"but any developer knows that vertical space matters! Less vertical space = less lines of code in the screen = more scrolling = less productivity."
Really? I guess I'm not a developer then. Or maybe you're just wrong. Yeah, I think that's it. I prefer wide screens over long screens. My panels at work allow me to rotate to Portrait if I wanted to do that. I don't.
Color me confused. France is set to "legalize file sharing" and the government is vowing to fight it? So who is legalizing it? Wouldn't it be the government? The equivalent summation if this happened in the US:
"Congress is set to legalize file sharing while the government vows to fight it."
Maybe I just don't understand the French Government structure.
I tried to get the press release from Adobe, but their site seems to be/.'ed. The text below is from Macromedia's Site
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ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA
Combined Company to Deliver Industry-Defining Technology Platform for Rich, Interactive Content
SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 18, 2005 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
The combination of Adobe and Macromedia will provide customers a more powerful set of solutions for creating, managing and delivering compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. Together, the two companies will meet a wider set of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, particularly in the mobile and enterprise segments.
"Customers are calling for integrated software solutions that enable them to create, manage and deliver a wide range of compelling content and applications - from documents and images to audio and video," said Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe. "By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software - along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash - Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform."
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange. Based on Adobe's and Macromedia's closing prices on Friday, April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock. Upon the close of the transaction, Macromedia stockholders will own approximately 18 percent of the combined company on a pro forma basis.
In the combined company, Chizen will continue as chief executive officer and Shantanu Narayen will remain president and chief operating officer. Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Macromedia, will join Adobe as president of worldwide field operations. Murray Demo will remain executive vice president and chief financial officer. Dr. John Warnock and Dr. Charles Geschke will remain as co-chairmen of the Board of Directors of the combined company and Rob Burgess, chairman of the Macromedia Board of Directors, will join the Adobe Board.
"Both Macromedia and Adobe are passionate about creating and enabling great experiences across a wide range of devices and operating systems," said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Macromedia. "Our combined teams will be a powerful force for innovation around cutting-edge platforms for delivering content and applications." Integration
The two companies are developing integration plans that build on the cultural similarities and the best business and product development practices from each company. The companies will make additional details and information about the acquisition available at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobe andmacromedia.html.
"While we anticipate the integration team will identify opportunities for cost savings by the time the acquisition closes, the primary motivation for the two companies' joining is to continue to expand and grow our business into new markets," said Chizen.
The acquisition, which is expected to close in Fall 2005, is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by the stockholders of both companies and regulatory approvals. The transaction will be accounted for under purchase accounting rules.
Due to the absence at this time of estimates of the acquisition-related restructuring costs and the allocation of the purchase price between goodwill, in-process R&D, other in
They took advantage of a Time/Space tradeoff. How is this news? Surely, this doesn't make windows passwords much less secure than they already were. If I wanted to crack your windows password I'd be willing to wait a minute and a half.
I don't think the White House should be expected to read every email that comes in. Email is too easy. In fact, if you talk to people who work in political offices, they will tell you that it takes many (sometimes hundreds) emails to have the effect of a single letter.
If you've really got something to say, print it out, put it in an envelope addressed to the President, put a stamp on it and send it off. You won't change the world that way but it will have a much greater effect than an email. I know it pains some of you that you'd actually have to do such a thing.
I'm actually working on a project at my company to retrofit our in house ecomm system to add this tax for applicable orders. Kind of a pain when you've got a system written 10 years ago that can barely handle sales tax.
We expect our European EComm sales to drop. We've got European distributors, but they, no doubt, lost a bit of business to our ecomm site because they could get the software without VAT. I wonder if we'll still see the same overall volume or if they'll just stop buying all together....
They (Tivo's) do have a 30 second skip feature that you have to "unlock". During a playback of a recording, press "Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, select". This turns the "skip to tick mark" button into a 30 second skip.
You must re-enter the code every time the Tivo reboots (software upgrade or power loss).
Ummmm, no. I mean, this is something delievered to employees to inspire. Microsoft is not "stalled". This is not a market indicator for anything new. Seldom would you see him get up there and say "We're doing great, so I'm not going to challenge you guys to do anything."
I worked the MS Internship in the Summer of 2001 as a tester with Windows Media Division.
The benefits of the Internship are like no other I have ever seen. It pays VERY well and there are no state Income taxes in Washington (surely a selling point for those who stay on a Full-Timers). Great software discounts allowed me to replace that book full of CDRs with legitimate software. MS bought me a $300 Bike to get to and from work (could have opted for a subsidezed car rental, but you get to keep the bike) and paid half of my rent (rent was $1000+ for my furnished place). If I worked late, I often had diner provided by the company. There are arcade games in every building, along with free Soda and Juice. There were great facilities for pickup sports games on MS campus. Seattle is a GREAT city with lots of fun stuff to do. To boot, MS even paid the TAXES on all of these benefits straight to the IRS for me.
