The medical market is already "bloody expensive". Some Dome monitors and their video cards are going to cost you around $10k+ each and we need at least two for every radiological computer that we have a doctor reading images at. The license for the software is comparible. After all that, the actual cost of the computer is trivial (yet hospital admin still decides to skimp).
Consoles are all about the "killer app" (just as comptuers are). I bought a PS2 instead of a normal DVD player so I could play Katamari Damacy and Romance of the Three Kingdoms as well as watch DVDs on my big screen TV. Now I'm looking at an X-Box to play Dai Senryaku because I'm getting my ass kicked by friends who can practice all the time. There are certain games I wish to play and they only come on consoles. Which console I buy also depends on which games I desire to play.
We dont. Why are people so fascinated with celebrities? Are your own lives really THAT boring?
Do you really want your life to be that exciting? Just like soaps, movies, and books, it's escapism that you can live vicariously through because you don't really want divorce, scandel, murder, and heartbreak in your real life.
Man pages do their job perfectly. They are for reference, not for reading like a manual. You should already be familiar with the program and you use the man pages for remembering what a command line argument does.
Then why are they called "Man(ual)" pages and not "Ref(erence)" pages?
I remember when I used to "yahoo" stuff. While still round they have dropped in importance. I used to use them all the time but over time I began to notice other people using google and while using different search engines, noticed that google consistantly did the best job. ver time, I switched to Google. the same thing could happen to google if somebody comes out with better services than they do.
Do you yahoo?
At the huge corporation I work for, our company policy is to delete everything by default ASAP.
Our company has the same policy, probably for the reason of destroying such a paper trail. The supervisors and other people of responsiblity who aren't in their own offices with secretaries aren't buying it and are asking for instructions on how to store emails locally and then make back up CDs of same.
It seems that the higher you get up the chain, the more likely they are to delete all email. Shit rolls downhill and the people at the top have the least to lose if somebody is needed to take the fall and there is no firm record of blame.
Yep. I do desktop support and nobody wants to delete anything. that's their paper trail and the one email they delete may mean their job down the line as people are looking for somebody to blame and heads to chop. Most communication is done through email with proper CCs (and sometimes BCCs) and they require it even between people sutting next to eachother just so there is that paper trail at a later date. When they've told somebody or reported an issue, they want to show proof they've done so later if somebody else drops the ball and there are people looking for blame.
This had nothing to do with the fact that they were thin clients. It had everything to do with the fact that they weren't Windows. Just like every other OS that has failed to attain any real market share.
I don't know about that. The hospital where work had thin clients and then went to Windows thin clients. Everybody still hated them and that they were Windows just made all the managers push that much harder to go that final step and get them replaced with real computers.
Enron, World Con^Hm, big tobacco were hiding dirty business. Apple was trying to keep a new product under wraps until scheduled announcement. These are, um, apples and oranges.
What do expect from newpapers, clear, unbiased, and accurate information?
at least at my university, it seems as if apple have changed their image. No longer for graphic designers - it's for people who wanna 'get stuff done' with their computers
No, that's always been the image behind the Mac. It hasn't changed, but rather, the priority of people buying computers has. The old saying goes "PCs are for those who like to work on their comptuers, and the Mac is for people who like to work with their computers." It's just that people have finally come around to seeing that as a plus.
I feel just the opposite. There are not any real anti mac people just people who get fed up with the cult of mac.
So fed up they have insisted on telling me that 3.5" floppies will never catch on, the Macintosh will never surpass the Apple II, GUIs will never catch on, Apple is dieing, mice are useless, Apple is dieing, multiple monitors are a waste, Apple is dieing, computers without floppies will never work, Apple is dieing, USB ports are a bad idea because there are no devices for them, Apple is dieing, iPods are ugly and nobody will buy them because they're too expensive, and Apple is dieing.
Sorry. Chainmail was the set of miniatures rules extracted from 2nd edition AD&D. D&D evolved from an older british game called "Tunnels and Trolls," arguably hybridized with a little known Conan-themed RPG called "Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age," and was the first thing gygax/TSR made.
Sorry, where are you getting your information from?Chainmail first came about in 1971 and was the basis for D&D. The version you spoke of was a totally different product at a much later time.
