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Most importantly of all, technical people with lots of money who care more about innovation by other people than piling up more money for themselves.

We need to start a compaign to get rich techies with more money than they need to speak up.

In unrelated news, http://forbes.com/ just came out with it's list of richest Americans.

Most importantly of all, technical people with lots of money who care more about innovation by other people than piling up more money for themselves.

We need to start a compaign to get rich techies with more money than they need to speak up.

In unrelated news, http://forbes.com/ just came out with it's list of richest Americans.

You want a job? Vote Republican. I know that's hard for liberal slashdot to swallow, but it's the truth.

No, it isn't.

In fact, we're better with neither .

In the words of Public Enemy Don't believe the hype

Branson had been in talks with the now-defunct Rotary Rocket company (also based in Mojave) as long ago as 1999.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0705/6401140a.ht ml

Oh for God's sake. let go of that pride somewhat, and instead of viewing India as a competitor, why not think of it as a gift to have a country that is halfway across the world from you, with 1 billion people, who doesn't hate your fucking guts and isn't trying to blow up your citizens with its nukes, and happens to be a democracy - a system which is comprehensible to Americans? Why not push for some sort of partnership, technological, business or other which ay fuel more jobs for all of us. India is in desperate need of infrastructure, and political will. Try and find ways to help India get that, and make some money in the process. I remember somebody beforehand who said that India's market is closed to American goods. That's bullshit. American companies don't consider India a market lucrative enough for their products. I used to be a former employee of Amazon.com, and I got the opportunity to ask Jeff Bezos (circa 2000) when he was gonna start up Amazon India, and his response was to look at me quizzically like India was about as close to America as the distant star Vega and say "It's not on our top 10 list of things to do at this point". Then sometime early this year, eBay (whom Amazon considers a competitor) went and bought Baazee, and has thus stolen a lead on Amazon. Instead of saying trade is one way between India and America to India's ultimate benefit, why not try and develop the Indian market so that you can sell your products there? India WAS a closed market, but that was way back in 1991. If American companies aren't going to India now, it's because they don't want to go and do the hard work. They'd rather find a new way to sell chewing-gum flavoured toothpaste to a bunch of Europeans. Unilever, a dutch company involved in the sale of Household goods (like P & G) wanted to sell Shampoo in India. But of course being a low income country, they couldn't figure out how to do it. Then one of their marketing suits realized that instead of selling the shampoo in large bottles, it should be repackaged into small single-use plastic satchets. The reason was that most of the Indians never had large amounts of money on them but they could afford the small and cheap satchets. End result, they ended up selling a shitload more shampoo than they ever imagined. Find a way to sell something to a 1 billion people, and you won't be bothered about losing a few thousand jobs to them. Heck all of you have degrees, you can read and write. How hard can it be?

I don't think the article still exists but Forbes.com had a piece where they talked about google.. they mentioned the following.. From Forbes.com: Most recently Google scored a company called Applied Semantics, whose content-scanning techniques can be used to tailor ads not just based on the words a user searches, but also on the actual pages he reads on the Internet. I would assume that they could easily put this technology into a browser.

Quote found at Forbes:

Steve Jobs--who was heavily influenced by the counterculture attitudes of the late 1960s and early '70s--has been said to have admitted that the computer company was named Apple in partial tribute to the Beatles.

You should probably check the source of the article before getting too paranoid.

Of course MSNBC DID pick it up, but I would be surprised if they were the only ones.

Like NetZero HiSpeed? Ohh look, it even has something called a pop up blocker and megamail. I have no idea what the hell those are but they certainly sound spiffy. Please, take my money and sign me up! I want to get in on this interweb before it blows up.

Star Wars has gone from a good movie with good morals to a cow which can be milked.

PC Mag and Forbes have reviews and InfoSync has a detailed news article. Forbes provides some perspective to the objective of integrating personal organizer with phone. PC Mag reads a bit like a spec list. I found the MSNBC review provided already more interesting, but you can look for yourself.

Read this article about the NAB and XM radio, and all the stuff that the NAB has done over the years, and you'll be sick. The NAB makes Microsoft look like a saint.

Wrong on all counts.

Our public school system grew out of the industrial revolution's need for people to have a minimum skill set...

The U.S. school system was created when most jobs were in agriculture. That origin still survives in the tradition of the summer holidays, even in college, when students were needed for planting and harvesting.

...and be regimented from an early age to follow a bell system.

