It is amazing that it has taken this long, and maybe a good thing for a movie to come out. Will always remember the cartoon on Saturday mornings, and playing the two versions of D&D for the intellivision, and of course the role playing game......Hope they do it justice.......
Not so sure if seperating their efforts in development to target to different environments is such a good idea. Divide and Conquer still remains, so why divide yourself? Trying to seperate the desktop / server market is getting harder and harder anyways, seems like it would be better to have apps that will run on both. Of course what am I thinking, actually being able to run one single app on multiple platforms....Java, yeh right, that worked well.
Seems like there are an awful lot of people trying to change the world, or thinking they can. Maybe if we had less people trying to change the world, and just selling plastic, or doing whatever it is they do best, then the world would change it's dang self!
Seems like I have noticed to much on actual betting on the Net...Is there that much of it going on? Should be the perfect environment for it, and would make it a lot easier. Are there any plans to open an E-commerce site allowing you to bet with credit cards, on say your favorite sports or presidential elections, or whether or not Hillary where's a wig? Like Ebet.com seems reasonable.
Don't know much about XML but it would be one more thing a person would have to learn before they could begin to write an app worth using. Could go either way, should improve the software that is developed, because you wouuld have to know all of the tools. But it might also deter some good programmers who don't want to learn/don't have time to learn/or are to stubborn to learn a new way of doing things. It might still be easier to parse your own config rather than including a library and learning how to use it.....
I still like the idea of the discman like mp3 player posted a while ago. This goes back tot he point that the competition isn't between Mp3 and cds because mp3 is a file format, cd is a media format. The competition is between mp3 and cdda, and cd with tape, lp, 8-track, DAT, and whatever else comes along, aka memory sticks......Give me a portable mp3 player that reads cds, and some mozarella cheese sticks.......
...This is an important new concept that needs to be looked at. Seems like open source works pretty well but there is still a lot of over development being done, I know this debate has existed between desktop environments etc, but it seems like on things that are smaller projects there could be a lot of effort put into existing projects or starting new projects rather than writing another ftp client when there are already 30 of them.
Nope they don't ever have to, only if they want to use the open market as a way to generate financing. Goldman Sachs jsut finally this past year went public, and they have been around a while. THere are a number of fairly large companies that are still private, look around you might be surprised. Going public takes financial strain off of the owners (assuming the company does well), and in today's world is almost crucial to call yourself a real player.
Doesn't really have anything to do with the trial, it is unique coincidence but these things typicallly fall on a business calendar, that is they have to post on a certain date because of when their quarter ends etc............. Besides who cares about the final arguments, I am waiting for a decision.
WHy should they make a profit? Profits in this country are taxed, and heavily, certainly the stock holders don't give a rat's ass whether the stock is profitable because they are only holding it for the short run so they aren't looking for a dividend pay out. So why should RedHat show a profit, no shareholders to please (other than the ones that already know this) and no taxes to pay.........
You are severely confused, value is determined in numerous ways. One way, market capitalization, takes into account the price of the stock in an open market, this is the 1200% increase you meant. The 95% is an increase in Revenues only which really doesn't work as a "value" indicator, other than it is a better indicator that the company is doing things well rather than having revenues decreasing. Of course really this is basic business 101 and certainly cna't be summed up in a/. post......I suggest looking up Revenues and Capitalizations in your nearest Investing 101 book..........
M$ has tried to keep linux at "arm's length" as well. And they have some of the longest arms around, if it is one thing about Linux people is that they are fanatical, you can run but you can't hide. on a side note I thought the story was awfully freakin long.........
Only had a couple of Philosophy classes in college, but not sure how many of my professors, and more to the point, how many of the philosophers we studied would endorse very many of these points. Think we better decide how it is and whether it is that we even have "intelligence" or consciousness before we can even consider "creating" something else that does. And by creation I mean something beyond "Pro-creation", which at its best is duplication (but not even really.......)
Sooner or later you would hope market economics would catch up with them and people would pay a little more for a better product/service, but then again for some reason the M$'s and Meijer's and AOL's, Budweiser's of the world continue to grow...
Yep but you have forgotten that all of those people burning MP3's also have friends that don't have a computer or aren't savvy enough to use it to this extent. I also know that my computer is upstairs while my home theater is down stairs, major bummer that way but I haven't figured out much way around that.
