I would envision the threat scenario of the Chinese threatening the US in any significant financial way would go like so... 1. China: We are cancelling all our loans and investments and want our money back now. 2. US: No. 3. China: Ummm...
Exactly. Not only that, the Chinese own dollars. What can they do with them? Take them to Citibank and say "I have 1 trillion US dollars. Please exchange them for renminbi"? China could try exchanging dollars for euros but unless they did this very gradually they would only devalue their remaining dollars.
The outlook isn't really that grim for the officers of Sourceforge. For example, Mr Jenab paid himself $546,000 last year plus exercised $2,280,000 in stock. That's a healthy chunk of change for a company with a market cap of only $123M.
The above is quite typical of small companies, IMO. The people at the top make sure they take very good care of themselves, regardless of whether or not the company does well.
You're totally wrong about 30 second skip. It is STILL in the software to this day. The only problem is you must enter the magic code every time the box reboots (ie after software updates and power failures).
Here's how to do it.
Play back a pre-recorded program and then push: Select play select 3 0 select
I just bought one of the new TiVo HD units and this works even on that box.
AT&T has two variations of "Pay As You Go". No contract, no commitment. One is $1.00 per day plus $0.10 per minute. The other is $0.25 per minute.
You must add $25 every 90 days. That works out to around $8.40 per month as long as you only talk about 33 minutes a month (if you choose the $0.25 per minute version). And as long as you keep adding every 90 days, you don't lose your previous balance. Perfect for semi-emergency use.
And also "trustworthiness" really has to be high on your priority list of job-qualifications for IT people. I always tell people, if you can't trust your IT people, you're in trouble.
I know it's late to comment on this discussion, but anyway...
Just how do you measure trustworthiness?
I can discuss things like real vs effective UIDs with people. I can ask them the derivative of x^2. I can even ask them to estimate how many gas stations are in the state of Texas.
But are there reliable ways of measuring how trustworthy someone is?
Soloway is making a serious mistake if he thinks his current predicament is nothing to worry about. We're talking federal prosecution here, not a civil suit.
Many years ago Don Lancaster wrote a great book, and one of the quotes in it was: "Don't mess with the eagle". His point was that the federal government has *enormous* resources. You can be in *serious* trouble if someone in the US government doesn't like you.
I could use my OS X install DVD's and install OS X on any number of Macs, no questions asked
Not true in my experience. You must provide a name and other similar information during install. To me that's "questions asked". And I believe that you are automatically "registered" if your computer is connected to the Internet during the install. However if you aren't connected during installation you aren't forced to register later.
Oh, don't worry about that - your receptacles are rated for a number of insertions too - just as you unplug one of your items to make sure it doesn't catch fire is the time that the spring metal finally weakens enough so that once you're halfway to the airport it finally develops a stress fracture and shorts out the wiring.
About 25 years ago in the UK, it was common for wall outlets to have a switch built in to them. Don't know if they still do that.
Also, TV networks (like the BBC) would sign off (at perhaps 9:30 PM) with something like "please switch off your TV and, if at all possible, unplug it from the wall".
So the UK has a long history of encouraging that sort of behavior. Or should I say behaviour?
I don't see how grabbing the lower-right of a window makes resizing a window take too long.
I agree. The Windows alternative is much worse. Here's my specific situation, because different Windows and browser versions may behave differently.
When I use Firefox 1.5 on Win 2K and I grab the scroll bar on the right side of the window, I instead sometimes grab the very edge of the window and accidentally resize the window. I DIDN'T WANT to resize the window. I do this often enough that it's truly annoying!
This problem doesn't exist on my Mac.
As someone else said, maybe an answer is to require a modifier key before a window can be resized from an arbitrary edge.
Most of microsoft's money is on paper in the value of their stock and furture business.
No, this is not true. When people speak of Microsoft's $30 bn in cash, this is exactly what it is: cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments that can be directly converted into cash. It has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft's share price, or with future business.
Yes it IS true. You're wrong, the grandparent is right.
As of today, according to Yahoo data, MSFT had 25.48 Billion in cash. As of today, MSFT's market cap was 296.28 Billion.
That means that about 90% of Microsoft's market capitalization is due to things other than the amount of cash they have. Most probably, as the grandparent indicates, the value of their future business.
In September, 2005, subsequent to a raid by the FBI on ten secondhand shops, Detective Sergeant David Anderson sent Chief Foxworth a memo expressing serious concern regarding "a culture of acceptance within the Police Bureau in which our officers know that these shops are engaging in illicit business." Sergeant Anderson referred to these shops as "little more than legalized fencing operations" (Oregonian, October 2).
