Microsoft has arranged funding for the entire thing. When ever scox starts running low on funds, magic investors appear out of nowhere to buy $10M worth of newly printed scox shares.
About 90% of scox's shares are owned by about six "investors" About 40% of scox is owned by Chairman Yarro. Scox is not really traded on the open market.
I predict that within 20 years, over 60% of the USA workforce will be lawyers. The rest will be paralegals, legal Secretaries, office assistance, etc. And lots of people will be professional plaintiffs: it's easier than working.
Of course the USA will need a military to keep those other countries in line - hell, somebody has to produce goods and services. All we do in the USA is sue each other.
"Come. There's more. [leads them away. Next seen is a small airport at night] Here's Britney Spears' private jet. Notice anything? [a shot of Britney boarding a plane, then stopping to look at it before entering] Britney used to have a Gulfstream IV. Now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream III because people like you chose to download her music for free." - South Park episode 709
For nearly three years I've been rolling my eyes after reading these comments like: "oh yeah, scox is gonna get their ass handed to them now." Scox will likely lose the case, but that is immaterial. People still continue to adopt Linux at about the same rate, but that is also immaterial.
Msft is sending a message to those companies who might dare to contribute to Linux. The message is: "if you contribute to Linux, expect to be tied up in court for the next five years. And expect to spend $100M in legal fees, and expect to have some sleezy Utah penny-stock scam company digging through all of records, expect endless and pointless "discovery." Expect depositions, and expect to bashed in the tech-pop-media, and expect other endless hassles." From now on, contributing to Linux is not something that you just casually do. Clearly, this will slow Linux development.
The entire scam is costing msft less than $100M, hardly more than a few of their idiotic, and ineffective, commercials. Even if IBM sues msft, it will have been worth it for msft. Forget the DoJ, the USA government works for msft.
The scam is also working out well for scox. Who else would pay darl $1M a year? When darl took over, just before the scam, scox's market cap was under $6M, now it's over $80M.
So, while the groklaw cheerleaders gloat about scox's great defeats; the execs and msft and scox are laughing up their sleeves.
- if there was a mod-system for job postings, or companies, it would be abused like all hell. Companies would mod-up themselves, and mod-down competitors. People would mod-down the companies that fired them, and so on.
- if there was a standard resume, nobody would be happy with it. Monster has a standard resme, I think it sucks.
- job boards can not control the requirements that employers claim they need.
- job boards can not know whether a posted job is real.
1. I should be able to search though just job titles, if I so chose. For example, if I search on keyword "Linux" I only want jobs where "Linux" is the job title, not jobs where Linux is just thrown in as one of the 30 nice-to-have-as-an-extra requirements.
2. After all these years, I should be able to search for comptia certs on dice.com. As it is now, the "+" doesn't work on dice.
3. Dice should stop "recycling" jobs on a daily basis. For example, employers can pay to have the same job constantly re-listed as if were just posted today. The same job gets re-posted dozens of times.
4. Monster's online resume is an abomination. It looks *awful*. Let people post/send the resume that way want.
5. Dice, more than all the other major sites, has the right idea with resume sending. I just want to send my resume as an attachment. I don't want all these choices like "send an existing resume" which actually takes you to some "create a resume" only "feature." I don't want to be forced to create and save cover letters. I don't want to have to re-title my resume for every job that I apply to.
6. Like many others, I am also sick of training schools masquerading as jobs.
7. Monster is completely carried away with obtrusive advertising. For example: you apply for a job, you are presented with a form to fill out. Then you find it's application for some sort of training school.
8. Companies should be forced to post a salary range. And basic information about the company.
9. Temp agencies, which often call themselves "consulting companies." Should be in a seperate catagory. Or, at least, I should be able to chose only real, primary, employers.
Msft is coming out with seven different versions. My guess is that the standard version, the version that ships to most home PCs, will prove inadequate within a few months.
Fortunately, msft will provide an upgrade version for $149.
I wish I could get KDE without the K-apps
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I want the apps that *I* want, and nothing else. I don't want KDE deciding for me. I don't want all that useless cruft. I don't want multiple apps that do the exact same thing. I don't like a "K" in front of everything. I don't want to have remove all the appls I don't want.
