Ever since Doom days I always looked forward to new ID tech, and was always amazed not by ID games but by their groundbreaking game engines and prospects of other game developers using those engines to make awesome games. Looking at the first screenshots of ID next tech is a letdown for me. I understand these are very first shots, but to me it looks like it was built around Doom3 engine and I cant help but notice the plastic feel of the demonstration. For the first time I can remember there is a better looking engine in development (Crytek 2.0, [Crysis]) at the time of the announcement of new ID tech. Granted it might still be too early to tell but so far the engine does not look revolutionary to me. It looks more like an evolutionary step from Doom 3 engine. I am assuming that the limitations stem from the fact that the engine is designed to run on everything under the sun and 360, mac and ps3 is what limits its potential. Ensuring the engine would run smooth on consoles like PS3 and 360 limits the engine from using far more powerful hardware PC has to offer over consoles. This tech demo makes me glad there are developers like Crytek out there.
I happen to work on Wall Street, and the ignorance of how some people perceive the financial markets is just amazing. I am sure "surfduke" is way smarter than the analysts than the following Analysts that follow MSFT:
A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC. KEVIN BUTTIGIEG ARGUS RESEARCH CORP. ROBERT BECKER ATLANTIC EQUITIES CHRISTOPHER HICKEY BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC. KIRK S. MATERNE BEAR, STEARNS & CO. JOHN DIFUCCI CANACCORD ADAMS PETER MISEK CIBC WORLD MARKETS CORP. BRAD REBACK CITIGROUP BRENT THILL COWEN AND COMPANY WALTER PRITCHARD CREDIT SUISSE - NORTH AMERICA JASON MAYNARD CROWELL, WEEDON & CO. JAMES D. RAGAN D. A. DAVIDSON & CO. ALAN L. DAVIS DAVENPORT & CO. OF VIRGINIA, INC. F. DRAKE JOHNSTONE E.K.RILEY INVESTMENTS, LLC ROBERT E. TOOMEY FIRST ALBANY CORP. MARK MURPHY FIRST GLOBAL STOCKBROKING LTD. SHASHIKIRAN RAO FRIEDMAN, BILLINGS, RAMSEY & CO. DAVID M. HILAL GLOBAL EQUITIES RESEARCH TRIP CHOWDHRY GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. SARAH FRIAR GRIFFIN SECURITIES, INC. CHRYSTYNA BEDRIJ ICAP EQUITY RESEARCH RICHARD T. WILLIAMS JPMORGAN ADAM HOLT JYSKE BANK PER-ROBERT JACOBSEN KINTISHEFF RESEARCH TSVETAN KINTISHEFF LEHMAN BROTHERS ISRAEL HERNANDEZ MCADAMS WRIGHT RAGEN SID PARAKH MERRILL LYNCH KASH RANGAN MORGAN STANLEY MARY MEEKER NUTMEG SECURITIES JEAN WOPAT ORR PACIFIC CREST SECURITIES BRENDAN J. BARNICLE PACIFIC GROWTH EQUITIES YUN KIM PIPER JAFFRAY MICHAEL J. OLSON PRUDENTIAL EQUITY GROUP, LLC JOHN P. MCPEAKE RAGEN MACKENZIE, A DIVSN OF WELLS FARGO TAUNYA R. SELL RBC CAPITAL MARKETS (CANADA) STEPHEN WALKER RBC CAPITAL MARKETS (US) ROBERT BREZA ROCHDALE SECURITIES LLC DAVID ELLER SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN & CO., LLC CHARLES J. DI BONA SOLEIL-ONE-ON-ONE RESEARCH DAWN S. TALBOT STANFORD GROUP COMPANY NEIL J. HERMAN THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS TIM E. KLASELL UBS (US) HEATHER A. BELLINI WILLIAM BLAIR & COMPANY, L.L.C. LAURA J. LEDERMAN
Not to mention countless buy side institutions with trillions dollars in combined assets such as hedge and mutual funds. At the moment of this writing the stock is up $1.24 or roughly 11 billion dollars in market cap. I guess they are not reading slashdot. I wonder why don't all the people on here that forecast demise of MSFT put their money where their mouth is and just short the stock, or even better buy some put options. Go ahead take a second mortgage and bet your life against the Company if you really believe MSFT is doomed. I used to be a frequent visitor to Slashdot since I always valued input of some really smart people on vide-variety of mostly scientific topics. But blatant, childish attacks on MSFT and herd mentality on some of the topics made me visit this website less and less. And its amazing some other companies, like AAPL for example seem to be darlings on this board. And its surprising to me that AAPL stands higher on moral and idealistic scale even though it is a fact that AAPL has been accused of many monopolistic practices, it is a fact that Steve Jobs is a liar and a thief (anyone that does thinks that a CEO of a major corporation has no idea what option backdating is needs a reality check.). It is sad to see such consistent high scores on comments that exhibit such level of herd mentality on this website. Anyway I will stop now, I am sure I provided enough material to get moded as a troll. Its an earning season and if I want to get out of the office by midnight I need to stop wasting my time here and go back to work...
