It's clearly an advertisement submission by Michael Cooney, Online New Editor for Network World, Inc. I hope/. at least got paid for posting this drivel.
In over 10 years of reading/., this has to be the lamest story I've ever seen.
Off topic, but I'd love to see some type of BOINC based software that tested this theory. It could generate completely random text then grep that text for a certain pattern, say a few paragraphs of Hamlet. I'd certainly throw a few clock cycles at this.
I was at this party and have to say is was a good time. Guitar Hero, Halo 3, taco bar (though not a CmdrTaco bar), cake, face painting, and of course smashing stuff. I personally took my pent up aggression out of a Cisco router.
My Nextel i530 has the Dell 300GB 10K Ultra320 SCSI sticker on it. The sticker matches the NEXTEL sticker perfectly. It looks like the damn thing was made for my phone.
I really wanted to put a 15K sticker on my phone, but they largest size 15K sticker they had was 146GB. I figured 146GB just wouldn't cut it for my phone.
According to that list, the US has a GDP of 11,667,515 million US dollars while the next closest country (Japan) has a GDP of 4,623,398 million US dollars. Coming in third, we have Germany at 2,714,418 US dollars. So, yea, I'm going to say the by far is accurate.
I'm guessing, like most things, it was all about money. Do you really think HP approached Netscape looking for a browser?
It's far more likely that Netscape/AOL came to HP and offered them a ton of cash to include their browser. Why would they do that you ask? Again, just another guess, but my money says that it's AOL's way of getting their portal and search on a large portion of the PCs out there.
The articles title says: EU deal threatens end to US dominance of internet.
However, reading the actual article, you see that it says that EU made a proposal, the US said no way. The EU can make any plans it wants with any other countries, but unless the US agrees, they're left out in the cold.
Speaking of the other countries metioned in TFA: Brazil, along with Iran, Cuba, China and others has created an impromptu "Likeminded Group" at the PrepCom3 meeting in Geneva that has continually insisted on the removal of US control.
Yea, with a group like that, I'm sure the US is ready to hand over the keys any day now.
In Exchange 2003 it won't take up 1500 MB. It stores one copy, then uses pointers to reference it for everyone. Of course, each of them gets 3 MB added to their mailbox, pushing them closer to the quota limit.
This makes me think somewhere on the Exchange dev team there is a BOFH.
I blame this article on the freeloaders. If you subscribed to/., you could have seen this "article" earlier and submitted the error to the mods. I'm sure they would have corrected it. Just like they catch the dupes. Or something.
The purpose of Daylight Savings was to give farmers more time and sunlight to harvest their crops during the summer months.
So, you're saying that somehow the sun is out longer during DST? Did you even think before posting that crap?
I live in Minnesota. It's damn cold here in the winter so everyone wears gloves. Obviously the inventor has never tried touching a stearing wheen with bare hands when it's 5 degrees below zero (F) outside.
My impression is that most of us run Linux or OS X for our desktop/server systems, and only use Windows for games.
IIRC there was a poll on/. a number of years ago asking what people use as a desktop OS. The result was overwhelmingly Windows. Maybe a lot of the "old school" (like user ID 39311)/.ers use *nix at home, I'd guess that over 70% of current visitors are on Windows boxen.
This brings up a question I've seen asked many times over the years. How about a look at an aggregate of the logs to see what the distribution of OS and browsers are for the visitors of/.?
It will get noticed when some company that exists only to snatch up patents and then litigate over them (like Immersion) manages to get ahold of a patent for something like the hyperlink
You mean something like this? That was a while ago, but I don't think many people outside of the geek community noticed.
If you googled my name you might get the impression that I'm an Irish athlete and mountain climber. Not so.
Sure, there might be five people with your name that have some online presence, but it's still fairly easy to tell which one is you. For example, if you Googled my real name, you'd find stuff about twenty random people in another country, and a lot of posts to Microsoft newsgroups. Since I live in the USA, it's pretty easy to figure out the I'm the "me" who posts to those newsgroups.
OK, this is blowing my mind, I clicked on the first ad link on that Google search, which went to maxipharmacy.com. They have news stories on their site, guess what story was first?
So you telecommute for a NY company for 1 week per year, NY claims they can tax 100% of the income you made that year, even though not 100% of it was made from a NY company.
