If your present vehicle is working, what incentive do you have to buy a new one? It's only after it becomes unreliable (or really ugly from rust etc) that you think about replacing it.
Software (despite what M$ would have us believe) doesn't wear out.
The only way to sell new stuff is have it break down. They only fix a few vulnerabilities at a time to make us believe they're trying to keep it safe, but they really built the "rust" at the factory.
Add a few new "features" (read code bloat) and the replacement cycle starts all over again.
They're probably secretly supporting a few exploits the keep the damand up.
Every organism/organization has a very specific weak spot that's vulnerable to a magic bullet.
The cave men would poke out the eyes of the wooly mammoth and watch it thrash around until it starves to death, then eat it.
Find Balmers/Gates/MS's weak spot and they'll go the way of the wooly mammoth (even if SB is not so wooly himself).
Sounds like he's starting to do a little thrashing around now anyway. MS has peaked and they know it. Besides they're both getting a little long in the tooth (tusks) anyway.
Want to know where the Next Crash will be? Just follow the trail of money, i.e. wherever the lenders are loaning the most (read easiest) money.
Right now its the white hot real estate market.
The same has happened in the past with farming, the internet, and many others.
When the Chinese manufacturing market starts to cool, they'll pull their money out of US Treasuries, raising rates, and your seaside condo will take a year (instead of a week) to sell.
Just say NO!
You don't have to buy their f*cking tickets. Do the same with the RIAA and the MPAA too.
Buy a harmonica for $5 and make your own music or go to the public library instead.
It's just all trash designed to sell you more trash.
Don't let them own you.
The present time zones are just a holdever from the 1800's to suit the railroads.
In this internationial economy, everyone should just use GMT.
I eat my lunch at 16:00Z on the Atlantic coast while you could eat your lunch at 19:00Z on the Pacific coast.
The Wall Street Journal said in an similar article today:
"RealNetworks has become increasingly willing to use litigation to defend its position in online media, after a sustained attack from Microsoft in the market"
National Public Radio's Cartalk website dropped RealNetwork recently for related tactics.
If I were a potential customer, I might think twice about signing up with them in the future.
Could be time to do a short sale, although these things can take a while to come to fruition.
RNWK's CEO may be emulating Daryl.
Litigation can be a viable business model, but when you sleep with the Devil, you'll probably get screwed.
For most investors, professional and otherwise, it's simply a matter of throwing some money at the wall and see if it sticks.
They don't have a crystal ball like Miss Cleo to foretell the future. Daryl doesn't either.
Our legal system is driven by a lot of random occurances (juries, vague "facts", etc), so it pays (sometimes a lot) to roll the dice.
It helps to have a contingency-paid lawyer to put the right spin on it - that what they do best to both clients and juries. Like politics, religion and psychology, the law is just a subset of the entertainment industry.
The Big Three didn't worry about Toyota and Honda until the 1980's because of the low priced foreign competition. They rested on their laurels turning out mediocre cars at best.
They almost didn't survive. The result was A Good Thing for the consumer.
Now Japan has to worry about China, Korea and Taiwan doing the same thing to them.
It pays to go to work every day thinking it may be your last day there.
If it drags out in the legal arena for a long time (say 5+ years), which is likely, there's a good chance the value of the stock could wither back to nothing.
To protect the value of the stock, they'd probably have to buy a sufficient number of put options from someone as insurance against that contingency.
That someone, would probably sell a similar number of shares "short" so they don't have their ass hanging out in the cold, while they make the "vig" on the difference between what they bought and simultaneously sold.
SCOX has has been looking "toppy" lately - perhaps that's why.
I went to Radio Shack and made up a couple of battery packs of AA and D cells with the same plug in connector that matches the laptop.
Just add some fresh cells when you get in a bind and it works without having to ante up $200 for an overpriced rechargeable from the manufacturer.
I usually use it plugged into the wall, but like to have the option of using the batteries.
You'd have to buy a lot of alkalines to offset the rechargeable's cost that never lasts as long as they boast.
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It only took an 18 1/2 minute gap to help boost Richard Nixon out of office.
Bill and Steve been "in office" long enough to have enough mistakes pile up to put them on a slippery slope. Of course, they have their electorate pretty well tied up.
It might take a somewhat stronger outside force to effect a regime change
Ever notice how many times enough scandal accumulates by the time a president hits the second term that he probably wouldn't be elected a third term?
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It's only after it becomes unreliable (or really ugly from rust etc) that you think about replacing it.
Software (despite what M$ would have us believe) doesn't wear out.
The only way to sell new stuff is have it break down. They only fix a few vulnerabilities at a time to make us believe they're trying to keep it safe, but they really built the "rust" at the factory.