If the worst the school system did was to get employees to show up on time, it would be more of an achievement. In fact, there is a high drop out rate and the 3 month summer hiatus runs counter to the minimal vacations offered in businesses.

The schools are great at producing people with stunted reasoning skills...

The school system is also great at producing scientists and engineers that rank with the best in the world.

skills taught have eroded to the point that McDonald's now has pictures of the food on the cash register instead of text.

They're called icons and they're found on every computer screen. It has something to do with ergonomics, not education standards.

...who can be content working at Wal Mart

Last I heard, no one working at WalMart was content was the wages and many were in revolt over its management practices.

There are some political parties who just can't afford to have an informed or educated electorate (hint: they tend to cut education spending and demonize teachers...

More is now spent on public education than ever and a college education is accessible to more students than ever before.

You would expect a school system founded on industrial employment principles to have an 8 hour day, two weeks vacation, no music, phys ed, foreign languages or math beyond algegra. Students would be expelled for arriving late and get grades based on seniority rather than test scores.

I suspect the biggest shock of a student's young life is when he gets his first job and sees how little it resembles high school or college.

"why are my school tuition fees being spent on frivilous sundries benefiting 3rd party companies instead of improving my schools educational resources"

Here's why: Princeton Review's "America's Most Connected Campuses" methodology

Take a look at the stuff on this list (e.g. Computer/Student Ratio, Handheld Computing, Digital Streaming), and you'll see all of the various technology bandwagons that are attracting the lemmings of academia.

This is why Dell and the gang are having a ball dumping computers onto the education market. This is why Duke will buy ipods. Nobody asks, "How will this technology actually be used to create a better learning environment?" All you have to do to move up in the rankings is buy, buy, buy!

>But all of them? Even the ones of failing companies?

They get hired based on their percieved value to the company and get axed if they don't perform, same as anyone else. They get a golden parachute to ensure no public squabbling which would hurt public opinon/confidence in the company.

What would you suggest as an alternative? Tying pay to revenue/profit would be an incentive for short term thinking, as well as an impediment for finding someone to turn around an ailing business. Tying pay to the pay that the lowest paid worker gets is just an incentive to leave for greener pa$ture$ at the first opportunity.

>Years back, I heard Eisner's "total annual compensation" placed in the $100,000,000 range. If we guess that the guy serving the mouse-eared ice cream bars made $50,000 per year, that's not 40X, that 2000X. Further, I suspect the $50k estimate is generous.

Here is a rather informative discussion on Eisner's compensation history. Note that it points out that a lot of what he got is based on his gamble of taking stock options as a large part of his compensation, i.e. he got money based on his performance. As it should be.

As things started to go downhill, he got only direct pay plus a bonus based on meeting specific goals. (Here is a chart showing annual compensation after 1996 when things started to go downhill. (Note that the shown hypothetical stock option values are based on an accounting computation designed to estimate future value. As the Forbes article here points out, their actual value at the moment is zero.)

Now that things are really hitting the fan at Disney, people are trying to axe him. Also as it should be.

What's the problem?

>I still maintain that for most CEOs, outside of a few shining stars, they're in an overpay-ourselves club.

There's no doubt that there are outrageous compensation packages, but perhaps the people who hire CEOs are not as stupid as we think.

Thanks for the link.

Like the two GulfStream 5's that the Medieval History major who is running HP into the ground bought while she was in the middle of laying off thousands to 'SAVE MONEY'?
If the money was being put to better use the stockmarket would be doing much better, but it isn't.

The money is going to the CEO's and other high level execs.

From: http://www.forbes.com/2004/08/31/cx_da_0831topnews .html?partner=commentary_newsletter

NEW YORK - U.S. companies that outsourced the most jobs in 2003 also offered well-above average pay increases to their chief executives, according to a new study released this morning. Companies that made outsized political contributions to either the Democratic or the Republican parties also paid their CEOs unusually well, the study finds.

More From Dan Ackman

The average CEO compensation at the 50 firms outsourcing the most service jobs increased by 46% in 2003. That increase compares to an average hike of 9% for CEOs at 365 of the largest U.S. companies, according to a report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a non-profit that focuses on progressive research, and United for a Fair Economy, best known for its opposition to the repeal of the federal estate tax.

The study says that CEOs of the top outsourcing companies earned an average of $10.4 million in 2003, 28% more than the average CEO compensation of $8.1 million. These companies tended to be banks with call centers--such as Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) and Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people )--or technology companies with research facilities or call centers outside the U.S.--such as Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), Cognizant Technology Solutions and Intuit (nasdaq: INTU - news - people).

