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Although most of us are used to Gateway as a home-consumer seller, I think the idea here is to get some l00t out of the many businesses that are embracing Linux for it's stability. Gateway hasn't been doing too well recently. falling stock

Actually, there is enough SCOX out there to sell short, I'm short 250 shares. The number of shares sold short has gone up significantly in the last few months, and there are now almost almost a million shares short. The stock is very volatile though, you need to be able to ride out the swings.

This is not an offer to buy or sell shares. IANACFA (I am not a Chartered Financial Analyst). YMMV.

"It is vital to understand the importance of doing nothing. Slacking is a necessity; it is Yin to activity's Yang"

So said the comedian Simon Pegg in endorsement of last month's England's National Slacker Day (August 23rd). This current week (September 1-5) is Work-Life Balance week for Britons, centered around pretty much the same idea. It is no wonder that these ideas are popular in the UK, since British get the fewest vacations of any European nation.

While some view leisurely time off as a right, does slacking really mean happiness? Some lament that the slacker lifestyle isn't what it used to be. Simon Pegg himself broke the first and only rule in the Slacker Day handbook, by working: "there, perhaps, is the problem with slacking in a world which does not owe any of us a living"

More to the point, Professor Michael Rose at University of Bath (he seems to do a lot of research in the field of work) found that working long hours does not lower one's quality of life - and indeed improves it. Not only are workaholics making more money and getting promotions - they are happier as well.

Contrary to what most of us believe, the workaholics are not especially stressed, nor are they particularly unhappy -- at least no more than the rest of us.

Why is that? Because they like working.

A significant point is being made here. The work-life propagandists constantly see the office as the enemy and emphasize that more time has to be allowed for family and other interests.

But work is a life as well. We live in a hedonistic age, but our grandfathers, many of whom grew up among stern Victorian moralists, would have understood that work is what gives shape and purpose to our lives.

Most of us work because we have to make a living. But we also work because it gives us a role, status, a sense of achievement, and just occasionally the respect of our peers. And those are things we crave just as much as material goods.

So fess up. Are you a slacker or a workaholic? How do you achieve a healthy balance between success in the office and a happy life outside of it?

the past 12 months of SCOX.. ain't that some shit?

According to Hans Blix, the leader of the UN weapons inspection team, Iraq changed its attitude dramatically in March 2003. Just listen to the Charlie Rose Show recording.

Just look at how well Symantec is doing! Up almost three dollars today.

Sorry..

Verizon Wireless want to attract the same type of customer as Nextel, one that is willing to pay $20 more a month for the walkie-talkie feature. Nextel's service is popular with groups such as constructions crews and financial traders. Sprint Corp.'s PCS unit has said it will introduce a similar product this year.

Fuck, should have posted as anonymous. In other news, you should all be scared.

And down goes SCO!

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=scox

I really hope the SEC gets involved.

So far the best article on this issue I could find is here. What the article dowsn't say, but the Bloomberg radio commentary did mention, the EU seems to be financing its budget deficit by imposing fines, which makes the fairness of the whole process a little questionable.

Neither do I. You know, we were just discussing this article just a little while ago. Nintendo may be shipping lots of units, but their second-half profits are down by a third. Which is not good at all. Remember many units does not necessarily equate to profits, they have to manage other costs as well.

I do with Nintendo luck though, generally they produce some great stuff. I think their self-proclaimed new direction in software excellence is a good step.

OPEC is considering trading oil in Euros rather than Dollars. This would reduce the need for many firms and countries to hold dollars, and instead increase their need to hold euros. Combine that with the rapidly dropping value of the dollar and you'll realize that the dollar isn't keeping its value, and very well might plummet in value in the near future. There are even rumors and signs that the current American administration is willing to accept a lower valued dollar compared to other currencies.