Sure,
Why don't you borrow Franjo Tudjman? A Croatian president that led the country through wars of 90's until his death in late 90's. He brought back interesting things from past like say, those fancy Nazi symbols Croatia used in WW2, even their flag today is a remeniscant of their Nazi flag... As a bonus you get politicians that were creative enough to be the first in the balkan conflict to come up with concetration camps in Bosnia (more specifically Herzegovina region, south of city of Mostar). Serbs were more then happy to follow up with their own versions. So yeah why not? Bringing ethnic cleansing and genocide to US is surely not too high of a price to pay to for linux. So Mr. American, before making any more dumb comments please reffer back to recent history and current events, it might help when making comments about contries or leaders you know nothing about!:)
Beeing from the area I am not sure what you are smoking? Croatian women are relativelly tall, but they are not blondes.. They are very mediterranian looking, dark hair and brown eyes.. And cheap? Not really, when was the last time you went there? I spent a shitload of $$$ there last summer.. Want blondes? Go more north to scandinavian countries, when I was in Dalmatia Croatian women looked more Turkish then anything else...
Not written by me(quoted from the inquirer) but kinda funny:
Sony boardroom last June. Welsh wizard, Howard Stringer, is in the chair for the first time.
(ACT ONE) The Sony boardroom. SONY EXECS seated. STRINGER pacing.
STRINGER. OK, moving onto the PS3... what is the easiest way for us to lose the ball on this one? SONY EXEC ONE. Price, if we make it too expensive then Nintendo and Microsoft will screw us to the wall. Most people will not pay more than what the XBOX360 costs. STRINGER. Great, anything else? SONY EXEC TWO. We could delay it for ages until box Microsoft has established itself in the market. That would make it harder for us to claw back our lucrative European and American base. STRINGER. Not bad, need a few more here.
SONY EXEC THREE. Well it is a bit tricky but we could make two versions of the PS3. One will have all the wi-fi gubbins and other bits that people want and will make it different from the XBOX360 and the Revolution. But make this version even more expensive than the base unit. STRINGER. Nice thinking. It would also split our marketing budget between two similar products and the punters wouldn't know what we were selling. SONY EXEC ONE. We could also make a really low key launch of all the details while our competitors are all over the games press like a hot rash. STRINGER. Interesting how do we do that? There will be a lot of people interested in the PS3.
SONY EXEC ONE. We could go to E3, lock the demonstration models in a glass box and be evasive about crucial things like launch dates. STRINGER. I like it... we will do all those things. Sony Exec Two: Are you nuts? STRINGER. No I am Welsh, we have a long history of being shafted by everyone from the Romans, the Normans, the English and the European Union but singing beautifully while it is done. I have no intention of winning against Microsoft or Nintendo. Now about what is happening with that Blu-Ray thingee. How are negotiations going with the HD-DVD crowd? µ
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Thumbs-down for Google Finance.
That's what some hedge-fund managers -- the investment pros most likely to short Google -- told me after checking out the latest service launched by the most popular search engine in the world.
And, to some extent, I agree with them.
Launched Tuesday, Google's (GOOG, Trade) latest, Google Finance -- with its perfunctory quotes, news headlines, charts and the like -- is not terribly impressive, partly because it looks so much like other finance sites created years ago, notably Yahoo Finance.
'This was one of our most requested features by our users last year.'
Sonya Boralv, Google
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised, actually, given that Katie Stanton, a former Yahoo (YHOO, Trade) employee, is running Google's new vertical.
