READ THE ARTICLE!!! The rooms with electricity cost $24 more than the rooms without. These kids CHOSE to live in a hall that didn't have electricity. They MADE that decision. For them to take electricity without paying for it, well, that's exactly the same as breaking into the school's vault and stealing $24 worth of gold bullion. STEALING is a crime. --
These students were paying their tuition, which includes fees for things like electricity. Who benefits when these kids have to go all the way to the basement just to plug in a radio? --
I don't see why we're all crying a river over this. They took electricity that they weren't paying for. That's called stealing. I hope they get the electric chair. And yes, i see the irony. --
Two Stout Hall residents were arrested Monday for stealing access to the Oklahoma State University electricity network.
"CIS reported that someone had attached an extension cord to an unused outlet in the basement of Stout Hall into private residential rooms in the building, allowing the residents of those rooms access to the university's electricity," Altman said.
An OSU staff member told police about some of the same people stealing electricity connections before CIS reported the offense, Altman said.
Eddie Denman, assistant director of Residential Life, said there is a slight difference in rent rates for residence hall rooms with and without electricity.
"It's not a lot of money. The difference is $24 (per semester)," he said, comparing Willham Complex and Kerr-Drummond Hall, two halls equal in all ways except electric connection.
Denman said the reason not all residence halls have electricity is because OSU does not have enough money.
"It's financial," he said. "There's not running water in all the halls. There's not ethernet in all the halls.
"There's a lot of things at the university that we'd like to do, but we just don't have the money."
Travis Wolcott does not understand why he cannot access the campus electricity network when he is an Oklahoma State University student who pays technology fees.
Wolcott said he and other students regularly take their own appliances downstairs and connect to the electric outlet with 20-foot cables.
"They (police) have yet to tell us what is the difference between plugging in our lamps downstairs with a 20-foot cable and plugging in our lamps upstairs with a 300-foot cable," Wolcott said.
He said he and the other students wired their lamps in their rooms from an old beauty parlor in Stout Hall.
"It was unused, and it had been unused for (about) three years," Wolcott said.
Wolcott said he did not tap lines into the OSU system.
Other options for connection include other electricity providers and campus fireplaces.
To use other electricity, a student has to purchase a gasoline-to-electricity power converter and can only use the connection after business hours.
Wolcott said that option also doesn't provide enough current.
"The lights in the basement are not bright enough for us to read (class assignments) by," Wolcott said. "They don't have enough filaments. Most of them don't even have dimmers."
Having the electricity connection strung up to his room gave him immediate electricity access, along with other students.
"More people came down to our room to dry their hair or to read stuff" instead of walking through the rain to the Mathematical Sciences Building, Wolcott said.
Now, the four students have been barred from using the campus fireplaces, and their OSU water connection has been canceled.
Jackie Bolin, Stout Hall director, said she could not comment on the situation because of the ongoing investigation.
There's also the issue of viruses and trojans. How long before somebody has an army of Netbus'ed machines because the owners wanted Quake 3 for free?
I can think of two ways of handling this. A trusted site could list md5 checksums of the various warez, and i don't think that would be illegal. The software could be configured to automatically check the site whenever it got a file.
Alternatively, warez groups could pgp-sign all their releases, and again, the application could have a list of which warez groups were to be trusted. A lot of them really care about reputation, and so would keep their stuff virus- and trojan-free. --
You're telling me you can't picture CompUSA selling these? Don't call them Linux boxes. Call it the AolBox or something. Boot directly into AOL, have no other apps, just one user who doesn't have to log in, and put it on a $500 PC.
I called the glove hotline, and it said these were just off-the-shelf sporting-goods-store gloves, no nintendo logo or anything.
Also, they seem to only want to send one glove. (They ask you to specify whether you want left or right) Maybe they'll send up to four gloves, but only one in each size / orientation.
You need to send them one of the following:
A receipt for the game
A credit card statement showing a purchase of the game
A cancelled check for the game
The UPC code, cut out of the side of the box
The first page of the instruction booklet
A photo of the cartridge
A photo of your TV, with the game onscreen.
Also, they need an outline of the player's hand, traced on white paper, so they know what size.
Since it's just an ordinary glove, and they're being pretty generous, please don't screw them over.