Add a few new "features" (read code bloat) and the replacement cycle starts all over again.
They're probably secretly supporting a few exploits the keep the damand up.
VisCalc and Lotus 123 were probably responsible for looting more employee retirement funds than anything else.
The cave men would poke out the eyes of the wooly mammoth and watch it thrash around until it starves to death, then eat it.
Find Balmers/Gates/MS's weak spot and they'll go the way of the wooly mammoth (even if SB is not so wooly himself).
Sounds like he's starting to do a little thrashing around now anyway. MS has peaked and they know it. Besides they're both getting a little long in the tooth (tusks) anyway.
the lenders are loaning the most (read easiest) money.
Right now its the white hot real estate market.
The same has happened in the past with farming, the internet, and many others.
When the Chinese manufacturing market starts to cool, they'll pull their money
out of US Treasuries, raising rates, and your seaside condo will take a year
(instead of a week) to sell.
It was bound to happen. Sooner or later all markets mature. People run out of needs for "innovation". If it does the job, why replace it?
Just say NO!
You don't have to buy their f*cking tickets. Do the same with the RIAA and the MPAA too.
Buy a harmonica for $5 and make your own music or go to the public library instead.
It's just all trash designed to sell you more trash.
Don't let them own you.
The present time zones are just a holdever from the 1800's to suit the railroads.
In this internationial economy, everyone should just use GMT.
I eat my lunch at 16:00Z on the Atlantic coast while you could eat your lunch at 19:00Z on the Pacific coast.
Maybe they should come out with a ISBN like serial number http://www.isbn.org/ for all of these companies so we could tell them apart.
Crazier things have happened on the last minute in this weird legal system we have.
If they can get it in front of a jury of Joe 12-packs, add the right spin, it could still go SCO's way.
There's nothing logical or rational about the present system. It's still a roll of the dice. Daryl could come out smelling like a rose.
In the mean time, the lawyers (on both sides) are trying real hard not to kill the job. It's to their benefit to drag it out as long as possible.
You're probably talking about a spinthariscope. See: http://www.unitednuclear.com/spinthariscope.htm if you want one. They've got other cool nuclear stuff too.
See the subject line. Google for "putty" and click on the first link. Simon is a genius.
You just have to turn in their left ear and mouse finger for the reward.
I bet Oreilly is writing up Gmail Hacks as we speak....
"Not Found
The requested URL http:// was not found on this server."
It's like your dog - it can't contract the virii everybody else in the family is passing around.
"RealNetworks has become increasingly willing to use litigation to defend its position in online media, after a sustained attack from Microsoft in the market"
National Public Radio's Cartalk website dropped RealNetwork recently for related tactics.
If I were a potential customer, I might think twice about signing up with them in the future.
Could be time to do a short sale, although these things can take a while to come to fruition.
RNWK's CEO may be emulating Daryl.
Litigation can be a viable business model, but when you sleep with the Devil, you'll probably get screwed.
The market chewed Enron up and spit it out, almost overnight - much faster and more effectively than the government is doing.
They don't have a crystal ball like Miss Cleo to foretell the future. Daryl doesn't either.
Our legal system is driven by a lot of random occurances (juries, vague "facts", etc), so it pays (sometimes a lot) to roll the dice.
It helps to have a contingency-paid lawyer to put the right spin on it - that what they do best to both clients and juries. Like politics, religion and psychology, the law is just a subset of the entertainment industry.
They almost didn't survive. The result was A Good Thing for the consumer.
Now Japan has to worry about China, Korea and Taiwan doing the same thing to them.
It pays to go to work every day thinking it may be your last day there.
To protect the value of the stock, they'd probably have to buy a sufficient number of put options from someone as insurance against that contingency.
That someone, would probably sell a similar number of shares "short" so they don't have their ass hanging out in the cold, while they make the "vig" on the difference between what they bought and simultaneously sold.
SCOX has has been looking "toppy" lately - perhaps that's why.
Maybe the run's over. Keep an eye on the door...
That probably had more to do with changing his mind than anything else.
Fear vs greed.
Where do I buy the rights's to Powwow?
Just add some fresh cells when you get in a bind and it works without having to ante up $200 for an overpriced rechargeable from the manufacturer.
I usually use it plugged into the wall, but like to have the option of using the batteries.
You'd have to buy a lot of alkalines to offset the rechargeable's cost that never lasts as long as they boast.
Bill and Steve been "in office" long enough to have enough mistakes pile up to put
them on a slippery slope. Of course, they have their electorate pretty well tied up.
It might take a somewhat stronger outside force to effect a regime change
Ever notice how many times enough scandal accumulates by the time a president hits
the second term that he probably wouldn't be elected a third term?