Let's see, AOL owns CNN now. AOL TV is based on TIVO. And everyone knows how AOL values it's customers' privacy. Why would they have a negative story on a company they do business with?
Products like the GeForce3 are the reasons why Nvidia is flying high and 3dfx is out of business. Now who was really going to buy a huge video card that needed it's own power supply? I wonder how many people were going to buy it only to find out it wouldn't fit into their present machine.
I think at first everybody thought one of these was going to be the next MS or Oracle, but then reality set in. It took Microsoft almost 20 years to reach it's current point. As with the.com euphoria everybody thought these "New Economy" companies would establish well known brand names in 12-18 months instead of the usuall decade or so.
Sounds like a real company with decent margins. Have to check them out and keep an eye out on them. My Sun and Extreme Networks shares haven't been doing too well.
What's wrong with Linux is that it's hard to make money only on support. MS, Sun and other companies charge you per server, per seat, per processor and any other per they can think of. Where with Linux GM can buy a copy of Redhat from Amazon and install it on all of their machines. Then hire a few Linux admins to run it all. Total revenue for Redhat is $50.
I haven't looked at the prospectus, but do they make any money unlike most Linux companies. Does anybody know what differentiates them from Redhat, VA Linux and the others?
Are they just another me too Linux company that somehow plans to make money from tech support?
Quite a few data thefts occur straight out of a company's database. Take Macy's or any other retailer as an example. When you make a purchase at a B&M store your credit card # and other info is most likely stored in the same database as the online purchases. Why have different systems? And even at B&M stores the card number is still sent over the Internet. The card has to be verified somehow. One time credit cards aren't the answer. I don't see American consumers carrying 20 cards at a time. This problem isn't going to go away until security is taken seriously.
www.microsoft.com/technet has a link for security bulletins and updates that haven't yet appeared on WindowsUpdate. One of the patches disables WindowsUpdate. It is a security risk itself.
The shop I work in has a program called StatOnline that scans workstations and servers and tells you any updates you need to install or configuration changes to make. Curiously some of the updates already have w2ksp2 as part of the title.
Once again people start whining that big business is going to be successful again. If people here think AOL is so bad,then why don't you sell $3 billion in bonds and start laying fiber optics. Start your own company.
The WSJ had an interview with ATT's CEO a few months back. His opinion was that the 30% local subscriber limit only created local monopolies. Which is right.
Cable company A owns most of the business in a small city. Company B comes in and spends tens of millions of $$$ to dig up streets and capture some of the business. Company A has bad service and rips it's customers off. Company B starts capturing customers but then has to stop at 30% of the town. So company B stops it's expansion, cuts customer service to save costs and moves on to the next town. Both companies settle in and competition stops because there is no incentive. Only the government can think of this stuff up.
There is a reason it's huge. A MS Service pack will patch all versions of Windows. SP1 for Win2000 will patch Pro thru Advanced Server. And it has replacement files for all the components even if you don't have all of them installed.
Why dress up in a SF costume and let the whole world know you're a geek? Last Halloween a store in NJ was selling convict costumes, just like in the NJ prison system. That is a real costume. Show the world you're an individual who's not bound by civilized society.
Sold my Celera stock last week. Thinking of buying at back again. If I do then everyone here will start paying me royalties just for living. No royalties, no DNA for you.
I wonder what the qualifications are for working in the Patent Office? With the millions of patents out there and so many being applied for every day, how do they keep track of what is legit? How can they tell if someone is trying to patent an "invention" that already exists.
And Stephen King stopped publishing "The Plant" because people were downloading, but not paying. The whole idea of a starving artist turning out art, just for the sake of artw hile living in poverty is a fantasy. Everybody wants to be paid for their work.
Personally I find it ironic that a bunch of programmers or other techies who make somewhere around six figures(US) are advocating that a group of people give away the fruit of their labors for free. I challenge that person to run a network or write code for a few months for minimum wage salary.
Then we come around full circle to some sort of secure music. Artists do want to get paid. And reading some Internet message boards, there are a lot of people who want free music thru Napster.
Until there is some way to secure music, I don't see this becoming very successful. Without a source of income how will the artists pay rent and for their computers, much less purchase food. Until a secure music format comes along I see this as a hobby for the wanna be's, but not as a serious career.
