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From one News Tool to another 
| | Says here you're looking at a 5-star news site. Also that this represents exactly 1 vote. For now I'll consider it a binary statement. |
How to measure insanity with your very own burn rate
| | A friend just reminded me of a great John Maynard Keynes line: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." |
High School 2.0
| | Looks like I'm off the Most Popular list at Yahoo again. Oddly, I'm getting more inbound visits from the list than ever. But Ev is up there in the top ten (I think he was missing before), and Dan is still #1. Way to go, dudes. |
It's kinda what The Emperor calls a Fully Operational Battle Station
| | If you want to know what the Dark Side is up to, Dan lays out the situation rather clearly. |
| | I've never been a fan of the war metaphors, and I don't subscribe to the Evil Empire characterization but I wouldn't sell life insurance to any company in a category currently in any of Microsoft's planned growth paths. Those include: |
| | —Palm, Handspring or Sony's Clié in the handheld business |
| | And if you're not sure about that last item, check out what the TPC shows on most of its benchmarks. And then consider what Netcraft said last month (but which is now regretably gone): Microsoft's IIS is nearly a requirement for mainstream e-commerce, and this alone accounts for IIS's growth as a Web server. |
| | Here's something else to consider: Microsoft has so rarely had worthy competition from other Big Boys that the total rounds down to zero. They had it from Novell when Craig was running strategy there (one Microsoft guy told me "he kicked our ass"), but that was back in the 80's. They had it for a few minutes from Netscape when that company creatively ubiquitized LDAP. But they never had it from Apple (which for the Jobs interregnum was more of a bad partner than a good competitor). For brief and shining quarters they had it from Borland, Lotus and WordPerfect; but all of those companies lacked the endless supply of adrenalin a company needs to stay in the game. I'm not saying those weren't valuable companies (some still are); just that they were never in the same league. Frankly, nobody is. And that isn't Microsoft's fault, any more than it was Michael Jordan's fault that nobody could take him one-on-one or Mozart's fault that he was surrounded by Salieris. As competitive companies, Microsoft is in a league of its own. If you're like the other 99% of PC users out there, the proof is right there in your pixels. |
Fuckin' M
Under Destruction
| | I know it's a Bad Practice, but the whole of my email life is on my laptop, which is being punished for bad behavior right now. (And don't tell me Time Outs don't work. They're better than spanking.) If you've e'd me something today, just chill for another half hour or so. |
Perhaps requiring a Hermit Crab Theory of Blogging
| | Looks like Curtis Lee Fulton is using The Register as a blog while freelancing a DeCSS story for Linux Journal. [Aside: I like The Register, but I've gotta give them shit, like I did to eWeek yesterday for not putting links in their stories.] Nice piece, too. It's fun to watch the stream get wider. |
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