Viagra is 'posed to make your one thing big and strong. Niagra is all about slicing and dicing one big thing into multiple threads. The mental image makes my knees ache...
The times when I'd be willing to pay a $1 for someone to tell me the name of a piece of music are when I hear a fleeting snippet off of a TV or radio program. (NPR does this too me quite often!) There's no way I'd have time to place the call.
Well, it's really $1.6B. Spread out over 10 years, that's what, 1.6% of MS' revenue per year? (Yes, I'm ignoring the time-value of the money, and the fact that MS' revenue may rise or fall over the 10 year period.)
Point is, Gate has probably already calculated (in some rough sense) the cost to settle all the judgements MS is likely to 'lose'. And, he's made the smart decision to simply consider it a cost of doing business -- doing business his way, that is. He's a poker play, remember? He'll fold bad cards and lose his anty on occasion, get his bluff called once and awhile and flat out lose a few hands, but at the end of the night...
Read the Cringley link above in this thread. I hadn't read it before I made the original post. Though it only discusses the EU decision, it applies just as well to Sun. There are several players at the table, and Gates is cleaning all their clocks. Maybe it's time to simply break up the game?
Think about it; think about how little $2B is to MS, compared to 10 years with no harassment from Sun.
William Henry Gates III is the greatest capitalist tactician since John D. Rockefeller. I do not see that as necessarily positive. But, damn, he can sure play the game.
It's 4 A.M. and you're soundly asleep in bed. Then, POW!, all of a sudden you bolt straight up as your boss starts yelling gibberish at you from somewhere deep in the base of your skull.
Ah, the future is just ducky, ain't it?
jonadab, I sincerely hope your are right and that I am wrong. But as I see the technology rapidly rise in power as it plummets in cost, I fear that the age of supremacy of black letters on a white background (be it real ink on real paper, or dark pixels next to light) is coming to a close. Writing won't disappear, but IMO it will become secondary to full color, 60 fps images accompanied with 5.1 surround sound coming out of a device that weighs 12 ounces, runs for a week on one squirt of methanol into its micro fuel cell, and that you can pick up at BestBuy for $49.95. Did you notice the cover of the latest Scientific American? That's the future. Alas!:/
Right now there is plenty of buzz about these movies, but in a few years I know they will be picked on hard. Once the hype wears down, people are going to laugh (or be disgusted at the extremely low quality) of these movies.
You couldn't be more wrong. The movies, by virtue of being very good movies in this age of visual information, will in fact become the standard telling of LOTR. The books will become the "other, harder to absorb" telling, and be relegated to college courses taught by anally retentive old men.
I'm not saying I approve of this outcome, but it is inevitable.
So, question: Could the cached native machine code be saved into a.exe and run (assuming the entire bytecode image was processed)? I.e., if there was a JIT for Python, could this be done --
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Viagra is 'posed to make your one thing big and strong. Niagra is all about slicing and dicing one big thing into multiple threads. The mental image makes my knees ache...
I dunno, the Linux-in-a-dead-badger installation is pretty novel, IMHO...
No, silly! A flap actuator is a short, cylindrical tube that greatly expands and contracts in length when hydraulic pressure is applied or released.
oh... uhhhh... never mind...
Point is, Gate has probably already calculated (in some rough sense) the cost to settle all the judgements MS is likely to 'lose'. And, he's made the smart decision to simply consider it a cost of doing business -- doing business his way, that is. He's a poker play, remember? He'll fold bad cards and lose his anty on occasion, get his bluff called once and awhile and flat out lose a few hands, but at the end of the night...
Read the Cringley link above in this thread. I hadn't read it before I made the original post. Though it only discusses the EU decision, it applies just as well to Sun. There are several players at the table, and Gates is cleaning all their clocks. Maybe it's time to simply break up the game?
Think about it; think about how little $2B is to MS, compared to 10 years with no harassment from Sun.
William Henry Gates III is the greatest capitalist tactician since John D. Rockefeller. I do not see that as necessarily positive. But, damn, he can sure play the game.
So true, alas, so true! :)
It's 4 A.M. and you're soundly asleep in bed. Then, POW!, all of a sudden you bolt straight up as your boss starts yelling gibberish at you from somewhere deep in the base of your skull. Ah, the future is just ducky, ain't it?
The X Prize is NOT ABOUT LEO! It's about reaching 100KM, with at least 1 person, in a vehicle capable of carring 3, twice in 2 weeks.
Uh... some of the folks currently with mod points are religious? Just a guess...
The $20M is just icing.
Regards, -k
You couldn't be more wrong. The movies, by virtue of being very good movies in this age of visual information, will in fact become the standard telling of LOTR. The books will become the "other, harder to absorb" telling, and be relegated to college courses taught by anally retentive old men.
I'm not saying I approve of this outcome, but it is inevitable.
So much for context affecting perception...
Yes, that was poorly worded, wasn't it! :)
So, question: Could the cached native machine code be saved into a .exe and run (assuming the entire bytecode image was processed)? I.e., if there was a JIT for Python, could this be done --
xyz.py -> xyz.pyc -> xyz.exe