/iraq-and-gps_faq.pdf.
But before SA was turned off, the Air Force had to develop a capability called "Selective Deniability" that would allow it to alter the accuracy of GPS signals over designated theater of operations. I seriously doubt that SA will be re-enabled systemwide.
Someone on a listserv I belog to send the URL of this PDF dated 13 March, 2003 that adddresses some of those questions. The URL is http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/re
Actually, the SDRAM royalties it has sought are thought to be closer to 0.75%. It was on DDR-SDRAM, which Rambus considered to be a would-be competitor to its own Direct Rambus RDRAM, that Rambus sought a royalty of 3.5%. See this story from Electronic Buyers News in 2001 concerning statements made in the trial.
American Heritage Of Invention and Technology had terrific story on Pioneer 10 some years back. I found the text here on the personal web page of its author Mark Wolverton. Worth a read if you're interested.
Nope. I think that was popular electronics.
l ta ir32history.htm
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/A
Plot wise yes. But don't forget that ST:III established the odd-numbered rule Star Trek sequels. Cases in point of movies that sucked.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I)
Star Trek III
Star Trek V
Star Trek Generations (VII)
Okay, whether or not it really sucked is up for debate, but other than the crash scene....I think it sucked.
Star Trek: Insurrection (IX)
I've chimed in on this myself with the following story on Forbes.com:
Will Apple Put Intel Inside?
August 9, 2002
Rumors are buzzing that Apple computers may one day be stamped "Intel Inside." It won't happen.
http://www.forbes.com/2002/08/09/0809apple.html
I remember when "Zork" followed the words "best selling computer game."
Sigh. I must be getting old.