So, if the market cap of SCO is about us$250 million, it would require about us$150 million or so to obtain a majority stake in the company. Could the global opensource community put that together? With a solid majority stake in the company, a consortium could replace the CEO/board, terminate the litigation, sell off the assets and, finally, release UNIX under an open license! (The best part of all of this would, of course, be the fact that we would all stop having to call things '*nix' or 'UNIX-like'!)
Once number portability kicks in, skanky old Sprint has lost a customer, and T-Mobile or ATT (whoever has the best GSM/GPRS coverage in the states) has gained one. Ahhh, competition!
Or a major head trauma for that matter. I know it was high on your 'to do list' for this week, but if your identity is being confirmed by close reading of your fine motor skills, then scrambling your noodle is likely to cause you to not be recognized!
Your building(s) were probably designed by an architect. They probably have the plans on file. Any architect who isn't stupid will probably give you copies for free (or the cost of printing if they're on paper) in order to maintain a relationship with you. If your building(s) is(are) newish, then the drawings may be in a CAD format (e.g. AutoCAD), so you may need to ask them to convert them to something useful (e.g..ai)
Another alternative would be to hire an architecture student to do the work. The developed world is currently crawling with tens of thousands of architecture students who are on summer break and would love to make a few bucks. One or two students (with a bit of experience) can do the measuring and drafting a ton faster (and a bit better) than you can.
He's infamous for going on and on about how much he loves the Beatles and John Lennon, but he doesn't get how much his actions as a Republican go completely against what Lennon stood for and why his music was so meaningful. I guess it is nice to hear that he's clueful about this one issue, though.
Usually, we're all complaining about the 'bell heads' and their way of thinking about switched circuits, but sometimes 'phone think' is good. For decades there has been the idea that the phone company isn't to blame when criminals use the phone network to arrange or commit crimes. For a long time, ISPs have been trying to be placed in that type of legal position. I assume that part of the motivation for this suit is that SBC wants its ISP side to be treated like it's phone side.
What does it take to be a registered voter in India? Here in the states, they make it as difficult as possible (thus slanting the voting population towards the wealthy/conservative). Out of India's Billion people, how many are expected to actually vote on those 800k machines?
Given that India is currently run by the ultra-right fundamentalist party, is the use of electronic voting and an identity card a technique to put up barriers to the rural/poor population? (Perhaps a candidate's brother will use the police to set up roadblocks on election day?)
I'm sure that numerous marketing weasels are looking at how to expoit this sort of thing.
Today, hundreds of teenage girls took the bridges and tunnels into Manhattan in order to stand in Times Square (oddly enough, at a spot within view of the MTV studios). They burst into cheers of "We love Justin" and aped his 'dance moves'. Almost as soon as they gathered, they dispersed to buy his latest poster. Said one participant, 'It was so totally cool! I was chatting with my friends on AIM, and, like, someone we didn't know, but knew that we were huge Justin fans popped up and told us about this cool event. She said she totally loves Justin, just like us. But, like, when we chatted with her, she kind of repeated herself a bunch of times, kinda like a robot. But, like, whatever!"
Maybe I am just a cheap bastard, but fractions-of-a-penny are critical for me to 'buy into' quite a lot of systems. Maybe, instead of talking about US 'pennies', we should set up the system's base unit as Turkish Liras! (Visit Turkey, change small amount of Dollars/Euros, become an instant millionaire! Woo Hoo!)
at some point, it may be cheaper for everyone to just buy SCO shares, and once they have a 51% stake, liquidate the company - including formally 'opensourcing' whatever it is that SCO currently 'claims' to own.
This release isn't training the kiddies to kill Iraqis, it's training kiddies to kill Syrians, Irianians and North Koreans. And if the French show some spine and stand up to them, then it'll be France next. Educate yourself on the "NeoConservative" agenda.
Given that W lost the last election (he certainly didn't clearly win it by any standard), why would he want to hear what the polity has to say? Only democratic leaders give a damn what the people who elected them are trying to tell them.
I'm pretty sure that if you write your message in the 'memo' line on a us$100,000 check, they'll listen a bit better. The new US 'democracy': one dollar, one vote?
There are a group of people who bleed money every time they see a rendering progress bar inching across the screen in Photoshop, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Lightwave or whatever. Those people care (a lot) about machine speeds. Benchmarks are only a hint at the end result of AE+Win+x86 vs. AE+OSX+PPC, but it will factor into budgeting for upcomming purchases at lots of design (and other) firms.