Doesn't seem to say anything about whether or not this little gem takes care of the problem that Playstations only recognize CD's with a black surface....Does this take care of that problem? Do you still need the "ModChip" so that the playstation can read the Cds that you burn? I don't have a playstation but would definitely buy one if this works and well. Nice that they pulled from existing technology for the interface, not much beats Winamps design.....
My new SUV barely gets 20 MPG that will be impressive to see if and when this were to actually get off the ground (yes pun intended). Of course by the time this does exist, I really hope we still ain't using gas.....
Are we ready to dismiss the whole thing though? There are plenty of things that X does well but there are also plenty of things it does poorly or aren't even planned on being supported. Don't know that much about the Berlin project but we shouldn't nip it in development if it proves to provide a new solution, and uniqueness. How many Load monitors are there written for X, lots...that is not to say that someone shouldn't write a new one to learn, or to add a feature that they cna't find in any other apps already on the market.....I can remember trying to get Enlightenment to run back when Imlib was like.10 and E itself was somewhere around.11.......but the end result has been impressive (even though I am running WM):-)
Reminds me of the ALSA project slamming Creative for not open-sourcing its drivers....should we really be critical of the companies who won't open source their code when they are building drivers, or should we concern ourselves with those producers who won't even acknowledge Linux at all?
>>If people don't adopt SCSL, Sun is likely to drop further free/open source involvement.
This only reasons to stand if they are the only ones using it. If open source becomes as popular as it should then they can't just drop it all together. That is the whole problem M$ will face eventually.
Seems like the number of large computer companies "coming out" is growing, and growing at a faster pace. RedHat's IPO the explanation? Microsoft bad press? Or something else?? Speaking of Brewing -> Have-a-brew.com
...and a marketing end it is absolutely necessary. Although I don't think macintoshes were the first to come up with it. Lots of machines used to look cooler than your plain beige case, Acer made a pretty cool looking case, as does Dell, granted they were horrible to work inside of. Not to mention SUN and SGI has always made cases that looked cool, at least if you were a "techie" granted they were see through....of course it makes you wonder why a see through computer case would catch on but a see through bathing suit is illegal...I think our ideals are messed up personally.
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It is amazing that it has taken this long, and maybe a good thing for a movie to come out. Will always remember the cartoon on Saturday mornings, and playing the two versions of D&D for the intellivision, and of course the role playing game......Hope they do it justice.......
Not so sure if seperating their efforts in development to target to different environments is such a good idea. Divide and Conquer still remains, so why divide yourself? Trying to seperate the desktop / server market is getting harder and harder anyways, seems like it would be better to have apps that will run on both. Of course what am I thinking, actually being able to run one single app on multiple platforms....Java, yeh right, that worked well.
Seems like there are an awful lot of people trying to change the world, or thinking they can. Maybe if we had less people trying to change the world, and just selling plastic, or doing whatever it is they do best, then the world would change it's dang self!
Seems like I have noticed to much on actual betting on the Net...Is there that much of it going on? Should be the perfect environment for it, and would make it a lot easier. Are there any plans to open an E-commerce site allowing you to bet with credit cards, on say your favorite sports or presidential elections, or whether or not Hillary where's a wig? Like Ebet.com seems reasonable.
Don't know much about XML but it would be one more thing a person would have to learn before they could begin to write an app worth using. Could go either way, should improve the software that is developed, because you wouuld have to know all of the tools. But it might also deter some good programmers who don't want to learn/don't have time to learn/or are to stubborn to learn a new way of doing things. It might still be easier to parse your own config rather than including a library and learning how to use it.....
I still like the idea of the discman like mp3 player posted a while ago. This goes back tot he point that the competition isn't between Mp3 and cds because mp3 is a file format, cd is a media format. The competition is between mp3 and cdda, and cd with tape, lp, 8-track, DAT, and whatever else comes along, aka memory sticks......Give me a portable mp3 player that reads cds, and some mozarella cheese sticks.......
...This is an important new concept that needs to be looked at. Seems like open source works pretty well but there is still a lot of over development being done, I know this debate has existed between desktop environments etc, but it seems like on things that are smaller projects there could be a lot of effort put into existing projects or starting new projects rather than writing another ftp client when there are already 30 of them.
