Agilent isn't doing at all bad for a manufacturer of test equipment, but a dot-com/bomb it isn't. This is more a sort of steady growth typical for the industry rather than the exponential curve so liked by investment bankers.
Unfortunately, new lab equipment is one of the things that gets cut from the budget in tight times. So I don't think that this year will be as good.
HP test gear (now Agilent) was great, unfortunately, it had a relatively low growth potential because one of their greatest competitors was...
themself!
I have known people to accidently drop old HP test equipment so tht it could be retired and anewer model purchased. Unfortunately, the wooden desk was dented but the equipment survived.
OVMS was slated to die a slow death as Compaq had decided NOT to port the operating system to Itanium
This is not what our people heard from their briefing last year. We have been promised that OpenVMS would be on Itanium in a few years, this is nothing to do with the merger. The issue here isn't that Compaq would love us to move to other platforms but like many others we can't kick the cluster habit.
Compaq has a number of agreements that it inherited from Digital and many of those are with the Feds (hard to wriggle out of) for OpenVMS systems over the next 15 or more years.
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I work with computers in the financial industry in Frankfurt and the twin towers of DB's HQ are visible from where I work.
Let me just explain something here. German banks offer depository accounts for shareholders to hold their shares. However, they have a nasty habit of making sure that the shareholder signs over their voting rights to the bank. This tends to give the banks a disproportionate vote. The German Association of Small Shareholders is fighting this, but it hasn't really happened yet.
As the banks tend to have some interesting share positions themselves, this leads to major conflicts of interest. In the case of Deutsche Bank, they certainly have a large interest in IBM (not just as users, as shareholders).
Last point, when was any large merger good for anyone except the banks and the lawyers doing the M&A work? It seems like they may have a win-win situation, with organising the financing and possibly seeing IBM benefit from the transaction.
The GSM handset finds a BSE (base station), tries to connect to it (this is where the radiation comes from) ramping up the power until communication is established. The connect is okayed or not by the airtime provider and then the handset mostly stays quiet waiting for calls.
If you build a device that behaves like a BSE, but accepting all connections regardless of provider , then within that area, all handsets will tend to lock onto it. Once they have connection on the control channel, they will mostly shut up. No incoming calls, and just a little power expended to keep the control channel alive.
I think somebody in Israel made something like this for use in concert halls (and probably for blocking the PLA).
If I get into a car anywhere in the world with manual transmission, there are the pedals organised, accelerator, break and clutch.
This means that it is relatively easy for me to drive a car made anywhere in the world. It is advantageous to be able to easily move between programs, with the real differentiation being: feature-set, reliability and cost. Users require less time to retrain between systems
Of course, the producers of overpriced, unreliable and underfeatured software prefer people to be locked into one implementation.
Outlook does not support NNTP directly. It will only do so when the news is stored on an MS Exchange server, so this is a non-issue. However it is an annoyance for some users who ask why do I need OE and Outlook.
For me what is nice about the Outlook is MS Exchange. There are several open source alternatives being developed, but it ain't really there yet! Oh, and Outlook sýnchs very nicely with my WinCE PDA. I would like to use Evolution more because I have a very large list of inadequacies for Outlook, but should stay unevolved until at least I have a good message repository.
According to NASA, Buran did get to orbit (in 1988) and it safely landed under adverse conditions which would have the Shuttle seeking an alternate. I guess if you flash some dollars and ask nicely the plans could be yours for a song.
One of the main reasons that the project was abandoned was that development was far from complete and it would a lot more cash to "Man-rate" it.
One thing that the Russians are very good at is metallurgy, particularly with respect to titanium alloys. The US could equal this, but at a substantially greater cost of production.
IANAL, but I guess this would an issue regarding the violation of viewing licence granted under the agreement with the cable or sattelite provider which protects their copyright.
Is the invention of Sir Thomas Crapper therefore a copyright violating device?
Mergers and acquisitions rarely help companies and often cause failures. As for why, just look at the effort it takes for two company cultures to come together. The only time it works is when practising slash and burn capitalism, i.e., an aggressive takeover of much a smaller company, asset stripping and then disposal. Mergers of equals or 'nearly equals' doesn't work because of the baggage that must be absorbed.
Time-Warner and AOL were clearly two quite different companies, but both very large. Bringing them together has not helped either company.
ACtually, we migrate software from development to production. Porting is when we take something that was on AIX and move it to Solaris (Not yet to Linux).
I agree with you on CMYK, but on the other points, I find them less than important.
Photoshop interacts with many other powerful graphics apps but they usually have to come from Adobe. Adobe is a little like Microsoft in that applications interact well amongst themselves but have major issues communicating with others.
The Web Prototyping thig isn't really necessary, there are plenty of other apps to do that. GIMP is for image manipulation, that is all.
As for the rest, GIMP is extensible, and somewhat easier to extend than Photoshop. Sure, it isn't there now but the features will come quickly once the colour space problem is solved. That is, once we have something that is usable professionally then a lot of people will start working on extensions (as happened with Photoshop).
Photoshop is nice, but it is very expensive and unless you are a professional needing it on a regular basis, you don't buy it. This is why the GIMP will gain more users.