There's also a qualitative issue for a lot of people. In 3D, you want to be able to experiment and get quick feedback so that you can make decisions in a matter of minutes, not hours or days. More importantly, in video editing, you need to be in a 'flow' with your project. If you make some cuts, then want to try some effects and have to wait an hour for it to render, it's really hard to stay in the 'flow' of your project. Screaming machines make it a lot easier to produce higher quality work.
Plus, a lot of people who never wait for anything to render buy based on 'horsepower' that they never use. (e.g. my boss)
Duh, I was one of those BASIC (and LOGO and 8 bit assembly, etc) kids of the 80's. I didn't go into CS ('real' Architecture got me!) so I never built any heavy-duty coding 'muscles'. Today, when I need to scratch a programming itch, I use Applescript. It isn't all powerful, but it does most of what I need to do. Besides, when you buy a kid a Mac, you buy a kid ROOT!
Gosh, in MiniDV format, that's 4.5 minutes of video+audio per GB, so this camera would hold, uh, complicated calculation, wait for it, um, WOW! 6.75 whole minutes of footage! Incredible! (Maybe they could gang 10 of these drives into one unit to equal one standard MiniDV tape)
Oh, but wait, there are idiots plan to use MPEG type compression in-camera because they plan to never edit their footage. I know how we all love to sit through hours of unedited tape! Thrilling!
OK, so that site kind of sucked. It's amazing how much there ISN'T about West on the web. Here's the best thing I've found so far:
http://www.pragmatism.org/library/west/
He's a professor at Princeton (formerly at Harvard) and is frequently cited as one of America's foremost intellectuals.
"Who is this guy?" Let's put it this way, Bill O'Reiley will never, ever, ever have Colonel West on his show for 'discussion' because West would rip poor, dumb Bill into as many pieces as there were bits of flying debris in the first Matrix. Another way of putting it is that where Chomsky comes at American politics from the perspective of a linguist, West comes at American politics from the perspective of a African-American and a deeply reflective, thoughtful Christian. I guess that the most direct way to get at things is to check out the recording on the link from the above page. He dicusses the need for critical thinking in our anti-intellectual America in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
What does this have to do with the Matrix? With a bit of research and thinking for yourself you might just figure it out. Too bad it isn't as easy as taking the red pill.
This seems like a situation in which the review may say more about the reviewer than the film. There must be some deep shit going on if Colonel West is proud of being in it. I was planning on waiting for the initial rush to pass, but I somehow suspect that the Oracle is going to do even more mind-messing than in the fist one, so maybe I'll have to fight the crowds...
[cough]moron[cough] A severely screwed up degreg process caused the California fiasco. Greedy scumbags caused the Enron situation. The California electricity dereg system was a pure 'how not to' example of partial deregulation of a natural monopoly combined with elements that should have been consumer protections but were lobbied into benefits and loopholes for the vendors.
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So, if the market cap of SCO is about us$250 million, it would require about us$150 million or so to obtain a majority stake in the company. Could the global opensource community put that together? With a solid majority stake in the company, a consortium could replace the CEO/board, terminate the litigation, sell off the assets and, finally, release UNIX under an open license! (The best part of all of this would, of course, be the fact that we would all stop having to call things '*nix' or 'UNIX-like'!)
Once number portability kicks in, skanky old Sprint has lost a customer, and T-Mobile or ATT (whoever has the best GSM/GPRS coverage in the states) has gained one. Ahhh, competition!
Let's hope that it supports the new P900, as it's expected to be out in November
The Anglican Jihad has begun!
Or a major head trauma for that matter. I know it was high on your 'to do list' for this week, but if your identity is being confirmed by close reading of your fine motor skills, then scrambling your noodle is likely to cause you to not be recognized!
Another alternative would be to hire an architecture student to do the work. The developed world is currently crawling with tens of thousands of architecture students who are on summer break and would love to make a few bucks. One or two students (with a bit of experience) can do the measuring and drafting a ton faster (and a bit better) than you can.
It's also interesting that there was a second little bump about a week later. Anyone have any ideas why?
He's infamous for going on and on about how much he loves the Beatles and John Lennon, but he doesn't get how much his actions as a Republican go completely against what Lennon stood for and why his music was so meaningful. I guess it is nice to hear that he's clueful about this one issue, though.
I like applesauce! (particularly with some true cinnamon - not that cassia stuff!)