My apologies if I have slighted the subtle distinction between a "secondhand shop" and a "pawn shop".
My concern about having drive vendors implement this is they will try to do it with $2 hardware. They'll put a souped up 8048 in there. Then everyone will wonder why the damn thing is so slow. (I'm exaggerating, but just a little).
Life expectancy has nothing to do with reproductive success. As long as you reach the age of sexual maturity and successfully produce fertile offspring, your job is done as far as passing your genes on to the next generation is concerned.
But your offspring will have a much greater chance of reaching sexual maturity if you survive long enough to provide for and nurture them during their childhood.
New Scientist is a good one, I second the economist as a teatime reader.
The Economist? Hard to take them seriously. They predicted $5 per barrel oil when price was $10. And now it's north of $60. And before anyone says "9/11", or "Iraq war", this chart shows that their article pretty much called the absolute bottom. Oil went from $10 to $30 between their article and 9/11. The Economist just overlooked the fact that India and China were growing and would need increased supplies of oil. Duh.
You may be capable of laughing out loud, but you're certainly not capable of reading comprehension.
The entire book is filled, page by page, chapter by chapter, by exact quotes taken directly from articles in the NY Times. The author demonstrates clearly exactly how biased the articles are.
The NY Times has repeated the "big lie" so often that they even believe it themselves. The lies pervade their "news" sections, not just their "editorial" sections.
Can you give examples of the NYT cloaking opinion as a news item?
I can do better than that. I can point you to an entire book that is literally filled with examples of how the NYT does this. They're quite good at it. Masterful.
Journalistic Fraud:
How The New York Times Distorts the News
and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted
Slashdot Mirror
I would envision the threat scenario of the Chinese threatening the US in any significant financial way would go like so ... ...
1. China: We are cancelling all our loans and investments and want our money back now.
2. US: No.
3. China: Ummm
Exactly. Not only that, the Chinese own dollars. What can they do with them? Take them to Citibank and say "I have 1 trillion US dollars. Please exchange them for renminbi"? China could try exchanging dollars for euros but unless they did this very gradually they would only devalue their remaining dollars.
Be sure to watch the recent Nova show on epigenetics. It talks about differences in identical twins. It even talks about autism.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/
MSDN subscribers, please remember that MSFT really cares about you:
...
developers, developers, developers,
developers, developers, developers,
developers, developers, developers,
I love this company!
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The outlook isn't really that grim for the officers of Sourceforge. For example, Mr Jenab paid himself $546,000 last year plus exercised $2,280,000 in stock. That's a healthy chunk of change for a company with a market cap of only $123M.
The above is quite typical of small companies, IMO. The people at the top make sure they take very good care of themselves, regardless of whether or not the company does well.
You're totally wrong about 30 second skip. It is STILL in the software to this day. The only problem is you must enter the magic code every time the box reboots (ie after software updates and power failures).
Here's how to do it.
Play back a pre-recorded program and then push:
Select
play
select
3
0
select
I just bought one of the new TiVo HD units and this works even on that box.
AT&T has two variations of "Pay As You Go". No contract, no commitment. One is $1.00 per day plus $0.10 per minute. The other is $0.25 per minute.
You must add $25 every 90 days. That works out to around $8.40 per month as long as you only talk about 33 minutes a month (if you choose the $0.25 per minute version). And as long as you keep adding every 90 days, you don't lose your previous balance. Perfect for semi-emergency use.
I don't consider that "price raping".
It's also possible that OS X is a tickless kernel because of the underlying Mach microkernel, rather than because of BSD. But that's just a guess.
Damn. I wish I had mod points. Yours is the most insightful post I've read in quite some time.
And also "trustworthiness" really has to be high on your priority list of job-qualifications for IT people. I always tell people, if you can't trust your IT people, you're in trouble.
...
I know it's late to comment on this discussion, but anyway
Just how do you measure trustworthiness?
I can discuss things like real vs effective UIDs with people. I can ask them the derivative of x^2. I can even ask them to estimate how many gas stations are in the state of Texas.
But are there reliable ways of measuring how trustworthy someone is?
Soloway is making a serious mistake if he thinks his current predicament is nothing to worry about. We're talking federal prosecution here, not a civil suit.
Many years ago Don Lancaster wrote a great book, and one of the quotes in it was: "Don't mess with the eagle". His point was that the federal government has *enormous* resources. You can be in *serious* trouble if someone in the US government doesn't like you.
I could use my OS X install DVD's and install OS X on any number of Macs, no questions asked
Not true in my experience. You must provide a name and other similar information during install. To me that's "questions asked". And I believe that you are automatically "registered" if your computer is connected to the Internet during the install. However if you aren't connected during installation you aren't forced to register later.
