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Or, the patent could have nothing to do with what a bunch of /.ers and mindless newspaper and web hacks think it's about,

"The Real Deal On Microsoft's Playlist Patent"

That Tommy H. went to mickeysoft for a web server, citing security as a feature of mickeysoft is a dumbfsck decision. If he were my CXO, I would fire him (kick his butt out the door, and sue him for damages to the company). With Linux, I can get millitary grade security and stability (quite literally). I can get security enhanced Linux (courtesy of the National Security Agency: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux), and on top of the most-popular-on-the-internet Apache web server, lay down network level security via Fort-Knox-For-Linux, courtesy of the Space and Surface Warfare Command Center, San Diego (U.S. Navy: http://fortknox.sourceforge.net/). I know that Linux can perform extremely well on multi-million dollar computer hardware in the most demanding environments (http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/03 /15/cz_dl_0315linux.html), so with all of the compelling data, I would fire his sorry self, sue him for damages, and beg the Linux distributor to come back. He is either an idiot, or a paid marketing dummy, or both, and shouldn't be in charge of anything more demanding than official pen click-tester.

Here, just plug this into your browser, and it will work in an older version of the REAL player. (I have V. 8. I refuse to upgrade beyond it.)

http://images.forbes.com/video/fvn/misc/radiocontr olledhuman

If you have Firefox, you can set it up to download the file, first. That's what I did. It's kind of weird the way she smiles thru the whole thing and almost looks a little drunk. It's narrated in Japanese.

http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocont rolledhuman.rm Well, the thing didn't show up in my firefox.

mplayer http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocont rolledhuman.rm

ASF
RAM

ASF
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It's not the best alternative, but anything's got to be better than Real

http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocont rolledhuman.asf

here[realmedia]

should save you enduring over 20 !! adverts, 2 tracking scripts and 5 advertising companies trying to take your information without permsission

Now that Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson has successfully removed two pieces of fabric poking out of the shuttle's heat shield, a question remains: how did NASA discover these anomalies in the first place? In this article, Forbes.com writes that NASA can say thank you to a private Canadian company, Neptec, and its Laser Camera system (LCS). Neptec is working with NASA for ten years now, but it was the first time that its vision technology was used for external damage assessment of a shuttle. As NASA says it may cancel some future shuttle flights, Neptec plans to implement its 3-D imaging technology in military situations and on the battlefield. But read more...

Let's first look at some images of this laser camera system (Credits for images and captions below: Neptec).

Neptec's Laser Camera System (LCS) will be deployed at the tip of a new 50-foot (15-metre) inspection boom being deployed for the first time aboard Discovery for the Return to Flight mission. Manufactured by another Canadian company, MD Robotics, the boom is stored on the opposite side of the Shuttle's cargo bay from the Canadarm.

Neptec's Laser Camera system inspecting the nose of the shuttle

This 3-D rendering depicts Neptec's Laser Camera System, deployed on the Canadarm, scanning the nose cone of the Space Shuttle Discovery for potential damage to the Shuttle's heat shield tiles. NASA is harnessing Neptec's technology to detect tiny fractures in the Shuttle's heat shield before the crew risks re-entry.

Neptec's Laser Camera system deployed on its boom

[And below is] a close up of Neptec's Laser Camera System prior to the application of reflective Teflon tape. The picture shows the large radiator on the top of the enclosure that ensures the scanner will not overheat on orbit.

Neptec's Laser Camera system

The top image was extracted from this Macromedia Flash animation. Larger versions of the two other images are available here and there. Finally, you'll find other images in the gallery accessible from this page.

Now, here are some technical details given by the Forbes.com article.

Discovery's "bread-box sized" laser camera system (LCS) is one example of Neptec's advanced technology. It doesn't relay information through video. Instead,it transmits the information to a computer, which then creates a model accurate to a few millimeters. Unlike radar or video imaging, the model can integrate the data according to set parameters: It "knows" if something looks different or has changed.

Iain Christie, director of research and development at Neptec, says it is the equivalent of "intelligence in three dimensions."

As I noticed above, future shuttle flights have been put on hold -- and might be canceled for a while. So what Neptec will do if it loses a customer like NASA?

