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Visual Studio doesn't bring in much revenue at all compared to either Windows or Office. What does it make? A billion or two? Windows + Office makes up 80+% of their revenue. Any attack to that is going to be a significant problem. And to the poster before who said that this is nothing new, that's untrue. Linux was never near as good as it is now, never near as easy to use and the free solutions were never as good. 5 years ago governments wouldn't even consider switching to Linux, now it's very common. The people I know at Microsoft said that they have been getting a constant commandment that they need to out innovate the open source counterparts, though it's been hard for them to do that. To say Microsoft isn't in trouble just isn't true. They are worried, they know the very real threat. It's already starting to eat away at their revenue and it will continue to do so. Also do you actually think Microsoft provides good support? Their support is atrocious. This are explained better in help files with MS but that too eventually won't be much of a gap. There really isn't much reason to use MS anymore. Microsoft is in trouble and they know it. What they do with it, who knows, but with all the free competition+google and others they are going to take a hit. They need to make some changes. We'll see

Sounds like you love Microsoft, otherwise I really dont' see the point of posting the article. Seems to sorta come out of nowhere. I think XP is probably the best consumer OS to date but I think Microsoft is facing a huge (as former Intel CEO put it) Strategic Inflection Point where they are going to need to fine new ways to bring in revenue. Their big money makers are Windows and Office. Already there is an Office clone (Open Office) that is very very close in quality and features, Microsoft even said so. As time goes on there is no two ways about it, that is going to eat into their revenue big time. Most new companies that haven't already bought Office can save a bucket load by going with Open Office. What about Windows itself? Well a lot of great programs are increasingly being written for the web through either Javascript/Ajax or through Flash. That's also going to eat a lot into the need for Windows. If you can get everything online in a browser and on top of that you can access those files on any computer there becomes much less of a reason to have to worry about natively written apps. Also now in the United State 25% of home computers are now Macs. Microsoft is in trouble on quite a few fronts as far as their long term health goes. I don't know that I think that linux is much better (in some ways it certainly is and in some ways it's not) but a lot of big companies/governments are going Linux because it's so much cheaper and they don't gain much value going with Microsoft. Matt

How could an individual commodity producer not have to care about future demand? If they don't try to forecast that demand they could be in a terrible situation in the future. This has happened over and over again in nearly every industry. Are you saying that if the government had no interference there wouldn't be overproduction of goods? I can't see how that could possibly be. Having been an entrepreneur for many years now I find that I have to constantly pay attention to what is in demand if I am going to make money. If I produce too much of one good I may have to take a loss. In many markets such as the current housing market the demand for a product can very quickly dry up and developers can be left holding a substantial amount of product that they cannot sell.

As I stated in my post, a overproduction in one sector can have huge negative implications for many others. Esp if that is a big sector.

That's really not true. A lot of things can cause a recession. An increase in the cost of producing a good for whatever reason, such as oil, can cause a drain on an economy in that people or businesses have less money to spend on goods and everyone starts to pear back their spending. One example that comes to mind was back in the 80's a bunch of people were campaigning for people to eat less meat this way poor people would have some more to eat. The actual effect though was that it put a lot of ranchers/workers/machine builders/etc out of work. It had the opposite effect. The same thing can happen in an economy, right now we are looking at an economy about to get beat up a bit because the housing boom is over and now all those people who were working on houses, the lumber producers, etc are having to cut back, so a lot of jobs will be lost. This really doesn't have much to do with the governments involvement it's just the fact that developers many times aren't economic experts on when a market is about saturated. That's really a basic thing here, most people, even business people are pretty dumb in that sense in that they overproduce and don't realize when a market has reached an equilibrium. In that sense people really aren't perfect when it comes to business. Though they are a million times better than a government planned economy.

wow the original post is scary. Pedophiles shouldn't have their own country they should be killed. Where's a suicide bomber when you need one?

MC Hammer is one of the most confused people I've ever seen. One minute he's a family man, then he's a preacher, then a thug, now he's like micheal jackson... no credibility in anything. Also I don't think is the objectivist position (if you mean the ARI position) at all. Doesn't the ARI support staying there?

