What if they sent out a ballot and a had the people who would be getting the pc's decide. Obviously if they have never had a pc then they are not 100% bias towards microsoft.
Also include a packet with the ballot that would explain the two choices. Explain how running linux would save x amount of dollars initially and how it would also save y amount of dollars to them in the long run because they would not have to purchase software since it is freely available.
Don't force linux upon people, but instead educate them on why they should run it, and let them make their own choice.:-)
"Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI - news), the Digital Media Company, and Gracenote today announced the signing of a multi-year license that provides Gracenote CDDB as the exclusive CD recognition service to current and future Roxio customers through Roxio's Easy CD Creator, Toast and SoundStream current and future products. Concurrent with the licensing agreement, Gracenote and Roxio settled all litigation between the two companies in a sealed agreement."
All I took away from the article was that it was more profitable for both companies to just work together, rather then work to make their lawyers rich.
This article seems kinda lite on information due to it being a sealed deal. Does anyone know anything further?
If you ask me I think this is a case of a company leveraging a large bank roll and good lawyers to further their product reach, not unlike some other large company.:-)
Well my initial response was yeah microsoft sucks, good for them for making crappy hardware. Then I actually read the article. And here's what I discovered.
"Analysts said the number of flawed consoles is probably too small to spell serious production troubles"
Well less then 1% of the 1.5 million systems failed. And out of those that did fail only 200 people received bad customer service.
My question is this, why didn't these people take there X-boxes back to the store immediately. There were plenty of X-boxes to go around, at least where I live. There was really no reason they couldn't have exchanged it.
If you look at the numbers Nintendo had a similar failure rate with the game cube. Was this news? No and neither is this story.
I hate microsoft as much or more then most people on slashdot, and I want to see them fail, but this is not failure. This is just the slashdot crowd chomping at the bit and jumping on any little thing.
My mom has at&t cable access. I remember when I still lived at home speeds up to 6 megabits were not uncommon. However after the @home problems, she was switched to at&t's network. I ran some speed tests on the line and sure enough she was now capped at 1.5 megabit, the upload speeds have always been 128k so there is no change there.
I have a couple friends that just launched a small ISP about 9 months ago and they are finding success in the market because of the poor service provided by the other large ISP's.
They also have the advantage of being able to roll out small wireless mesh networks in areas that are overlooked by the MegaISPs.
These guys will probably never become multi-millionaires, but they will probably make a really nice living. Plus they work for themselves and make their own hours. As long as you keep the network running smoothly there is no way for a customer to tell that you are out on the golf course or on the couch at home, as opposed to a server room.
Plus look at it this way, eventually when the economy turns around (6 months, 1 year, 5 years, whenever), they stand to make a really nice chunk of change if they are bought out.
One of the major factors that will determine widespread acceptance is the price of the units, and from the looks of it, these units seem like they could become very cheap to produce.
Well mod me down for this one, but I must say that I really enjoy browsing at -1 now a days on slashdot. Funny and interesting stories like this one, about the Penis Bird really make me laugh, and hell their often more interesting then what's modded at +5!
About a year ago my cable company (then TCI) was bought out by AT&T. They promised cable internet service in my area and informed me to watch for the circular that would come in the mail. Finally one fateful day about 7 months ago the magical circular arrived in the mail claiming that I could finally have fast internet access.
Attempt 1
I called and schuduled an appointment for an installation. Three days later an AT&T service man showed up at my door. He then came in and tried to locate the point at which the cable entered my townhouse. After about an hour he decided that he could not find where the cable entered the house, so he hooked his meter up to a junction point which is located on the third floor. The reading came fine up okay for the receive channel, but my send channel was very low. The man then informed me that he needed to come back out to my house later in the week with a two-way amp. I said okay and I looked forward to him coming back in a few days.
Attempt 2
Later that week the same cable man came out to my house with a 2-way amp and installed it. Still no luck. My send channel was still too low. The cable guy calls his boss and he gives him a hard time, I can hear him yell "Those amps never break, you must be doing something wrong!!!", well we both concluded that there was something definately wrong with the 2-way amp. He said he was sorry and would be back in a few days with a new amp (they have to sign these things out).
