Actually, the US is literally founded on the principle that if laws suck, you overthrow the government in an armed revolution and install your own regime.
I am not a stock analyst, but consider - did all of the company's shares go out on the open market? Or did a large percentage stay "inside the company", so to speak? If the latter, then it indicates that they have additional shares to sell later... albeit at a slightly lower price (due to dilution), but still at a considerably higher price than $22 (US) per share.
I'm sure they only sold off a small part of the company in the IPO. I'm guessing 5-10% or so is typical.
Sure, they can sell more stock for the higher price. But they could have done that even if the IPO price was $100, and it went up to $140, so that is no reason to have a low IPO price.
Of course, no one goes IPO at $100, so they should have made a five-way split and IPOd at $20. But that is just a technicality.
I'm not a stock analyst either, but I work in Silicon Valley, and I get to hear a lot of IPO talk.
Fine. They remove some postings. Everybody has to, pretty much.
What bothers me is that they won't say more about their policy than that they remove stuff "if the message causes confusion". Now what the hell does that mean? Pretty much nothing, right? Seems like they say they will remove anything they feel should be removed, for whatever arbitrary reason they wish. Badmouthing advertisers would just be one of many possible reasons.
This just causes less trust in anything you read in that forum. You never know how it has been doctored and for what purposes.
Sure, just because he's been right before he doesn't have to be right now. But the "infinite monkey" argument is way overkill. It is in fact only one "monkey" and one typewriter, and he has produced so good results that he deserves to be heard.
The rumor only talks about the demand side. When demand goes up or down (due to temperature) price should vary.
But supply should also be a factor. If the machine is running out of sodas, the price should go up. Or vice versa if it's overstocked.
Another cool thing would be that if the machine doesn't sell much, it could lower prices by itself and find a good pricepoint for it's location automatically. Etc etc etc...
I've had a Pilot for a year. It has changed my life. I carry it everywhere.
For this I use 103k of the 480k it came with.
I'm just shaking my head at all these new mindless features. I could use a cheap, small, light, durable Pilot with long battery life though. Wonder if anyone is working on such boring issues anymore...
You are of course very right (damn, I had moderator access yesterday, and didn't like anything, but now it's gone)
Anyway. The only way I've actually used patterns is that when I realize I should use a Singleton or a Factory, I look it up to see how the masters do it, what the traps I need to avoid are and which tradeoffs I should be aware of. I found that pretty useful.
Not that I'm an expert at climate modelling, but unless it is a fairly unique field there will be innumerable models that conform to the observed climate changes up to today, and that will produce wildly different outcomes regarding a high CO2 future.
Escpecially since what the model is asked to predict is reaction to conditions that have never appeared before in recorded history.
The cool thing with the Palm is that it is an appliance. It is not a general purpose computer, but a magic notebook. It does one thing and it does it really well.
All these general purpose features just for the sake of features diminish what made it so great. It will end in tears!
Keep the focus. Don't fix what's not broken. Make it even better at what it is. Smaller, longer battery life, better screen resolution and lower price would be good goals. But they'll probably add a CD burner next...
The model is almost certainly built upon the data from the previous decades, so it will by definition produce a good fit to those numbers. And that will of course mean nothing.
As usual, everything is easy to predict, except the future...
This is just the usual clueless Apple bashing. He even admits himself to almost never having used macs. But of course he considers himself an expert anyway!
The only technical claim, about Mac TCP/IP speed, has been shown to be wrong by a factor 100 or so by several other posters.
The claim that MacOS uses co-operative multi-tasking beacuse of some idelogical decision is absurd. What ideology, exactly, would that be? In reality preemptive multitasking just cannot be retrofitted into MacOS, and Apple has been working hard (if not always successfully...) for almost 10 years to replace it.
The claim that Apple tries to make their products hard to understand is too silly to comment on.
If the BSD comment is meant to mean anything, I can't decipher what it is (but I'm sure it is wrong:-).
The only thing sadder that techno macho posturing from people who don't actually know what they're talking about, is probably those who moderate it up as "Insightful".
Much better than a tunnel would be a rail going up a mountain side. The difference is that at the top of a reasonalby high mountain, air resistance is about half of the ocean level.
The people locked up in a house-show is the Dutch "Big Brother".
But this show sounds much more like the Swedish "Robinson", where people go to a deserted island, survive, and are gradually voted out until a winner remains.
It seems to be the media event of the year in Sweden, judging from the internet newspapers I read from my fatherland (which seems to have gone downhill since I left:-)
This situation isn't much different from drugs, as long as people want to do them, a way will be found. All law enforcement can do is arrest the least talented and make the rest more cautious and better armed.
