Actually your point is good, I worked on a project where we had some no-hoper clown consultants who decided to roll their own API for us, and our no-hoper clown management drank that kool-Aid, and by the time they got their sorry superfluous waste of code up and running, we were some sorry hopeless developers.
With EJB, having that superfluous layer in place on day one instead of having to wait for it would have saved us a major delay.
It's gotten to the point where 'EJB wasn't used properly' sounds about the same (and as tired) to me as some psychic saying 'The Amazing Randi's Test was unfair'.
Between the NASDAQ run-up and the staggeringly high (higher than during the last bubble) level of margin debt (borrowing to invest), it is clear the 'sucker class' of investors is alive and well and beggin' to be used and abused some more...
A recent issue of Barron's points out Google has reached conditions that require it to make reports to the SEC, much like public companies are required to do. It's a 1934 law which takes affect once companies have 500 shareholders and $10 million in assets. There's a reference to it on Motley fool:
Gunning for Google
So, while you're right, and realize unlike some others around here that IPOs are not pure good, for Google, if they have to open up their business like this and make these reports like a public company, why not reap the financial rewards of an IPO? This is part of what's motivating them.
I thought Ludacris was phenomenally stupid myself, then I came to the realization it's all a joke. Like most novelty music, his album's not 'one for the ages', but it was good for a few laughs.
"These Zealots have been the primary reason that I've come to believe SCO will likely win its lawsuit -- because if the Zealots are lying about facts I know to be true, they must be lying about facts I don't know about."
Don't forget, if they weigh the same as a duck, they're made out of wood. But you can't burn them, or the terrorists have won.
I did buy some stuff and will in the future, for one-track things where I really like a song but not necessarily the whole album (e.g. 'Maps' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, an early purchase).
As a guy who does a monthly radio show, this will prove handy. I got tired of getting incomplete or crappy tracks via file-sharing software.
Your points are good, but it's kind of like urging everyone to go to the local family-owned general store instead of Wal-Mart, once the market forces take hold it's like ordering the tide back. Maybe people shouldn't laugh or joke, but being pissed off at Sun for blowing it so badly might work...and McNealy can be to UNIX fans what Steve Bartman is to Cubs fans...
On a previous job I was a Java developer. We created a pretty web front end for a pretty major company selling product online. A lot of the back-end stuff was still handled by a mainframe/COBOL. MQSeries came in to play. That old COBOL stuff will probably never die, just all the programmers that know it eventually will. I don't want to touch it.
This has been a fascinating discussion, I never knew rocket scientists, physics labs and museums were still putting Apple ]['s and PDP-11s to good use, while in corporate America everybody's got to have the latest greatest power hardware on their desk to do e-mail and get on Ebay during their lunch break. It's kind of funny, really. Very interesting, too.
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Also, sarcasm aside, there is some irony in the people who brought you 'In Soviet Russia...' and who give '+5 funny' to truckloads of unfunny crap blasting something for not being funny...
Agreed, options trading is not for the novice or faint of heart.
It's worth noting that theoretically, there's no upper limit on your losses if short-selling goes wrong (although, when was the last time a stock went to infinity?).
If you are kind of a button-down, normal type, I think the rest of the Math faculty would have serious reservations about hiring you. Eccentricity is not only tolerated but encouraged.
It is entirely possible Microsoft had nothing to do (directly) with Geer's firing. It could be that some big shots at @stake got scared at the thought of offending and alienating Microsoft, and decided to get Geer out of there before he did more 'damage'.
Indirectly, by being such a formidable and fear-inspiring force (kind of like God was in the middle ages), Microsoft was perhaps the reason he lost his job, yet Microsoft didn't have to take any action directly (kind of like God in the middle ages).
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With EJB, having that superfluous layer in place on day one instead of having to wait for it would have saved us a major delay.
It's gotten to the point where 'EJB wasn't used properly' sounds about the same (and as tired) to me as some psychic saying 'The Amazing Randi's Test was unfair'.
Between the NASDAQ run-up and the staggeringly high (higher than during the last bubble) level of margin debt (borrowing to invest), it is clear the 'sucker class' of investors is alive and well and beggin' to be used and abused some more...
A recent issue of Barron's points out Google has reached conditions that require it to make reports to the SEC, much like public companies are required to do. It's a 1934 law which takes affect once companies have 500 shareholders and $10 million in assets. There's a reference to it on Motley fool: Gunning for Google
So, while you're right, and realize unlike some others around here that IPOs are not pure good, for Google, if they have to open up their business like this and make these reports like a public company, why not reap the financial rewards of an IPO? This is part of what's motivating them.
No Neu!? Come on!
I thought Ludacris was phenomenally stupid myself, then I came to the realization it's all a joke. Like most novelty music, his album's not 'one for the ages', but it was good for a few laughs.
Professor: And, like most politicians, he couldn't keep his promises.
Don't forget, if they weigh the same as a duck, they're made out of wood. But you can't burn them, or the terrorists have won.
I did buy some stuff and will in the future, for one-track things where I really like a song but not necessarily the whole album (e.g. 'Maps' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, an early purchase).
As a guy who does a monthly radio show, this will prove handy. I got tired of getting incomplete or crappy tracks via file-sharing software.
If you're trying to say 'I don't give a shit', anyway.
Your points are good, but it's kind of like urging everyone to go to the local family-owned general store instead of Wal-Mart, once the market forces take hold it's like ordering the tide back. Maybe people shouldn't laugh or joke, but being pissed off at Sun for blowing it so badly might work...and McNealy can be to UNIX fans what Steve Bartman is to Cubs fans...
On a previous job I was a Java developer. We created a pretty web front end for a pretty major company selling product online. A lot of the back-end stuff was still handled by a mainframe/COBOL. MQSeries came in to play. That old COBOL stuff will probably never die, just all the programmers that know it eventually will. I don't want to touch it.
This has been a fascinating discussion, I never knew rocket scientists, physics labs and museums were still putting Apple ]['s and PDP-11s to good use, while in corporate America everybody's got to have the latest greatest power hardware on their desk to do e-mail and get on Ebay during their lunch break. It's kind of funny, really. Very interesting, too.
Also, sarcasm aside, there is some irony in the people who brought you 'In Soviet Russia...' and who give '+5 funny' to truckloads of unfunny crap blasting something for not being funny...
I want to see Darl sweat too, but probably all we'll get is him invoking the 5th amendment on the advice of his council...
It's worth noting that theoretically, there's no upper limit on your losses if short-selling goes wrong (although, when was the last time a stock went to infinity?).
If you are kind of a button-down, normal type, I think the rest of the Math faculty would have serious reservations about hiring you. Eccentricity is not only tolerated but encouraged.
Of course, he can only use that if you're fat and sarcastic.
It's funny because it's true...
I for one thank Sun for finding out the idea is a miserable failure for me.
Worst.Advertising.Campaign.Ever.
I know it's hard to get along with marketeers sometimes, but they do actually have their role...
Indirectly, by being such a formidable and fear-inspiring force (kind of like God was in the middle ages), Microsoft was perhaps the reason he lost his job, yet Microsoft didn't have to take any action directly (kind of like God in the middle ages).
That is a theory that's circulating. Still, over $500 million...
That'd be a change. That site is updated frequently, and has loads of comments, yet almost nothing you'd call content...