which was a wise decision by that company. I hope you learned to LISTEN en be EMPATHETIC to your customer. you should've known upfront they would never go for the PHP and MySQL solution.
had they gone with your solution they'd most probably have to permanently hire one person to support the MySQL database, and maybe permanently hire one person to support the PHP stuff.
and that's probably ten times the cost than the cost they've now made.
Back in the good 'ol days I used to play multi-user D&D day and night via a VAX-VMS machine using IRC. Anyone know if this piece of software is available somewhere, possibly ported to i386 platform?
Micheal Dell never run a large management team before in his life, and so I can name hundreds of others that successfully did so creating > $100M companies. All managers that run a large management team had to do it a first time.
Buffet has always stated that he doesn't understand technology at all and would therefor never invest in it. In all the decenia he's been investing, he has never invested in a tech company before. He acknowledged he missed all the super profits of the technology sector made in the 80's and 90's, yet he claims not to be distressed by that, as he's never been able to judge whether a tech company posseses a durable competitive advantage. As he writes in his 1999 annual report:
Our lack of tech insights, we should add, does not distress us. After all, there are a great many business areas in which Charlie and I have no special capital-allocation expertise. For instance, we bring nothing to the table when it comes to evaluating patents, manufacturing processes or geological prospects. So we simply don't get into judgments in those fields.
The author of the article doesn't know Buffet's style that well. When Buffet invests he tends to keep his stocks for many many years. But who knows, this is a strange move of Buffet, he might make another strange move and sell to Gates in the short term.
By the way, Buffet only invested $100 million, which is a very small investment compared with his other investments. The rest of the $500 million investment is from two others. This too is quite strange, as usually Buffet goes after majority ownership.
loz
How can Russia afford to spend $20 billion on a stupid trip to mars, when at the moment most western societies are funding poor Russia with billions of dollars to demantle their nuclear warheads, clear up all the mess surrounding all that scary biotech-shit they created in the 70s and 80s which is now easily falling in the hands of terrorists, etc., etc.?
... it correctly allocates the profits to the developers of that software, its users.
I don't follow the argument. It assumes the users are developers. Taking the car analogy, I use a car, and yes, I can look under the hood, but I certainly cannot build a car, nor do I know how to repair an engine, nor do I actually want to know.
Instead, I buy a car, and if it breaks I take it to a car mechanic for repairation: both actions cost money. The only use of being able to look under the hood is that I have the choice of which car repair shop I want to go to. But money it costs.
(and incidently, whichever car repair shop I choose, they always fuck me anyways with incredibly high bills; it's never cheap!).
I won't argue about the level of customer service you get, etc. but don't think that XM has got it all right; they're facing frequency and power-transmission problems just like Sirius.
XM has a temporary license to use repeaters, and that will expire this monday! Same for Sirius. The FCC has not adopted rules governing the use of repeaters for satellite radio, even though it let companies build the devices. So how stupid are both Sirius and XM for not sorting this out earlier?
Also, phone companies are battling both XM and Sirius because they say their high-powered repeaters are disrupting the phone companies' services.
Fact is Sirius started building their serivce 10 years ago. Back then it was microwaves and such that used the 2.4 GHz spectrum, not something to worry about.
802.11 is only 3 years old. How could Sirius have known that 802.11 would come into existence and that it's usage would explode throughout the world?
De site statistieken zijn wel weer interessant te noemen: minder dan 10% v/d visitors bezoekt met *BSD, 45% met Linux en 38% Windows. T'is niet echt een desktop winnaar te noemen;
I don't get the need to convert things into Dutch. an OS without apps is nothing, and most if not all apps aren't in Dutch, and they won't translate that. It's like writing C in the middle of a Java program. It's fine that you know C, but you still won't understand the program unless you also know Java.
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with the Holywood garbage left out.
loz
see http://www.go-mono.org. An open source implementation of .Net, compiler is written in C#. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
had they gone with your solution they'd most probably have to permanently hire one person to support the MySQL database, and maybe permanently hire one person to support the PHP stuff.
and that's probably ten times the cost than the cost they've now made.
loz
loz
Hi,
Back in the good 'ol days I used to play multi-user D&D day and night via a VAX-VMS machine using IRC. Anyone know if this piece of software is available somewhere, possibly ported to i386 platform?
ta,
loz
Micheal Dell never run a large management team before in his life, and so I can name hundreds of others that successfully did so creating > $100M companies. All managers that run a large management team had to do it a first time.
loz
I assume any Malaysian can go to any college and university for free there?
loz
loz
loz
Our lack of tech insights, we should add, does not distress us. After all, there are a great many business areas in which Charlie and I have no special capital-allocation expertise. For instance, we bring nothing to the table when it comes to evaluating patents, manufacturing processes or geological prospects. So we simply don't get into judgments in those fields.
