...but close. Hasn't there been some rather controversial research involving "stem cells" from fetuses? IIRC, they can be placed in certain parts of the brain, where they will differentiate into neurons.
Nothing. But if I had a choice between two ISPs, and one came bundled with Yahoo! and the other didn't, that might influence my decision.
Of course I'd be paying for it indirectly, and that would make the ISP look a lot like AOL. As a general rule, I've shunned ISPs that offer premium content, so now that I think of it, the ISP offering Yahoo! wouldn't win me.
At this point the only thing I really use them for is the free finance stuff. If they close that off, I'll just use my broker stuff more. Their finance pages are great; they should license that software to brokers, who would probably pay good money to give their users something with which they are already familiar.
Actually... their charts use GNUplot. If they sold the software to brokers, they'd have to GPL that part, maybe even the whole thing.
There could be consolidation in the Linux sector. Market down, lots of companies in trouble now. Time for the losers to look for lifelines, and the winners to prey on panic and fear.
A stock need not pay a dividend to return value to an investor. Many stocks are evaluated based on their P/E ratio, and rise proportionally to earnings. Rather than pay dividends, such companies retain the cash, giving the investor the choice of when or when not to take taxable income. This is especially good for investors who might have to pay a higher rate on dividends than they would on long term capital gains. In fact, many consider dividends to be "old fashioned" for this very reason.
This reminds me of a story I heard out of The Gulf War. I'm not sure, but I think the general was Colin Powell. Maybe somebody else knows for sure.
Anyhow, this reporter asks the general "what are your plans for the enemy". He responds: "we're going to find them and kill them." The reporter was shocked. Surely he meant "neutralize", "terminate", "subdue" or some other euphemism. When pressed again the general reiterated: "we're going to find them and kill them. That's what war is all about."
To me, this was almost as funny as that bit on Saturday Night Live where they were making fun of the reporters during that war, who were essentially asking the generals to reveal their battle plans before action. If the aforementioned incident really occured, it was an excellent way for the general to answer the reporter's question without revealing any secrets.
...is that after a while the Energizer bunny rabbit goes accross it. I bet a lot of people don't think about the rabbit anymore. What I'm wondering, is if they made arrangements to have some bunny appearances 100 years into the future. The company might not even be around any more. That would be trippy.
Do they have any idea what.dot is going to do to phone based tech support?
tech: That's slashdot.dot
customer:/...
tech: No, slashdot.dot, all spelled out
customer: Oh... slashdotdotdot.com
tech: No, slashdot is spelled out, then there is the period character, then "dot" is spelled out. There is no dot com.
customer: Who is this dot character?
...and so on and so forth, for several more minutes. Really, if it isn't.com,.org, or.net, who cares anyway? It takes a long time for a TLD to become "fashionable". Recently,.de seems to be more recognizeable to a lot of non Germans. Otherwise, unless you are interested in a particular country the "big three" are where it's at.
A DTD is supposed to standardize data formatting, isn't it? Think less "copyleft" and more "standardized". This is one situation where the Artistic license makes sense, because it requires non standard versions to be labeled as such.
The Artistic license is so vague though, you might want to have your legal department draft something based on the BSD license, with a clause that hacked versions would have to be relicensed under a different name. That would give developers maximum freedom without compromising the standard. In other words, they could steal your code but they couldn't steal your brand name; similar to RedHat.
A GPL'd DTD would compel other developers to release refinements, but it would do nothing to protect your brand. Brand theft would be far more damaging than code theft.
He's probably set for life, and he's gonna blow so much on the notoriously difficult music business that he would have to re-join the rat race?
Start looking for that tattoo parlor now.
This guy needs a money manager who can show him how to live out his dreams without jeopardizing his independance. There is absolutely no excuse for a multimillionaire to ever have work for "the man" again. We geeks may think accounting and money management are boring, but whenever I hear some story about a guy who went from riches to rags... it's such a preventable problem.
The idea that the electoral college is there to make up for a lack of technology is a myth. If they had wanted the election to be by popular vote, they could have had the electors carry the tally and add it up in Washington just as easily.
The electoral college prevents small yet populous areas of the country from taking control. Look at the map right now. Al Gore has the popular vote, but has very little area on the map. Bush is a clear winner because just about everywhere, you only have to travel a little bit to be in solid Bush territory. With Gore, there would be many places where for hundreds of miles around he lost. That would result in broad swaths of disatisfaction.
Treat Schools Like Businesses, because that's what they are. Now, it sounds to me like some school employees (aka grad students) are unsatisfied with their contracts. What do employees do when the are unsatisfied with their contracts? The options are simple: quit to find something better, or organize a union and seek a better deal via collective bargaining and/or a strike.
Indeed, there have been a few cases in recent years where graduate TAs have organized and gone on strike.
Personally, I regard the arguments placed by schools about the persuit of knowledge for its own sake to be largly a fiction, propotated by those in power in order to maintain their power and exploit those under their control.
The NCAA is a prime example. Student-athlete? Ha! More like a bunch of guys getting payed less than minimum wage and helping the company bring in millions of dollars. Same goes for coders.
