Holywood is a business. The primary goal of business is to make money, not to entertain.
I am not sure why the guy should be criticized for being old. Everybody grows old, some better than others. I hope you loose your anger as you grow older... Yes, sorry to break the news to you, the "olds" is not a group of other foreign people, you too will grow old.
I have to admit that being fat is a health risk, but that is his problem that has no consequence on what he does (producing movies), and apparently he has the money to deal with the consequences of his life style choices.
I am not sure why slashdoters tend to be very quick to criticize the successfull rich people out there... jealousy ?? Now if you are truly interrested in entertainment and talent, forget about big holywood production, start looking at what's produced locally in your area. Everywhere I've been, you can easily find incredibly talented musicians, singers, actors, etc... They typically are not rich, and paying to see them at your local theatre will make a big difference to them.
There is more to the web than what he thinks...
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when putting content on the web, "rarely do we ask the question: is anybody interested in reading that?"
I for one put stuff on my webpage as reference for myself. I do put some small content there for other to read, and the logs do show that it does get read.
He probably doesn't know. His stock broker probably sold the stock to some other stock brokers. My guess is that they did that in a crowded place with a lot of people screaming, all buying or selling some stock too. Those places are called stock exchange, and they are a big part of any modern economy.
Is this a step towards some other interest group having a share of microsoft in exchange...
Typically one sell stock in exchange for cash. Typically one would either re-invest that cash in some other stock (this is called spreading the risk, or my like my grandmother used to say don't put all your eggs in the same basket), or maybe he spent the cash like on a new house (well a few houses !), a private jet, or whatever he felt like at the moment.
I don't get it, assuming there is such a law, then you basically have to keep all the resume for which the sender can prove he/she sent it to you, that is fedex or other courrier companies and registered mail.
Try to contact the air car company to get licenses to distribute... You will find that there are already exclusive licenses taken everywhere by the big car companies.
Fermat had said it was simple !!! And he didn't think it needed as much space as While took, just a little bit more than the margin, that's all it needed
"The reader who's seen other nontechnical accounts of the subject will forgive me, I hope, for perpetuating the fiction that the whole field of topology is actually confined to the study of spheres and doughnuts. There are other shapes, I promise: They're just harder to describe."
snif, snif... is there a conspiracy against the this is the klein bottle second time on slash dot that it is expressively not mentioned ??
"Use remote-control technology to open documents on your office computer screen."
In my cubby farm, if you leave your desk even 2 minutes without kicking in some sort of screen lock, you are gently reminded that you probably have a couple of windows opened with root access to extremely important machines, and that you could be liable for any email sent with your email id.
If you happened to be working via VPN, it is assumed that you set in the keyboard locking, but that you forgot to switch you screen off, so most people seeing windows moving on a screen with nobody in front of the pc, will switch that monitor off.
This article should have been printed 10 or 15 years ago, in most offices today you are judged by how much you produce, not by the amount of time you are (seem to be) in the office.
it also manages gradual temperature changes (1/hr) for different stages of brewing
You should make that code available for free !! It would give a whole new sense to the expression "free as in..."
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Too funny.
I used to live in an appartment, and on a regular basis I would get one of those cable company sales person knocking on my door asking if I wanted cable. Invariably I would say: "yes, how much would it cost me to CBC + the learning channel + TV5 + discovery +...", and invariably they would x$ per month with package Z.
At this point I answer that I don't want any package, because I don't want any of my money to go to talk shows, reality shows, etc... The answer would always be, sorry we can't do that, until one day some sales guy told me they couldn't because of the CRTC.
I didn't believe him, so I checked into it, and it is true !! I pay taxes in order to pay people who decide what I am allowed to watch !!
At least when my parents were deciding what I could watch or not, I didn't have to pay them !!
"Perhaps one day "computer science" will, like Yugoslavia, get broken up into its component parts"
This is already the case. There are people specializing in writing comp-sci software (compiler etc...), there all those double-majors who write software for their other degree specialization (software for given domains like geophysical etc...), there are people who specialise on the ergonomic of the GUI, etc....
This isn't that different from people designing a car, a thing that is both functional and can be beautiful. It takes engineer and designer to make a car.
