and wether you like it or not, it IS your problem, since hungry people bite harder.
As long as people like that continue to refuse considering a cultural change as a meaningful option, then it is their problem. If millions die out of stuborness then I don't see how it can be anyone's fault but their own.
This camera would be great for, say, putting a little 100x100 icon of someone's face in their phonebook entry. I don't think it's meant to be a digital camera replacement.
One drop of condensed water will certainly NOT kill your system. In fact you could pour distilled water all over your system and it would keep working fine. (Except for the mechanical stuff). What you have to worry about it corrosion and ICE.
We did everything that SteelEye did, and we did it from scratch. SteelEye bought their technology from NEC, and they haven't gone anywhere with it sice they've had it. MCL had all the same deals with Compaq, IBM, Intel, and HP. The difference is that our investors gave up on us when times got tough. That may well happen to SteelEye soon too. They had the same number of employees we did, the same amount of cash, the same amount of revenue, and the same amount of time. I'd wager that you'll be hearing about them looking for more money in the near future.
99% of SteelEye's customers are people running the old version of LifeKeeper on windows NT from when it was NCR's product. That user base is probably shrinking, not growing. We're not dead yet. We're still working on our clusters. When our telco grade stuff comes out in 6 months or so, everyone will see who has the better technology.
It's funny, but both stories are from the same press release. ZDNet and NewsForge chose to put different spins on the same story. They're both right. We have new financing, we have a renewed focus on high availability, and we laid off 90% of our staff.
The plan was not originally to get bought out. Unfortunatly or main investor (which happened to be GAP) got scared when the economy tanked and decided that they needed cash. They decided to sell us *at a loss* just to get liquid.
Furthermore, we did have a 'plan B' but 'plan A' seemed to be going along fine. It fell through on the last possible day, and by then it was too late to jump on 'plan B'. At lease we have a 'plan C', but it's too bad that so many people had to loose their jobs.
It's too bad that this story hit now, when we're moving our office, rather than three weeks ago when we all learned what was happening. It's amazing that 50 people managed to keep their mouths shut for so long:)
I think that given another year we *could* have made money. Unfortunatly we took a gamble with how to fund our future and lost. Even companies with a good plan and promise for success can go under when investors get panicy about the economy.Also, we surely would have been okay if there weren't so many other linux companies trying to sell themselves off on the cheap in the last few months. We didn't have good timing when we tried to find a buyer.
Ok, here's the dirt. Basically we had to choose between getting more funding, or selling the company. Two offers came over the table to buy the company and we picked one. It fell through at the last moment and we had to make some tough decisions. Our support services were loosing money, so they're gone. We've kept profitable custom engineering projects and our cluster products groups. Hopefully we have enough funds to stay alive untill our products can support us. We're not planning on going completely out of business in the near future.
Full disclosure: I'm one of the employees that didn't loose their job. Someone else may be less optimistic about the whole thing. Since we were as nice as possible about laying people off (They got to stay around, paid, using their offices to find new jobs for three weeks) you probably won't find too many pissed off ex-employees.
Don't worry, our products group is still around. It's everyone else that got canned. We're working to finish the new versions of our clusters to make sure that they find good homes rather then disappearing.
The difference is that after they moved away the wreckage, they were able to build another building there without having to wait decades for the radition contamination to be cleaned up.
I'm as big an advocate for nuclear power as you'll find, but if such things are to be commercially available then they need to be protected in a way that makes them impractical for such terrorist activities, and that precludes them being small enough to be portable.
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if you use Google to search for a specific consumer product, you'll get mostly garbage
This is a seller's perspective. When I type a product name into a search engine I usually *don't want* a seller, I want real unbiased info and reviews. (Actually I never do this anymore. If I want reviews I'll type '(product name) reviews' and if I want to buy it I'll type '(product name) price'). There is more to the internet then retail.
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Most public art museums allow photography as long as you don't use a flash.
2, Get them to define what it is they are hoping to achieve and have a third party consultancy assess your code to see if it fits the requirements.
This is the only way to go. If they won't agree to a third party assessment, then they're out to screw you. There are lots of companies out there that do this kind of work, so you shouldn't have trouble finding one.
That works fine in a small community, in fact it works great in the town where I live. Unfortunatly the interstate highways in my state are patroled by state cops, and the chance of having any effect on the actions of the state police through voting is exactly nil. You see, when people vote in state elections they vote based on stupid issues that are irrelevent at that level. If a candidate that wanted to do something to change the state police force was, say, anti-abortion, then that candidate would never win. It doesn't matter that a state representitive has no say in abortion policy. It's worse then that too: people want to vote for police friendly candidates. It doesn't matter that the current state police force isn't doing the correct job. The solution is always to get more, not fix the ones we already have. I suppose if I worked at it hard enough I could get a petition on the ballot to raise the speed limits to 80mph where it's safe to travel that fast (most of the 3 & 4 lane highways), but I have a job that I need to go to every day to be able to afford to live in this state, and don't have the time to invest in such an undertaking.
