Unfortunately the metrics you use don't map to decent future earnings - which determine the price of a stock.
Microsoft is guaranteed future earnings as it's unlikely - in the near future - to move anywhere away from #1. Businesses have systems that are locked down to the MS platform. The *vast* majority of users are tied down to Microsft products through the - often not very transferable (or at least at first sight) - skills they have learnt.
Apple a distant second? Don't forget that the majority of its revenue comes from ipods: where they are anything but second.
Google deserves a respectable share price: it has talent and cash with which to design/buy decent products. But where will its revenue come from? ATM ads, but that has a limited income. Google's products all seem to be given away for free: maps, webmail, search,... Don't forget that they also have plenty of competitors to keep prices low.
With a massive P/E of 120, I'd say Google was overvalued...
We're pleased that the author of the Sasser worm has admitted responsibility for the damage he caused and is being held accountable - Nancy Anderson, Microsoft
That's nice, but how about taking some responsibility yourself? Sure, virus writers are guilty, but the users and the vendors should also take some responsibility- that means Microsoft, Oracle, Redhat and anyone else that distributes software.
Using a computer for a "to-do" list or calendar is just using technology for the sake of using technology. On the contrary, I think it is one of the best uses of technology.
Pen and paper works fine. It has the advantage of being more portable than the smallest PDA as well. Lets see.
I can sync entries between any computer in the world, including my phone (which is actually smaller than any diary I've ever seen - and is always in my pocket anyway).
I can create backups at a click of my mouse.
I can publish selected parts of it so that others can shedule around my life.
I can include hyperlinks and documents within my entries for easy retrieval nearer the time.
Elaborate please, why is this technology for the sake of using technology?
KK: Linux is legacy, but it will be a start.
Legacy? Riiight. No Linux fanboy here, but I know bullshit when I see it.
In the case of the Cell, operation systems are applications.
Wah?
The kernel will be running on the Cell, and multiple OSes will be running on top of that as applications.
Bah?
Of course, the PS3 can run Linux. If Linux can run, so can Lindows.
Comparing kernels to distros here. Despite the fact that the latter is built upon the former.
Other PC Operating Systems can run too, such as Windows and Tiger (Max OS X 10.4), if the publishers want [them] to do so.
But the odds of Microsoft or Apple doing so are zero. So why say it?
I'm sure the guys clever. But he's not technical in the slightest.
Then put together an entirely illogical argument: perhaps the applicants weren't *good* enough to work at Microsoft? Perhaps the students at MIT didn't *want* to work at Microsoft.
Then you get modded as "Interesting". Mods: what'cha smoking?
They will be useful for clusters (ie. Beowolf) as they are not made more costly by monitors, mice, et cetera.
Highly doubt it. The price/performance ratio for a low end system is poor comared to say, a medium range "standard" x86 system - perhas by an order of magnitude. You'd need to cluster together much larger numbers of these smaller systems - meaning more expenditure on fixing broken systems and power consumption.
These form factors would however be useful in embeded systems.
I've got a question here. When I find security bugs in your software, how on earth can they be submitted for you to fix them? The support page offers little guidance.
Last time I found a security bug in IE, I ended up e-mailing it to Scobleizer who thankfully picked up on it quickly. This doesn't seem like a very effective system though!
Linux for the business desktops won't. Not for a long while -- if ever. After watching my friend scrape spyware dung off the Windows' registry, for hours, oh, how I wish it were not true.
Troll. Had he not been logged in with an Administrator account, the spyware wouldn't have hit the registry.
That would have been just as much a problem in Linux (were it more popular).
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except, if you'd read the article, you would have noticed that the author only covers bash and zsh. Ash is given but a cursory glance.
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A preview of Gnome 2.2 ey? So what about a reflection on Gnome 3 then?
Unfortunately the metrics you use don't map to decent future earnings - which determine the price of a stock.
... Don't forget that they also have plenty of competitors to keep prices low.
Microsoft is guaranteed future earnings as it's unlikely - in the near future - to move anywhere away from #1. Businesses have systems that are locked down to the MS platform. The *vast* majority of users are tied down to Microsft products through the - often not very transferable (or at least at first sight) - skills they have learnt.
Apple a distant second? Don't forget that the majority of its revenue comes from ipods: where they are anything but second.
Google deserves a respectable share price: it has talent and cash with which to design/buy decent products. But where will its revenue come from? ATM ads, but that has a limited income. Google's products all seem to be given away for free: maps, webmail, search,
With a massive P/E of 120, I'd say Google was overvalued...
dgr
We're pleased that the author of the Sasser worm has admitted responsibility for the damage he caused and is being held accountable - Nancy Anderson, Microsoft
That's nice, but how about taking some responsibility yourself? Sure, virus writers are guilty, but the users and the vendors should also take some responsibility- that means Microsoft, Oracle, Redhat and anyone else that distributes software.
On the contrary, I think it is one of the best uses of technology.
Pen and paper works fine. It has the advantage of being more portable than the smallest PDA as well.
Lets see.
Elaborate please, why is this technology for the sake of using technology?
KK: Linux is legacy, but it will be a start.
Legacy? Riiight. No Linux fanboy here, but I know bullshit when I see it.
In the case of the Cell, operation systems are applications.
Wah?
The kernel will be running on the Cell, and multiple OSes will be running on top of that as applications.
Bah?
Of course, the PS3 can run Linux. If Linux can run, so can Lindows.
Comparing kernels to distros here. Despite the fact that the latter is built upon the former.
Other PC Operating Systems can run too, such as Windows and Tiger (Max OS X 10.4), if the publishers want [them] to do so.
But the odds of Microsoft or Apple doing so are zero. So why say it?
I'm sure the guys clever. But he's not technical in the slightest.
WTF? you link to an entirely irrelevant article.
The spell Microsoft with a $ character
Then put together an entirely illogical argument: perhaps the applicants weren't *good* enough to work at Microsoft? Perhaps the students at MIT didn't *want* to work at Microsoft.
Then you get modded as "Interesting". Mods: what'cha smoking?
They will be useful for clusters (ie. Beowolf) as they are not made more costly by monitors, mice, et cetera. Highly doubt it. The price/performance ratio for a low end system is poor comared to say, a medium range "standard" x86 system - perhas by an order of magnitude. You'd need to cluster together much larger numbers of these smaller systems - meaning more expenditure on fixing broken systems and power consumption. These form factors would however be useful in embeded systems.
I've got a question here. When I find security bugs in your software, how on earth can they be submitted for you to fix them? The support page offers little guidance.
Last time I found a security bug in IE, I ended up e-mailing it to Scobleizer who thankfully picked up on it quickly. This doesn't seem like a very effective system though!
-dgr
Linux for the business desktops won't. Not for a long while -- if ever. After watching my friend scrape spyware dung off the Windows' registry, for hours, oh, how I wish it were not true.
Troll. Had he not been logged in with an Administrator account, the spyware wouldn't have hit the registry.
That would have been just as much a problem in Linux (were it more popular).
except, if you'd read the article, you would have noticed that the author only covers bash and zsh. Ash is given but a cursory glance.
...got to do with patents?
Copyright yes. Patents, um no.
-j