Since the biofirms like Monsanto insert entire gene sequences, what would happen if a hacker created a retrovirus to turn rust-resistant wheat into Killer Wheat?
Would Monsanto have to pay damages for all the farmers killed by it?
What if the hacker was from Iraq, Afghanistan, or another country that we had no extradition treaty with?
1. kid vs kid violence - at an all time low. Caveat: US culture encourages the use of military style firearms and glorifies same. Hence, individual actions have higher bodycounts. But fewer die than in prior years, it's just reported nationwide now.
2. main cause of Columbine-style killings: jocks and cheerleaders teasing geeks and outcasts. Nothing is ever done about this - teachers always support the dominant social order, even those the jocks and cheerleaders will grow up to be destructive members of society, wasting resources and creating nothing of lasting value.
3. main result of zero tolerance - geeks and outcasts are further pressured - result is more incidents.
4. main result of media national reportage of such incidents - more shootings as other kids realize they too can emulate the Way of the Gun.
5. main result of media coverage - more NRA actions encourage more kids to use more guns.
6. main result of games - zip. zero. zilch. it's been a red herring for centuries, get over it.
7. main result of reading a "story" by Jon - brain rot and belief that untruths are real and geeks are the ubermensch of the new millenium, even though we're just people who need to party but now can't even buy E without doing 20 years in the pen.
This is your brain. This is your brain after reading Jon. Any questions?
I've had cable modem (AT&T@Home) and ADSL (USWorst, now Qwisp (or was that Qwest)). My brother's the manager for installs at Cox Cable in Santa Barbara, and he's got Cox@Home.
Cox doesn't have line caps in SBA (or didn't last time we talked), so they can actually deliver 4Mbps fairly well, and a lot of the places they wire are willing to pay for premium cable access (movie stars, etc.). But AT&T@Home has line caps and I think it's something like 128K but depends on where you are.
DSL's been pretty good - I used to get 720K down and 128K up, even though I paid for 256K at my old place in Ballard. In Fremont, which is easier to be wired in, I pay for 256K and I get about 512K down and 128K up. And it's not the 20:1 service they sell in the boonies, it's single access DSL, so it's consistent.
The latency on the WinNT boxen they use for mail servers is pretty bad though. And their DHCP seem to be the same.
But, and this is my point, you need to join the bands of infonaughts and rebel against high speed access. If you have high speeds, people expect you to actually check your email once a day, but when you have 19.6k, they expect you to check your email once a week at most.
Throw off your shackles, America! Rebel against the Microsoftian "Always On" Thought Police! Remember our slogan: 56K or Fight!
Throw your PDAs in the Sound and your laptops to the ground! Drop your beepers in the river!
can you imagine what the office of the future would look like? Lots of people with lighters, bobbing and shaking their heads and letting their eyes roll around.
Um, is this your vision of heaven? Sounds more like hell, although I guess the PHBs will love all the Yes Men they get with such a system...
And think of the arcade games that burned through our laundry money - I must have blown $10,000 on quarters to play Ms PacMan back when I was in the Army (it was that or Asteroids - another fun choice).
Exactly - without Sierra, it would still be boring
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Definitely - man, this was one of the first companies that grokked how to be funny - from those humorous games we learned how to expand our game design repertoires, as evidenced by games such as Teenagers from Outer Space (once did a variant where you used the Clue gameboard and alien game pieces), Globbo, and all the internal jokes (like Bard's Tales - c'mon, didn't you think the in-jokes were killer?).
My son still doesn't get why some of the cheat codes to his favorite games make me break out in laugher - man, where would we be without that?
yeah, Atari is so cool that we're getting back into it again in the new century.
Most of us moved on when we couldn't hack the hours (70+ was average amongst game designers when I did it in the early 80s) and found cheaper ways to make more money with fewer hours.
As a former SMOG (hint, it's like SMOF, only for gaming), I find the focus on 1990s and later gamers slightly insulting. Especially since most of what we did influenced everything that you see nowadays - the choices we made, the battles over simplicity in simulation and realistic systems over complexity and bad game play, are what makes things the way they are.
