As an employee, we tend to track the stock pretty closely. Our stock is performing well, and always does. However, short term drops after earnings are released are quite common. If you'll look at this history of this thread, you'll see that my post is in response to a post also regarding short term drops in stock value after earnings information is released.
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My system has the same problem. What works for me is running XF86Setup. It does a better job of detecting my Matrox Millenium rather than the S3 Trio.
"This space could've went to someone else who was academically talented enough to make it through and graduate but who was denied because some enrollment quota meant there wasn't room for him."
If you're going to complain about someone sucking up space at a University, you shouldn't use bad grammer while doing so. The space you are/were taking up could also have gone to someone more academically talented. You aren't an english major, are you?
Dell releases their earnings every quarter, and growth is always astronomical. What happens to the stock? It tanks! Straight down the tubes. So business is great, we're earning money hand over fist, and what is the stock doing? Plummeting. Make sense to you?
The whole Rambus issue really seems like Intel grabbed onto a technology thinking that just because they supported it it would become the standard. They're much too used to promoting a technology they've developed and it becoming the defacto if not du jure standard because they own most of the market. We were stuck at 66 MHz for much too long because Intel didn't want to make a move on the bus speed though other processor manufacturers were champing at the bit to go higher on the bus speed. Hell, Intel's socket 7 chipsets didn't even support SDRAM properly until the 430TX and even then it was crippled by the 64MB cachable limit.
Even though Intel looks like they've made a mistake and are behind in their chipset designs, it doesn't mean anything. They've been willing to get as much as 6 months behind and then sweep in with a processor/chipset combination that's just enough faster than the competition that all the vendors rush back to the Intel camp. I sure hope AMD can scale the Athlon fast enough to avoid getting Intelled yet again.
The whole Rambus issue really seems like Intel grabbed onto a technology thinking that just because they supported it it would become the standard. They're much too used to promoting a technology they've developed and it becoming the defacto if not du jure standard because they own most of the market. We were stuck at 66 MHz for much too long because Intel didn't want to make a move on the bus speed though other processor manufacturers were champing at the bit to go higher on the bus speed. Hell, Intel's socket 7 chipsets didn't even support SDRAM properly until the 430TX and even then it was crippled by the 64MB cachable limit. Even though Intel looks like they've made a mistake and are behind in their chipset designs, it doesn't mean anything. They've been willing to get as much as 6 months behind and then sweep in with a processor/chipset combination that's just enough faster than the competition that all the vendors rush back to the Intel camp. I sure hope AMD can scale the Athlon fast enough to avoid getting Intelled yet again.
John Taschek from PCWeek says that the reason they're doing this is for an article on web server security. "We don't care which operating system (if any) is broken into first. We want to establish the basis for a story on the best practices for implementing security. Additionally, PC Week wants to open up our test labs to the community for these kinds of tests." The problem with that statement is the "test" will end when the first box is broken into. If they wanted to do an article on the "best practices for implimenting security, wouldn't they fix the security leak and keep the test up? It isn't stated whether the systems have been hardened or are just standard installs, but it'd be bunk if the NT system had all the latest service packs and the Linux box was a straight install of RedHat 6.0 with everything enabled and wide open.
"Not that they have any relation to each other but its nice to see his evolution in writing. "
Actually, they do have a tenuous relation to each other. Ms. Matheson is (I believe) YT. I also believe the world of Diamond Age is the future of Snow Crash.
My advice is, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Zodiac, then Cryptonomicon. Of course, I haven't read the latter yet, but I just haven't found it out there yet. I can't wait to read it.
I think Stephenson was saying that those powers are potentially within the grasp of real (skilled) humans. Hiro and ST(?) are a lot alike in that both are skilled, heroic, and very talented, but are basically (as the story begins) losers.
Now as to buying Stephenson's books on name value, hell yeah! That even extends to articles by him. His books are very detailed and don't rely on technology alone for their plot lines unlike Gibson (who I also like) and Sterling.
After reading Diamond Age yet again, the technological breakthrough of a computer writing a very simple story doesn't seem that impressive. Let's see it put out a story like any of Neil Stephenson's. Hell, maybe the thing has a future at the low end: Dr. Suess stories!
/me !Like Green Eggs and Ham. /me !Like them Brutus I am.