Here at Columbia, the OS course used to be taught using NachOS. This year, VMWare sponsored the course (i.e. gave us some 50-odd free licenses) so that we do all our work in VMs. We had some pretty cool assignments:
Add a pinfo() system call that returns parent pid, child pid, average cpu slice, etc
Add a new weighted-round-robin scheduler and use pinfo() to see how well it works
Implemented a new memory management policy
Modified the FS' block allocation policy
Added a new device,/dev/clock that lets anyone read and set the time (this caused some cool panicking when we set the clock back five minutes and the kernel noticed that some processes were "born" in the "future"
I didn't think a disclaimer was necessary, but looks like it's time to feed the trolls:
Yes, i've read Godel, Escher, Bach. I know all about the halting problem, and i know it's unsolvable. That's why it's funny - the same reason why #7 and #1 are funny. (Also, i guess #10 is also for all intents and purposes unsolvable, at least during any of our lifetimes)
I have to admit, though, this is a pretty funny flamewar. Keep up the good work.
First post to suggest linking these computers into a Beowulf cluster?
Anyway, here are the top ten things you can do on a Y2K-command-center-cum-Beowulf-cluster:
10. Solve the 50-city travelling salesman problem 9. Solve the halting problem 8. Run a Gameboy emulator within an C64 emulator within a Mac emulator within DOS installed within a VMWare partition on Windows NT installed within a VMWare partition on Linux 7. Calculate all the digits of pi 6. Find the first occurance of the current Linux source in those digits 5. Compile Mozilla in less than 8 hours 4. Trounce team Slashdot on distributed.net 3. Forget "globally coordinated" - DoS Yahoo to its knees all by yourself 2. Open up a Quake cafe 1. Execute a while(1) { } loop in six seconds
For those of you too lazy to cut and paste, here's the Babelfish translation:
Strategic partnership for "hamburg.de"
After long and hard, but fair negotiations over the future of the Internet homepage " hamburg.de " an important switch position for the further development was carried out: The free one and Hanseatic city Hamburg a strategic partnership with enterprises wants to be received, which are embodied in the surrounding countryside in Hamburg and. Today the partners signed sucked. Memorandum OF Understanding (declaration/agreement), into which it to the termination of a contract in the next weeks commit themselves. Now can be begun with the transfer of " hamburg.de " on a new platform, which is to be locked in the spring 2000.
The operator company, which wants to extend the past national supply by means of the commercial contents and services, the then LINE Schleswig-Holstein GmbH ( partners are Sparkassen-und giroverband Schleswig-Holstein, savings banks of the country Schleswig-Holstein, the Schleswig Schleswig-Holsteini Landesbank, the Hamburgi Landesbank and the Provinzialversicherung) becomes, the Hamburgi Landesbank, which Harburg belong to Hamburg savings bank and the district savings bank. In order to be able to along-decide in important questions, the free one and Hanseatic city Hamburg will likewise become Gesellschafterin.
The Public private Partnership arranged now it is so created that all took part a use of it have. The financing first on 10 years created of the development of " hamburg.de " is ensured in its entirety by the enterprises. Hamburg brings the names of the already now successful portal " hamburg.de " into the operator company. Thus it receives the exclusive right to structure under the name " hamburg.de ", a commercial platform open for the economy in Hamburg and to marked out. Further the city will make contents available of the public administration of the society exclusively.
A gate to the Internet for completely Hamburg
With a global Internet acces for all citizens and citizens Hamburg sets country widely yardsticks:
Each Hamburgerin and each Hamburg one will receive a free Internet acces; thus no Providerkosten, only the telephone charges develops must be paid. A free E-Mail address will be able to receive each Hamburgerin and each Hamburg one on hamburg.de (after the sample Vorname.Nachname@hamburg.de). Each Hamburgerin and each Hamburg one receive free homepage from up to 10 pages on " hamburg.de ". These services will be Hamburg inside and Hamburgern starting from center to the 2000 at the disposal, since technically the transition to the new platform must be mastered before.
The new " hamburg.de " is on data base base after sucked. Situations in life to be structured. Since in the future both national and private services are offered, can do the users of " hamburg.de " by input of glossary words (e.g. " marriage ", " removal ", " spare time ") the necessary services of the administration, which suitable commercial and other supplies in the package test. Also a regional containment is possible.
The city saves cash and gets innovation
With the transfer of " hamburg.de " to the operator company needs to pay the city no more Providerkosten. Their coworkers receive free training courses at an editorship system supplied likewise free of charge by the operator company.
