I also flew to Edmonton a few years ago but to attend a work related crse. I got into my hotel late and the next morning I went out for breakfast. As I entered the restaurant my sister-in-law said 'hi Frank'. I was surprised as I did not know she was in Edmonton let alone that she worked in a restaurant.
The article called it the law of small numbers. In my stats class we would say that 'the N's justifies the means'.
28-bit addressing, there are only 28 bits available to access a given address on the hard drive, which when all bits are set equates to 137 GB.
By doubling the number of bits that can be used to access a given address, 48-bit LBA addressing pushes the maximum storage limit to 144 petabytes.
Hmmm, how does going from 28 to 48 bits double the number of bits?
Well how long before we will need to change again? It was not long ago that they came up with the 28 bit system. 137 gigs - no one will ever need that much memory. Now its 144 petabytes - no one will ever need that much memory. Hell a quantum transporter will need at least 4 yottabytes. I say go to 128 bit addressing just to be safe.
A MacCentral article says...the Wall Street Journal has published a scathing article about the state of Mac OS X adoption and how it has affected some Mac software publishers -- chief among them Microsoft Corp.
The article also has some good quotes from Apple and mentions Corel and Adobe.
Why are they spending the money to develop a laser for clearing surface mines? Clearing and destroying visable mines is the least difficult of all mine clearing problems. Current doctrine for clearing runways involves the use of snow plows or runway sweeping equipment that are already at airports. The number of mines visable on hard surfaces are only a small proportion compared to ones in the ground or hidden. In Bosnia even paved highways were not safe as mines were placed in pot holes. As the article said, removing only the surface mines do not help the farmers that want to use the land.
The problem with non-surface mines is that they hard very hard to detect. Modern mines have very little if any metal content. Battlefields usually are riddled with shrapnel/shell casings etc which make metal detecters useless even if the mine had metal.
The Canadian Defence Research Establishment(DRES) in Sulfield Alberta is a world leader in mine detection technologies. Their latest invention is the Improved Landmine DetectorProject (ILDP). The ILDP system consists of a teleoperated vehicle carrying three scanning sensors which operate while the system is in motion; a metal detector array (MMD) based on electromagnetic induction (EMI), an infrared imager (IR), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and a confirmatory sensor which requires the system to be stationary and near a target of interest, consisting of a thermal neutron analysis (TNA) detector. Each of the sensors provides information concerning the presence (or absence) of physical properties which accompany the presence of landmines. For example, IR provides a measure of thermal anomalies, EMI reports anomalies in electrical conductivity, GPR detects anomalies in dielectric and other electromagnetic properties, and the TNA provides a measure of nitrogen content.
One the mine is identified and marked the vehicle can move on and let the lifting or destruction of the mine to the engineers.
The US should rethink its use of cluster munitions. A 30% dud rate is not very efficient. Unless they can develop a self destruct timer(which should not be that hard) these mines are going to do more harm to the civilian populations than to the bad guys. Canada first proposed the banning of anti-personnel mines and the treaty is commonly refered to as the Ottawa treaty. They also set up the Canadian Centre for Mine Action Technologies which is coordinating research into new technologies from around the world.
Instead of spending millions on lasers with limited use, the US should recognize that anti pers mines have a limited tactical role and the human cost in civilian casualties is too great to justify their use. They should be working with Canada to ban anti pers mines and stop their production.
I wonder why someone went to all the trouble to fake the photo and leak phony specs? It could have been part of a plan to manipulate ATI's stock price. Look at the hourly stock price chart for ATI today. ATI (ATY on TSE) opened this morning at $10.70cdn and by 10:30 am was down slightly to $10.60. The story came out on slashdot at 10:30 and within an hour had risen to its daily high of $11.08 but then closed down.23 at $10.52. Not a big spike but someone could have made money on this.
It reports that the HR has made 100 DTDs and uses Microsoft Word and a special converter to do the job.
The article actualy says It shows how each line, name and term has an identifying tag, created by exporting the document from a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect into a special XML template.
That would make sense since most of the US government still uses WordPerfect. WordPerfect comes with extensive XML publishing functions including making your own DTDs.
BTW Corel just announced that a new version of Ventura Publisher is coming out in the fall with cross platform XML publishing built in. The next version of WordPerfect is also going to have a much better XML publisher now that they bought XMetaL.
