I don't think the raw market share percentages are what they are looking at when comparing Macs and linux. How many people who own *only* a mac are going to play UT? Macs bill themselves as the computer for people who really want to spend as little time as possible in front of it. Additionally, many of the game servers will run on linux. So even if they didn't release a linux client they still would have definitely released a the server.
I agree that you should buy low and sell high of course:) I personally look for companies that are trading lower not because they are struggling(as AMD is), but because some external factor has caused them to go down. These days where the market just tumbles down because of the color of Greenspans breifcase leaves many opportunities to buy good stock in good companies at bargain prices. Look for companies with a distressed stock price and not a distressed balance sheet -- those are the gems.
I like AMD stuff as much as the next/.er, but as a business this delay IS really bad news for them. They need this new chip so that they can break into the server market where they can actually make some money. Their other businesses(flash memory, memory, etc...) are particularly weak right now because of lack of demand. Using their numbers for the first quarter of this year taken off of their 8-k they had:
$902,073,000 sales $684,000,000 from procs $160,000,000 from other
That means that their processor business makes up nearly 76% of their revenue. If their proc business truly went south, AMD would be done. Since they do have a lot of assets(fabs, IP, etc) INTC or IBM or another big chip player would just buy them before they ever truly went under.
Wow! To the parent and the next parent you two sure are betting a lot on AMD and the technology sector as a whole. Having a stock be 50% of your portfolio is generally too much unless you have direct influence in the company. Even then it is usually still excesive.
My question is why invest in either of them at all right now? The tech sector as a whole sucks and doesn't look like it is going to improve anytime soon. Intel released its forward outlook the other day and said that they don't see PC demand even picking up for Christmas. Notice they didn't say Intel procs, but PC's as a whole. With the recent news of the delay, a current EPS of -1.15, and many analysts pointing out that AMD is losing market share to Intel it would seem that there are better places to put your money right now other than in the chip makers.
NVDA is a slightly different story, but still suffers from the same lack of PC demand that the chipmakers suffer from. Financially they look better (although there have been some questions to that which is what triggered the massive drop a while back), and they are the leader of their segment(always a good thing). Additionally, NVDA really needs the xbox to sell well. That was what made them run up like they did(when MS announced them) and probably part of their backtrace(when MS said the Xbox wasn't selling that great). Also, with the console price wars in full swing you have to think that MS is passing some of their losses back to NVDA.
Another thing to keep in mind is that you are invested in companies that generally tech minded people end up buying from. There are many techies out of work right now (with no real end in sight), thus they don't buy any new toys.
I guess I just fail to see how either of these companies can be a good "investment" when on the paranoia down days we have been having, you can find good companies that have a dividend yield of 5+%. Then again it is your money;-)
I went through the school the "normal" way. I went to high school then to college and now I am working. I did work 20-30hrs/week while in college and as a consequence I had very little social life(outside class that is) while there, but to me that was ok. I wish I could have just kept going and got a masters in cs, but I needed the money and had to move onto making some;) Now, I am trying to make and save enough money so that I can go back to school and work part time.
Some questions I think you should ask yourself is why do you want to go back to school? If you are running your own business successfully will getting more schooling help? Perhaps you can concentrate on growing your business to the point where you can sell it or have enough free time to go back to school.
Just remember that while in school you only get out what you put in. The more time that you can put into learning by reading, and conversing with other students/teachers the more enjoyable experience you will have.
From reading the apple site it seems that it is the other way around - most Mac OS 9 apps will run on OS X.
Geeks know how different Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X is from top-to-bottom, but they both have a Carbon API and you can code one app that runs in both places and looks good in both places.
While Carbon is a nice api to help the migration to OS X even apple says that not all Carbon features are supported on each platform. It seems that if an app is coded to use all of the OS X features then it will only run on OS X.
So, I think you came up with the excuse (what MS might tell you) rather than the actual reason.
I don't really see how it was an excuse, but a possible valid reason as to why a piece of software acts the way it does. Additionally, with all the fluff that MS likes to put into their products, if they had gotten skins working and were still able to have office XP installed on all the various platforms they must support I'm sure they would have done it.