Now don't tell me "I am the creative type", I am writting software, science doesn't apply to me. I once work in a software lab where the lab had been producing software for several decades. One day the person in charge of QA convinced the person in charge of development to bring some quality type tools like cyclomatic analysis (McCabe etc...). A few engineer came up with that argument that they were producing art, that a software couldn't / shouldn't judge them.
Well, they did two things: They ran McCabe against a lot of their software, some that have been in the market for decades, and there was a direct correlation between the "level" the tool was finding and the number of patches applied to the piece of software. Then they analysed code per current programers: The artsy types were writting complex code that the QA dept. kept sending back !!
Conclusion, there is a place for "out there" artsy type to inovated in a small shop, there is a place in ergonomic to write "beautifull software", but a serious piece of software does need some science.
Think about this, how beautifull would a car that looks good but keeps breaking down be ? Doesn't this remind you a lot of the software out there ?
Hmmmm.... I remember doing mobius out of paper in topology classes, but somehow we never made a klein bottle.
I read the whole article, they do talk about geometry, they do talk about topology, but nowhere do they show you how to make a klein bottle out of paper...
Competition is good, but Intel has a good track record through buying companies / technologies like when they bought the Alpha technology, used about half of it, and parked the other half with big patents on it so that the competition wouldn't be able to use it.
Hopefully this won't happen with Transmeta because there is enough money behind it (with Allen et al...).
Of course not. The richest man in the world doesn't read new-paper, especially the ones related to his industry, he doesn't check the news on the web, he doesn't read/. (yeah right !), and he just invests in companies without doing any background research.
How did you think he become that reach, by checking things out ?
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Holywood is a business. The primary goal of business is to make money, not to entertain.
I am not sure why the guy should be criticized for being old. Everybody grows old, some better than others. I hope you loose your anger as you grow older... Yes, sorry to break the news to you, the "olds" is not a group of other foreign people, you too will grow old.
I have to admit that being fat is a health risk, but that is his problem that has no consequence on what he does (producing movies), and apparently he has the money to deal with the consequences of his life style choices.
I am not sure why slashdoters tend to be very quick to criticize the successfull rich people out there... jealousy ?? Now if you are truly interrested in entertainment and talent, forget about big holywood production, start looking at what's produced locally in your area. Everywhere I've been, you can easily find incredibly talented musicians, singers, actors, etc... They typically are not rich, and paying to see them at your local theatre will make a big difference to them.
Enjoy your day.
Linux in India.... That's got to be good karma !!
when putting content on the web, "rarely do we ask the question: is anybody interested in reading that?"
I for one put stuff on my webpage as reference for myself. I do put some small content there for other to read, and the logs do show that it does get read.
To whom has he sold this stock?
He probably doesn't know. His stock broker probably sold the stock to some other stock brokers. My guess is that they did that in a crowded place with a lot of people screaming, all buying or selling some stock too. Those places are called stock exchange, and they are a big part of any modern economy.
Is this a step towards some other interest group having a share of microsoft in exchange...
Typically one sell stock in exchange for cash. Typically one would either re-invest that cash in some other stock (this is called spreading the risk, or my like my grandmother used to say don't put all your eggs in the same basket), or maybe he spent the cash like on a new house (well a few houses !), a private jet, or whatever he felt like at the moment.
that SCO is only one of many in the Unix world
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You really meant UNIX®, right
It's definitely not pound, not hash maybe sharp but really, it is octothorp.
I don't get it, assuming there is such a law, then you basically have to keep all the resume for which the sender can prove he/she sent it to you, that is fedex or other courrier companies and registered mail.
They dont really have to keep anything else.
Your son ? Self-made ???
Is this a slash dot insider joke on masturbation, or you actually managed to clone yourself ??
Try to contact the air car company to get licenses to distribute... You will find that there are already exclusive licenses taken everywhere by the big car companies.
Fermat had said it was simple !!! And he didn't think it needed as much space as While took, just a little bit more than the margin, that's all it needed
"Almost all the rich men have become rich late in their lifes"
Well to just take Gates example from the parent post, how old was he when he made is first 10 M$ ?
"The reader who's seen other nontechnical accounts of the subject will forgive me, I hope, for perpetuating the fiction that the whole field of topology is actually confined to the study of spheres and doughnuts. There are other shapes, I promise: They're just harder to describe."
snif, snif... is there a conspiracy against the this is the klein bottle second time on slash dot that it is expressively not mentioned ??
