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The main point. He didn't say against open source software, he didn't even say against linux. He said against the linux kernel. So linux distributions wouldn't be covered, neither would other open source projects like MySQL.

How is this great news for open source? Maybe great news for the kernel developers, unless somehow they threaten IBM.

I don't know what Daniel Lyons has to do with this article. It was written by Gary Reback, the attorney representing Sun at the time. Do a search for him. When it comes to patents and monopolies, this guy has a lot of experience.

Found an article by Daniel Lyons regarding ibm and linux. I don't see it as anti linux in any way have a read

Seems IBM hasn't changed it's tune much when IBM compared AIX to Linux a few years back. What I find most disturbing is that Sun gets ripped on for making the same kind of statements. Granted, they could say them better.

I think the most insightful, or at least amusing, thing I've read about this case lately was found at the bottom of the forbes article:

Indeed, SCO says the company's biggest investor, BayStar Capital, has been pushing SCO to drop its Unix business altogether and simply become a litigation machine, bringing intellectual property-related lawsuits. But SCO insists it remains committed to selling Unix software--when it's not busy fighting people in court.

The author of this, Daniel Lyons, is their resident Linux FUD slinger. It seems his only role is to spread this type of manure. The Forbes must have a lot of MS stock or something.

I'm trying to find a polite way to say "What are you on Crack!?!?!" but I'm coming up short. If IBM didn't invent they offensive use of software patents, they sure as hell perfected it.

My own introduction to the realities of the patent system came in the 1980s, when my client, Sun Microsystems--then a small company--was accused by IBM of patent infringement. Threatening a massive lawsuit, IBM demanded a meeting to present its claims. Fourteen IBM lawyers and their assistants, all clad in the requisite dark blue suits, crowded into the largest conference room Sun had.

The chief blue suit orchestrated the presentation of the seven patents IBM claimed were infringed, the most prominent of which was IBM's notorious "fat lines" patent: To turn a thin line on a computer screen into a broad line, you go up and down an equal distance from the ends of the thin line and then connect the four points. You probably learned this technique for turning a line into a rectangle in seventh-grade geometry, and, doubtless, you believe it was devised by Euclid or some such 3,000-year-old thinker. Not according to the examiners of the USPTO, who awarded IBM a patent on the process.

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?"

After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.

And with the recent news that Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with terminal cancer

I suspect your other doom-laden predictions are equally overstated. Even your own link to Forbes shows that Apple shares have increased more than $10 over the past 8 months (look at the share prices in the graph compared with the text of the article).

Conclusion: parent is a troll.

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 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.

3. Most importantly: there are doctors, pharmacists, managers at pharmaceuticals corporations, etc, who die of Cancer every year. Or have a bad case of diabetes.

Fortunately, you're right, companies are working on a cure for diabetes, or at least very effective treatments, meaning ones that target the problem and don't wreck your liver in the process.

Now, it is the smaller biotechs who tend to do these things, so there is some momentum problem in the larger pharma space.

Gila monsters shut down their pancreas during hybernation, that's how these got started.

If you've looked into Sun's Sun Ray Technology it's pretty neat. It offers a lot of features that similar windows technology does not.

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 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.

Ravicher's online bio also claims that he "practiced law" at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one of the country's most prestigious law firms. Actually, he spent eight weeks at Skadden as a summer intern while he was still attending law school."

Forbes has a rather more critical article about this.

that Forbe$ article is by the very same rabid anti-Linux pro-Micro$oft zealot Daniel Lyons, who obviously is too confused about the issues to know what he really wants and resorts to badmouthing anything about Linux even when he contradicts himself.

This is the same guy that was badmouthing IBM last year for not indemnifying users for Linux. Hello Daniel, IBM doesn't indemnify its Windows users either! But I think it does indemnify AIX users, because it actually develops that OS. Ya dink.

And now (when lots of companies have weighed in with indemnification for Linux and you are silent) and this is extended to patent insanity... you freak again. What's wrong now, ya nutjob?

Forbes has a rather more critical article about this.

Forbes has a rather more critical article about this.

Linux zealots have gone from complaining about FUD to spreading it themselves in all directions, including the open source community.

Sun has bought enough Unix licensing that they can indemnify their users against many claims. They do so to people that buy RedHat or Suse from them. If Sun buys Novell, they can indemnify all Suse users. This would put a definate damper on PJ's plans to have linux users pay her $150,000 for linux indemnification.

I can see why she wouldn't like the idea.

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. Wise investors will quickly dump AAPL stock and abandon the doomed company, now less than one year away from complete disintegration. And with the recent news that Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the forthcoming leadership vacuum at Apple will only hasten the inevitable.

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

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 tosupply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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.

Here you go

I do my research all right. I am a shareholder in AAPL. You are the guy with the bad attitude and wrong assumptions. Do you even know the difference between revenue and profit. More revenue does not necessarily mean more profits. Do you mean that these guys are wrong and you are right. If you have any solid numbers with a source for profits please feel free to post them

Steve Jobs
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Forbes
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CBS
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I do agree with you on the margins on iTunes being low. But the RIAA would have to cut its bloated share of the pie soon enough.