Apple already tried a skinnable OS with Mac OS 8 and once it was up and running these kinds of slippery slope problems all appeared and they gave up. If Apple can't make a feature seamless enough for them, imagine how little chance MS has of making it seamless given the variety of other systemic problems Windows has.
If apple can't do it no one can? LMAO! Steve...is that you?
Office XP, although XP branded, supports none of XP's skinning abilities.
I wonder if it is because Office XP, IIRC, will run on win98/win2k/winxp. The office team has to code to the lowest common denominator there and attempt to get the same functionality out of it as they will from xp. In contrast, OSX apps will run on only OSX and not also have to run on other OS's that may or may not have the UI controls natively installed.
I'm 6' 3" and 205; I'm hoping to even out about about 180 or so
LOL, I'm about 6' 1" 180 trying to get to 200;) I eat tons of healthy stuff, but I think that I am just too active to gain any weight. Between the gym, surfing, and golf (4 hours walking in the heat IS exercise) I stay fairly active. I typically view myself as too thin, so instead of taking down the 205 to 180 you should work on using the stored energy you have there and turning it to muscle:)
The problem is that music as a whole is subjective. Some people like it with a lot of bass, others like it bright. I'm sure that most people are being honest when they say that they like the sound of ogg over mp3 or vise versa. That is why you really have to do the testing yourself (or you can wait for someone with a similar "ear" for music to test for you).
About the only way I could think of the really test the two formats is to overlay a graph of the outputs of the.wav,.mp3, and.ogg and see which of the formats differ most from the.wav. This method would also have inherent problems because you are only looking at raw output and not what you may possibly hear. Thus, while one format may "look" better than the other it may sound the same or worse depending on which parts of the music it cut out.
Couldn't the same "explosion" of deaths be caused by an explosion in population? Higher population without more food then causes starvation. Every late night on TV I see organizations asking for money to feed the starving children all over Africa.
I am also skeptical of the AIDS figures that are coming out of poor nations. Even if the doc in the subject is wrong about lack of actual testing it does make you wonder about the methodology. If the country doesn't have enough money to buy drugs to fight the disease then how do they afford to test everyone at over $100 a pop?
I'm not defending or advocating the site, but RTFWS.
If you had READ the site he says that people in SA show a lot of AID like symptons like diarehha, weight loss, etc... b/c they are malnurished and don't live in the most sanitary of places.
One of the more intersting things that he says is the way the U.S. classifies people as having AIDs. For example if you have TB, then you have TB. If you have TB + HIV antibodies then you have AIDS.
Is this guy a crackpot? Who knows(he has articles from nobel prize winners on his site), but in any case it's an interesting read and makes you wonder about what the media has been feeding us for years about the disease.
Someones computer clockspeed won't disqualify them, but lack of genuine interest in technology will. An easy way to check interest is how by gauging how much of the applicants personal time is spent tinkering, etc... with computers. I expect an applicant to a highly technical position to have at minimum two machines at home(preferably self built and networked). They don't have to be state of the art brand new machines, but having a single 486 at home just so you can check e-mail won't cut it.
About 1 in 10 candidates get the join part. 1 in 15 get it all right.
If thats the case then I don't think I will ever find a person who knows SQL for a position we are looking to fill.
The question you ask above seems way to easy for anyone who puts SQL on thier resume. I usually start with something requiring an left/right join to test SQL knowledge. Something along the lines of (using your tables and adding the customer table to the mix) show me all the customers from a table "customers", and a count of their orders(which of course may be zero).
How is parsing web pages and pulling out relevant data screen scraping? Sounds more like parsing html to me. True screen scraping is when you link into the screens buffer and pull data from particular points on the screen.
Or did no one ever teach you about Ctrl+Alt++ or Ctrl+Alt+-?
This only works if all your possible resolutions are previously set up in the config file. Also, how will a new user learn the key combo you described?
