"Sure it brings in extra cash in the short term but in the long term, your buisness focus shifts from your product and customers to the whims of your shareholders."
You make it sound like every company that is traded publicly doesn't produce good products. I am a shareholder of a number of different companies and the only thing I care about is that they keep producing quality products so customers continue to buy them. Companies that fit your description typically don't last.
"When you submit a winning Pepsi code to the Tune Recycler, we'll redeem it for music from honest, independent labels."
Just because a label is independent doesn't make them honest. There are shady businesses everywhere.
Looks like the US patent office might be infringing on this patent:
"For CTAP and ICTAP, well qualified means that the applicant is eligible, qualified, and clearly exceeds qualification requirements for the position as demonstrated by either: (1) Meeting selective and qualify ranking factor levels as specified by the agency; or (2).."
You make the stock market sound like a Las Vegas roulette wheel. Not quite. The stock market helps drive free economies. People who work at companies that participate in an open market have a direct impact on the performance of the stock. Home Depot is a perfect example of this. The company offered its employees excellent stock options, and with a lot of hard work by them, many of them made much more than they could have with their salaries alone. Stock markets are a good thing, but you have to be educated in order to protect/increase your assests.
One of the things I like most about sleep is that I can vividly remember my dreams the next day about 80% of the time. Most of my dreams are so bizarre and unusual that I find it very satisfying trying to remember all of what I dreamt about (I've also realized this is impossible). If I know what I want to dream about I'll do it during the day. Otherwise, I'll keep my dreams just the way they are: surprising, chaotic, strange, exciting, etc...
I hear many people in here complaining that Lego has become too 'specialized' and they need to get back to simple blocks. This is absolutley rediculous. You can still buy simple bricks. They haven't stopped making them, they have just expanded their product line. You hear about the specialized sets more only because they bring in more cash for Lego.
I don't trust "e"-voting. Why? Because it has been proven to be unsafe. That being said, I still like the idea of electronic voting and think a reliable system can be developed. I'm just curious as to why a dependable and safe methodology hasn't been implemented yet. I'm not convinced the reason is because it is not open source though. That would certainly make it better though given the implications of the results. But I could probably pick ten or twenty developers off/., make it closed source, and come up with a safe voting scheme. So why is it that things have gone so badly? Why do I constantly read about flaws in the system? Are the people working for these companies so incompentent that they can't write good code? I think the jury is still out on this subject and there is plenty of work to do, so I'm hoping that things will only get better.
Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights to a large number of the Beatles songs. I guess they (the online music stores) would have to pay him royalties.
"I firmly believe OpenOffice will over take MS Office in the near future."
I don't mean to sound trollish, but what exactly is your definition of "near future"? Because from where I sit, I don't see OpenOffice taking over MS Office within this decade alone. Not because OpenOffice isn't a good product, but because of the fact that hundreds of thousands of companies have millions (if not billions) of dollars invested in their infrastructure which includes MS Office, Exchange, etc... That takes time to convert.
Isn't that kind of the whole point when you title your website "Many Systems on a PowerBook"? I found it strange that he would even ask that question, much less give it its own little header/section.
I can understand when people label it the "Microsoft tax" when they can't purchase a new machine without Windows. But purchasing an upgrade to XP isn't a "tax". It's providing payment to a company in exchange for their goods because you want/need it. It's the same with purchasing Panther or purchasing a boxed set of Linux.
$7.99? What year was that, 1984? $11.99 isn't a bad price if the music is actually good. Unfortunatley MTV and the like have made music so disposable that the airwaves are mostly filled with one-hit-wonders.
"The current running of public companies is absolutely criminal."
Bullshit. If the employees at corporation X don't like the wages their CEO is making, they can leave. This would eventually ruin the company if they all had feelings as strong as you. If the stock holders don't like the CEO's performance, actions, they can vote him out. PUBLIC companies aren't dictatorships. The only reason CEO's make so much money is because the market allows it. It sounds like you have a problem with free markets (which include the job market) in general.
are you kidding? the latest version of Final Cut Pro 4 costs $1000. you're telling me they lose money on that? i doubt it. just because they might lose money on their OS doesn't mean they don't make money on their other software.
You think the situation in the Middle East is bad now? Wait until the world no longer relies on them for their oil and their economies fall apart. It will be a complete disaster. I would like to not have to rely on oil as much as the next guy, but I think it's going to cause just as many social problems as it will solve environmental problems.
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Um, how about you just don't subscribe to TiVo?
You make it sound like every company that is traded publicly doesn't produce good products. I am a shareholder of a number of different companies and the only thing I care about is that they keep producing quality products so customers continue to buy them. Companies that fit your description typically don't last.