I think that the answer is that a lot of games are not puzzles. The ones who are puzzles really don't qualify as art but there are many games like the Final Fantasy series where they are recreating reality on an incredibly grand scale. The stories are epic, there are theme's and plots and many times they are quite well written and executed. I do think based on that fact that some games should be considered art :-)

Yeah that is a good clarification. Very long term goals can be cause a lack of motivation as you said. I think sometimes if a person has a long term goal in which they will have an unrealistic shot at it can really ruin their life. I know a young guy of 17 who is telling me that he knows he will make it in the music business. He says he has to be positive to achieve. Well it's true that having a positive attitude really helps but even still his chances are quite small

Next to the health advice I'd probably place this number 2. Micheal Jordan said he never set goals for himself that were unattainable. When he was young he would just try to improve his dribbling or shooting rather than say try to make the NBA. I have tried this myself and I have found it a lot easier that way. If you set attainable goals then you can actually see a way to accomplish it it makes less fantasy and more working and more motivation in the process. This is a time I think thinking in concretes is very helpful, most people seem to dwell on the abstract as far as their goals go but getting a good understanding of the steps you can see is much better than trying to become a billionaire.

I think a lot of it comes from being in good physical condition. If you are in good physical condition things are much easier and less stressful than otherwise. I noticed that I used to hate the work I had to do when I was out of shape (all mental work) but once I got in shape I enjoyed all the little subtleties. I know a guy who work 20 hours a day, sleeps about 4 and has been doing so for about 20 years now. He has gotten so many things accomplished it's mind boggling. He's really the leader in his field, one year he was actually voted Silicon Valleys hardest working man (which is saying a lot). He said the key is that he's in great shape. According to him, he can run 15 miles straight without stopping. He also said that he never ever ever ever has fast food/caffeine/sugar. I don't know, must work though because the guy is a monster (figuratively speaking).

I mean there are so many sites on the net with forums where u can check out pics of people who are pretty big that use the exact opposite of Mentzer. If it works for someone great but it's not the only way to gain muscle fast and as far as it being most efficient I really doubt that.

That's the impression that I get too. There are so many variations of different effective methods, Mentzer people just seem like fanatics in general though.

It's not accurate that high volume workouts only work for those on steroids. Serge Nubret worked out using high volume and got 20+ inch arms even before using steroids. Second you are creating a false dilemma by suggesting that high volume is the alternative to hit. It's possible to work hard but not to the point that Mike Mentzer suggests and gain muscle very well. All that is nessasary is to push your muscle fibers past the point of hytrophy which has been shown to come before going to failure. Secondly when you are going to failure especially that extreme you are involving breakdown of more than just muscles. You are really taxing your whole body, as even Mike Mentzer admits, you are taxing your CNS not just muscle fibers. That is why he suggests working out so infrequently. The answer is above While I wouldn't workout that way that is incorrect. You will cause your slow twitch muscle fibers to grow by working out with lighter weights for longer periods of time. You sound like a walking advertisement for his books, if you like him that's great but to make it like only mike mentzers way works for people who are not on steroids, that is just silly. First of all, no one (other than an extremely rare person) is ever gonna get to Mentzer's size naturally. It's just not possible, secondly if you are going for size there are plenty of natural bodybuilders who use higher than Mentzer type volumes who are big (for a natural).

First of all Mike Mentzer was on steroids. A lot of them at that. The idea he tried to sell people on was based on a method that works well when on steroids. To take the punishment that his method takes it takes your body a lot longer to recover than from a regular work out that really is working the muscle. With Mentzer's method you A) are gonna have longer recovery time probably at some point going to injure yourself. Most of the people who follow H.I.T. type principles end up injuring themselves (I'm talking on the professional level). Dorian Yates suffered a few major injuries that ended his career prematurely. Mark Dugdale who is a much younger guy hurt himself that way a few years back as well. I think it would be a lot more 'objective' to find out what works for guys who are not on steroids and follow those methods.