As for T&T being first, Andre may claim that but nobody else remembers it that way. Every site I've read on the history of RPGs puts T&T as #2, some with descriptions on how Andre did so due to reaction to D&D. Event he Flying Buffalo site says this is the 30th aniversary of T&T which would be 1975 where D&D first arrived on the scene either in 1973 or 1974 depending if you list EasterCon or GenCon as its first appearence.
Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age was done by Lin Carter & Scott Bizar for Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1975, four years after the original Chainmail.
Because 1st edition AD&D was the first D&D to directly integrate the miniatures rules partially developed by the Dungeons and Dragons Master System and Immortal System crusade rules. Please remember that AD&D was almost 15 years into TSR's gaming line; it should not be used as evidence of how things started. If you look, original D&D was in fact in meters, not inches, not feet.
Masters rules for D&D didn't come out till 1985, well after the AD&D core books. Immortals didn't come out till 1986. the first AD&D book, The Monster Manual, came out in 1977. That was four years after TSR was formed, six from the original Chainmail, and a year before the D&D Basic set.
http://mistrealm.com/DnD/History.html
When 1st edition AD&D was new, there wasn't a single store in New York City which carried TSR products. Back then they were still a wholly mail-order supplied operation. Where are you getting this stuff? Miniatures broke into the market through miniature train and toy stores; there was no such thing as a fantasy gaming store. You're claiming that a product which created that kind of store showed up in those stores before they existed.
I don't know about New York, but every little book store in the south carried the D&D stuff by 1980 when I started playing. This included the Grenadier boxed set of (A)D&D minis that came out in 1980 that was plaed with the D&D books on the shelves. I bought mine at The Book Rack in Bartlesville, OK starting in 1980 or so.
When I found Ral partha miniatures which may not have been till 1984 (and by then I was going to Tulsa to The Game Store which had a large RPG selection as well as chit games), I remember prefering them over the old Grenadier minis.
Games Workshop started making miniatures for TSR in 1989. Hogshead has been publishing warhammer since 1977. Where are you getting your information?
GW started making fantasy minis in 1981,...
http://www.solegends.com/citf/citfa/index.htm
...well after D&D came out. Warhammer didn't comeout till 1983.
http://exodite.home.comcast.net/gw_products.html
I don't recall Hogshead having anything to do with WH till they bought it in 1995. Perhaps you have some sorces that I can't find reference to.
what exactly is causing these black holes to form?
There is a critical mass for a black hole to form due to gravity, but the key thing here is not mass but density. You crush anything down to a small enough space and it will be come a black hole. The event horizon will be determined by it's gravity and in such examples it may be smaller than an atom. n this case, they've smashed two gold ions together with enough energy that bits of the atoms have reached that critical density and formed a blck hole. This black hole absorbed some of the other particles that collided with it (because the gravity would not be great enough to actuall draw in particles, they would pretty much have to be just headed towards it anyway), where they were probably either ripped apart by the event horizon or absorbed. In either case, energy was radiated out from the destruction of the particles or from Hawking Radiation. In just a breif time, the amount of Hawking Radiation that such a thing creates will make the black hole evaporate.
Interesting question, is that if this is happening can we create such black holes and then pump them full of matter quick enough so that we end up with a net release of energy greater than what it took to preform the experiment? We wouldn't need a sustained black hole, just to continuously create more and dump matter into them and get energy out to make it an energy source.
Look, the table is cool and so are miniatures, but "traditionally?"
Yes, traditionally. D&D started out as a modified set of minatures rules (Chainmail). Why do you thin that AD&D (1E) had all ranges and movements in inches whcih were later converted to feet (which differed if you were indoors or out)? Miniatures were for sell at just about every place that sold D&D stuff. TSR put out lots of minis although I prefered Ral Partha. Warhammer started out as a game to use the minis that GW made for D&D. Not everybody used them, and they weren't required, but the game was still based on the concept of usign minis.
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by BWJones (18351) on Friday March 11, @12:06PM (#11911436)
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So, while it is interesting to speculate on what Apple may be doing and where they may be going with various products, I have never really understood the rabid nature of the fan sites and rumor sites. What is the point with rumors? Can anybody explain that to me?
Well, for one, why do people like to reada about Linux? people want information on the stuff they're interested in and since Apple is pretty closed lip about such things the only news are rumors. Two, Apples updates happen fairly less frequent than general updates in the PC world. With things less fluid, it becomes advantageous to perhaps wait a few weeks or months before makign a large purchase, especially for a business if you might get 25% preformance boost for doing so. Since the upgrade cycle is longer on Macs typcially, that means more work out of those machines for a longer time. Paying attention to such release schedules can pay off even if you are planning to get current models. If you find out that a new release is coming out, that usually means the current one will be discounted. While it's possible to a refund if the change happens very near you purchase date, sometimes it's less hassle to simply wait.
