A few things A) You are not entitled to know everything about Steve Jobs B) The shareholders really only need to know that someone will take the place if Jobs dies C) Steve Jobs, or any other CEO could die of any random cause at any time and D) Perhaps thats all that was confirmed at the time? And I'd say that you would probably have a hormone imbalance if you had a failing organ.
while generally true there are exceptions. people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet etc have there names intricately tied to the financial wellbeing of the company they run, look at how carefully MS extracted Bill Gates from the company over many years to ensure no drastic price drops. The loss of any of those people through death, retirement, getting the arse or whatever would be a major blow to the companies respective shareprices (even if they don't do anything but sit in the boardroom and smoke cigars all day). Companies are obligated to report any information or news that may significantly impact the shareprice of there company, especially something where people outside the company will be able to find it out anyway and take financial advantage of it. eg. a doctor shorting the stock when jobs operation looks like it failed.
The point of the article is not about whether HD DVD is dead or not, it is, no ifs or buts. The article is about whether Blu ray is looking at the same premature death through lack of sales. At the current rate downloads and new formats will have taken off before Blu ray gets much more than the current high end niche status it has.
So really you are wrong in that Blu Ray won, HD DVD lost and at this point it looks like so did Blu ray. DVD is good enough till the next wave of inovation or till people move on to downloads.
It is not a Myth, GCC is a good compiler, MSVC and ICC are fantastic compilers. This doesn't make GCC bad by any means, but it is gonna be a very rare occurance that GCC produces faster code, more work and effort has been spent on the other 2 to make them that much better.
No they don't, the article is talking about enterprises and the problems they will have, but enterprises DO NOT buy licenses in the way the article mentions. SA and even EA's and volume licensing makes sense at much lower numbers than your suggesting, even for relatively small businesses, if your in IT of even a medium business and you are responsible for MS purchasing you probably should be sacked if your getting your licensing via preinstalls from HP or Dell.
I gather you don't use the english version much, It blows hard too and has gotten a lot worse over the last few years. I am so sick of getting blogs and domain parking sites it shits me to tears. Not sure if Bing will be better or worse, but it would be hard to be worse than the current state of search engines.
MS is a GLOBAL company, there country of incorpation is for the most part irrelevant, At the moment if anything there still being in the US speaks of huge loyalty considering the generous tax consessions other countries have offered them to move (Even Canada at one stage). When your company earns as much as Microsoft the tax rate is a VERY VERY important consideration, just a few percent over the course of a couple of years would more than cover the billions it would cost them to move. Good Will?? Well moving would certainly bring the good will of whereever they moved too and certainly to all the shareholders.
If you truly believe that you really have no clue. If MS moved to Ireland then the effect would be they suddenly get a lot of additional support from various companies and I bet those EU cases would disappear too, The EU is very good at supporting EU based companies, part of the reason that the EU is hell bent on attacking MS is because they are AMERICAN.
When has ATI had solid anything drivers. Even the Windows drivers cause BSoDs for no apparent reason.
Very true, The only positive thing I have to say about ATI drivers is they are a shit load better than Nvidia drivers, But that is like being smarter than the brain damaged kid at the back of the Bus.
As much as I love PGP I too laughed at the ineptitude of the authors for including it in a "industry changing" list, really the whole list reeks of them just posting about there pet love projects without any real thought put into it, only 1 or 2 on there could even be considered industry changing.
I am working in an organisation that found themselves unlucky enough to fall for the HP Bullshit about how wonderful itanium was, We spent close to 2 million on high end itanium boxes over the past few years, We have now classified ALL of them as up for asset replacement so we can get rid of the bastards as early as possible (2 years before normal end of life for us). So many vendors simply don't have software that works on Itanium or works in a more limited cut down way, hell even MS which supposedly supports them doesn't have most of there software as itanium compatible.
No matter how much lipstick people try to put on this pig it still squeals like a pig, smells like a pig and probably has Swine Flu to boot.
over the past 20 years various people have tried to reinvent this dumb idea over and over, It doesn't work as this is not something people want. They want control over there data, they don't want to be 100% reliant on an internet connection to even be able to see there data and many want to do a crap load more than what can be provided for in a browser experience.
