Once you receive notification of your allocation and the offering begins to trade in the secondary market, i.e. on an exchange, you can sell your allocated shares. However, one of the most important goals of the underwriting syndicate is to try to ensure a degree of price stability for new issues. For that reason E*TRADE would prefer that customers hold their allocated shares for at least 30 days. E*TRADE will not in any way impede the sale of shares within this time, but customers with a record of short holding periods may be excluded from future offerings.
That's all well and good, but this is exactly what "the letter" is offering -- a way around this. They've reserved a certain number of shares for community members.
I'm sort of annoyed by the fact that the commercial product has advanced features they won't put into the free (both senses) one. But I can see that that's entirely within their moral rights etc., etc.
What I really hate is the way there's bugs in the free drivers which don't exist in the commercial ones. For example, the free CS4236 driver has a problem where (even if the module is already loaded) the speaker pops loudly every time a sound begins playing. The commercial driver works perfectly.
I guess my point is: it's slighly annoying to have features withheld for commercial gain, but withholding fixes to sell more product seems sleezy.
They've clearly said that the new system will be based on an "exciting new chip". And that the new chip isn't x86 based. If it were a PowerPC, I don't think that would qualify as either exciting or new. So I think it's either Transmeta or Sony's Emotion Engine.
Guess what? ICANN is a non-profit corporation. No money goes towards lining anyone's pockets -- certainly not the unpaid board members'. In fact, ICANN currently is losing money. Any organization doing what ICANN is supposed to do will have many legitimate expenses. Where is the money supposed to come from? The tooth fairy?
The people criticizing ICANN seem to be either a) companies with money to gain, b) wackos who think the United States owns and/or should own the Internet, or c) completely uneducated.
I think people bring up workstations because SGI's Intel systems are called "Visual Workstations". Which does seem imply that they are meant to be workstations.
Oh yeah, drag the floppy disk to the trash to eject it. That's logical. And make it easy to close all of an application's windows but still leave it running, with only the hidden little menu to tell you so. And make it so when you switch between applications, some but not all of other applications windows randomly disappear.
People think the Mac is logical and easy to use because Apple's ad campaigns say it is. Please.
The Win95 shell isn't great, but it's certainly a step above Win3.1. Right-click menus are a good thing. A desktop you can put things on is a good thing. And the taskbar is nice. People complain about "Shutdown" being on the Start menu, but that's just a flaw in the choice of names - if they'd called it the "Main" menu or something, there wouldn't be a problem.
A very good idea. Check out the Jubilee 2000 website for more info. It's a very overtly christian website, but don't let that put you off; the idea is a good one for compassionate people with any belief system.
My Netscape icon in Gnome doesn't execute "netscape-communicator". It executes
if [ ! -h ~/.netscape/lock ]; then/usr/bin/netscape-communicator; else netscape -remote 'openBrowser()'; fi
This makes my desktop a hell of a lot more user-friendly than it was before. In fact, there are any number of things that I think improve my environment which the system designers might not think of, but that's okay because Linux makes it easy to make things behave the way I want them to. I don't want to use any environment which takes away this ability.
Still, the tax proposed here is ridiculously high. I just checked my stats for the past two months at home, and I've averaged about 200mb/day. This tax proposes one cent per megabyte, which works out to $60/month. I pay $50/month for my cable internet access, so this would be a 120% tax! Ouch.
Sorry Bruce, but it's true. In your sentence, "effect" refers to the data owner's copyright. Which is something they obviously _do_ want effected (and unaffected). What you meant to say was maybe "You may use this program to process your own programs and data without effecting the provisions of the GPL upon those programs and data."
Anything _but_ the kernel is an application. An OS is made up of a kernel and a bunch of applications (plus a little glue, maybe.) GNU tools, X window managers, whatever, are all applications.
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What I really hate is the way there's bugs in the free drivers which don't exist in the commercial ones. For example, the free CS4236 driver has a problem where (even if the module is already loaded) the speaker pops loudly every time a sound begins playing. The commercial driver works perfectly.
I guess my point is: it's slighly annoying to have features withheld for commercial gain, but withholding fixes to sell more product seems sleezy.
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But just because the rumor partly started here doesn't mean it's not true -- it seems fairly logical to me.
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The people criticizing ICANN seem to be either a) companies with money to gain, b) wackos who think the United States owns and/or should own the Internet, or c) completely uneducated.
Check out the ICANN web site for more information.
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People think the Mac is logical and easy to use because Apple's ad campaigns say it is. Please.
The Win95 shell isn't great, but it's certainly a step above Win3.1. Right-click menus are a good thing. A desktop you can put things on is a good thing. And the taskbar is nice. People complain about "Shutdown" being on the Start menu, but that's just a flaw in the choice of names - if they'd called it the "Main" menu or something, there wouldn't be a problem.
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Still, the tax proposed here is ridiculously high. I just checked my stats for the past two months at home, and I've averaged about 200mb/day. This tax proposes one cent per megabyte, which works out to $60/month. I pay $50/month for my cable internet access, so this would be a 120% tax! Ouch.
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