The study does not make the case that there is a causal relationship between outsourcing or political activism and CEO pay. However, it does claim a connection between contributions and at least one issue, the current effort in Congress to block rules that would require corporations to report all stock option grants as expenses in their financial statements.

The overall 9% pay increase is itself far in excess of pay increases enjoyed by Americans in general. For Americans overall, personal incomes rose by 3.2% between 2002 and 2003, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. After two years of narrowing, the CEO-to-worker wage gap is rising again. The CEO-pay-to-worker-pay ratio reached 301:1 in 2003, up from 282:1 in 2002, the study says.

Companies that gave large sums to political parties also tended to give outsize rewards to the boss. CEOs of the 69 companies that sponsored this summer's Democratic and Republican National Conventions saw their pay rise by 52% in 2003, far outpacing their fellow CEOs. (Elections laws generally bar corporations from giving money to candidates, though they may sponsor conventions.) Similarly, the 38 CEOs who have personally raised at least $100,000 for either the George W. Bush or John Kerry presidential campaigns (the list is heavily weighted for Bush) earned an average of $15.2 million in 2003, 88% more than the average large company CEO, the study says.

Major political sponsors included Altria (nyse: MO - news - people ) and American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ), both of which sponsored the conventions of both major parties. Financial firms were again well represented among sponsors. Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and Washington Group International sponsored the Democratic convention; Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) and American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ) sponsored the Republican convention. Companies headquartered in either Boston or New York, where the conventions were held are also prominent on the sponsor lists.

The study makes no claim that there is cause and ef

Is Linus secretly working for Microsoft?

Critical security flaws in Kerberos found in Unix, Linux, and Mac OS. Windows not affected.

Now, what are we obsessing about this week? Oh yeah, my mom uses Firefox now, therefore Open Sores really has a hope.

Is Linus secretly working for Microsoft?

Critical security flaws in Kerberos found in Unix, Linux, and Mac OS. Windows not affected.

The thing is, that I seem to remember a day when Slashdot was open and honest enough to discuss all sides of the issues. I guess this post will get whacked by an editor and my IP will get banned. Oh well... there are much better blogs out there nowadays anyway.

Is Linus secretly working for Microsoft?

Critical security flaws in Kerberos found in Unix, Linux, and Mac OS. Windows not affected.

The thing is, that I seem to remember a day when Slashdot was open and honest enough to discuss all sides of the issues. I guess this post will get whacked by an editor and my IP will get banned. Oh well... there are much better blogs out there nowadays anyway.

Is Linus secretly working for Microsoft?

Critical security flaws in Kerberos found in Unix, Linux, and Mac OS. Windows not affected.

The thing is, that I seem to remember a day when Slashdot was open and honest enough to discuss all sides of the issues. I guess this post will get whacked by an editor and my IP will get banned. Oh well... there are much better blogs out there nowadays anyway.

Is Linus secretly working for Microsoft?

Critical security flaws in Kerberos found in Unix, Linux, and Mac OS. Windows not affected.

The thing is, that I seem to remember a day when Slashdot was open and honest enough to discuss all sides of the issues. I guess this post will get whacked by an editor and my IP will get banned. Oh well... there are much better blogs out there nowadays anyway.

Is Linus SECRETLY working for MICROSOFT?

Is Linus SECRETLY working for MICROSOFT?

Slow news day or infatuated with Mozilla? Heck, I like Mozilla and use it at home and work, but I don't drop everything to see what's happened with their website in the last day. Gee willikers.

Here's some other fine articles which could probably have been posted:

Philadelphia Considering Free or Low Cost Wireless For All

Microsoft to Exploit Japan's Post Offices to deliver SP2 (their word, not mine!)

The Road Ahead, According to Steve Ballmer

X-Rays Reveal Mummy Faces (Low Cancer Risk to Mummy)

Owls Use Poop to Lure Beetles

It seems to me that anything to deal with anti-trust and Microsoft is just a calculated facade designed to maintain the status quo.

Bob Cringely wrote an interesting article (covered in Slashdot)explaining the economics of these anti-trust suits and how Micro$oft actually benefits.

And since these companies don't pay taxes or get tax breaks from Republicans, these suits are a sort of different way for the people in Washinton to get paid. Except this time, the trial lawyers get paid too!

