At the moment they seem to be heading towards content provision, games production, console production, OS production, Office Suite production and about a million other things. Perhaps they can pull it off and excel in all areas. I don't think so though and it's going to be an expensive lesson for them.
Unless you can predict the future this is a decent strategy. They are feeling out the market in a bunch of different areas and figuring out where to make a profit. You lose money on some ventures, gain money on others. And then you have your cash cows (like office). Who knows what the future holds...
I know slashdot ran a story on what went wrong, but they are far from dead. There is the FIRST Lego Racing League, which is a robotics compeition for grade school kids across the country. (Which then evolves into higher level products as they advance into high school). Heck I know several kids whose got RIS2.0 sets for Christmas. The parents are tired of their kids only seeing computers as video game machines - these kits are an excellent segway between fun and programming. There are plenty of high school and college kids, even adults doing stuff with them too... for example Jin Sato there is an available C compiler, even a Real Time OS!
If you trust the government to keep the dollar solid. I don't. If I'm wrong, the worst that happens is what? My gold is worthless? I don't see that happening, as gold has been relatively stable for thousands of years. If you're wrong, what can happen? Massive debt, worthless stocks and no savings
You can invest internationally on a 401k. Its called diversification. My 401k did better than 9% and I sleep very well at night. Some of my funds did 40+% last year.
Sure, if you want to earn $15-$25 per hour. Even the worst contractor can charge $80+ per hour.
(Not an option in my industry, but anywayas...) My first job fresh out of college I was making $25.00 an hour. With about the best benefits you can find. I'm not sure $80 an hour could make up for those benefits. Not to mention my employer matching my 401k contributions, profit sharing and safe harbor contributions... we are talking 7.5-10k a year right there in tax-free "free" money you would not have as a contractor. Its not dollars you make per hour, its how much money I have in investments when I retire. And retire young. I don't plan having to work past 50. If I work past 50, I'm working because I want to, not because I have to. And in the mean time, I am living modestly but I have about the best benefits a guy and his wife and kids could ask for. Which is money in the bank cause when my son gets sick I take him to the hospital without thinking twice. $20 copay? Who cares. Its pretax anyway with the company cafateria plan.
Gold is a poor investment, but then again you already have a few slashbots telling you that. Anything more than a couple percent in gold is just too much.
If you want to see changes, do it with your life as I did. Take your money out of the stock market and 401KsIf you are stupid enough to follow his advice you deserve what you get. While I agree that social security and medicare will not be there for me (I am 23) despite the fact I pay into these programs, not having investments for your future beyond retirement is idiotic. Gold is not the answer. If you don't trust stocks, invest your 401k's in bonds (and lose out on returns... but have the warm fuzzies knowing you didn't take a risk). I have my finances worked out such that I will be able to retire early and live off the interest, minus inflation - leaving an estate to donate as I see fit and money to pass on to my children when I feel they are ready upon my death.
(and actually profit from!).I profited well off of my 401k's and stocks. The lifetime trend of the stock market is about 9% a year. (8 years to double your money on an across-the-board distribution, better if you invest wisely.) You can't do much better than that. Small companies are hit and miss. Hit and do a lot better, miss and lose it all. (Not to mention harder to get your money out if an emergency comes up)
Talk to your employer and see if you can become a contractor and find ways to write-off as much as possible under the tax code.
Learn the tax code - there are a lot of things you can do to write off taxes without being a contractor if that isn't an option.
Times are different now. We have electrically controlled rudders - or pneumantic, powered by an engine. My point? All generating static electricity. Enough of which will cause a threat. Planes can mitigate this in a number of ways - safe tank design and the fact that jet fuel doesnt spontaneously combust. Hydrogen isn't so benign.
Doesnt matter if it is burning above you... you still fall to your death. Again, Jet A is nice like that. Planes, even rockets survive lightning strikes regularly. Gaseous hydrogen would probably not.