On top of all that Browsers are still immature, insecure (yes even Firefox and Opera), they are based on poorly thought out technologies and plugins that really are not a good basis for an OS (which is what it becomes once the socalled OS moves to the BIOS)
No it is not on by default at all, it has been off by default since windows 2003/IIS6 and II7 is not even vulnerable even if it is turned on. Ubuntu is not a good fix, in fact it is an incredibly bad fix as you would then be using Apache which has had considerably more vulnerabilities in it than IIS6 and II7 combined in the last 5 years.
I played a Guardian for the first 4 months of AoC (as well as a few other classes, but guardian was my main), The combat is utter crap, they billed it as an innovative complex combat system, in reality it is just a reimplementation of 80's arcade game combo systems, The direction attacks make it incredibly easy for those with less lag to take advantage of those with lag, overpowered combos and ridiculously broken stat mechanics.
I will give you that the graphics were amazing as was some of the detail put into story lines, but those were not enough to save it, the list of bugs at the time I left was mind boggling, the poor balance, and add in the lack of any real communication from funcom on fixes was just to much. No matter how much they improve the game now it is destined for an bargain bin, The game left a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths, I have 12 friends that played the game with me for most of those 4 months and some long after I left, NONE of them play it anymore.
considering such publishing practises have been around all my life (32 years) and probAbly a good deal longer than that what is your point? My parents have been in retail all there life. Big popular releases whether they be books, movies or music have always had release dates. Why, well simply so they don't get sued by retailers where the shipment arrives late and then find they don't get there fair share of the market. This practise has been around forever and is simply made to ensure fairness for everyone rather than the select few that get the first shipment and are then able to gain unfair advantage and price gouge.
recursion is actually a very expensive process and a well implemented queue for the example should be more efficient, yes recursion can be optimised by a compiler, but anyone that wants to hope his compiler optimises right to make his algorithm efficient shouldn't be working on such a problem.
BULLSHIT, working as a senior tech in IT company I have interviewed many PHD holders for positions, generally speaking most of them are less technically skilled and simply loaded with useless academic knowledge. One guy I interviewed had 2 PHD's and 8 years as a professor, he was absolutely insulted when I said the best we could offer him was a junior position. PHD's, masters degrees, honors, it all means shit if they don't have real world experience of good problem solving abilities and NO you do not need either of those to get a PHD as I have seen many times.
yep a lot of investment already and a lot of that investment was from MS. They standardised on SIP long ago and cisco et al are also moving into line from there proprietry standards. MS already have VoIP client. check out live communication server it is actually quite a good product.
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The reason you were limited to 64 is that is the default setting in winsock on windows. easily changed, it is the same default even when you program directly with C or C++ using the winsock headers.
As the previous poster tried to point out but failed. Java and C# innovation is the ease of use and protection it brings to the dev, you can still cut your fingers off with either but you have to try a lot harder to do it. There innovation is simplicity and productivity for the dev. Something most other languages fail at (including smalltalk and Eiffel)
I also programmed in smalltalk and honestly I hated the mongrel language and so did everyone else working on it, lot of spite there that the PHB's believed the smalltalk sales crap. some of it was just the bad tools but mostly was the slow dev speed of small talk compared to Java or C#. I also spent 2 years with Lisp, some people love that bastard child that should have been put down at birth too.
Actually if you do as you say and RTFA, you will see numbers are only up until start of may, 4 months. It also says numbers for 2005 so far are 23 (table does not represent the entire report), so if we do as you say and extrapolate out we get a 2005 number of 69 for 2005, hence a considerable rise.
20-30% faster seems easily achievable. Bittorrent is an appalling protocol when it comes to overhead, all they have to do is rip out some of the disgusting overhead in bittorrent that can easily add 20-30% to download size.
AHHHH where have YOU been the last 4 years, WMP does NOT use ie as it core nor has it ever, it has the ability to show some ie based components in its dialogs but that certainly doesn't make it the core of WMP.