The difference from the drug situation is that these are not victimless crimes. As with any crime, some people will keep doing it despite efforts to stop it, but that is no reason to not go after the bastards.
I'd prefer to see hacking winked at, but actual damage responded to in a proportionate matter.
Just tampering with my computer is bad enough. There need not be any additional damage for it to be criminal than snooping through my files, or downgrading my internet connection. Stay off my stuff!
Now that all PCs are on the internet, it would be pretty cool if it would transmit its ID now and then to some registry of stolen PCs. If it was done right it would make stolen PCs almost useless, and we would have a better world.
The problem of big brother-ism is real, but not insolvable. You need this to be handled by a trusted and independent non government organization that is charted with the sole purpose of retrieveing stolen PCs, nothing else.
That information is great to have, but think about how it will be maintained. Chances are, it won't. You may maintain it religiously, but the next guy will change something, and not think about that it changes the information.
Once the documentation is not reliable, people will stop reading it, and it will grow obsolete at an ever increasing rate.
So I'm doubtful about this mechanical approach.
But any documentation that is in the code itself is always 10 times better than the one that is on it's own in a binder or web site somehwere. That stuff never gets either read or updated, and is just a pure waste of effort.
So if this can be done under $2000M, there are several private individuals who could do this, all alone.
Bill Gates could do it with less money than his worth fluctuates during a NASDAQ session. And if Bill does it, Larry will have to do it faster and bigger.
Surely some of all these internet billionares have a space dream??
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But the speakers would not be centered if you do that. And the cd would be somewhere hard to reach.
I'm glad to see there is still some ambition left in the insane youth of america!
Actually, the US is literally founded on the principle that if laws suck, you overthrow the government in an armed revolution and install your own regime.
What kind of complex structures could evolve in an environment with a gravity far greater than that of earth?
The giraffe would have a hard time evolving, but I don't really see why things on a scale of bacterias would have any problems caused by gravity.
Life on earth evolved in water, where it is essentially weightless, so there gravity would not be much of a factor even for big animals.
But multicelled animals on "land" (if such a thing exists there) would be decidedly flatter in appearance than earth standard...
I am not a stock analyst, but consider - did all of the company's shares go out on the open market? Or did a large percentage stay "inside the company", so to speak? If the latter, then it indicates that they have additional shares to sell later... albeit at a slightly lower price (due to dilution), but still at a considerably higher price than $22 (US) per share.
I'm sure they only sold off a small part of the company in the IPO. I'm guessing 5-10% or so is typical.
Sure, they can sell more stock for the higher price. But they could have done that even if the IPO price was $100, and it went up to $140, so that is no reason to have a low IPO price.
Of course, no one goes IPO at $100, so they should have made a five-way split and IPOd at $20. But that is just a technicality.
I'm not a stock analyst either, but I work in Silicon Valley, and I get to hear a lot of IPO talk.
Can anyone explain why it is considered "successful" to sell stock for $20 that you could have sold for $140?
It seems like a very bad deal for the company to me!
Sure, you want the IPO to be a good investment, but increases like this just shows a severe misjudgment of what price to charge, doesn't it?
Fine. They remove some postings. Everybody has to, pretty much.
What bothers me is that they won't say more about their policy than that they remove stuff "if the message causes confusion". Now what the hell does that mean? Pretty much nothing, right? Seems like they say they will remove anything they feel should be removed, for whatever arbitrary reason they wish. Badmouthing advertisers would just be one of many possible reasons.
This just causes less trust in anything you read in that forum. You never know how it has been doctored and for what purposes.
Sure, just because he's been right before he doesn't have to be right now. But the "infinite monkey" argument is way overkill. It is in fact only one "monkey" and one typewriter, and he has produced so good results that he deserves to be heard.
It's all about supply and demand, people.
The rumor only talks about the demand side. When demand goes up or down (due to temperature) price should vary.
But supply should also be a factor. If the machine is running out of sodas, the price should go up. Or vice versa if it's overstocked.
Another cool thing would be that if the machine doesn't sell much, it could lower prices by itself and find a good pricepoint for it's location automatically. Etc etc etc...
I've had a Pilot for a year. It has changed my life. I carry it everywhere.
For this I use 103k of the 480k it came with.
I'm just shaking my head at all these new mindless features. I could use a cheap, small, light, durable Pilot with long battery life though. Wonder if anyone is working on such boring issues anymore...