Uh, big screen TV or projector. Had a LCD projector back in college, I had a computer wired to it and friends would bring over consoles all the time for gaming sessions. You could easily sit 15-20 feet away and still have a good view...
You can't memorize the entire contents of the national archive, but you could read a good chunk of (the public vaults) in your lifetime. There is a difference between processing and retention (the exact word they used). You read shakespeare and you will remember the plot, and a few good lines. But you couldn't recite it word for word, or remember which line ended which page, etc. The brain has a humungous capacity, someone pegged it once at between 1 and 10 terabytes (whether they are right or not is still to be determined) however we barely scratch the surface. We only use a few percent of that.
Till they blow up. You still have to figure out the "lighter than air" part. Hydrogen or Helium. Helium is in short supply (expensive). Hydrogen is explosive. So you can have cheap and comfortable with the risk of explosion. No thanks.
Heavy deployments... helicopters have very limited payload mass over a very short range. You would deploy one of these over a longer range distance over a relatively safe area (IE... from the US to a foreign zone, not passing over an engagement area). You generally don't send stuff over in 1 trip, it generally gets sent overseas in a cargo plane, then hopped to a base, then airlifted via helicopter or sent via jeep (whichever makes more sense). This would probably fill the first role the best.
What are the options besides flying for quick(define quick as can make a cross-ocean trip in a weekend) alternatives to flying that are both fuel efficient and don't do irreversible knee damage?
You Amuricans still have an unfiltered Internet (except that you might not write "anal" or "Lolita" on MSN Spaces, just like the Chinese may not write "democracy" or "freedom on MSN Spaces)
Corporations can choose to block what they choose - its called a free market. You can write it, you just won't get results. Deal with it.
but it really was the Bush administration who initiated the SURVEILLANCE trend, after the unfortunate little intermezzo in New York in 2001.
As for military projects, I know since I work in that sector. Ada is the primary language in these 'hardcore' military projects.
I work in that sector too. And while older military programs *do* use Ada, I assure you most of the newer programs do not. Contractor I work for uses C++.
I do not believe that making Opera open source would benefit us all that much. I do not think it has benefitted Netscape much either. I believe that we should work as closely with the community as possible and find ways to enable the community to engage and influence what we do to an even greater extent. I do not think that going open source would make us more efficient.
Wow. Sit back and enjoy a cold one while we watch the Open Source fanboys rip him a new one:)
He has implemented the "Bodström filters" in Sweden, and the country has thus joined the club of filter regimes (Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Bahrain etc.). This is the unfortunate political trend of today, initiated by the Bush administration.
You mention filtering internet connections and then bring up Bush. Not sure what you are talking about, we Americans still have unfiltered internet. Thanks. And if it was a shot at the recent spying on americans (which has nothing to do with filtering) well go educate yourself, its been going on since the 70's.
He's talking about MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), its an exaggeration but not an extreme one. Windows Forms is the.net era replacement and is a lot slicker. Think similar to QT (Except without QT's reliance on its own data types:/).
No, no, customizable machines = work, more money, less profits (or higher cost). Make one box, only one box. "Any color you want, as long as its black" - Henry Ford. Don't sell them yourselves, don't worry about shipping them - let someone else handle it for you. Actually a very smart way of doing it. Google manages the O/S and farms out the hardware and sales to a hardware company and a sales company with storefronts on every street corner in America...
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At the moment they seem to be heading towards content provision, games production, console production, OS production, Office Suite production and about a million other things. Perhaps they can pull it off and excel in all areas. I don't think so though and it's going to be an expensive lesson for them.
Unless you can predict the future this is a decent strategy. They are feeling out the market in a bunch of different areas and figuring out where to make a profit. You lose money on some ventures, gain money on others. And then you have your cash cows (like office). Who knows what the future holds...
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At least Arrested has a good time slot now. I don't think they will get bumped around as much this spring (damn you prison break!)
"Urge" is the name brand of munchies and sodas sold at Kwik Trip gas stations throughout the midwest.
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But almost http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc
its basically an upgraded Handyboard...