I am a high speed sympatico subscriber but I think I will try either istop or any one else who can give a flat rate service. How many subscribers will sympatico have to lose before they go back to a flat rate? With the glut in capacity and firesale prices for equipment prices should be going down, not up. I guess this proves that competition is good and monopolies are bad.
It was not long ago that they were advertising high speed as always on and unlimited usage. Now we find out it was just to suck in subscribers. The funny thing is that all the telcos went broke building up capacity. Now there are lots of big pipes out there doing nothing and available at fire sale prices just when they decide to hike the prices.
A Canadian company called Battery Technologies produces Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese (RAM) batteries. A technical description is here. Compared with NiCad batteries, the advantages of using RAM batteries include the following:
* Longer Operating Time
* Environmentaly Friendly(contains no hazardous toxic substances)
* Longer Shelf Life (minimal Self Discharge)
* Ready For Use when purchased
* No Memory Effect
* Lower Cost
* Better Cell Capacity
These batteries are currently available in four brands- PURE ENERGY(Canada), RENEWAL (manufactured in the United States by Rayovac Corporation), ALCAVA (manufactured in Korea by Young Poong) and GRANDCELL (manufactured in Malaysia by Grand Battery Technologies).
Re:Some times an altimeter comes in handy
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Can you be too north for GPS? I thought that it worked all over.
Sorry, GPS was not operational in 1991. The GPS constellation was not finished until March 1994. However GPS does not work everywhere. GPS is limited to line of sight and can be blocked by mountains/canyon walls or even tall buildings. Even when it works it can be off by 100 meters
Some times an altimeter comes in handy
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A watch with a built-in altimeter helped save 13 lives. In 1991 a Canadian C-130 Hercules aircraft crashed a few miles short of the runway at Alert. Canadian Forces Station Alert, located on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in the Northwest Territories, is the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Amazingly 13 of the crew and passengers survived the crash. SAR Techs jumped in but had to wait for a ground rescue crew to reach them to bring them out. It was pitch dark and too far north for a compass or GPS to work. One of the ground rescue guys had an altimeter built-in to his wristwatch and they were able to navigate by comparing the elevation to the map. No touch screen but it worked well enough to help save those lives.
Better late than never. Here is the text of the agreement not to sue from Corel's 8K on sale of prefered shares to Microsoft:
4. Covenant Not to Sue.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 4, Microsoft covenants to Corel that neither Microsoft nor any of its Affiliates shall sue Corel based on any claim that current or past versions of Corel Office Professional or Corel WordPerfect Suite (and successor Corel WordPerfect office productivity products) (collectively, the "Covenanted Products") infringe Microsoft's U.S. Patents 5,510,980; 5,272,628; 5,287,514; and 5,437,036. This covenant is personal to Corel and may not be assigned or otherwise transferred (including without limitation by operation of law) without the prior written consent of Microsoft, and any attempted assignment or other transfer without such consent shall be void and of no force and effect. All obligations of Microsoft and all rights of Corel under this covenant shall continue until the last of the patents described above expires, provided that all obligations of Microsoft and rights of Corel under this covenant shall automatically terminate with retroactive effect upon the occurrence of any of the following: (i) any attempted assignment or other transfer of this covenant without Microsoft's prior written approval, (ii) a Change in Control; (iii) the commencement of any legal proceeding by Corel or any of its Affiliates against Microsoft or any of its Affiliates alleging patent infringement, antitrust violations or anti-competitive conduct; (iv) breach by Corel of any material term of this Agreement; and (v) any sale, assignment or transfer, directly or indirectly, of the businesses and/or assets related to the production and sale of any of the Covenanted Products. The foregoing covenant does not constitute a patent license to Corel, and except as explicitly set forth above, Microsoft does not, directly or by implication, estoppel or otherwise, grant any other patent covenants or patent rights under this Agreement. Further, the foregoing covenant does not constitute a license under, or assignment of any interest in, any copyright or other intellectual property of Microsoft.