I drink lots of wine:) My goal in drinking lots of wine is to find good wine(defined as wine that I like) that is also inexpensive.
We must define what we think is "cheap" wine(keep in mind that this will also vary based on grape type, etc.... Plus, French wine is horribly overpriced now. The California wines are cheaper and ofter much better quality than their French counterparts.) Ok, back to my point:) I think you can find inexpensive good wine around 8$-10$, and expensive is anything over $30 a bottle. Now, can a person who has drank some wine tell the difference between a good $10 bottle and a $2 bottle of jug wine? I would argue that typically yes. Can this same person tell the difference between the 10$ bottle of good wine and the 30$ bottle? Probably not.
I know that expensive does not always equal good and cheap does not always equal bad all the time, but at some point cost to produce and price must come into the mix. If you want to try a bottle of the cheap stuff;), the australians are making some really good inexpensive wines right now. The Rosemount stuff is particularly good and only around 10$/bottle. The shiraz and a pizza are a really good combo.
If it is good wine I would by all I can at 2$ a bottle. The problem is that more frequently then not you do "get what you pay for" with wine and many other things. In SAP DB's case it's just not a very good database.
SELECT * FROM tbl1 JOIN tbl2 ON tbl1.a = tbl2.a WHERE tbl1.b = 1
Slightly OT, you know something that really bugs about rdbms in general? It's that their query processors still aren't as good as they should be. Now if we can agree that this query should return the same results as the previous query:
SELECT * FROM tbl1, tbl2 WHERE tbl1.a = tbl2.a AND tbl1.b = 1
You would think that the query processor would turn these into the same internal data retrieval algorithm, but on many databases it doesn't. On one vendors database in particular one of these queries would run quickly while the other would run out of temp space. It will be nice when vendors really start to get this stuff right.
I totally agree. Using mysql is going to be an exercise in frustration for anyone who has used a real rdbms before. Some things like foreign keys you can do without in your careful (just hope no one else on your team executes a query that orphans records in another table). Things like subselects and views on the other hand are requirements(MSSQL has a really cool thing called partitioned views...awesome for storing dated data). It totally baffles me that mysql didn't even have the UNION clause until ver. 4. Can you use SQL 92 syntax yet and do your joins in the FROM clause or do you still have to do them in the WHERE clause?
Mysql needs to be careful with the features it adds. It holds a niche market on web sites that need a fast primarily read only db right now. When they start adding features like stored procs, views, etc... they WILL take a performance hit. Then people will be asking themselves why not just use postgres or informix or any of the pay to play dbs since these dbs already implement all these wanted features and have been around and tested for awhile.
Actually you could argue that the leader in the market is the one that sets the standards. Way back when Netscape was the market leading browser they created a lot of tags that were outside of standards because the W3C was too slow to adopt new things. To compete IE had to support these NS "standards" and thats what they did. Now that IE is the leader(like it or not) they are in the driver seat.
Now, I like standards as much as the next guy, but don't dilute yourself. Standards bodies typically move much slower than the market so the market must move forward without them. Additionaly, for Moz to get anywhere they are going to have to support nearly everything that IE does - standard or not.
Your statement (and many like it) assumes the general public is idiotic and incompetent, unable to discern what they really want in a product.
In general the public is idiotic and incompetent to discern what they really want in a software product. The public may know their own businesses, but generally has no clue what is even capable with software. To say otherwise means you have never worked with real users to design custom software for them.
But what would OSS have to gain from another person using their software?
More testers, more proponents, etc... By your logic why should any OSS developers release their code? It sounds that by releasing the code and letting people use it just hassles the developers.
OSS should want to stop traditional software piracy. When people can't get those expensive programs for free anymore(ms office anyone?) they will either pay the price, find an alternative, or do without. I would bet that most of the time a free OSS alternative will do just fine for the average user. This could actually cause a increase in the usage of OSS.