Actually according to this it's more like 8000 * 1.1536 = $9228.8

Sammy is japan's largest pachinko operater, US articles say pinball but its really Pachinko, Japan's equivalent to the slot machine. There was a lot of annalysts questions the merger of Sammy-Sega because both companies don't have a lot in common except the arcade business, and the arcade business has been sliding for years. And yes, Sega is starting to get desperate.

Sammy is japan's largest pachinko operater, US articles say pinball but its really Pachinko, Japan's equivalent to the slot machine. There was a lot of annalysts questions the merger of Sammy-Sega because both companies don't have a lot in common except the arcade business, and the arcade business has been sliding for years. And yes, Sega is starting to get desperate.

You can kill people with a gun, but I haven't seen any lawsuit against S&W for creating a tool that can be used to commit a crime.

http://www.click10.com/mia/news/stories/news-17868 8020021114-161135.html

http://www.fivecities.com/strider/commentary/strid er8.html

Tons more

I haven't heard yet of any paper company being sued

That's because most people understand how paper works.

Is Ford liable for you running your car against a 80 years old man crossing the street?

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2003/0 4/30/biz-front-Lease30-5051.html

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=71000001& sid=adxHkoFiaJ1o&refer=columnists

Tons more

Never underestimate the ability of our legal system to find fault in innocents.

The URL is:
http://www.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20 World%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_to pright_topworld&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=a d_right1_windex&bt=ad_posi tion1_windex&middle=ad_frame2_windex&s=AO4aJ6RX7Un Vtc2Zl">bloomberg

I found the URL in a Dutch newsletter with the comment: "link van een halve meter lang".
:>)

Move along now....

Here is the link.

That is a big correction.

Send them feedback. For both incorrect statements in that sentence.

Technically Linux is a Unix-like operating system written from scratch. It is not a variant of Unix(tm and all that).

The URL for corrections is http://quote.bloomberg.com/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi.

If this is a genuine patent infringement case, then you don't need any inside knowledge to infringe.

You just read the patents from uspto.gov (or even re-invent the idea yourself), use it in Linux, and you've violated.

However, the linked news reports don't say that SCO is filing a patent claim- it looks like the Slashdot submitter inserted a bit of misinformation.

Story on Bloomberg.com as well...

Planet Gamecube's coverage of the story

Check out their forums for some intelligent discussion. I saw the news there around 11PM Central. Bloomberg's Coverage

Sony's share has been diluted to 10%, so this looks like a win for Nintendo. Remember, Yamauchi's Fund Q let Square develop for Gamecube and GBA when Sony owned a fifth of the company. I couldn't care less, though. DQ might be good, but all Final Fantasy games after FF3 (6 in Japan) sucked. Note to Square: focus more on gameplay, like Miyamoto (IMO, the Mozart of videogames).

Slightly related news? I turned on Bloomberg this AM and found the president discussing generic prescription drugs and how the drug companies are abusing the stay process in order to maintain a hold on the drug going generic. If he's starting to look at the generic-ization of meds, perhaps it's the tip of the iceberg for things such as this.

Disclaimer: I'm a right-winger, but dunno about this idea.. after all drug companies do take finantial risks to make new medications. But holding potential benefits for people's health over their head in the name of pure profit bothers me. Like the Microsoft stuff, it possibly sets a bad precedent.. I hate m$' heavy-handed tactics but having the government step in seems a bad idea.

-fester

Be afraid when your company owns your brain ... The scary part is he was under court order to drive 160 miles to and from work everyday to work for 8 hours a day without pay to finish a program that he may not even eventually own and told he must finish it and show Alcatel how it works. He worked for 12 years on this program before coming to Alcatel. His big mistake was trusting those vultures and telling them about it. He should have waited until he wasn't working for them anymore, then developed it. Alcatel is suing everyone: Intel, Cisco, this guy. They've found a new way to make money.... litigation.
Alcatel: Where we litigate, not innovate.
More info: here, here,and here.

Here's a flash version of your rant.

Worldcom, Imclone, Global Crossing, Enron, Adelphia, Anderson -- "a few bad apples" or a systemic problem? I think Bush saying that the American people don't care about this "stock market stuff" just shows how out of touch he is. Either that, or he simply doesn't care and he's just filling time until the next topic of the day comes along.

Here's what we know:
- George W. Bush wanted to run the government like a business
- George W. Bush has never come within 50 feet of a successful business himself. Not Harkin, not the sweetheart deal with the Texas Rangers, not even that stupid airline catering company
- Neither has Dick Cheney
- Both Cheney and Bush are so close to the oil industry that they're willing to allow companies steal money from taxpayers and business in fradulent energy schemes.

Any talk of this being a Clinton-caused recession is just willfully ignoring that the Bush's tax cut caused nearly half of the budget shortfall.

What can you do?

- Demand that the Bush Administration release information on the secret energy task force. We want to know how Enron, Haliburton, Harkin, and Unocal were involved in this
- Demand that the Bush Adminstration support an independent investigation of the goverment's actions before and after September 11. If the attacks were due to the U.S.'s quest for oil, the American people deserve to know.
- Demand that the SEC open the files on Bush's dealings with Harkin
- Demand the Justice Department come down hard on Enron
- Demand to know why Bush is so interested in attacking Iraq
- Ask yourself if you're better off now or 4 years ago. Good, now vote Democrat in November.

Oh, and ... uh ... run Linux too.

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... or for corporations to adopt the independent methods as a matter of convenience.

As you know, Reuters has teamed up with M$ to launch IM for its clients.

Reuters press release from March 2001 on the subject.

This could start the ball rolling towards a standard, leading more and more big corporations towards M$'s standard.

Given that some security features are introduced to keep the security of the larger companies internal messages, this might induce private users to join the network, and the ball is rolling.

I've heard the Reuters initiative is struggling to get acceptance amongst its clients, anyone who knows how far Bloomberg is getting along this route?

Guess who was their auditor until last May... Andersen. (Bloomberg) However, they claim WCom was wihholding information from them, hum.... Fortunately for your own company, you can't choose Andersen to be your auditor anymore :-)

from their web site:

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You put it up for people to download, print out and so forth (which amounts to copying), and therefore you've implied that people may do so.

You argument is similar to the following:
If program is shown on TV, why someone can't record it and sell copies?
Note that copying the content of the website is the same. And showing banner on the website that contains a copy is the same as selling content.

And some website owner explicitely prohibit even printing. See Bloomberg

Bloomberg broke this story on Friday evening. I submitted it on Saturday morning. Great turnaround guys...

Case in point: ANWR. ANWR oil is going to cost more than Arabian oil, a fact that Bush+Co don't like to point out. The USGS assessment is that there is *no* oil in ANWR that is recoverable for less than $15/barrel. $20/barrel lets you extract maybe a 3rd of the reserve. Get up to $30/barrel and you can get most of it.

How much does it cost Saudi Arabia to get that same barrel? About 2 dollars .

(Current spot price is about $25/barrel due to mideast tension, but it's been as low as $17.5 earlier this year.)

We aren't going to run out of oil anytime soon. What will happen is that the price will go up as we use up the easy stuff.

Eric

I work for Bloomberg, on the client software.

Here's two: Office and the Bloomberg service...

*Blush*

Just a couple of the critical apps we need. If I can't even coax an OS X version of Bloomberg out of them, how can I persuade them to do a Linux port (even though it'd be easy, since they do/did a Solaris version).

We definitely still support Solaris (see this). Linux support is technically feasible. There are many other issues involved, however.

[SNIP]

We need apps. Big ones. How do we get there?

In the case of Bloomberg, I would advise asking your sales rep for support for your platform of choice. Seriously.

Chris

A *critical* tool for the financial services world...

(see www.bloomberg.com for general info)

Even if one blows up by accident it will have been less expensive than loosing a trained soldier. Seriously though, my brother who is in the Army Reserves here in Canada (we have an Army?) took a three-week basic trainning course. Apparently the course cost the Canadian government $30 000 CDN (currently 18,869.11 USD thanks to Bloomberg) for each to-be-infantry-unit. The scary thing is that it's only the first of several courses which get him to the rank of private (the lowest rank in case you didn't know.) I can't image what the cost is for the highly-trained enlisted men, especially the engineers who continue to search for landmines in person.

As always, and more importantly than cost, if it can save lives, it's a worthwhile piece of gear. It will be interesting to see, if these robots are a success, just how much the units, the robots are "posted to," mod their little mine finders. "Mine serves beer too!" (It's even a pun! Forgive me.)

Peace.

edigital has a long history of using hype and grossly misleading tactics to, IMO, defraud investors. So far they've lost tens of millions of dollars, and recently had to resort to taking a loan at a 49% interest rate just to stay in business. Even the CEO has referred to the investors as a "cult".

As for their history with their products, their much-hyped Treo barely sold any units in stores, and is now being sold by liquidators on ebay. A lot of customers were a bit pissed that their players didn't come with any storage media!

This wasn't intended as flamebait, but E.digital has a long history of using hype and misleading tactics to pursue little more than an incursion of investment money from gullible public investors. I didn't lose any money to them, but a lot of people did, and will continue to.

In fact, they recently registered 20 million more shares so they can stay in business a while longer. They really don't deserve this kind of attention from Slashdot.

For those considering investing in them, I'd say stay away. For those considering a product purchase, I'd recommend the same.

Thank you, Linus. You are the best.

Thank you, Linus.

Check out Bloomberg's list of victims here and search on, for example, "Mohammed".
That comment should have been marked a troll.

This story has been denied as patently false by all players involved. Please see this post and the Bloomberg article here. I am posting this specifically because the above post is languishing at 0 while 10,000 idiots are either celebrating or frothing and foaming about a news story which isn't even true.

Thanks, cunts!

Love,
Slashfucker

It seems Bloombergs servers make it difficult to link directly to the article, and this info is pseudo redundant since I got it from an AC below, who isn't being modded up.

It seems Bloombergs servers make it difficult to link directly to the article, and this info is pseudo redundant since I got it from an AC below, who isn't being modded up.

His link is invalid. I suppose its the dynamic servers over at Bloomberg. You will see an article there that says there was NO ruling yesterday. The ElectronicNews was WRONG.

His link is invalid. I suppose its the dynamic servers over at Bloomberg. You will see an article there that says there was NO ruling yesterday. The ElectronicNews was WRONG.

I suggest you go here and look up MSFT, CSCO, ORCL and SUNW. 50% drops in the last year. Looks like this computing thing was just a fad after all.

As well as these three, it's interesting to note that RedHat's stock took a turn for the better yesterday when it and IBM annouced that Big Blue would be shipping Linux pre-installed on a range of PCs (obviously shipping it on it's NetFinity range wasn't enough :>). I'd post a URL for the story, but it's easier to tell you how to find it than give the URL (it's horribly long); just take a look at the "Technology News" section on Bloomberg's site.

Or else Salon might go out of business before they finish the book. They'll probably be delisted from NASDAQ before they come out with another chapter. Bloomberg.com's Christopher Byron just had a great column this week about the scam that is Salon and its IPO (Salon.com Typifies Demise of "Content" IPOs). However, because of the abundance of self-important twits over there, and their gutter ethics (Dan Savage or David Talbott, anyone?), I certainly won't miss 'em. Oh well, good thing they're doing this lame-ass Free Software Project, so someone can pick up the pieces when they go bankrupt. Hope Camille Paglia ends up at a good place, though, 'cause she rocks. I really do recommend that article, though -- it's actually a Hell of a lot more critical of the scams that dot-com underwriters are pulling than it is of Salon itself.

Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

This a rticle at Bloomberg.com suggests the same.

This web server explains alot...