To be fair, there are some interesting features, like a very cool chart and news mash-up. In it, Google has taken its charts and news and integrated them so that readers can see where the stock was trading as particular news hit. People do this all the time -- look at news, and the time it hit, and then go to a chart and pinpoint the time. But it's eliminating the interim steps that makes Google stock charts instantly appealing.
But besides an interactive chart, there is nothing innovative or certainly spectacular about the new service. Where are the real-time, live quotes? Where's the related video? Where are the open application programming interfaces, or APIs, so that techies can add maps and other neat tools that Google hasn't thought of?
Google doesn't have open APIs at present, but it's something the search engine "might look at doing in the future," said Google spokeswoman Sonya Boralv, in an e-mail.
To be sure, Google doesn't need bells and whistles to be good. It just needs to be relevant. And, that is, of course, yet to be seen.
As I understand it, Google will put more weight on what it deems "authoritative" news sources. One has to ask, however, what Google will deem "authoritative."
In keeping with Google's search and news-aggregation business model, the site directs Web users to the sites of its partners to view content and serves up no display ads on Google's own pages. So Google won't be getting the ad revenue.
Google may not even require its financial-news partners to pay the search monster for traffic. Among the financial sites Google directs traffic to are CNet, Forbes.com, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of this column.
So why is Google doing this, pitting itself against its news partners? For starters, if you haven't noticed, Google's moved well beyond its search-engine roots. Despite its dominant position in the search business, Google's services are threatening to more than its search rivals, Yahoo (YHOO, Trade) and Microsoft's (MSFT, Trade) MSN.
Google competes with the portals and Internet service providers for e-mail customers via Gmail. Google's Froogle and GBase services compete with eBay (EBAY, Trade) and others. Its video store competes with Apple's (AAPL, Trade). Google Talk might one day compete with cable companies, like Comcast.
It's also likely that Google is entering the vertical market because it's noticing that a substantial number of users go to Google News and type in "goog" or "aapl" -- or other letter combinations, or full names of publicly held companies -- which it reads as requests for stock data and the latest related news from some 4,500 sources.
"We can't provide any details on the number of searches for stock quotes but can tell you that we have had a lot of user demand for more in-depth financial information. This was one of our most requested features by our users last year," said Boralv.
Moreover, traffic to finance sites has grown faster than traffic to Internet sites overall. Traffic to financial-news and information sites grew 10% in February, according to N
Just wondering, why would you get 286 after Amiga? Amiga way by leaps and bounds superior to 286 at the time. I too had an Amiga 500 then 1200 and finally migrated to Wintel machines around time when second generation of Pentiums came out.
Ofcourse they should celebeate Darvin if they want to survive continue to have followers. With each new discovery and with each new advance, the whole idea of religion and a god becomes sillier and siller. The only way to keep themselves from becoming extinct is to embrace new discoveries and spin or "incorporate" it into whatever religious beliefs they embrace. Sure, sometimes it takes em a hundred or more years to do it, but they eventually have to give up the old and accept the new or go under..
Not sure, but wasn't it XEROX that actually contributed the most to modern GUI interface as we know it? My impression is that apple stole it from xerox and then micorosoft stole it from apple? I could be wrong? not sure?
Marketplace takes care of the problem, there is no need to add inefficencies to the process by adding unions..
For example, if EA treates its top talent really bad, and if it managment sucks, then what does the top talent do? It either a) forms its own company or b) joins the competitor with capable managment team...
Bottom line EA treats its human capital bad = human capital leaves = EA left with no good human capital = EA games start sucking = revenues go down = Wall Street punishes EA = EA goes under.. thats how it works.. its a nice process, and it works.. Those companies with best procedures get rewarded, those with bad managment get punished... simple...
Does anybody really want to hear actors in a game? I personally think that money could be spent in a better way. I would rather see that money go toward physics engine or graphics or anything else. Or maybe, they could just give that extra money back to us in terms of lower game pricing? Do other people think that paying actors will add that much value to the game?
Somebody help me out, I am confused? Who should I hate in this article? Microsoft of Radio stations and their RIAA connections? Who is the good guy? I am all confused, I think I am going to have a seisure?
I am typing from Frech keyboard so I will try to keep this short and sweet. EU and China concepts are overhyped and those two regions separate will not threaten US dominance.
EU has lots of problems:
1 population in Europe is actually declining and previous economic growth is unsustanable given the dismal population growth in Europe
2 Cultural and language differences between EU nations limit labour mobility which restricts the efficency of labour market
3 excessive laws and regulations, socialist ideals, extremely ridgid labor laws, too much burocracy etc....