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I don't think the raw market share percentages are what they are looking at when comparing Macs and linux. How many people who own *only* a mac are going to play UT? Macs bill themselves as the computer for people who really want to spend as little time as possible in front of it. Additionally, many of the game servers will run on linux. So even if they didn't release a linux client they still would have definitely released a the server.
Buy low, sell high?
:) I personally look for companies that are trading lower not because they are struggling(as AMD is), but because some external factor has caused them to go down. These days where the market just tumbles down because of the color of Greenspans breifcase leaves many opportunities to buy good stock in good companies at bargain prices. Look for companies with a distressed stock price and not a distressed balance sheet -- those are the gems.
I agree that you should buy low and sell high of course
I like AMD stuff as much as the next /.er, but as a business this delay IS really bad news for them. They need this new chip so that they can break into the server market where they can actually make some money. Their other businesses(flash memory, memory, etc...) are particularly weak right now because of lack of demand. Using their numbers for the first quarter of this year taken off of their 8-k they had:
$902,073,000 sales
$684,000,000 from procs
$160,000,000 from other
That means that their processor business makes up nearly 76% of their revenue. If their proc business truly went south, AMD would be done. Since they do have a lot of assets(fabs, IP, etc) INTC or IBM or another big chip player would just buy them before they ever truly went under.
Wow! To the parent and the next parent you two sure are betting a lot on AMD and the technology sector as a whole. Having a stock be 50% of your portfolio is generally too much unless you have direct influence in the company. Even then it is usually still excesive.
;-)
My question is why invest in either of them at all right now? The tech sector as a whole sucks and doesn't look like it is going to improve anytime soon. Intel released its forward outlook the other day and said that they don't see PC demand even picking up for Christmas. Notice they didn't say Intel procs, but PC's as a whole. With the recent news of the delay, a current EPS of -1.15, and many analysts pointing out that AMD is losing market share to Intel it would seem that there are better places to put your money right now other than in the chip makers.
NVDA is a slightly different story, but still suffers from the same lack of PC demand that the chipmakers suffer from. Financially they look better (although there have been some questions to that which is what triggered the massive drop a while back), and they are the leader of their segment(always a good thing). Additionally, NVDA really needs the xbox to sell well. That was what made them run up like they did(when MS announced them) and probably part of their backtrace(when MS said the Xbox wasn't selling that great). Also, with the console price wars in full swing you have to think that MS is passing some of their losses back to NVDA.
Another thing to keep in mind is that you are invested in companies that generally tech minded people end up buying from. There are many techies out of work right now (with no real end in sight), thus they don't buy any new toys.
I guess I just fail to see how either of these companies can be a good "investment" when on the paranoia down days we have been having, you can find good companies that have a dividend yield of 5+%. Then again it is your money
I went through the school the "normal" way. I went to high school then to college and now I am working. I did work 20-30hrs/week while in college and as a consequence I had very little social life(outside class that is) while there, but to me that was ok. I wish I could have just kept going and got a masters in cs, but I needed the money and had to move onto making some ;) Now, I am trying to make and save enough money so that I can go back to school and work part time.
Some questions I think you should ask yourself is why do you want to go back to school? If you are running your own business successfully will getting more schooling help? Perhaps you can concentrate on growing your business to the point where you can sell it or have enough free time to go back to school.
Just remember that while in school you only get out what you put in. The more time that you can put into learning by reading, and conversing with other students/teachers the more enjoyable experience you will have.
Many (most?) Mac OS X apps also run on Mac OS 9.
From reading the apple site it seems that it is the other way around - most Mac OS 9 apps will run on OS X.
Geeks know how different Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X is from top-to-bottom, but they both have a Carbon API and you can code one app that runs in both places and looks good in both places.
While Carbon is a nice api to help the migration to OS X even apple says that not all Carbon features are supported on each platform. It seems that if an app is coded to use all of the OS X features then it will only run on OS X.
So, I think you came up with the excuse (what MS might tell you) rather than the actual reason.
I don't really see how it was an excuse, but a possible valid reason as to why a piece of software acts the way it does. Additionally, with all the fluff that MS likes to put into their products, if they had gotten skins working and were still able to have office XP installed on all the various platforms they must support I'm sure they would have done it.
