...you don't live in a vacuum. Whether you believe it or not the corruption of the USPTO affects you. Additionally revoking a patent involves more than your 2 magic words, it largely consists of paying huge sums of money to lawyers. So you can wake up and start caring now, or later when you have to deal with all the lawyers and their hourly fees.
Sales tax is payback to the state you are located in for use of their infrastructure (roads, etc.)
Online stores make customers pay sales tax if they live in the same state. If a store doesn't have a physical pressence in a state then there is no need to pay sales tax, in fact it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
So tough if mom and pop shops are having a hard time, they are merely paying for the infrastructure they use and if they don't like it and consumers don't feel it's worth the extra dough then they will have to move online or suffer. Deal.
There's no reason to have the parent post moderated down to zero. It may sound a bit confrontational, but sometimes the truth hurts. Ok, MySQL is a database, but it isn't a relational database and hence has the problems that our AC indicates. PostgreSQL is a lot closer to catching Oracle than MySQL will ever be.
Transmeta has not invented a new cpu. It has designed software, specifically code morphing.
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They did invent/design a new cpu. It just happens to be 3/4 software. But if they had not invented a new CPU they would never have been able to acheive a power consumption of just 1 watt.
I beleive the Inktomi software and database of links is the guts behind a couple of the search engines out there. If my memory serves me correctly their technology powers www.hotbot.com
Whenever I hear the someone in the know buying a linux box, it's usually from VA.
However how many have bought from Penguin Computing? What's their reputation like. Just from browsing there web page I got a pretty good impression. There site is clean and loads faster than VA's and they seem to really know what they're doing. In many instances (RAID comes to mind) Penguin seems to be more flexible than VA.
So what's the deal. Anyone have personal experience with Penguin?
Electric Eye wrote: Shit, the brokers are the ones who make most of the money. And in another comment: Brokerage whores got the profits.
This is incorrect period. The 'Brokerage whores' do not get all the money. Rather all the employees, friends, and family who were in on the deal directly benefit from VA going through the roof. That's why stock options are a big deal.
Of course the underwriters of the IPO and all their big wig clients also made a lot of money on the deal. But that's only fair, after all it's technically a risk to underwrite a company and while you may not understand their jobs they do work long hard hours to make this all work.
I have to disagree with the notion that the Internet will not continue to grow. Just look at the campus of any modern university and you will see an abundance of terminals and a populace utterly dependent on them. In addition Palm like devices with Internet capablilities will only hasten this process.
As for patents, remember they only last 20 years. The RSA algorithm for public-key encyption is one that is about to enter the publice domain. And as far as these absurd 'everyone's doing it, but I got the patent' patents, all it will take is a company with enough resources who wants to use the technology without paying royalties. I assure you they will be quick to bring prior art to the court's attention.
MS SQL is quite quick as far as RDBMS's go, too bad it isn't a RDBMS itself, which makes it an unacceptable choice for many applications. If one wanted to go with an Open Source solution as opposed to Oracle then they might try PostgreSQL.
If Intel ever sat back and decided they "have enough of the market share" their shareholders would sue them into oblivion... and remember it IS their legal duty in the US to maximize shareholder value.
Why should AMD give up the fight for the server market? Who says their engineers can't create a better server CPU than Intel? Especially when one considers that the server market has the highest profit margins. Remember these are not charitable organizations, they are corporations whose sole existence is to make money, and lots of it!
Last I checked CPU's have been making extraordinary strides in performance... but I guess these could be qualified as mediocre enhancements. In any case these companies will continue to do their best to satisfy consumer need. If you don't like what one is doing then vote with your dollars
these just happen to be the realities of our capitalist soceity... and be careful when you knock it because although it's not perfect, the world hasn't seen a better alternative yet
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...you don't live in a vacuum. Whether you believe it or not the corruption of the USPTO affects you. Additionally revoking a patent involves more than your 2 magic words, it largely consists of paying huge sums of money to lawyers. So you can wake up and start caring now, or later when you have to deal with all the lawyers and their hourly fees.
Online stores make customers pay sales tax if they live in the same state. If a store doesn't have a physical pressence in a state then there is no need to pay sales tax, in fact it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
So tough if mom and pop shops are having a hard time, they are merely paying for the infrastructure they use and if they don't like it and consumers don't feel it's worth the extra dough then they will have to move online or suffer. Deal.
There's no reason to have the parent post moderated down to zero. It may sound a bit confrontational, but sometimes the truth hurts. Ok, MySQL is a database, but it isn't a relational database and hence has the problems that our AC indicates. PostgreSQL is a lot closer to catching Oracle than MySQL will ever be.
That will tell us a lot more about his popularity than a bunch of random emails CmdrTaco receives daily.
Transmeta has not invented a new cpu. It has designed software, specifically code morphing.
-end quote-
They did invent/design a new cpu. It just happens to be 3/4 software. But if they had not invented a new CPU they would never have been able to acheive a power consumption of just 1 watt.
I beleive the Inktomi software and database of links is the guts behind a couple of the search engines out there. If my memory serves me correctly their technology powers www.hotbot.com
However how many have bought from Penguin Computing? What's their reputation like. Just from browsing there web page I got a pretty good impression. There site is clean and loads faster than VA's and they seem to really know what they're doing. In many instances (RAID comes to mind) Penguin seems to be more flexible than VA.
So what's the deal. Anyone have personal experience with Penguin?
Electric Eye wrote: Shit, the brokers are the ones who make most of the money.
And in another comment: Brokerage whores got the profits.
This is incorrect period. The 'Brokerage whores' do not get all the money. Rather all the employees, friends, and family who were in on the deal directly benefit from VA going through the roof. That's why stock options are a big deal.
Of course the underwriters of the IPO and all their big wig clients also made a lot of money on the deal. But that's only fair, after all it's technically a risk to underwrite a company and while you may not understand their jobs they do work long hard hours to make this all work.
BTW his columns and some new ones can be found here
Those columns were the best part of the month back when I was younger!
I have to disagree with the notion that the Internet will not continue to grow. Just look at the campus of any modern university and you will see an abundance of terminals and a populace utterly dependent on them. In addition Palm like devices with Internet capablilities will only hasten this process.
As for patents, remember they only last 20 years. The RSA algorithm for public-key encyption is one that is about to enter the publice domain. And as far as these absurd 'everyone's doing it, but I got the patent' patents, all it will take is a company with enough resources who wants to use the technology without paying royalties. I assure you they will be quick to bring prior art to the court's attention.
MS SQL is quite quick as far as RDBMS's go, too bad it isn't a RDBMS itself, which makes it an unacceptable choice for many applications. If one wanted to go with an Open Source solution as opposed to Oracle then they might try PostgreSQL.
Not much since he's one of the lowest paid CEO's in this country. Most of his money is tied up in Mircrosoft's stock.
- If Intel ever sat back and decided they "have enough of the market share" their shareholders would sue them into oblivion... and remember it IS their legal duty in the US to maximize shareholder value.
- Why should AMD give up the fight for the server market? Who says their engineers can't create a better server CPU than Intel? Especially when one considers that the server market has the highest profit margins. Remember these are not charitable organizations, they are corporations whose sole existence is to make money, and lots of it!
- Last I checked CPU's have been making extraordinary strides in performance... but I guess these could be qualified as mediocre enhancements. In any case these companies will continue to do their best to satisfy consumer need. If you don't like what one is doing then vote with your dollars
these just happen to be the realities of our capitalist soceity... and be careful when you knock it because although it's not perfect, the world hasn't seen a better alternative yet