Actually, that's not they way they want said it will work. They want you to pay taxes on 100% of the income you made from the NY company, whether or not you did the work inside of NY. Many telecomuters will occasionally visit the home office. In the case of the article, the guy paid NY taxes on 25% of the income he got from the company, because he was physically in NY 25% of the time. The other 75% was done from home, and previously untaxable. Now they want all of it.
So, this guy is subject to double-dipping, but only on 75% of the NY income since he wouldn't be paying home state taxes on the 25% of the NY income that he physically made in NY.
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It's clearly an advertisement submission by Michael Cooney, Online New Editor for Network World, Inc. I hope /. at least got paid for posting this drivel.
In over 10 years of reading /., this has to be the lamest story I've ever seen.
Off topic, but I'd love to see some type of BOINC based software that tested this theory. It could generate completely random text then grep that text for a certain pattern, say a few paragraphs of Hamlet. I'd certainly throw a few clock cycles at this.
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I was at this party and have to say is was a good time. Guitar Hero, Halo 3, taco bar (though not a CmdrTaco bar), cake, face painting, and of course smashing stuff. I personally took my pent up aggression out of a Cisco router.
Many thanks to Vibrant for hosting the party!
The only negative, we didn't get any /. schwag.
No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.
Damn.
If you're going to make it screem, may I suggest the Wilhelm scream
Well, we *know* that GNU/Linux isn't UNIX. It's right there in the recursive acronym.
uummmm, maybe the review you just read.
I really wanted to put a 15K sticker on my phone, but they largest size 15K sticker they had was 146GB. I figured 146GB just wouldn't cut it for my phone.
It's actually December 21, 2012.
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According to that list, the US has a GDP of 11,667,515 million US dollars while the next closest country (Japan) has a GDP of 4,623,398 million US dollars. Coming in third, we have Germany at 2,714,418 US dollars. So, yea, I'm going to say the by far is accurate.
It's far more likely that Netscape/AOL came to HP and offered them a ton of cash to include their browser. Why would they do that you ask? Again, just another guess, but my money says that it's AOL's way of getting their portal and search on a large portion of the PCs out there.
Speaking of the other countries metioned in TFA: Brazil, along with Iran, Cuba, China and others has created an impromptu "Likeminded Group" at the PrepCom3 meeting in Geneva that has continually insisted on the removal of US control.
Yea, with a group like that, I'm sure the US is ready to hand over the keys any day now.
This makes me think somewhere on the Exchange dev team there is a BOFH.
I blame this article on the freeloaders. If you subscribed to /., you could have seen this "article" earlier and submitted the error to the mods. I'm sure they would have corrected it. Just like they catch the dupes. Or something.
Whay haven't you been posting here longer?
The purpose of Daylight Savings was to give farmers more time and sunlight to harvest their crops during the summer months.
So, you're saying that somehow the sun is out longer during DST? Did you even think before posting that crap?
I live in Minnesota. It's damn cold here in the winter so everyone wears gloves. Obviously the inventor has never tried touching a stearing wheen with bare hands when it's 5 degrees below zero (F) outside.
Two words: Firefox + Adblock.
IIRC there was a poll on /. a number of years ago asking what people use as a desktop OS. The result was overwhelmingly Windows. Maybe a lot of the "old school" (like user ID 39311) /.ers use *nix at home, I'd guess that over 70% of current visitors are on Windows boxen.
This brings up a question I've seen asked many times over the years. How about a look at an aggregate of the logs to see what the distribution of OS and browsers are for the visitors of /.?
JD Edwards was owned by PeopleSoft for quite a while before Oracle took them both over.
You mean something like this? That was a while ago, but I don't think many people outside of the geek community noticed.
Sure, there might be five people with your name that have some online presence, but it's still fairly easy to tell which one is you. For example, if you Googled my real name, you'd find stuff about twenty random people in another country, and a lot of posts to Microsoft newsgroups. Since I live in the USA, it's pretty easy to figure out the I'm the "me" who posts to those newsgroups.
Yep, a link back to this /. story.
Actually, that's not they way they want said it will work. They want you to pay taxes on 100% of the income you made from the NY company, whether or not you did the work inside of NY. Many telecomuters will occasionally visit the home office. In the case of the article, the guy paid NY taxes on 25% of the income he got from the company, because he was physically in NY 25% of the time. The other 75% was done from home, and previously untaxable. Now they want all of it.
So, this guy is subject to double-dipping, but only on 75% of the NY income since he wouldn't be paying home state taxes on the 25% of the NY income that he physically made in NY.
Stuart, I like you.