FUCK! I held on too long. My AMD stock has done well over the last 8 or so years. I knew that ATI acquisition smelled funny...
This happens when the profit margins of the company are not inline with what shareholders expect from a company in the particular field in question. The idea for the split is that the one company will be in the field in question, and have much higher margins (without the other division bringing them down). The other company, while still profitable, is now in a different field with different margin expectations. Now both companies can claim to be competitive in their respective fields. Thus, they are able to borrow more because their individual stock are rated higher. This happened to my last company that was in Aerospace and automotive at the same time. With aerospace being much more profitable, but automotive was still profitable, just not comparatively so.
Overall though I think its a failure to have to do this. Now I gotta find the right time to get out, which is probably not now.
The studio itself is fine. I don't think its built with a bunch of different technologies. Its basically C++. But the products it creates are patched together with all sorts of things. They give you sort of, "widgets" that you just drag in. They try to abstract whether the widget was made in visual C++, C#, Visual Basic, etc. But in the end, it can be important to understand what these things are.
You can make some really nasty quick and dirty stuff in Visual Studio. Sure if you are out to make solid code you can do that as well. But it can get frustrating as you have to keep smacking down the widget approach.
Thats a technical reason. In the US though, its about shareholder perception. If the CEO is trying to do big things and keeps talking in "old" terms, he will quickly be accused of being out of touch with reality.
Like the post said, Linux is generating the buzz. The money follows the buzz even if it does not make sense.
When Eric Clapton plays a mean blues guitar solo, he can do so minus the countless medallions, bling jewelry, fashion street clothing and any need to wave his hands at the camera.
Maybe you need to be black to appreciate rap music but it never ceases to amaze me how the much deeper culture of black blues music, played equally well by both black and white musicians, is totally ignored by those who follow rap and modern black street culture.
Thats just ridiculous. Maybe they don't bling, but blues players have the fanciest guitars of any guitar players. Every genre has their thing.
Some rap does the bling thing. Thats part of Black youth culture. Look rich. White youth culture when I was young at least, was to look "poor." Of course they paid top dollar for those ripped up faded jeans and simple t-shirt. Music is part of culture and vice versa.
When you say "maybe you need to be black to appreciate rap music..." there is some truth to it. You don't need to be racially Black, but you need to comprehend some elements of Black culture. You can be White and do that. Rap would not be big as it is today if lots of White youth were not able to understand it.
What will likely happen, especially in China, is the government will force NAT on companies.
Unless you are running a server, NAT will work for you. If you are running a server, then a NATed address is not going to work. Most of our large companies in the US only run so many servers that are externally visible. The majority of desktop computers can easily be NATed.
I download the docs and install them in the jDK directory. That way they are available in my IDE when I highlight methods and classes. Java has whats called "javadoc" which allows comments to directly be attached to variables and methods and classes, etc. in the source code.
Also, the sourcecode is included with the jdk.
Java's organization makes documentation easy. Or perhaps Sun is just organized like that.
Not if AMD can help it. Obviously this is not their path or they would not have purchased ATI. They sell two products, one of them is enormously expensive, the other is reasonable. I cant see why any graphics card manufacturer would give up all that profit!?
Also consider that GPU upgrades are much more frequent that CPU upgrades. I don't think the dollars favor integration of the two. I don't think there is enough competition for force it either.
The only company that may achieve this is VIA. For completely different reasons.
I was under the impression that the idea of a "spirit" did not exist in the old testament. Further, that the idea of a spirit is something introduced by Europeans who held other beliefs. The idea of a spirit was blended with the beliefs of the Israelites when they and/or Egypt was conquored by Europeans.
So I would expect to see it in Revelations, but not Genesis.
Either way, if you can comprehend why religious leaders are conservative voters, then you will see that its not about God at all.
If they did not take it down because they did not believe the content infringing then they are immediately claiming/agreeing to vet the content of posts to their site. I think they may also want to claim a bit of ignorance of the content on their site,
I started Visual C++ 5 with a book called "Beginning Visual C++ 5" by Ivor Horton from Wrox Press. When I started in Java I bought a book titled "Beginning Java" by Ivor Horton.
I would start there. Java is really straight forward OO language. The only issue you will have coming from C++ is to let go of destructors and realize Java does not use them. Many from C++ take about 6 months to stop tryng to make a finalizer into a destructor.
Here in Michigan we also do this. If your neighbor wont cut his grass in a timely manner there is usually a municipal number you can call. The city agents will come out and issue a fine. This applies to more than grass though. Animals, noise, etc. If there it is a "private" neighborhood then you can have other things written into the charter or whatever its called for that area.
