What difference is there between putting 100,000 cops on the street with mugshot photos, or deploying automated computer controlled cameras? Same thing will be accomplished. Why is that people prefer human beings over computers?
For some techno-knowing people you all sound like some technophobiacs.
How can it be? A virus in pdf? Only Microsoft products support viruses. Everything else is secure.
A virus written for a non-microsoft product. Yeah right. What will they think of next?
I work for a local phone company in the NYC area, and it's not Verizon. We do local, long distance, DSL, and T1's. By the end of this year or sometime next year we should turn a profit. We aren't laying of. We're hiring. I made 8 accounts in the last two days.
Our secret, we have our own network. We only rent the lines from Verizon for a little while. Then we switch the customers onto our network. We tried it the other way and almost had to close the company. It's all how management runs the company.
You should really read the news before commenting. They are taking the debt notes and converting them to stock and paying about 20 cents cash on the dollar for each note. This will cut their interest payments and enable them to invest that money.
The deal was already negotiated with their creditors before they announced today. The creditors agreed to the whole plan.
You have to consider the fact that the grownups have more experience than you in life. It's a very well known fact that teenagers know everything, and their parents nothing. It's been around for ages.
Somehow I don't think Wall Street is going to go for this. Who would actually lend money to a "company" that plans to give it's software away. How would the interest get repaid? What about the principal?
Their installed base and proprietary nature was a good weapon against MS. Now that all IM's will work together you can as well use MM, or any other client. Why use AOL? Just use whatever came with XP. No reason for AOL to get advertising revenue since the number of AIM clients may drop.
Can anybody give a reason why I'm wrong?
He is really really dumb. Goes out and spends all that money just to find out his cable service won't work with it. The usuall time to make these compatibility inquiries is before the purchase.
I like to think that genomics is the ultimate in the Law of Natural Selection. Every living thing wants to breed with only the healthiest and strongest of it's species. And just like Gattaca we will soon have that power. In a few hundred years this application of natural selection may breed out most genetic diseases naturally instead of having to rely on drugs.
MS is crying OpenSource is bad now just so they can push.NET onto people using Windows XP as the delivery vehicle.
If it succeeds in a few years they won't care what OS you use. Just as long as you log onto Passport and transact some kind of business through.NET. That way MS will get paid it's tax just like they do now on every new PC sold.
The Wall Street Journal had this yesterday. Great read on the way to work. What can you expect from MS though? It's their lifeline. Here is my theory.
Windows isn't the future, but it's a step to get to the future. The future is MS in control of a huge portal collecting fees for any transaction that takes place. Maybe even stock trading. If you run a virtual store you'll have to go through MS because they have all the eye balls. Doesn't matter if you use Windows, Linux or any other OS. If you want to get any business transacted on the Internet you'll have to go thru Passport. That's Microsoft's vision.
To get ther they'll have to use Windows as a stepping stone. Throw all of their Internet properties into the user's face when they first boot up. Try to get as many users to sign on until they become as big as AOL. It worked for AOL with their CD's.
"That is, your bank couldn't also be your stock broker or your insurance company. The main law creating this situation was called the Glass-Steagall Act, and was passed in 1933 right in the middle of the Great Depression. Speculation in the stock market by banks was a major cause of the stock market crash of 1929, and the goal of the law was to prevent another such crash. Scores of banks failed when their stock investments turned sour at the same time as depositors wanted their money out. When these three industries are combined into single corporate entities, society is putting all of its financial eggs into one basket - a crashing stock market leads to rising insurance claims and makes the bank insolvent precisely at the time that it needs to have lots of cash on hand. We as a society have learned this lesson, and due to this law, sometime in the future we will learn it again."
That was one of the most stupid things of the last 60 years. Personally i wouldn't mind having one company to deal with instead going thru 20 differerent statements and a money management program to watch my finances. What's wrong with banks being stock brokers and insurance salesmen?
Oh wait, the governement needs to control us stupid little ordinary people. We are too dumb to figure out what's best for us.
Just one question, where does the original art come from. I bet none of it is from Taiwanese artists. Only countries with strong IP protestion have viable entertainment industries with new works of art constantly being produced.
Because of piracy the Hong Kong movie industry has contracted by 90% in the 1990's. Maybe that's why Jackie Chan came to America.
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For some techno-knowing people you all sound like some technophobiacs.
How can it be? A virus in pdf? Only Microsoft products support viruses. Everything else is secure. A virus written for a non-microsoft product. Yeah right. What will they think of next?
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I'm not sure about the customer, but it's Broadview Networks. We did just roll out Voice over DSL.
Our secret, we have our own network. We only rent the lines from Verizon for a little while. Then we switch the customers onto our network. We tried it the other way and almost had to close the company. It's all how management runs the company.
The deal was already negotiated with their creditors before they announced today. The creditors agreed to the whole plan.
You have to consider the fact that the grownups have more experience than you in life. It's a very well known fact that teenagers know everything, and their parents nothing. It's been around for ages.
Are they going to pay up $$$ big or sue? If they sue how long will .NET be delayed.
Check ebay. You can get brand new Geforce3's for about $300-$325.
If it's supposed to be so successful, then why are all the company insiders selling the stock like there is no tommorrow?
It's coming. We have about three weeks left.
Get a cell phone. I make all personal calls via cell phone.
Somehow I don't think Wall Street is going to go for this. Who would actually lend money to a "company" that plans to give it's software away. How would the interest get repaid? What about the principal?
Can't anybody do this in their head?
Their installed base and proprietary nature was a good weapon against MS. Now that all IM's will work together you can as well use MM, or any other client. Why use AOL? Just use whatever came with XP. No reason for AOL to get advertising revenue since the number of AIM clients may drop. Can anybody give a reason why I'm wrong?
I could have kicked his ass for half the price.
National Geographic is way ahead of you.
Not to mention having some lions and hyenas hunt some helpless tourists. National Geographic and Nature on PBS will be history.
May even be good for crime, since seeing the punishment may prevent violent crime.
I like to think that genomics is the ultimate in the Law of Natural Selection. Every living thing wants to breed with only the healthiest and strongest of it's species. And just like Gattaca we will soon have that power. In a few hundred years this application of natural selection may breed out most genetic diseases naturally instead of having to rely on drugs.
here we come? I just love it when sci-fi becomes fact.
MS is crying OpenSource is bad now just so they can push .NET onto people using Windows XP as the delivery vehicle.
If it succeeds in a few years they won't care what OS you use. Just as long as you log onto Passport and transact some kind of business through .NET. That way MS will get paid it's tax just like they do now on every new PC sold.
To get ther they'll have to use Windows as a stepping stone. Throw all of their Internet properties into the user's face when they first boot up. Try to get as many users to sign on until they become as big as AOL. It worked for AOL with their CD's.
That was one of the most stupid things of the last 60 years. Personally i wouldn't mind having one company to deal with instead going thru 20 differerent statements and a money management program to watch my finances. What's wrong with banks being stock brokers and insurance salesmen?
Oh wait, the governement needs to control us stupid little ordinary people. We are too dumb to figure out what's best for us.
Just one question, where does the original art come from. I bet none of it is from Taiwanese artists. Only countries with strong IP protestion have viable entertainment industries with new works of art constantly being produced. Because of piracy the Hong Kong movie industry has contracted by 90% in the 1990's. Maybe that's why Jackie Chan came to America.