Apple already tried a skinnable OS with Mac OS 8 and once it was up and running these kinds of slippery slope problems all appeared and they gave up. If Apple can't make a feature seamless enough for them, imagine how little chance MS has of making it seamless given the variety of other systemic problems Windows has.
If apple can't do it no one can? LMAO! Steve...is that you?
Office XP, although XP branded, supports none of XP's skinning abilities.
I wonder if it is because Office XP, IIRC, will run on win98/win2k/winxp. The office team has to code to the lowest common denominator there and attempt to get the same functionality out of it as they will from xp. In contrast, OSX apps will run on only OSX and not also have to run on other OS's that may or may not have the UI controls natively installed.
I'm 6' 3" and 205; I'm hoping to even out about about 180 or so
;) I eat tons of healthy stuff, but I think that I am just too active to gain any weight. Between the gym, surfing, and golf (4 hours walking in the heat IS exercise) I stay fairly active. I typically view myself as too thin, so instead of taking down the 205 to 180 you should work on using the stored energy you have there and turning it to muscle :)
LOL, I'm about 6' 1" 180 trying to get to 200
that is not just one person's subjective opinion?
.wav, .mp3, and .ogg and see which of the formats differ most from the .wav. This method would also have inherent problems because you are only looking at raw output and not what you may possibly hear. Thus, while one format may "look" better than the other it may sound the same or worse depending on which parts of the music it cut out.
The problem is that music as a whole is subjective. Some people like it with a lot of bass, others like it bright. I'm sure that most people are being honest when they say that they like the sound of ogg over mp3 or vise versa. That is why you really have to do the testing yourself (or you can wait for someone with a similar "ear" for music to test for you).
About the only way I could think of the really test the two formats is to overlay a graph of the outputs of the
Couldn't the same "explosion" of deaths be caused by an explosion in population? Higher population without more food then causes starvation. Every late night on TV I see organizations asking for money to feed the starving children all over Africa.
I am also skeptical of the AIDS figures that are coming out of poor nations. Even if the doc in the subject is wrong about lack of actual testing it does make you wonder about the methodology. If the country doesn't have enough money to buy drugs to fight the disease then how do they afford to test everyone at over $100 a pop?
I'm not defending or advocating the site, but RTFWS.
If you had READ the site he says that people in SA show a lot of AID like symptons like diarehha, weight loss, etc... b/c they are malnurished and don't live in the most sanitary of places.
One of the more intersting things that he says is the way the U.S. classifies people as having AIDs. For example if you have TB, then you have TB. If you have TB + HIV antibodies then you have AIDS.
Is this guy a crackpot? Who knows(he has articles from nobel prize winners on his site), but in any case it's an interesting read and makes you wonder about what the media has been feeding us for years about the disease.
Someones computer clockspeed won't disqualify them, but lack of genuine interest in technology will. An easy way to check interest is how by gauging how much of the applicants personal time is spent tinkering, etc... with computers. I expect an applicant to a highly technical position to have at minimum two machines at home(preferably self built and networked). They don't have to be state of the art brand new machines, but having a single 486 at home just so you can check e-mail won't cut it.
About 1 in 10 candidates get the join part. 1 in 15 get it all right.
If thats the case then I don't think I will ever find a person who knows SQL for a position we are looking to fill.
The question you ask above seems way to easy for anyone who puts SQL on thier resume. I usually start with something requiring an left/right join to test SQL knowledge. Something along the lines of (using your tables and adding the customer table to the mix) show me all the customers from a table "customers", and a count of their orders(which of course may be zero).
How is parsing web pages and pulling out relevant data screen scraping? Sounds more like parsing html to me. True screen scraping is when you link into the screens buffer and pull data from particular points on the screen.
I personally want to show up on E's Wild On, but hey thats just me ;)
Or did no one ever teach you about Ctrl+Alt++ or Ctrl+Alt+-?
This only works if all your possible resolutions are previously set up in the config file. Also, how will a new user learn the key combo you described?