I do my research all right. I am a shareholder in AAPL. You are the guy with the bad attitude and wrong assumptions. Do you even know the difference between revenue and profit. More revenue does not necessarily mean more profits. Do you mean that these guys are wrong and you are right. If you have any solid numbers with a source for profits please feel free to post them

Steve Jobs
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Forbes
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CBS
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I do agree with you on the margins on iTunes being low. But the RIAA would have to cut its bloated share of the pie soon enough.

No, he's giving it to his father to manage in his "Foundation" - which is a stock laundering scheme.

How much of that $3 billion will ever actually be given out by said Foundation?

Go here and learn something.

Or here for more analysis.

Hey you fucking moron. I've never worked a day in my life because my Dad and Mother made it big. I've got lots of cash, and I make more every day in capital gains and dividents -- don't tax me!

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 verified 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 meager 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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.

I only wish I was as broke as he is.

$2B can buy me a few fine dinners.

It looks like John Kerry has a net worth of at least $164 million, his wife has a net worth of an estimated $1 billion, Edwards has a net worth between $12 million and $60 million, Dick Cheney at about $50 million, and finally George W. Bush at about $15 million.

You and the rest of the pro-Microsoft posters are merely bowing down to the rich because they're rich. Microsoft could be advancing the state of computer science by funding basic research with that $50 billion and then reap the profits of that research which would make the company even more profitable and even more powerful.

Well, they are. They spent about 7 billion last year on R&D and they will spend another 7 billion next year: click me! You can throw only so much money at something before you are effectively wasting money.

It's on a par with Gates "charity" which does nothing more than launder his stock for him to dodge SEC rules. Or Ted Turner's billion-dollar donation to the UN, which gets him a huge tax write-off.

You've got to be kidding me!!! The Gates charity just gave like 50 million dollars to help fight the world AIDS epidemic...you're telling me this is only done to dodge SEC rules?!?!? Are you mad or just stupid?

The tax benefits exist to *help* or *reward* those who help others. Trust me, at the level of income gates makes there is very little benefit for him to give to charity or not give to charity. Generally people with this much money give because they *don't need any more money*. When you are worth billions, why hoard a few hundred million? You think he's going to benefit from that tax write off? Please... A drop in the bucket my friend.

And you morons are clueless.

We're the clueless ones? So far I've seen no argument of substance from you. You call me a moron and an idiot, but the more you talk the more you show that you don't have a good understanding of the situation, or of the business world around you. You 'anti-Microsoft' people are so hypocritical.

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 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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.

Interesting reference to make your point. Dated 11.19.03, It says "Banc of America said Apple is fairly valued at $21. Shares are down 3 cents to $20.38. "

Yet the chart shows today that the shares are trading for $32.40. Had I listened to this article back in November, I would have missed out on a 50+% rise in the stock price.

Good one.

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 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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 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 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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 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 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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 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 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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.

His dad's a real interesting guy. He's a big supporter of inheritance taxes. if I remember correctly, he believes society got you where you are, so you need to give back when you go away.

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 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 nubmers to supply its customers with Power Macintosh G5 and iMac computers, as Steve Jobs himself recently admitted. 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. 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.

It means young artists will have to search harder for their inspirations, but the results will be better for it.

Yes, to think that if Britney Spears had access to such works as American Revival Gospal of the 20s or Alternative Rock of the 70s the public might have been spared such wonderful corprate^H^H^H^H^creative acts such as Oops!... I Did It Again.

Oh, wait a minute, she's got ,tons of money and corporate backing! So, unlike a new starting atrist she can buy herself access to these works.

First, you must have some experience of having brought another major corporation to its knees in the past.

So, you're saying that Darl McBride might still have career opportunities after SCO? Damn.

His busy schedule of making bizarre unsubstantiated claims also earned him over a million dollars last year.

A couple of years of that, and many people would stop worrying about future career opportunities completely....

--Bruce Fields

That of lack of respect for law enforcement officials.

Give me a reason to respect them in the first place. My interaction with cops is limited to getting pulled over and fined and having them file police reports when people I know die. Nothing much comes of it, and the cops don't seem to do much to fix things.

The amount of flak and disrespect that police officers get for what is an essential and dangerous function in society

Compared to what? Construction workers have a more dangerous job. Where's the respect for them? 142 Cops died in 2000 - 50 were murdered. 200 salesmen were murdered in the same year - I guess it's safer to be a cop after all.

He's worth $2.3 billion. Curiously enough, most of this is from Pixar, not Apple. He made relatively little from Apple.

Greed is a powerful motivator, and that's not so bad. Consider the only alternative that has been found: The motivation created by a dictatorship where your head's chopped off if you don't conform. Greed allows people like Steve Jobs to thrive. It lets rebels like Michael Moore thrive. In Cuba, Moore would have been thrown in jail for 20 years. Here he profits from what he does to the extent of a $1.9 mllion Manhattan apartment and the freedom to make whatever movies he wants. Ironically enough, Moore seems to be agitating for a Cuba-like society, which would not serve him well at all.

