A copy of information will generate profit even if it sells for 0.0001$ so your point fail. That doesn't mean that the company as whole would make a profit at that price. But better to get 10 dollar then zero.
Regarding small vs large teams, a good example of this may be the development of DragonFlyBSDs Hammer filesystem vs Suns ZFS, we'll see how fast Hammer gets done thought:)
Your 1/5 is close to correct I think, or 1/4 or so, but anyway I wouldn't call Apple "small corporation", they have many people working for them aswell. (Quite a few probably works with iPods, iPhones, Macs thought, so not everyone will work with software only.)
"Their software is a classic example of design by committee, cater to the lowest common denominator, technically incompetent, near-sightedly project managed software."
Yeah and it has worked against them so hard!! Soon they are almost dead due to their crappy software noone want to use!
Your comment is so funny because with the Apple version you can be sure it's done in a very nice way, like all their software (Thought I would still think it would be nice if the keeped on updating software they already had even more with more functionality and tweaks instead of just make some good title and then forget about it.)
If anyone know of a music player for OS X which plays mp3, ogg, mod, s3m, xm, sid, wma, aac,... please tell me! iTunes + VLC + CocoModX is sortof lame solution. Even my Nintendo DS can do it all in one application;D
Actually writable media are cheap in the UK, that's there I buy mine even thought I'm from Sweden.
I guess their prices explains why they like their burners and media so much:D
And in this case, yes, Valve should be happy that someone actually bought the content in the first place, and indeed the sooner we get rid of the useless middlemen the better, they can do something productive instead;D
At point 1 the best thing do to is probably not to interfere because we the people in the richer countries will still be able to buy more stuff for a lower price and therefor not lose our standard, and even if we did it's better for humanity in that poor people get richer.
Regarding point 2 maybe the same amount of money maybe could have been better spent/not taxed to get a more competive environment? Of the other hand aren't those just dutys and such and will in the end give the country more money? Thought for humanity again it's worse, why hold the poor people out of the market? Let them in and help them get a decent life on their own.
I came here to say that Textedit indeed can, so there is multiple implementations, but in TextEdit it's not complete of course. I wonder if Pages will get support later.
And ofcourse we will see support in other software aswell, I wonder if it's worth NOT implementing it just to make it harder for OOXML to kickoff?;D Guess not since less people will use openoffice and similair then.
I later found the article I had actually read but all the values was in SEK and not US dollar there and the offer from Yahoo was 7 billion, Google 15 billion, Microsoft 2-3.2 billion for 3-5% of the company valuing it for a total of 65 billion or whatever, and text saying he seemed to wait until it was valued at 100 billion.
So the company which offered around 60 billion was the wrong one, and all currencies was SEK but anyway;) It's hard to remember the currencys when most of the articles you read are english ones.
Is probably what I had read, it says Yahoo offered 7 billion SEK september 2006 and Google 15 billion SEK one month later. Zuckerman said no and that 56 billion where more close to the correct value (close to 60 billion so that explains where I got it from.) It also mentions Yahoo tried again this year in may for 11.2 billion SEK, and that Microsoft wanted to buy 3-5% for 2-3.2 billion SEK which would value the company at 65 billion (still close to what I said.) And finally it says that he seems to wait until the value is raised to 100 billion SEK.
So ok, it wasn't offers from Yahoo or Google which where close to 60 billion SEK NOT DOLLAR but Microsofts offer instead. And 100 billion SEK value wasn't US dollar either.
Seems like you are correct, and then it was a good price. I still wonder where I got the numbers from thought, but I were afraid that they were wrong in the first place. Sorry for fooling people then:)
Afaik Yahoo and Google or whatever had offered 60 billion if I remember correctly, atleast I think someone did.
They didn't took it thought and from that article I got the impression they wanted to have it valued in the range of 100 billion instead.
So the price Microsoft is paying is very low and very cheap. I wonder why they got it at all for that amount of money, guess they wanted some cash without giving away the whole company.
The DS has a GBA port and the way the first gen hacks where made was to use whatever flashcard/movie player in the GBA slot, which of course would boot in GBA mode and only use one of the CPUs, but then add a flashme device in the NDS slot which booted the DS in NDS mode and then let it read from the GBA-slot and do whatever that card did.
118 million in what timespan? Until now? Or during the whole iPhone life? 35 million in "loss" on 250.000 phones? Is that really 130 dollar for this short time per phone? In that case Apple earns a hell-of-a-lot on iPhones, not that anyone expected anything else.
So you are arguing that any sound except background music aren't part of what makes the environment in a game?
Also I think it adds surround sound, which you are free to argue isn't good or whatever but still you only have two ears and the only reason why you can hear where sound comes from is because they change how it sound from different directions, something which CAN be emulated and probably better with two speakers and emulation than headphones with multiple speakers but no emulation.
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A copy of information will generate profit even if it sells for 0.0001$ so your point fail.
That doesn't mean that the company as whole would make a profit at that price. But better to get 10 dollar then zero.
Would you care of explaining for us what you see as flaws aswell? Or are you affraid of your karma? =P, I assume for some people truth hurts ;D
Let these videos show you what the parent mean, they kind of explains the difference of Steve Jobs vs Ballmer quite good:
:D
:)
Jobs and mac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo
Ballmer and Win 1.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
Pick your flavour
Regarding small vs large teams, a good example of this may be the development of DragonFlyBSDs Hammer filesystem vs Suns ZFS, we'll see how fast Hammer gets done thought
Your 1/5 is close to correct I think, or 1/4 or so, but anyway I wouldn't call Apple "small corporation", they have many people working for them aswell. (Quite a few probably works with iPods, iPhones, Macs thought, so not everyone will work with software only.)
