Book income is not the same thing as tax income. Most financial statements provide a note to the financials that detail the differences between the numbers.
This would affect book income, not taxable income.
I can't believe the hostile, sarcastic tone that AdTI assumes on their site. I would have thought that they'd try to come off a little more professional - that "open sourcers hate to pay for copyrighted material" paragraph is just crazy.
Also, sorry if this has been covered, but did that quote from their page actually come from Eric Raymond? Has he explained what he meant? ("Linus Torvalds... didn't actually try to write Linux from scratch. Instead, he started by reusing code and ideas from Minix, a tiny Unix-like operating system....")
I like G4 TV, especially "10 Play" which generally does a top ten list and includes games going all the way back to NES.
They recently did the top ten Star Wars games. The number one game, in my mind, is the best reason to own an XBox - Knights of the Old Republic. By the way, if you have this game, and XBox Live, they made new content available about a month ago - 3 new light sabre crystals and a space station.
I loved Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime and Windwaker alone made the Gamecube worth the money. Unfortunately, this is the kind of "multiplayer" I was hoping for.
Why is Nintendo so averse to doing providing a real online multiplayer service? I have a blast on XBox Live and I think that being "Live Enabled" drives the sale of many games.
It just seems like they're ignoring a potentially lucrative part of the market.
personal development. it takes training to become good in your field. they have in-the-house training.
Spoken like someone who has either (1) never hired or dealt with a Big 5 consulting firm, or (2) someone who works for one.
The partners in these firms will sell anything. They will claim expertise in any thing they must in order to start billing. They send out green college recruits and charge over $100/hr for them.
As for "in-the-house training", the only experience most of them have is a series of failed PeopleSoft deployments (or Ariba, insert your own "enterprise" software here). Many of them have degrees in something completely unrelated to the project. Yes, the English major from Duke is very intelligent, but she doesn't know anything about the project at hand.
-they pay hard on their mistakes. Cash. When you buy outside your organization your excpectations are higher
Well, they may pay for their mistakes, but they certainly don't pay cash. These guys will absolutely bleed a company through continued billing regardless of how successful the project is.
As the go-live date neared, former employees say that Deloitte and Touche project managers relaxed testing requirements for various pieces of the system.
The Big 5 (or however many there are now - I mean Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, Deloitte & Touche, etc) charge hundreds of dollars an hour for "experts" that aren't experts at all. They're usually just one page ahead of the client. They even charge over $100/hr for wet-behind-the-ears college grads.
We've all dealt with them before, they are usually intelligent people but have no expertise or experience in the task they are being paid to complete.
Yet again and again, despite all their failings, they are being hired by big corporations for major projects.
Excellent link. According to that page, the first commercially available consoles appeared in 1972, so whatever they have from 1970 must be a prototype of some sort.
Not good for MS. A lot of people have been waiting on Yukon. Yukon is finally going to deliver online restoration, database mirroring with automatic failover, and support for mirrored backup sets.
Disappointing. SQL Server had really come a long way, too. Maybe 2005 won't be too late.
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So if I ordered an iPod from Apple today, how long would I have to wait to get it? Are these things backordered?
bhj
How do you pronounce "Huygens"? I've been reading Stephenson's Baroque series, and I've been pronouncing it "hoy-gens" in my head.
bhj
Book income is not the same thing as tax income. Most financial statements provide a note to the financials that detail the differences between the numbers.
This would affect book income, not taxable income.
I can't believe the hostile, sarcastic tone that AdTI assumes on their site. I would have thought that they'd try to come off a little more professional - that "open sourcers hate to pay for copyrighted material" paragraph is just crazy.
Also, sorry if this has been covered, but did that quote from their page actually come from Eric Raymond? Has he explained what he meant? ("Linus Torvalds... didn't actually try to write Linux from scratch. Instead, he started by reusing code and ideas from Minix, a tiny Unix-like operating system....")
bhj
The article mentions Photoshop as if its anti-counterfeiting measures have been successful. Have they fixed the previously reported problems?