The city and the enterprises involved want to supply ever 2.5 millions DM for innovative software developments within the area interactive administration and the products afterwards together together marked out.
Three columns
Apart from the service supply a " citizen column " is to give the administration and the commercial supply structured as the third column. In it are to receive particulars, social groups, organizations and institutions, which cooperate or participate in the honorary structure of non-commercial on-line supplies for Hamburg or that Hamburg surrounding countrysides, the possibility of holding their supplies ready within " hamburg.de ". The operator company will support these supplies in the context of its possibilities financially and technically.
In order to make the advancement of " hamburg.de " a common thing for completely Hamburg, an adviser from representatives and representatives is to be created by organizations and enterprises, which are interested in the development of the Internets in Hamburg. The adviser advises the operator company with the target, which service-orients supply under " hamburg.de ", citizen near, to develop effectively and pluralistisch.
An open platform with advantages for all For the enterprises united in the operator consortium the president of the savings bank and giroverbandes explained Schleswig-Holstein, Olaf Cord Dielewicz:
" we would like to make available also " hamburg.de " our customers an additional attractive service. This applies in particular to small and medium-size enterprises - we want to smooth the way for them in Internet. We understand ' hamburg.de ' however as open platform and are anxious to use the versatile and creative Potenziale that Hamburg Multimedia enterprises for the structure and the organization of ' hamburg.de '. "
Senator of finance Dr. Ingrid Nuemann Seidewinkel underlined that with the today's direction decision a request was transferred the senate basic coalition partner - they had arranged the structure of a city information system in the coalition contract:
" by all Hamburg inside and and free homepage to receive, going to Hamburg one free Internet acces, a free E-Mail address into Hamburg a crucial step to the democratization of the Internets. And if ' hamburg.de ' is used of as much as possible Hamburg citizens and citizens as well as of enterprises as regional communication and information medium, it becomes also the interesting Standtortfaktor. A successful " hamburg.de " can give important economic impulses and promote the image to our city world-wide. The partners, which we selected ourselves, guarantee for the fact that the common target with long breath is pursued. "
... or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Computer Science, I Learned From Mickey:
Watch out for endless loops
Fork bombs are a nightmare.
Set reasonable bounds, even if you don't expect them to be met. (The water spilling over the top of the cauldron is analogous to a buffer-overrun error)
If your screw things up, the local guru will straighten things out. But he'll be awfully surly about it.
If you are the local guru, don't people more priveleges than they need to do their job.
... also, while Mickey really messed things up, note that he at least knew to read the manual before getting started.
I would have thought that this was a good idea were it not for the fact that moderation of submissions could be pretty clueless. A lot of moderators aren't experts in a given field and therefore don't know the issues well enough to distinguish between insight and bullshit.
I put more faith in the community at large to evaluate the insightfulness of a story than the/. crew - they're certainly not experts in every field.
Plus, you have the additional editorial nighmare that if a misleading article gets moderated through and the editors subsequently decide to reject it,then all hell of a flamewar would break loose.
The whole point is that the editors wouldn't have to do that - once it got out that the article was misleading, the/. community would slaughter it with bad moderation until it disappeared again.
Damn right. I talked to Robin about this at LinuxWorld, and the basic explanation was:
1. The queue would be overrun with Natalie Portman, etc.
2. We've got so much stuff to do, there's a lot of functionality we haven't gotten around to implementing
Okay, as far as #2 goes, fine, things take time. But that's not what the FAQ says. And here's a solution to #1:
Only/. officials can see the queue at first. But instead of having two options (accept / reject), give them three (accept / reject / defer). That way, they can reject all the completely, utterly worthless crap, but anything remotely marginal gets dumped to a public queue.
And yes, instead of this queue just having accept / reject, it should work just like the comments - give the story submission a rating, have the system average them together, and let users set a story threshold.
But sales of Linux brought in only $32 million for the whole year... Windows NT, by comparison, brought in $1.7 billion.
"Microsoft makes more money before the morning coffee break every day of the year" than all the purveyors of Linux made in the entire year, Kusnetzky said.
Let's see... 1,700,000,000 / 32,000,000 = 53.125. So it wouldn't even be true to say that Windows NT earns Microsoft more in a week than all the purveyors of Linux in a year. Sure, Linux sales still pale in comparison, but Kusnetzky's comment is about two orders of magnitude off from reality.
