Actually, goodwill is attributed as an asset of the purchasing company, and not the purchased company. The purchased company in turn does not register any goodwill on its balance sheet unless it purchases a company for a sum higher than the value of its net assets. Note also that net assets can include more than just tangible assets - it can include intangibles, such as brand, contracts, etc.
Goodwill was traditionally depreciated (amortised is the correct vernacular) over a number of years, however, the fashion now is for an "impairment review" to be undertaken once every accounting period, and the value of the book goodwill written down only if there is evidence that the goodwill has been reduced in value. This is chiefly because amortisation (unfairly, perhaps) tended to dramatically wipe out firm's book profitability shortly after large purchases.
Excel is indeed an awesome product. I never really appreciated it (or knew much about it, frankly) until I started studying finance. Now its pretty indispensable. Speaking of goalseek, I was looking at a GNU-licensed product called Maxima, which performs a similar function. Anyone have any experience with that?
I don't think that CVS development has stagnated - in fact, I think there seems to have been quite an amount of activity on CVS development recently. Still, Suvbersion is gaining fast, and looks like it will be the de facto replacement for CVS (Wasn't it developed by some of the original CVS developers?)
Is it just me or has the signal-to-noise ration *dramatically* increased on Slashdot in the last year or so? Long gone are the days when the majority of entries on a thread were coherent and helpful. These days, I usually skip the comments and just use Slashdot as a jumping-off point to the story links.
...is Hayden Christensen (who plays young Anakin in the prequel trilogy) now appearing in the scene where the "force ghosts" of Anakin, Obi Wan, and Yoda smile at Luke.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The humanity!!!!!!!
I could live with Darth Vader with no eyebrows, but this is ridiculous!! It's bad enough that we have to endure his pathetic acting all the way through Attack of the Clones, but now he's polluted the original trilogy as well!!
Bah!
I've written a few WTL apps as well, and I really like it. I think this is a good move - WTL was widely liked by developers who used it, but was not officially supported by MS, so really depended on the efforts of one or two heroic developers within MS. Now that it's open, anyone can submit improvements to it (and there were many proposed,just look at codeproject.com for some examples)
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....for Open Source supporters. That is that Microsoft is clued-up (yes they are folks - they have mastered the art of defensive marketing), and keep a closer eye than you think on what goes on in the Open Source arena. Their "technical" whitepapers (a la those found here, are laughably inaccurate and untrue - from a technical reader's perspective. However, Microsoft dont care about the technical users as much as the non-technical managers with their hands on the corporate purse. It is a testament to Linux/Open Source/the BSD family that they have become so popular with little or no of the traditional marketing methods that MS rely on. So as the original post says, look at what MS say and do, and learn from them. There are a lot of clever people there, marketeers AND developers. Look at what they do well, and better it - isnt that what Open Source is all about?
Actually, MySQL can hold 8 million terabytes of data per table with the MyISAM table type. I dont know how big InnoDB tables can get. You may of course be limited by the underlying OS maximum file size.
Absolutely, the speed is blinding compared with Mozilla's sluggishness. Its is still a memory hog however (at least on my WIn2K Pro box). However, it has all the features and usability that have convinced me to use it in place of IE. Tabbed browsing is a godsend:)
I second that one. Also 'Code Complete', by Steve McConnell, his follow-up, 'Rapid Development', and the amazing 'Programming Pearls' by Jon Bentley. I'm currently trawling through 'Object-Oriented Software Development' by Bertrand Meyer, but I'm finding it very dry and academic.
It seems that 2.0.43 hasnt been released yet - however if you are building from source, tah patch to fix this issue is in the patches/ directory. I assume they just havent built the release binaries yet
Referential integrity is enforced in the newer versions of MySQL. Stored procs are not in there, though, which would be nice in some apps. I'm very curious about Postgres, I've installed it on my FreeBSD box and will give it a go when I get some time.
I work for a major Telco, and recently we have made some sweeping and far-reaching decisions:
1) Our internal Web servers (including some servers that exist solely to serve Perl CGI scripts) are being migrated from NT/2000/IIS/ActiveState to Linux/Apache/mod_perl/Perl CGI.
2) Instead of using Oracle/SQL Server by default, we are beginning to use MySQL by default, and only use the big iron when its necessary.
