I have a number of graphic artists on my LAN. Let me tell ya, those 21" CRT's can really kill your back when you have to move them around! This will be a greatly welcomed change, if they can manage the same color quality that current CRT's have.
No doubt AOL is doing this in light of the impending Windows XP release, when MS will attempt to kill several companies with one stone.
Besides, let's face it...instant messaging is becoming ubiquitous. How much longer can AOL hide behind a wall?
BTW, I thought this quote was humorous...
In the FCC filing, AOL said the issue is not as easy as it seems. To make all the services communicate, the companies would need to rely on the public Internet -- something that could slow down the speed of message transmission, AOL said.
Everyone knows that Sony sells their console at a loss, so any investment in PS2's for commercial use would have Sony subsidizing part of it.
I'm thinking linux-based personal TV recorder ala TiVo with DVD built-in. Could be hot...;-)
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I would be very, very surprised if they let him keep it. My guess is that it will end up back in the newsroom so they can watch the broadcast news reports.
The interviewer could only speak to Dave in two word phrases, a verb and a noun.
Interviewer: ask question Dave: I don't understand what you are trying to say. Perhaps if you rephrase your statement? Interviewer: talk Dave Dave: You can't do that here! Interviewer: query Dave Dave: I don't understand the command "query". Interviewer:bah! Dave: I don't understand the command "bah". Interviewer: kill Dave Dave: A strong wind has blown out Interviewer's candle. Interviewer has been attacked by a grue for 106 points Interviewer has died!
And speaking of POTA, the reviews of Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" are coming in, and they aren't pretty. It's looking like POTA isn't going to be the summer blockbuster we all hoped it would be.
Of course, the only problem was that Microsoft had to hold onto the stock for 5 years. Apple popped up over $150, but then plummeted again to their current level of around $20. Still, I think MS bought when the share price was $11-14, and I think Apple even had a stock split since then, so MS still would have made out like bandits (well, assuming that Apple doesn't tank by next year).
Ford has filed a multi-million dollar suit against Dr. Kai-Uwe Sattler for his use of the name Kontour, saying that it infringes on the name of the Ford Contour.
When informed of the suit, Dr. Sattler said he would then change the name to "KItsADamnIllustrationProgram,Alright?"
Considering that the first one was a Charlie Pryde CD, my guess is that this one is Slim Whitman.
I'm surprised they didn't give the name of the CD, though; the sales would be through the roof. I bet most of the sales of the Charlie Pryde CD were from hackers feeling as though they had been challenged.
I agree with you that their position of independent status meaning anything is dubious at best. The question is, will they ever get a fringe political or religious group angry enough to attack them? All it would take is for one terrorist organization to send a boat out in the middle of the night with a payload the size of the one that McVeigh used in OKC (or even the smaller one Osama Bin-Laden used on the USS Cole), and blow Sealand out of the water.
The crux of the problem is that HavenCo is expensive, therefore they will only attract the most controversial, well-funded and high-profile sites. The issue becomes, can you afford to have your server located at such a potential target with so many "offensive" sites in one place?
Porn. Plenty of porn companies can afford this. If they're doing something extreme, and they're located in a dictatorial country like Australia or the US, this may be a good choice.
But why would they? You can get colocation for a lot cheaper on the mainland, in less stringent countries. And HavenCo has already said that they won't host child pornography, no questions asked, so even HavenCo won't touch the "extreme stuff".
I'm interested in seeing who has actually signed up for their hosting services... is there any way to find that out?
Frankly, if you had a controversial site, it seems to me that it would be a whole lot cheaper to just keep bouncing it around from country to country. Legal action takes time; domain transfers take less than 72 hours, and even most of that wouldn't be downtime. On average, 4 hours has been my experience.
10. Can I invest in HavenCo? What is your stock ticker symbol? What is the minimum investment?
HavenCo, Ltd. is not currently a publicly traded company, nor is it listed on any stock exchange. We are currently raising our first round of funds from angel investors within the technology industry. If you are an SEC-qualified investor interested in investing at least USD 100 000, please contact our investor relations department at ir@havenco.com.