Nope they don't ever have to, only if they want to use the open market as a way to generate financing. Goldman Sachs jsut finally this past year went public, and they have been around a while. THere are a number of fairly large companies that are still private, look around you might be surprised. Going public takes financial strain off of the owners (assuming the company does well), and in today's world is almost crucial to call yourself a real player.
huh? The most powerful man in the world is still Alan Greenspan......screw the president, granted Greenspan is in Washington most of the time........
Doesn't really have anything to do with the trial, it is unique coincidence but these things typicallly fall on a business calendar, that is they have to post on a certain date because of when their quarter ends etc............. Besides who cares about the final arguments, I am waiting for a decision.
WHy should they make a profit? Profits in this country are taxed, and heavily, certainly the stock holders don't give a rat's ass whether the stock is profitable because they are only holding it for the short run so they aren't looking for a dividend pay out. So why should RedHat show a profit, no shareholders to please (other than the ones that already know this) and no taxes to pay.........
You are severely confused, value is determined in numerous ways. One way, market capitalization, takes into account the price of the stock in an open market, this is the 1200% increase you meant. The 95% is an increase in Revenues only which really doesn't work as a "value" indicator, other than it is a better indicator that the company is doing things well rather than having revenues decreasing. Of course really this is basic business 101 and certainly cna't be summed up in a /. post......I suggest looking up Revenues and Capitalizations in your nearest Investing 101 book..........
M$ has tried to keep linux at "arm's length" as well. And they have some of the longest arms around, if it is one thing about Linux people is that they are fanatical, you can run but you can't hide. on a side note I thought the story was awfully freakin long.........
Only had a couple of Philosophy classes in college, but not sure how many of my professors, and more to the point, how many of the philosophers we studied would endorse very many of these points. Think we better decide how it is and whether it is that we even have "intelligence" or consciousness before we can even consider "creating" something else that does. And by creation I mean something beyond "Pro-creation", which at its best is duplication (but not even really.......)
Sooner or later you would hope market economics would catch up with them and people would pay a little more for a better product/service, but then again for some reason the M$'s and Meijer's and AOL's, Budweiser's of the world continue to grow...
Yep but you have forgotten that all of those people burning MP3's also have friends that don't have a computer or aren't savvy enough to use it to this extent. I also know that my computer is upstairs while my home theater is down stairs, major bummer that way but I haven't figured out much way around that.
Doesn't seem to say anything about whether or not this little gem takes care of the problem that Playstations only recognize CD's with a black surface....Does this take care of that problem? Do you still need the "ModChip" so that the playstation can read the Cds that you burn? I don't have a playstation but would definitely buy one if this works and well. Nice that they pulled from existing technology for the interface, not much beats Winamps design.....
My new SUV barely gets 20 MPG that will be impressive to see if and when this were to actually get off the ground (yes pun intended). Of course by the time this does exist, I really hope we still ain't using gas.....
Are we ready to dismiss the whole thing though? There are plenty of things that X does well but there are also plenty of things it does poorly or aren't even planned on being supported. Don't know that much about the Berlin project but we shouldn't nip it in development if it proves to provide a new solution, and uniqueness. How many Load monitors are there written for X, lots...that is not to say that someone shouldn't write a new one to learn, or to add a feature that they cna't find in any other apps already on the market.....I can remember trying to get Enlightenment to run back when Imlib was like .10 and E itself was somewhere around .11.......but the end result has been impressive (even though I am running WM) :-)
Reminds me of the ALSA project slamming Creative for not open-sourcing its drivers....should we really be critical of the companies who won't open source their code when they are building drivers, or should we concern ourselves with those producers who won't even acknowledge Linux at all?
This only reasons to stand if they are the only ones using it. If open source becomes as popular as it should then they can't just drop it all together. That is the whole problem M$ will face eventually.
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Seems like the number of large computer companies "coming out" is growing, and growing at a faster pace. RedHat's IPO the explanation? Microsoft bad press? Or something else?? Speaking of Brewing -> Have-a-brew.com
...and a marketing end it is absolutely necessary. Although I don't think macintoshes were the first to come up with it. Lots of machines used to look cooler than your plain beige case, Acer made a pretty cool looking case, as does Dell, granted they were horrible to work inside of. Not to mention SUN and SGI has always made cases that looked cool, at least if you were a "techie" granted they were see through....of course it makes you wonder why a see through computer case would catch on but a see through bathing suit is illegal...I think our ideals are messed up personally.