There were approx. 1 million absentee ballots, which were likely to favor Bush. An "exit poll" is not going to include people who voted absentee.
I think the irregularities in the election process are there more than we would like to believe. The fact that it was so close in Florida has simply caused us to take more notice.
I'll offer my Canadian perspective on why voting Green isn't a good idea.
followed by:
So that's why I voted Gore even in safe Massachusetts
Ummm... we've got Canadians voting in this election?
Q: What's the exchange rate between Canadian currency and US currency?
A: 1 to 1, as long as it's in pennies
Anyhow, Bush just won. I'm going to skulk off and formulate my plan for becoming fabulously wealthy by passing vast ammounts of Canadian pennies through the US economy.
The Libertarians didn't get enough press. I saw Harry Browne on TV *once* this whole campaign.
CNN's election results for the 11th congressional district in Virginia don't even show the Libertarian candidate. Come on! There were only 4 candidates for that seat. You don't have enough space to show 4 lousy candidates? I know he's not going to win, but if people saw the names of 3rd party candidates, and saw how many votes they got, it might make them curious.
Does anybody know where I can get ALL the results for VA 11th district?
Well, I decided to post these dictionary definitions and walk away for a couple hours to see what reactions came. None came... oh well.
Here's my take on it. Because Stallman only advocates collectivisation of one particular industry (software development) his system fails to meet the formal definition of communism. The key word is *all* property.
Don't get me wrong. I still disagree with most of what RMS stands for, but he fails to meet the formal definition of communist. Also, as far as I know, he is not a formal member of the Communist party (another definition offered by the dictionary).
If anyone can site an example of Stallman stating that he believed *all* property, (both intellectual and physical) should be collectivized, then we could unequivicobly categorize him as a communist.
It's nice to see private industry harassing government over some stupid paperwork for a change. If Bush gets elected next Tuesday, maybe Janet Reno can come work for Bill Gates.
So, how do you like it, government? Now you know how we feel when you get on our backs for earning money that we thought was ours, but it turned out you had a claim on it just because we couldn't present you with some stupid paperwork.
Slashdot Mirror
...but close. Hasn't there been some rather controversial research involving "stem cells" from fetuses? IIRC, they can be placed in certain parts of the brain, where they will differentiate into neurons.
Let the experiment begin.
Nothing. But if I had a choice between two ISPs, and one came bundled with Yahoo! and the other didn't, that might influence my decision.
Of course I'd be paying for it indirectly, and that would make the ISP look a lot like AOL. As a general rule, I've shunned ISPs that offer premium content, so now that I think of it, the ISP offering Yahoo! wouldn't win me.
At this point the only thing I really use them for is the free finance stuff. If they close that off, I'll just use my broker stuff more. Their finance pages are great; they should license that software to brokers, who would probably pay good money to give their users something with which they are already familiar.
Actually... their charts use GNUplot. If they sold the software to brokers, they'd have to GPL that part, maybe even the whole thing.
There could be consolidation in the Linux sector. Market down, lots of companies in trouble now. Time for the losers to look for lifelines, and the winners to prey on panic and fear.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: life is best when you connect a Windows desktop to a *NIX server.
Conversely, it's gotta be rotten when you connect a *NIX desktop to a Windows server, but I've never been in that situation; so I really can't say.
A stock need not pay a dividend to return value to an investor. Many stocks are evaluated based on their P/E ratio, and rise proportionally to earnings. Rather than pay dividends, such companies retain the cash, giving the investor the choice of when or when not to take taxable income. This is especially good for investors who might have to pay a higher rate on dividends than they would on long term capital gains. In fact, many consider dividends to be "old fashioned" for this very reason.
OK, I give up. Let's all sing "God Save the Queen". Let's sing it like the Sex Pistols did.
Because we're sick and tired of hearing people say "boxen".
This reminds me of a story I heard out of The Gulf War. I'm not sure, but I think the general was Colin Powell. Maybe somebody else knows for sure.
Anyhow, this reporter asks the general "what are your plans for the enemy". He responds: "we're going to find them and kill them." The reporter was shocked. Surely he meant "neutralize", "terminate", "subdue" or some other euphemism. When pressed again the general reiterated: "we're going to find them and kill them. That's what war is all about."
To me, this was almost as funny as that bit on Saturday Night Live where they were making fun of the reporters during that war, who were essentially asking the generals to reveal their battle plans before action. If the aforementioned incident really occured, it was an excellent way for the general to answer the reporter's question without revealing any secrets.
...is that after a while the Energizer bunny rabbit goes accross it. I bet a lot of people don't think about the rabbit anymore. What I'm wondering, is if they made arrangements to have some bunny appearances 100 years into the future. The company might not even be around any more. That would be trippy.
Do they have any idea what .dot is going to do to phone based tech support?
tech: That's slashdot.dot
customer: /...
tech: No, slashdot.dot, all spelled out
customer: Oh... slashdotdotdot.com
tech: No, slashdot is spelled out, then there is the period character, then "dot" is spelled out. There is no dot com.
customer: Who is this dot character?