"The latest results in the race for the presidency show Al Gore with 20% of the vote, George W. Bush with 28%, Jesse Ventura with 3%, and someone named 'Hemos Sucks' with a whopping 49%..."
Slashdot Mirror
READ THE ARTICLE!!! The rooms with electricity cost $24 more than the rooms without. These kids CHOSE to live in a hall that didn't have electricity. They MADE that decision. For them to take electricity without paying for it, well, that's exactly the same as breaking into the school's vault and stealing $24 worth of gold bullion. STEALING is a crime.
--
These students were paying their tuition, which includes fees for things like electricity. Who benefits when these kids have to go all the way to the basement just to plug in a radio?
--
I don't see why we're all crying a river over this. They took electricity that they weren't paying for. That's called stealing. I hope they get the electric chair. And yes, i see the irony.
--
Two Stout Hall residents were arrested Monday for stealing access to the Oklahoma State University electricity network.
"CIS reported that someone had attached an extension cord to an unused outlet in the basement of Stout Hall into private residential rooms in the building, allowing the residents of those rooms access to the university's electricity," Altman said.
An OSU staff member told police about some of the same people stealing electricity connections before CIS reported the offense, Altman said.
Eddie Denman, assistant director of Residential Life, said there is a slight difference in rent rates for residence hall rooms with and without electricity.
"It's not a lot of money. The difference is $24 (per semester)," he said, comparing Willham Complex and Kerr-Drummond Hall, two halls equal in all ways except electric connection.
Denman said the reason not all residence halls have electricity is because OSU does not have enough money.
"It's financial," he said. "There's not running water in all the halls. There's not ethernet in all the halls.
"There's a lot of things at the university that we'd like to do, but we just don't have the money."
Travis Wolcott does not understand why he cannot access the campus electricity network when he is an Oklahoma State University student who pays technology fees.
Wolcott said he and other students regularly take their own appliances downstairs and connect to the electric outlet with 20-foot cables.
"They (police) have yet to tell us what is the difference between plugging in our lamps downstairs with a 20-foot cable and plugging in our lamps upstairs with a 300-foot cable," Wolcott said.
He said he and the other students wired their lamps in their rooms from an old beauty parlor in Stout Hall.
"It was unused, and it had been unused for (about) three years," Wolcott said.
Wolcott said he did not tap lines into the OSU system.
Other options for connection include other electricity providers and campus fireplaces.
To use other electricity, a student has to purchase a gasoline-to-electricity power converter and can only use the connection after business hours.
Wolcott said that option also doesn't provide enough current.
"The lights in the basement are not bright enough for us to read (class assignments) by," Wolcott said. "They don't have enough filaments. Most of them don't even have dimmers."
Having the electricity connection strung up to his room gave him immediate electricity access, along with other students.
"More people came down to our room to dry their hair or to read stuff" instead of walking through the rain to the Mathematical Sciences Building, Wolcott said.
Now, the four students have been barred from using the campus fireplaces, and their OSU water connection has been canceled.
Jackie Bolin, Stout Hall director, said she could not comment on the situation because of the ongoing investigation.
--
There's also the issue of viruses and trojans. How long before somebody has an army of Netbus'ed machines because the owners wanted Quake 3 for free?
I can think of two ways of handling this. A trusted site could list md5 checksums of the various warez, and i don't think that would be illegal. The software could be configured to automatically check the site whenever it got a file.
Alternatively, warez groups could pgp-sign all their releases, and again, the application could have a list of which warez groups were to be trusted. A lot of them really care about reputation, and so would keep their stuff virus- and trojan-free.
--
Hee hee. Reminds me of this.
Heh heh. Reminds me of this.
You're telling me you can't picture CompUSA selling these? Don't call them Linux boxes. Call it the AolBox or something. Boot directly into AOL, have no other apps, just one user who doesn't have to log in, and put it on a $500 PC.
This guy's a genius. Moderate his post to 5.
Also, they seem to only want to send one glove. (They ask you to specify whether you want left or right) Maybe they'll send up to four gloves, but only one in each size / orientation.
You need to send them one of the following:
- A receipt for the game
- A credit card statement showing a purchase of the game
- A cancelled check for the game
- The UPC code, cut out of the side of the box
- The first page of the instruction booklet
- A photo of the cartridge
- A photo of your TV, with the game onscreen.
Also, they need an outline of the player's hand, traced on white paper, so they know what size.Since it's just an ordinary glove, and they're being pretty generous, please don't screw them over.