"When you submit a winning Pepsi code to the Tune Recycler, we'll redeem it for music from honest, independent labels."
Just because a label is independent doesn't make them honest. There are shady businesses everywhere.
Looks like the US patent office might be infringing on this patent:
"For CTAP and ICTAP, well qualified means that the applicant is eligible, qualified, and clearly exceeds qualification requirements for the position as demonstrated by either: (1) Meeting selective and qualify ranking factor levels as specified by the agency; or (2).."
You make the stock market sound like a Las Vegas roulette wheel. Not quite. The stock market helps drive free economies. People who work at companies that participate in an open market have a direct impact on the performance of the stock. Home Depot is a perfect example of this. The company offered its employees excellent stock options, and with a lot of hard work by them, many of them made much more than they could have with their salaries alone. Stock markets are a good thing, but you have to be educated in order to protect/increase your assests.
One of the things I like most about sleep is that I can vividly remember my dreams the next day about 80% of the time. Most of my dreams are so bizarre and unusual that I find it very satisfying trying to remember all of what I dreamt about (I've also realized this is impossible). If I know what I want to dream about I'll do it during the day. Otherwise, I'll keep my dreams just the way they are: surprising, chaotic, strange, exciting, etc...
That's because people who earn lower income are typically more likely to steal.
I hear many people in here complaining that Lego has become too 'specialized' and they need to get back to simple blocks. This is absolutley rediculous. You can still buy simple bricks. They haven't stopped making them, they have just expanded their product line. You hear about the specialized sets more only because they bring in more cash for Lego.
I don't trust "e"-voting. Why? Because it has been proven to be unsafe. That being said, I still like the idea of electronic voting and think a reliable system can be developed. I'm just curious as to why a dependable and safe methodology hasn't been implemented yet. I'm not convinced the reason is because it is not open source though. That would certainly make it better though given the implications of the results. But I could probably pick ten or twenty developers off /., make it closed source, and come up with a safe voting scheme. So why is it that things have gone so badly? Why do I constantly read about flaws in the system? Are the people working for these companies so incompentent that they can't write good code? I think the jury is still out on this subject and there is plenty of work to do, so I'm hoping that things will only get better.
Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights to a large number of the Beatles songs. I guess they (the online music stores) would have to pay him royalties.
"I firmly believe OpenOffice will over take MS Office in the near future."
I don't mean to sound trollish, but what exactly is your definition of "near future"? Because from where I sit, I don't see OpenOffice taking over MS Office within this decade alone. Not because OpenOffice isn't a good product, but because of the fact that hundreds of thousands of companies have millions (if not billions) of dollars invested in their infrastructure which includes MS Office, Exchange, etc... That takes time to convert.
Does it really matter?"
Isn't that kind of the whole point when you title your website "Many Systems on a PowerBook"? I found it strange that he would even ask that question, much less give it its own little header/section.
When I go to http://winamp.com it looks different than when I go to http://www.winamp.com Why?
Since when is "Chapter 11-like protection" a good business model??
You mean like Pearl Jam's bootlegs?
I can understand when people label it the "Microsoft tax" when they can't purchase a new machine without Windows. But purchasing an upgrade to XP isn't a "tax". It's providing payment to a company in exchange for their goods because you want/need it. It's the same with purchasing Panther or purchasing a boxed set of Linux.
$7.99? What year was that, 1984? $11.99 isn't a bad price if the music is actually good. Unfortunatley MTV and the like have made music so disposable that the airwaves are mostly filled with one-hit-wonders.
"and wiping out large numbers of civilians is generally frowned upon"
not if you're al qaeda. that's their primary goal.
It's half way through November. May was eons ago in IT speak.
"The current running of public companies is absolutely criminal."
Bullshit. If the employees at corporation X don't like the wages their CEO is making, they can leave. This would eventually ruin the company if they all had feelings as strong as you. If the stock holders don't like the CEO's performance, actions, they can vote him out. PUBLIC companies aren't dictatorships. The only reason CEO's make so much money is because the market allows it. It sounds like you have a problem with free markets (which include the job market) in general.
are you kidding? the latest version of Final Cut Pro 4 costs $1000. you're telling me they lose money on that? i doubt it. just because they might lose money on their OS doesn't mean they don't make money on their other software.
Nah, I heard this guy will be keeping things cool.
And people wonder why Linux has such a hard time taking market share on the desktop....
did you just attempt to put a sports reference on /.?
You think the situation in the Middle East is bad now? Wait until the world no longer relies on them for their oil and their economies fall apart. It will be a complete disaster. I would like to not have to rely on oil as much as the next guy, but I think it's going to cause just as many social problems as it will solve environmental problems.