"By modifying our business model to focus more on our licensing opportunities, leveraging our substantial IP portfolio and our R&D capabilities, WE WOULD EXPECT to reduce our cash needs substantially and TO IMPROVE OUR RESULTS FOR OUR SHAREHOLDERS," said Transmeta Chief Executive Matthew Perry in prepared remarks."
So far the shareholders have been **improved** by -37 cents in just one morning. The stock is down to $1.09.
And to think, we all could have bought it for $45 back in November 2000.
This may sound obvious but software projects get in trouble when they aren't released. The usual reason for not releasing is management's unwillingness to ship software that doesn't work. What fools!
Experience shows that the marketplace will tolerate horrible performance if the user interface is comprehensive, kool and has all the expected switches, bells and whistles that may actually work someday.
So all projects should start with the GUI and worry about the algorithms later. Get those version 1.0's (user interfaces hooked up to simulations if necessary) out the door and in your customers' hands. Throw in a free year of "bug" fixes and start working on 2.0.
With as much water as Lake Superior, the reservoir will stretch 385 miles east to west and more than one mile north to south and 600 feet deep
How can this dam store as much water as Lake Superior? Superior is 350 miles long and 160 miles wide. The reservoir is about the same length but roughly one mile wide.
Superior averages 489 feet deep. The surface area is 7000 square miles. Meanwhile the reservoir has something like 400+ square miles of surface area.
Superior stores 440 trillion cubic feet of water while the reservoir is designed to store 1 trillion cubic feet 39.3 billion cubic meters.
There are 35 reservoirs in the world with storage capacities topping 30 billion cubic meters, and the Three Gorges Reservoir ranks 24th.
Superior it is not. And neither is the Washington Post.
TC Aldridge's side of the story is pretty well buried down here at the bottom where few will find it. The topic is interesting and important, though the principles involved and methods they employ in these interactive board wars sometimes enwrap that importance in banality.
In this case, Chappell Aldridge simply raised himself to injunctive relief level through exploitation of the Free Republic interface rather than via anything technical. He ain't no hacker. And that makes this whole development worthy of another look and another side to the story.
Re: BLB I doubt that any rational person would describe an present FR ptb as bright or shining, and certainly no one would describe a maxed-out donor to the Bradley presidential campaign as a conservative.
Re: Low batteries life. That wasn't a personal attack, that was pure poetry.
Re: High Value Messages. I want you to know that you are one of a select few posters on the net that actually are capable of writing a forum message worth the read. Often demented, but just as often readworthy.
Re: Fighting til the last. If you had you wouldn't look like the chump loOoser you look like now. Next time don't do your own PR spin. You killed yourself. We both know you escaped the noose but only a few others see it that way.
Re: FR got injunctive relief. And it only cost them maybe 75 large to clear the books of you. Of course I cleared you off of Lucianne.Com by inventing the BOP, which cost me nothin'.
Say there mbourgon, in all those links to stories on FR did you happen to come across one about the $1 million judgement against them for copyright infringement? Now that's an eyeopener! I'm sure you are all chatting about it incessantly.
Eschoir, TC Aldridge, committed the worst sin possible. The one sin, the owner of simply cannot handle. He suddenly stopped his years of goofy primetime peformance art and wallowed in a lonely funk on some silly site of his own instead. Paranoia consumed the powers that be......
The out of work lawyer had to be stopped.
And so this is how it ends for you my dear olde adversary. It ends badly.
Your "brilliant" retrospectively contrived Briar Patch "strategy" may have brought an abrupt conclusion to the lawsuit and saved you some bucks, and a few postage stamps, but it's also oiled up the flea-eaten feathers on a certain semi-male peacock and managed to re-rivet Free Republic.Com's leaking hull as well.
Unfortunately for you, no one perceives any brilliance on your part, though we both know it's sorta there, trying to shine in a low-batteries kind of way, hidden in that jammed and dirty closet of obsessive compulsion you call a life.
But in fact, You gave them an injunction against you. And you gave them as close to a win as they could have reasonably hoped for in a court of law had they finally found one. And lastly you gave them equal value for all the money that they wasted in your pursuit---estimated at 75 large. You haven't made yourself look smart TC, you've made them look intimidating, powerful, bold. They've got money to throw around at chumps like you. Chumps who count their stamps.
The injunction is against you T. Chappell. FReeRepublic.Com sued you and they got it. It's real.
There's nothing virtual at all about it. And the world isn't better for it. Your done, they decided when not you, and that's FR's fork stuck in your rump to prove it.