I would say that "ease of use" is, at best, a distant second. The primary reason people buy MS Office is to have 100% compatibility with documents they send to and receive from people outside the workplace.
Because when it comes right down to it, the average Joe in his cubicle doesn't give a rodent's posterior about "fighting the Microsoft hegemony," he's just trying to do his job with as few complications as possible.
And by 100% compatible, I don't mean you can import the file and resave it in native format. As soon as the user sees that progress bar pop up that says "Converting from MS Word," you've suddenly shattered all illusions of 100% compatibility; they know that some formatting, somewhere, is going to drop out, and they'll never find it (but their client undoubtably will).
Three, the shelf life of an Internet game is far longer than a movie or a solo game. Movies are in the dollar theaters and videotapes in a few months. Solo games are in Wal*Mart bins in a few months. An online community takes that long just to get up a good head of steam.
For an example of this, just head over to Tanarus.com. This is a really great tank game that has been around for about 4 years now (that includes a year-long open beta). Once they came out of beta, they charged $10/month to play, and earlier this year decided to make the game free again. There's probably two reasons for that: 1) the game has been around so long that a lot of hardware and bandwidth costs have either come down significantly or been paid off altogether, and 2) the game is now subsidized by the company's other hot property (maybe you've heard of it? EverQuest?). I think that the game has done amazingly well, considering that the marketing budget was virtually non-existent from day 1; it has survived almost entirely because of the loyal following it got from its open-beta period.
Getting back to AO, though... coming out of the starting gate with a ton of negative reviews is a kick to the groin that the AO folks probably aren't going to recover from without doing a major overhaul and releasing it as AO2.
Japan has teamed up with the Estes Corporation to begin a reusable rocket program. Said chief scientist Bo Bo Li, "I got the idea when I was buying a model car kit in the hobby shop. It's working great for us, except that sometimes we lose the rocket when it falls back to earth."
Nonsense. General exposure to computers is good, but I would challenge the notion that platform makes much difference, especially for those who aren't in high school. And for kids who will go on to 4 years of college, I would say that it really doesn't make any difference at all. The OS they use today will most likely be nothing like the OS they use in the workplace.
Just look at OS's five years ago compared to today's OS'. Five years ago, we had Windows 95 and Mac OS 7 on school computers. Today we have Windows XP and Mac OS X -- radically different, though most of the basic concepts remained.
Where was MS Office at 5 years ago? I don't recall the version number for Windows, but I believe the Mac versions of Word and Excel were at 3. Completely different from Office XP and Mac Office 2001, though again the basic concepts are there.
No, it's far, far more important that children learn concepts of computing that they will be able to adapt to whatever OS they use. And if they plan on going into an IT field, then it would benefit them to start playing around with a more challenging OS (like Linux) at an earlier age. But for most people, just about any modern platform will do.
George Shaheen, the CEO who bailed after 18 months, had a golden parachute in his contract with Webvan to be compensated $375,000/a year for the rest of his life. Now, I don't fault the guy for negotiating a killer deal when he signed on; and I understand that Webvan had to be very generous when shopping around for a CEO who could save their bacon (so to speak). However, this severance package was clearly over-the-top, and far more than the struggling company could afford to pay. They gambled, they lost. And I guess George will have to go find a job now.
This is basically another very pedestrian hate-on-P4 article with very little substance. P4 does have some performance problems (mostly to do with shifts and multiplies) and they're documented in the optimization manual, but this article does nothing to dig any deeper than what a dozen other pedestrian articles have said.
No, he says quite plainly that the article is about a comparison of the two chip architectures, and not about which one is the fastest. I don't think there's any question right now that the fastest consumer desktop systems on the market are powered by x86 chips.
However, reading the article gives one a good understanding of why a G4e running at the same mhz as a Pentium 4 will beat it every time.
Remember, these are TAXPAYER DOLLARS that an audit will be burning through. Just because there are a few nutsacks in government doesn't mean that you should penalize the taxpayers.