So, the lawyer$ sue Micro$oft so that they can take a huge cut of the money they are going to hand over to the politician$. With class-action lawsuits, they have private lawyers (read expensive lawyers) representing individual claimants, most of whom don't care if they ever get the $20 rebate good toward more Microsoft products (because that's probably all they'll get.) This is a calculated public payoff to those in power (lawyers and politicians) by Microsoft to maintain they're monopoly.

Government: Freeze Microsoft!
Microsoft: What do you want? We're busy screwing the marketplace and raping consumers!
Government: This is a shakedown! Give us what we want and we'll let you go about your business.
Microsoft: Here take it! Now get it out here!

So, why doesn't Microsoft just roll over that easy? Cause they're just trying to talk down the car dealer. It's the same reason parents shouldn't get their kids everything they want, because then they'll just become spoiled and want more and more. They guys just fight over how much to they agree to be extorted for, throw in some free software for schools and libraries (cause that's a good campaign story) allowing the violator of the law to further entrench himself on his gang-land turf.

The stationary activity you mention is a valid market to target this device at. Just having a device that can handle MPEG4 decoding in such a small form factor is a huge step forward. In the generation after this one there will probably be a video output on these devices, allowing any display device. Throw 2 or 3 movies on a 20 GB player and head over to the party. Throw 40 political speeches and interviews on the player and hold a teach-in/rally for local voters. Or use the player as a portable studio for recording and playing back video in the field.

Also.. watch videos while you run? Where? Straight into traffic? Repeat after me: BAD IDEA. :-) Though I want to say there will be a big market for portable video display drivers combined with wearable displays. Would a lightweight, wearable display allow you to watch video while painting or doing chores? I think so.

Okay, according to here the count is at least 282 executives who were involved in siphoning money off of Enron. According to here there were a total of three Enron execs who had given in to the guilty plea as of 24-Aug-04

That's here and here.

And it's 292. So the FBI's batting 1% on the big players who've cost American investors multi-millions in fraud. Go get 'em boys! Score 1 for the People!

He's violating the Terms of Service he agreed to when he signed up for service. So he's in breach of the contract he voluntarily signed. Hence XM is well within thier rights to terminate his contract and pursue damages.

Honestly, I doubt it will ever make it that far, especially since Delphi has included a time delay feature (up to 30 minutes) into the new SkiFi2 reciever. http://www.xm411.com/

The time shifting arguement will probably never hold up in court, especially since they sell a similar function in thier own systems.

They are just doing the prudent thing and ensuring this is within legal bounds of copyright. Otherwise, they place their ability to obtain and broadcast copyrighted material at risk. Thus risking thier entire business.

If you want to know who you should really fight in the radio/tv space, it's the NAB.
Check out this article on thier attempts to silence satelite radio:
http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2004/0906/13 4.html

BTW: I am an XM subscriber and it's great.

Now instead of getting all our cars to drive environmentally friendlier and less expensive (keywords: electrical, hybrid, bio-fuel), we drop the effort and start producing a new kind of vehicle that flies.
And ofcourse it uses kerosine for that (ever seen an electrical plane, man-sized ?).
This gives us a whole new excuse to soup up more oil and pollute even more..

What's next ? Real personal rockets ?

I just got an Iomega Rev Drive and I like, though I don't use it for portable storage quite the way you do. Here's a review. It'll be expensive to add a drive in each location, about $300 each, but once you do, its cheap to add unlimited capacity. The cartridges are about the size of a Post-It note pad and hold 35 GB, or up to 90GB when the data is compressed. They cost about $50 each. Overall its probably too expensive for what you need, but my experience with the quality is pretty good. Data is safe for 30 years, so the company says. See also the product page.

WTF would the USPTO's THINKING have to do with it? The Director of the USPTO isn't some wizard in a throne room declaring what is and is not patentable. The USPTO does what Congress and Judges say. Period.

Congress didn't have anything to do with software patents, and the courts had very little to do with it. The SCOTUS decided that genetically engineered products were patentable. From that, somehow the USPTO decided that software was also patentable. There is a fairly short summary here

While charging for the product has made some people rich, I think some people have proved by now that you can get by without charging. If all software was free, IMHO the technology would still bounce along just fine, and probably in a more rational, beneficial, decentralized direction.

I figure if I had 1.67 billion dollars, I could probably set that up.

-db

ZDNet Story
Forbes

I had always felt there was an overheating problem. People in the newsgroups and suggested that I recondition my battery... which maybe helped some.