4 Uniting different regions economically and militarily was alredy tried in Europe (Yugoslavia) and we all know how well that went...
CHINA:
1 it is a communist system that forecfully is holding its grip on power. As standard of living increases in that country there will be inevitable drive for democracy that could turn out to be very bloody given the diverse population of China. Current system is unstable and is poised to fail and fall.
I would have loved to elaborate more and add more issues but this french keyboard is pissing me off...
Nice going guys! This story gives a whole new meaning to Slashdotting. I own cray stock (CRAY on Nasdaq) and since this article got posted stock got quite a boost. Now if I can only get you guys to post something positive about my gambling penny stocks that I hold position in....
"The Spirit rover has a radiation-hardened R6000 CPU from Lockheed-Martin Federal Systems at the heart of the system. The processor accesses 120 Mbytes of RAM and 256 Mbytes of flash. Mounted in a 6U VME chassis, the processor board also has access to custom cards that interface to systems on the rover."
The project costed about 800 millions, would have it hurted to maybe spend few dollars more for greater flash capacity??
I am the proof that with increased internet usage your social skills actually increase. When I moved to US (from Europe [and a nerd] originally) it was hard for me to adjust to cultural and social settings here. Even the US nerds had social advantage over me in terms of their fluency in English. I distinctly remember my freshman year in college I could not wait for weekends. Not because I wanted to go out and party, but because all the other people did, hence freeing up all the valuable high speed for the distro sites that I was running. Yes that is how pathetic I was.. While all the people were getting laid I was on my computer doing all kinds of nerdy stuff... I despised and hated talking to people in public, and you could say I suffered from social disorder.
Eventually on internet I started talking to people outside of the distro groups that I was dealing with and eventually I was becoming more and more social on net which in turn resulted in increased social activity outside internet domain. Finally I started chatting with girls, and yes I was pathetic.. I had no idea what to say or how to say it.. But with persistence (what did I have to loose? They had no idea who I was anyway) I started figuring out girls and what they want to hear and eventually became really good at it, and eventually I reached a point where if there was a girl on net that I wanted to talk to I could get her attention in no time and could get her phone # in first or second chat.. That increased smoothness transcendent into real life when I would meet these girls and with each new date my seducing skills and my confidence grew... Going to real dates I would learn even more about club and bar scene and would use internet skills to expand my efforts into bar and club scene. After few years of net (and Gym) I was able to get a date with any girl whether I met her on net or in a bar or club and get her attention or whatever else I wanted.
The social impact of net did not only change my dating scene. On the internet I had ability to talk to thousands of people (whether it is scene related or other subjects). Increased exposure to people of all types of walk improved my communication skills and eventually enabled me to subtly manipulate conversations to get the desired result. I was increasingly getting better at reading people on the spot based on their responses regarding the conversation. This was in turn very helpful in first few jobs that I held out of college.
Today, when I look at myself back 5-6 years ago its amazing how much my social skills have changed. And the only reason that happened is because of net. So anybody out there trying to claim that net has negative social impact on the population as whole is DEAD WRONG and I am the living proof..
Net Present Value of money...
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AOL's $299 PC
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If you discount 23.90 a month to todays money (assuming there is 0.33% or (0.0033) monthly inflation, Net Present Value of that would equal to about 280.74 + 299 = $579.74 total cost in real money if you were to buy the computer today....
Asia is heavily divided, and there is lots of mistrust going on between those countries. I know in my MBA program students from Japan, South Korea and China barely even talk to each other due to historic tensions and conflicts. I am wondering what level of cooperation will there be between those countries in developing this product? Will they be able to cooperate sufficiently to make anything meaningful?
For Linux to be sucesfull on apple it needs a lot more Linux people to like Apple.. And that might happen when Apple starts shipping its computers with a 2 (or more) button mouse out of box;o)
Now users can use that third hand growing out of their forehead to use cell phones and that will solve driving and talking issue once and for all! 2 hends on wheel one to talk on cell phone.. Perfect!