I didn't notice an SBCsucks or an SBCblows. That's weird, because SBC really really sucks.
What do you have against Seattle's Best Coffee. Sure, they were bought out by Starbuck's but their coffee is still a step above Starbuck's normal line of coffees. It's not a small independant coffee stand but it'll still get you going in the morning.
Why can't they just get them all PDAs now? Sub-$100 text reader that can be electronicaly updated and lasts longer than a laptop batteries. Screen is small and not the best thing to read from. You can probably forget localization of the language in a standard install but it coudl probably be done.
Of crouse, one thing I've always wanted was a laptop form factor PDA. I want somethign realativly small and cheap that I can edit text on that turns on and off like a PDA. Laptops just don't work because they are too heavy and take too long to boot just to input somebodies phone number or address. yet current PDAs have really narrow screens and poor text input devices.
Because a laptop is gonna fill a hungry stomach. For areas that are truly poor and need better education doesn't it seem a little over-the-top to give them laptops. How about sticking with regular old books (which are hard enough to teach without having to teach how to use a laptop on top of that) and using any extra money for things like oh... food, medicine, housing development, water treatment, agriculture, etc, etc, etc...
Because the laptop would be cheaper than the books. That's the point of the sub$100 notebook. That's probably around the break point where the notebook would be cheaper than dead tree format. You distribute it once and then given somebody can bring in a CD or key drive even if they don't have an internet conenction, you can update all the books so they don't become out of date with no more cost. the same classroom of laptops could teach an entire class of different levels of students rather than buying books at each level for each student.
,P> So my speculation is that it is possible that Apple intends to build a new Mac aimed at the gaming market that will be compatible and play Sony's PS3 games- Apple in turn could publish games for the PS3.
IMHO, this is what apple needs. If the PS3 was to act to the Mac the way XBox is to the PC, then the mac wold get the games it needs to try and gain market share over Windows. For a vast number of people, games are the killer app. I'm a huge mac fan, but if people tell me they want a comptuer to play games on I tell them to buy Windows. hardware-wise, i think they Mac could hold their own with Windows, but they need the game library to even try and become a gaming platform. With the PS/2/3 library to draw upon, they would have that.
Trouble is, I can't see how Sony would benefit. Perhaps they're willing to help Apple to hurt MS/XBox. Thus, include PCs in the console wars. After all, for every copy of Windows not sold, that cuts into the money needed to shore up the loss leader XBox. For every Mac sold that could play PS3 games, that would mean more games sold.
They don't care
Sounds like too easy of an answer, but for non-tech savvy people, a computer is just a tool for email, web, etc. If computers were a vital part of people's lives, they might care. Corporations can pay administrators to keep their computers clean, but joe twelvepack doesn't use his computer for anything that he can't do without.
You've obviously never been around my roommate when the network is down. She can take the water being turned off or the stove being broken in stride, but heep her from getting to MySpace or her email and "It's an emergency!" and she'll be on the phone to whoever is responsible yelling and screaming.
Am I thinking of a different term, or aren't "baryons" just the counterpart to "tachyons?"
You're thinking of "bradyons". Tacyons travel faster than light. Photons travel at light speed. While bradyons travel slower than light. Baryons are bradyons along with all other matter we've seen so far.
Huge IPO.
Massive employee benifits.
Loads of hype.
Money flowing all over the place.
Zero profit.
Unproven business strategy.
Happy days are here again!
When the next fake boom collapses sometime around 2009 or so...
...you learn from the last boom and when things are looking good you jump from "profitable company that isn't going anywhere" to "profitable company that isn't going anywhere" while they loose people to the start-ups and are trying to increase their salaries and benifits to match the start-ups. You may not end up making as much or rolling the crapshoot for millions, but when the new bust hits, you're at a stable company that isn't going anywhere with a salary and benifits that have been pumped up by companies that are long gone.
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The medical market is already "bloody expensive". Some Dome monitors and their video cards are going to cost you around $10k+ each and we need at least two for every radiological computer that we have a doctor reading images at. The license for the software is comparible. After all that, the actual cost of the computer is trivial (yet hospital admin still decides to skimp).