USA legal system has nothing what-so-ever to do with justice anymore. The system serves these purposes:
1) Giant roulete wheel, it costs nothing to play, but you get millions if you win. So play often.
2) Easy money for USA legions of lawyers. Whether you win, lose, or draw; the house - er, the lawyers - always cash in big.
3) A weapon to bash the opposition. For example: if you're a huge software company, and you're afraid of competition from more innovative companies: hire a small scam-company to file nuicance lawsuits left and right. It's lot cheaper than making better products, or otherwise competing in a fair manner.
4) A giant playground for kooks who love to bitch about persecuted.
I think you need to get the point across that any pop-media is not reliable, for several reasons. They pander to their advertisers, they sensationalize, their writers are just that *writers* they are not experts in technology - at least not anymore.
I don't care if the tech-pop-media is occassionally pro-linux, it's not reliable. You need to make the point that the company should make decisions only on *reliable* data, as opposed to that crap spewage.
At least SGI is not pulling a scox. SGI could probably hang on for a few more years if they were to go after msft fud money to file some bogus lawsuits.
I don't think SGI has ever lied about their prospects. I'm surprised they managed to hang on this long.
In the Linux/FreeBSD era, I don't think any UNIX pure-play can thrive.
I am a casual user of image manipulating software. I have never used photoshop. I use gimp, and I use those give-away apps that come with my scanner.
From my experience, gimp doesn't work as well as the give-aways. For example, using gimp, I cut a section out of a 3.5MB jpg. Gimp warned me that I need 225MB of RAM to store the section. I went to past the section, and was warned that gimp needed 335MB to paste the section. Gimp was also going *very* slow.
I rebooted into windows, and used some give-away software to complete the process easily, and quickly.
Your post seems to be a bit confused to me. First you say that craigslist is worthless because of all the spamming, then you say that charging to cut down on the spamming is wrong - even while you admit that the charging may help:
"Then the service ads page will be only one page and maybe it will work. Apparently the only way to generate any business is to be the only company able to afford to run an ad."
Um, we're talking about $10 here. If you can't afford that, maybe you are in the wrong business. Also, I don't know that craig is charging people to advertise their tech-support business.
"Instead, Craigslist has basically wiped out the classified ad sections of newspapers in every community it operates in."
How has craig done this, if his service is worthless?
I think msft's business practices are deplorable. I love F/OSS and use debian as my main desktop.
But, in this particular letter, gates is right. All he is saying is that it's not okay to steal software, anymore than it's okay to steal hardware.
If you don't like Walmart's business practices: does that make it okay to shoplift at walmart?
Go ahead and hate msft all you want, but in this particular case, bill gates is exactly right.
java compared to scripting languages?
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I haven't done any real programming in a long time.
Is it sensible to compare java with purely scripting languages? I think python is a great language - as scripting languages go. But, I don't think I would try to write a substantial application in anything that doesn't enforce pre-declared variables.
Let's suppose I have legally obtianed mp3, that I don't want anymore. I somehow *move* the file to a shared directory. The file is deleted from own machine.
I can sell, or give away, a book or cdrom that I no longer want. I just can not keep a copy of it for myself.
In fact, I can give away an old book to the the library, where I can still access it.
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If scox really need that stuff, they should have requested it a *long* time ago.
Microsoft has arranged funding for the entire thing. When ever scox starts running low on funds, magic investors appear out of nowhere to buy $10M worth of newly printed scox shares.
About 90% of scox's shares are owned by about six "investors" About 40% of scox is owned by Chairman Yarro. Scox is not really traded on the open market.
Scox claims that IBM mis-used code that scox owns.
- Scox can not prove they even own the code to begin with, in fact it's very obvious that scox does not even own the code.
- Scox has refused to specify the code even when ordered to do so by the court on three seperate occasions.
- Scox also refuses to specify exactly how IBM misused the code.
Scox keeps asking the court for delay, and discovery, and scox keeps getting it.
By the way, Senator Hatch sit on the judicial commitee, and Hatch's kid works for scox.
It's free money for MPAA, right?