A lot of people who are in construction or other jobs which require a lot of physical exertion are in terrible shape. Many jobs require low level out put of just certain muscle groups over a small amount of time. Even when I was in bad shape I would play basketball everyday for a few hours, sometimes very hard. What I didn't know though was due to sitting all day for years I didn't use my lower back very much. My lower back was actually almost numb and I really wasn't aware of it. Once I started stretching and getting in better shape I actually felt much better. My tolerance for stress greatly increased.

Wow that situation sounds pretty bad. It leads to a few questions though, A) why didn't you pay your taxes prior or when they were due? If it was due to a lack of money why not work a regular job? If the job doesn't pay well why not go to a 2 year college and get a degree? or move to a different area that pays better? Not wanting to live if you lose your house? That really sounds like depression. Not that it doesn't make sense to a degree but to not want to live? Just an FYI I used to think all my problems were psychological myself, I would spend 3-4 hours a day trying to figure out why I wasn't motivated to fight my problems. I figured I had an abnormal fear of something. I spent over 2 years trying to figure it out but I realized I felt not very good even when things were going my way. After that I changed my diet and exercised and my whole outlook changed. Even though I had a lot of tough times I actually had fun roughing it. I'm not trying to say this applies to you just that maybe it's possible.

Wow mweiss you sound depressed. Are you getting enough exercise and eating a good diet? There was a point I felt pretty similar to that, but I changed my diet and started exercising a lot and it really changed how I felt. As far as making money, there are a couple things to consider. The first is WHY your business failed. What was the cause? Most people who I see start businesses fail because they just are not able to get the revenue by going out there and selling or driving in customers. If that is the case then maybe you just need a little education on that subject matter. There is a great book called "No Cash No Fear" which sounds awful tacky but isn't. It's actually written by a guy who started 20 something businesses and you get to read what he did as he successfully got clients almost over night and how simple it can be. Not that it's necessarily easy. Back in 2003 I was homeless, but I got myself out of that and after 2 or 3 months working a low level job I started my own company and it was pretty much successful from the start because I knew how to get business. Secondly, money really isn't all there is to life. When I wasn't feeling good I thought about my money situation 24/7, I thought I had to be a billionaire. But as I got healthier really that desire went away and I didn't even care. I felt great physically so I didn't need the money to comfort me. Not saying that it would apply in your case, just shooting out some suggestions.

Not sure if this will help but I used to feel tired all day, then I changed my diet from mostly meat to mostly vegetables. I find that eating all that fiber really helps. Now my stress load is much lower.

Yeah I haven't paid much attention but I did see he was for increasing the minimum wage... that was odd

Just came upon this video on Google Video. Thought it was really neat. schwarzenegger video

Some day it's gonna be feasible to have small video recorders on officers self somewhere. Hopefully that will alleviate the majority of questions as to whether or not a wrongful act of police brutality occured.

Well that was very interesting. During the first tape I thought for sure that it was unjustified, maybe even an execution (I don't know if murder would apply here because he was risking others lives by driving like a nut). The second tape is quite shocking though. It looks like the suspect pulls his weapon but doesn't shoot. If the officer did shoot directly at the guys head and miss I have to say that even at that point it seemed justified. The guy had a gun pointed at another officer so I can see why he was shooting. It's interesting in that it looks like the second officer keeps trying to mace the suspect even while the first officer is firing. All in all I think this is a great example of why you shouldn't get involved with any drugs to begin with. Your right though probably a lot of officers get blamed for things that really arn't thier fault.

Holy cow, Peikoff is 72 years old! Wow I had no idea at all, not even a slight thought along that direction. I was thinking he was early 50's. Wow that makes a lot more sense now, I remember reading how he was having problems with the Library of Congress and he mentions something of lines of him not being able to fight the Library because of his age. This was some years ago too (I think) so I thought he was throwing in the towel at 50. Makes a lot more sense now. Hopefully he lives long enough to finish the book.

Horatio Alger? His stories usually have a usual propensity towards capitalistic ideals.