Personally, I couldn't because I'm more into free software for the developement model rather than the philosophy. I'm more partial to the GPL and Linux because, to me, they perfectly embody the bizaaar developement model. If I was coding (maybe someday), I'd release under the GPL because I'd want any and all improvements made to be available to the people who use my software. I believe in protecting the original writers of the software than protecting those who would wish to modify it. So I guess I lied, huh? I do give a damn. Not that I wouldn't/don't use software released under the BSD license. I just wouldn't write any.
But they never specified the URL as being a top-level domain. For instance, if Bandx was with Sony and immediately quit after hearing how Sony was trying to ream them and joined (to give an example from the article) Maverick, would Sony claim they owned www.maverick.com/bandx? That is, after all, a URL. How about bandx.maverick.com? How about bandx.net and bandx.org? How about bandxsucks.com?
Too bad Sony already owns sonysucks.com. Too bad for them they don't own sonysucks.org, though. I'd register that one first even if sonysucks.com wasn't already registered by Sony. So what grounds would Sony sue under if Bandx set up a site (with E commerce, etc) at bandx.sonysucks.org/bandx? Think of the implications.
Or maybe Transmeta is playing the media to create hype for them a la Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show not being allowed to be filmed below the pelvis. Everybody, of course, then wanted to see exactly what wasn't being allowed on the telivision: the Pelvis of Elvis. So maybe Transmeta is hiding Linus's pelvis.
I think that's why they've included the Quarter it was released in. I kind of like it. Wouldn't it be kind of cool to be driving a June 1999 Dodge RAM? That way people who obsessively upgrade would buy twelve trucks a year (if they could afford it.) Imagine a whole shelf full of RedHat 1999 Jan-Dec. $960 a year just to keep current. If you only release quarterly, that's still $280 for a year's worth of installs. NT Workstation ends up costing $1000 or so quarterly. That's the subscription model that Microserfs fantisize about while masturbating.
I'm a very technical type, interested in the innards of both hardware and software, and now I'm kind of upset because I don't have the same symptoms that seem to make the geekiest of us stand out. Damn! I gotta start being more clumsy, forget how to dance, avoid gazes, and forget how to make small talk.
I think my original comment needs bumped down like a mofo. I was thinking about the Diamond Age paradagim (sic?) and forgot all about the Snow Crash computer. Laser beamed directly to the eyes for the image. For the input, read The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker kind of a VR solution. Still, I think you'd need a bunch of wires coming out the back of the damn thing. It just wouldn't seem right without them. Is it just me or is Sci Fi a great source of ideas?
Many sci-fi writers have already done the hard part for you on that one. Bruce Sterling's latest book kind of addresses the same subject, as do a few assorted short stories.
Now I love nanotech just as much as anybody. In fact, my favorite book is "The Diamond Age". The thing that gets me about a nanotech computer, though, is that no matter how small it is, you'll still need a big-ass monitor. With that monitor comes a cord attached to the computer. Add speakers, input devices, power supply, and any other connections, and you have the same jumbled mess of wires that you have with your current computer plugged into something the size of an Tylenol. Of course, you could always make the box the same size and have 300 or so little Tylenol-sized computers inside it. Of course, that seems like a bit of a waste of energy.
Sun wants to be in control just like Microsoft. That's the problem. As for Sun being good management, I doubt it. Look at the way Java was handled. I wouldn't call that good management. In fact, look at the companies that were big on the Java bandwagon. Notice how they dropped it like a hot rock when the Linux steamroller started gathering steam? There are two possible reasons for this. 1. They (hey, let's name them: IBM, Corel, HP, etc) want the magic of the current big thing to rub off on them and their stock prices. 2. Java just didn't pan out as all it was supposed to be. Linux looks like it may. The rats are all jumping ship (I think I mangled that metaphore, but who cares?). Oh, and to those who might be wondering, english is my first language, so I have no excuse. Fire away with the grammar flames.
Good call! I knew that sermon sounded a little too eager. I didn't notice that the question was one of licensing rather than one of Java on Linux. Sounds like Gosling has a bone to pick with Linux that sounds a bit jealous and bitter. Think it's because sales of Linux are biting into the revenue stream of his corporation?
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As an employee, we tend to track the stock pretty closely. Our stock is performing well, and always does. However, short term drops after earnings are released are quite common. If you'll look at this history of this thread, you'll see that my post is in response to a post also regarding short term drops in stock value after earnings information is released.