Its really only concerned with property related things though. If you see your neighbor growing pot plants, you'd have to find another number to call...
The Olympics sucks. I wont even bother watching them. The coverage is fucking pathetic. If you are not interested in one of the top billing events, you can forget seeing the event at all. last time around I tried like hell to watch TaeKwonDo to no avail. I could only catch some of it in Canada since I live in Detroit. Otherwise, it was a waste.
This time I would like to see some mountain biking. My hopes are not high.
Vertical space does matter to developers. People even today walk by my desk and laugh at my twisted widescreen HP monitor. They can't possibly see the benefit. Then I drag over a pdf file of a specification document and can read a whole 8.5x11 sheet on that screen while coding on the other screen and they instantly see how well this size matches up.
Plus I am coding in C at work. Sequential code tends to have longer functions and thus you need more vertical space to see the whole thing.
A widescreen laptop is a joke. Laptop screens are too small to begin with. Sure, I like diff on a wide screen. But the majority of my work is not diff. Since a laptop screen does not rotate, I prefer the standard setup. It simply does not fit with the proportions I am used to looking at all day, which is a sheet of paper.
And watching a HD movie on my 15" laptop!?! Haha, what's the point? I'd rather watch it on something designed and comfortable for movie/TV watching.
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FUCK! I held on too long. My AMD stock has done well over the last 8 or so years. I knew that ATI acquisition smelled funny...
This happens when the profit margins of the company are not inline with what shareholders expect from a company in the particular field in question. The idea for the split is that the one company will be in the field in question, and have much higher margins (without the other division bringing them down). The other company, while still profitable, is now in a different field with different margin expectations. Now both companies can claim to be competitive in their respective fields. Thus, they are able to borrow more because their individual stock are rated higher. This happened to my last company that was in Aerospace and automotive at the same time. With aerospace being much more profitable, but automotive was still profitable, just not comparatively so.
Overall though I think its a failure to have to do this. Now I gotta find the right time to get out, which is probably not now.
The studio itself is fine. I don't think its built with a bunch of different technologies. Its basically C++. But the products it creates are patched together with all sorts of things. They give you sort of, "widgets" that you just drag in. They try to abstract whether the widget was made in visual C++, C#, Visual Basic, etc. But in the end, it can be important to understand what these things are.
You can make some really nasty quick and dirty stuff in Visual Studio. Sure if you are out to make solid code you can do that as well. But it can get frustrating as you have to keep smacking down the widget approach.
Anyone that has used VisualStudio or any of MS programming options will cringe at MS definition of "integrate".
Hammer and duct tape...
I take my hat off to the Republicans for standing up for whats right. If your going to be free market, then you have to be wedded to it.
I have not seen an athelete sued for damages over using performance enhancing drugs. This appears the same to me. Yet blizzard is suing for damages.
Oh I'm sure they could use it. They just didn't want too. Probably think $$$ is their right and nobody should get in the way of it.
Personally, the olympics suck anyway. Let them keep strangling it. They will only kill it until it can become something for everyone.
I was under the impression reverse engineering was not illegal. So why the reverse engineering claim as if this is a legal issue?
Thats a technical reason. In the US though, its about shareholder perception. If the CEO is trying to do big things and keeps talking in "old" terms, he will quickly be accused of being out of touch with reality.
Like the post said, Linux is generating the buzz. The money follows the buzz even if it does not make sense.
How could that possibly be a mistake? How could the FCC not know that when it tested? Is this a new test or something?
True, the majority of our servers are probably internal and NATed as well.
When Eric Clapton plays a mean blues guitar solo, he can do so minus the countless medallions, bling jewelry, fashion street clothing and any need to wave his hands at the camera.
Maybe you need to be black to appreciate rap music but it never ceases to amaze me how the much deeper culture of black blues music, played equally well by both black and white musicians, is totally ignored by those who follow rap and modern black street culture.
Thats just ridiculous. Maybe they don't bling, but blues players have the fanciest guitars of any guitar players. Every genre has their thing.
Some rap does the bling thing. Thats part of Black youth culture. Look rich. White youth culture when I was young at least, was to look "poor." Of course they paid top dollar for those ripped up faded jeans and simple t-shirt. Music is part of culture and vice versa.
When you say "maybe you need to be black to appreciate rap music..." there is some truth to it. You don't need to be racially Black, but you need to comprehend some elements of Black culture. You can be White and do that. Rap would not be big as it is today if lots of White youth were not able to understand it.