Now, there are some things created by greed, such as the Windows near-monopoly, that we can probably agree are bad. But what's amazing is how well the system works, because people like Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds have the freedom to act that doesn't exist in dictatorships. It's always possible to challenge the establishment in a capitalist country; in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it would get your head chopped off.

Too many people support nice folks like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro simply because they oppose America, the land of greed. Castro puts anyone who disagrees with him publically in jail for from three to thirty years. And don't think Castro doesn't have his fleet of planes, Mercedes and yachts whenever he wants them. He's greedy too, but he's smart enough to put on an act when a rich guy like Oliver Stone comes to visit.

I think the cool thing about Steve Jobs is that he loves to build cool products and create great movies. But realize, this is a major reason he is successful. Enough people agree with him that the iPod is great, that Macs are great, that he can thrive even though his primary product is outside ot the mainstream. And that's another advantage of our society; dictatorships don't allow choices, everything has to be Windows because society wants it.

I hope this has made you think a bit.

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Mainstream? Like Forbes, BusinessWeek , Ziff-Davis (and here and here too), CBS News, USA Today, and most have heard of PC Magazine, plus a lot of papers like The Houston Chronicle, The Detroit News, the Syracuse Post-Standard, The Baltimore Sun, and the St. Louis Post-Standard. I have all those links plus others in a list I just send to people. I keep adding to it as I find more. Usually gets the message across that I'm not making stuff up.

Now apparently the story is that they *are* installing the OS and shipping the systems on behalf of Questar.

Yes, but Microsoft tends to copy more and add less. In "embrace and extend", "embrace" means "copy" and "extend" means "break compatibility".

And sometimes the copies are simply theft. Check out this strategy for innovating in Web search!

Is it me, or does India continue to make LOGICAL political decisions?

They invested in education and social programs and created a workforce capable of doing our high-paying jobs. They then set up an economic environment where those jobs would come over, including investments in infrastructure and utilities.

Next the middle class over there starts to take off, and they make a national effort to help make sure that the benefit of the boom is extended to the less fortunate, so they can make more of the country self-sufficient.

They've managed to stay out of international conflicts and have sent peace ovetures to Pakistan. Now they're jumping all over Open Source as a way to improve their own efficiency and self-sufficiency.

All this, and I doubt India's federal gov costs anywhere near what these asshats over here who seem to actively work against us cost.

Between Colin Powell telling the Indians that there will be no attempt to curb outsourcing by American companies on the part of the Bush Administration and the following account of Tom Donohue's (CEO of US Chamber of Commerce, really good friend of Bush Administration, kind of like Ken Lay) speech in San Francisco:

Donohue acknowledged the pain for people who have lost jobs to offshoring - an estimated 250,000 a year, according to government estimates. But pockets of unemployment shouldn't lead to "anecdotal politics and policies," he said, and people affected by offshoring should "stop whining." - AP Newswire

Personally, I say we go build a freaking guillotine, cause as far as I'm concerned, he might as well have said, "let them eat cake".

Anyway good luck to India and how much to run our Federal government?

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Can someone point me to an easy-to-read article that explains the problems with IE, what alternatives like Firefox exist, and how to switch? I want to send it to everyone I know, urging them to switch away from IE.

Here you go!

Seriously, though, this article from Forbes is a little dated, and doesn't mention security, but isn't bad. It's worth trawling through Mozillazine's archives - I couldn't find them just now, but I seem to remember a while back they had a whole bunch of "why switch?" articles.

We can control nuclear energy but we can't make a non-fossil fuel car??? How is this possible?

Of course we can, e.g. by making use of fuel cells and efficient electric engines. These cars have a lot of potential. Note that the comment about the toppling demand for electrical cars is misleading because the author is speaking about battery-powered cars. Fuel cell cars have a bright future, we "only" need the alternative energy sources to produce hydrogen rsp. methanol. Added benefits of (hydrogen) fuel cell cars are that they are very silent, can be made efficient even when the driver performs lots of quick accelerations and braking maneuvers (ideal for cities) and that they are zero-emission, so you they do not cause any smog problems in large cities.

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and here is a picture of a chicken-hawk.

Two problems. First, until the option expires valueless, it'll always have some value (particularly if it's well above water). Second, it's deceptive to ignore the cost of options until the last minute. Accounting should reflect reasonably well the actual value of the company. Allowing a company to hide real expenses like options means that you have to search harder to find the information that should be readily available. Making this change reduces the tactics that a company can employ to hide excessive compensation.

For example, it's doubtful that the board of the New York Stock Exchange would have missed the scale of the compensation package they approved for the former CEO Dick Grasso (which incidentally was well above the annual profit reported for NYSE). That's because the accounting would reflect the expense of the pay package and turn the "profit" that the NYSE reported into a significant loss. As it was, Grasso didn't have to report his compensation package until the cost showed up in the accounting.

Considering the summary here a good 9/10 of whats in the linked Overclockers Club here's some links from some more normal news outlets

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Net Worth: $30.4 bil
So yes, he can afford to keep throwing money away.

Does this product make the Beatles' case against Apple Computer stronger?

Obviously, AirPort Express does more than stream your music from your computer to your stereo, but because of that it can be viewed as a 'music' device.

You can read about the case here (in case you haven't).