When all their good employees started taking their chances with the dot-coms instead.
Even after the crash...:-P
Basically, IBM _used_ to be a hardware company. They made everything, sold it to you. Then you were on your own. Then one day, they began offering extended service plans as optional (extra). People began buying them, for their new equipment as well as their old. At least, it made some modest money. After a couple of years though, it had risen to their most profitable section of the company. IBM was no longer a Hardware company. It was a services company that sells hardware.
This would later grow into areas such as Java, Linux, and other e-business as IBM realized what services they could sell to customers.
The Programming Gods looked upon IBM and smiled. Until off to the West from the mountains dark clouds began to approach, but that is another story, for another time.
William Buckner, 16, and Joshua Buckner, who turns 14 Sunday, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault. Under state law, they can only be held as juveniles until they are 19.
I'm questioning the laws of Tennessee almost as much as those two numb-skulls.
I hate having to say this, but before you go start posting on emotion:
RTFA!!!!!!
The kids aren't trying to use this as a defense. The family of the victom is trying to sue Take Two. I feel bad for the victoms and their families. If I were to guess their intentions they simply want some compensation because they know they'll never get anything from that damn red-neck family that was the _real_ cause.
On another note: What the F*** is this about they'll have to be realeased at 19 under Tennessee law!?! That means that one of these idiots will be out in 3 years!!! Could someone _PLEASE_ find some federal charge so they can be put away longer.
How many of you would do business with a company who would buy a license from SCO?
One must really start to question HP's motives. If I were in charge of a lab for a large corporation who was considering buying PC's I would take this info to a place such as Dell or Micron and use it to show what happens when a computer company ignores it's users.
Prediction: HP's PC sales going down. No one likes a company that changes it's support at the first whiff of a lawyer.
Seriously though, Why in the hell would Apple want to compare the G4 and G5 when they still have G4's lying around in the warehouses. Two words: Osborne Computer Look it up, google it, Nevermind, Just did.
Anyways. G5's are marketed at x86 users because Apple knows they finally have a machine that can be taken seriously by the Computing Community. Jobs has us where he wants us: Salivating over a machine whose best OS is based on Unix.
Personally, I welcome our new Apple Overlords....:)
At the University of Michigan in 1999, after administrators signed a deal with Microsoft, a major donor, to sell technology at the Michigan Student Union, students protested by handing out diskettes with the free Windows alternative Linux.
Ahhh... Memmories...
That was fun, Sun gave us 200 copies of StarOffice to hand out (The MS deal was actually about MSOffice, not Windows) The Redhat stuff came in late. Some of us showed off Redhat running on our laptops (quite an accomplishment at the time.) Our LUG was just a few months old too.
Microsoft has been doing this for years now.
Yeah, It took them a while to figure out how to do it right though. MS signed a deal with U of M for Office back in 1999, not thinking that most students coming in would already have it, so that fizzled. Now finally MS offers deals on Development Tools as of this past Winter.
and even as part of a recent settlement in a court case
Yeah, I love our MS rep. Many students would even get books, all they wanted to know what there was a purpose.
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If you believe that, I have a spare Athlon64 Adapter for your TI99/4A I could sell you.
Yay! Obscure computer reference!
(If it weren't for the fact it was my first computer, at 3 years old, I wouldn't have remembered it at all.)
-B
Kudos for being a lawyer brave enough to post on Slashdot! :)
-B
Trust me, you'll end up paying that Bush deficit eventually
:)
I've been proposing the "stupidity" tax for years now!
Only problem is: Then no one would ever run for public office.
-B
I think maybe a targetted boycott campaign against not the RIAA blanket company, but a particular member (chosen randomly) would wake them all up.
:)
He's right, let's stop trying to punch them where they can block and clock them in the knee Tonya Harding Style!!!!
A little recommendation though, we want to promote good behavior, not Universal.
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Ask the author himself.
-B
When did they get all nice-nice?
:-P
When all their good employees started taking their chances with the dot-coms instead.
Even after the crash...
Basically, IBM _used_ to be a hardware company. They made everything, sold it to you. Then you were on your own. Then one day, they began offering extended service plans as optional (extra). People began buying them, for their new equipment as well as their old. At least, it made some modest money. After a couple of years though, it had risen to their most profitable section of the company. IBM was no longer a Hardware company. It was a services company that sells hardware.
This would later grow into areas such as Java, Linux, and other e-business as IBM realized what services they could sell to customers.
The Programming Gods looked upon IBM and smiled. Until off to the West from the mountains dark clouds began to approach, but that is another story, for another time.
-B
Yes, but that age is usually 21.
-B
William Buckner, 16, and Joshua Buckner, who turns 14 Sunday, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault. Under state law, they can only be held as juveniles until they are 19.
