I think you have this the wrong way round. MS were a more than enthusiastic potential buyer, bidding far above the market value of the company. It was Yahoo who dragged their feet on the whole deal, forcing MS to continually improve their bid until Yahoo finally rejected the offer altogether. Yahoo got their share price bumped and MS got massively embarrassed.
Sleny operátorky na lince Lenovo byly velice milé. Po vyslechnutí mého poadavku m chtly odmítnout, ale poté, co jsem odcitoval píslunou ást licence, si vyádaly pár dní na zjitní aktuálního stavu od vedení firmy. Tím jsem se viditeln dostal o úrove vý, nebo nyní následovalo kolo telefonních rozhovor.
I just watched the womens road race where they could have swapped bikes for canoes, the rowing is cancelled and several other events have been postponed because of rain.
Slashdot has been a champion of the strong growth recently experienced by Apple. Apparently not reflecting this financial upturn downwards is acceptable here.
Personally I come down on the side of clean architecture and consider performance to be an aspect of the overall architecture. A 'perfect' architecture is of no use if it does not meet the customers performance requirements and similarly an uber performant app quickly becomes redundant or forces the business into certain processes to accomodate it because its too fragile or too difficult to modify. I am prepared to compromise on design when necessary to achieve the requisite perfomance (assuming we started out using the appropriate tools in the first place) but I will not tear a design to bits just to save a few bytes or clock cycles.
There is a lot to admire about Rails but performance has been an issue from day one. Rails proponents themselves have frequently commented that to get better performance the best solution was to throw more hardware at the problem but even that only goes so far.
Whats the problem here? We want to look for alien life so we cant sit around forever trying to figure out what form it has and how it communicates. We have to start somewhere and from our own (albeit very limited experience of life) water and radio waves currently seem to be two very good indicators. It may well be that they are not and we just happen to stumble across alien life completely by accident but if we don't start somewhere we are highly unlikely to find anything.
Exactly and we are no use to the aliens for food or slaving in their mines if we all die from alien bird flu so expect them to bring lots of antibiotics anyway.
Recently Iran has quietly been buying thousands of Zanussi and Smeg freezers. The only possible reason for these purchases is that Iran plan to build a secret glacier with which they can terrorise the region and threaten the US.
Which company is going to provide the install support across all of the offices, who is going to retrain all of the IT staff, who is going to replace every instance of closed format documentation that they already have in place?
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I think you have this the wrong way round. MS were a more than enthusiastic potential buyer, bidding far above the market value of the company. It was Yahoo who dragged their feet on the whole deal, forcing MS to continually improve their bid until Yahoo finally rejected the offer altogether. Yahoo got their share price bumped and MS got massively embarrassed.
Too much group think here for the free thinking approach the solution to many of these problems will require.
They are going to enter the patent in the Pirate Code.
All disputes to be settled by broadsides should parlay fail.
Why what's so special about Xany Xanthupotamus?
I especially liked this bit
Sleny operátorky na lince Lenovo byly velice milé. Po vyslechnutí mého poadavku m chtly odmítnout, ale poté, co jsem odcitoval píslunou ást licence, si vyádaly pár dní na zjitní aktuálního stavu od vedení firmy. Tím jsem se viditeln dostal o úrove vý, nebo nyní následovalo kolo telefonních rozhovor.
I dont know what it means but I like it. I think.
I just watched the womens road race where they could have swapped bikes for canoes, the rowing is cancelled and several other events have been postponed because of rain.
Slashdot has been a champion of the strong growth recently experienced by Apple. Apparently not reflecting this financial upturn downwards is acceptable here.
Personally I come down on the side of clean architecture and consider performance to be an aspect of the overall architecture. A 'perfect' architecture is of no use if it does not meet the customers performance requirements and similarly an uber performant app quickly becomes redundant or forces the business into certain processes to accomodate it because its too fragile or too difficult to modify. I am prepared to compromise on design when necessary to achieve the requisite perfomance (assuming we started out using the appropriate tools in the first place) but I will not tear a design to bits just to save a few bytes or clock cycles.
There is a lot to admire about Rails but performance has been an issue from day one. Rails proponents themselves have frequently commented that to get better performance the best solution was to throw more hardware at the problem but even that only goes so far.
Pretty Heavy ATom gets my vote
training a sniffer dog means serving lightly sauted with a side order of rice and vegetables.
Whats the problem here? We want to look for alien life so we cant sit around forever trying to figure out what form it has and how it communicates. We have to start somewhere and from our own (albeit very limited experience of life) water and radio waves currently seem to be two very good indicators. It may well be that they are not and we just happen to stumble across alien life completely by accident but if we don't start somewhere we are highly unlikely to find anything.
Exactly and we are no use to the aliens for food or slaving in their mines if we all die from alien bird flu so expect them to bring lots of antibiotics anyway.
with the Sword of a Thousand Truths?
It's not thick, it's just a slow learner you insensitive clod!
Recently Iran has quietly been buying thousands of Zanussi and Smeg freezers. The only possible reason for these purchases is that Iran plan to build a secret glacier with which they can terrorise the region and threaten the US.
I read the wikipedia article on neurosurgery and performed the operation myself.
IBM would bite your arm off for that contract.
Running Vista with SP 236, the one with extra spin.
IBM just hired some peeps from the Intel marketing division.
Dont you?
pay up before you kill us
nuff said
has been hailed as a positive step by leading members of the shark community.
Me kangaroo hates it and me sheila left me over it. Fortunately I still have me sheep.
you insensitive clod!