Consoles are all about the "killer app" (just as comptuers are). I bought a PS2 instead of a normal DVD player so I could play Katamari Damacy and Romance of the Three Kingdoms as well as watch DVDs on my big screen TV. Now I'm looking at an X-Box to play Dai Senryaku because I'm getting my ass kicked by friends who can practice all the time. There are certain games I wish to play and they only come on consoles. Which console I buy also depends on which games I desire to play.
Do you really want your life to be that exciting? Just like soaps, movies, and books, it's escapism that you can live vicariously through because you don't really want divorce, scandel, murder, and heartbreak in your real life.
Man pages do their job perfectly. They are for reference, not for reading like a manual. You should already be familiar with the program and you use the man pages for remembering what a command line argument does.
Then why are they called "Man(ual)" pages and not "Ref(erence)" pages?
I remember when I used to "yahoo" stuff. While still round they have dropped in importance. I used to use them all the time but over time I began to notice other people using google and while using different search engines, noticed that google consistantly did the best job. ver time, I switched to Google. the same thing could happen to google if somebody comes out with better services than they do. Do you yahoo?
Sounds like a "two thumbs up" review to me. The only thing keeping my interest in the movies has been knowing that in the end, almost everyone dies.
Our company has the same policy, probably for the reason of destroying such a paper trail. The supervisors and other people of responsiblity who aren't in their own offices with secretaries aren't buying it and are asking for instructions on how to store emails locally and then make back up CDs of same.
It seems that the higher you get up the chain, the more likely they are to delete all email. Shit rolls downhill and the people at the top have the least to lose if somebody is needed to take the fall and there is no firm record of blame.
Yep. I do desktop support and nobody wants to delete anything. that's their paper trail and the one email they delete may mean their job down the line as people are looking for somebody to blame and heads to chop. Most communication is done through email with proper CCs (and sometimes BCCs) and they require it even between people sutting next to eachother just so there is that paper trail at a later date. When they've told somebody or reported an issue, they want to show proof they've done so later if somebody else drops the ball and there are people looking for blame.
I don't know about that. The hospital where work had thin clients and then went to Windows thin clients. Everybody still hated them and that they were Windows just made all the managers push that much harder to go that final step and get them replaced with real computers.
I wouldn't expect them to endorse industrial espionage.
Ya, right. They'd never do anything unethical, like start a war with Spain, to sell more papers.
Enron, World Con^Hm, big tobacco were hiding dirty business. Apple was trying to keep a new product under wraps until scheduled announcement. These are, um, apples and oranges.
What do expect from newpapers, clear, unbiased, and accurate information?
at least at my university, it seems as if apple have changed their image. No longer for graphic designers - it's for people who wanna 'get stuff done' with their computers
No, that's always been the image behind the Mac. It hasn't changed, but rather, the priority of people buying computers has. The old saying goes "PCs are for those who like to work on their comptuers, and the Mac is for people who like to work with their computers." It's just that people have finally come around to seeing that as a plus.
I feel just the opposite. There are not any real anti mac people just people who get fed up with the cult of mac.
So fed up they have insisted on telling me that 3.5" floppies will never catch on, the Macintosh will never surpass the Apple II, GUIs will never catch on, Apple is dieing, mice are useless, Apple is dieing, multiple monitors are a waste, Apple is dieing, computers without floppies will never work, Apple is dieing, USB ports are a bad idea because there are no devices for them, Apple is dieing, iPods are ugly and nobody will buy them because they're too expensive, and Apple is dieing.
Sorry. Chainmail was the set of miniatures rules extracted from 2nd edition AD&D. D&D evolved from an older british game called "Tunnels and Trolls," arguably hybridized with a little known Conan-themed RPG called "Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age," and was the first thing gygax/TSR made.
Sorry, where are you getting your information from?Chainmail first came about in 1971 and was the basis for D&D. The version you spoke of was a totally different product at a much later time.
http://www.acaeum.com/DDIndexes/SetPages/Chainma il.html
As for T&T being first, Andre may claim that but nobody else remembers it that way. Every site I've read on the history of RPGs puts T&T as #2, some with descriptions on how Andre did so due to reaction to D&D. Event he Flying Buffalo site says this is the 30th aniversary of T&T which would be 1975 where D&D first arrived on the scene either in 1973 or 1974 depending if you list EasterCon or GenCon as its first appearence.
Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age was done by Lin Carter & Scott Bizar for Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1975, four years after the original Chainmail.
Because 1st edition AD&D was the first D&D to directly integrate the miniatures rules partially developed by the Dungeons and Dragons Master System and Immortal System crusade rules. Please remember that AD&D was almost 15 years into TSR's gaming line; it should not be used as evidence of how things started. If you look, original D&D was in fact in meters, not inches, not feet.
Masters rules for D&D didn't come out till 1985, well after the AD&D core books. Immortals didn't come out till 1986. the first AD&D book, The Monster Manual, came out in 1977. That was four years after TSR was formed, six from the original Chainmail, and a year before the D&D Basic set.
http://mistrealm.com/DnD/History.html
When 1st edition AD&D was new, there wasn't a single store in New York City which carried TSR products. Back then they were still a wholly mail-order supplied operation. Where are you getting this stuff? Miniatures broke into the market through miniature train and toy stores; there was no such thing as a fantasy gaming store. You're claiming that a product which created that kind of store showed up in those stores before they existed.
I don't know about New York, but every little book store in the south carried the D&D stuff by 1980 when I started playing. This included the Grenadier boxed set of (A)D&D minis that came out in 1980 that was plaed with the D&D books on the shelves. I bought mine at The Book Rack in Bartlesville, OK starting in 1980 or so.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/his tory.html
When I found Ral partha miniatures which may not have been till 1984 (and by then I was going to Tulsa to The Game Store which had a large RPG selection as well as chit games), I remember prefering them over the old Grenadier minis.
Games Workshop started making miniatures for TSR in 1989. Hogshead has been publishing warhammer since 1977. Where are you getting your information?
GW started making fantasy minis in 1981,...
http://www.solegends.com/citf/citfa/index.htm
...well after D&D came out. Warhammer didn't comeout till 1983.
http://exodite.home.comcast.net/gw_products.html
I don't recall Hogshead having anything to do with WH till they bought it in 1995. Perhaps you have some sorces that I can't find reference to.
http://www.goblin-online.net/wfrp/history.html
what exactly is causing these black holes to form?
There is a critical mass for a black hole to form due to gravity, but the key thing here is not mass but density. You crush anything down to a small enough space and it will be come a black hole. The event horizon will be determined by it's gravity and in such examples it may be smaller than an atom. n this case, they've smashed two gold ions together with enough energy that bits of the atoms have reached that critical density and formed a blck hole. This black hole absorbed some of the other particles that collided with it (because the gravity would not be great enough to actuall draw in particles, they would pretty much have to be just headed towards it anyway), where they were probably either ripped apart by the event horizon or absorbed. In either case, energy was radiated out from the destruction of the particles or from Hawking Radiation. In just a breif time, the amount of Hawking Radiation that such a thing creates will make the black hole evaporate.
Interesting question, is that if this is happening can we create such black holes and then pump them full of matter quick enough so that we end up with a net release of energy greater than what it took to preform the experiment? We wouldn't need a sustained black hole, just to continuously create more and dump matter into them and get energy out to make it an energy source.
Look, the table is cool and so are miniatures, but "traditionally?"
Yes, traditionally. D&D started out as a modified set of minatures rules (Chainmail). Why do you thin that AD&D (1E) had all ranges and movements in inches whcih were later converted to feet (which differed if you were indoors or out)? Miniatures were for sell at just about every place that sold D&D stuff. TSR put out lots of minis although I prefered Ral Partha. Warhammer started out as a game to use the minis that GW made for D&D. Not everybody used them, and they weren't required, but the game was still based on the concept of usign minis.
Main Apache Apple AskSlashdot 5 more Books BSD 1 more Developers 4 more Games 19 more Interviews IT 2 more Linux 1 more Politics Science 5 more YRO 2 more Help FAQ Bugs Stories Old Stories Old Polls Topics Hall of Fame Submit Story About Supporters Code Awards Services Broadband PriceGrabber Product Guide Special Offers Tech Jobs Why rumors? Why rumors? (Score:1) by BWJones (18351) on Friday March 11, @12:06PM (#11911436) (http://prometheus.me...b/pubx_pubx_bwj.html) So, while it is interesting to speculate on what Apple may be doing and where they may be going with various products, I have never really understood the rabid nature of the fan sites and rumor sites. What is the point with rumors? Can anybody explain that to me?
