Oh! I'm sorry I thought he meant that it was good for the stock holders. Yes, I agree, good for Andover, about 72m gained when the ipo first came out. I'm pretty sure that it'll even make the stock holders a bit of cash when we come back into the 'linux is new and will shock everyone, sometime' stage again.:)
Mass-Boycotts of major corporations usually get quite a bit of media coverage, possibly kicking the pr dept. of microsoft. and there are several slashdot readers who do use windows, and by choice (I recall someone on GiS saying they used windows and never crashed it). But the sensationalistic media would take the fact that 90 % of slashdot's 150k users use Linux or BSD or some unix and turn it into 'all of slashdot is made up of linux users that hate microsoft.' So: it probably wouldn't be taken seriously.
Isn't that exactly what happened with the publishing of Voices From the Hellmouth? Is there going to be a stream of class action law suits from Anonymous Coward, LLP or what? (I should point out that I'm not against the publishing of comments from the Hellmouth posts and am eagerly awaiting my copy from thinkgeek)
I know, it's really just a sensationalist media listening to some people on slashdot and other places saying that microsoft is evil. I'm no microsoft fan by any measure, but I don't really think that anyone there are really bad people. Everytime I've seen our friend billy he's seemed like a very nice person. Even when he's hanging around inner-city schools with people he's nothing like he's laughing and smiling, goofily albeit, but he seems like a nice enough guy to me. And so are the several Microsoft employees that I know and are friends with.
First, I wouldn't really say that Andover IPO money is 'great,' seeing as the ipo price was 18 dollars and it's been trading in about the 15-17 dollar range.
Two, I think that we, the slashdotters have been kicking them in the pr department quite a bit just in the last day or two. The thing I find most ammusing, of course, is the people in #slashdot on both slashnet and Open Projects allegating that Microsoft is behind the DoSs the last two days, even calling for a firewall filter against microsoft.com, and msn.com (they forgot msft.net, ms's empoyee inet division:)). So, with the press coverage of us from cnn and C|Net, I think we're doing pretty well in kicking MS in the pr dept.
Please Robin, I beg of you, don't give into Microsoft. I realize that this is probably just a bit redundnet, but I just wanted to give you my support and say that I'm behind you (like most everyone else) in defending freedom on slashdot.
I think we're missing the point with all these posts about miniature computing and hacking the future i-opener molecule edition to run linux, what if we hacked this thing to meld it's controlled molecules into the universe's molecules, imagine the possibilities; weather control, creation of new worlds, blowing up ms campus...
Of course, we're gonna have billy try to control all the ions in our minds...
(it's not being paranoid if people really are out to get you)
Gosh, I am _so_ incredibly tired of lynx staying on HTTP request sent; waiting for response. and then going to cook a 4 course meal and then come back and having it say HTTP 1.0 200 OK.
Q: Isn't DivX that thing from Circuit City? A: Nope, DivX, is just a little too easily confused with DIVX, a now defunct DVD rental format pioneered (created just to piss people off?) by Circuit City.
They could have this neat little tcp sat. in geosynchraness orbit and would not have to use the Deep Space Network (the thing that allows nasa to not lose contact with their sats).
but what about pulicity. Any company that does anything related to open source, it's touted as something that will help linux, and anything on the newswires about linux is instantly picked up by CNBC, C|net, slashdot, and eventually major local tv stations.
Well, Java is a proprietary and Mozilla is fully open source and Sun is a bit antsy about opensourcing Java. I've heard about some projects to reverse engineer Java, but mozilla is a corp. entity and they tend to get a bit antsy with legal issues...so...:(
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I show 5 comments (six after this one goes up) posted to this story, seems like a good time for 3rd string posting :)
Oh! I'm sorry I thought he meant that it was good for the stock holders. Yes, I agree, good for Andover, about 72m gained when the ipo first came out. I'm pretty sure that it'll even make the stock holders a bit of cash when we come back into the 'linux is new and will shock everyone, sometime' stage again. :)
Mass-Boycotts of major corporations usually get quite a bit of media coverage, possibly kicking the pr dept. of microsoft. and there are several slashdot readers who do use windows, and by choice (I recall someone on GiS saying they used windows and never crashed it). But the sensationalistic media would take the fact that 90 % of slashdot's 150k users use Linux or BSD or some unix and turn it into 'all of slashdot is made up of linux users that hate microsoft.' So: it probably wouldn't be taken seriously.