5. Compromise and Release of Claims.
Corel and its Affiliates and predecessors in interest (to the extent that Corel has a legal and/or contractual right to bind such entities), in return for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, hereby release and discharge Microsoft and its Affiliates, and the present or former officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, trustees or other legal representatives, successors and assigns of each of them, of and from any and all claims, counterclaims, actions, causes of actions, suits, rights, debts, obligations, damages, liabilities, and demands that each of them ever had or has, in law or in equity, known or unknown, from the beginning of the world through to the Effective Date of this Agreement (the "Corel Claims"). Corel represents, warrants, and acknowledges that it has not relied on any representations of Microsoft in entering into this Section 5 or in releasing and compromising the Corel Claims. Corel and Microsoft further agree that this Release and the Covenant Not To Sue set forth in Section 4 hereof, as well as the other terms of this Agreement, are a compromise of the Corel Claims within the meaning of Federal Rule of Evidence 408, and shall constitute full satisfaction of the Corel Claims.
Part of Microsoft's investment deal was Corel's agreeing to waive any future law suits. It may have saved them at the time but Sun's claim is peanuts compared to the damages Corel could have claimed due to Microsoft hijacking the Office suites market.
All may not be lost. Earlier this week news came out that the former antitrust chief under New York AG, Stephen Houck, has joined the rebelling states' legal team, throwing Ballmer and his legal eagles off balance. The NY AG's office was leading the enquiry into the Office suites monopoly case until they shelved it to concentrate in the still-lingering Netscape case.
The Office suite case files are there to be picked up again, and this time MS has already been convicted of monopolist behaviour; it's just the "remedy" that they're busy watering down, despite Enron hanging over quite a few high-placed Republicans' heads.
If the Netscape case, as it would appear, gets sold down the river, what are the chances that the angry states will try again using heavier ammunition, such as WordPerfect Office? Or if Java is deemed worth billions under a private antitrust case, what would the former main competitor to Microsoft's profit center Office be worth?
Whatever rights Burney signed away in order to get that "life-saving investment" from MS, surely those clauses can be annulled by any fractionally competent lawyer. The second task would be get injunction against MS-Office...
Of course someone would need to take over this company first, but they'd get all the products, including the WPO, for practically nothing! In this climate some high-profile law offices might even want to take the private Office antitrust lawsuit on a commission basis. BTW Corel's market cap is a little over $250 mil while they have over $100 mil of cash. So for $150 investment someone could get a chance at a big settlement and the company/products would be a bonus. Anyone out there from IBM or AOL interested?
The Canadian Meals Ready to Eat(MRE) are actually sold commercially under the brand name Magic Pantry.
They have one called Ham and Egg omlet which is not bad if you are really hungry.
The best is using the gravey from the salsbury steak package to make the instant mashed potatoes.
I do miss the old canned rations with the canned ham and canned bacon. The bad thing about these new rations is that you need water. The old cans you could put on the engine of your truck to heat up.
Morpheous is a peer to peer file sharing client you can download at www.musiccity.com. Once set up select search for software and enter WordPerfect. Depending who is logged on at any given time, you can find any version of WordPerfect Office for windows and also WP Office 2k for Linux. You are as legal as the other 60 million file sharers out there. Since you can't buy the Linux version, I don't think Corel would mind either. In fact if more people tried it and there was enough demand from businesses, I think they might start selling it again.
Your expert's site is interesting but is mainly focused on apnea and its treatments. The section on sleep and drugs is 'being revised' and there is nothing there. It is too bad as it probally would have explained that it is not the quantity of sleep that is important but the quality or amount of deep sleep usually associated with Rapid eye movement(REM). Drugs (especially caffine and alchohol) can prevent deep sleep and after 10 hours you can still wake up feeling tired. The body tries to compensate for lack of deep sleep by increasing lenght of deep sleep the next night(REM rebound) but if the drugs are still present it is a never ending game of catch up until there are serious health problems. The best thing to do is avoid caffine and alchohol in the evening. Go to bed at the same time and get plenty of exercise.
As reported in Globe and Mail article todayThe study wasn't specifically designed to consider the effects of sleep on longevity, and that it was skewed by the number of people who sleep more than eight hours because of medical problems. It didn't ask participants whether they napped in the afternoon, and it didn't watch them sleep; it just asked them to recall their sleep pat- terns.
So the conclusion is suspect, and thank heavens for that. We'd hate to think it might have become politically incorrect to curse the alarm clock.
Also when it comes to statistics I always ask myself whether the n's justify the means.
Dude. MS Sold their shares of Corel stock long ago. They were being pressured to sell them soon after they were acquired due to the anti-trust trial.