These highly accurate 3-D image scans can be implemented in numerous military situations as well. Next-generation, truly "smart" laser cameras have already performed well in testing. On the battlefield, they could identify approaching vehicles to prevent friendly fire incidents and could alert soldiers to irregularities in surrounding environments. "Wi

The Eyes of the Space Shuttle

Now that Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson has successfully removed two pieces of fabric poking out of the shuttle's heat shield, a question remains: how did NASA discover these anomalies in the first place? In this article , Forbes.com writes that NASA can say thank you to a private Canadian company, Neptec , and its Laser Camera system (LCS). Neptec is working with NASA for ten years now, but it was the first time that its vision technology was used for external damage assessment of a shuttle. As NASA says it may cancel some future shuttle flights, Neptec plans to implement its 3-D imaging technology in military situations and on the battlefield. But read more...

Let's first look at some images of this laser camera system (Credits for images and captions below: Neptec).

Neptec's Laser Camera System (LCS) will be deployed at the tip of a new 50-foot (15-metre) inspection boom being deployed for the first time aboard Discovery for the Return to Flight mission. Manufactured by another Canadian company, MD Robotics, the boom is stored on the opposite side of the Shuttle's cargo bay from the Canadarm.

This 3-D rendering depicts Neptec's Laser Camera System, deployed on the Canadarm, scanning the nose cone of the Space Shuttle Discovery for potential damage to the Shuttle's heat shield tiles. NASA is harnessing Neptec's technology to detect tiny fractures in the Shuttle's heat shield before the crew risks re-entry.

[And below is] a close up of Neptec's Laser Camera System prior to the application of reflective Teflon tape. The picture shows the large radiator on the top of the enclosure that ensures the scanner will not overheat on orbit.

The top image was extracted from this Macromedia Flash animation. Larger versions of the two other images are available here and there . Finally, you'll find other images in the gallery accessible from this page .

Now, here are some technical details given by the Forbes.com article.

Discovery's "bread-box sized" laser camera system (LCS) is one example of Neptec's advanced technology. It doesn't relay information through video. Instead,it transmits the information to a computer, which then creates a model accurate to a few millimeters. Unlike radar or video imaging, the model can integrate the data according to set parameters: It "knows" if something looks different or has changed.

Iain Christie, director of research and development at Neptec, says it is the equivalent of "intelligence in three dimensions."

As I noticed above, future shuttle flights have been put on hold -- and might be canceled for a while. So what Neptec will do if it loses a customer like NASA?

These highly accurate 3-D image scans can be implemented in numerous military situations as well. Next-generation, truly "smart" laser cameras have already performed well in testing. On the battlefield, they could identify approaching vehicles to prevent friendly fire incidents and could alert soldiers to irregularities in surrounding environments. "With the IEDs [improvised explosive device] we see being used, this could warn them of even small changes," Christie said.

Neptec is a small company with a revenue of about $20 million in 2005, but

The latest ruling determined that the loading of software into a machine makes it into a new machine, and thus, patentable, but it didn't go so far as to say that software, by itself, is patentable- the USPTO has held that software is primarily a series of mathematical algorithms, and as such cannot be patented.

From what I've read, it is the USPTO that allowed software patents on its own. The SCOTUS ruled that genetically-engineered organisms were patentable. Apparently, the patent office leadership thinks software is a man-made organism.

> IBM is to a great extent a research company;

IBM makes $2 billion/year from patent licenses. With that amount of money and over 10000 patents in diverse areas, they make MS look like a grade-school bully.
From: http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html

After IBM's presentation, our turn came. As the Big Blue crew looked on (without a flicker of emotion), my colleagues--all of whom had both engineering and law degrees--took to the whiteboard with markers, methodically illustrating, dissecting, and demolishing IBM's claims. We used phrases like: "You must be kidding," and "You ought to be ashamed." But the IBM team showed no emotion, save outright indifference. Confidently, we proclaimed our conclusion: Only one of the seven IBM patents would be deemed valid by a court, and no rational court would find that Sun's technology infringed even that one.

An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"

>Thus they come up with large numbers of what most Slashdotters see as legitimate inventions.

Legitimate?;
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-961803.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/17/005232.shtml

More half ass stuff from 1up.They post what they want,so they can bash who they want.

Sony=52Million in the Red
"Sony's game unit, which makes the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable gaming consoles, saw a 64 percent sales increase to 105.4 billion yen ($941.1 million). But the division also booked a 5.9 billion yen ($52.7 million) operating loss due to marketing and research expenses. That loss widened from 2.9 billion yen the previous year.