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Ever since Doom days I always looked forward to new ID tech, and was always amazed not by ID games but by their groundbreaking game engines and prospects of other game developers using those engines to make awesome games. Looking at the first screenshots of ID next tech is a letdown for me. I understand these are very first shots, but to me it looks like it was built around Doom3 engine and I cant help but notice the plastic feel of the demonstration. For the first time I can remember there is a better looking engine in development (Crytek 2.0, [Crysis]) at the time of the announcement of new ID tech. Granted it might still be too early to tell but so far the engine does not look revolutionary to me. It looks more like an evolutionary step from Doom 3 engine. I am assuming that the limitations stem from the fact that the engine is designed to run on everything under the sun and 360, mac and ps3 is what limits its potential. Ensuring the engine would run smooth on consoles like PS3 and 360 limits the engine from using far more powerful hardware PC has to offer over consoles. This tech demo makes me glad there are developers like Crytek out there.
I happen to work on Wall Street, and the ignorance of how some people perceive the financial markets is just amazing. I am sure "surfduke" is way smarter than the analysts than the following Analysts that follow MSFT:
A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC. KEVIN BUTTIGIEG
ARGUS RESEARCH CORP. ROBERT BECKER
ATLANTIC EQUITIES CHRISTOPHER HICKEY
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC. KIRK S. MATERNE
BEAR, STEARNS & CO. JOHN DIFUCCI
CANACCORD ADAMS PETER MISEK
CIBC WORLD MARKETS CORP. BRAD REBACK
CITIGROUP BRENT THILL
COWEN AND COMPANY WALTER PRITCHARD
CREDIT SUISSE - NORTH AMERICA JASON MAYNARD
CROWELL, WEEDON & CO. JAMES D. RAGAN
D. A. DAVIDSON & CO. ALAN L. DAVIS
DAVENPORT & CO. OF VIRGINIA, INC. F. DRAKE JOHNSTONE
E.K.RILEY INVESTMENTS, LLC ROBERT E. TOOMEY
FIRST ALBANY CORP. MARK MURPHY
FIRST GLOBAL STOCKBROKING LTD. SHASHIKIRAN RAO
FRIEDMAN, BILLINGS, RAMSEY & CO. DAVID M. HILAL
GLOBAL EQUITIES RESEARCH TRIP CHOWDHRY
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. SARAH FRIAR
GRIFFIN SECURITIES, INC. CHRYSTYNA BEDRIJ
ICAP EQUITY RESEARCH RICHARD T. WILLIAMS
JPMORGAN ADAM HOLT
JYSKE BANK PER-ROBERT JACOBSEN
KINTISHEFF RESEARCH TSVETAN KINTISHEFF
LEHMAN BROTHERS ISRAEL HERNANDEZ
MCADAMS WRIGHT RAGEN SID PARAKH
MERRILL LYNCH KASH RANGAN
MORGAN STANLEY MARY MEEKER
NUTMEG SECURITIES JEAN WOPAT ORR
PACIFIC CREST SECURITIES BRENDAN J. BARNICLE
PACIFIC GROWTH EQUITIES YUN KIM
PIPER JAFFRAY MICHAEL J. OLSON
PRUDENTIAL EQUITY GROUP, LLC JOHN P. MCPEAKE
RAGEN MACKENZIE, A DIVSN OF WELLS FARGO TAUNYA R. SELL
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS (CANADA) STEPHEN WALKER
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS (US) ROBERT BREZA
ROCHDALE SECURITIES LLC DAVID ELLER
SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN & CO., LLC CHARLES J. DI BONA
SOLEIL-ONE-ON-ONE RESEARCH DAWN S. TALBOT
STANFORD GROUP COMPANY NEIL J. HERMAN
THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS TIM E. KLASELL
UBS (US) HEATHER A. BELLINI
WILLIAM BLAIR & COMPANY, L.L.C. LAURA J. LEDERMAN
Not to mention countless buy side institutions with trillions dollars in combined assets such as hedge and mutual funds. At the moment of this writing the stock is up $1.24 or roughly 11 billion dollars in market cap. I guess they are not reading slashdot. I wonder why don't all the people on here that forecast demise of MSFT put their money where their mouth is and just short the stock, or even better buy some put options. Go ahead take a second mortgage and bet your life against the Company if you really believe MSFT is doomed. I used to be a frequent visitor to Slashdot since I always valued input of some really smart people on vide-variety of mostly scientific topics. But blatant, childish attacks on MSFT and herd mentality on some of the topics made me visit this website less and less. And its amazing some other companies, like AAPL for example seem to be darlings on this board. And its surprising to me that AAPL stands higher on moral and idealistic scale even though it is a fact that AAPL has been accused of many monopolistic practices, it is a fact that Steve Jobs is a liar and a thief (anyone that does thinks that a CEO of a major corporation has no idea what option backdating is needs a reality check.). It is sad to see such consistent high scores on comments that exhibit such level of herd mentality on this website. Anyway I will stop now, I am sure I provided enough material to get moded as a troll. Its an earning season and if I want to get out of the office by midnight I need to stop wasting my time here and go back to work...