I predict that within 20 years, over 60% of the USA workforce will be lawyers. The rest will be paralegals, legal Secretaries, office assistance, etc. And lots of people will be professional plaintiffs: it's easier than working.
Of course the USA will need a military to keep those other countries in line - hell, somebody has to produce goods and services. All we do in the USA is sue each other.
Thank God!!
"Come. There's more. [leads them away. Next seen is a small airport at night] Here's Britney Spears' private jet. Notice anything? [a shot of Britney boarding a plane, then stopping to look at it before entering] Britney used to have a Gulfstream IV. Now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream III because people like you chose to download her music for free."
- South Park episode 709
For nearly three years I've been rolling my eyes after reading these comments like: "oh yeah, scox is gonna get their ass handed to them now." Scox will likely lose the case, but that is immaterial. People still continue to adopt Linux at about the same rate, but that is also immaterial.
Msft is sending a message to those companies who might dare to contribute to Linux. The message is: "if you contribute to Linux, expect to be tied up in court for the next five years. And expect to spend $100M in legal fees, and expect to have some sleezy Utah penny-stock scam company digging through all of records, expect endless and pointless "discovery." Expect depositions, and expect to bashed in the tech-pop-media, and expect other endless hassles." From now on, contributing to Linux is not something that you just casually do. Clearly, this will slow Linux development.
The entire scam is costing msft less than $100M, hardly more than a few of their idiotic, and ineffective, commercials. Even if IBM sues msft, it will have been worth it for msft. Forget the DoJ, the USA government works for msft.
The scam is also working out well for scox. Who else would pay darl $1M a year? When darl took over, just before the scam, scox's market cap was under $6M, now it's over $80M.
So, while the groklaw cheerleaders gloat about scox's great defeats; the execs and msft and scox are laughing up their sleeves.
Or, "Office Furniture Transport Protocol."
If you are right, then msft has a strong TCO argument.
Business is competitive. You can't expect companies to want to pay more than they have to.
- if there was a mod-system for job postings, or companies, it would be abused like all hell. Companies would mod-up themselves, and mod-down competitors. People would mod-down the companies that fired them, and so on.
- if there was a standard resume, nobody would be happy with it. Monster has a standard resme, I think it sucks.
- job boards can not control the requirements that employers claim they need.
- job boards can not know whether a posted job is real.
That stopped me right there. Thanks anyway.
1. I should be able to search though just job titles, if I so chose. For example, if I search on keyword "Linux" I only want jobs where "Linux" is the job title, not jobs where Linux is just thrown in as one of the 30 nice-to-have-as-an-extra requirements.
2. After all these years, I should be able to search for comptia certs on dice.com. As it is now, the "+" doesn't work on dice.
3. Dice should stop "recycling" jobs on a daily basis. For example, employers can pay to have the same job constantly re-listed as if were just posted today. The same job gets re-posted dozens of times.
4. Monster's online resume is an abomination. It looks *awful*. Let people post/send the resume that way want.
5. Dice, more than all the other major sites, has the right idea with resume sending. I just want to send my resume as an attachment. I don't want all these choices like "send an existing resume" which actually takes you to some "create a resume" only "feature." I don't want to be forced to create and save cover letters. I don't want to have to re-title my resume for every job that I apply to.
6. Like many others, I am also sick of training schools masquerading as jobs.
7. Monster is completely carried away with obtrusive advertising. For example: you apply for a job, you are presented with a form to fill out. Then you find it's application for some sort of training school.
8. Companies should be forced to post a salary range. And basic information about the company.
9. Temp agencies, which often call themselves "consulting companies." Should be in a seperate catagory. Or, at least, I should be able to chose only real, primary, employers.
Do kids read comic books anymore?
I'm 46, when I was kid, the racks at the 7-11s were crammed with commic books. I think some were as cheap as $0.12.
Now they're called graphic novells, and they cost about $8, they are very slick, and they are not really written for kids.
Today, comic book heros are for movies, and video games, not "comic books."
Msft is coming out with seven different versions. My guess is that the standard version, the version that ships to most home PCs, will prove inadequate within a few months.
Fortunately, msft will provide an upgrade version for $149.