Shipments of the PSP, which went on sale late last year in Japan and earlier this year in the United States, totaled 2.09 million worldwide, while PS2 sales rose nearly fivefold to 3.53 million units. "

http://www.forbes.com/associatedpress/feeds/ap/200 5/07/28/ap2162457.html

Microsoft=178 Million in the red..
"A 22 percent spike in Xbox sales narrowed the company's losses in its home and entertainment division to $179 million, compared to $340 million a year ago.

"I think that, to some degree, validates Microsoft's business model in getting into the console space in the first place," Rosoff said. "Microsoft is selling more games and fewer consoles, and that's really the business model. They acknowledged it would be expensive to get a foothold in the market."

http://www.forbes.com/associatedpress/feeds/ap/200 5/07/22/ap2152617.html

Nintendo=In the black with a thing called PROFIT
Read there returns here.
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/annual_report.jsp

Nintendo is not going to be closing up anytime soon.They have made a big profit in seven of the past 8 quarters.Barly red in the 8 to make any diff for the year, which was deep into the black.

Sony has been hit and miss.There game part of there company has been one of the few things making any money, even tho they have to sell 2-3 times as much as nintendo to make even close to same profit.

Microsoft has only had one quater of profit sense the xbox has come out, if it wasn't because they have a big company to back it up, it would have been canned a long time ago.

More half ass stuff from 1up.They post what they want,so they can bash who they want.

Sony=52Million in the Red
"Sony's game unit, which makes the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable gaming consoles, saw a 64 percent sales increase to 105.4 billion yen ($941.1 million). But the division also booked a 5.9 billion yen ($52.7 million) operating loss due to marketing and research expenses. That loss widened from 2.9 billion yen the previous year.

Shipments of the PSP, which went on sale late last year in Japan and earlier this year in the United States, totaled 2.09 million worldwide, while PS2 sales rose nearly fivefold to 3.53 million units. "

http://www.forbes.com/associatedpress/feeds/ap/200 5/07/28/ap2162457.html

Microsoft=178 Million in the red..
"A 22 percent spike in Xbox sales narrowed the company's losses in its home and entertainment division to $179 million, compared to $340 million a year ago.

"I think that, to some degree, validates Microsoft's business model in getting into the console space in the first place," Rosoff said. "Microsoft is selling more games and fewer consoles, and that's really the business model. They acknowledged it would be expensive to get a foothold in the market."

http://www.forbes.com/associatedpress/feeds/ap/200 5/07/22/ap2152617.html

Nintendo=In the black with a thing called PROFIT
Read there returns here.
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/annual_report.jsp

Nintendo is not going to be closing up anytime soon.They have made a big profit in seven of the past 8 quarters.Barly red in the 8 to make any diff for the year, which was deep into the black.

Sony has been hit and miss.There game part of there company has been one of the few things making any money, even tho they have to sell 2-3 times as much as nintendo to make even close to same profit.

Microsoft has only had one quater of profit sense the xbox has come out, if it wasn't because they have a big company to back it up, it would have been canned a long time ago.

Hollywood uses Linux Clusters to Generate CGI's

Article Posted: 11/6/2003

(FORBES.COM) These days the big star at Sony Pictures' special-effects shop, Imageworks, isn't Spider-Man or Stuart Little--it's a piece of software called Linux.

Instead of buying pricey specialized computers from the likes of Silicon Graphics, the techies at Imageworks simply load Linux onto hundreds of cheap Intel-based PCs to crank out dazzling effects for movies like Lord of the Rings, Seabiscuit and Spider-Man. Better yet, these low-cost systems are way more powerful than what they replaced.

"Almost everything we do now we could not have done before," says George Joblove, a senior vice president at Imageworks. "To have Spider-Man swinging through New York City, to have the entire city--the sky, the buildings, everything in that frame--digitally created, that could not have been done five years ago."

Most of Hollywood's big special-effects and animation companies now use Linux. DreamWorks, maker of Shrek and Sinbad, boasts on its Web site of its "groundbreaking adoption of Linux." Digital Domain, which worked on Titanic and Apollo 13, runs Linux on about 1,000 processors. Lucas Digital runs Linux on nearly 1,500 boxes to create effects for the Star Wars epics and Harry Potter.