My system has the same problem. What works for me is running XF86Setup. It does a better job of detecting my Matrox Millenium rather than the S3 Trio.
"This space could've went to someone else who was academically talented enough to make it through and graduate but who was denied because some enrollment quota meant there wasn't room for him."
If you're going to complain about someone sucking up space at a University, you shouldn't use bad grammer while doing so. The space you are/were taking up could also have gone to someone more academically talented.
You aren't an english major, are you?
Love that line!
We all need an open ended, free spirited, campaign of voluntary racial deconstruction.
Wonderful line, and great movie.
Dell releases their earnings every quarter, and growth is always astronomical. What happens to the stock? It tanks! Straight down the tubes. So business is great, we're earning money hand over fist, and what is the stock doing? Plummeting. Make sense to you?
The whole Rambus issue really seems like Intel grabbed onto a technology thinking that just because they supported it it would become the standard. They're much too used to promoting a technology they've developed and it becoming the defacto if not du jure standard because they own most of the market. We were stuck at 66 MHz for much too long because Intel didn't want to make a move on the bus speed though other processor manufacturers were champing at the bit to go higher on the bus speed. Hell, Intel's socket 7 chipsets didn't even support SDRAM properly until the 430TX and even then it was crippled by the 64MB cachable limit.
Even though Intel looks like they've made a mistake and are behind in their chipset designs, it doesn't mean anything. They've been willing to get as much as 6 months behind and then sweep in with a processor/chipset combination that's just enough faster than the competition that all the vendors rush back to the Intel camp. I sure hope AMD can scale the Athlon fast enough to avoid getting Intelled yet again.
The whole Rambus issue really seems like Intel grabbed onto a technology thinking that just because they supported it it would become the standard. They're much too used to promoting a technology they've developed and it becoming the defacto if not du jure standard because they own most of the market. We were stuck at 66 MHz for much too long because Intel didn't want to make a move on the bus speed though other processor manufacturers were champing at the bit to go higher on the bus speed. Hell, Intel's socket 7 chipsets didn't even support SDRAM properly until the 430TX and even then it was crippled by the 64MB cachable limit.
Even though Intel looks like they've made a mistake and are behind in their chipset designs, it doesn't mean anything. They've been willing to get as much as 6 months behind and then sweep in with a processor/chipset combination that's just enough faster than the competition that all the vendors rush back to the Intel camp. I sure hope AMD can scale the Athlon fast enough to avoid getting Intelled yet again.
John Taschek from PCWeek says that the reason they're doing this is for an article on web server security.
"We don't care which operating system (if any) is broken into first. We want to establish the basis for a story on the best practices for implementing security. Additionally, PC Week wants to open up our test labs to the community for these kinds of tests."
The problem with that statement is the "test" will end when the first box is broken into. If they wanted to do an article on the "best practices for implimenting security, wouldn't they fix the security leak and keep the test up?
It isn't stated whether the systems have been hardened or are just standard installs, but it'd be bunk if the NT system had all the latest service packs and the Linux box was a straight install of RedHat 6.0 with everything enabled and wide open.
"Not that they have any relation to each other but its nice to see his evolution in writing. "
Actually, they do have a tenuous relation to each other. Ms. Matheson is (I believe) YT. I also believe the world of Diamond Age is the future of Snow Crash.
My advice is, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Zodiac, then Cryptonomicon. Of course, I haven't read the latter yet, but I just haven't found it out there yet. I can't wait to read it.
Humans with superhuman powers?
I think Stephenson was saying that those powers are potentially within the grasp of real (skilled) humans. Hiro and ST(?) are a lot alike in that both are skilled, heroic, and very talented, but are basically (as the story begins) losers.
Now as to buying Stephenson's books on name value, hell yeah! That even extends to articles by him. His books are very detailed and don't rely on technology alone for their plot lines unlike Gibson (who I also like) and Sterling.
After reading Diamond Age yet again, the technological breakthrough of a computer writing a very simple story doesn't seem that impressive. Let's see it put out a story like any of Neil Stephenson's.
Hell, maybe the thing has a future at the low end:
Dr. Suess stories!
/me !Like Green Eggs and Ham.
/me !Like them Brutus I am.
Personally, I couldn't because I'm more into free software for the developement model rather than the philosophy. I'm more partial to the GPL and Linux because, to me, they perfectly embody the bizaaar developement model. If I was coding (maybe someday), I'd release under the GPL because I'd want any and all improvements made to be available to the people who use my software. I believe in protecting the original writers of the software than protecting those who would wish to modify it.