Attempt 3
Again, a few more days go by and the same cable man shows up at my house, with a new amp in hand and a desire to finish this install as we are both tired of seeing each other. He proceeds to hook the amp up. We get a green light on the amp, and the send signal is now high enough that cable internet should work!!! Well he trys to split off from the line and run a cable line accross my floor and down the laundry shoot in my bedroom to the basement, where the computers are located. Well when he did this we had low signal at the other end. So I said don't worry about it, I'll just run cat5, no biggie. Hook up the cable modem in the closet and plug your laptop in and see if it works. Sure enough it did. After wiring the house I know have broadband internet and it only took 3 service calls and about 2 weeks of my time. : )
I did call techsupport one time because we were having an outage and the tech gave me a ten dollar credit. All in all my experience with AT&T has been for the most part a pleasent one. I really enjoy my cable modem and I'm glad that they went the extra mile to get me installed.
I don't really understand what is the big deal here either... I currently have at&t at home and I usually get between 300K to 700K a second (that's not 30.0 and 70.0), which is between 2 and 4 1/2 times as fast as a t-1 line. I know I could push more bandwidth if they would let me. Most modern cable modems are capable of speeds much higher then this.
The problem still lies in the fact that backbone bandwidth and equipment is expensive. It just doesn't seem cost efficient to offer ultra fast speeds at home when bandwidth and equipment charges exceed expected revenue. What we need to improve is not the last mile, but rather the backbone equipment and bandwidth. Make huge pipes cheap to the service providers and you would see ultra fast speeds at home. : )
PhoenixNet is a service that provides PC users with best-of-breed, free, software services to support their PC hardware and software and to turn their computer into a powerful tool for communication,entertainment, education and business.
4.1.1 Internet Launch System
The PhoenixNet Internet Launch System (ILS) is a patent-pending technology built into the firmware to enable online PC users worldwide to communicate with PhoenixNet and to receive the free PhoenixNet services. ILS resides safely
within ROM and is activated the first time a user launches a PhoenixNet-enabled PC with a Windows 98 Operating System.
4.1.2 PhoenixNet Online Services When the PhoenixNet ILS detects an Internet connection, it
makes contact with the PhoenixNet server and delivers user-selectable services from PhoenixNet's Internet Partners. These services are delivered to the user as hotlinks on the
desktop and in the web browser or, as applications that PhoenixNet automatically packages, downloads and installs.
Mmmm square water mellon. These would be great and sell so well. I can finally stop worrying about wasted space in my enviro-friendly refridgerator. I would hate to buy a bigger one to fit my water mellons in them, because I would be wasting electricity and that's bad for the enviroment. Plus at $82 a pop, I am sure they will help spark our economy. Now excuse me I'm heading out in my Ford Excursion to buy watermellon. : )
You know I really don't like the idea of dvd regions, profit setting, higher prices in different markets... but guess what? There is something I can do about it. I will simply not buy dvd hardware. You people do not deserve a DVD player. You are not intitled to one by law. If you don't like what they are doing with them, DON'T BUY THEM. Guess what, if enough people don't buy a product it doesn't stay around, a new approach is taken to pricing and distribution until one that will work, well... works. This model works because all of you complaining still go out and purchase the hardware and the media. YOU are just as much to blame. YOU are part of the problem. If you want people to presure the MPAA, RIAA, Microsoft or whoever the random company or group that is doing something you don't agree with, then get off your ass and start educating. BUT DON'T FUCKING WHINE ABOUT IT ON SLASHDOT! Take five minutes the next time you're in your local electronic store and you see someone looking at a DVD play to explain what exactly the regional id system is all about. If you get the word out, and have a better way, people will eventually begin to listen. And finally as for music and movies going away if some lock down system comes, you are wrong. The system will work if people use, it however won't work if people don't and the big companies will come up with something that eventually will, and perhaps it might be something that would be more "Fair" as many have said.
First I would like to comment that you should actually take the time to read an article that is posted rather then start on a rant.
If you would have read the article you would have noticed that he did not download and install any software on his own. The unit needs to be plugged into a phone line in order sync it's time. They offer this time-sync for free. Now if Tivo offers these units as stand-alone/no service needed to operate. You can still:
1. Rewind/Record Live Programs.
2. No need for a tape
3. No need to label a video tape
4. One touch delete.
5. One touch record.
This is advertised on the box. Now Tivo has disabled such features as:
One Touch Record
Labeling no longer works right.
Very annoying subscribe screen.
