I work at a company where the entire IT department (me) supports a DOS legacy app. This program was written 20 years ago, but it's still the best in the market. We aquired a simlar company last year, and they still use it as well. I was told 5 years ago that the vendor was upgrading to a Windows SQL based product, but it's not here yet. As long as these programs are out there, DOS rules.
That is exactly my point. Internal combustion engines are inefficient. Trying to extract more energy seems like a wasted effort. A fuel cell engine is about 50% efficient. We should be looking at alternative engines, not trying to tweek 100 year old technology. Aren't we smarter than that?
There's no money to be made in fixing problems and issuing patches. The money is in sales. Create a new and 'better' version and charge to upgrade. New versions = profit, patches = lost revenue.
Piracy? In China? The Chinese government would never allow that to happen. Now that this guy has been caught, that will be the end of trademake infringement in China.
...would be the development of the Orgasmatron, as used by Woody Allen in 'Sleeper'. The NASA solution will probably be to send some sheep and vibrators on missions.
With the rise of game box, (Sony, Nintendo, MS), the game industry seems to be dominated by first person shooter games. You and your company have always produced the classic strategy type of game. In the future, will the be a place for the strategy game, and what do you think it will be? Can it compete with the first person shooter or the RPG?
If she wins, this would clear the way for my lawsuits of Russia. I plan to sue them for pain & suffering from all the "duck and cover" drills I had to do in elementary school because we thought they were going to bomb us.
I'll stick with my Panasonic dot matrix printer, thanks. When I print Mapquest and other useless, throwaway documents, the dot matrix does them quickly and cheaply enough. It can also print decent looking letters an forms for a fraction of the cost of the new-fangled technologies. Now get off my lawn you kids!
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I agree with you. Most of the folks knocking VOOM never had it much less even saw it. I got the service in December and it was everything I ever wanted in a TV service. Unlike my cable, the picture was sharp on EVERY channel. I liked the VOOM HD channels. They were....civilized, probably because much of the HD content was from Europe. Art, music, movies. It was perfect, and cheaper than the cable I used to have. It was done in by poor installs, (something I still have to deal with), poor marketing, (I went to Sears and they had no idea what I was talking about. Another dealer didn't even want to show it to me). VOOM was ahead of it's time and I'll miss it. But then, I had an Amiga as well. In the aftermath, I'm not getting another service (cable/dish) until something like VOOM comes along again.
The perspective seems to be British. He completely ignores some of major dot.coms like CMGI that rode the crest up and crashed hard. Instead, he focuses on some smaller companies that I never even heard of, before or since. And what about MicroStrategy's role? I'm lost several hundred thousand dollars in possible gains. I remember those days very well.
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I can give them a better deal that the folks they're buying it from now. It's always fresher if you get it straight from the source.
He never really had a chance. Note to parents: Start with Bill or George or Steve when naming a son.
I work at a company where the entire IT department (me) supports a DOS legacy app. This program was written 20 years ago, but it's still the best in the market. We aquired a simlar company last year, and they still use it as well. I was told 5 years ago that the vendor was upgrading to a Windows SQL based product, but it's not here yet. As long as these programs are out there, DOS rules.
I don't think I'll bother now......
...let's first kill the messenger.
I didn't even know they had computers in West virginia, much less know how to use them.......
That is exactly my point. Internal combustion engines are inefficient. Trying to extract more energy seems like a wasted effort. A fuel cell engine is about 50% efficient. We should be looking at alternative engines, not trying to tweek 100 year old technology. Aren't we smarter than that?
There's no money to be made in fixing problems and issuing patches. The money is in sales. Create a new and 'better' version and charge to upgrade. New versions = profit, patches = lost revenue.
Well, it seemed to work in 'Dune'.
Piracy? In China? The Chinese government would never allow that to happen. Now that this guy has been caught, that will be the end of trademake infringement in China.
...would be the development of the Orgasmatron, as used by Woody Allen in 'Sleeper'. The NASA solution will probably be to send some sheep and vibrators on missions.
I'm waiting for 'The Princess Bride on Ice'!!!!
With the rise of game box, (Sony, Nintendo, MS), the game industry seems to be dominated by first person shooter games. You and your company have always produced the classic strategy type of game. In the future, will the be a place for the strategy game, and what do you think it will be? Can it compete with the first person shooter or the RPG?
If she wins, this would clear the way for my lawsuits of Russia. I plan to sue them for pain & suffering from all the "duck and cover" drills I had to do in elementary school because we thought they were going to bomb us.
I'll stick with my Panasonic dot matrix printer, thanks. When I print Mapquest and other useless, throwaway documents, the dot matrix does them quickly and cheaply enough. It can also print decent looking letters an forms for a fraction of the cost of the new-fangled technologies. Now get off my lawn you kids!
...where will I do my christmas shopping?
I agree with you. Most of the folks knocking VOOM never had it much less even saw it. I got the service in December and it was everything I ever wanted in a TV service. Unlike my cable, the picture was sharp on EVERY channel. I liked the VOOM HD channels. They were....civilized, probably because much of the HD content was from Europe. Art, music, movies. It was perfect, and cheaper than the cable I used to have. It was done in by poor installs, (something I still have to deal with), poor marketing, (I went to Sears and they had no idea what I was talking about. Another dealer didn't even want to show it to me). VOOM was ahead of it's time and I'll miss it. But then, I had an Amiga as well. In the aftermath, I'm not getting another service (cable/dish) until something like VOOM comes along again.
he's never seen my garage....
I bet they'll support it! They're gonna have to if they want to get their search bars integrated into Firefox.....Hello, adware.
I'm waiting for Lord Of The Rings On Ice!
The perspective seems to be British. He completely ignores some of major dot.coms like CMGI that rode the crest up and crashed hard. Instead, he focuses on some smaller companies that I never even heard of, before or since. And what about MicroStrategy's role? I'm lost several hundred thousand dollars in possible gains. I remember those days very well.
Till they figure out that someone typing 'Goodyear' won't be able to see a 'Michelin' ad....
Perhaps someone could create an 'Enterprise' adware/spyware and finance the show through unprotected computers?
Remember, William Shatner said the VIC-20 _is_ the computer for the 21st century. And beyond!
Is it better than a Pringles' can?