That's a stupid conclusion. It's not like he can not have insurance if he thinks it's too expensive. In most areas insurance is required by law. Even if it's regulated, the insurance companies are going to charge you as much as the can because you have no choice but to pay. You can go to another company, but they'll have the same regulated rates.
The real problem is that cops give out speeding tickets instead of reckless driving tickets. It's possible to drave safely at 80mph, but people who are darting from lane to lane (usually with no signal) are the real problem. It's easier to catch the speeders tough, and they really only care about the money (They could give two shits if you kill yourself, as long as your insurance company pays for any damage to the road). They just enforce the speed limit, collect their checks, and are done with it.
What really pisses me off is when I see a speeding trap with like 10 patrol cars, and then a mile up I see someone stuck on the side of the road needing help, but the cops are too busy speeding by to give out tickets to stop and help the guy that's stuck. What do we pay for these people for?
Please post a link that states otherwise. Otherwise, the "dumbness" resides solely within yourself.
Ooh, ooh! More dumbness. I feel like I'm reading Scott Adam's "Joy of Work" all over again. Lack of evidence to the contrary is not proof of anything. I'm not asserting that they have done the research, but that you're assuming they havent, and that I haven't provided evidence to the contrary does not prove me wrong.
Aside from that, if you had read the article, you whould know that they've done this before in other places, so if that doesn't count as backround research then I don't know what does.
It means not doing something wholly destructive. For instance, not wiping out a layer of an ecosystem, without doing any sort of research into possible effects, simply because of a loss of percieved monetary value.
You have just commited an act of dumbness. You can not assume that because you have not done research that the research has not been done. Dogbert should whack you with a cardboard tube.
And what kind of a name is "SealBeater" for someone who's blindly "defending" wildlife?
Jeez... It's not like they're designing it or anything. Working on an OS is just like working on any other program. There are thousands of qualified people.
I'm not saying any old VB monkey can do it, but a lot of them probably could if they knew the language the OS was written in. (I'm assuming for windows it's a combination of C & C++)
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As long as people like that continue to refuse considering a cultural change as a meaningful option, then it is their problem. If millions die out of stuborness then I don't see how it can be anyone's fault but their own.
This camera would be great for, say, putting a little 100x100 icon of someone's face in their phonebook entry. I don't think it's meant to be a digital camera replacement.
One drop of condensed water will certainly NOT kill your system. In fact you could pour distilled water all over your system and it would keep working fine. (Except for the mechanical stuff). What you have to worry about it corrosion and ICE.
We did everything that SteelEye did, and we did it from scratch. SteelEye bought their technology from NEC, and they haven't gone anywhere with it sice they've had it. MCL had all the same deals with Compaq, IBM, Intel, and HP. The difference is that our investors gave up on us when times got tough. That may well happen to SteelEye soon too. They had the same number of employees we did, the same amount of cash, the same amount of revenue, and the same amount of time. I'd wager that you'll be hearing about them looking for more money in the near future.
99% of SteelEye's customers are people running the old version of LifeKeeper on windows NT from when it was NCR's product. That user base is probably shrinking, not growing. We're not dead yet. We're still working on our clusters. When our telco grade stuff comes out in 6 months or so, everyone will see who has the better technology.
It's funny, but both stories are from the same press release. ZDNet and NewsForge chose to put different spins on the same story. They're both right. We have new financing, we have a renewed focus on high availability, and we laid off 90% of our staff.
The plan was not originally to get bought out. Unfortunatly or main investor (which happened to be GAP) got scared when the economy tanked and decided that they needed cash. They decided to sell us *at a loss* just to get liquid.
Furthermore, we did have a 'plan B' but 'plan A' seemed to be going along fine. It fell through on the last possible day, and by then it was too late to jump on 'plan B'. At lease we have a 'plan C', but it's too bad that so many people had to loose their jobs.
It's too bad that this story hit now, when we're moving our office, rather than three weeks ago when we all learned what was happening. It's amazing that 50 people managed to keep their mouths shut for so long :)
We don't have a distro. ZDNet isn't to good at doing research.
I think that given another year we *could* have made money. Unfortunatly we took a gamble with how to fund our future and lost. Even companies with a good plan and promise for success can go under when investors get panicy about the economy.Also, we surely would have been okay if there weren't so many other linux companies trying to sell themselves off on the cheap in the last few months. We didn't have good timing when we tried to find a buyer.