Usually, we're all complaining about the 'bell heads' and their way of thinking about switched circuits, but sometimes 'phone think' is good. For decades there has been the idea that the phone company isn't to blame when criminals use the phone network to arrange or commit crimes. For a long time, ISPs have been trying to be placed in that type of legal position. I assume that part of the motivation for this suit is that SBC wants its ISP side to be treated like it's phone side.
Given that India is currently run by the ultra-right fundamentalist party, is the use of electronic voting and an identity card a technique to put up barriers to the rural/poor population? (Perhaps a candidate's brother will use the police to set up roadblocks on election day?)
Always strip the DRM from the files you 'buy' - duh. (Ooops - you can't do that with BuyMusic - sorry)
Today, hundreds of teenage girls took the bridges and tunnels into Manhattan in order to stand in Times Square (oddly enough, at a spot within view of the MTV studios). They burst into cheers of "We love Justin" and aped his 'dance moves'. Almost as soon as they gathered, they dispersed to buy his latest poster. Said one participant, 'It was so totally cool! I was chatting with my friends on AIM, and, like, someone we didn't know, but knew that we were huge Justin fans popped up and told us about this cool event. She said she totally loves Justin, just like us. But, like, when we chatted with her, she kind of repeated herself a bunch of times, kinda like a robot. But, like, whatever!"
Maybe I am just a cheap bastard, but fractions-of-a-penny are critical for me to 'buy into' quite a lot of systems. Maybe, instead of talking about US 'pennies', we should set up the system's base unit as Turkish Liras! (Visit Turkey, change small amount of Dollars/Euros, become an instant millionaire! Woo Hoo!)
at some point, it may be cheaper for everyone to just buy SCO shares, and once they have a 51% stake, liquidate the company - including formally 'opensourcing' whatever it is that SCO currently 'claims' to own.
This release isn't training the kiddies to kill Iraqis, it's training kiddies to kill Syrians, Irianians and North Koreans. And if the French show some spine and stand up to them, then it'll be France next. Educate yourself on the "NeoConservative" agenda.
I have to agree - being able to think for yourself is generally an impediment to obeying orders.
I'm pretty sure that if you write your message in the 'memo' line on a us$100,000 check, they'll listen a bit better. The new US 'democracy': one dollar, one vote?
You still cant use your JR pass on the Nozomi probe!
There's also a qualitative issue for a lot of people. In 3D, you want to be able to experiment and get quick feedback so that you can make decisions in a matter of minutes, not hours or days. More importantly, in video editing, you need to be in a 'flow' with your project. If you make some cuts, then want to try some effects and have to wait an hour for it to render, it's really hard to stay in the 'flow' of your project. Screaming machines make it a lot easier to produce higher quality work.
Plus, a lot of people who never wait for anything to render buy based on 'horsepower' that they never use. (e.g. my boss)
Duh, I was one of those BASIC (and LOGO and 8 bit assembly, etc) kids of the 80's. I didn't go into CS ('real' Architecture got me!) so I never built any heavy-duty coding 'muscles'. Today, when I need to scratch a programming itch, I use Applescript. It isn't all powerful, but it does most of what I need to do. Besides, when you buy a kid a Mac, you buy a kid ROOT!
Oh, but wait, there are idiots plan to use MPEG type compression in-camera because they plan to never edit their footage. I know how we all love to sit through hours of unedited tape! Thrilling!
http://www.pragmatism.org/library/west/ He's a professor at Princeton (formerly at Harvard) and is frequently cited as one of America's foremost intellectuals.
"Who is this guy?" Let's put it this way, Bill O'Reiley will never, ever, ever have Colonel West on his show for 'discussion' because West would rip poor, dumb Bill into as many pieces as there were bits of flying debris in the first Matrix. Another way of putting it is that where Chomsky comes at American politics from the perspective of a linguist, West comes at American politics from the perspective of a African-American and a deeply reflective, thoughtful Christian. I guess that the most direct way to get at things is to check out the recording on the link from the above page. He dicusses the need for critical thinking in our anti-intellectual America in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
What does this have to do with the Matrix? With a bit of research and thinking for yourself you might just figure it out. Too bad it isn't as easy as taking the red pill.
This seems like a situation in which the review may say more about the reviewer than the film. There must be some deep shit going on if Colonel West is proud of being in it. I was planning on waiting for the initial rush to pass, but I somehow suspect that the Oracle is going to do even more mind-messing than in the fist one, so maybe I'll have to fight the crowds...
The only person to blame for Cheney is Cheney.