Anyway, glad to know that I'll be getting a new battery out of it.

AC

SCO hits back at IBM dismissal bid
Peter Williams, 08.18.04, 4:15 PM ET

The SCO Group has responded robustly to IBM's attempt to have a US district court dismiss some of SCO's main claims in its multi-billion dollar lawsuit. ...

Apple Computer, Inc. (AAPL), beset by angry creditors and faced with severe G5 production problems, is on the verge of bankruptcy and total collapse. Apple continues to nosedive into oblivion, as confirmed by industry watchers, investors, and, most painfully, by customers themselves.

As a recent study by Bank of America Securities puts it, Apple ekes out its small existence by peddling new hardware to its existing customers; once those customers are satisfied, Apple will run out of steam . If these disastrous financial forecasts aren't enough, one need only look to Netcraft for confirmation that Apple's market share among Web servers is slowly dwindling down to zero. The market share of Mac OS X is now eclipsed even by that of FreeBSD, another OS that is deeply imperiled.

But the abysmal server presence of OS X is the least of Apple's worries. Apple's most recent quarterly report indicates a death spiral of cash loss. Indeed, Apple has hemorrhaged some $276 million in the last quarter, while racking up a dizzying $2.4 billion in debt. Revenue from sales of the iPod, the portable music player that is barely keeping Apple afloat in this shipwreck of fiscal woe, declined dramatically, threatening to shrink further an already miniscule lifeline.

Likewise, sales of the eMac, iMac and Power Macintosh G5 lines continue to skid. Apple is unable to secure G5 processors in sufficient numbers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted, sending Apple stock into a deadly tailspin. The staggering decline in sales numbers confirms it: there is no doubt that one-time Apple customers, dismayed with the floundering ineptitude of their favorite company, have begun turning away in droves, seeking cheaper, faster hardware from manufacturers such as Dell.

Apple teeters on the precipice of doom, one step away from plummeting to its ultimate nadir of bankruptcy, chaos, and implosion. And with the crushing recent news that Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the forthcoming leadership vacuum and low morale at Apple will only hasten the inevitable. Wise investors will quickly dump AAPL stock and abandon the doomed company, now less than one year away from complete disintegration.

It's time to move to a new platform: Apple is dead.

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No one has discredited Moore's statements, or even argued coherently with them.

This turns out not to be the case. See here,here, here,here, and here.

Then, do a google search for "Michael Moore liar".

-jcr

Nice idea in theory, but as you said, most of the stock is held by a few hands, most notably The Canopy Group. The name Ralph Yarro might ring a few bells.

...bcause Apple and Steve Jobs are dying: Sell stock now.

Apple Computer, Inc. (AAPL), beset by angry creditors and faced with severe G5 production problems, is on the verge of bankruptcy and total collapse. Apple continues to nosedive into oblivion, as confirmed by industry watchers, investors, and, most painfully, by customers themselves.

As a recent study by Bank of America Securities puts it, Apple ekes out its small existence by peddling new hardware to its existing customers; once those customers are satisfied, Apple will run out of steam . If these disastrous financial forecasts aren't enough, one need only look to Netcraft for confirmation that Apple's market share among Web servers is slowly dwindling down to zero. The market share of Mac OS X is now eclipsed even by that of FreeBSD, another OS that is deeply imperiled.

But the abysmal server presence of OS X is the least of Apple's worries. Apple's most recent quarterly report indicates a death spiral of cash loss. Indeed, Apple has hemorrhaged some $276 million in the last quarter, while racking up a dizzying $2.4 billion in debt. Revenue from sales of the iPod, the portable music player that is barely keeping Apple afloat in this shipwreck of fiscal woe, declined dramatically, threatening to shrink further an already miniscule
lifeline.

Likewise, sales of the eMac, iMac and Power Macintosh G5 lines continue to skid. Apple is unable to secure G5 processors in sufficient numbers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted, sending Apple stock into a deadly tailspin. The staggering decline in sales numbers confirms it: there is no doubt that one-time Apple customers, dismayed with the floundering ineptitude of their favorite company, have begun turning away in droves, seeking cheaper, faster hardware from manufacturers such as Dell.

Apple teeters on the precipice of doom, one step away from plummeting to its ultimate nadir of bankruptcy, chaos, and implosion. And with the crushing recent news that Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the forthcoming leadership vacuum and low morale at Apple will only hasten the inevitable. Wise investors will quickly dump AAPL stock and abandon the doomed company, now less than one year away from complete disintegration.