The author of the article doesn't know Buffet's style that well. When Buffet invests he tends to keep his stocks for many many years. But who knows, this is a strange move of Buffet, he might make another strange move and sell to Gates in the short term.
By the way, Buffet only invested $100 million, which is a very small investment compared with his other investments. The rest of the $500 million investment is from two others. This too is quite strange, as usually Buffet goes after majority ownership. loz
How can Russia afford to spend $20 billion on a stupid trip to mars, when at the moment most western societies are funding poor Russia with billions of dollars to demantle their nuclear warheads, clear up all the mess surrounding all that scary biotech-shit they created in the 70s and 80s which is now easily falling in the hands of terrorists, etc., etc.?
bloated this is, taking up about 40 MB of memory.. on a 128MB system running at 800MHz this is so slow it's user unfriendly.
where are the days of efficient coding?
loz
- ... it correctly allocates the profits to the developers of that software, its users.
I don't follow the argument. It assumes the users are developers. Taking the car analogy, I use a car, and yes, I can look under the hood, but I certainly cannot build a car, nor do I know how to repair an engine, nor do I actually want to know.Instead, I buy a car, and if it breaks I take it to a car mechanic for repairation: both actions cost money. The only use of being able to look under the hood is that I have the choice of which car repair shop I want to go to. But money it costs.
(and incidently, whichever car repair shop I choose, they always fuck me anyways with incredibly high bills; it's never cheap!).
loz
doing an iris scan isn't faster than showing your passport. you still need to check in your bagage. you still must x-ray everything you take on-board.
if northwest wants to provide faster checkin, open more checkin counters !
loz
somewhere at the end he states that it's incredibly hard to commoditize software (i.e. impossible). I agree with that.
yet he started with the theory that the big companies spend millions of dollars because they're trying to commoditize software.
seems like a waste of money then, as it's simply not possible to commoditize software.
that's why I think his theory about the reasons why big companies spend bug bucks on open source is incorrect.
loz
Take a look at capability operating systems. That how the design flaw should really be solved.
loz
Usually you can tell by the cookie signature which engine you're dealing with. The one that is used is unknown to me:
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; path=/cgi-bin/ecommunity.dll
loz
I won't argue about the level of customer service you get, etc. but don't think that XM has got it all right; they're facing frequency and power-transmission problems just like Sirius.
XM has a temporary license to use repeaters, and that will expire this monday! Same for Sirius. The FCC has not adopted rules governing the use of repeaters for satellite radio, even though it let companies build the devices. So how stupid are both Sirius and XM for not sorting this out earlier?
Also, phone companies are battling both XM and Sirius because they say their high-powered repeaters are disrupting the phone companies' services.
loz
Fact is Sirius started building their serivce 10 years ago. Back then it was microwaves and such that used the 2.4 GHz spectrum, not something to worry about.
802.11 is only 3 years old. How could Sirius have known that 802.11 would come into existence and that it's usage would explode throughout the world?
loz
De site statistieken zijn wel weer interessant te noemen: minder dan 10% v/d visitors bezoekt met *BSD, 45% met Linux en 38% Windows. T'is niet echt een desktop winnaar te noemen;
I don't get the need to convert things into Dutch. an OS without apps is nothing, and most if not all apps aren't in Dutch, and they won't translate that. It's like writing C in the middle of a Java program. It's fine that you know C, but you still won't understand the program unless you also know Java.
loz
How can you maintain they have a monopoly when there's plenty of choice: OS/X, *BSD, SunOS, Linux, QNX, etc. ?
Even when you run Windows OS, you have plenty of choices. Don't like IE? Run NN, Mozilla, Opera, etc. They all run as bad as on any other OS.
Don't like mediaplayer? Use winamp, realplayer, etc.
loz
Morpheus being attacked by a coordinated effort by KaZaa and Grokster:
2 00 2b.php
0 2. story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/0301
and the response from KaZaa
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000015607mar
loz
what they describe is not an OS, but simply an application. It's not much different from current P2P programs currently out there.
loz
taking Moore's law 100GHz computing should be mainstream in 2007, i.e. 5 years from now.
we might bump into singularity before that time though.
loz
Actually, on page 22:
"Computer/Chip/Operating System Maker Blackmails Country or World. -- 2000"
loz