Couple that with the fact that Interns at MS get REAL work and not some cheesy side project and you can see why so many people want the internship and why so many stay. Personally, the "real work" that I was given didn't interest me very much. In addition, I like working for smaller companies where I am crucial to success rather than working as a cog in a giant machine. Also, the environment there is dog eat dog. I like to let my work speak for itself. In my experience at MS, if you didn't speak up about what you've done, somone else would.
I'm pretty sure they'll realize their network is down when they are forced to start running around looking for paper forms again. That might clue 'em in.
I would summize that MS is losing money on each console but to use the fact that the XBox division is not profitable as evidence to that claim is wrong.
Manyh other things go into running that division. It's not just console sales. They also have staffing costs for coders, secrataries, VP's... They have capital costs. Etc. Just because the division isn't profitable doesn't meen they're selling the consoles at a loss... again, I think they are doing just that but this is bad evidence to that claim.
The effort is for fun, really. We've (subuni, anyway) already found ways to take the drive out of your tivo, throw it in your PC, and change the code to a known hash. This is more to say "Hey, cool, we did it."
I once got 18 AOL Discs in one day when I was living in my apartment at college. It wasn't that the postal worker got tired of sticking them in everyone's box and just shoved them in mine... they were all addressed to me. 18 in one Day and then 7 more 3 days later.
My roomates and I were having a halloween party that week so we gave the first 25 people to show a nice new AOL CD in a DVD Case.
Lindows' PR rep Cheryl Schwarzman says that Walmart.com PC buyers are entitled to download three (GPLed, mind you) applications for free from the Click-N-Run Warehouse. "After that the users are encouraged to sign up to access the thousands of applications available in the warehouse for $99." Schwarzman adds that with more than 1,300 applications in the warehouse, that comes to less than 8 cents per application.
Next, you will have AOL marketing their internet service as only.00000000000000001 x 10 ^20th cents per web page.
I didn't see anything about removal of implants in the article. Electrodes were pulled off of his body (supposedly causing bleeding). THat's hardly the removal of implants.
This sticking point is just so old it's unbalievable. If you aren't shipping a browser with a desktop OS, you are crazy. Have you seen what XP does with embeded IE? It's beautiful. I go from browsing files to browsing the internet seemlessley. Pick on IE for security all you want, but it's definetley a usability improvement the way they have it bundled in like that.
Anyway, yeah. My point was that arguing about building a browser into the OS is so 1997.
It's not like Intel said "Well gee, we're making good enough money off of this clocked chip so we'll stick with it."
The idea was that sure.... your clockless chip might be 3 times faster today but by the time you develop testing tools, get production costs down, ramp up for production, etc... your 3x speed advantage is no more. Now the clocked chips have passed you.
So really, the issue is the three times in an expiremental chip isn't a big enough advantage to start really producing with. By the time you get to market, you'd be behind again. They need to get something with a bigger advantage.
What if the PPP Non-Profit skimmed some money off the top and kicked it back to the ISP's? This way, you pay for the pages you view, but your ISP bill is reduced because you're only paying for things like email bandwidth or whatever.
Personally, I don't like the model, but this makes it less objectionable, I think. If I paid only $20/month for my cable modem then I'd be more willing to pay for the content on the web...
But alas, I don't really care about making the web profitable. I'm hoping a few big companies stick around and are profitable so e-Commerce can live a bit. Other than that, I don't care.
Yes there is plenty of room. In fact, Nintendo fills a GAPING whole. I don't want my game system to play DVD's. In 3 years, my DVD player will still be fine, while my XBox will be on its way out. Is my XBox progressive Scan? You get the point. The Cube may be as much as $250 less than the XBox.
Also, Nintendo has the "Kiddie" market in tow. They also have the classic gamers with Zelda, and Mario. Nintendo will be number 2 and will be the one to cut into Sony. Even if they don't, there's PLENTY of room for 3.
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"seem to confirm that observations really do show..."
Yeah. You sound convinced!
"but any developer knows that vertical space matters! Less vertical space = less lines of code in the screen = more scrolling = less productivity."
Really? I guess I'm not a developer then. Or maybe you're just wrong. Yeah, I think that's it. I prefer wide screens over long screens. My panels at work allow me to rotate to Portrait if I wanted to do that. I don't.
is building your music library in a format that could be obsolete in the future really the best strategy?