I drink lots of wine :) My goal in drinking lots of wine is to find good wine(defined as wine that I like) that is also inexpensive.
:) I think you can find inexpensive good wine around 8$-10$, and expensive is anything over $30 a bottle. Now, can a person who has drank some wine tell the difference between a good $10 bottle and a $2 bottle of jug wine? I would argue that typically yes. Can this same person tell the difference between the 10$ bottle of good wine and the 30$ bottle? Probably not.
;), the australians are making some really good inexpensive wines right now. The Rosemount stuff is particularly good and only around 10$/bottle. The shiraz and a pizza are a really good combo.
We must define what we think is "cheap" wine(keep in mind that this will also vary based on grape type, etc.... Plus, French wine is horribly overpriced now. The California wines are cheaper and ofter much better quality than their French counterparts.) Ok, back to my point
I know that expensive does not always equal good and cheap does not always equal bad all the time, but at some point cost to produce and price must come into the mix. If you want to try a bottle of the cheap stuff
If it is good wine I would by all I can at 2$ a bottle. The problem is that more frequently then not you do "get what you pay for" with wine and many other things. In SAP DB's case it's just not a very good database.
Correct, or some variation there of:
SELECT *
FROM tbl1 JOIN tbl2 ON tbl1.a = tbl2.a
WHERE tbl1.b = 1
Slightly OT, you know something that really bugs about rdbms in general? It's that their query processors still aren't as good as they should be. Now if we can agree that this query should return the same results as the previous query:
SELECT *
FROM tbl1, tbl2
WHERE tbl1.a = tbl2.a
AND tbl1.b = 1
You would think that the query processor would turn these into the same internal data retrieval algorithm, but on many databases it doesn't. On one vendors database in particular one of these queries would run quickly while the other would run out of temp space. It will be nice when vendors really start to get this stuff right.
I totally agree. Using mysql is going to be an exercise in frustration for anyone who has used a real rdbms before. Some things like foreign keys you can do without in your careful (just hope no one else on your team executes a query that orphans records in another table). Things like subselects and views on the other hand are requirements(MSSQL has a really cool thing called partitioned views...awesome for storing dated data). It totally baffles me that mysql didn't even have the UNION clause until ver. 4. Can you use SQL 92 syntax yet and do your joins in the FROM clause or do you still have to do them in the WHERE clause?
Mysql needs to be careful with the features it adds. It holds a niche market on web sites that need a fast primarily read only db right now. When they start adding features like stored procs, views, etc... they WILL take a performance hit. Then people will be asking themselves why not just use postgres or informix or any of the pay to play dbs since these dbs already implement all these wanted features and have been around and tested for awhile.
W3C [w3c.org] sets HTML standards.
Actually you could argue that the leader in the market is the one that sets the standards. Way back when Netscape was the market leading browser they created a lot of tags that were outside of standards because the W3C was too slow to adopt new things. To compete IE had to support these NS "standards" and thats what they did. Now that IE is the leader(like it or not) they are in the driver seat.
Now, I like standards as much as the next guy, but don't dilute yourself. Standards bodies typically move much slower than the market so the market must move forward without them. Additionaly, for Moz to get anywhere they are going to have to support nearly everything that IE does - standard or not.
Your statement (and many like it) assumes the general public is idiotic and incompetent, unable to discern what they really want in a product.
In general the public is idiotic and incompetent to discern what they really want in a software product. The public may know their own businesses, but generally has no clue what is even capable with software. To say otherwise means you have never worked with real users to design custom software for them.
But what would OSS have to gain from another person using their software?
More testers, more proponents, etc... By your logic why should any OSS developers release their code? It sounds that by releasing the code and letting people use it just hassles the developers.
OSS should want to stop traditional software piracy. When people can't get those expensive programs for free anymore(ms office anyone?) they will either pay the price, find an alternative, or do without. I would bet that most of the time a free OSS alternative will do just fine for the average user. This could actually cause a increase in the usage of OSS.