The division had an operating loss of 26.8 billion ($232.3m) compared to a lost of 5.9 billion yen ($51.1m) during the same quarter last year.
How is this not a loss? Their operating income is NEGATIVE 232.3 million, I would call that a loss don't ya think?
Sure, Why don't you borrow Franjo Tudjman? A Croatian president that led the country through wars of 90's until his death in late 90's. He brought back interesting things from past like say, those fancy Nazi symbols Croatia used in WW2, even their flag today is a remeniscant of their Nazi flag... As a bonus you get politicians that were creative enough to be the first in the balkan conflict to come up with concetration camps in Bosnia (more specifically Herzegovina region, south of city of Mostar). Serbs were more then happy to follow up with their own versions. So yeah why not? Bringing ethnic cleansing and genocide to US is surely not too high of a price to pay to for linux. So Mr. American, before making any more dumb comments please reffer back to recent history and current events, it might help when making comments about contries or leaders you know nothing about! :)
Beeing from the area I am not sure what you are smoking? Croatian women are relativelly tall, but they are not blondes.. They are very mediterranian looking, dark hair and brown eyes.. And cheap? Not really, when was the last time you went there? I spent a shitload of $$$ there last summer.. Want blondes? Go more north to scandinavian countries, when I was in Dalmatia Croatian women looked more Turkish then anything else...
Not written by me(quoted from the inquirer) but kinda funny:
Sony boardroom last June. Welsh wizard, Howard Stringer, is in the chair for the first time.
(ACT ONE)
The Sony boardroom. SONY EXECS seated. STRINGER pacing.
STRINGER. OK, moving onto the PS3... what is the easiest way for us to lose the ball on this one?
SONY EXEC ONE. Price, if we make it too expensive then Nintendo and Microsoft will screw us to the wall. Most people will not pay more than what the XBOX360 costs.
STRINGER. Great, anything else?
SONY EXEC TWO. We could delay it for ages until box Microsoft has established itself in the market. That would make it harder for us to claw back our lucrative European and American base.
STRINGER. Not bad, need a few more here.
SONY EXEC THREE. Well it is a bit tricky but we could make two versions of the PS3. One will have all the wi-fi gubbins and other bits that people want and will make it different from the XBOX360 and the Revolution. But make this version even more expensive than the base unit.
STRINGER. Nice thinking. It would also split our marketing budget between two similar products and the punters wouldn't know what we were selling.
SONY EXEC ONE. We could also make a really low key launch of all the details while our competitors are all over the games press like a hot rash.
STRINGER. Interesting how do we do that? There will be a lot of people interested in the PS3.
SONY EXEC ONE. We could go to E3, lock the demonstration models in a glass box and be evasive about crucial things like launch dates.
STRINGER. I like it... we will do all those things.
Sony Exec Two: Are you nuts?
STRINGER. No I am Welsh, we have a long history of being shafted by everyone from the Romans, the Normans, the English and the European Union but singing beautifully while it is done. I have no intention of winning against Microsoft or Nintendo. Now about what is happening with that Blu-Ray thingee. How are negotiations going with the HD-DVD crowd? µ
Early reviews are in for Google Finance
March 21, 2006 12:32:05 (ET)
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Thumbs-down for Google Finance.
That's what some hedge-fund managers -- the investment pros most likely to short Google -- told me after checking out the latest service launched by the most popular search engine in the world.
And, to some extent, I agree with them.
Launched Tuesday, Google's (GOOG, Trade) latest, Google Finance -- with its perfunctory quotes, news headlines, charts and the like -- is not terribly impressive, partly because it looks so much like other finance sites created years ago, notably Yahoo Finance.
'This was one of our most requested features by our users last year.'
Sonya Boralv, Google
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised, actually, given that Katie Stanton, a former Yahoo (YHOO, Trade) employee, is running Google's new vertical.