Yes, a little more than $500
That's quite an understatement. A quick search shows your product at over $2000!
Oh, don't worry about that - your receptacles are rated for a number of insertions too - just as you unplug one of your items to make sure it doesn't catch fire is the time that the spring metal finally weakens enough so that once you're halfway to the airport it finally develops a stress fracture and shorts out the wiring.
About 25 years ago in the UK, it was common for wall outlets to have a switch built in to them. Don't know if they still do that.
Also, TV networks (like the BBC) would sign off (at perhaps 9:30 PM) with something like "please switch off your TV and, if at all possible, unplug it from the wall".
So the UK has a long history of encouraging that sort of behavior. Or should I say behaviour?
Would you please post (somehow) which brand and model of controller did this + date (year at least)? TIA
Given how often I've heard stories like that, I think it's harder to find controllers that don't malfunction.
I don't see how grabbing the lower-right of a window makes resizing a window take too long.
I agree. The Windows alternative is much worse. Here's my specific situation, because different Windows and browser versions may behave differently.
When I use Firefox 1.5 on Win 2K and I grab the scroll bar on the right side of the window, I instead sometimes grab the very edge of the window and accidentally resize the window. I DIDN'T WANT to resize the window. I do this often enough that it's truly annoying!
This problem doesn't exist on my Mac.
As someone else said, maybe an answer is to require a modifier key before a window can be resized from an arbitrary edge.
Most of microsoft's money is on paper in the value of their stock and furture business.
No, this is not true. When people speak of Microsoft's $30 bn in cash, this is exactly what it is: cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments that can be directly converted into cash. It has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft's share price, or with future business.
Yes it IS true. You're wrong, the grandparent is right.
As of today, according to Yahoo data, MSFT had 25.48 Billion in cash. As of today, MSFT's market cap was 296.28 Billion.
That means that about 90% of Microsoft's market capitalization is due to things other than the amount of cash they have. Most probably, as the grandparent indicates, the value of their future business.
Ha. Just the opposite in Portland Oregon. Here pretty much anything goes.
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Here's an article link http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/PPR37/secondhand3
And here's a choice snippet:
In September, 2005, subsequent to a raid by the FBI on ten secondhand shops, Detective Sergeant David Anderson sent Chief Foxworth a memo expressing serious concern regarding "a culture of acceptance within the Police Bureau in which our officers know that these shops are engaging in illicit business." Sergeant Anderson referred to these shops as "little more than legalized fencing operations" (Oregonian, October 2).
My apologies if I have slighted the subtle distinction between a "secondhand shop" and a "pawn shop".
Maybe Sun could set an example by forking over a few bucks for the free software they "steal" from all over.
My concern about having drive vendors implement this is they will try to do it with $2 hardware. They'll put a souped up 8048 in there. Then everyone will wonder why the damn thing is so slow. (I'm exaggerating, but just a little).
Beaverton is already fighting one of its police officers about this very thing.
. ssf?/base/metro_west_news/117471759957650.xml&coll =7
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index
Which university?
That's the first question. Is it a state secret? Is he in fear for his life?
In a situation like this I don't think the story should even appear on Slashdot if the school is unnamed.
Life expectancy has nothing to do with reproductive success. As long as you reach the age of sexual maturity and successfully produce fertile offspring, your job is done as far as passing your genes on to the next generation is concerned.
But your offspring will have a much greater chance of reaching sexual maturity if you survive long enough to provide for and nurture them during their childhood.
New Scientist is a good one, I second the economist as a teatime reader.
The Economist? Hard to take them seriously. They predicted $5 per barrel oil when price was $10. And now it's north of $60. And before anyone says "9/11", or "Iraq war", this chart shows that their article pretty much called the absolute bottom. Oil went from $10 to $30 between their article and 9/11. The Economist just overlooked the fact that India and China were growing and would need increased supplies of oil. Duh.
You may be capable of laughing out loud, but you're certainly not capable of reading comprehension.
The entire book is filled, page by page, chapter by chapter, by exact quotes taken directly from articles in the NY Times. The author demonstrates clearly exactly how biased the articles are.
The NY Times has repeated the "big lie" so often that they even believe it themselves. The lies pervade their "news" sections, not just their "editorial" sections.
Can you give examples of the NYT cloaking opinion as a news item?
I can do better than that. I can point you to an entire book that is literally filled with examples of how the NYT does this. They're quite good at it. Masterful.
Journalistic Fraud:
How The New York Times Distorts the News
and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted