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  1. Ads not as profitable as hoped? by plover · · Score: 2 · on A Pair of Google Bits
    As a user, I find Google's AdWords much less heinous than DoubleClick advertising.

    Speaking of which, DoubleClick made the news today: in this article, DoubleClick is cutting their workforce by 10% and this article mentions their stock being downgraded from "buy" to "hold".

    DISCLAIMER: This is not investment advice, blah blah blah, it's just gloating over watching web-spam.com fail.

    John

  2. Ads not as profitable as hoped? by plover · · Score: 2 · on A Pair of Google Bits
    As a user, I find Google's AdWords much less heinous than DoubleClick advertising.

    Speaking of which, DoubleClick made the news today: in this article, DoubleClick is cutting their workforce by 10% and this article mentions their stock being downgraded from "buy" to "hold".

    DISCLAIMER: This is not investment advice, blah blah blah, it's just gloating over watching web-spam.com fail.

    John

  3. Re:Please, give me your crystal ball by f5426 · · Score: 2 · on Tech Stocks Rollercoaster - How Was Your Ride?
    > How about the stocks that don't offer anything? Red Hat?

    Yes. As the original sentence is in a conditional statment, you can put those too if you want. And amazon. And rambus. And microsoft. Whatever you want.

    Btw, did anyone already noticed that while ESR is a stock symbol while there is no RMS, nor GPL ?

    http://www.cnetinvestor.com/quote-fast.asp?symbol= ESR

    Cheers,

    --fred

  4. It's a "for profit" company?!?! by karmma · · Score: 2 · on AMD and SuSE Porting Linux to Sledgehammer

    Obviously, you haven't seen VA Linux stock prices. Wow.

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    This space available. Reasonable rates.

  5. Re:Compression by GigaGoogle · · Score: 1 · on Download The Human Genome
    Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
    Huffman would better compression algorithm in my opinion. Huffman uses a tree to determine which encodings to use for each symbol. The encodings might be similar to this:

    This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

  6. Re:Compression by GigaGoogle · · Score: 1 · on Download The Human Genome
    Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
    Huffman would better compression algorithm in my opinion. Huffman uses a tree to determine which encodings to use for each symbol. The encodings might be similar to this:

    This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

  7. Re:Compression by GigaGoogle · · Score: 1 · on Download The Human Genome
    Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
    Huffman would better compression algorithm in my opinion. Huffman uses a tree to determine which encodings to use for each symbol. The encodings might be similar to this:

    This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

  8. IPO sanity check passed successfully... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera Systems Files For IPO

    I just ran the IPO_sanity_checker to find out
    whether Caldera qualifies for an IPO.
    Here goes the output:

    C:\> IPO_sanity_checker --verbose "Caldera Systems"
    IPO_sanity_checker V.1.03 ©1999,y2k fool.com
    ...checking financial status... (OK)
    ...checking SEC filing... (OK)
    ...checking News rags... (OK)
    Summary:
    Caldera Systems posted a net loss of $9.4 million in the year ended Oct. 31,
    compared with a net loss of $8 million in the same period one year earlier.
    Revenue rose to $3.1 million from $1.1 million.     (source)

    Recommendation: strong buy!
    C:\>

    PS: I loved those Penguin Caffeinated Peppermints very much,
    which they distributed at LinuxWorld.
    So if there still were any doubts, count me in :)

  9. Here's a press release... by Linux+Freak · · Score: 2 · on Caldera Systems Files For IPO

    I didn't see any press release linked with the story. So here's one from C/NET.

    (Of course, if you had seen the announcement on http://www.LinuxNinja.com, you would have already known that. ;-) )

    (Score: -1, Shameless Plug)

  10. The lawsuit is now settled! by tilly · · Score: 3 · on Caldera Gets Mucho Dolares & Case Against MS Continues

    See the press release.

    Ben

  11. The Drowning Companies by Kerg · · Score: 1 · on Sun's MAJC vs Intel's IA-64

    It seems to me that SGI is the drowning company here, not Sun. SGI last month reported losses much worse than expected (37 cents per share, when the street expected only 7 cents per share) and recently Sun announced workstat ion aimed directly at SGI's market (visualization and simulation).