A lot more information on this can be found at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/p ress/2000/mar/mar08a_00.html, the state Attorney General's page on the matter.
They registered plex86.org, but not .com or .net ... I hope someone they end up in good hands. Any good samaritans want to register it for them?
What about all the other countries in the world?
I didn't think a disclaimer was necessary, but looks like it's time to feed the trolls:
Yes, i've read Godel, Escher, Bach. I know all about the halting problem, and i know it's unsolvable. That's why it's funny - the same reason why #7 and #1 are funny. (Also, i guess #10 is also for all intents and purposes unsolvable, at least during any of our lifetimes)
I have to admit, though, this is a pretty funny flamewar. Keep up the good work.
First post to suggest linking these computers into a Beowulf cluster?
Anyway, here are the top ten things you can do on a Y2K-command-center-cum-Beowulf-cluster:
10. Solve the 50-city travelling salesman problem
9. Solve the halting problem
8. Run a Gameboy emulator within an C64 emulator within a Mac emulator within DOS installed within a VMWare partition on Windows NT installed within a VMWare partition on Linux
7. Calculate all the digits of pi
6. Find the first occurance of the current Linux source in those digits
5. Compile Mozilla in less than 8 hours
4. Trounce team Slashdot on distributed.net
3. Forget "globally coordinated" - DoS Yahoo to its knees all by yourself
2. Open up a Quake cafe
1. Execute a while(1) { } loop in six seconds
Good for NASA. We don't want to take any chances of accidentally pissing off some aliens. You saw what they did to Jupiter.
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."
For those of you too lazy to cut and paste, here's the Babelfish translation:
Strategic partnership for "hamburg.de"
After long and hard, but fair negotiations over the future of the Internet homepage " hamburg.de " an important switch position for the further development was carried out: The free one and Hanseatic city Hamburg a strategic partnership with enterprises wants to be received, which are embodied in the surrounding countryside in Hamburg and. Today the partners signed sucked. Memorandum OF Understanding (declaration/agreement), into which it to the termination of a contract in the next weeks commit themselves. Now can be begun with the transfer of " hamburg.de " on a new platform, which is to be locked in the spring 2000.
The operator company, which wants to extend the past national supply by means of the commercial contents and services, the then LINE Schleswig-Holstein GmbH ( partners are Sparkassen-und giroverband Schleswig-Holstein, savings banks of the country Schleswig-Holstein, the Schleswig Schleswig-Holsteini Landesbank, the Hamburgi Landesbank and the Provinzialversicherung) becomes, the Hamburgi Landesbank, which Harburg belong to Hamburg savings bank and the district savings bank. In order to be able to along-decide in important questions, the free one and Hanseatic city Hamburg will likewise become Gesellschafterin.
The Public private Partnership arranged now it is so created that all took part a use of it have. The financing first on 10 years created of the development of " hamburg.de " is ensured in its entirety by the enterprises. Hamburg brings the names of the already now successful portal " hamburg.de " into the operator company. Thus it receives the exclusive right to structure under the name " hamburg.de ", a commercial platform open for the economy in Hamburg and to marked out. Further the city will make contents available of the public administration of the society exclusively.
A gate to the Internet for completely Hamburg
With a global Internet acces for all citizens and citizens Hamburg sets country widely yardsticks:
Each Hamburgerin and each Hamburg one will receive a free Internet acces; thus no Providerkosten, only the telephone charges develops must be paid.
A free E-Mail address will be able to receive each Hamburgerin and each Hamburg one on hamburg.de (after the sample Vorname.Nachname@hamburg.de).
Each Hamburgerin and each Hamburg one receive free homepage from up to 10 pages on " hamburg.de ".
These services will be Hamburg inside and Hamburgern starting from center to the 2000 at the disposal, since technically the transition to the new platform must be mastered before.
The new " hamburg.de " is on data base base after sucked. Situations in life to be structured. Since in the future both national and private services are offered, can do the users of " hamburg.de " by input of glossary words (e.g. " marriage ", " removal ", " spare time ") the necessary services of the administration, which suitable commercial and other supplies in the package test. Also a regional containment is possible.
The city saves cash and gets innovation
With the transfer of " hamburg.de " to the operator company needs to pay the city no more Providerkosten. Their coworkers receive free training courses at an editorship system supplied likewise free of charge by the operator company.