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A few things A) You are not entitled to know everything about Steve Jobs B) The shareholders really only need to know that someone will take the place if Jobs dies C) Steve Jobs, or any other CEO could die of any random cause at any time and D) Perhaps thats all that was confirmed at the time? And I'd say that you would probably have a hormone imbalance if you had a failing organ. while generally true there are exceptions. people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet etc have there names intricately tied to the financial wellbeing of the company they run, look at how carefully MS extracted Bill Gates from the company over many years to ensure no drastic price drops. The loss of any of those people through death, retirement, getting the arse or whatever would be a major blow to the companies respective shareprices (even if they don't do anything but sit in the boardroom and smoke cigars all day). Companies are obligated to report any information or news that may significantly impact the shareprice of there company, especially something where people outside the company will be able to find it out anyway and take financial advantage of it. eg. a doctor shorting the stock when jobs operation looks like it failed.
The point of the article is not about whether HD DVD is dead or not, it is, no ifs or buts. The article is about whether Blu ray is looking at the same premature death through lack of sales. At the current rate downloads and new formats will have taken off before Blu ray gets much more than the current high end niche status it has. So really you are wrong in that Blu Ray won, HD DVD lost and at this point it looks like so did Blu ray. DVD is good enough till the next wave of inovation or till people move on to downloads.
It is not a Myth, GCC is a good compiler, MSVC and ICC are fantastic compilers. This doesn't make GCC bad by any means, but it is gonna be a very rare occurance that GCC produces faster code, more work and effort has been spent on the other 2 to make them that much better.
No they don't, the article is talking about enterprises and the problems they will have, but enterprises DO NOT buy licenses in the way the article mentions. SA and even EA's and volume licensing makes sense at much lower numbers than your suggesting, even for relatively small businesses, if your in IT of even a medium business and you are responsible for MS purchasing you probably should be sacked if your getting your licensing via preinstalls from HP or Dell.
I gather you don't use the english version much, It blows hard too and has gotten a lot worse over the last few years. I am so sick of getting blogs and domain parking sites it shits me to tears. Not sure if Bing will be better or worse, but it would be hard to be worse than the current state of search engines.
MS is a GLOBAL company, there country of incorpation is for the most part irrelevant, At the moment if anything there still being in the US speaks of huge loyalty considering the generous tax consessions other countries have offered them to move (Even Canada at one stage). When your company earns as much as Microsoft the tax rate is a VERY VERY important consideration, just a few percent over the course of a couple of years would more than cover the billions it would cost them to move. Good Will?? Well moving would certainly bring the good will of whereever they moved too and certainly to all the shareholders.
If you truly believe that you really have no clue. If MS moved to Ireland then the effect would be they suddenly get a lot of additional support from various companies and I bet those EU cases would disappear too, The EU is very good at supporting EU based companies, part of the reason that the EU is hell bent on attacking MS is because they are AMERICAN.
Your Data ignores the fact that all those tax deductions are nearly all completely valid in those other countries too where the tax rate is LOWER.
When has ATI had solid anything drivers. Even the Windows drivers cause BSoDs for no apparent reason.
Very true, The only positive thing I have to say about ATI drivers is they are a shit load better than Nvidia drivers, But that is like being smarter than the brain damaged kid at the back of the Bus.
As much as I love PGP I too laughed at the ineptitude of the authors for including it in a "industry changing" list, really the whole list reeks of them just posting about there pet love projects without any real thought put into it, only 1 or 2 on there could even be considered industry changing.
I am working in an organisation that found themselves unlucky enough to fall for the HP Bullshit about how wonderful itanium was, We spent close to 2 million on high end itanium boxes over the past few years, We have now classified ALL of them as up for asset replacement so we can get rid of the bastards as early as possible (2 years before normal end of life for us). So many vendors simply don't have software that works on Itanium or works in a more limited cut down way, hell even MS which supposedly supports them doesn't have most of there software as itanium compatible.
To be fair I think the new Pink Panther movies suffered far more from the bad script than from the actors.