The issue with the Gimp for DTP is and has always been incomplete CYMK support. While the printers still want separations, then the GIMP has a big black mark against it.
For touching up images for movies, does this problem exist? Then it just comes down to raw usability and functionality.
FWIW, I found the GIMP to be easier to learn than Photoshop.
In Germany it costs about 7 Euros to see a movie (German or Original). The price has been steadily increasing over the last few years at least 5% ahead of inflation per year.
I can understand the complaints and the guys who will save those dollars and d/l it over Kazaa/Gnutella instead. I will see it at the cinema but my regular cinema visits have dropped a lot over the last year.
Piracy on the High Seas is a wonderfully emotive term regarding an unlawful act of attacking a vessel in international waters. I don't really get the connection with the civil offence of copyright violation. However, it sounds a lot better in court to accuse people of piracy rather than just copyright violation.
Unfortunately, to a certain extent, they have won and copyright violation is now effectively a criminal offence.
This is my experience with people in various parts of the world. It is possible to be a Minesweeper Consultant and SolitaireExpert without knowing English as many of those books have been translated into the other major languages. Persons who really know computers can read enough English to read technical documentation and some can even write comments in the language (even though they speak it poorly).
You miss out a very important middle layer, the contract telephone that is sold at a heavily subsidised price by the network, but is sold with a two year contract with a far from minimal monthly price.
These phones usually have no SIM-lock, so SIMs from other providers can be used without problems, which is ideal if you travel somewhere on a regular basis and have a second SIM for that country.
The other system whish the original story was about is to allow visitors to roam, but to forbid foreign handsets from using local SIMs, I believe Thailand does this.
I wish more schools would do it so they could spend more money on kids and higher teacher's salaries instead of helping Gates pay for his fricking 10000 sq/ft house.
Mr Gates does not have to pay for his house, it is more likely the occassional country that he has bought.
No seriously, it doesn't matter that it is poorer organisations are switching, because there are a lot of them, and schools by their nature have a disproportionate effect on businesses, because they are the training grounds. Guess, why Mr Gates wants to put cheap Windows into US schools?
There were two such companies, because both organisations were set up as a private-public joint venture (a company with a royal charter, giving powers of monopoly and the ability to defend it with deadly force) for exploitation of the East Indies, in respect of their own countries. Indeed the two companies had some disagreements about who got to exploit what but whilst the British got India, the Dutch got Indonesia and the string of Islands coming down from Asia towards Australia (which they almost got as well).
The higher end of the computer business is dominated by documentation in English. It isn't that there are no translations available but often they are astonishingly bad.
I once gave some lessons in C to a bunch of Germans using K&R as the text. I gave the talk in English, but they all had the German version of the book. When it got to pointers, they gave up and photocopied the chapter out of my book.
To translate something technical, you have to not only know the languages but also understand the subject. Most of the people who can do this have another job, hence the better documentation tends to be read in the original English.
I am more worried about the introductory and intermediate stuff, which you need a lot of with any system. The LDP does translations, but will they be good or complete enough?
It is one thing having a bilingual sysadmin, but bilingual users?
I have seen a bit of the DiVX rip of the FOTR screener DVD and it looks good, better than SVHS. The encoding got it down to the size of 2 CD-Rs (1.4GB) and it doesn't have too many problems with motion.
Star Wars:TPM though was much smaller, at about 700MB and it has some problems during the action sequences. Interestingly enough, the DiVX SW:TPE is lower definition (it was mastered from VHS) and thus much smaller (300MB or so), but it still compares well to video.
All newer drives (RPC-2) have some firmware which does the decoding. However, the drives have two modes, one is the ISO9660 mode where it looks like a very big CD, and the other is DVD mode. All commercial DVD players use the latter mode and the drive decode the stream as needed.
However, it is still readable in raw format, you can usually do the decode yourself in software.
In any case, it is better to get a drive that can be moded to be region free with a firmware upgrade.
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Unfortunately, new lab equipment is one of the things that gets cut from the budget in tight times. So I don't think that this year will be as good.
themself!
I have known people to accidently drop old HP test equipment so tht it could be retired and anewer model purchased. Unfortunately, the wooden desk was dented but the equipment survived.
Compaq, bless them, did do quite a bit of work on Linux for the IPAQ. Will this mean that you will be able to get a decent company handheld?
This is not what our people heard from their briefing last year. We have been promised that OpenVMS would be on Itanium in a few years, this is nothing to do with the merger. The issue here isn't that Compaq would love us to move to other platforms but like many others we can't kick the cluster habit.
Compaq has a number of agreements that it inherited from Digital and many of those are with the Feds (hard to wriggle out of) for OpenVMS systems over the next 15 or more years.
Let me just explain something here. German banks offer depository accounts for shareholders to hold their shares. However, they have a nasty habit of making sure that the shareholder signs over their voting rights to the bank. This tends to give the banks a disproportionate vote. The German Association of Small Shareholders is fighting this, but it hasn't really happened yet.
As the banks tend to have some interesting share positions themselves, this leads to major conflicts of interest. In the case of Deutsche Bank, they certainly have a large interest in IBM (not just as users, as shareholders).
