I sure hope their TOS for Gmail is better than for Orkut. How many people would want to grant them "worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display" for their personal email? (yes, that quote is cut-and-pasted from Orkut's TOS page: http://www.orkut.com/terms.html)
"One of the reasons Intel relocated much of its operation here had to do with the employment merry-go-round in Silicon Valley"
While that may be true, I'm guessing that cost was a more major factor. The ammount of land that Intel has their facilities on in Chandler, AZ and Hillsboro, OR would have cost a fortune in CA... at least near a major metro area the size of Phoenix or Portland.
"I just want to know, after all this ranting, is where IS that $100M? If the company is WORTH that, don't they have to have assets that you can sell at $100M?"
No, and that's the magic of the stock market.
Basically, company stock value is a combonation of assets and perceived future earning power. Investors are betting on the hope that the company will be sucessful enough to make their investment return a good profit (raise the stock value).
Many overly ambitious bets on future value is exactly what caused the high tech bubble.
There's the difference that 802.11b is a 2.4 GHz signal where GSM is not... and 2.4 GHz is the resonant frequency of water. Though, I don't think the a 0.025 watt signal is going to heat you up all that much...
...or buy Partition Magic for $70. Then to do the ghosting, you need to buy another utility.
Or, you can just use Partition Magic to back up partitions;-). It's probably not as cool as Ghost for doing that (I've never used Ghost), but it would work well for a simple situation like this.
Probably not. I'm not a lawyer, but from what I can tell from reading SCO's license, it is a license to any SCO IP needed for Linux should you need it. In other words it seems to be written in such a way that the license is still a valid license (for not much) if SCO's claims fail in court. I suspect their lawyers wrote it that way on purpose, to make it hard for them to be sued for fraud if the court case fails.
Back in the day (1995 ish or so) I used to run X on a Sun 3/60, maxed out at 8 megs of ram. The 3/60 IIRC has a 20 MHz 68030. I'll admit it was a little slow, but it did work just fine.
They made the same mistake as DEC: a radical switch to the Alpha RISC chip from its heavy VAX CISC processors.
You missed a step;-). DEC was using MIPS processors between the VAX and the Alpha. The DECstation 2000, 3000, and 5000 series of workstations all were MIPS based (I have a couple out in the shed). Though maybe the VAX wasn't EOLed in the high end until the Alpha.
That's exactly how they got WIN16 support on NT. They licensed an emulator an integrated it with the OS. I don't remember which one it was, but it might have even been Virtual PC.
I've heard that backlight life is measured in on-off cycles rather than ammount of time on. Thus, it's better for your backlight to leave it on or leave it off than to cycle between the two states frequently.
How much for an XBox with a mod & Ethernet (Fast Ethernet?) Do they have IR receivers, or any aftermarket ones?
The XBox comes with ethernet (don't know off hand it it's 10 or 100), and you can buy a, IIRC, ~$30 IR remote (which is required to enable DVD playback on a stock XBox).
I once put a Pentium 33 in the socket rotated 90 degrees. The current running through one of the pins melted it off and it stayed with the mobo when the chip was removed. After replacing the mobo (IIRC it didn't survive) and soldering a new pin on the Pentium, it ran just fine.
However, it has a compact flash, does linux know how to handle that?
It sure does. It works on my laptop with a PCMCIA adapter, and on my iPaq running Familiar. There is also some support for USB CF card readers, but I've never tried that myself
I guess the crack still hasn't worn off from having mod points. That should be Zaurus, and "open source fork" is a stupid thing to say, since both Qtopia and Opie are GPLed.
QT/Embeded is the embedded version of the QT library. Qtopia (formerly QPE) is a PDA operating environment based on QT/Embedded.
After Sharp decided to use Qtopia on the Zarus, TrollTech seemed to lose interest in the Qtopia version for Familiar on the iPaq, so an open source fork was started called Opie http://opie.handhelds.org/
One of their goals is binary compatabilty with Qtopia though.
As I understand it, the conglomerate owned stations are mostly remotely programmed. If they became independent, they'd probably have to hire more local staff (which would in theory keep more of the money local).
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I sure hope their TOS for Gmail is better than for Orkut. How many people would want to grant them "worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display" for their personal email? (yes, that quote is cut-and-pasted from Orkut's TOS page: http://www.orkut.com/terms.html)
"One of the reasons Intel relocated much of its operation here had to do with the employment merry-go-round in Silicon Valley"
While that may be true, I'm guessing that cost was a more major factor. The ammount of land that Intel has their facilities on in Chandler, AZ and Hillsboro, OR would have cost a fortune in CA... at least near a major metro area the size of Phoenix or Portland.