I mean, friends of mine like Steve Jackson, who was my Gaming GoH at Westercon 40 in Vancouver (an old favor called in, and a chance to ply him with sushi), almost had their businesses destroyed by the Secret Service, resulting in the establishment of the EFF. And that's for trying to do a game about Hacking!
We're still stuck with five basic game types, as a result of our choices in what we wanted to do - I keep hoping the 21st Century will see new game concepts, but the only one I've seen so far is The Sims - which may be the precursor to a new system. I'm still waiting for someone to do Killer Klowns From Outer Space as an interactive multi-player RPG game system where you become one of the Klowns or those who fight them - or how about Alice in Wonderland or the Oz books as a basis for 3D interactive RPGs like MechWarrior but with fun as the object.
The main impact was on the research dollars. I may be a Fool, but I don't agree that RHAT needs to keep investing at such high levels, now that we have IBM and other major players doing some of the work. If it wasn't open source, this might be a problem, but a 15 per cent investment in research is more than enough.
Also, note the stock is up 18 per cent today. Wish I'd bought some more back when it was down, but I'm only holding about 1000 shares in all my accounts now.
This is turning out to be another tech bubble in the stock market - just like with autos (4000 companies and only 4-6 survivors), TVs (thousands becoming three), and radio (ditto).
The trick is to buy the long-term survivors who understand the essentials - branding, marketing, cash flow, quality - when they're cheap. Not when they're hyped.
IMHO, RHAT is still cheap. The current price is still a good one to pick up and put in your IRA for retiring on, just as MSFT was back in the days. But don't have more than 5 per cent of your dollars in it, and don't expect to sell it in less than 5 years. And if you ever find yourself holding more than 20 per cent in it due to stock growth, liquidate some.
If you do this, you can join me in retirement in Europe and the Caribbean along with the other millionaires.
Oh, the rest of your money? Stop buying tech and shove it into an S&P index fund (e.g. Vanguard) and leave it there. Stop trading all the time!
As MSFT prides itself on, is that dogfood contains rendered meat, including spinal and brain products - so basically, Outlook is suffering from Mad Cow disease.
When we hear that MSFT's gone vegan, we can stop worrying about security exploits with Outlook.
Of course, then we'll have to ignore all their FUD about how we should all be using organic software, instead of software with Open Sores...
When you sell stock, you aren't selling it to the company that issued it (there is an exception known as a "stock buyback," but that's a different story).
Not necessarily. When you buy an IPO like a Linux one, about 70 to 80 per cent of the money ends up going to the company. When you sell your shares, they may be bought back by the company (for use in ESOPs), bought by other investors, or a market maker may buy them for his float (since he oversold or expects to sell them to a buyer).
You are selling your shares to a broker or a "market maker" that trades in the company's stock. They, in turn, sell it to someone else. If a company's stock loses half its value in a day (or doubles in a day), the company doesn't lose (or make) any money at all. The affect of the stock price on the company is a bit more indirect. It affects market perception of the company, the ability to attract employees by using stock options, and the number of shares necessary to buy other companies using stock swaps.
If a company has an outstanding buy order, such as a recent warrant by ArtistDirect to buy back stock at a price between $1.25 and $1.50 a share (trading below $1 now - I have some), then a number of things can happen - the company can buy directly if it has a seat on the exchange (e.g. MSDW could buy its own stock), a market maker could buy it in anticipation of selling it to the company, another investor could buy it (to hold or to sell, or to fill a short order).
But most of the time, you don't sell it back to the company - unless they just announced a large stock buyback.
One of the tricks of being a major holder is that you have to announce when you sell or buy things - Warren Buffet likes to accumulate stocks very slowly so people don't wise up that he's buying the company, for example, as that drives up the price of the stock he's buying.
A way around this is for two stockholders to make a direct exchange of shares - I sell my MSFT shares direct to Bill Gates, he cuts me a check. But if Bill G is a major holder, he has to announce it beyond a certain level.
As a resident of another country - also a so-called democracy - I've been watching with positive alarm as US citizens' rights get further and further eroded by big business interests. Any advice for the rest of the world's geeks? Should we just be pumping out code and documentation that makes a mockery of US Law? Or are there more direct ways of voicing our concerns?
Yes, there is. First, you have to take off your non-US head that says "don't sue". Put on a US-head that says "sue anything that moves". We don't understand anything else, and will ignore any other methods.
So, sue for your rights. Sue over US corporations using your personal information without your permission, if you're a citizen of the EU or Canada.
Now let's see a show of hands of those that have personally spoken with a congressperson. (Probable answer:.0001%)
If you just show up at those weekly or monthly Town Halls they announce in the local paper, you can talk with them and they'll even give you coffee/tea and some snack food. You could work on some code during the boring parts, and there are usually only 30 to 40 people at such events.
Not all forms of communication require an equal amount of investment by the communcator--therefore they should get unequal amounts of attention from the communicatee.
Nothing wrong with gaming the program - just look at what everyone else does and do something different. Heck, I'm sure they'd notice if someone hacked their website...
If you want your opinion read, just write it down (or print it out)--it only costs $.33 to send.
Nope, only costs $.20 to send a handwritten postcard with name, address, phone and brief message. Forget all the verbiage, and use a cool free postcard from your local coffee house or restaurant.
In news today, Microsquish announced that they will release a version of.Net to run on the Linux OS.
"It's the best thing since pita bread," said San Jose Breathed, a Microsquish spokespenguin, "and will mean a dramatic change in the uptime of Linux servers. Really, really dramatic."
In unrelated news, a recent beta tester of the Linux version, dubbed.Not, announced that his uptime was now in excess of 25 hours. "I've only had to reboot my server three times in the last two days, and strip out unnecessary services such as DNS and HTTPS to get it working. Since this is golden code, I'm sure they'll release a patch real soon now, once I send in that check for $500,000 for the bug fix release." said Dirk Quigley, a network administrator for one of Seattle's failed dot-coms.
Also in the news: the Antichrist grants interviews tomorrow...
While it's great that the UK has decided not to permit US-style patents of business concepts, the true crux of the matter will be when the EU rules on it.
Since the UK has some minor quirks in law (illegal to do many things that the rest of the EU permits), only then will it become meaningful.
Yeah, I was thinking about that a bit after my first post - that is going to be really cool for kids, which is why Pokemon is such a deal - it encourages trades and fights and mail being sent from one player to another.
And, get this, only one of the four players needs a cartridge. So, if Ian and Maria and Sasha and Jon are all into the same game, and only Ian's parents shelled out for the new Purple version, the whole gang can play.
This is super nifty - addictive on a social level. It also means you can get a Powerpuff Girls group, with one player for each Powerpuff Girl ("I'm Bubbles! No, I'm Bubbles; you're MoJo JoJo this time!") and one can be the bad guy.
Hmm. You gotta admit it's a cute little devil, even with the awkward name of Game Boy Advance, but let's think about the real competition.
First, does it make the xBox look like a MSFT kludge? Yup. But that wasn't hard.
Second, does it have primo addictive games and interactivity? Yup. But no killer carts yet.
Third, is it priced well? Hmmm. I'm not so sure of that.
When all is said and done, Nintendo has a good track record of actually making money on the box, as well as the games, so even if it has a few lame titles (ever played MIB on the Color Game Boy? yuck...) it only needs two or three killer addictive games that encourage player to player action and it will do well.
Of course, I'm biased, since I own NTDOY ADRs and both my son and I have color game boys (but I don't use the cheats...).
As this story will show, it appears that forwarding securities related spams to the SEC is very effective.
As it says "The S.E.C., announcing its fifth nationwide Internet fraud sweep, said the people accused used so-called spam e-mail messages, electronic newsletters, Web sites, hyperlinks, message boards and other Internet media in cases involving both publicly traded securities and privately held companies."
You use your methods and I'll sic the feds on them.