Sorry. They are preferred non-voting shares. Microsoft applied to have them changed to common shares but only when they sell them. Part of the deal was they would not hold on to the shares once converted. So, they are still holding this threat of dumping 19 million shares over Corel's head just like the sword of Damacles. If Corel does anything to piss them off, the shares could be dumped in days. For now they are not part of the share float.
The paranoid might see a conspiracy as Microsoft now owns 25% of Corel but Corel CEO, Derek Burney, said recently that they are still looking at selling the Linux apps. Since their recent cash problems they have had a razor sharp focus on not offering products unless they can make a profit. Some have said that they should still offer them even if it was only a software download off their web site or CDs with pdf manuals. Burney said they are looking at that but then there are the support costs to consider. Copies of WordPerfect8 are still around and since it is native to Linux it still runs on all distros. WordPerfect 2000(L) is available for download on Morphious. It has the full suite but since it runs on WINE it can be a bit harder to install. I remember when I had it installed at work. A secretary who had never heard of Linux before sat down and started to use it with no problems since it was identical to the windows version. Corel was criticised at the time for trying to imitate windows and not being Linux enough but when it comes down to it you want something people can easily use if you want to get companies to switch over. I hope they can get back to selling it in the future.
Propally mentioned before but this site is still up. Go to www.trustworthycomputing.com and you get redirected to a google search results listing the thousands of articles on Microsft's history of security breaches.
Mean while, Microsoft has started a public marketing campagn and even plans to have.net set to secure by default but it will be an uphill battle for them. Today at the same time as secure by default came out there was another story about another vulnerability in Outlook Express
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I also flew to Edmonton a few years ago but to attend a work related crse. I got into my hotel late and the next morning I went out for breakfast. As I entered the restaurant my sister-in-law said 'hi Frank'. I was surprised as I did not know she was in Edmonton let alone that she worked in a restaurant.
The article called it the law of small numbers. In my stats class we would say that 'the N's justifies the means'.
The IPic won the 1999 Slashdot World Smallest web Server title. It is based on the world's smallest implementation of a TCP/IP stack(256 bytes) -- which is implemented on the PIC (a small 8-pin low-power microcontroller) .. using a mere 512 words of program ROM. At the time I thought this is great. At a dollar a chip, we will have this in all our toasters and light bulbs in a couple years but it has been three years and I have not heard of it since then. So, as noted in yesterday's Globe and Mail - After two decades of hype about 'smart homes' with computerized brains that control lights, stoves and stereos, The Clapper still rules the living room.
Didn't anybody read the actual article? The drive comes with a free Promise Technology Ultra ATA Controller Card.
The also explain the 137 gig barrier
28-bit addressing, there are only 28 bits available to access a given address on the hard drive, which when all bits are set equates to 137 GB.
By doubling the number of bits that can be used to access a given address, 48-bit LBA addressing pushes the maximum storage limit to 144 petabytes.
Hmmm, how does going from 28 to 48 bits double the number of bits?
Well how long before we will need to change again? It was not long ago that they came up with the 28 bit system. 137 gigs - no one will ever need that much memory. Now its 144 petabytes - no one will ever need that much memory. Hell a quantum transporter will need at least 4 yottabytes. I say go to 128 bit addressing just to be safe.
Were they ever charged? I hear it is a pretty serious offence to be convicted as a 'cereal killer'.
A MacCentral article says ...the Wall Street Journal has published a scathing article about the state of Mac OS X adoption and how it has affected some Mac software publishers -- chief among them Microsoft Corp.
The article also has some good quotes from Apple and mentions Corel and Adobe.
Why are they spending the money to develop a laser for clearing surface mines? Clearing and destroying visable mines is the least difficult of all mine clearing problems. Current doctrine for clearing runways involves the use of snow plows or runway sweeping equipment that are already at airports. The number of mines visable on hard surfaces are only a small proportion compared to ones in the ground or hidden. In Bosnia even paved highways were not safe as mines were placed in pot holes. As the article said, removing only the surface mines do not help the farmers that want to use the land.
The problem with non-surface mines is that they hard very hard to detect. Modern mines have very little if any metal content. Battlefields usually are riddled with shrapnel/shell casings etc which make metal detecters useless even if the mine had metal.