2) We are using Tomcat for at least one production site, and perhaps more in the future. A lot of internal apps are being ported to Tomcat 4/mod_jk/Apache 2
This is not just a cost-saving exercise - this is going to solve some long-term reliability and security issues
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Actually, goodwill is attributed as an asset of the purchasing company, and not the purchased company. The purchased company in turn does not register any goodwill on its balance sheet unless it purchases a company for a sum higher than the value of its net assets. Note also that net assets can include more than just tangible assets - it can include intangibles, such as brand, contracts, etc. Goodwill was traditionally depreciated (amortised is the correct vernacular) over a number of years, however, the fashion now is for an "impairment review" to be undertaken once every accounting period, and the value of the book goodwill written down only if there is evidence that the goodwill has been reduced in value. This is chiefly because amortisation (unfairly, perhaps) tended to dramatically wipe out firm's book profitability shortly after large purchases.
Excel is indeed an awesome product. I never really appreciated it (or knew much about it, frankly) until I started studying finance. Now its pretty indispensable. Speaking of goalseek, I was looking at a GNU-licensed product called Maxima, which performs a similar function. Anyone have any experience with that?
I don't think that CVS development has stagnated - in fact, I think there seems to have been quite an amount of activity on CVS development recently. Still, Suvbersion is gaining fast, and looks like it will be the de facto replacement for CVS (Wasn't it developed by some of the original CVS developers?)
This is a gem - I checked last year's Perl advent calendar daily. Well worth checking out - there's lot of useful info in there.
Is it just me or has the signal-to-noise ration *dramatically* increased on Slashdot in the last year or so? Long gone are the days when the majority of entries on a thread were coherent and helpful. These days, I usually skip the comments and just use Slashdot as a jumping-off point to the story links.
For an example of the type of lawsuit that Ludlow music seems to thrive on filing, check this link: http://www.humphreys.co.uk/articles/copyright_1.ht m
I've written a few WTL apps as well, and I really like it. I think this is a good move - WTL was widely liked by developers who used it, but was not officially supported by MS, so really depended on the efforts of one or two heroic developers within MS. Now that it's open, anyone can submit improvements to it (and there were many proposed,just look at codeproject.com for some examples)
....for Open Source supporters. That is that Microsoft is clued-up (yes they are folks - they have mastered the art of defensive marketing), and keep a closer eye than you think on what goes on in the Open Source arena. Their "technical" whitepapers (a la those found here, are laughably inaccurate and untrue - from a technical reader's perspective. However, Microsoft dont care about the technical users as much as the non-technical managers with their hands on the corporate purse. It is a testament to Linux/Open Source/the BSD family that they have become so popular with little or no of the traditional marketing methods that MS rely on. So as the original post says, look at what MS say and do, and learn from them. There are a lot of clever people there, marketeers AND developers. Look at what they do well, and better it - isnt that what Open Source is all about?
Actually, MySQL can hold 8 million terabytes of data per table with the MyISAM table type. I dont know how big InnoDB tables can get. You may of course be limited by the underlying OS maximum file size.
Absolutely, the speed is blinding compared with Mozilla's sluggishness. Its is still a memory hog however (at least on my WIn2K Pro box). However, it has all the features and usability that have convinced me to use it in place of IE. Tabbed browsing is a godsend :)
I second that one. Also 'Code Complete', by Steve McConnell, his follow-up, 'Rapid Development', and the amazing 'Programming Pearls' by Jon Bentley. I'm currently trawling through 'Object-Oriented Software Development' by Bertrand Meyer, but I'm finding it very dry and academic.
It seems that 2.0.43 hasnt been released yet - however if you are building from source, tah patch to fix this issue is in the patches/ directory. I assume they just havent built the release binaries yet
Each to their own... :-)
Has anyone seen the popularity of mod_perl?!! Incredible! Hopefully when mod_perl 2.0 goes stable, it will increase even more...
Referential integrity is enforced in the newer versions of MySQL. Stored procs are not in there, though, which would be nice in some apps. I'm very curious about Postgres, I've installed it on my FreeBSD box and will give it a go when I get some time.
I work for a major Telco, and recently we have made some sweeping and far-reaching decisions: 1) Our internal Web servers (including some servers that exist solely to serve Perl CGI scripts) are being migrated from NT/2000/IIS/ActiveState to Linux/Apache/mod_perl/Perl CGI. 2) Instead of using Oracle/SQL Server by default, we are beginning to use MySQL by default, and only use the big iron when its necessary. 2) We are using Tomcat for at least one production site, and perhaps more in the future. A lot of internal apps are being ported to Tomcat 4/mod_jk/Apache 2 This is not just a cost-saving exercise - this is going to solve some long-term reliability and security issues