Most of these companies use Linux in "render farms," where hundreds of low-cost Intel-based servers are yoked together to do the number-crunching needed to churn out visual effects and animated images. Imageworks and others also use Linux to power some desktop machines that artists use.

Until two years ago most effects shops used expensive workstations from SiliconGraphics. The SGI machines used specialized chips and SGI's own souped-up version of Unix. But these days ordinary Intel machines can outgun SGI machines for a fraction of the price, and free Linux sharpens that edge. Hammerhead Productions, a 30-person effects house in Studio City, Calif. that created effects for Blue Crush and 2 Fast 2 Furious, uses Linux machines that cost one-tenth the price of its old SGIgear--$1,200 versus $12,000--and yet are ten times faster, says Thaddeus Beier, director of technology.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1124/096.html

Gates donates at least half that amount to charity.

I don't know the figures from the Microsoft corporation (or their charitable employee matching programs etc...) but I'd assume they contribute enough in combination with Bill to surpass that 10 billion.

I just thought it was interesting and as others have pointed out, it's not all an evil conspiracy with no redeming public value.

"The supercomputer has a performing capacity equivalent to 500,000 high-functioning computers, the business daily said." Forbes, June 22, 2005 Haha ha.

If housing prices stagnate then they won't owe more than the house is worth. Even if it prices go down a little most of the deficit will be covered by the down payment in most cases.

Look at current housing prices, now look at current wages. Where are all these people getting the money to pay these prices for houses? From crazy types of loans like interest only ARMs, neg-am ARMs, etc... Downpayments, rofl. I'd love to find some stats on how many people are putting 20% down right now. Heck, I'd love to know how many people are putting anything down right now.

If housing prices stagnate and/or interest rates go up people are going to be stuck. This will lead to people who have to sell because they couldn't ever afford the house they were in to begin with. As more people get caught in this situation prices will fall and then people end up owing more than the house is worth. Then you have people just walking away, and lender take it in the gut. IMHO, some lenders need to take a good hit on the head with the aweful loans they are pushing on people. Look up the Freedom Loan for an example of something that should be illegal, and I'm usually one who's all for personal responsibility!

Sure, there will be some exceptions, but I don't think it'll be as widespread as you're suggesting.

With >50% of new mortgages being some sort of interest only ARMs there are a lot of people who will get caught when rates tick up. Even Alan Greenspan is warning about the housing market. IMHO, the US is on the edge of recession, that when we look back will be linked directly to the crazy loans they are letting people take out. I remember reading that the last time this many interest only loans were being taken out was right before the stock market crash of 1929 and the great depression.

This has been the case for every update for IE since 5.5. IE ships with the OS. It defaults to MS Search. They have always done this. This simple problem is that MSN search sucks. Until MS fixes that huge glaring problem, no one will use MS search. Every time Google comes up at slashdot, someone always posts,"In longhorn search will default to MS, killing google." Well default or not, it's easy enough to change. Until MS search actually is a good as Google will competition be a problem for Google. Despite the 150 million dollar ad campaign for MS search they were only able to steal roughly .03 % of the market from Google in June.

They need a better search product. Search isn't about search web pages. It's about finding the information you need.

"Some pundits had speculated that Apple would lose Mac market share while it transitions from IBM's PowerPC chip to Intel's Pentium. But 16% of the responders said the decision by Steve Jobs' team to switch to Intel made them more likely to consider buying Macs. Only 2.7% said they were "less likely" to buy a Mac because of the switch."

Of course the civilian population reacts differently than Slashdot readers...

Even Forbes posted by 12:25 PM Friday , beating ZDN/CNET by some 1.25 days.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/07/15/hewlett-p ackard-layoffs-0715markets02.html

Does any submitter/top posting authority at /. read Forbes? Use Google? Use MySQL to prevent dupe articles? Have pull/clout to get the dope straight from the horse's mouth within 4 hours of a major report event?

Sure, and I'm sure they'll do well for the rest of the year and probably most of next. However, I just don't see how they can keep it up much further than that.

This is (imho) a contributing factor to their migration to x86. As you know, Apple is a a very popular brand right now, and they obviously want to continue that trend. x86 arch will presumably lower the cost of their hardware and make Apple computers more accessible while they're still hot.