The Canadian Defence Research Establishment(DRES) in Sulfield Alberta is a world leader in mine detection technologies. Their latest invention is the Improved Landmine DetectorProject (ILDP). The ILDP system consists of a teleoperated vehicle carrying three scanning sensors which operate while the system is in motion; a metal detector array (MMD) based on electromagnetic induction (EMI), an infrared imager (IR), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and a confirmatory sensor which requires the system to be stationary and near a target of interest, consisting of a thermal neutron analysis (TNA) detector. Each of the sensors provides information concerning the presence (or absence) of physical properties which accompany the presence of landmines. For example, IR provides a measure of thermal anomalies, EMI reports anomalies in electrical conductivity, GPR detects anomalies in dielectric and other electromagnetic properties, and the TNA provides a measure of nitrogen content.
One the mine is identified and marked the vehicle can move on and let the lifting or destruction of the mine to the engineers.
The US should rethink its use of cluster munitions. A 30% dud rate is not very efficient. Unless they can develop a self destruct timer(which should not be that hard) these mines are going to do more harm to the civilian populations than to the bad guys. Canada first proposed the banning of anti-personnel mines and the treaty is commonly refered to as the Ottawa treaty. They also set up the Canadian Centre for Mine Action Technologies which is coordinating research into new technologies from around the world.
Instead of spending millions on lasers with limited use, the US should recognize that anti pers mines have a limited tactical role and the human cost in civilian casualties is too great to justify their use. They should be working with Canada to ban anti pers mines and stop their production.
I wonder why someone went to all the trouble to fake the photo and leak phony specs? It could have been part of a plan to manipulate ATI's stock price. Look at the hourly stock price chart for ATI today. ATI (ATY on TSE) opened this morning at $10.70cdn and by 10:30 am was down slightly to $10.60. The story came out on slashdot at 10:30 and within an hour had risen to its daily high of $11.08 but then closed down .23 at $10.52. Not a big spike but someone could have made money on this.
The article actualy says It shows how each line, name and term has an identifying tag, created by exporting the document from a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect into a special XML template.
That would make sense since most of the US government still uses WordPerfect. WordPerfect comes with extensive XML publishing functions including making your own DTDs.
BTW Corel just announced that a new version of Ventura Publisher is coming out in the fall with cross platform XML publishing built in. The next version of WordPerfect is also going to have a much better XML publisher now that they bought XMetaL.
I am a high speed sympatico subscriber but I think I will try either istop or any one else who can give a flat rate service. How many subscribers will sympatico have to lose before they go back to a flat rate? With the glut in capacity and firesale prices for equipment prices should be going down, not up. I guess this proves that competition is good and monopolies are bad.
It was not long ago that they were advertising high speed as always on and unlimited usage. Now we find out it was just to suck in subscribers. The funny thing is that all the telcos went broke building up capacity. Now there are lots of big pipes out there doing nothing and available at fire sale prices just when they decide to hike the prices.
A Canadian company called Battery Technologies produces Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese (RAM) batteries. A technical description is here. Compared with NiCad batteries, the advantages of using RAM batteries include the following:
* Longer Operating Time
* Environmentaly Friendly(contains no hazardous toxic substances)
* Longer Shelf Life (minimal Self Discharge)
* Ready For Use when purchased
* No Memory Effect
* Lower Cost
* Better Cell Capacity
These batteries are currently available in four brands- PURE ENERGY(Canada), RENEWAL (manufactured in the United States by Rayovac Corporation), ALCAVA (manufactured in Korea by Young Poong) and GRANDCELL (manufactured in Malaysia by Grand Battery Technologies).
Sorry, GPS was not operational in 1991. The GPS constellation was not finished until March 1994. However GPS does not work everywhere. GPS is limited to line of sight and can be blocked by mountains/canyon walls or even tall buildings. Even when it works it can be off by 100 meters
A watch with a built-in altimeter helped save 13 lives. In 1991 a Canadian C-130 Hercules aircraft crashed a few miles short of the runway at Alert. Canadian Forces Station Alert, located on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in the Northwest Territories, is the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Amazingly 13 of the crew and passengers survived the crash. SAR Techs jumped in but had to wait for a ground rescue crew to reach them to bring them out. It was pitch dark and too far north for a compass or GPS to work. One of the ground rescue guys had an altimeter built-in to his wristwatch and they were able to navigate by comparing the elevation to the map. No touch screen but it worked well enough to help save those lives.