Well, for one, why do people like to reada about Linux? people want information on the stuff they're interested in and since Apple is pretty closed lip about such things the only news are rumors. Two, Apples updates happen fairly less frequent than general updates in the PC world. With things less fluid, it becomes advantageous to perhaps wait a few weeks or months before makign a large purchase, especially for a business if you might get 25% preformance boost for doing so. Since the upgrade cycle is longer on Macs typcially, that means more work out of those machines for a longer time. Paying attention to such release schedules can pay off even if you are planning to get current models. If you find out that a new release is coming out, that usually means the current one will be discounted. While it's possible to a refund if the change happens very near you purchase date, sometimes it's less hassle to simply wait.
I didn't notice an SBCsucks or an SBCblows. That's weird, because SBC really really sucks.
What do you have against Seattle's Best Coffee. Sure, they were bought out by Starbuck's but their coffee is still a step above Starbuck's normal line of coffees. It's not a small independant coffee stand but it'll still get you going in the morning.
Why can't they just get them all PDAs now? Sub-$100 text reader that can be electronicaly updated and lasts longer than a laptop batteries. Screen is small and not the best thing to read from. You can probably forget localization of the language in a standard install but it coudl probably be done.
Of crouse, one thing I've always wanted was a laptop form factor PDA. I want somethign realativly small and cheap that I can edit text on that turns on and off like a PDA. Laptops just don't work because they are too heavy and take too long to boot just to input somebodies phone number or address. yet current PDAs have really narrow screens and poor text input devices.
Because a laptop is gonna fill a hungry stomach. For areas that are truly poor and need better education doesn't it seem a little over-the-top to give them laptops. How about sticking with regular old books (which are hard enough to teach without having to teach how to use a laptop on top of that) and using any extra money for things like oh... food, medicine, housing development, water treatment, agriculture, etc, etc, etc...
Because the laptop would be cheaper than the books. That's the point of the sub$100 notebook. That's probably around the break point where the notebook would be cheaper than dead tree format. You distribute it once and then given somebody can bring in a CD or key drive even if they don't have an internet conenction, you can update all the books so they don't become out of date with no more cost. the same classroom of laptops could teach an entire class of different levels of students rather than buying books at each level for each student.
IMHO, this is what apple needs. If the PS3 was to act to the Mac the way XBox is to the PC, then the mac wold get the games it needs to try and gain market share over Windows. For a vast number of people, games are the killer app. I'm a huge mac fan, but if people tell me they want a comptuer to play games on I tell them to buy Windows. hardware-wise, i think they Mac could hold their own with Windows, but they need the game library to even try and become a gaming platform. With the PS/2/3 library to draw upon, they would have that.
Trouble is, I can't see how Sony would benefit. Perhaps they're willing to help Apple to hurt MS/XBox. Thus, include PCs in the console wars. After all, for every copy of Windows not sold, that cuts into the money needed to shore up the loss leader XBox. For every Mac sold that could play PS3 games, that would mean more games sold.
They don't care Sounds like too easy of an answer, but for non-tech savvy people, a computer is just a tool for email, web, etc. If computers were a vital part of people's lives, they might care. Corporations can pay administrators to keep their computers clean, but joe twelvepack doesn't use his computer for anything that he can't do without.
You've obviously never been around my roommate when the network is down. She can take the water being turned off or the stove being broken in stride, but heep her from getting to MySpace or her email and "It's an emergency!" and she'll be on the phone to whoever is responsible yelling and screaming.
Am I thinking of a different term, or aren't "baryons" just the counterpart to "tachyons?"
You're thinking of "bradyons". Tacyons travel faster than light. Photons travel at light speed. While bradyons travel slower than light. Baryons are bradyons along with all other matter we've seen so far.
Huge IPO.
Massive employee benifits.
Loads of hype.
Money flowing all over the place.
Zero profit.
Unproven business strategy.
Happy days are here again!
When the next fake boom collapses sometime around 2009 or so...
...you learn from the last boom and when things are looking good you jump from "profitable company that isn't going anywhere" to "profitable company that isn't going anywhere" while they loose people to the start-ups and are trying to increase their salaries and benifits to match the start-ups. You may not end up making as much or rolling the crapshoot for millions, but when the new bust hits, you're at a stable company that isn't going anywhere with a salary and benifits that have been pumped up by companies that are long gone.