Last point, when was any large merger good for anyone except the banks and the lawyers doing the M&A work? It seems like they may have a win-win situation, with organising the financing and possibly seeing IBM benefit from the transaction.
If you build a device that behaves like a BSE, but accepting all connections regardless of provider , then within that area, all handsets will tend to lock onto it. Once they have connection on the control channel, they will mostly shut up. No incoming calls, and just a little power expended to keep the control channel alive.
I think somebody in Israel made something like this for use in concert halls (and probably for blocking the PLA).
The CD set that I have does feature this quote. It happens while Arthur is waiting with Marvin out the entrance to the planer forges of Magrithea.
This means that it is relatively easy for me to drive a car made anywhere in the world. It is advantageous to be able to easily move between programs, with the real differentiation being: feature-set, reliability and cost. Users require less time to retrain between systems
Of course, the producers of overpriced, unreliable and underfeatured software prefer people to be locked into one implementation.
For me what is nice about the Outlook is MS Exchange. There are several open source alternatives being developed, but it ain't really there yet! Oh, and Outlook sýnchs very nicely with my WinCE PDA. I would like to use Evolution more because I have a very large list of inadequacies for Outlook, but should stay unevolved until at least I have a good message repository.
One of the main reasons that the project was abandoned was that development was far from complete and it would a lot more cash to "Man-rate" it.
One thing that the Russians are very good at is metallurgy, particularly with respect to titanium alloys. The US could equal this, but at a substantially greater cost of production.
Is the invention of Sir Thomas Crapper therefore a copyright violating device?
Time-Warner and AOL were clearly two quite different companies, but both very large. Bringing them together has not helped either company.
Wouldn't work - the finger usually needs to be attached. It is some kind of capacitance/heat thing.
ACtually, we migrate software from development to production. Porting is when we take something that was on AIX and move it to Solaris (Not yet to Linux).
Photoshop interacts with many other powerful graphics apps but they usually have to come from Adobe. Adobe is a little like Microsoft in that applications interact well amongst themselves but have major issues communicating with others.
The Web Prototyping thig isn't really necessary, there are plenty of other apps to do that. GIMP is for image manipulation, that is all.
As for the rest, GIMP is extensible, and somewhat easier to extend than Photoshop. Sure, it isn't there now but the features will come quickly once the colour space problem is solved. That is, once we have something that is usable professionally then a lot of people will start working on extensions (as happened with Photoshop).
Photoshop is nice, but it is very expensive and unless you are a professional needing it on a regular basis, you don't buy it. This is why the GIMP will gain more users.
For touching up images for movies, does this problem exist? Then it just comes down to raw usability and functionality.
FWIW, I found the GIMP to be easier to learn than Photoshop.
I can understand the complaints and the guys who will save those dollars and d/l it over Kazaa/Gnutella instead. I will see it at the cinema but my regular cinema visits have dropped a lot over the last year.
Unfortunately, to a certain extent, they have won and copyright violation is now effectively a criminal offence.
This is my experience with people in various parts of the world. It is possible to be a Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert without knowing English as many of those books have been translated into the other major languages. Persons who really know computers can read enough English to read technical documentation and some can even write comments in the language (even though they speak it poorly).
These phones usually have no SIM-lock, so SIMs from other providers can be used without problems, which is ideal if you travel somewhere on a regular basis and have a second SIM for that country.
The other system whish the original story was about is to allow visitors to roam, but to forbid foreign handsets from using local SIMs, I believe Thailand does this.
Mr Gates does not have to pay for his house, it is more likely the occassional country that he has bought.
No seriously, it doesn't matter that it is poorer organisations are switching, because there are a lot of them, and schools by their nature have a disproportionate effect on businesses, because they are the training grounds. Guess, why Mr Gates wants to put cheap Windows into US schools?
There were two such companies, because both organisations were set up as a private-public joint venture (a company with a royal charter, giving powers of monopoly and the ability to defend it with deadly force) for exploitation of the East Indies, in respect of their own countries. Indeed the two companies had some disagreements about who got to exploit what but whilst the British got India, the Dutch got Indonesia and the string of Islands coming down from Asia towards Australia (which they almost got as well).
I once gave some lessons in C to a bunch of Germans using K&R as the text. I gave the talk in English, but they all had the German version of the book. When it got to pointers, they gave up and photocopied the chapter out of my book.
To translate something technical, you have to not only know the languages but also understand the subject. Most of the people who can do this have another job, hence the better documentation tends to be read in the original English.
I am more worried about the introductory and intermediate stuff, which you need a lot of with any system. The LDP does translations, but will they be good or complete enough?
It is one thing having a bilingual sysadmin, but bilingual users?
Star Wars:TPM though was much smaller, at about 700MB and it has some problems during the action sequences. Interestingly enough, the DiVX SW:TPE is lower definition (it was mastered from VHS) and thus much smaller (300MB or so), but it still compares well to video.
However, it is still readable in raw format, you can usually do the decode yourself in software.
In any case, it is better to get a drive that can be moded to be region free with a firmware upgrade.