You are of course very right (damn, I had moderator access yesterday, and didn't like anything, but now it's gone)
Anyway. The only way I've actually used patterns is that when I realize I should use a Singleton or a Factory, I look it up to see how the masters do it, what the traps I need to avoid are and which tradeoffs I should be aware of. I found that pretty useful.
Not that I'm an expert at climate modelling, but unless it is a fairly unique field there will be innumerable models that conform to the observed climate changes up to today, and that will produce wildly different outcomes regarding a high CO2 future.
Escpecially since what the model is asked to predict is reaction to conditions that have never appeared before in recorded history.
The cool thing with the Palm is that it is an appliance. It is not a general purpose computer, but a magic notebook. It does one thing and it does it really well.
All these general purpose features just for the sake of features diminish what made it so great. It will end in tears!
Keep the focus. Don't fix what's not broken. Make it even better at what it is. Smaller, longer battery life, better screen resolution and lower price would be good goals. But they'll probably add a CD burner next...
The model is almost certainly built upon the data from the previous decades, so it will by definition produce a good fit to those numbers. And that will of course mean nothing.
As usual, everything is easy to predict, except the future...
This is just the usual clueless Apple bashing. He even admits himself to almost never having used macs. But of course he considers himself an expert anyway!
:-).
The only technical claim, about Mac TCP/IP speed, has been shown to be wrong by a factor 100 or so by several other posters.
The claim that MacOS uses co-operative multi-tasking beacuse of some idelogical decision is absurd. What ideology, exactly, would that be? In reality preemptive multitasking just cannot be retrofitted into MacOS, and Apple has been working hard (if not always successfully...) for almost 10 years to replace it.
The claim that Apple tries to make their products hard to understand is too silly to comment on.
If the BSD comment is meant to mean anything, I can't decipher what it is (but I'm sure it is wrong
The only thing sadder that techno macho posturing from people who don't actually know what they're talking about, is probably those who moderate it up as "Insightful".
Bah!
Much better than a tunnel would be a rail going up a mountain side. The difference is that at the top of a reasonalby high mountain, air resistance is about half of the ocean level.
There is some confusion here.
:-)
The people locked up in a house-show is the Dutch "Big Brother".
But this show sounds much more like the Swedish "Robinson", where people go to a deserted island, survive, and are gradually voted out until a winner remains.
It seems to be the media event of the year in Sweden, judging from the internet newspapers I read from my fatherland (which seems to have gone downhill since I left
This situation isn't much different from drugs, as long as people want to do them, a way will be found. All law enforcement can do is arrest the least talented and make the rest more cautious and better armed.
The difference from the drug situation is that these are not victimless crimes. As with any crime, some people will keep doing it despite efforts to stop it, but that is no reason to not go after the bastards.
I'd prefer to see hacking winked at, but actual damage responded to in a proportionate matter.
Just tampering with my computer is bad enough. There need not be any additional damage for it to be criminal than snooping through my files, or downgrading my internet connection. Stay off my stuff!
I'm OK with the US owning the landing sites where they went. But not the whole planet. That's not how it ever worked on earth either.
Sure, but if a stolen PC could not be safely used on the internet, the market for it almost vanishes.
I mean, how do you sell a PC and make sure it will not get online...?
Now that all PCs are on the internet, it would be pretty cool if it would transmit its ID now and then to some registry of stolen PCs. If it was done right it would make stolen PCs almost useless, and we would have a better world.
The problem of big brother-ism is real, but not insolvable. You need this to be handled by a trusted and independent non government organization that is charted with the sole purpose of retrieveing stolen PCs, nothing else.
I swiss banks can keep a secret, others can too!
Officially, these things do not exist. So, naturally, there are no official plans to release them.
If Apple really can't get enough G4 CPUs, I guess they have more capacity to build iMacs, so it may go fast.
I think the real problem would be how you breathe, when the air is full of big and small drops of water.
BTW, a fountain is pretty hard to imagine in zero g.
That information is great to have, but think about how it will be maintained. Chances are, it won't. You may maintain it religiously, but the next guy will change something, and not think about that it changes the information.
Once the documentation is not reliable, people will stop reading it, and it will grow obsolete at an ever increasing rate.
So I'm doubtful about this mechanical approach.
But any documentation that is in the code itself is always 10 times better than the one that is on it's own in a binder or web site somehwere. That stuff never gets either read or updated, and is just a pure waste of effort.
So if this can be done under $2000M, there are several private individuals who could do this, all alone.
Bill Gates could do it with less money than his worth fluctuates during a NASDAQ session. And if Bill does it, Larry will have to do it faster and bigger.
Surely some of all these internet billionares have a space dream??
Humans are idiots, they dont deserve to live.
So start by killing your self then. Think locally!