If you don't believe me that artists want to get paid, Hollywood is a perfect example. Screenwriters, actors and a host of other people behind the scenes want to get paid on a per copy basis, rather than one time payments. They want it so much they might go on strike this summer.
Here is what would make me buy a PDA:
16bit color screen
Basic PDA functions (email, calendar, contacts)
MP3 player
ebook reader
Internet access (online or offline)
Last week I finally bought a PDA. I was going to buy a Palm 3c, but ended up getting a PocketPC HP Jornada. The screen quality and and the feature set did it for me. And the fact that I can get a 1GB microdrive and have a ready collection of MP3's, books, pictures and anything else I could want.
The bad is it's Windows based. Pocket Word and Excel aren't needed. The OS is clunky. I'm still learning how to use it, but I don't think Alt-CTRL-DEL belongs on a PDA(HP task swither). And you actually have to use the task switcher to close apps. I noticed it getting slower after two days, then saw that I had IE and the book reader each open a few times. Who wants to put up with this on a PDA?
Sounds like another company that can't decide what to sell. First they coudn't compete in graphics, now the management decided they will compete in interactive TV. If that fails what's next. Sounds like a dot.com that'll probably die this year.
Some of these.com's like pseudo had pretty good ideas, just too early. Maybe in a decade or so when every home has a fiber line to support the required bandwith. Who wants to watch a shoe that's 2" by 2"?
Others I still can't understand. Somebody thought they can run a website or do something with the Internet. They get milions of $$$, but have no plans to make a profit. Wall St bids their stock to unimaginable prices, and finally this year reality set in. Peter Lynch must be laughing everytime he watches CNBC.
It's not really the laws, but the court cases. The true test of a law is how it gets interpreted by the legal system, and in what part of the country. Interprtation of laws differ from state to state and throughout diferent circuits of the federal court system.
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Let's see, AOL owns CNN now. AOL TV is based on TIVO. And everyone knows how AOL values it's customers' privacy. Why would they have a negative story on a company they do business with?
Products like the GeForce3 are the reasons why Nvidia is flying high and 3dfx is out of business. Now who was really going to buy a huge video card that needed it's own power supply? I wonder how many people were going to buy it only to find out it wouldn't fit into their present machine.
I think at first everybody thought one of these was going to be the next MS or Oracle, but then reality set in. It took Microsoft almost 20 years to reach it's current point. As with the .com euphoria everybody thought these "New Economy" companies would establish well known brand names in 12-18 months instead of the usuall decade or so.
Sounds like a real company with decent margins. Have to check them out and keep an eye out on them. My Sun and Extreme Networks shares haven't been doing too well. What's wrong with Linux is that it's hard to make money only on support. MS, Sun and other companies charge you per server, per seat, per processor and any other per they can think of. Where with Linux GM can buy a copy of Redhat from Amazon and install it on all of their machines. Then hire a few Linux admins to run it all. Total revenue for Redhat is $50.
I haven't looked at the prospectus, but do they make any money unlike most Linux companies. Does anybody know what differentiates them from Redhat, VA Linux and the others? Are they just another me too Linux company that somehow plans to make money from tech support?
How about Toy Story, Antz and Bugs?
Quite a few data thefts occur straight out of a company's database. Take Macy's or any other retailer as an example. When you make a purchase at a B&M store your credit card # and other info is most likely stored in the same database as the online purchases. Why have different systems? And even at B&M stores the card number is still sent over the Internet. The card has to be verified somehow. One time credit cards aren't the answer. I don't see American consumers carrying 20 cards at a time. This problem isn't going to go away until security is taken seriously.
www.microsoft.com/technet has a link for security bulletins and updates that haven't yet appeared on WindowsUpdate. One of the patches disables WindowsUpdate. It is a security risk itself. The shop I work in has a program called StatOnline that scans workstations and servers and tells you any updates you need to install or configuration changes to make. Curiously some of the updates already have w2ksp2 as part of the title.
Anybody know the performance difference of SQL 2000 on Win2000 vs NT4? I'm thinking SQL 7 was optimized for NT 4.