The city and the enterprises involved want to supply ever 2.5 millions DM for innovative software developments within the area interactive administration and the products afterwards together together marked out.
Three columns
Apart from the service supply a " citizen column " is to give the administration and the commercial supply structured as the third column. In it are to receive particulars, social groups, organizations and institutions, which cooperate or participate in the honorary structure of non-commercial on-line supplies for Hamburg or that Hamburg surrounding countrysides, the possibility of holding their supplies ready within " hamburg.de ". The operator company will support these supplies in the context of its possibilities financially and technically.
In order to make the advancement of " hamburg.de " a common thing for completely Hamburg, an adviser from representatives and representatives is to be created by organizations and enterprises, which are interested in the development of the Internets in Hamburg. The adviser advises the operator company with the target, which service-orients supply under " hamburg.de ", citizen near, to develop effectively and pluralistisch.
An open platform with advantages for all
For the enterprises united in the operator consortium the president of the savings bank and giroverbandes explained Schleswig-Holstein, Olaf Cord Dielewicz:
" we would like to make available also " hamburg.de " our customers an additional attractive service. This applies in particular to small and medium-size enterprises - we want to smooth the way for them in Internet. We understand ' hamburg.de ' however as open platform and are anxious to use the versatile and creative Potenziale that Hamburg Multimedia enterprises for the structure and the organization of ' hamburg.de '. "
Senator of finance Dr. Ingrid Nuemann Seidewinkel underlined that with the today's direction decision a request was transferred the senate basic coalition partner - they had arranged the structure of a city information system in the coalition contract:
" by all Hamburg inside and and free homepage to receive, going to Hamburg one free Internet acces, a free E-Mail address into Hamburg a crucial step to the democratization of the Internets. And if ' hamburg.de ' is used of as much as possible Hamburg citizens and citizens as well as of enterprises as regional communication and information medium, it becomes also the interesting Standtortfaktor. A successful " hamburg.de " can give important economic impulses and promote the image to our city world-wide. The partners, which we selected ourselves, guarantee for the fact that the common target with long breath is pursued. "
... also, while Mickey really messed things up, note that he at least knew to read the manual before getting started.
I would have thought that this was a good idea were it not for the fact that moderation of submissions could be pretty clueless. A lot of moderators aren't experts in a given field and therefore don't know the issues well enough to distinguish between insight and bullshit.
/. crew - they're certainly not experts in every field.
/. community would slaughter it with bad moderation until it disappeared again.
I put more faith in the community at large to evaluate the insightfulness of a story than the
Plus, you have the additional editorial nighmare that if a misleading article gets moderated through and the editors subsequently decide to reject it,then all hell of a flamewar would break loose.
The whole point is that the editors wouldn't have to do that - once it got out that the article was misleading, the
Damn right. I talked to Robin about this at LinuxWorld, and the basic explanation was:
/. officials can see the queue at first. But instead of having two options (accept / reject), give them three (accept / reject / defer). That way, they can reject all the completely, utterly worthless crap, but anything remotely marginal gets dumped to a public queue.
1. The queue would be overrun with Natalie Portman, etc.
2. We've got so much stuff to do, there's a lot of functionality we haven't gotten around to implementing
Okay, as far as #2 goes, fine, things take time. But that's not what the FAQ says. And here's a solution to #1:
Only
And yes, instead of this queue just having accept / reject, it should work just like the comments - give the story submission a rating, have the system average them together, and let users set a story threshold.
But sales of Linux brought in only $32 million for the whole year ... Windows NT, by comparison, brought in $1.7 billion.
"Microsoft makes more money before the morning coffee break every day of the year" than all the purveyors of Linux made in the entire year, Kusnetzky said.
Let's see... 1,700,000,000 / 32,000,000 = 53.125. So it wouldn't even be true to say that Windows NT earns Microsoft more in a week than all the purveyors of Linux in a year. Sure, Linux sales still pale in comparison, but Kusnetzky's comment is about two orders of magnitude off from reality.
Looks like Jean McGrath is having a Y2K problem - she thinks it's 1900.
Perhaps some of you have heard of a famous open letter Gates wrote in 1976 condemning piracy. It's available here
"The latest results in the race for the presidency show Al Gore with 20% of the vote, George W. Bush with 28%, Jesse Ventura with 3%, and someone named 'Hemos Sucks' with a whopping 49%..."