No matter how much lipstick people try to put on this pig it still squeals like a pig, smells like a pig and probably has Swine Flu to boot. over the past 20 years various people have tried to reinvent this dumb idea over and over, It doesn't work as this is not something people want. They want control over there data, they don't want to be 100% reliant on an internet connection to even be able to see there data and many want to do a crap load more than what can be provided for in a browser experience. On top of all that Browsers are still immature, insecure (yes even Firefox and Opera), they are based on poorly thought out technologies and plugins that really are not a good basis for an OS (which is what it becomes once the socalled OS moves to the BIOS)
It's hard to get a fix on equivalent numbers for IIS, since they all seem to fall under the MS Windows category.
its not hard at all. http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1438/ http://secunia.com/advisories/product/17543/
No it is not on by default at all, it has been off by default since windows 2003/IIS6 and II7 is not even vulnerable even if it is turned on. Ubuntu is not a good fix, in fact it is an incredibly bad fix as you would then be using Apache which has had considerably more vulnerabilities in it than IIS6 and II7 combined in the last 5 years.
I played a Guardian for the first 4 months of AoC (as well as a few other classes, but guardian was my main), The combat is utter crap, they billed it as an innovative complex combat system, in reality it is just a reimplementation of 80's arcade game combo systems, The direction attacks make it incredibly easy for those with less lag to take advantage of those with lag, overpowered combos and ridiculously broken stat mechanics. I will give you that the graphics were amazing as was some of the detail put into story lines, but those were not enough to save it, the list of bugs at the time I left was mind boggling, the poor balance, and add in the lack of any real communication from funcom on fixes was just to much. No matter how much they improve the game now it is destined for an bargain bin, The game left a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths, I have 12 friends that played the game with me for most of those 4 months and some long after I left, NONE of them play it anymore.
considering such publishing practises have been around all my life (32 years) and probAbly a good deal longer than that what is your point? My parents have been in retail all there life. Big popular releases whether they be books, movies or music have always had release dates. Why, well simply so they don't get sued by retailers where the shipment arrives late and then find they don't get there fair share of the market. This practise has been around forever and is simply made to ensure fairness for everyone rather than the select few that get the first shipment and are then able to gain unfair advantage and price gouge.
recursion is actually a very expensive process and a well implemented queue for the example should be more efficient, yes recursion can be optimised by a compiler, but anyone that wants to hope his compiler optimises right to make his algorithm efficient shouldn't be working on such a problem.
BULLSHIT, working as a senior tech in IT company I have interviewed many PHD holders for positions, generally speaking most of them are less technically skilled and simply loaded with useless academic knowledge. One guy I interviewed had 2 PHD's and 8 years as a professor, he was absolutely insulted when I said the best we could offer him was a junior position. PHD's, masters degrees, honors, it all means shit if they don't have real world experience of good problem solving abilities and NO you do not need either of those to get a PHD as I have seen many times.
yep a lot of investment already and a lot of that investment was from MS. They standardised on SIP long ago and cisco et al are also moving into line from there proprietry standards. MS already have VoIP client. check out live communication server it is actually quite a good product.
The reason you were limited to 64 is that is the default setting in winsock on windows. easily changed, it is the same default even when you program directly with C or C++ using the winsock headers.
As the previous poster tried to point out but failed. Java and C# innovation is the ease of use and protection it brings to the dev, you can still cut your fingers off with either but you have to try a lot harder to do it. There innovation is simplicity and productivity for the dev. Something most other languages fail at (including smalltalk and Eiffel)
I also programmed in smalltalk and honestly I hated the mongrel language and so did everyone else working on it, lot of spite there that the PHB's believed the smalltalk sales crap. some of it was just the bad tools but mostly was the slow dev speed of small talk compared to Java or C#. I also spent 2 years with Lisp, some people love that bastard child that should have been put down at birth too.
Actually if you do as you say and RTFA, you will see numbers are only up until start of may, 4 months. It also says numbers for 2005 so far are 23 (table does not represent the entire report), so if we do as you say and extrapolate out we get a 2005 number of 69 for 2005, hence a considerable rise.
20-30% faster seems easily achievable. Bittorrent is an appalling protocol when it comes to overhead, all they have to do is rip out some of the disgusting overhead in bittorrent that can easily add 20-30% to download size.
AHHHH where have YOU been the last 4 years, WMP does NOT use ie as it core nor has it ever, it has the ability to show some ie based components in its dialogs but that certainly doesn't make it the core of WMP.