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I know slashdot ran a story on what went wrong, but they are far from dead. There is the FIRST Lego Racing League, which is a robotics compeition for grade school kids across the country. (Which then evolves into higher level products as they advance into high school). Heck I know several kids whose got RIS2.0 sets for Christmas. The parents are tired of their kids only seeing computers as video game machines - these kits are an excellent segway between fun and programming. There are plenty of high school and college kids, even adults doing stuff with them too... for example Jin Sato there is an available C compiler, even a Real Time OS!
-everphilski-
If you trust the government to keep the dollar solid. I don't. If I'm wrong, the worst that happens is what? My gold is worthless? I don't see that happening, as gold has been relatively stable for thousands of years. If you're wrong, what can happen? Massive debt, worthless stocks and no savings
You can invest internationally on a 401k. Its called diversification. My 401k did better than 9% and I sleep very well at night. Some of my funds did 40+% last year.
Sure, if you want to earn $15-$25 per hour. Even the worst contractor can charge $80+ per hour.
(Not an option in my industry, but anywayas...) My first job fresh out of college I was making $25.00 an hour. With about the best benefits you can find. I'm not sure $80 an hour could make up for those benefits. Not to mention my employer matching my 401k contributions, profit sharing and safe harbor contributions... we are talking 7.5-10k a year right there in tax-free "free" money you would not have as a contractor. Its not dollars you make per hour, its how much money I have in investments when I retire. And retire young. I don't plan having to work past 50. If I work past 50, I'm working because I want to, not because I have to. And in the mean time, I am living modestly but I have about the best benefits a guy and his wife and kids could ask for. Which is money in the bank cause when my son gets sick I take him to the hospital without thinking twice. $20 copay? Who cares. Its pretax anyway with the company cafateria plan.
Gold is a poor investment, but then again you already have a few slashbots telling you that. Anything more than a couple percent in gold is just too much.
-everphilski-
If you want to see changes, do it with your life as I did. Take your money out of the stock market and 401KsIf you are stupid enough to follow his advice you deserve what you get. While I agree that social security and medicare will not be there for me (I am 23) despite the fact I pay into these programs, not having investments for your future beyond retirement is idiotic. Gold is not the answer. If you don't trust stocks, invest your 401k's in bonds (and lose out on returns... but have the warm fuzzies knowing you didn't take a risk). I have my finances worked out such that I will be able to retire early and live off the interest, minus inflation - leaving an estate to donate as I see fit and money to pass on to my children when I feel they are ready upon my death.
(and actually profit from!).I profited well off of my 401k's and stocks. The lifetime trend of the stock market is about 9% a year. (8 years to double your money on an across-the-board distribution, better if you invest wisely.) You can't do much better than that. Small companies are hit and miss. Hit and do a lot better, miss and lose it all. (Not to mention harder to get your money out if an emergency comes up)
Talk to your employer and see if you can become a contractor and find ways to write-off as much as possible under the tax code.
Learn the tax code - there are a lot of things you can do to write off taxes without being a contractor if that isn't an option.
-everphilski-
Times are different now. We have electrically controlled rudders - or pneumantic, powered by an engine. My point? All generating static electricity. Enough of which will cause a threat. Planes can mitigate this in a number of ways - safe tank design and the fact that jet fuel doesnt spontaneously combust. Hydrogen isn't so benign.
Doesnt matter if it is burning above you... you still fall to your death. Again, Jet A is nice like that. Planes, even rockets survive lightning strikes regularly. Gaseous hydrogen would probably not.
-everphilski-
Hell yea. And attended by milkmaids of German and Dutch descent.
-everphilski-
mouse?
Uh, big screen TV or projector. Had a LCD projector back in college, I had a computer wired to it and friends would bring over consoles all the time for gaming sessions. You could easily sit 15-20 feet away and still have a good view...