Now it is hardly fair that they change your unit because you do not want to subscribe to they're service. They offer the devices for sale without a need for their service. Now it appears they have changed their mind. Well just because they created a product that didn't actually need service to be useful is not the customers fault.
Imagine you have a Palm VII. You love it but did not sign up for the palm.net service, then all of a sudden palm decides that you can no longer use your organizer without subscribing to they're internet service, you would be pissed!
I promise you there will be a class-action lawsuit over this, and I would whole-heartedly support it.
The main reason that the telephone companies are not willing to deloy DSLAM's all over the place is simple because of the cost.
I found a cisco 6200 DSLAM on ebay for $5000, and it's not even a new one!!! Here's the link
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=1240953089
Secondly DSLAMS are way bigger then a bread box. They take up roughly half of most rackmounts... So they are BIG. Plus this is server room RACKMOUNT equipment... It must be climate controlled.
Your $49.95 a month isn't worth the equipment and hassle... Now if you had say a 10 or 20 other people in your neighborhood, then they may reconsider.
It's great to see games for linux being released. I think that more games would be released for linux if we could have a unified standard desktop. I'm not saying that we should do away with other desktops, but it is my firm belief that if the major desktop developers would get together and work towards a linux standard desktop and set of tools you would see many more games as well as applications released for linux. If linux is to truly stand out to the masses there must be more commerical applications released, which would certainly happen with a unified desktop.
Just my two cents.
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I don't mean to be rude, but you are mistaken. The gameboy advance is not set for release until the second week of july. Also the unit you were playing with in the Toys R Us, was a demo unit, placed there to build excitement up until the release of the gameboy advance. As for $95 price tag that you claim, you again probably wrong. You have to understand how the gaming market works. Companies sell their systems to the retaler and the retaler in turn charges the consumer what the system cost them or maybe a few dollars more then it cost them. The video hardware manufacture helps to set the price for unit. In this case Nintendo has decided on a price around $195, so you will see systems for sale from between $190 to $205. (Why sell a system at a $5 lose? To get someone to buy a game were the real money is made). This has been shown with to be the case with N64, Playstation, etc... Then the retaler makes his money on selling games.
When I decided to ask slashdot what the hell I should do at night I about 1 1/2 weeks of night turn under my belt. Not that too much time has passed, however I have found some interesting things to do with my time.
First I took the advise of many and bought a C++ book so I could brush up on my coding. It really is nice to now have the time to program, and I'm glad you guys and girls reminded me of that. In case anyone cares the book is called "C++ How to Program 3rd Edition" writtern by Deitel & Deitel. It has proved to be most useful as a refresher. I think it would be a great book for anyone looking to dive into C++ . In my case I skimed the first few chapters until I got to classes (where I needed to pay more attention).
Secondly I have found that I have been able to greatly improve my hacky-sacking skills... Hacky-sacking in the office proves to be most entertaining.
Third LOTS OF LOUD MUSIC!!! It's nice to be able to crank music at 4am in the morning. I just make sure to turn the phone volume up all the way.
I'm only on night-turn for until the end of the summer and I already know that I will miss it. However I am certain that by the end of the summer I will actually be able to consider myself a programmer in C++, which will be most helpful for my programming classes in the fall (when I go back to school).
Two finally things I found to do... 1 is dumpster diving... I have already mananged to pull a 10/100 8-port network switch, which the company in another building discarded because they apparently upgraded to gigabit ethernet. I plugged it in and it works just fine. The second thing is feeding/running away from the massive monster of a racoon that guards the dumpsters. I think I'm going to give him some candy from the vending machine as a peace offering.
Thanks to everyone for all the great ideas, and thanks for kicking me in the ass and reminding me to program!!!
Who wouldn't want to buy a piece of NASA on the market should the government privatize it?
Only fools, at least until it can show signs of turning a profit. Hopefully the days of mindless investing in pipe dream companies is over with the recent crash of the stock market.
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What if they sent out a ballot and a had the people who would be getting the pc's decide. Obviously if they have never had a pc then they are not 100% bias towards microsoft.
:-)
Also include a packet with the ballot that would explain the two choices. Explain how running linux would save x amount of dollars initially and how it would also save y amount of dollars to them in the long run because they would not have to purchase software since it is freely available.
Don't force linux upon people, but instead educate them on why they should run it, and let them make their own choice.
"Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI - news), the Digital Media Company, and Gracenote today announced the signing of a multi-year license that provides Gracenote CDDB as the exclusive CD recognition service to current and future Roxio customers through Roxio's Easy CD Creator, Toast and SoundStream current and future products. Concurrent with the licensing agreement, Gracenote and Roxio settled all litigation between the two companies in a sealed agreement."
:-)
All I took away from the article was that it was more profitable for both companies to just work together, rather then work to make their lawyers rich.
This article seems kinda lite on information due to it being a sealed deal. Does anyone know anything further?
If you ask me I think this is a case of a company leveraging a large bank roll and good lawyers to further their product reach, not unlike some other large company.
Well my initial response was yeah microsoft sucks, good for them for making crappy hardware. Then I actually read the article. And here's what I discovered.
"Analysts said the number of flawed consoles is probably too small to spell serious production troubles"
Well less then 1% of the 1.5 million systems failed. And out of those that did fail only 200 people received bad customer service.
My question is this, why didn't these people take there X-boxes back to the store immediately. There were plenty of X-boxes to go around, at least where I live. There was really no reason they couldn't have exchanged it.
If you look at the numbers Nintendo had a similar failure rate with the game cube. Was this news? No and neither is this story.
I hate microsoft as much or more then most people on slashdot, and I want to see them fail, but this is not failure. This is just the slashdot crowd chomping at the bit and jumping on any little thing.
My mom has at&t cable access. I remember when I still lived at home speeds up to 6 megabits were not uncommon. However after the @home problems, she was switched to at&t's network. I ran some speed tests on the line and sure enough she was now capped at 1.5 megabit, the upload speeds have always been 128k so there is no change there.
I have a couple friends that just launched a small ISP about 9 months ago and they are finding success in the market because of the poor service provided by the other large ISP's.
They also have the advantage of being able to roll out small wireless mesh networks in areas that are overlooked by the MegaISPs.
These guys will probably never become multi-millionaires, but they will probably make a really nice living. Plus they work for themselves and make their own hours. As long as you keep the network running smoothly there is no way for a customer to tell that you are out on the golf course or on the couch at home, as opposed to a server room.
Plus look at it this way, eventually when the economy turns around (6 months, 1 year, 5 years, whenever), they stand to make a really nice chunk of change if they are bought out.
One of the major factors that will determine widespread acceptance is the price of the units, and from the looks of it, these units seem like they could become very cheap to produce.
Well mod me down for this one, but I must say that I really enjoy browsing at -1 now a days on slashdot. Funny and interesting stories like this one, about the Penis Bird really make me laugh, and hell their often more interesting then what's modded at +5!
All your solar system are belong to us! And if you don't like it will smash a comet into you!!!
Yes aiming a comet and destroying another life sustaining planet would be quite a fitting sign of contact from Earth.
What a message to send... Contact us and we'll smash you with a comet!!!
About a year ago my cable company (then TCI) was bought out by AT&T. They promised cable internet service in my area and informed me to watch for the circular that would come in the mail. Finally one fateful day about 7 months ago the magical circular arrived in the mail claiming that I could finally have fast internet access.
Attempt 1
I called and schuduled an appointment for an installation. Three days later an AT&T service man showed up at my door. He then came in and tried to locate the point at which the cable entered my townhouse. After about an hour he decided that he could not find where the cable entered the house, so he hooked his meter up to a junction point which is located on the third floor. The reading came fine up okay for the receive channel, but my send channel was very low. The man then informed me that he needed to come back out to my house later in the week with a two-way amp. I said okay and I looked forward to him coming back in a few days.
Attempt 2
Later that week the same cable man came out to my house with a 2-way amp and installed it. Still no luck. My send channel was still too low. The cable guy calls his boss and he gives him a hard time, I can hear him yell "Those amps never break, you must be doing something wrong!!!", well we both concluded that there was something definately wrong with the 2-way amp. He said he was sorry and would be back in a few days with a new amp (they have to sign these things out).
Attempt 3
Again, a few more days go by and the same cable man shows up at my house, with a new amp in hand and a desire to finish this install as we are both tired of seeing each other. He proceeds to hook the amp up. We get a green light on the amp, and the send signal is now high enough that cable internet should work!!! Well he trys to split off from the line and run a cable line accross my floor and down the laundry shoot in my bedroom to the basement, where the computers are located. Well when he did this we had low signal at the other end. So I said don't worry about it, I'll just run cat5, no biggie. Hook up the cable modem in the closet and plug your laptop in and see if it works. Sure enough it did. After wiring the house I know have broadband internet and it only took 3 service calls and about 2 weeks of my time. : )
I did call techsupport one time because we were having an outage and the tech gave me a ten dollar credit. All in all my experience with AT&T has been for the most part a pleasent one. I really enjoy my cable modem and I'm glad that they went the extra mile to get me installed.
Maybe before sgi finally dies they will become a portal. Hey someone had to say it. : )
I don't really understand what is the big deal here either... I currently have at&t at home and I usually get between 300K to 700K a second (that's not 30.0 and 70.0), which is between 2 and 4 1/2 times as fast as a t-1 line. I know I could push more bandwidth if they would let me. Most modern cable modems are capable of speeds much higher then this. The problem still lies in the fact that backbone bandwidth and equipment is expensive. It just doesn't seem cost efficient to offer ultra fast speeds at home when bandwidth and equipment charges exceed expected revenue. What we need to improve is not the last mile, but rather the backbone equipment and bandwidth. Make huge pipes cheap to the service providers and you would see ultra fast speeds at home. : )
Easiest way is to not run windows.
But if you must, here's how to remove it. Uninstall Phoenix net in the windows, and in the bios change Phoenix net from installed = yes to No.
Phoenix net is installed when you install the drivers from the motherboard and you go with the defaults rather then choosing your own options.
4.1 PhoenixNet Introduction
PhoenixNet is a service that provides PC users with best-of-breed, free, software services to support their PC hardware and software and to turn their computer into a powerful tool for communication,entertainment, education and business.
4.1.1 Internet Launch System The PhoenixNet Internet Launch System (ILS) is a patent-pending technology built into the firmware to enable online PC users worldwide to communicate with PhoenixNet and to receive the free PhoenixNet services. ILS resides safely within ROM and is activated the first time a user launches a PhoenixNet-enabled PC with a Windows 98 Operating System.
4.1.2 PhoenixNet Online Services When the PhoenixNet ILS detects an Internet connection, it makes contact with the PhoenixNet server and delivers user-selectable services from PhoenixNet's Internet Partners. These services are delivered to the user as hotlinks on the desktop and in the web browser or, as applications that PhoenixNet automatically packages, downloads and installs.
Mmmm square water mellon. These would be great and sell so well. I can finally stop worrying about wasted space in my enviro-friendly refridgerator. I would hate to buy a bigger one to fit my water mellons in them, because I would be wasting electricity and that's bad for the enviroment. Plus at $82 a pop, I am sure they will help spark our economy. Now excuse me I'm heading out in my Ford Excursion to buy watermellon. : )
You know I really don't like the idea of dvd regions, profit setting, higher prices in different markets... but guess what? There is something I can do about it. I will simply not buy dvd hardware. You people do not deserve a DVD player. You are not intitled to one by law. If you don't like what they are doing with them, DON'T BUY THEM. Guess what, if enough people don't buy a product it doesn't stay around, a new approach is taken to pricing and distribution until one that will work, well... works. This model works because all of you complaining still go out and purchase the hardware and the media. YOU are just as much to blame. YOU are part of the problem. If you want people to presure the MPAA, RIAA, Microsoft or whoever the random company or group that is doing something you don't agree with, then get off your ass and start educating. BUT DON'T FUCKING WHINE ABOUT IT ON SLASHDOT! Take five minutes the next time you're in your local electronic store and you see someone looking at a DVD play to explain what exactly the regional id system is all about. If you get the word out, and have a better way, people will eventually begin to listen. And finally as for music and movies going away if some lock down system comes, you are wrong. The system will work if people use, it however won't work if people don't and the big companies will come up with something that eventually will, and perhaps it might be something that would be more "Fair" as many have said.
First I would like to comment that you should actually take the time to read an article that is posted rather then start on a rant.
If you would have read the article you would have noticed that he did not download and install any software on his own. The unit needs to be plugged into a phone line in order sync it's time. They offer this time-sync for free. Now if Tivo offers these units as stand-alone/no service needed to operate. You can still:
1. Rewind/Record Live Programs.
2. No need for a tape
3. No need to label a video tape
4. One touch delete.
5. One touch record.
This is advertised on the box. Now Tivo has disabled such features as:
One Touch Record
Labeling no longer works right.