You can't call 25,000,000+ hits per day a failure.
Yeah, but of all the hits that Quixtar gets, how many of them aren't already Amway representatives? Very few, I'd say, because Amway's prices aren't competitive with the rest of the market.
But surely the chepest land is going to be the stuff miles away from anyone, which adds to the running costs of the vehicles. They were on a loser to begin with.
Not necessarily. Besides, is Safeway going to be offering home delivery from all their stores? That means buying at least one van for each store in a given market...believe me, gas is cheaper.
And secondly, it distributes the goods from existing stores, so no extra warehouses etc. to build.
Actually, building warehouses was one of the strengths of Webvan, believe it or not. Because they only did home delivery, they could find the cheapest land in the area to service the entire city. I guarantee that Safeway has a whole heck of a lot more invested in real estate in the markets where it competed with Webvan.
I'm glad to hear Safeway is getting into home delivery. I liked Webvan's concept, and was surprised that they couldn't make it fly. Home delivery won't be Safeway's primary business, so they can take time to build it right.
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I have a number of graphic artists on my LAN. Let me tell ya, those 21" CRT's can really kill your back when you have to move them around! This will be a greatly welcomed change, if they can manage the same color quality that current CRT's have.
Besides, let's face it...instant messaging is becoming ubiquitous. How much longer can AOL hide behind a wall?
BTW, I thought this quote was humorous...
In the FCC filing, AOL said the issue is not as easy as it seems. To make all the services communicate, the companies would need to rely on the public Internet -- something that could slow down the speed of message transmission, AOL said.
Ummm...who's slowing who down?
Everyone knows that Sony sells their console at a loss, so any investment in PS2's for commercial use would have Sony subsidizing part of it.
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I'm thinking linux-based personal TV recorder ala TiVo with DVD built-in. Could be hot...
I would be very, very surprised if they let him keep it. My guess is that it will end up back in the newsroom so they can watch the broadcast news reports.
"Blue Screen of Death"
Interviewer: ask question
Dave: I don't understand what you are trying to say. Perhaps if you rephrase your statement?
Interviewer: talk Dave
Dave: You can't do that here!
Interviewer: query Dave
Dave: I don't understand the command "query".
Interviewer:bah!
Dave: I don't understand the command "bah".
Interviewer: kill Dave
Dave: A strong wind has blown out Interviewer's candle. Interviewer has been attacked by a grue for 106 points Interviewer has died!
And speaking of POTA, the reviews of Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" are coming in, and they aren't pretty. It's looking like POTA isn't going to be the summer blockbuster we all hoped it would be.
Geez, how many news sources do you need to tell you that it was a boring keynote?
Of course, the only problem was that Microsoft had to hold onto the stock for 5 years. Apple popped up over $150, but then plummeted again to their current level of around $20. Still, I think MS bought when the share price was $11-14, and I think Apple even had a stock split since then, so MS still would have made out like bandits (well, assuming that Apple doesn't tank by next year).
When informed of the suit, Dr. Sattler said he would then change the name to "KItsADamnIllustrationProgram,Alright?"
I'm surprised they didn't give the name of the CD, though; the sales would be through the roof. I bet most of the sales of the Charlie Pryde CD were from hackers feeling as though they had been challenged.
The crux of the problem is that HavenCo is expensive, therefore they will only attract the most controversial, well-funded and high-profile sites. The issue becomes, can you afford to have your server located at such a potential target with so many "offensive" sites in one place?
But why would they? You can get colocation for a lot cheaper on the mainland, in less stringent countries. And HavenCo has already said that they won't host child pornography, no questions asked, so even HavenCo won't touch the "extreme stuff".
Frankly, if you had a controversial site, it seems to me that it would be a whole lot cheaper to just keep bouncing it around from country to country. Legal action takes time; domain transfers take less than 72 hours, and even most of that wouldn't be downtime. On average, 4 hours has been my experience.