The ones I really like are the fraud spams by people claiming to represent some government agency in Africa, who just need assistance in transferring money out of the country. The great thing about this is the appearance of truth (Africa is unstable), the appeal to greed (the finder's fee), and the whiff of illegality to keep you from passing it on to your local SEC office.
Me, I just redirect them to the SEC, knowing that not only do they frequently arrest these scoundrels, they use the fines to pay off the national debt.
however they couldn't devise a crushing strategy against Linux, and in a couple of years it will become a serious threat to MS's business.
No, if you look at IDC's graph for 2000 Server Sales, you see MSFT at 40 percent, still about the same as 1999, and Linux now at 26 percent, much larger than 1999.
We already are a threat to MSFT. They failed with directory services because of us, we're eating away at the appliance side as well, and they're really feeling hemmed in. And they know that IBM and a lot of other players are starting to throw the big bucks our way.
When you start flatlining and your growth from in-house products is less than your earnings from holding company actions, while your opposition seems to wiggle out of the way of all your lawyers and keep transmuting into new forms, you know the bell has tolled.
First, they use it on smokestacks, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Well, that went fine they say.
Second, they decide to let it loose in low-income apartment buildings and prisons (since the latter comprise 40 percent of US housing by this time) in the smokestacks of the coal furnaces.
But, they ruled out the other materials in the smokestack. We get biogenetic adaptation of a living organism and... poof!
Now we've got furnaces breeding little fire devils. And once they see those BSD commercials, they create their own little mobile fireballs to explore outside the smokestacks and find Open Source (which is what they call Heaven (or H.ll if you'd rather)).
Naturally, they take great glee in poking their little pitchforks into Windows 2010 boxen and frying out the OS, replacing it with their own.
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Since the biofirms like Monsanto insert entire gene sequences, what would happen if a hacker created a retrovirus to turn rust-resistant wheat into Killer Wheat?
...
Would Monsanto have to pay damages for all the farmers killed by it?
What if the hacker was from Iraq, Afghanistan, or another country that we had no extradition treaty with?
Makes you think
I wonder if I can patent marijuana or E ...
Then I can sue Ben and Casey Affleck for using my genes.
...
It's only fair
OK, let's run down the numbers:
1. kid vs kid violence - at an all time low. Caveat: US culture encourages the use of military style firearms and glorifies same. Hence, individual actions have higher bodycounts. But fewer die than in prior years, it's just reported nationwide now.
2. main cause of Columbine-style killings: jocks and cheerleaders teasing geeks and outcasts. Nothing is ever done about this - teachers always support the dominant social order, even those the jocks and cheerleaders will grow up to be destructive members of society, wasting resources and creating nothing of lasting value.
3. main result of zero tolerance - geeks and outcasts are further pressured - result is more incidents.
4. main result of media national reportage of such incidents - more shootings as other kids realize they too can emulate the Way of the Gun.
5. main result of media coverage - more NRA actions encourage more kids to use more guns.
6. main result of games - zip. zero. zilch. it's been a red herring for centuries, get over it.
7. main result of reading a "story" by Jon - brain rot and belief that untruths are real and geeks are the ubermensch of the new millenium, even though we're just people who need to party but now can't even buy E without doing 20 years in the pen.
This is your brain. This is your brain after reading Jon. Any questions?
I've had cable modem (AT&T@Home) and ADSL (USWorst, now Qwisp (or was that Qwest)). My brother's the manager for installs at Cox Cable in Santa Barbara, and he's got Cox@Home.
Cox doesn't have line caps in SBA (or didn't last time we talked), so they can actually deliver 4Mbps fairly well, and a lot of the places they wire are willing to pay for premium cable access (movie stars, etc.). But AT&T@Home has line caps and I think it's something like 128K but depends on where you are.
DSL's been pretty good - I used to get 720K down and 128K up, even though I paid for 256K at my old place in Ballard. In Fremont, which is easier to be wired in, I pay for 256K and I get about 512K down and 128K up. And it's not the 20:1 service they sell in the boonies, it's single access DSL, so it's consistent.