-everphilski-
You can't memorize the entire contents of the national archive, but you could read a good chunk of (the public vaults) in your lifetime. There is a difference between processing and retention (the exact word they used). You read shakespeare and you will remember the plot, and a few good lines. But you couldn't recite it word for word, or remember which line ended which page, etc. The brain has a humungous capacity, someone pegged it once at between 1 and 10 terabytes (whether they are right or not is still to be determined) however we barely scratch the surface. We only use a few percent of that.
-everphilski-
Till they blow up. You still have to figure out the "lighter than air" part. Hydrogen or Helium. Helium is in short supply (expensive). Hydrogen is explosive. So you can have cheap and comfortable with the risk of explosion. No thanks.
-everphilski-
Heavy deployments... helicopters have very limited payload mass over a very short range. You would deploy one of these over a longer range distance over a relatively safe area (IE... from the US to a foreign zone, not passing over an engagement area). You generally don't send stuff over in 1 trip, it generally gets sent overseas in a cargo plane, then hopped to a base, then airlifted via helicopter or sent via jeep (whichever makes more sense). This would probably fill the first role the best.
-everphilski-
What are the options besides flying for quick(define quick as can make a cross-ocean trip in a weekend) alternatives to flying that are both fuel efficient and don't do irreversible knee damage?
And cheap?
Cheap, comfortable, fuel efficent. Pick 2.
-everphilski-
You Amuricans still have an unfiltered Internet (except that you might not write "anal" or "Lolita" on MSN Spaces, just like the Chinese may not write "democracy" or "freedom on MSN Spaces)
p osts. And then Clinton later instated similar laws allowing not only wiretaps but physical search and seizure http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm.
Corporations can choose to block what they choose - its called a free market. You can write it, you just won't get results. Deal with it.
but it really was the Bush administration who initiated the SURVEILLANCE trend, after the unfortunate little intermezzo in New York in 2001.
No, it started with Carter back in the 70's http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543688/
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As for military projects, I know since I work in that sector. Ada is the primary language in these 'hardcore' military projects.
I work in that sector too. And while older military programs *do* use Ada, I assure you most of the newer programs do not. Contractor I work for uses C++.
-everphilski-
My HD dies after almost a year (gotta love standard warrenties:-D) This seems to be a problem most laptops of any vendor, so...
I've owned multiple ThinkPads, two Toshiba 386/486 notebooks and my wife owns a Dell. Never had a hard drive fail in my life...
-everphilski-
I do not believe that making Opera open source would benefit us all that much. I do not think it has benefitted Netscape much either. I believe that we should work as closely with the community as possible and find ways to enable the community to engage and influence what we do to an even greater extent. I do not think that going open source would make us more efficient.
:)
Wow. Sit back and enjoy a cold one while we watch the Open Source fanboys rip him a new one
He has implemented the "Bodström filters" in Sweden, and the country has thus joined the club of filter regimes (Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Bahrain etc.).
This is the unfortunate political trend of today, initiated by the Bush administration.
You mention filtering internet connections and then bring up Bush. Not sure what you are talking about, we Americans still have unfiltered internet. Thanks. And if it was a shot at the recent spying on americans (which has nothing to do with filtering) well go educate yourself, its been going on since the 70's.
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No one has used C++ for any major operating system,
t ml
Windows XP, NT, 9x. See: http://public.research.att.com/~bs/applications.h
and no one has used C++ for any hardcore military project.
I'd beg to differ.
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He's talking about MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), its an exaggeration but not an extreme one. Windows Forms is the .net era replacement and is a lot slicker. Think similar to QT (Except without QT's reliance on its own data types :/).
-everphilski-
If you are gonna use microsoft products look into Windows Forms... a lot simpler and cleaner. 300 is a slight exaggeration of MFC although not much...
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customisable machines
No, no, customizable machines = work, more money, less profits (or higher cost). Make one box, only one box. "Any color you want, as long as its black" - Henry Ford. Don't sell them yourselves, don't worry about shipping them - let someone else handle it for you. Actually a very smart way of doing it. Google manages the O/S and farms out the hardware and sales to a hardware company and a sales company with storefronts on every street corner in America...
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