To be fair, there are some interesting features, like a very cool chart and news mash-up. In it, Google has taken its charts and news and integrated them so that readers can see where the stock was trading as particular news hit. People do this all the time -- look at news, and the time it hit, and then go to a chart and pinpoint the time. But it's eliminating the interim steps that makes Google stock charts instantly appealing.
But besides an interactive chart, there is nothing innovative or certainly spectacular about the new service. Where are the real-time, live quotes? Where's the related video? Where are the open application programming interfaces, or APIs, so that techies can add maps and other neat tools that Google hasn't thought of?
Google doesn't have open APIs at present, but it's something the search engine "might look at doing in the future," said Google spokeswoman Sonya Boralv, in an e-mail.
To be sure, Google doesn't need bells and whistles to be good. It just needs to be relevant. And, that is, of course, yet to be seen.
As I understand it, Google will put more weight on what it deems "authoritative" news sources. One has to ask, however, what Google will deem "authoritative."
In keeping with Google's search and news-aggregation business model, the site directs Web users to the sites of its partners to view content and serves up no display ads on Google's own pages. So Google won't be getting the ad revenue.
Google may not even require its financial-news partners to pay the search monster for traffic. Among the financial sites Google directs traffic to are CNet, Forbes.com, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of this column.
So why is Google doing this, pitting itself against its news partners? For starters, if you haven't noticed, Google's moved well beyond its search-engine roots. Despite its dominant position in the search business, Google's services are threatening to more than its search rivals, Yahoo (YHOO, Trade) and Microsoft's (MSFT, Trade) MSN.
Google competes with the portals and Internet service providers for e-mail customers via Gmail. Google's Froogle and GBase services compete with eBay (EBAY, Trade) and others. Its video store competes with Apple's (AAPL, Trade). Google Talk might one day compete with cable companies, like Comcast.
It's also likely that Google is entering the vertical market because it's noticing that a substantial number of users go to Google News and type in "goog" or "aapl" -- or other letter combinations, or full names of publicly held companies -- which it reads as requests for stock data and the latest related news from some 4,500 sources.
"We can't provide any details on the number of searches for stock quotes but can tell you that we have had a lot of user demand for more in-depth financial information. This was one of our most requested features by our users last year," said Boralv.
Moreover, traffic to finance sites has grown faster than traffic to Internet sites overall. Traffic to financial-news and information sites grew 10% in February, according to N
Just wondering, why would you get 286 after Amiga? Amiga way by leaps and bounds superior to 286 at the time. I too had an Amiga 500 then 1200 and finally migrated to Wintel machines around time when second generation of Pentiums came out.
Ofcourse they should celebeate Darvin if they want to survive continue to have followers. With each new discovery and with each new advance, the whole idea of religion and a god becomes sillier and siller. The only way to keep themselves from becoming extinct is to embrace new discoveries and spin or "incorporate" it into whatever religious beliefs they embrace. Sure, sometimes it takes em a hundred or more years to do it, but they eventually have to give up the old and accept the new or go under..
c) you were born in the area and have no choice but to live there?
Not sure, but wasn't it XEROX that actually contributed the most to modern GUI interface as we know it? My impression is that apple stole it from xerox and then micorosoft stole it from apple? I could be wrong? not sure?
Marketplace takes care of the problem, there is no need to add inefficencies to the process by adding unions..
For example, if EA treates its top talent really bad, and if it managment sucks, then what does the top talent do? It either a) forms its own company or b) joins the competitor with capable managment team...
Bottom line EA treats its human capital bad = human capital leaves = EA left with no good human capital = EA games start sucking = revenues go down = Wall Street punishes EA = EA goes under.. thats how it works.. its a nice process, and it works.. Those companies with best procedures get rewarded, those with bad managment get punished... simple...
Does anybody really want to hear actors in a game? I personally think that money could be spent in a better way. I would rather see that money go toward physics engine or graphics or anything else. Or maybe, they could just give that extra money back to us in terms of lower game pricing? Do other people think that paying actors will add that much value to the game?
Somebody help me out, I am confused? Who should I hate in this article? Microsoft of Radio stations and their RIAA connections? Who is the good guy? I am all confused, I think I am going to have a seisure?
I better get it off my GF's car soon
I am typing from Frech keyboard so I will try to keep this short and sweet. EU and China concepts are overhyped and those two regions separate will not threaten US dominance.
