Agreed. Sort-of. Con Artist might be closer. Few chemists can look at the stuff Drexler has proposed and recognize any of it. The problem is that most of the machines as descbibed have to be made of things that are smaller than standard atoms. It's like you need this whole other periodic table of smaller elements to construct these machines. If you point out the existence of biochemistry, and enzymes and life, which are little micro machines, then what new has Drexler brought to the table? It's like that scene in Animal House where they're getting stoned at Donald Sutherland's house and wondering about whole worlds sitting on your finger. Drexler only makes much sense or elicits any excitement about something new to those who don't know any better or who might be stoned.
Thank you! I'm 50 years old and I don't remember ever seeing such a complete breakdown in the populations inability to distunguish their, there and they're as I've seen in the last few years. Is it because we're being exposed to so many more (untrained) writers than we were a few years ago? Or, are we being exposed to so much more unedited writing. It's driving me crazy. Please stop.
If you've used Lotus Notes, you have some idea of IBM's idea of interface design. I don't think MS has too much to worry about. However, some of you, that might have your desktop traded out for this stuff, do have something to worry about. MS has copied enough stuff from others to have somewhat useful tools. IBM (or at least the Lotus crowd) hasn't.
I figure that Steve Case is no dummy and that he saw that his company was worth much, much less than its market cap. So he looked around and figured out how to turn its overblown value into something that would last a bit longer. He would use the "synergy" thing to sell it.
If he hadn't done the merger, his shareholders would have taken a big bath when the bubble burst. He was beholden to his shareholders, not TW's. After the merger, his shareholders held more real value than before.
It's like they had a big pot luck dinner with Time-Warner, except that only Time-Warner brought any food.
I have no idea whether Sun should let go of Java or not. But I don't think I'd accept any business advice from someone who compares company value by stock price.
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Agreed. Sort-of. Con Artist might be closer. Few chemists can look at the stuff Drexler has proposed and recognize any of it. The problem is that most of the machines as descbibed have to be made of things that are smaller than standard atoms. It's like you need this whole other periodic table of smaller elements to construct these machines. If you point out the existence of biochemistry, and enzymes and life, which are little micro machines, then what new has Drexler brought to the table? It's like that scene in Animal House where they're getting stoned at Donald Sutherland's house and wondering about whole worlds sitting on your finger. Drexler only makes much sense or elicits any excitement about something new to those who don't know any better or who might be stoned.
Thank you! I'm 50 years old and I don't remember ever seeing such a complete breakdown in the populations inability to distunguish their, there and they're as I've seen in the last few years. Is it because we're being exposed to so many more (untrained) writers than we were a few years ago? Or, are we being exposed to so much more unedited writing. It's driving me crazy. Please stop.
If you've used Lotus Notes, you have some idea of IBM's idea of interface design. I don't think MS has too much to worry about. However, some of you, that might have your desktop traded out for this stuff, do have something to worry about. MS has copied enough stuff from others to have somewhat useful tools. IBM (or at least the Lotus crowd) hasn't.
I figure that Steve Case is no dummy and that he saw that his company was worth much, much less than its market cap. So he looked around and figured out how to turn its overblown value into something that would last a bit longer. He would use the "synergy" thing to sell it. If he hadn't done the merger, his shareholders would have taken a big bath when the bubble burst. He was beholden to his shareholders, not TW's. After the merger, his shareholders held more real value than before. It's like they had a big pot luck dinner with Time-Warner, except that only Time-Warner brought any food.
I can't read it either but I didn't want to say anything. I was afraid it was my fault. I only took 2 semesters of physics.
I have no idea whether Sun should let go of Java or not. But I don't think I'd accept any business advice from someone who compares company value by stock price.