It's time to move to a new platform: Apple is dead.

Apple and Steve Jobs are dying: Sell stock now.

Apple Computer, Inc. (AAPL), beset by angry creditors and faced with severe G5 production problems, is on the verge of bankruptcy and total collapse. Apple continues to nosedive into oblivion, as confirmed by industry watchers, investors, and, most painfully, by customers themselves.

As a recent study by Bank of America Securities puts it, Apple ekes out its small existence by peddling new hardware to its existing customers; once those customers are satisfied, Apple will run out of steam . If these disastrous financial forecasts aren't enough, one need only look to Netcraft for confirmation that Apple's market share among Web servers is slowly dwindling down to zero. The market share of Mac OS X is now eclipsed even by that of FreeBSD, another OS that is deeply imperiled.

But the abysmal server presence of OS X is the least of Apple's worries. Apple's most recent quarterly report indicates a death spiral of cash loss. Indeed, Apple has hemorrhaged some $276 million in the last quarter, while racking up a dizzying $2.4 billion in debt. Revenue from sales of the iPod, the portable music player that is barely keeping Apple afloat in this shipwreck of fiscal woe, declined dramatically, threatening to shrink further an already miniscule lifeline.

Likewise, sales of the eMac, iMac and Power Macintosh G5 lines continue to skid. Apple is unable to secure G5 processors in sufficient numbers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted, sending Apple stock into a deadly tailspin. The staggering decline in sales numbers confirms it: there is no doubt that one-time Apple customers, dismayed with the floundering ineptitude of their favorite company, have begun turning away in droves, seeking cheaper, faster hardware from manufacturers such as Dell.

Apple teeters on the precipice of doom, one step away from plummeting to its ultimate nadir of bankruptcy, chaos, and implosion. And with the crushing recent news that Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the forthcoming leadership vacuum and low morale at Apple will only hasten the inevitable. Wise investors will quickly dump AAPL stock and abandon the doomed company, now less than one year away from complete disintegration.

It's time to move to a new platform: Apple is dead.

Did you know that IBM tells users not to install Windows XP update

C:\>sudo
'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Ok maybe I wont.

Look before you leap ...
IBM says "dont patch"
IBM, for one, is holding off on installing the security focused update for Windows XP. In a note headlined "To patch - or not to patch" posted Friday on its corporate intranet, IBM tells its employees not to download SP2 when it becomes available because of compatibility issues.
... Not only is IBM showing evidence of compatibility issues with XP SP2. Microsoft's own software is also affected. Earlier this week the software vendor released an update for Microsoft CRM 1.2 because SP2 will prevent the original application from running correctly. Because of the broad changes, analysts have compared the XP service pack to a Windows upgrade instead of a simple update. Business users typically take much longer to install a new version of Windows than a service pack because of compatibility testing.

Okay, I see.

So what's Google's market capitalization? Well, um, I checked google...

For example, should Google really be worth $36.2 billion? Well, if the search engine giant, which unveiled pricing details and its ticker symbol (GOOG) Monday morning, begins trading at the upper end of its range, then that would be its market value.

That's comparable to Yahoo!, which currently has a market capitalization of about $37.8 billion.

So is that reasonable? I guess it is, I have no idea. The stock market still seems to me to pick these values out of thin air. If Google's market capitalization is less than Yahoo's, then I guess that couldn't be that unreasonable. Still, I find it amusing that that will be three times Apple's current market value.

My, how alliances change quickly around here... Tell me, as a real sheep, who should I believe? thanks

If I was going to post a Linux story, it would be about How linux is in violation of hundreds of patents, many of which belong to Microsoft.. I wonder why Slashdot ignores this story? Is this not news for nerds? Are you not nerds?

I wonder if they are as efficient as Linux breaking patents left and right like they are going out of style? Linux has a serious patent problem... and it's gonna cost you alot more than $699 to buy insurance pal.

I wonder if they are as efficient as Linux breaking patents left and right like they are going out of style? Linux has a serious patent problem... and it's gonna cost you alot more than $699 to buy insurance pal.

"People asked me why we chose Compaq," says Marshall Peterson, Celera's vice president of infrastructure technology. "The answer is simple. We took a benchmark and gave it to all the vendors. Only two could run it. One ran it in 87 hours.

Compaq ran it in seven." Peterson didn't disclose the name of the other vendor.

From Forbes.com