EU has lots of problems:
1 population in Europe is actually declining and previous economic growth is unsustanable given the dismal population growth in Europe
2 Cultural and language differences between EU nations limit labour mobility which restricts the efficency of labour market
3 excessive laws and regulations, socialist ideals, extremely ridgid labor laws, too much burocracy etc....
4 Uniting different regions economically and militarily was alredy tried in Europe (Yugoslavia) and we all know how well that went...
CHINA:
1 it is a communist system that forecfully is holding its grip on power. As standard of living increases in that country there will be inevitable drive for democracy that could turn out to be very bloody given the diverse population of China. Current system is unstable and is poised to fail and fall.
I would have loved to elaborate more and add more issues but this french keyboard is pissing me off...
Nice going guys! This story gives a whole new meaning to Slashdotting. I own cray stock (CRAY on Nasdaq) and since this article got posted stock got quite a boost. Now if I can only get you guys to post something positive about my gambling penny stocks that I hold position in....
From the article:
"The Spirit rover has a radiation-hardened R6000 CPU from Lockheed-Martin Federal Systems at the heart of the system. The processor accesses 120 Mbytes of RAM and 256 Mbytes of flash. Mounted in a 6U VME chassis, the processor board also has access to custom cards that interface to systems on the rover."
The project costed about 800 millions, would have it hurted to maybe spend few dollars more for greater flash capacity??
I am the proof that with increased internet usage your social skills actually increase. When I moved to US (from Europe [and a nerd] originally) it was hard for me to adjust to cultural and social settings here. Even the US nerds had social advantage over me in terms of their fluency in English. I distinctly remember my freshman year in college I could not wait for weekends. Not because I wanted to go out and party, but because all the other people did, hence freeing up all the valuable high speed for the distro sites that I was running. Yes that is how pathetic I was.. While all the people were getting laid I was on my computer doing all kinds of nerdy stuff... I despised and hated talking to people in public, and you could say I suffered from social disorder.
Eventually on internet I started talking to people outside of the distro groups that I was dealing with and eventually I was becoming more and more social on net which in turn resulted in increased social activity outside internet domain. Finally I started chatting with girls, and yes I was pathetic.. I had no idea what to say or how to say it.. But with persistence (what did I have to loose? They had no idea who I was anyway) I started figuring out girls and what they want to hear and eventually became really good at it, and eventually I reached a point where if there was a girl on net that I wanted to talk to I could get her attention in no time and could get her phone # in first or second chat..
That increased smoothness transcendent into real life when I would meet these girls and with each new date my seducing skills and my confidence grew... Going to real dates I would learn even
more about club and bar scene and would use internet skills to expand my efforts into bar and club scene. After few years of net (and Gym) I was able to get a date with any girl whether I met her on net or in a bar or club and get her attention or whatever else I wanted.
The social impact of net did not only change my dating scene. On the internet I had ability to talk to thousands of people (whether it is scene related or other subjects). Increased exposure to people of all types of walk improved my communication skills and eventually enabled me to subtly manipulate conversations to get the desired result. I was increasingly getting better at reading people on the spot based on their responses regarding the conversation. This was in turn very helpful in first few jobs that I held out of college.
Today, when I look at myself back 5-6 years ago its amazing how much my social skills have changed. And the only reason that happened is because of net. So anybody out there trying to claim that net has negative social impact on the population as whole is DEAD WRONG and I am the living proof..
If you discount 23.90 a month to todays money (assuming there is 0.33% or (0.0033) monthly inflation, Net Present Value of that would equal to about 280.74 + 299 = $579.74 total cost in real money if you were to buy the computer today....
Asia is heavily divided, and there is lots of mistrust going on between those countries. I know in my MBA program students from Japan, South Korea and China barely even talk to each other due to historic tensions and conflicts. I am wondering what level of cooperation will there be between those countries in developing this product? Will they be able to cooperate sufficiently to make anything meaningful?
For Linux to be sucesfull on apple it needs a lot more Linux people to like Apple.. And that might happen when Apple starts shipping its computers with a 2 (or more) button mouse out of box ;o)
Hmm... Just how sure is everybody that this research has nothing to do with RIAA?
Thats one rotten apple!
Now users can use that third hand growing out of their forehead to use cell phones and that will solve driving and talking issue once and for all! 2 hends on wheel one to talk on cell phone.. Perfect!