...and so on and so forth, for several more minutes. Really, if it isn't .com, .org, or .net, who cares anyway? It takes a long time for a TLD to become "fashionable". Recently, .de seems to be more recognizeable to a lot of non Germans. Otherwise, unless you are interested in a particular country the "big three" are where it's at.
A DTD is supposed to standardize data formatting, isn't it? Think less "copyleft" and more "standardized". This is one situation where the Artistic license makes sense, because it requires non standard versions to be labeled as such.
The Artistic license is so vague though, you might want to have your legal department draft something based on the BSD license, with a clause that hacked versions would have to be relicensed under a different name. That would give developers maximum freedom without compromising the standard. In other words, they could steal your code but they couldn't steal your brand name; similar to RedHat.
A GPL'd DTD would compel other developers to release refinements, but it would do nothing to protect your brand. Brand theft would be far more damaging than code theft.
He's probably set for life, and he's gonna blow so much on the notoriously difficult music business that he would have to re-join the rat race?
Start looking for that tattoo parlor now.
This guy needs a money manager who can show him how to live out his dreams without jeopardizing his independance. There is absolutely no excuse for a multimillionaire to ever have work for "the man" again. We geeks may think accounting and money management are boring, but whenever I hear some story about a guy who went from riches to rags... it's such a preventable problem.
Here is a good place to start.
Did Al Gore put them up to that?
Can't reach the original site or the mirror? If you haven't seen it before, you might want to try the Ascimation version.
The idea that the electoral college is there to make up for a lack of technology is a myth. If they had wanted the election to be by popular vote, they could have had the electors carry the tally and add it up in Washington just as easily.
The electoral college prevents small yet populous areas of the country from taking control. Look at the map right now. Al Gore has the popular vote, but has very little area on the map. Bush is a clear winner because just about everywhere, you only have to travel a little bit to be in solid Bush territory. With Gore, there would be many places where for hundreds of miles around he lost. That would result in broad swaths of disatisfaction.
Treat Schools Like Businesses, because that's what they are. Now, it sounds to me like some school employees (aka grad students) are unsatisfied with their contracts. What do employees do when the are unsatisfied with their contracts? The options are simple: quit to find something better, or organize a union and seek a better deal via collective bargaining and/or a strike.
Indeed, there have been a few cases in recent years where graduate TAs have organized and gone on strike.
Personally, I regard the arguments placed by schools about the persuit of knowledge for its own sake to be largly a fiction, propotated by those in power in order to maintain their power and exploit those under their control.
The NCAA is a prime example. Student-athlete? Ha! More like a bunch of guys getting payed less than minimum wage and helping the company bring in millions of dollars. Same goes for coders.
There were approx. 1 million absentee ballots, which were likely to favor Bush. An "exit poll" is not going to include people who voted absentee.
I think the irregularities in the election process are there more than we would like to believe. The fact that it was so close in Florida has simply caused us to take more notice.
I'll offer my Canadian perspective on why voting Green isn't a good idea.
followed by:
So that's why I voted Gore even in safe Massachusetts
Ummm... we've got Canadians voting in this election?
Q: What's the exchange rate between Canadian currency and US currency?
A: 1 to 1, as long as it's in pennies
Anyhow, Bush just won. I'm going to skulk off and formulate my plan for becoming fabulously wealthy by passing vast ammounts of Canadian pennies through the US economy.
Well, I thought I found it here but wouldn't you know the 11th district is the only one that doesn't appear to be updating.
The Libertarians didn't get enough press. I saw Harry Browne on TV *once* this whole campaign.
CNN's election results for the 11th congressional district in Virginia don't even show the Libertarian candidate. Come on! There were only 4 candidates for that seat. You don't have enough space to show 4 lousy candidates? I know he's not going to win, but if people saw the names of 3rd party candidates, and saw how many votes they got, it might make them curious.
Does anybody know where I can get ALL the results for VA 11th district?
Well, I decided to post these dictionary definitions and walk away for a couple hours to see what reactions came. None came... oh well.
Here's my take on it. Because Stallman only advocates collectivisation of one particular industry (software development) his system fails to meet the formal definition of communism. The key word is *all* property.
Don't get me wrong. I still disagree with most of what RMS stands for, but he fails to meet the formal definition of communist. Also, as far as I know, he is not a formal member of the Communist party (another definition offered by the dictionary).
If anyone can site an example of Stallman stating that he believed *all* property, (both intellectual and physical) should be collectivized, then we could unequivicobly categorize him as a communist.
From Webster's New World Dictionary, 2nd College Edition:
communism 1. any economic theory or system based on the ownership of all property by the community as a whole
communist 1. an advocate or supporter of communism.
It's nice to see private industry harassing government over some stupid paperwork for a change. If Bush gets elected next Tuesday, maybe Janet Reno can come work for Bill Gates.
So, how do you like it, government? Now you know how we feel when you get on our backs for earning money that we thought was ours, but it turned out you had a claim on it just because we couldn't present you with some stupid paperwork.
Yes, 8000 screaming fans in the bleachers of the basketball courts. They're waiting for the geeks who maintain it to vote for homecoming king.