You can probably disable it either in some system setting or with a single command line so people just complain anyway.
I think it looks nice on not-that-busy-background-images.
Not that I really want to defend Microsoft but:
"Their software is a classic example of design by committee, cater to the lowest common denominator, technically incompetent, near-sightedly project managed software."
Yeah and it has worked against them so hard!! Soon they are almost dead due to their crappy software noone want to use!
Your comment is so funny because with the Apple version you can be sure it's done in a very nice way, like all their software (Thought I would still think it would be nice if the keeped on updating software they already had even more with more functionality and tweaks instead of just make some good title and then forget about it.)
... please tell me! iTunes + VLC + CocoModX is sortof lame solution. Even my Nintendo DS can do it all in one application ;D
If anyone know of a music player for OS X which plays mp3, ogg, mod, s3m, xm, sid, wma, aac,
Actually writable media are cheap in the UK, that's there I buy mine even thought I'm from Sweden.
:D
;D
I guess their prices explains why they like their burners and media so much
And in this case, yes, Valve should be happy that someone actually bought the content in the first place, and indeed the sooner we get rid of the useless middlemen the better, they can do something productive instead
At point 1 the best thing do to is probably not to interfere because we the people in the richer countries will still be able to buy more stuff for a lower price and therefor not lose our standard, and even if we did it's better for humanity in that poor people get richer.
Regarding point 2 maybe the same amount of money maybe could have been better spent/not taxed to get a more competive environment? Of the other hand aren't those just dutys and such and will in the end give the country more money? Thought for humanity again it's worse, why hold the poor people out of the market? Let them in and help them get a decent life on their own.
I came here to say that Textedit indeed can, so there is multiple implementations, but in TextEdit it's not complete of course. I wonder if Pages will get support later.
;D
And ofcourse we will see support in other software aswell, I wonder if it's worth NOT implementing it just to make it harder for OOXML to kickoff?
Guess not since less people will use openoffice and similair then.
Subject says it all.
I would sure as hell take KDE 3.5 over any Windows environment.
Also something must be wrong with the news post, how can finder be better than anything?
I don't belive in god, but more importantly I DO NOT BREED.
They was the first hits I got.
;)
I later found the article I had actually read but all the values was in SEK and not US dollar there and the offer from Yahoo was 7 billion, Google 15 billion, Microsoft 2-3.2 billion for 3-5% of the company valuing it for a total of 65 billion or whatever, and text saying he seemed to wait until it was valued at 100 billion.
So the company which offered around 60 billion was the wrong one, and all currencies was SEK but anyway
It's hard to remember the currencys when most of the articles you read are english ones.
Maybe it's just due to inflation or the dollar value ;)
Thought 750 or 900 million or whatever probably WAS 6 billion SEK, so I might have close to read it.
http://www.e24.se/dynamiskt/reklam_media/did_17328904.asp
Is probably what I had read, it says Yahoo offered 7 billion SEK september 2006 and Google 15 billion SEK one month later.
Zuckerman said no and that 56 billion where more close to the correct value (close to 60 billion so that explains where I got it from.)
It also mentions Yahoo tried again this year in may for 11.2 billion SEK, and that Microsoft wanted to buy 3-5% for 2-3.2 billion SEK which would value the company at 65 billion (still close to what I said.)
And finally it says that he seems to wait until the value is raised to 100 billion SEK.
So ok, it wasn't offers from Yahoo or Google which where close to 60 billion SEK NOT DOLLAR but Microsofts offer instead.
And 100 billion SEK value wasn't US dollar either.
K, I stand corrected in that case then.
:)
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http://www.vinnylingham.com/why-is-facebook-worth-10bn.html
Seems like you are correct, and then it was a good price. I still wonder where I got the numbers from thought, but I were afraid that they were wrong in the first place.
Sorry for fooling people then
Afaik Yahoo and Google or whatever had offered 60 billion if I remember correctly, atleast I think someone did.
They didn't took it thought and from that article I got the impression they wanted to have it valued in the range of 100 billion instead.
So the price Microsoft is paying is very low and very cheap. I wonder why they got it at all for that amount of money, guess they wanted some cash without giving away the whole company.
There exist hardware in bottles which encrypts your memory AND throws away the keys ;D
The DS has a GBA port and the way the first gen hacks where made was to use whatever flashcard/movie player in the GBA slot, which of course would boot in GBA mode and only use one of the CPUs, but then add a flashme device in the NDS slot which booted the DS in NDS mode and then let it read from the GBA-slot and do whatever that card did.
118 million in what timespan? Until now? Or during the whole iPhone life? 35 million in "loss" on 250.000 phones? Is that really 130 dollar for this short time per phone? In that case Apple earns a hell-of-a-lot on iPhones, not that anyone expected anything else.
They get part of the money AT&T earns from phone calls.
Atleast one got blended .. And there are those people opening them up and eventually never get them together again. So on.
So you are arguing that any sound except background music aren't part of what makes the environment in a game?
Also I think it adds surround sound, which you are free to argue isn't good or whatever but still you only have two ears and the only reason why you can hear where sound comes from is because they change how it sound from different directions, something which CAN be emulated and probably better with two speakers and emulation than headphones with multiple speakers but no emulation.
Your ignorance over the shitty quality of ac97 is annoying.
While using optical/spdif they are ok but for headphones they most often suck, atleast my athlon64 mobo and this new macbook pro.
Also a real (creative) card will add environment sound features for games and use less cpu power.
A good sound card are very cheap nowadays aswell.
Why live with inferior shit?
Yeah, now all I need to do is mail Grado and complain my phones can't connect optically.