I'd say that an equity stake should only be considered for such a long-term commitment if you'll also have some kind of control of the strategic direction of the company.
10% of a sinking ship is just a lot of water with debris in it.
When your revenues scale with the services rendered, it *does* make business sense to auto-scale. Auto-scaling is a technical solution, not a business one.
Being Slashdotted isn't typically associated with more commercial activity, it's associated with "hit-and-run" visitors. The same with social networks. Does Twitter even have a business model?
But wherever there's a business model where margins are relatively stable but activity rises and falls, auto-scaling makes you money rather than costing you severely.
Like many things, it's a tool which should be used wisely, where not paying attention can leave you missing fingers.
Hydrogen isn't a power source, it's an energy storage medium which takes energy to produce from another source, be it water or a hydrocarbon, which seem to be the two most popular production methods talked about.
As well, there are plenty of implications of a switch to hydrogen gas which isn't accounted for yet. Will leakage of hydrogen gas into the atmosphere have "greenhouse" implications?
Trademarks are domain-specific. This is in the same domain (movies / movie production) as 20th Century Fox, and quite far from White Star Line's (if they still exist) domain (transportation, tourism).
Anyone started a betting pool as to when Twentieth Century Fox is going to sue for an injunction against Cinematic Titanic for trademark violation for use of the name Titanic?
First, giving the amount of time and the number of items searched means nothing. Are they doing it on a BlueGene or an Apple II?
Second, the problem with "the semantic web" if you're relying on people providing the metadata themselves, is the reliability (trustworthiness?) of the person creating the metadata. There's a reason the meta name="keywords" tags aren't a significant factor if at all in any of the major search engines' ranking systems.
The hard part, as I see it, is dependency management for upgrading software.
Eventually, with RPMs, for example, I end up getting to the point that I have to force something, which shouldn't ever really have to happen... but it does.
Eventually, perfect capitalism (aided by globalization) will cut out those who make money without adding commensurate value. It's gonna happen. Figure out how to add actual value.
Having read (and enjoyed) the book... despite using PHP for the examples, there's relatively little dependent on PHP in the text. This isn't a "write really fast PHP code" book. It's about designing systems and process instead of just a web site. It's about setting things up in a way that they'll be maintainable, and you won't have hogtied yourself by putting the logic and the HTML together. It mentions the importance of defining a coding style, whatever that is, so when you have a bunch of developers, there will be consistency... and that the choice of style isn't as important as defining one.
There's lots missing still... and the long focus on unicode, localization, etc is a bit tedious to get through... but overall, it's a book that I wish that people at $WORK were forced to read.
Slashdot Mirror
When they're getting laid.
Oh, crap, I see your point.
I'd say that an equity stake should only be considered for such a long-term commitment if you'll also have some kind of control of the strategic direction of the company. 10% of a sinking ship is just a lot of water with debris in it.
When will Microsoft be coming out with the miniClassic?
When your revenues scale with the services rendered, it *does* make business sense to auto-scale. Auto-scaling is a technical solution, not a business one. Being Slashdotted isn't typically associated with more commercial activity, it's associated with "hit-and-run" visitors. The same with social networks. Does Twitter even have a business model? But wherever there's a business model where margins are relatively stable but activity rises and falls, auto-scaling makes you money rather than costing you severely. Like many things, it's a tool which should be used wisely, where not paying attention can leave you missing fingers.
But is everything they're selling with this new offering GPL?
Is Astrobiology Magazine slumming with the astrophysicists while waiting for someone to find life outside of Earth's biosphere?
Hydrogen isn't a power source, it's an energy storage medium which takes energy to produce from another source, be it water or a hydrocarbon, which seem to be the two most popular production methods talked about.
As well, there are plenty of implications of a switch to hydrogen gas which isn't accounted for yet. Will leakage of hydrogen gas into the atmosphere have "greenhouse" implications?
Trademarks are domain-specific. This is in the same domain (movies / movie production) as 20th Century Fox, and quite far from White Star Line's (if they still exist) domain (transportation, tourism).
Anyone started a betting pool as to when Twentieth Century Fox is going to sue for an injunction against Cinematic Titanic for trademark violation for use of the name Titanic?
First, giving the amount of time and the number of items searched means nothing. Are they doing it on a BlueGene or an Apple II?
Second, the problem with "the semantic web" if you're relying on people providing the metadata themselves, is the reliability (trustworthiness?) of the person creating the metadata. There's a reason the meta name="keywords" tags aren't a significant factor if at all in any of the major search engines' ranking systems.
What kind of reward?
It should get you less of a finance charge, but that's the only reward you should get for paying earlier.
Are we going to have to re-patch everything in a year or two when they change it back?
On the good side, we found out what doesn't come back up automatically after a reboot on the Sun systems that needed the libc patch, too.
You keep your wang on a leash?
Remember in 1999 when Qwest advertised that they had "the bandwidth to change everything"?
I suppose now that they'd say that "everything has changed."
...but why are school children disguising themselves as nuns?
The hard part, as I see it, is dependency management for upgrading software.
Eventually, with RPMs, for example, I end up getting to the point that I have to force something, which shouldn't ever really have to happen... but it does.
Personally, I'd send out very special forces.
The first link goes to a Scoble blog entry about completely different things...
No dude... Microsoft is doing this taking a stand on behalf of good Christian families.
You see, anyone who's buying Vista for home already is gay...
Seriously, while mildly interesting, I don't think that business intelligence software is front-page-worthy.
Yes, cloning stud bulls who then, via sexual reproduction, create non-clone offspring.
It's far too expensive to clone animals for meat, but not to use it on a limited basis for producing more offspring with desirable characteristics.
Eventually, perfect capitalism (aided by globalization) will cut out those who make money without adding commensurate value. It's gonna happen. Figure out how to add actual value.
It is now!
Hahahaha... superimpose a bag over the chick's face.
Having read (and enjoyed) the book... despite using PHP for the examples, there's relatively little dependent on PHP in the text. This isn't a "write really fast PHP code" book. It's about designing systems and process instead of just a web site. It's about setting things up in a way that they'll be maintainable, and you won't have hogtied yourself by putting the logic and the HTML together. It mentions the importance of defining a coding style, whatever that is, so when you have a bunch of developers, there will be consistency... and that the choice of style isn't as important as defining one.
There's lots missing still... and the long focus on unicode, localization, etc is a bit tedious to get through... but overall, it's a book that I wish that people at $WORK were forced to read.