I'm questioning the laws of Tennessee almost as much as those two numb-skulls.
Murderous Rampage: Out in three years
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...and I won't even get into that story about the time I bought Pac-Man......DAMN!!!!
-B
I hate having to say this, but before you go start posting on emotion:
RTFA!!!!!!
The kids aren't trying to use this as a defense. The family of the victom is trying to sue Take Two. I feel bad for the victoms and their families. If I were to guess their intentions they simply want some compensation because they know they'll never get anything from that damn red-neck family that was the _real_ cause.
On another note: What the F*** is this about they'll have to be realeased at 19 under Tennessee law!?! That means that one of these idiots will be out in 3 years!!! Could someone _PLEASE_ find some federal charge so they can be put away longer.
Please Darwin! Do your magic once again!
-B
I love making very small computers to bring along to lan parties.
I'll see your LAN party and raise you this:
mini-ITX board + cheap 3d processor + Linux = ???
Give up? Here's a hint. It makes Microsoft's Xbox Development team shake in their boots.
-B
PS What would be more interesting? An Apple Game Console, or an IBM Game Console???
I hope and pray Heinlen doesn't turn into the 'Tu-Pac' of geeks (i.e. ends up having 30 or more works 'discovered').
-B
No-one will ever complain that you don't do your job if you are "prioritizing!".
Worst case scenario: Having to explain that removing the origin of the idea from the gene pool would be easier....
Just a thought
-B
How many of you would do business with a company who would buy a license from SCO?
One must really start to question HP's motives. If I were in charge of a lab for a large corporation who was considering buying PC's I would take this info to a place such as Dell or Micron and use it to show what happens when a computer company ignores it's users.
Prediction: HP's PC sales going down. No one likes a company that changes it's support at the first whiff of a lawyer.
-B
that he crossed the wires wrong and only he is affected.
At which point he explaimed, "SCO owns the IP of crossing wires wrong."
Should the audit reveal that the user has underpaid SCO by 5% or $5,000, whichever is highest, the user also agrees to pay the price for the audit.
So, not only am I being extorted, but I'm agreeing to be extorted at a future date as well!?!
Please, SCO spare us the bandwidth. Shut Up!
-B
The article is already slashdotted so I can't read it.
/. effect still exist? Is it the server that becomes the sole limiting factor?
At those speeds, does the
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PLEASE! Where can I find it?
-B
If you want to run real PC software, why not get a real PC?
The holy book of Jobs forbids it. Though shall buy any gadget that comes from Apple; no matter how expensive.
No if you excuse me, I have to go rob a bank. The new iPod looks nice.
-B
Guess what Apple, you forgot a processor. The G4.
:)
:)
(using cartoonish cereal ad voice)
Silly Mac boy....G5's are for x86 users.
Seriously though, Why in the hell would Apple want to compare the G4 and G5 when they still have G4's lying around in the warehouses. Two words: Osborne Computer Look it up, google it, Nevermind, Just did.
Anyways. G5's are marketed at x86 users because Apple knows they finally have a machine that can be taken seriously by the Computing Community. Jobs has us where he wants us: Salivating over a machine whose best OS is based on Unix.
Personally, I welcome our new Apple Overlords....
-B
(Yay! not even offtopic this time!)
Effigies made up to look like they've suffered the Death of a Thousand Cuts.
Our MS rep (UofM) IS an undregrad CS student. How exactly _could_ we make him look any worse???
Just curious,
-B
From the story:
At the University of Michigan in 1999, after administrators signed a deal with Microsoft, a major donor, to sell technology at the Michigan Student Union, students protested by handing out diskettes with the free Windows alternative Linux.
Ahhh... Memmories...
That was fun, Sun gave us 200 copies of StarOffice to hand out (The MS deal was actually about MSOffice, not Windows) The Redhat stuff came in late. Some of us showed off Redhat running on our laptops (quite an accomplishment at the time.) Our LUG was just a few months old too.
Microsoft has been doing this for years now.
Yeah, It took them a while to figure out how to do it right though. MS signed a deal with U of M for Office back in 1999, not thinking that most students coming in would already have it, so that fizzled. Now finally MS offers deals on Development Tools as of this past Winter.
and even as part of a recent settlement in a court case
Yeah, I love our MS rep. Many students would even get books, all they wanted to know what there was a purpose.
-B
Using the toilet? I think they should fix that problem. :)
This needs to be publicised, as anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing.
That should be clarified:
This needs to be publicised, as anything (short of removing the spammer from the gene pool) which slows down spam can only be a good thing.
-B
Personally I'm rather surprised about the naivity of US developers.
*clears throat*
Welcome to Slashdot, You must be new here...
(Please don't mode me _too_ badly)
*hides in corner*
-B