"Use remote-control technology to open documents on your office computer screen."
In my cubby farm, if you leave your desk even 2 minutes without kicking in some sort of screen lock, you are gently reminded that you probably have a couple of windows opened with root access to extremely important machines, and that you could be liable for any email sent with your email id.
If you happened to be working via VPN, it is assumed that you set in the keyboard locking, but that you forgot to switch you screen off, so most people seeing windows moving on a screen with nobody in front of the pc, will switch that monitor off.
This article should have been printed 10 or 15 years ago, in most offices today you are judged by how much you produce, not by the amount of time you are (seem to be) in the office.
An airplane ticket to your choice fo destination in Europe.
Oh hold on, was that for another brand ?
"I'm 31 - when I was a child they promised us a life cast free from housework with more time for leisure."
What they meant was that by the time you are 31 you should be married, and then free from housework with more time for leisure.
PS: this is not sexist since I do not know the gender of the original poster...
All those comments about the proper and/or incorrect use of the word UNIX, yet not one spelling it properlly.
;-)
"UNIX® is a registered trademark" and should be spelled in all caps.
Thank you
How about we sort out life on Earth
One should choose one's battles, space seems easier...
it also manages gradual temperature changes (1/hr) for different stages of brewing
You should make that code available for free !! It would give a whole new sense to the expression "free as in..."
Too funny.
I used to live in an appartment, and on a regular basis I would get one of those cable company sales person knocking on my door asking if I wanted cable. Invariably I would say: "yes, how much would it cost me to CBC + the learning channel + TV5 + discovery +...", and invariably they would x$ per month with package Z.
At this point I answer that I don't want any package, because I don't want any of my money to go to talk shows, reality shows, etc... The answer would always be, sorry we can't do that, until one day some sales guy told me they couldn't because of the CRTC.
I didn't believe him, so I checked into it, and it is true !! I pay taxes in order to pay people who decide what I am allowed to watch !!
At least when my parents were deciding what I could watch or not, I didn't have to pay them !!
Tivo in Canada ? You're kidding ?
Who knows, we could filter out, and stop watching our 25% (or whatever it is) of canadian content !!!
"Perhaps one day "computer science" will, like Yugoslavia, get broken up into its component parts"
This is already the case. There are people specializing in writing comp-sci software (compiler etc...), there all those double-majors who write software for their other degree specialization (software for given domains like geophysical etc...), there are people who specialise on the ergonomic of the GUI, etc....
This isn't that different from people designing a car, a thing that is both functional and can be beautiful. It takes engineer and designer to make a car.
Now don't tell me "I am the creative type", I am writting software, science doesn't apply to me. I once work in a software lab where the lab had been producing software for several decades. One day the person in charge of QA convinced the person in charge of development to bring some quality type tools like cyclomatic analysis (McCabe etc...). A few engineer came up with that argument that they were producing art, that a software couldn't / shouldn't judge them.
Well, they did two things: They ran McCabe against a lot of their software, some that have been in the market for decades, and there was a direct correlation between the "level" the tool was finding and the number of patches applied to the piece of software. Then they analysed code per current programers: The artsy types were writting complex code that the QA dept. kept sending back !!
Conclusion, there is a place for "out there" artsy type to inovated in a small shop, there is a place in ergonomic to write "beautifull software", but a serious piece of software does need some science.
Think about this, how beautifull would a car that looks good but keeps breaking down be ? Doesn't this remind you a lot of the software out there ?
Hmmmm.... I remember doing mobius out of paper in topology classes, but somehow we never made a klein bottle.
I read the whole article, they do talk about geometry, they do talk about topology, but nowhere do they show you how to make a klein bottle out of paper...
Competition is good, but Intel has a good track record through buying companies / technologies like when they bought the Alpha technology, used about half of it, and parked the other half with big patents on it so that the competition wouldn't be able to use it.
Hopefully this won't happen with Transmeta because there is enough money behind it (with Allen et al...).
Of course not. The richest man in the world doesn't read new-paper, especially the ones related to his industry, he doesn't check the news on the web, he doesn't read /. (yeah right !), and he just invests in companies without doing any background research.
How did you think he become that reach, by checking things out ?
Common, the association between Transmeta and M$ isn't that new. Who was one of the major investor in Transmeta ??
M$ co-founder Paul Allen.