What will likely happen, especially in China, is the government will force NAT on companies.
Unless you are running a server, NAT will work for you. If you are running a server, then a NATed address is not going to work. Most of our large companies in the US only run so many servers that are externally visible. The majority of desktop computers can easily be NATed.
Where I work, our desktops are NATed.
I download the docs and install them in the jDK directory. That way they are available in my IDE when I highlight methods and classes. Java has whats called "javadoc" which allows comments to directly be attached to variables and methods and classes, etc. in the source code.
Also, the sourcecode is included with the jdk.
Java's organization makes documentation easy. Or perhaps Sun is just organized like that.
Not if AMD can help it. Obviously this is not their path or they would not have purchased ATI. They sell two products, one of them is enormously expensive, the other is reasonable. I cant see why any graphics card manufacturer would give up all that profit!?
Also consider that GPU upgrades are much more frequent that CPU upgrades. I don't think the dollars favor integration of the two. I don't think there is enough competition for force it either.
The only company that may achieve this is VIA. For completely different reasons.
You do not have to use finalizers. That was my point in the original post. If you still think you do, you should do more studying.
If you are trying to destroy resources you should be using phantom references. Just having a finalizer will affect when your object gets GC.
Use finalizers for debugging but not for production work.
I was under the impression that the idea of a "spirit" did not exist in the old testament. Further, that the idea of a spirit is something introduced by Europeans who held other beliefs. The idea of a spirit was blended with the beliefs of the Israelites when they and/or Egypt was conquored by Europeans.
So I would expect to see it in Revelations, but not Genesis.
Either way, if you can comprehend why religious leaders are conservative voters, then you will see that its not about God at all.
If they did not take it down because they did not believe the content infringing then they are immediately claiming/agreeing to vet the content of posts to their site. I think they may also want to claim a bit of ignorance of the content on their site,
I started Visual C++ 5 with a book called "Beginning Visual C++ 5" by Ivor Horton from Wrox Press. When I started in Java I bought a book titled "Beginning Java" by Ivor Horton.
I would start there. Java is really straight forward OO language. The only issue you will have coming from C++ is to let go of destructors and realize Java does not use them. Many from C++ take about 6 months to stop tryng to make a finalizer into a destructor.
Here in Michigan we also do this. If your neighbor wont cut his grass in a timely manner there is usually a municipal number you can call. The city agents will come out and issue a fine. This applies to more than grass though. Animals, noise, etc. If there it is a "private" neighborhood then you can have other things written into the charter or whatever its called for that area.
Its really only concerned with property related things though. If you see your neighbor growing pot plants, you'd have to find another number to call...
The same were used against the Japanese or at least attempted to be when they were selling mini-vans so cheaply.
The Olympics sucks. I wont even bother watching them. The coverage is fucking pathetic. If you are not interested in one of the top billing events, you can forget seeing the event at all. last time around I tried like hell to watch TaeKwonDo to no avail. I could only catch some of it in Canada since I live in Detroit. Otherwise, it was a waste.
This time I would like to see some mountain biking. My hopes are not high.
Pay per view Olymipcs. The thought is laughable.
I just got "locked out" of my pioneer HDTV trying to replace a noisy fan. There is a kill switch in it.
So now I have to call Pioneer tomorrow to figure out how to get the stupid TV to turn on again.
That is fucking stupid considering any thief can easily circumvent. Any ordinary user wont even be trying...
That makes sense. +5
Why does a takedown notice get more respect than the site owner? Because a person sending such a notice seems more sue-happy than the site owner?
Site owners can sue too. That is, unless when you sign up for hosting you agree that your site can be taken down for any reason.
Vertical space does matter to developers. People even today walk by my desk and laugh at my twisted widescreen HP monitor. They can't possibly see the benefit. Then I drag over a pdf file of a specification document and can read a whole 8.5x11 sheet on that screen while coding on the other screen and they instantly see how well this size matches up.
Plus I am coding in C at work. Sequential code tends to have longer functions and thus you need more vertical space to see the whole thing.
A widescreen laptop is a joke. Laptop screens are too small to begin with. Sure, I like diff on a wide screen. But the majority of my work is not diff. Since a laptop screen does not rotate, I prefer the standard setup. It simply does not fit with the proportions I am used to looking at all day, which is a sheet of paper.
And watching a HD movie on my 15" laptop!?! Haha, what's the point? I'd rather watch it on something designed and comfortable for movie/TV watching.