So I guess I lied, huh? I do give a damn.
Not that I wouldn't/don't use software released under the BSD license. I just wouldn't write any.
But they never specified the URL as being a top-level domain. For instance, if Bandx was with Sony and immediately quit after hearing how Sony was trying to ream them and joined (to give an example from the article) Maverick, would Sony claim they owned www.maverick.com/bandx? That is, after all, a URL. How about bandx.maverick.com? How about bandx.net and bandx.org? How about bandxsucks.com?
Too bad Sony already owns sonysucks.com.
Too bad for them they don't own sonysucks.org, though. I'd register that one first even if sonysucks.com wasn't already registered by Sony.
So what grounds would Sony sue under if Bandx set up a site (with E commerce, etc) at bandx.sonysucks.org/bandx? Think of the implications.
When asked to comment on what exactly the company does, Mr. Torvalds said "fa la na mo bu ce di no fe fu to ro lin tro wer que vin min tur rin."
Or maybe Transmeta is playing the media to create hype for them a la Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show not being allowed to be filmed below the pelvis. Everybody, of course, then wanted to see exactly what wasn't being allowed on the telivision: the Pelvis of Elvis.
So maybe Transmeta is hiding Linus's pelvis.
On the subject of bogus patents, does anyone know what's happened with the patent on Style Sheets that Microsoft successfully recieved?
Sorry. Forgot the little smily face.
; )
There.
I think that's why they've included the Quarter it was released in. I kind of like it. Wouldn't it be kind of cool to be driving a June 1999 Dodge RAM? That way people who obsessively upgrade would buy twelve trucks a year (if they could afford it.)
Imagine a whole shelf full of RedHat 1999 Jan-Dec. $960 a year just to keep current. If you only release quarterly, that's still $280 for a year's worth of installs. NT Workstation ends up costing $1000 or so quarterly. That's the subscription model that Microserfs fantisize about while masturbating.
I'm a very technical type, interested in the innards of both hardware and software, and now I'm kind of upset because I don't have the same symptoms that seem to make the geekiest of us stand out. Damn! I gotta start being more clumsy, forget how to dance, avoid gazes, and forget how to make small talk.
But so does posting the same message twice.
I think my original comment needs bumped down like a mofo. I was thinking about the Diamond Age paradagim (sic?) and forgot all about the Snow Crash computer. Laser beamed directly to the eyes for the image. For the input, read The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker kind of a VR solution. Still, I think you'd need a bunch of wires coming out the back of the damn thing. It just wouldn't seem right without them.
Is it just me or is Sci Fi a great source of ideas?
Many sci-fi writers have already done the hard part for you on that one. Bruce Sterling's latest book kind of addresses the same subject, as do a few assorted short stories.
Now I love nanotech just as much as anybody. In fact, my favorite book is "The Diamond Age". The thing that gets me about a nanotech computer, though, is that no matter how small it is, you'll still need a big-ass monitor. With that monitor comes a cord attached to the computer. Add speakers, input devices, power supply, and any other connections, and you have the same jumbled mess of wires that you have with your current computer plugged into something the size of an Tylenol.
Of course, you could always make the box the same size and have 300 or so little Tylenol-sized computers inside it. Of course, that seems like a bit of a waste of energy.
Sun wants to be in control just like Microsoft. That's the problem. As for Sun being good management, I doubt it. Look at the way Java was handled. I wouldn't call that good management. In fact, look at the companies that were big on the Java bandwagon. Notice how they dropped it like a hot rock when the Linux steamroller started gathering steam? There are two possible reasons for this.
1. They (hey, let's name them: IBM, Corel, HP, etc) want the magic of the current big thing to rub off on them and their stock prices.
2. Java just didn't pan out as all it was supposed to be. Linux looks like it may. The rats are all jumping ship (I think I mangled that metaphore, but who cares?).
Oh, and to those who might be wondering, english is my first language, so I have no excuse. Fire away with the grammar flames.
Good call! I knew that sermon sounded a little too eager. I didn't notice that the question was one of licensing rather than one of Java on Linux. Sounds like Gosling has a bone to pick with Linux that sounds a bit jealous and bitter. Think it's because sales of Linux are biting into the revenue stream of his corporation?