Almost certainly parent is trolling or joking, but this is one of those arguments that comes up all the time and infuriates me everytime I hear it.
If companies don't spend their money on proprietary software, then they will spend their money on something else, or they will pay their employees more, or they will pay their shareholders more.
If they spend the money on something else, then that industry gets the money.
If they give their employees more, then they buy pretty shiny things, or new Dells or whatever.
If they pay their shareholders more, then Daddy gets a new Jag. RAWK!
The money doesn't just vanish off the face of the planet because people aren't buying software. It goes along different routes and into other interesting investments. Perhaps more valuable ones than upgrading your desktop to the newest standard crap.
Someone who has more knowledge than me, please detail what it would require for IBM to just buyout SCO in a hostile takeover?
From the looks of yahoo's finance page, SCOX has 13.1 million shares outstanding, and they seem to currently be selling at $15 a piece.
So, in order to get controlling interest (51%, say), they would need to drop $98.25 million.
Is this correct? Is this possible? Is this probable?
The planck length (taken by combining planck's constant, the gravitational constant, and the speed of light so that the units cancel out nicely) is the smallest length possible in this universe. There is no smaller unit of distance (or, at lengths such as this, space is discontinuous).
Likewise, the time it takes a photon to cross a distance equal to one planck length is the planck time, and it is the smallest unit of time possible (i.e. - time is discontinuous).
This is not news.
See this blurb for a little more info.
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Almost certainly parent is trolling or joking, but this is one of those arguments that comes up all the time and infuriates me everytime I hear it.
If companies don't spend their money on proprietary software, then they will spend their money on something else, or they will pay their employees more, or they will pay their shareholders more.
If they spend the money on something else, then that industry gets the money.
If they give their employees more, then they buy pretty shiny things, or new Dells or whatever.
If they pay their shareholders more, then Daddy gets a new Jag. RAWK!
The money doesn't just vanish off the face of the planet because people aren't buying software. It goes along different routes and into other interesting investments. Perhaps more valuable ones than upgrading your desktop to the newest standard crap.
I don't vote. Otherwise I would be pissed off.
I predict, however, that even with all the errors and whatnot, the machines will still see fit to elect an affluent, politically moderate, white male.
I'll start giving out my votes once they start giving us candidates.
Until I can download a pizza in 30 minutes or less, I will not be satisfied!
Someone who has more knowledge than me, please detail what it would require for IBM to just buyout SCO in a hostile takeover? From the looks of yahoo's finance page, SCOX has 13.1 million shares outstanding, and they seem to currently be selling at $15 a piece. So, in order to get controlling interest (51%, say), they would need to drop $98.25 million. Is this correct? Is this possible? Is this probable?
The planck length (taken by combining planck's constant, the gravitational constant, and the speed of light so that the units cancel out nicely) is the smallest length possible in this universe. There is no smaller unit of distance (or, at lengths such as this, space is discontinuous). Likewise, the time it takes a photon to cross a distance equal to one planck length is the planck time, and it is the smallest unit of time possible (i.e. - time is discontinuous). This is not news. See this blurb for a little more info.