Better late than never. Here is the text of the agreement not to sue from Corel's 8K on sale of prefered shares to Microsoft:
.
.
4. Covenant Not to Sue
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 4, Microsoft
covenants to Corel that neither Microsoft nor any of its Affiliates
shall sue Corel based on any claim that current or past versions of
Corel Office Professional or Corel WordPerfect Suite (and successor
Corel WordPerfect office productivity products) (collectively,
the "Covenanted Products") infringe Microsoft's U.S. Patents
5,510,980; 5,272,628; 5,287,514; and 5,437,036. This covenant is
personal to Corel and may not be assigned or otherwise transferred
(including without limitation by operation of law) without the prior
written consent of Microsoft, and any attempted assignment or other
transfer without such consent shall be void and of no force and
effect. All obligations of Microsoft and all rights of Corel under
this covenant shall continue until the last of the patents described
above expires, provided that all obligations of Microsoft and rights
of Corel under this covenant shall automatically terminate with
retroactive effect upon the occurrence of any of the following: (i)
any attempted assignment or other transfer of this covenant without
Microsoft's prior written approval, (ii) a Change in Control; (iii)
the commencement of any legal proceeding by Corel or any of its
Affiliates against Microsoft or any of its Affiliates alleging patent
infringement, antitrust violations or anti-competitive conduct; (iv)
breach by Corel of any material term of this Agreement; and (v) any
sale, assignment or transfer, directly or indirectly, of the
businesses and/or assets related to the production and sale of any of
the Covenanted Products. The foregoing covenant does not constitute a
patent license to Corel, and except as explicitly set forth above,
Microsoft does not, directly or by implication, estoppel or
otherwise, grant any other patent covenants or patent rights under
this Agreement. Further, the foregoing covenant does not constitute a
license under, or assignment of any interest in, any copyright or
other intellectual property of Microsoft.
5. Compromise and Release of Claims
Corel and its Affiliates and predecessors in interest (to the extent
that Corel has a legal and/or contractual right to bind such
entities), in return for good and valuable consideration, the
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, hereby release and
discharge Microsoft and its Affiliates, and the present or former
officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, trustees or
other legal representatives, successors and assigns of each of them,
of and from any and all claims, counterclaims, actions, causes of
actions, suits, rights, debts, obligations, damages, liabilities, and
demands that each of them ever had or has, in law or in equity, known
or unknown, from the beginning of the world through to the Effective
Date of this Agreement (the "Corel Claims"). Corel represents,
warrants, and acknowledges that it has not relied on any
representations of Microsoft in entering into this Section 5 or in
releasing and compromising the Corel Claims. Corel and Microsoft
further agree that this Release and the Covenant Not To Sue set forth
in Section 4 hereof, as well as the other terms of this Agreement,
are a compromise of the Corel Claims within the meaning of Federal
Rule of Evidence 408, and shall constitute full satisfaction of the
Corel Claims.
Part of Microsoft's investment deal was Corel's agreeing to waive any future law suits. It may have saved them at the time but Sun's claim is peanuts compared to the damages Corel could have claimed due to Microsoft hijacking the Office suites market.
All may not be lost. Earlier this week news came out that the former antitrust chief under
New York AG, Stephen Houck, has joined the rebelling states' legal team, throwing Ballmer
and his legal eagles off balance. The NY AG's office was leading the
enquiry into the Office suites monopoly case until they shelved it to
concentrate in the still-lingering Netscape case.
The Office suite case files are there to be picked up again, and this
time MS has already been convicted of monopolist behaviour; it's just
the "remedy" that they're busy watering down, despite Enron hanging
over quite a few high-placed Republicans' heads.
If the Netscape case, as it would appear, gets sold down the river,
what are the chances that the angry states will try again using
heavier ammunition, such as WordPerfect Office? Or if Java is deemed worth billions
under a private antitrust case, what would the former main competitor
to Microsoft's profit center Office be worth?
Whatever rights Burney signed away in order to get that "life-saving
investment" from MS, surely those clauses can be annulled by any
fractionally competent lawyer. The second task would be get injunction
against MS-Office...