10. Can I invest in HavenCo? What is your stock ticker symbol? What is the minimum investment?
HavenCo, Ltd. is not currently a publicly traded company, nor is it listed on any stock exchange. We are currently raising our first round of funds from angel investors within the technology industry. If you are an SEC-qualified investor interested in investing at least USD 100 000, please contact our investor relations department at ir@havenco.com.
Because when it comes right down to it, the average Joe in his cubicle doesn't give a rodent's posterior about "fighting the Microsoft hegemony," he's just trying to do his job with as few complications as possible.
And by 100% compatible, I don't mean you can import the file and resave it in native format. As soon as the user sees that progress bar pop up that says "Converting from MS Word," you've suddenly shattered all illusions of 100% compatibility; they know that some formatting, somewhere, is going to drop out, and they'll never find it (but their client undoubtably will).
For an example of this, just head over to Tanarus.com. This is a really great tank game that has been around for about 4 years now (that includes a year-long open beta). Once they came out of beta, they charged $10/month to play, and earlier this year decided to make the game free again. There's probably two reasons for that: 1) the game has been around so long that a lot of hardware and bandwidth costs have either come down significantly or been paid off altogether, and 2) the game is now subsidized by the company's other hot property (maybe you've heard of it? EverQuest?). I think that the game has done amazingly well, considering that the marketing budget was virtually non-existent from day 1; it has survived almost entirely because of the loyal following it got from its open-beta period.
Getting back to AO, though... coming out of the starting gate with a ton of negative reviews is a kick to the groin that the AO folks probably aren't going to recover from without doing a major overhaul and releasing it as AO2.
Japan has teamed up with the Estes Corporation to begin a reusable rocket program. Said chief scientist Bo Bo Li, "I got the idea when I was buying a model car kit in the hobby shop. It's working great for us, except that sometimes we lose the rocket when it falls back to earth."
Just look at OS's five years ago compared to today's OS'. Five years ago, we had Windows 95 and Mac OS 7 on school computers. Today we have Windows XP and Mac OS X -- radically different, though most of the basic concepts remained.
Where was MS Office at 5 years ago? I don't recall the version number for Windows, but I believe the Mac versions of Word and Excel were at 3. Completely different from Office XP and Mac Office 2001, though again the basic concepts are there.
No, it's far, far more important that children learn concepts of computing that they will be able to adapt to whatever OS they use. And if they plan on going into an IT field, then it would benefit them to start playing around with a more challenging OS (like Linux) at an earlier age. But for most people, just about any modern platform will do.
George Shaheen, the CEO who bailed after 18 months, had a golden parachute in his contract with Webvan to be compensated $375,000/a year for the rest of his life. Now, I don't fault the guy for negotiating a killer deal when he signed on; and I understand that Webvan had to be very generous when shopping around for a CEO who could save their bacon (so to speak). However, this severance package was clearly over-the-top, and far more than the struggling company could afford to pay. They gambled, they lost. And I guess George will have to go find a job now.
No, he says quite plainly that the article is about a comparison of the two chip architectures, and not about which one is the fastest. I don't think there's any question right now that the fastest consumer desktop systems on the market are powered by x86 chips.
However, reading the article gives one a good understanding of why a G4e running at the same mhz as a Pentium 4 will beat it every time.
Remember, these are TAXPAYER DOLLARS that an audit will be burning through. Just because there are a few nutsacks in government doesn't mean that you should penalize the taxpayers.
Yeah, but of all the hits that Quixtar gets, how many of them aren't already Amway representatives? Very few, I'd say, because Amway's prices aren't competitive with the rest of the market.
Not necessarily. Besides, is Safeway going to be offering home delivery from all their stores? That means buying at least one van for each store in a given market...believe me, gas is cheaper.
Actually, building warehouses was one of the strengths of Webvan, believe it or not. Because they only did home delivery, they could find the cheapest land in the area to service the entire city. I guarantee that Safeway has a whole heck of a lot more invested in real estate in the markets where it competed with Webvan.
I'm glad to hear Safeway is getting into home delivery. I liked Webvan's concept, and was surprised that they couldn't make it fly. Home delivery won't be Safeway's primary business, so they can take time to build it right.