This article only discusses the buyout as a speculation on the part of the author. He is showing agreements between the compaines as a lead for a merger. This is not even news....Just a large editorial on a slow news day....Guess the managing editors were making bets on the Superbowl....:)
14 Nov 2016: The Microsoft Accounting agency has completed its review of the vote. Technical Wizard Bill Gates has reported that Steve Ballmer has won the election. VP Elect Michael Dell was with Bill Gates as he reported the results.
"This is the first election in history that was run by a private sector firm. And it has been a great sucess. It takes large companies to properly run a democracy" VP Elect said in a statement today.
Due to the cost analysis of required improvements, 26 states were not included in the count. "Some states did not wish to pay our licencing fees, deciding instead to perform their own election with unsupported open source software. This is unacceptable in a Democracy." reported a Unysis representative.
The tallying of the election returns occured in a bunker located under the former Netscape Headquarters.
In his celebration speech the president elect reported that we need to increase spending to $20 Billion dollars per year to prepare for the next election and provide better security. And make the next version more feature rich for the voters.
In order to get the benefit of the new pentium speed, new compilers need to be used. So now we are in a waiting game for the big players to recompile their closed source apps for the new processor. If the big players decide that it is in their interest not to recompile their programs, the common users will be stuck with a very expensive computer that does not have the benchmarked speed.
I usually suggest to people to wait atleast 3 months before purchasing new technology. Let the rest of the world beta test the new stuff.
PS: The pentium 4 has already been involved in a recall.....When is the next one going to happen?
Good thing they are protecting me from recording Ron Popiel and time shifting his program to the afternoon. Ensuring that Star Trek can not be shown to an audience greater than one per television. Soon I'll have to pay to see each television show.
Time to turn on the radio....oops...It is on. I wonder if the FCC will require tapes recorders in radios to malfunction if a piece of protected material appears in the airwaves. Hmmmm......Wonder how much money could be made for each "shifted" performance of the Backstreet Boys or Clint Black.
Time to research a patent on the encrypted distribution of audio shifted performances across public airwaves. And follow that up with offering my local representitives a piece of the action for bills suggesting protection of shifted audio performances by personal radios.
*It takes a wise man to stand still while bears are feeding on the ford*
All, yes ALL of the data storage that has the ability to easily migrate generations require neither a special reader or connection. From paintings on walls to carvings. Some of the actual meanings have been lost to time with the coders. But the data still remains and most likly will be decoded.
Current tech has only been around for the past 100 years. Not even close enough for a real duration test. Most of the data archived to data tape in the early 50's is lost to time. Movie reels from the turn of the century are falling apart. Museums are always seeking film restoration experts, because the vault is disappearing faster than it is being restored.
Floppies just require a small accident, CD's just need to be scratched once good. Remote storage just requires an unplanned critical fault.
If I wish to ensure my data is kept through time, it's time to fire up the printer. Reams and reams of paper. Yes, paper can burn, but I have more faith in paper than current media.
When I purchase a book or a magazine, it is mine. I can shread it up into little pieces or read it. The work is actually from someone else. But the book is mine. I paid for the ability to posess the book.
I purchase a DVD and it is still not mine? Let me try and understand Mad Jacks way of thinking. The work is from someone else. But the DVD and the work on the disk is not mine? Should libraries start renting books and give subsidies back to the authors?
Another thought, why is Mad Jack equating encryption to copywrite protection? To follow that to a conclusion, if it is not encrypted, it is not copywritten. I think Mad Jack needs to fall off of the Tech bandwagon for a day or so and read a book......That doesn't have encryption. I wonder if he copywrites his encrypted email?
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How do you think they came up with the figure. It is all added in. It is called project cost. The project cost includes hardware, planning, fuel (someone gets paid for the gathering and processing) and cleanup at the pad.
I have yet to hear of a launch without an evniormental impact statement. Included in this statement are all the possible impacts of the launch. From exhaust to space junk. And even a section on possible impact on the enviorment of mars.
Included in the project cost is primary mission support (expected lifespan) plus extended mission support. Mission support are the computers, communication and personnel cost during the flight and landing.
Please research your statements as they are misleading.
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How do you think they came up with the figure. It is all added in. It is called project cost. The project cost includes hardware, planning, fuel (someone gets paid for the gathering and processing) and cleanup at the pad.
I have yet to hear of a launch without an evniormental impact statement. Included in this statement are all the possible impacts of the launch. From exhaust to space junk. And even a section on possible impact on the enviorment of mars.
Included in the project cost is primary mission support (expected lifespan) plus extended mission support. Mission support are the computers, communication and personnel cost during the flight and landing.
Please research your statements as they are misleading.
Every few years it's another plan....
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I remember looking in the encyclopedias and finding the layouts to a space craft that can fly to mars. It looked like a lawn dart. And was supposed to launch in '80.
A few years later, I remember reading about a sister craft to the shuttle that will allow landing on different planets and large supply transfers. The plans were canceled when the 5 other shuttles were canceled.
Back in '85 I remember reading about a new craft that was the size of a VW bug. It was to fit in the shuttle and transfer supplies and people to the moon. Looking at the X-37, I can see that this might have been feesible.
Currently we are planning for a Space Station. Which has been redesigned and reviewed about every 6 months since 1985. Problems with this plan spring anew like water through a sock.
As the article states, we need a goal. And require the government to back that goal without grandstanding.
I belive that a country that can set priorities, like Australia or Japan, will create a colony on the moon. And the US culimination will be a few token flags painted on the side of their spacecraft.
My hope is that the X-Prize will pull commercial interest onto the moon.
I am involved in convincing users not to print every email, or print every web page. It has been difficult, but I have cut down on the amount of "post it" appointments and announcements.
I have no desire to make printing for the user easier. If I could get away with it, I would put a delay on all print jobs of about 3 hours.
Some of my older users want to file every print job in their own personal file cabinet. The infrastructure I have in place archives every piece of email and data in the servers. Everything is backed up with off site backups and a small backup cluster.
Thank you for the involvment in open source HP and VIA, but I shall not drink of this wine.
Looking at LinuxOnes's press releases, the bottom of the release (legal stuff) looks to be a direct rip from AbsoluteFuture's press releases. Anybody know if there are any agreements? I didn't know that LinuxOne was already being represented by NASD.
Or is it an escape route if things don't work out?
Interesting write-up. Linux filesystems are incompatable with Windows. But Linux can support more than 40 different filesystem types.
And, unless this is written for a complete nugget, the user actually started from a known OS, and *upgraded*. With partition changes and modifications.
And what happed to all of my research data in the linux system. I guess Microsoft doesn't care.
IMHO, this was written by directive by a microsoft agent forced into the linux world. Let's find this good stranger and encourage him to write more good prose.:)
*It is the fear of complexity that keeps computers out of the bathroom*
Because the phone company stops at the box. After that it is a major service charge. What was the cost for you to have a new phone line installed? PacBell DSL is another example of a telephone company loosing the idea of service. When was the last time you couldn't get a dial tone? Wasn't too long ago for me. Something about accidently cutting my service. I don't really care about paying 7 cents or 99 cents per minute. I want my phones to work.
Now back on topic. What's to say that Microsoft will not follow the same road. The Internet Division charging for extras in the browser. Or the Office Division selling individual components.
I know all these are reasons to leave the microsoft model. But this might be the future
I remember when ATT broke up. The split was very effective at the time. But now, we have less service and baby bells are eating baby bells. Not much longer and we will be back to a single overall owner, with different subsidaries feining competition in different markets.
If a break up is to happen what would resist the same from happening again?
I don't like to admit it, but microsoft has a large base and it would be near impossible for different parts not to communicate and make "magic" handshakes behind the closed doors.
If most of the modes for transfering information across a network become patented, how much money will the USPTO have to pay to use one of the modes available. According to their site, email coorespondence is "not yet ready". I wonder if it will be a single click through, a redirect, or another application running across the network?
Food for regurgitation: When the government forces the market to behave in such a way, the market creates other solutions for missed profit making. A few years ago the government had a nifty idea for putting regulation in place to lower the cost of cable systems. My cable bill is the highest it has ever been. The government wanted the telecommunication industry to reduce the cost of a simple telephone. Look carefully at your phone bill. There are some pretty strange charges listed. Now what does the future look like for internet connectivity? Will I be passing my internet connectivity costs off to someone else? Or shall all my internet activity be considered a business expense? Will the government be regulating how much I can charge for my services?
Decss 1.21B has been sighted at www.dvdsoft.de. Time for the/.effect. Lets grab the code, change it, create an easy to install/use package. I smell another open sourced project on the horizon. Time to make a DVD player in our image. And let's not forget to make a port for the Lawyers running Windows...:)
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This article only discusses the buyout as a speculation on the part of the author. He is showing agreements between the compaines as a lead for a merger. This is not even news....Just a large editorial on a slow news day....Guess the managing editors were making bets on the Superbowl....:)
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14 Nov 2016: The Microsoft Accounting agency has completed its review of the vote. Technical Wizard Bill Gates has reported that Steve Ballmer has won the election. VP Elect Michael Dell was with Bill Gates as he reported the results.
"This is the first election in history that was run by a private sector firm. And it has been a great sucess. It takes large companies to properly run a democracy" VP Elect said in a statement today.
Due to the cost analysis of required improvements, 26 states were not included in the count. "Some states did not wish to pay our licencing fees, deciding instead to perform their own election with unsupported open source software. This is unacceptable in a Democracy." reported a Unysis representative.
The tallying of the election returns occured in a bunker located under the former Netscape Headquarters.
In his celebration speech the president elect reported that we need to increase spending to $20 Billion dollars per year to prepare for the next election and provide better security. And make the next version more feature rich for the voters.
In order to get the benefit of the new pentium speed, new compilers need to be used. So now we are in a waiting game for the big players to recompile their closed source apps for the new processor. If the big players decide that it is in their interest not to recompile their programs, the common users will be stuck with a very expensive computer that does not have the benchmarked speed.
I usually suggest to people to wait atleast 3 months before purchasing new technology. Let the rest of the world beta test the new stuff.
PS: The pentium 4 has already been involved in a recall.....When is the next one going to happen?
I'm only running Linux 2.2.17 and Apache 1.3.12. Didn't know Dell was selling 6.2...:))
Dell might have included some "speed enhancements".....It is open source ya know.
Good thing they are protecting me from recording Ron Popiel and time shifting his program to the afternoon. Ensuring that Star Trek can not be shown to an audience greater than one per television. Soon I'll have to pay to see each television show.
Time to turn on the radio....oops...It is on. I wonder if the FCC will require tapes recorders in radios to malfunction if a piece of protected material appears in the airwaves. Hmmmm......Wonder how much money could be made for each "shifted" performance of the Backstreet Boys or Clint Black.
Time to research a patent on the encrypted distribution of audio shifted performances across public airwaves. And follow that up with offering my local representitives a piece of the action for bills suggesting protection of shifted audio performances by personal radios.
*It takes a wise man to stand still while bears are feeding on the ford*
Strange how they haven't tested it for 20 years.....Much less 200.... *Kill the opossum....He just makes problems for the possum*
All, yes ALL of the data storage that has the ability to easily migrate generations require neither a special reader or connection. From paintings on walls to carvings. Some of the actual meanings have been lost to time with the coders. But the data still remains and most likly will be decoded.
Current tech has only been around for the past 100 years. Not even close enough for a real duration test. Most of the data archived to data tape in the early 50's is lost to time. Movie reels from the turn of the century are falling apart. Museums are always seeking film restoration experts, because the vault is disappearing faster than it is being restored.
Floppies just require a small accident, CD's just need to be scratched once good. Remote storage just requires an unplanned critical fault.
If I wish to ensure my data is kept through time, it's time to fire up the printer. Reams and reams of paper. Yes, paper can burn, but I have more faith in paper than current media.
When I purchase a book or a magazine, it is mine. I can shread it up into little pieces or read it. The work is actually from someone else. But the book is mine. I paid for the ability to posess the book.
I purchase a DVD and it is still not mine? Let me try and understand Mad Jacks way of thinking. The work is from someone else. But the DVD and the work on the disk is not mine? Should libraries start renting books and give subsidies back to the authors?
Another thought, why is Mad Jack equating encryption to copywrite protection? To follow that to a conclusion, if it is not encrypted, it is not copywritten. I think Mad Jack needs to fall off of the Tech bandwagon for a day or so and read a book......That doesn't have encryption. I wonder if he copywrites his encrypted email?
How do you think they came up with the figure. It is all added in. It is called project cost. The project cost includes hardware, planning, fuel (someone gets paid for the gathering and processing) and cleanup at the pad.
I have yet to hear of a launch without an evniormental impact statement. Included in this statement are all the possible impacts of the launch. From exhaust to space junk. And even a section on possible impact on the enviorment of mars.
Included in the project cost is primary mission support (expected lifespan) plus extended mission support. Mission support are the computers, communication and personnel cost during the flight and landing.
Please research your statements as they are misleading.
How do you think they came up with the figure. It is all added in. It is called project cost. The project cost includes hardware, planning, fuel (someone gets paid for the gathering and processing) and cleanup at the pad.
I have yet to hear of a launch without an evniormental impact statement. Included in this statement are all the possible impacts of the launch. From exhaust to space junk. And even a section on possible impact on the enviorment of mars.
Included in the project cost is primary mission support (expected lifespan) plus extended mission support. Mission support are the computers, communication and personnel cost during the flight and landing.
Please research your statements as they are misleading.
I remember looking in the encyclopedias and finding the layouts to a space craft that can fly to mars. It looked like a lawn dart. And was supposed to launch in '80.
A few years later, I remember reading about a sister craft to the shuttle that will allow landing on different planets and large supply transfers. The plans were canceled when the 5 other shuttles were canceled.
Back in '85 I remember reading about a new craft that was the size of a VW bug. It was to fit in the shuttle and transfer supplies and people to the moon. Looking at the X-37, I can see that this might have been feesible.
Currently we are planning for a Space Station. Which has been redesigned and reviewed about every 6 months since 1985. Problems with this plan spring anew like water through a sock.
As the article states, we need a goal. And require the government to back that goal without grandstanding.
I belive that a country that can set priorities, like Australia or Japan, will create a colony on the moon. And the US culimination will be a few token flags painted on the side of their spacecraft.
My hope is that the X-Prize will pull commercial interest onto the moon.
Thanks for the notice.
I heading south now with a small box of doughnuts for the luck few who attend the gathering. I'm printing code now....:)
I am involved in convincing users not to print every email, or print every web page. It has been difficult, but I have cut down on the amount of "post it" appointments and announcements.
I have no desire to make printing for the user easier. If I could get away with it, I would put a delay on all print jobs of about 3 hours.
Some of my older users want to file every print job in their own personal file cabinet. The infrastructure I have in place archives every piece of email and data in the servers. Everything is backed up with off site backups and a small backup cluster.
Thank you for the involvment in open source HP and VIA, but I shall not drink of this wine.
Looking at LinuxOnes's press releases, the bottom of the release (legal stuff) looks to be a direct rip from AbsoluteFuture's press releases. Anybody know if there are any agreements? I didn't know that LinuxOne was already being represented by NASD.
Or is it an escape route if things don't work out?
Interesting write-up. Linux filesystems are incompatable with Windows. But Linux can support more than 40 different filesystem types.
:)
And, unless this is written for a complete nugget, the user actually started from a known OS, and *upgraded*. With partition changes and modifications.
And what happed to all of my research data in the linux system. I guess Microsoft doesn't care.
IMHO, this was written by directive by a microsoft agent forced into the linux world. Let's find this good stranger and encourage him to write more good prose.
*It is the fear of complexity that keeps computers out of the bathroom*
Because the phone company stops at the box. After that it is a major service charge. What was the cost for you to have a new phone line installed? PacBell DSL is another example of a telephone company loosing the idea of service. When was the last time you couldn't get a dial tone? Wasn't too long ago for me. Something about accidently cutting my service. I don't really care about paying 7 cents or 99 cents per minute. I want my phones to work.
Now back on topic. What's to say that Microsoft will not follow the same road. The Internet Division charging for extras in the browser. Or the Office Division selling individual components.
I know all these are reasons to leave the microsoft model. But this might be the future
I remember when ATT broke up. The split was very effective at the time. But now, we have less service and baby bells are eating baby bells. Not much longer and we will be back to a single overall owner, with different subsidaries feining competition in different markets.
If a break up is to happen what would resist the
same from happening again?
I don't like to admit it, but microsoft has a large base and it would be near impossible for different parts not to communicate and make "magic" handshakes behind the closed doors.
If most of the modes for transfering information across a network become patented, how much money will the USPTO have to pay to use one of the modes available. According to their site, email coorespondence is "not yet ready". I wonder if it will be a single click through, a redirect, or another application running across the network?
Food for regurgitation: When the government forces the market to behave in such a way, the market creates other solutions for missed profit making. A few years ago the government had a nifty idea for putting regulation in place to lower the cost of cable systems. My cable bill is the highest it has ever been. The government wanted the telecommunication industry to reduce the cost of a simple telephone. Look carefully at your phone bill. There are some pretty strange charges listed. Now what does the future look like for internet connectivity? Will I be passing my internet connectivity costs off to someone else? Or shall all my internet activity be considered a business expense? Will the government be regulating how much I can charge for my services?
Decss 1.21B has been sighted at www.dvdsoft.de. Time for the /.effect. Lets grab the code, change it, create an easy to install/use package. I smell another open sourced project on the horizon. Time to make a DVD player in our image. And let's not forget to make a port for the Lawyers running Windows...:)