"I just want to know, after all this ranting, is where IS that $100M? If the company is WORTH that, don't they have to have assets that you can sell at $100M?"
No, and that's the magic of the stock market.
Basically, company stock value is a combonation of assets and perceived future earning power. Investors are betting on the hope that the company will be sucessful enough to make their investment return a good profit (raise the stock value).
Many overly ambitious bets on future value is exactly what caused the high tech bubble.
"the internal antennas are usually a small coil of wire"
In Nokia phones, or at least my old 8260, the internal antenna is a weirly shaped flat piece of metal, not a coil.
Not that that really adds anything meaningful to this discussion...
There's the difference that 802.11b is a 2.4 GHz signal where GSM is not... and 2.4 GHz is the resonant frequency of water. Though, I don't think the a 0.025 watt signal is going to heat you up all that much...
Or, you can just use Partition Magic to back up partitions ;-). It's probably not as cool as Ghost for doing that (I've never used Ghost), but it would work well for a simple situation like this.
If the Exchange server has IMAP support enabled you can use any IMAP client.
Probably not. I'm not a lawyer, but from what I can tell from reading SCO's license, it is a license to any SCO IP needed for Linux should you need it. In other words it seems to be written in such a way that the license is still a valid license (for not much) if SCO's claims fail in court. I suspect their lawyers wrote it that way on purpose, to make it hard for them to be sued for fraud if the court case fails.
Technically speaking, Verisign does run a couple of the root nameservers, but the spirit of your post is right, they don't run or manage them all.
Back in the day (1995 ish or so) I used to run X on a Sun 3/60, maxed out at 8 megs of ram. The 3/60 IIRC has a 20 MHz 68030. I'll admit it was a little slow, but it did work just fine.
Opps, I accidentially modded this down instead of up... I'm lame and am posting to remove my mod points. Teach me to mod before I've had my coffee.
You missed a step ;-). DEC was using MIPS processors between the VAX and the Alpha. The DECstation 2000, 3000, and 5000 series of workstations all were MIPS based (I have a couple out in the shed). Though maybe the VAX wasn't EOLed in the high end until the Alpha.
You could install Cooperative Linux. It lets you run Linux under Windows: http://www.colinux.org/
You're missing this line from the patent"
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/269,492, filed Jul. 1, 1994.
Which means TVI's filings predate Microsoft's (but IANAL)
That's exactly how they got WIN16 support on NT. They licensed an emulator an integrated it with the OS. I don't remember which one it was, but it might have even been Virtual PC.
I've heard that backlight life is measured in on-off cycles rather than ammount of time on. Thus, it's better for your backlight to leave it on or leave it off than to cycle between the two states frequently.
Woz (and Jobs?) built the first *digital* blue box (built from specs obtailed at the library at SLAC (Stanfor Linear Accelerator Center)).
How much for an XBox with a mod & Ethernet (Fast Ethernet?) Do they have IR receivers, or any aftermarket ones?
The XBox comes with ethernet (don't know off hand it it's 10 or 100), and you can buy a, IIRC, ~$30 IR remote (which is required to enable DVD playback on a stock XBox).
The iMac is a lot earier to carry with its handle. The eMac is all smooth plastic. There's no good place to get a grip on that thing ;-)
I once put a Pentium 33 in the socket rotated 90 degrees. The current running through one of the pins melted it off and it stayed with the mobo when the chip was removed. After replacing the mobo (IIRC it didn't survive) and soldering a new pin on the Pentium, it ran just fine.
;-)
I'm glad you can only put them in one way now
However, it has a compact flash, does linux know how to handle that?
It sure does. It works on my laptop with a PCMCIA adapter, and on my iPaq running Familiar. There is also some support for USB CF card readers, but I've never tried that myself
I guess the crack still hasn't worn off from having mod points. That should be Zaurus, and "open source fork" is a stupid thing to say, since both Qtopia and Opie are GPLed.
QT/Embeded is the embedded version of the QT library. Qtopia (formerly QPE) is a PDA operating environment based on QT/Embedded.
After Sharp decided to use Qtopia on the Zarus, TrollTech seemed to lose interest in the Qtopia version for Familiar on the iPaq, so an open source fork was started called Opie http://opie.handhelds.org/
One of their goals is binary compatabilty with Qtopia though.
Fujitsu laptops also come with FireWire... Don't know if you can get them without Windows though.
As I understand it, the conglomerate owned stations are mostly remotely programmed. If they became independent, they'd probably have to hire more local staff (which would in theory keep more of the money local).