Of course someone would need to take over this company first, but
they'd get all the products, including the WPO, for practically
nothing! In this climate some high-profile law offices might even want
to take the private Office antitrust lawsuit on a commission basis. BTW Corel's market cap is a little over $250 mil while they have over $100 mil of cash. So for $150 investment someone could get a chance at a big settlement and the company/products would be a bonus. Anyone out there from IBM or AOL interested?
was Micheal Jackson not showing up. I heard he was going to do a duet with Britney Spears and sing "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman".
The Canadian Meals Ready to Eat(MRE) are actually sold commercially under the brand name Magic Pantry.
They have one called Ham and Egg omlet which is not bad if you are really hungry.
The best is using the gravey from the salsbury steak package to make the instant mashed potatoes.
I do miss the old canned rations with the canned ham and canned bacon. The bad thing about these new rations is that you need water. The old cans you could put on the engine of your truck to heat up.
Morpheous is a peer to peer file sharing client you can download at www.musiccity.com. Once set up select search for software and enter WordPerfect. Depending who is logged on at any given time, you can find any version of WordPerfect Office for windows and also WP Office 2k for Linux. You are as legal as the other 60 million file sharers out there. Since you can't buy the Linux version, I don't think Corel would mind either. In fact if more people tried it and there was enough demand from businesses, I think they might start selling it again.
Cheers,
Your expert's site is interesting but is mainly focused on apnea and its treatments. The section on sleep and drugs is 'being revised' and there is nothing there. It is too bad as it probally would have explained that it is not the quantity of sleep that is important but the quality or amount of deep sleep usually associated with Rapid eye movement(REM). Drugs (especially caffine and alchohol) can prevent deep sleep and after 10 hours you can still wake up feeling tired. The body tries to compensate for lack of deep sleep by increasing lenght of deep sleep the next night(REM rebound) but if the drugs are still present it is a never ending game of catch up until there are serious health problems. The best thing to do is avoid caffine and alchohol in the evening. Go to bed at the same time and get plenty of exercise.
As reported in Globe and Mail article today The study wasn't specifically designed to consider the effects of sleep on longevity, and that it was skewed by the number of people who sleep more than eight hours because of medical problems. It didn't ask participants whether they napped in the afternoon, and it didn't watch them sleep; it just asked them to recall their sleep pat- terns.
So the conclusion is suspect, and thank heavens for that. We'd hate to think it might have become politically incorrect to curse the alarm clock.
Also when it comes to statistics I always ask myself whether the n's justify the means.
Dude. MS Sold their shares of Corel stock long ago. They were being pressured to sell them soon after they were acquired due to the anti-trust trial.
Sorry. They are preferred non-voting shares. Microsoft applied to have them changed to common shares but only when they sell them. Part of the deal was they would not hold on to the shares once converted. So, they are still holding this threat of dumping 19 million shares over Corel's head just like the sword of Damacles. If Corel does anything to piss them off, the shares could be dumped in days. For now they are not part of the share float.
It'd be nice if they actually had ported their programs to Linux.
WordPerfect 8 is a native Linux app.
The paranoid might see a conspiracy as Microsoft now owns 25% of Corel but Corel CEO, Derek Burney, said recently that they are still looking at selling the Linux apps. Since their recent cash problems they have had a razor sharp focus on not offering products unless they can make a profit. Some have said that they should still offer them even if it was only a software download off their web site or CDs with pdf manuals. Burney said they are looking at that but then there are the support costs to consider. Copies of WordPerfect8 are still around and since it is native to Linux it still runs on all distros. WordPerfect 2000(L) is available for download on Morphious. It has the full suite but since it runs on WINE it can be a bit harder to install. I remember when I had it installed at work. A secretary who had never heard of Linux before sat down and started to use it with no problems since it was identical to the windows version. Corel was criticised at the time for trying to imitate windows and not being Linux enough but when it comes down to it you want something people can easily use if you want to get companies to switch over. I hope they can get back to selling it in the future.
Some would say, 'Better latent than never'.
Propally mentioned before but this site is still up. Go to www.trustworthycomputing.com and you get redirected to a google search results listing the thousands of articles on Microsft's history of security breaches.
.net set to secure by default but it will be an uphill battle for them. Today at the same time as secure by default came out there was another story about another vulnerability in Outlook Express
Mean while, Microsoft has started a public marketing campagn and even plans to have