I want the apps that *I* want, and nothing else. I don't want KDE deciding for me. I don't want all that useless cruft. I don't want multiple apps that do the exact same thing. I don't like a "K" in front of everything. I don't want to have remove all the appls I don't want.
Until then, I'll continue using IceWM.
USA legal system has nothing what-so-ever to do with justice anymore. The system serves these purposes:
1) Giant roulete wheel, it costs nothing to play, but you get millions if you win. So play often.
2) Easy money for USA legions of lawyers. Whether you win, lose, or draw; the house - er, the lawyers - always cash in big.
3) A weapon to bash the opposition. For example: if you're a huge software company, and you're afraid of competition from more innovative companies: hire a small scam-company to file nuicance lawsuits left and right. It's lot cheaper than making better products, or otherwise competing in a fair manner.
4) A giant playground for kooks who love to bitch about persecuted.
They must be stupider than I thought.
I think you need to get the point across that any pop-media is not reliable, for several reasons. They pander to their advertisers, they sensationalize, their writers are just that *writers* they are not experts in technology - at least not anymore.
I don't care if the tech-pop-media is occassionally pro-linux, it's not reliable. You need to make the point that the company should make decisions only on *reliable* data, as opposed to that crap spewage.
Like compaq and DEC . .
At least SGI is not pulling a scox. SGI could probably hang on for a few more years if they were to go after msft fud money to file some bogus lawsuits.
I don't think SGI has ever lied about their prospects. I'm surprised they managed to hang on this long.
In the Linux/FreeBSD era, I don't think any UNIX pure-play can thrive.
When is it my turn to cash in on the affirmitive action jackpot?
Why do employers demand you tell them your gender and race, but the employers are forbiden to even ask for your age?
In IT especially, age discrimination is far more prevelent than gender or race discrimination.
I am a casual user of image manipulating software. I have never used photoshop. I use gimp, and I use those give-away apps that come with my scanner.
From my experience, gimp doesn't work as well as the give-aways. For example, using gimp, I cut a section out of a 3.5MB jpg. Gimp warned me that I need 225MB of RAM to store the section. I went to past the section, and was warned that gimp needed 335MB to paste the section. Gimp was also going *very* slow.
I rebooted into windows, and used some give-away software to complete the process easily, and quickly.
Your post seems to be a bit confused to me. First you say that craigslist is worthless because of all the spamming, then you say that charging to cut down on the spamming is wrong - even while you admit that the charging may help:
"Then the service ads page will be only one page and maybe it will work. Apparently the only way to generate any business is to be the only company able to afford to run an ad."
Um, we're talking about $10 here. If you can't afford that, maybe you are in the wrong business. Also, I don't know that craig is charging people to advertise their tech-support business.
"Instead, Craigslist has basically wiped out the classified ad sections of newspapers in every community it operates in."
How has craig done this, if his service is worthless?
I think msft's business practices are deplorable. I love F/OSS and use debian as my main desktop.
But, in this particular letter, gates is right. All he is saying is that it's not okay to steal software, anymore than it's okay to steal hardware.
If you don't like Walmart's business practices: does that make it okay to shoplift at walmart?
Go ahead and hate msft all you want, but in this particular case, bill gates is exactly right.
I haven't done any real programming in a long time.
Is it sensible to compare java with purely scripting languages? I think python is a great language - as scripting languages go. But, I don't think I would try to write a substantial application in anything that doesn't enforce pre-declared variables.
And other annoyances, and expenses, etc.
- once you cut that UPC thing off the box, you can forget about bring it back for a refund.
- you paid sales tax on the $40 you never got, that's another $3, or so.
- Figure 30 minutes of your time filling out forms, cutting out UPCs, making photo copies, etc. If you earn $25 an hour, that $12.50 right there.
- postage, envelopes, photo-copies.
- even if you got your refund, that 10 weeks without your money.
Let's suppose I have legally obtianed mp3, that I don't want anymore. I somehow *move* the file to a shared directory. The file is deleted from own machine.
I can sell, or give away, a book or cdrom that I no longer want. I just can not keep a copy of it for myself.
In fact, I can give away an old book to the the library, where I can still access it.