Can you please point me in the direction of a format I can use that is never going to be obsolete? Pretty please? Right, I thought so.
So what exactly was your point?
Color me confused. France is set to "legalize file sharing" and the government is vowing to fight it? So who is legalizing it? Wouldn't it be the government? The equivalent summation if this happened in the US:
"Congress is set to legalize file sharing while the government vows to fight it."
Maybe I just don't understand the French Government structure.
Firefox moves swiftly towards 1.1
Swiftly? Really? If FFX's progression towards 1.1 is swift, then I run the 100 meters in a flash.
I tried to get the press release from Adobe, but their site seems to be /.'ed. The text below is from Macromedia's Site
--
ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA
Combined Company to Deliver Industry-Defining Technology Platform for Rich, Interactive Content
SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 18, 2005 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
The combination of Adobe and Macromedia will provide customers a more powerful set of solutions for creating, managing and delivering compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. Together, the two companies will meet a wider set of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, particularly in the mobile and enterprise segments.
"Customers are calling for integrated software solutions that enable them to create, manage and deliver a wide range of compelling content and applications - from documents and images to audio and video," said Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe. "By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software - along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash - Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform."
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange. Based on Adobe's and Macromedia's closing prices on Friday, April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock. Upon the close of the transaction, Macromedia stockholders will own approximately 18 percent of the combined company on a pro forma basis.
In the combined company, Chizen will continue as chief executive officer and Shantanu Narayen will remain president and chief operating officer. Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Macromedia, will join Adobe as president of worldwide field operations. Murray Demo will remain executive vice president and chief financial officer. Dr. John Warnock and Dr. Charles Geschke will remain as co-chairmen of the Board of Directors of the combined company and Rob Burgess, chairman of the Macromedia Board of Directors, will join the Adobe Board.
"Both Macromedia and Adobe are passionate about creating and enabling great experiences across a wide range of devices and operating systems," said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Macromedia. "Our combined teams will be a powerful force for innovation around cutting-edge platforms for delivering content and applications."
Integration
The two companies are developing integration plans that build on the cultural similarities and the best business and product development practices from each company. The companies will make additional details and information about the acquisition available at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobe andmacromedia.html.
"While we anticipate the integration team will identify opportunities for cost savings by the time the acquisition closes, the primary motivation for the two companies' joining is to continue to expand and grow our business into new markets," said Chizen.
The acquisition, which is expected to close in Fall 2005, is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by the stockholders of both companies and regulatory approvals. The transaction will be accounted for under purchase accounting rules.
Due to the absence at this time of estimates of the acquisition-related restructuring costs and the allocation of the purchase price between goodwill, in-process R&D, other in
So the lesson is...
When signing up for free porn and asked to verify the text created by an image, be sure to put in complete garbage to poison the system.
They took advantage of a Time/Space tradeoff. How is this news? Surely, this doesn't make windows passwords much less secure than they already were. If I wanted to crack your windows password I'd be willing to wait a minute and a half.
I don't think the White House should be expected to read every email that comes in. Email is too easy. In fact, if you talk to people who work in political offices, they will tell you that it takes many (sometimes hundreds) emails to have the effect of a single letter.
If you've really got something to say, print it out, put it in an envelope addressed to the President, put a stamp on it and send it off. You won't change the world that way but it will have a much greater effect than an email. I know it pains some of you that you'd actually have to do such a thing.
I'm actually working on a project at my company to retrofit our in house ecomm system to add this tax for applicable orders. Kind of a pain when you've got a system written 10 years ago that can barely handle sales tax.
We expect our European EComm sales to drop. We've got European distributors, but they, no doubt, lost a bit of business to our ecomm site because they could get the software without VAT. I wonder if we'll still see the same overall volume or if they'll just stop buying all together....
They (Tivo's) do have a 30 second skip feature that you have to "unlock". During a playback of a recording, press "Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, select". This turns the "skip to tick mark" button into a 30 second skip.
You must re-enter the code every time the Tivo reboots (software upgrade or power loss).
Ummmm, no. I mean, this is something delievered to employees to inspire. Microsoft is not "stalled". This is not a market indicator for anything new. Seldom would you see him get up there and say "We're doing great, so I'm not going to challenge you guys to do anything."
I worked the MS Internship in the Summer of 2001 as a tester with Windows Media Division.
The benefits of the Internship are like no other I have ever seen. It pays VERY well and there are no state Income taxes in Washington (surely a selling point for those who stay on a Full-Timers). Great software discounts allowed me to replace that book full of CDRs with legitimate software. MS bought me a $300 Bike to get to and from work (could have opted for a subsidezed car rental, but you get to keep the bike) and paid half of my rent (rent was $1000+ for my furnished place). If I worked late, I often had diner provided by the company. There are arcade games in every building, along with free Soda and Juice. There were great facilities for pickup sports games on MS campus. Seattle is a GREAT city with lots of fun stuff to do. To boot, MS even paid the TAXES on all of these benefits straight to the IRS for me.
Couple that with the fact that Interns at MS get REAL work and not some cheesy side project and you can see why so many people want the internship and why so many stay. Personally, the "real work" that I was given didn't interest me very much. In addition, I like working for smaller companies where I am crucial to success rather than working as a cog in a giant machine. Also, the environment there is dog eat dog. I like to let my work speak for itself. In my experience at MS, if you didn't speak up about what you've done, somone else would.
I'm pretty sure they'll realize their network is down when they are forced to start running around looking for paper forms again. That might clue 'em in.
I would summize that MS is losing money on each console but to use the fact that the XBox division is not profitable as evidence to that claim is wrong.
Manyh other things go into running that division. It's not just console sales. They also have staffing costs for coders, secrataries, VP's... They have capital costs. Etc. Just because the division isn't profitable doesn't meen they're selling the consoles at a loss... again, I think they are doing just that but this is bad evidence to that claim.
The effort is for fun, really. We've (subuni, anyway) already found ways to take the drive out of your tivo, throw it in your PC, and change the code to a known hash. This is more to say "Hey, cool, we did it."
So take a pill folks. Simmah down!
I once got 18 AOL Discs in one day when I was living in my apartment at college. It wasn't that the postal worker got tired of sticking them in everyone's box and just shoved them in mine... they were all addressed to me. 18 in one Day and then 7 more 3 days later.
My roomates and I were having a halloween party that week so we gave the first 25 people to show a nice new AOL CD in a DVD Case.
How the hell did I get 25 CD's in one week??
Lindows' PR rep Cheryl Schwarzman says that Walmart.com PC buyers are entitled to download three (GPLed, mind you) applications for free from the Click-N-Run Warehouse. "After that the users are encouraged to sign up to access the thousands of applications available in the warehouse for $99." Schwarzman adds that with more than 1,300 applications in the warehouse, that comes to less than 8 cents per application.
.00000000000000001 x 10 ^20th cents per web page.
Next, you will have AOL marketing their internet service as only
How does airport security know his doctor isn't Osama? C'mon.
I didn't see anything about removal of implants in the article. Electrodes were pulled off of his body (supposedly causing bleeding). THat's hardly the removal of implants.
This sticking point is just so old it's unbalievable. If you aren't shipping a browser with a desktop OS, you are crazy. Have you seen what XP does with embeded IE? It's beautiful. I go from browsing files to browsing the internet seemlessley. Pick on IE for security all you want, but it's definetley a usability improvement the way they have it bundled in like that.
Anyway, yeah. My point was that arguing about building a browser into the OS is so 1997.
It's not like Intel said "Well gee, we're making good enough money off of this clocked chip so we'll stick with it."
The idea was that sure.... your clockless chip might be 3 times faster today but by the time you develop testing tools, get production costs down, ramp up for production, etc... your 3x speed advantage is no more. Now the clocked chips have passed you.
So really, the issue is the three times in an expiremental chip isn't a big enough advantage to start really producing with. By the time you get to market, you'd be behind again. They need to get something with a bigger advantage.
What if the PPP Non-Profit skimmed some money off the top and kicked it back to the ISP's? This way, you pay for the pages you view, but your ISP bill is reduced because you're only paying for things like email bandwidth or whatever.
Personally, I don't like the model, but this makes it less objectionable, I think. If I paid only $20/month for my cable modem then I'd be more willing to pay for the content on the web...
But alas, I don't really care about making the web profitable. I'm hoping a few big companies stick around and are profitable so e-Commerce can live a bit. Other than that, I don't care.
These can be turned off by meta tags or on the browser end. No biggie. Get off of it already.
Yes there is plenty of room. In fact, Nintendo fills a GAPING whole. I don't want my game system to play DVD's. In 3 years, my DVD player will still be fine, while my XBox will be on its way out. Is my XBox progressive Scan? You get the point. The Cube may be as much as $250 less than the XBox.
Also, Nintendo has the "Kiddie" market in tow. They also have the classic gamers with Zelda, and Mario. Nintendo will be number 2 and will be the one to cut into Sony. Even if they don't, there's PLENTY of room for 3.