Isn't that exactly what happened with the publishing of Voices From the Hellmouth? Is there going to be a stream of class action law suits from Anonymous Coward, LLP or what? (I should point out that I'm not against the publishing of comments from the Hellmouth posts and am eagerly awaiting my copy from thinkgeek)
btw, larger audience doesn't necessarily mean it's a good site. Seventh Heaven anyone?
I know, it's really just a sensationalist media listening to some people on slashdot and other places saying that microsoft is evil. I'm no microsoft fan by any measure, but I don't really think that anyone there are really bad people. Everytime I've seen our friend billy he's seemed like a very nice person. Even when he's hanging around inner-city schools with people he's nothing like he's laughing and smiling, goofily albeit, but he seems like a nice enough guy to me. And so are the several Microsoft employees that I know and are friends with.
Two, I think that we, the slashdotters have been kicking them in the pr department quite a bit just in the last day or two. The thing I find most ammusing, of course, is the people in #slashdot on both slashnet and Open Projects allegating that Microsoft is behind the DoSs the last two days, even calling for a firewall filter against microsoft.com, and msn.com (they forgot msft.net, ms's empoyee inet division :)). So, with the press coverage of us from cnn and C|Net, I think we're doing pretty well in kicking MS in the pr dept.
Please Robin, I beg of you, don't give into Microsoft. I realize that this is probably just a bit redundnet, but I just wanted to give you my support and say that I'm behind you (like most everyone else) in defending freedom on slashdot.
weapons as large as 12 guages rarely fit in asses.
Heck, being from the us, I'm not up on gun-control laws. I don't really give a rats-ass either way.
Second, Apple and Sun are _not_ as bad as ms when it comes to proprietary stuff, darwin (apple), solaris being open sourced, shall I go on?
You failed to mention that there were aeons between these comet and astroid impacts in which most life was dead, unless you're okay with that...
Of course, we're gonna have billy try to control all the ions in our minds...
(it's not being paranoid if people really are out to get you)
It won't really matter, it'll be a winmol that'll suck at cracking Rc5-64.
I think it should have some good support for streaming DVD if the time comes where there is enough bandwidth available.
CowboyNeal said it's gonna be on 8 red hat and debian servers (red hat for dbasing and debian for everything else).
Gosh, I am _so_ incredibly tired of lynx staying on HTTP request sent; waiting for response. and then going to cook a 4 course meal and then come back and having it say HTTP 1.0 200 OK.
Q: Isn't DivX that thing from Circuit City? A: Nope, DivX, is just a little too easily confused with DIVX, a now defunct DVD rental format pioneered (created just to piss people off?) by Circuit City.
Wow, 10:1 compression from a dvd, sounds like worthwhile project to me.
Well, old Stevey's gonna have some trouble getting the internet from it's inventor, Al Gore.
They could have this neat little tcp sat. in geosynchraness orbit and would not have to use the Deep Space Network (the thing that allows nasa to not lose contact with their sats).
there's a mailing list that sends an e-mail out a few hours after the show's been posted at the The Sync Geeks In Space page.
but what about pulicity. Any company that does anything related to open source, it's touted as something that will help linux, and anything on the newswires about linux is instantly picked up by CNBC, C|net, slashdot, and eventually major local tv stations.
are you using lynx? that would sure explain the lack of graphics :)
Well, Java is a proprietary and Mozilla is fully open source and Sun is a bit antsy about opensourcing Java. I've heard about some projects to reverse engineer Java, but mozilla is a corp. entity and they tend to get a bit antsy with legal issues...so... :(