Ok, here's the dirt. Basically we had to choose between getting more funding, or selling the company. Two offers came over the table to buy the company and we picked one. It fell through at the last moment and we had to make some tough decisions. Our support services were loosing money, so they're gone. We've kept profitable custom engineering projects and our cluster products groups. Hopefully we have enough funds to stay alive untill our products can support us. We're not planning on going completely out of business in the near future.
Full disclosure: I'm one of the employees that didn't loose their job. Someone else may be less optimistic about the whole thing. Since we were as nice as possible about laying people off (They got to stay around, paid, using their offices to find new jobs for three weeks) you probably won't find too many pissed off ex-employees.
Actually we only had a couple of aerons, and we're keeping all the high end machines thank you.
Don't worry, our products group is still around. It's everyone else that got canned. We're working to finish the new versions of our clusters to make sure that they find good homes rather then disappearing.
The difference is that after they moved away the wreckage, they were able to build another building there without having to wait decades for the radition contamination to be cleaned up.
I'm as big an advocate for nuclear power as you'll find, but if such things are to be commercially available then they need to be protected in a way that makes them impractical for such terrorist activities, and that precludes them being small enough to be portable.
if you use Google to search for a specific consumer product, you'll get mostly garbage
This is a seller's perspective. When I type a product name into a search engine I usually *don't want* a seller, I want real unbiased info and reviews. (Actually I never do this anymore. If I want reviews I'll type '(product name) reviews' and if I want to buy it I'll type '(product name) price'). There is more to the internet then retail.
Most public art museums allow photography as long as you don't use a flash.
That already existed. It was called scour. It was sued out of existance.
Maybe he wants 100Mbps connectivity to the other machines on campus.
2, Get them to define what it is they are hoping to achieve and have a third party consultancy assess your code to see if it fits the requirements.
This is the only way to go. If they won't agree to a third party assessment, then they're out to screw you. There are lots of companies out there that do this kind of work, so you shouldn't have trouble finding one.
That works fine in a small community, in fact it works great in the town where I live. Unfortunatly the interstate highways in my state are patroled by state cops, and the chance of having any effect on the actions of the state police through voting is exactly nil. You see, when people vote in state elections they vote based on stupid issues that are irrelevent at that level. If a candidate that wanted to do something to change the state police force was, say, anti-abortion, then that candidate would never win. It doesn't matter that a state representitive has no say in abortion policy. It's worse then that too: people want to vote for police friendly candidates. It doesn't matter that the current state police force isn't doing the correct job. The solution is always to get more, not fix the ones we already have. I suppose if I worked at it hard enough I could get a petition on the ballot to raise the speed limits to 80mph where it's safe to travel that fast (most of the 3 & 4 lane highways), but I have a job that I need to go to every day to be able to afford to live in this state, and don't have the time to invest in such an undertaking.
Hmm... Maybe you talked me into moving.
That's a stupid conclusion. It's not like he can not have insurance if he thinks it's too expensive. In most areas insurance is required by law. Even if it's regulated, the insurance companies are going to charge you as much as the can because you have no choice but to pay. You can go to another company, but they'll have the same regulated rates.
The real problem is that cops give out speeding tickets instead of reckless driving tickets. It's possible to drave safely at 80mph, but people who are darting from lane to lane (usually with no signal) are the real problem. It's easier to catch the speeders tough, and they really only care about the money (They could give two shits if you kill yourself, as long as your insurance company pays for any damage to the road). They just enforce the speed limit, collect their checks, and are done with it.
What really pisses me off is when I see a speeding trap with like 10 patrol cars, and then a mile up I see someone stuck on the side of the road needing help, but the cops are too busy speeding by to give out tickets to stop and help the guy that's stuck. What do we pay for these people for?
Please post a link that states otherwise. Otherwise, the "dumbness" resides solely within yourself.
Ooh, ooh! More dumbness. I feel like I'm reading Scott Adam's "Joy of Work" all over again. Lack of evidence to the contrary is not proof of anything. I'm not asserting that they have done the research, but that you're assuming they havent, and that I haven't provided evidence to the contrary does not prove me wrong.
Aside from that, if you had read the article, you whould know that they've done this before in other places, so if that doesn't count as backround research then I don't know what does.
It means not doing something wholly destructive. For instance, not wiping out a layer of an ecosystem, without doing any sort of research into possible effects, simply because of a loss of percieved monetary value.
You have just commited an act of dumbness. You can not assume that because you have not done research that the research has not been done. Dogbert should whack you with a cardboard tube.
And what kind of a name is "SealBeater" for someone who's blindly "defending" wildlife?
...that college dining hall trays make excelent mounts for home brew electronics projects!
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Jeez... It's not like they're designing it or anything. Working on an OS is just like working on any other program. There are thousands of qualified people.
I'm not saying any old VB monkey can do it, but a lot of them probably could if they knew the language the OS was written in. (I'm assuming for windows it's a combination of C & C++)