Very annoying subscribe screen.
Now it is hardly fair that they change your unit because you do not want to subscribe to they're service. They offer the devices for sale without a need for their service. Now it appears they have changed their mind. Well just because they created a product that didn't actually need service to be useful is not the customers fault.
Imagine you have a Palm VII. You love it but did not sign up for the palm.net service, then all of a sudden palm decides that you can no longer use your organizer without subscribing to they're internet service, you would be pissed!
I promise you there will be a class-action lawsuit over this, and I would whole-heartedly support it.
The main reason that the telephone companies are not willing to deloy DSLAM's all over the place is simple because of the cost.
I found a cisco 6200 DSLAM on ebay for $5000, and it's not even a new one!!! Here's the link http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=1240953089
Secondly DSLAMS are way bigger then a bread box. They take up roughly half of most rackmounts... So they are BIG. Plus this is server room RACKMOUNT equipment... It must be climate controlled.
Your $49.95 a month isn't worth the equipment and hassle... Now if you had say a 10 or 20 other people in your neighborhood, then they may reconsider.It's great to see games for linux being released. I think that more games would be released for linux if we could have a unified standard desktop. I'm not saying that we should do away with other desktops, but it is my firm belief that if the major desktop developers would get together and work towards a linux standard desktop and set of tools you would see many more games as well as applications released for linux. If linux is to truly stand out to the masses there must be more commerical applications released, which would certainly happen with a unified desktop. Just my two cents.
I don't mean to be rude, but you are mistaken. The gameboy advance is not set for release until the second week of july. Also the unit you were playing with in the Toys R Us, was a demo unit, placed there to build excitement up until the release of the gameboy advance. As for $95 price tag that you claim, you again probably wrong. You have to understand how the gaming market works. Companies sell their systems to the retaler and the retaler in turn charges the consumer what the system cost them or maybe a few dollars more then it cost them. The video hardware manufacture helps to set the price for unit. In this case Nintendo has decided on a price around $195, so you will see systems for sale from between $190 to $205. (Why sell a system at a $5 lose? To get someone to buy a game were the real money is made). This has been shown with to be the case with N64, Playstation, etc... Then the retaler makes his money on selling games.
When I decided to ask slashdot what the hell I should do at night I about 1 1/2 weeks of night turn under my belt. Not that too much time has passed, however I have found some interesting things to do with my time. First I took the advise of many and bought a C++ book so I could brush up on my coding. It really is nice to now have the time to program, and I'm glad you guys and girls reminded me of that. In case anyone cares the book is called "C++ How to Program 3rd Edition" writtern by Deitel & Deitel. It has proved to be most useful as a refresher. I think it would be a great book for anyone looking to dive into C++ . In my case I skimed the first few chapters until I got to classes (where I needed to pay more attention). Secondly I have found that I have been able to greatly improve my hacky-sacking skills... Hacky-sacking in the office proves to be most entertaining. Third LOTS OF LOUD MUSIC!!! It's nice to be able to crank music at 4am in the morning. I just make sure to turn the phone volume up all the way. I'm only on night-turn for until the end of the summer and I already know that I will miss it. However I am certain that by the end of the summer I will actually be able to consider myself a programmer in C++, which will be most helpful for my programming classes in the fall (when I go back to school). Two finally things I found to do... 1 is dumpster diving... I have already mananged to pull a 10/100 8-port network switch, which the company in another building discarded because they apparently upgraded to gigabit ethernet. I plugged it in and it works just fine. The second thing is feeding/running away from the massive monster of a racoon that guards the dumpsters. I think I'm going to give him some candy from the vending machine as a peace offering. Thanks to everyone for all the great ideas, and thanks for kicking me in the ass and reminding me to program!!!
In case anyone cares the live show is up and streaming now at 4:55 pm (EST).
From what I have gathered from www.silconinvestor.com; he is working on a contracted basis.
For more info you can check out CREE's website They are a huge LED manufacture.
Who wouldn't want to buy a piece of NASA on the market should the government privatize it? Only fools, at least until it can show signs of turning a profit. Hopefully the days of mindless investing in pipe dream companies is over with the recent crash of the stock market.