Once again people start whining that big business is going to be successful again. If people here think AOL is so bad,then why don't you sell $3 billion in bonds and start laying fiber optics. Start your own company. The WSJ had an interview with ATT's CEO a few months back. His opinion was that the 30% local subscriber limit only created local monopolies. Which is right. Cable company A owns most of the business in a small city. Company B comes in and spends tens of millions of $$$ to dig up streets and capture some of the business. Company A has bad service and rips it's customers off. Company B starts capturing customers but then has to stop at 30% of the town. So company B stops it's expansion, cuts customer service to save costs and moves on to the next town. Both companies settle in and competition stops because there is no incentive. Only the government can think of this stuff up.
And now most European countries are scaling back their social welfare systems.
Why spend all the money on high tech equipment and surgery? Just do what they did on Gilligan's Island. Munch on some radioactive carrots.
There is a reason it's huge. A MS Service pack will patch all versions of Windows. SP1 for Win2000 will patch Pro thru Advanced Server. And it has replacement files for all the components even if you don't have all of them installed.
Windows 98's defrag was from Intel. Windows 2000 disk software is from Veritas if I remember correctly. I'm not sure though.
Why dress up in a SF costume and let the whole world know you're a geek? Last Halloween a store in NJ was selling convict costumes, just like in the NJ prison system. That is a real costume. Show the world you're an individual who's not bound by civilized society.
Sold my Celera stock last week. Thinking of buying at back again. If I do then everyone here will start paying me royalties just for living. No royalties, no DNA for you.
I wonder what the qualifications are for working in the Patent Office? With the millions of patents out there and so many being applied for every day, how do they keep track of what is legit? How can they tell if someone is trying to patent an "invention" that already exists.
And Stephen King stopped publishing "The Plant" because people were downloading, but not paying. The whole idea of a starving artist turning out art, just for the sake of artw hile living in poverty is a fantasy. Everybody wants to be paid for their work. Personally I find it ironic that a bunch of programmers or other techies who make somewhere around six figures(US) are advocating that a group of people give away the fruit of their labors for free. I challenge that person to run a network or write code for a few months for minimum wage salary.
Then we come around full circle to some sort of secure music. Artists do want to get paid. And reading some Internet message boards, there are a lot of people who want free music thru Napster. Until there is some way to secure music, I don't see this becoming very successful. Without a source of income how will the artists pay rent and for their computers, much less purchase food. Until a secure music format comes along I see this as a hobby for the wanna be's, but not as a serious career. If you don't believe me that artists want to get paid, Hollywood is a perfect example. Screenwriters, actors and a host of other people behind the scenes want to get paid on a per copy basis, rather than one time payments. They want it so much they might go on strike this summer.
OK, making music is one thing. How about distribution? How is an unknown artist going to get his new home made CD on the shelves of HMV or Wal Mart?
It's so true. So that's why half my users write down their passwords and keep them within 2 feet of their computers.
Here is what would make me buy a PDA: 16bit color screen Basic PDA functions (email, calendar, contacts) MP3 player ebook reader Internet access (online or offline) Last week I finally bought a PDA. I was going to buy a Palm 3c, but ended up getting a PocketPC HP Jornada. The screen quality and and the feature set did it for me. And the fact that I can get a 1GB microdrive and have a ready collection of MP3's, books, pictures and anything else I could want. The bad is it's Windows based. Pocket Word and Excel aren't needed. The OS is clunky. I'm still learning how to use it, but I don't think Alt-CTRL-DEL belongs on a PDA(HP task swither). And you actually have to use the task switcher to close apps. I noticed it getting slower after two days, then saw that I had IE and the book reader each open a few times. Who wants to put up with this on a PDA?
Sounds like another company that can't decide what to sell. First they coudn't compete in graphics, now the management decided they will compete in interactive TV. If that fails what's next. Sounds like a dot.com that'll probably die this year.
Some of these .com's like pseudo had pretty good ideas, just too early. Maybe in a decade or so when every home has a fiber line to support the required bandwith. Who wants to watch a shoe that's 2" by 2"?
Others I still can't understand. Somebody thought they can run a website or do something with the Internet. They get milions of $$$, but have no plans to make a profit. Wall St bids their stock to unimaginable prices, and finally this year reality set in. Peter Lynch must be laughing everytime he watches CNBC.
It's not really the laws, but the court cases. The true test of a law is how it gets interpreted by the legal system, and in what part of the country. Interprtation of laws differ from state to state and throughout diferent circuits of the federal court system.