What about inheritance? Do you still deny that people inherit money, and that the inherited wealth in America is disproportionately in the hands of white families?

Why didn't you reply to any of the other points?

Do you really believe the average black woman in America has the same chance of financial success as the average white male? Affirmative action is often applied incorrectly in practice, but do you understand the basic reason for it? It is that the already-wealthy have an unfair advantage. It's an attempt to mitigate the unfairness.

And back to the original poster's point: why don't you take a look at the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans and tell us again why the "rich old white men" comment was racist?

"Race matters....only to racists."

Sorry, no. Race matters to racists and to the people affected by them.

One shouldn't treat others specially based on race, but to ignore that there exist racial discrimination, racially influenced political power, and racial disparities in wealth is willful ignorance (and indirectly racist in itself).

Then I know a few other folks who should be executed aswell...

Learn your history mariox19!
There was nothing new but the BIOS in the original IBM PC. Everything but the BIOS was off the shelf hardware. But get this : nobody licensed it! Compaq took the IBM PC und reverse engineered the BIOS. Just after this there grew a market of IBM compatible PCs.
Ohh, have a look here : http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html how IBM "licensed" their valuable IP to others.

Christ, its a bloody childen's book not freaking gold bars

I think that the author JK Rowlings would beg to differ with you.

This article on forbes indicates that the whole thing about selling it was likely fabricated.

While Deutsche Telekom spokespersons refused to comment on a report they termed "pure speculation," high-ranking company officials told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung they were convinced the report in the Wall Street Journal Europe was fabricated.

They told the newspaper they believed certain elements in the U.S. financial sector were interested in "disrupting Telekom and its U.S. investments."

Exactly. I am suprised at the apathy of /. in the posts so far. For the reasons listed in the parent post among others O'Connor has had a HUGE impact on a lot of vital supreme court decisions by being the swing vote. She is often regarded as the most powerful woman in America (or at least in the top 10). This is a monumental announcement and should not be taken lightly.

I'm not sure how Sony comes into play, but IBM made a deal with a company called Mercury for them to use the Cell. According to their press release, they will be using it to build stuff in "medical imaging, industrial inspection, aerospace and defense, seismic processing, and telecommunications".

This article is talking about blowing off 12% of a customer base. Apple, by most accounts, only counts for 3% of all PC users

Since they already have EuroDisney, and this Fusion thingy might not pan out, the headline just as easily could have been: France to Be Site of World's Second Largest Boondogle

No way ! Not even close ! Everybody knows that the single largest boondogle in human history is Eurotunnel !

Oh wait......

Thomas-
(Disclaimer: Yes, I'm French)

I love this line;
"Usually it's superior. For 2000-2004, it wasn't."

Usually but not for the last FIVE YEARS! ROFLMAO

Which stock market are you talking about??? AMDs' stock went up %6.3 today.
And I guess these guys at forbes don't know the market like you, eh?

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/06/28/0628autom arketscan14.html

'High Degree Of Likelihood' For AMD Win Against Intel
06.28.05, 2:33 PM ET

Wells Fargo Securities said there is "a high degree of likelihood" that Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) will be found guilty after Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) filed an antitrust complaint against Intel in U.S. federal district court. Wells Fargo said its view that Intel will be found guilty "is based not only on our reading of the complaint, but also on Intel's agreement this spring to proceedings in Japan that alleged many of the same actions as well as AMD's previous victory in a protracted legal procedure against Intel regarding access to intellectual property." The research firm also said, "The extensive nature of the citations, with specificity as to both the timing and nature of the alleged infractions, would appear to set up a logical presentation of the case to a jury." Considering different scenarios of damage awards to AMD, Wells Fargo said there is about a 75% probability for an award of about $8 per share. A ruling favorable to AMD would also likely benefit future earnings, to the tune of adding about $8 to $12 to the price target. Wells Fargo rates AMD at "buy" with a $25 price target and said, "We continue to view AMD as one of the most attractively valued equities in our coverage universe."

Looks like a nice alternative to crappy does-this-belong-hered operating systems. Let's switch! :P

again from driverheaven

It sounds like you're saying drug companies should be run like Walmart (focusing on low prices instead of innovation), like European drug companies. If it sounds so easy, you might try your hand at financing the approval of a new drug. You may find it a more expensive and risky proposition than you imagine.