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"By modifying our business model to focus more on our licensing opportunities, leveraging our substantial IP portfolio and our R&D capabilities, WE WOULD EXPECT to reduce our cash needs substantially and TO IMPROVE OUR RESULTS FOR OUR SHAREHOLDERS," said Transmeta Chief Executive Matthew Perry in prepared remarks."
So far the shareholders have been **improved** by -37 cents in just one morning. The stock is down to $1.09.
And to think, we all could have bought it for $45 back in November 2000.
This may sound obvious but software projects get in trouble when they aren't released. The usual reason for not releasing is management's unwillingness to ship software that doesn't work. What fools!
Experience shows that the marketplace will tolerate horrible performance if the user interface is comprehensive, kool and has all the expected switches, bells and whistles that may actually work someday.
So all projects should start with the GUI and worry about the algorithms later. Get those version 1.0's (user interfaces hooked up to simulations if necessary) out the door and in your customers' hands. Throw in a free year of "bug" fixes and start working on 2.0.
Hey, it worked for Bill Gates.
"Shouldn't these be called 'Windows viruses'? " ... or maybe 'windows pains'
How can this dam store as much water as Lake Superior? Superior is 350 miles long and 160 miles wide. The reservoir is about the same length but roughly one mile wide.
Superior averages 489 feet deep. The surface area is 7000 square miles. Meanwhile the reservoir has something like 400+ square miles of surface area.
Superior stores 440 trillion cubic feet of water while the reservoir is designed to store 1 trillion cubic feet 39.3 billion cubic meters.
There are 35 reservoirs in the world with storage capacities topping 30 billion cubic meters, and the Three Gorges Reservoir ranks 24th.
Superior it is not. And neither is the Washington Post.
Dear Jim,
TC Aldridge's side of the story is pretty well buried down here at the bottom where few will find it. The topic is interesting and important, though the principles involved and methods they employ in these interactive board wars sometimes enwrap that importance in banality.
In this case, Chappell Aldridge simply raised himself to injunctive relief level through exploitation of the Free Republic interface rather than via anything technical. He ain't no hacker. And that makes this whole development worthy of another look and another side to the story.
Re: BLB I doubt that any rational person would describe an present FR ptb as bright or shining, and certainly no one would describe a maxed-out donor to the Bradley presidential campaign as a conservative.
Re: Low batteries life. That wasn't a personal attack, that was pure poetry.
Re: High Value Messages. I want you to know that you are one of a select few posters on the net that actually are capable of writing a forum message worth the read. Often demented, but just as often readworthy.
Re: Fighting til the last. If you had you wouldn't look like the chump loOoser you look like now. Next time don't do your own PR spin. You killed yourself. We both know you escaped the noose but only a few others see it that way.
Re: FR got injunctive relief. And it only cost them maybe 75 large to clear the books of you. Of course I cleared you off of Lucianne.Com by inventing the BOP, which cost me nothin'.
If your mission here was to make FR seem weird and full of strange people, then you're mighty good at what you do.
Antifreeper? Mouse Warrior? This is pure Disinformation.
Now it's your turn to:
Produce the Evidence! (or forever hold your piece)
Say there mbourgon, in all those links to stories on FR did you happen to come across one about the $1 million judgement against them for copyright infringement? Now that's an eyeopener! I'm sure you are all chatting about it incessantly.
Eschoir, TC Aldridge, committed the worst sin possible. The one sin, the owner of simply cannot handle. He suddenly stopped his years of goofy primetime peformance art and wallowed in a lonely funk on some silly site of his own instead. Paranoia consumed the powers that be...... The out of work lawyer had to be stopped.
And so this is how it ends for you my dear olde adversary. It ends badly.
Your "brilliant" retrospectively contrived Briar Patch "strategy" may have brought an abrupt conclusion to the lawsuit and saved you some bucks, and a few postage stamps, but it's also oiled up the flea-eaten feathers on a certain semi-male peacock and managed to re-rivet Free Republic.Com's leaking hull as well.
Unfortunately for you, no one perceives any brilliance on your part, though we both know it's sorta there, trying to shine in a low-batteries kind of way, hidden in that jammed and dirty closet of obsessive compulsion you call a life.
But in fact, You gave them an injunction against you. And you gave them as close to a win as they could have reasonably hoped for in a court of law had they finally found one. And lastly you gave them equal value for all the money that they wasted in your pursuit---estimated at 75 large. You haven't made yourself look smart TC, you've made them look intimidating, powerful, bold. They've got money to throw around at chumps like you. Chumps who count their stamps.
The injunction is against you T. Chappell. FReeRepublic.Com sued you and they got it. It's real.
There's nothing virtual at all about it. And the world isn't better for it. Your done, they decided when not you, and that's FR's fork stuck in your rump to prove it.