Are you serious? The guy was fired just for letting a foreign laptop connect to your network? Seems a bit extreme.
Everyone but the vendors knows it's a bad idea. Cisco recently made the same mistake.
I'm not really interested in an Evil Dead 4. However, I'd love to see Bruce Campbell in a revived Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.
I like G4 TV, especially "10 Play" which generally does a top ten list and includes games going all the way back to NES.
They recently did the top ten Star Wars games. The number one game, in my mind, is the best reason to own an XBox - Knights of the Old Republic. By the way, if you have this game, and XBox Live, they made new content available about a month ago - 3 new light sabre crystals and a space station.
bhj
I loved Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime and Windwaker alone made the Gamecube worth the money.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of "multiplayer" I was hoping for.
Why is Nintendo so averse to doing providing a real online multiplayer service? I have a blast on XBox Live and I think that being "Live Enabled" drives the sale of many games.
It just seems like they're ignoring a potentially lucrative part of the market.
-BHJ
Some of it was dull, yes.
I liked the description of naval tactics as they were trying to escape the pirates.
I also liked the fact that he has a Waterhouse founding MIT.
I'm curious about this too. It just can't be true.
What about bikini-clad rollerbladers with no pockets, purse, etc?
personal development. it takes training to become good in your field. they have in-the-house training.
Spoken like someone who has either (1) never hired or dealt with a Big 5 consulting firm, or (2) someone who works for one.
The partners in these firms will sell anything. They will claim expertise in any thing they must in order to start billing. They send out green college recruits and charge over $100/hr for them.
As for "in-the-house training", the only experience most of them have is a series of failed PeopleSoft deployments (or Ariba, insert your own "enterprise" software here). Many of them have degrees in something completely unrelated to the project. Yes, the English major from Duke is very intelligent, but she doesn't know anything about the project at hand.
-they pay hard on their mistakes. Cash. When you buy outside your organization your excpectations are higher
Well, they may pay for their mistakes, but they certainly don't pay cash. These guys will absolutely bleed a company through continued billing regardless of how successful the project is.
As the go-live date neared, former employees say that Deloitte and Touche project managers relaxed testing requirements for various pieces of the system.
The Big 5 (or however many there are now - I mean Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, Deloitte & Touche, etc) charge hundreds of dollars an hour for "experts" that aren't experts at all. They're usually just one page ahead of the client. They even charge over $100/hr for wet-behind-the-ears college grads.
We've all dealt with them before, they are usually intelligent people but have no expertise or experience in the task they are being paid to complete.
Yet again and again, despite all their failings, they are being hired by big corporations for major projects.
I'd like to know why.
Of course, Duke Nukem Forever was at the top of the list, but for some reason the link is to part 3 in the series.
Part 1 is here.
What happened to all the people that put money down on that game?
I think the Lego league sounds fun.
MINDSTORMS have become really hard to find. Do any retail outlets still carry them, or are we just left with the Lego website?
I guess this means the rumored Blue Linux isn't going to happen after all?
The first time my ISP has a false positive and blocks a legitimate email, I'm going to be pissed.
This is probably why they don't do it - they can't risk false positives.
-BHJ
AntiVir might be a good, free choice.
I has served me well. Catches a lot of the spyware that my favorite pr0n sites try to push me, too.
Excellent link. According to that page, the first commercially available consoles appeared in 1972, so whatever they have from 1970 must be a prototype of some sort.
My favorite was Popeye (the game with the floating hearts).
2nd favorite was Kangaroo.
including home console systems from 1970-2004
What home gaming consoles were available in 1970?
Best. Doctor. EVAR.
Not good for MS. A lot of people have been waiting on Yukon. Yukon is finally going to deliver online restoration, database mirroring with automatic failover, and support for mirrored backup sets.
Disappointing. SQL Server had really come a long way, too. Maybe 2005 won't be too late.