I suspect if you add up Amazon's profits and their losses, you'd have a very large negative number. The reason they're making money now has something to do with the billions thrown their way during the dot-com boom and self-fullfilling stock calls made by guys like this.

Linux is terrible says OpenBsd creator.

Linux is terrible says OpenBsd creator.

http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinfrastructure/20 05/06/15/jboss-ibm-linux_cz_dl_0615jboss.html?part ner=yahootix&referrer=

Absolutely right. On the 15th, the same Dan Lyons released this little gem. An excerpt:

This is what open source software is all about: creating knockoffs and giving them away, destroying the value of whatever the other guy is selling.

This is of course plain false. Counter-example: IBM, a heavy-weight in open-source, is not starving.

The complete idiocy of this statement means that nobody at Forbes understands the nature of open-source and its implications. And this is a magazine that is supposed to explain us how to financially suceed? With advice like that, their readers aren't going to threaten Warren Buffet and Bill Gates anytime soon.

For all we know, Linus could have said that. The Forbes hack just quoted a single word, out of context.

Forbes have an agenda, this artical is mearly one of many. This week, Forbes will mostly be attempting to prove that Open Source developers spend all their time infighting. Ref: Open Source Smack-Down

Yeah. That and there is some very well reasoned arguments over on undeadly that Theo was taken out of context. Which given everything else I've ever read from him on the subject makes perfect sense.

Also the person here seems to have left out this link.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html

Having said that I've been using Debian since 1997 and I'm in the process of switching over to OpenBSD. To a large degree this is because the "secure by default" mindset fits with where I want to be and want I want to do more than any Linux distro can or to be honest should. But to a large degree the attitude on behalf of Linux users is a *big* part of the reason I'm leaving.

It will be interesting to see what Theo has to say about the accuracy of this article. I'd suggest you watch undeadly to see what happens.

"It's terrible," De Raadt says. "Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'"

The bottom line is that it works better than commercial software. Anyone can look at the source code and see the comments, which are blunt about what needs fixing and how crappy the hardware is. Even commercial Linux rocks next to popular alternatives. For ease of installation, use, relative protection from mal and spyware, you can't beat a distribution like Mepis. Winners can step up to pure Debian, "losers" can fall all the way down to Caldera Open Linux and still do better than what 90% of the world uses.

There's also a difference in motivation. "Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix," De Raadt says. The irony, however, is that while noisy Linux fanatics make a great deal out of their hatred for Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), De Raadt says their beloved program is starting to look a lot like what Microsoft puts out. "They have the same rapid development cycle, which leads to crap," he says.

That's what Micrososoft would have everyone believe, and so Microsoft is worth hating. People use Linux for freedom and the superior performance it brings. Study after study show this. Why people like Dan Lyons don't get it is beyond me, except that he might be a Fanboy.

Let's look back at other nasty junk he's written:

• seems to have noticed Red Hat in 1999, cites M$ hatred as reason d'etre.
• Big SCO supporter who's finally turned around? I doubt it. His long series of BS about SCO is where I remember him from. What a HUGE TROLL.
• Others use him as a case study of what's wrong with Tech Journalism. They are being generous and ignoring his pro-M$ slant.
• Here's another guy who's being generous.

Dan Lyons, you are a shill. I dare you to make the entire tapes of your interview with Theo available. Anything less is second hand BS and the kind of thing the web makes obsolete.

Sorry for you. Perhaps you prefer forbes :
http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/2005/0 6/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html
Is linux for loosers ?

Even the highly respected Forbes magazine has published an article that absolutely demolishes the reputation of Linux as a "quality" OS. More and more experts are chiming in with the FACTS: Linux is a peice of shit operating system for losers. The future is Solaris on servers and OS X on desktops. Long live Apple! Long live Sun!

Chrysler Crossfire / Mercedes SLK So maybe that scenario isn't so far-fetched.

The $1.8 Million investment should indicate that this is just a study, and that it's probably a lot of hype for whatever reason at the most famous air show in the world.

Seeing Japan and France in the news together also makes me wonder if this is meant to assuage some of the bust up over the iter reactor.

At any rate, I'm a bit surprised that the article emphasizes that this is France and Japan, and not Airbus and Japan - as this implies that France is doing this outside of Airbus. Interesting none the less, and I'm sure time will tell.

No because canada just declared it illegal.