The latency on the WinNT boxen they use for mail servers is pretty bad though. And their DHCP seem to be the same.
But, and this is my point, you need to join the bands of infonaughts and rebel against high speed access. If you have high speeds, people expect you to actually check your email once a day, but when you have 19.6k, they expect you to check your email once a week at most.
Throw off your shackles, America! Rebel against the Microsoftian "Always On" Thought Police! Remember our slogan: 56K or Fight!
Throw your PDAs in the Sound and your laptops to the ground! Drop your beepers in the river!
Disconnect, disinfect, and drop offline!
can you imagine what the office of the future would look like? Lots of people with lighters, bobbing and shaking their heads and letting their eyes roll around.
...
Um, is this your vision of heaven? Sounds more like hell, although I guess the PHBs will love all the Yes Men they get with such a system
And think of the arcade games that burned through our laundry money - I must have blown $10,000 on quarters to play Ms PacMan back when I was in the Army (it was that or Asteroids - another fun choice).
Definitely - man, this was one of the first companies that grokked how to be funny - from those humorous games we learned how to expand our game design repertoires, as evidenced by games such as Teenagers from Outer Space (once did a variant where you used the Clue gameboard and alien game pieces), Globbo, and all the internal jokes (like Bard's Tales - c'mon, didn't you think the in-jokes were killer?).
My son still doesn't get why some of the cheat codes to his favorite games make me break out in laugher - man, where would we be without that?
yeah, Atari is so cool that we're getting back into it again in the new century.
Most of us moved on when we couldn't hack the hours (70+ was average amongst game designers when I did it in the early 80s) and found cheaper ways to make more money with fewer hours.
As a former SMOG (hint, it's like SMOF, only for gaming), I find the focus on 1990s and later gamers slightly insulting. Especially since most of what we did influenced everything that you see nowadays - the choices we made, the battles over simplicity in simulation and realistic systems over complexity and bad game play, are what makes things the way they are.
I mean, friends of mine like Steve Jackson, who was my Gaming GoH at Westercon 40 in Vancouver (an old favor called in, and a chance to ply him with sushi), almost had their businesses destroyed by the Secret Service, resulting in the establishment of the EFF. And that's for trying to do a game about Hacking!
We're still stuck with five basic game types, as a result of our choices in what we wanted to do - I keep hoping the 21st Century will see new game concepts, but the only one I've seen so far is The Sims - which may be the precursor to a new system. I'm still waiting for someone to do Killer Klowns From Outer Space as an interactive multi-player RPG game system where you become one of the Klowns or those who fight them - or how about Alice in Wonderland or the Oz books as a basis for 3D interactive RPGs like MechWarrior but with fun as the object.
The main impact was on the research dollars. I may be a Fool, but I don't agree that RHAT needs to keep investing at such high levels, now that we have IBM and other major players doing some of the work. If it wasn't open source, this might be a problem, but a 15 per cent investment in research is more than enough.
Also, note the stock is up 18 per cent today. Wish I'd bought some more back when it was down, but I'm only holding about 1000 shares in all my accounts now.
This is turning out to be another tech bubble in the stock market - just like with autos (4000 companies and only 4-6 survivors), TVs (thousands becoming three), and radio (ditto).
The trick is to buy the long-term survivors who understand the essentials - branding, marketing, cash flow, quality - when they're cheap. Not when they're hyped.
IMHO, RHAT is still cheap. The current price is still a good one to pick up and put in your IRA for retiring on, just as MSFT was back in the days. But don't have more than 5 per cent of your dollars in it, and don't expect to sell it in less than 5 years. And if you ever find yourself holding more than 20 per cent in it due to stock growth, liquidate some.
If you do this, you can join me in retirement in Europe and the Caribbean along with the other millionaires.
Oh, the rest of your money? Stop buying tech and shove it into an S&P index fund (e.g. Vanguard) and leave it there. Stop trading all the time!
As MSFT prides itself on, is that dogfood contains rendered meat, including spinal and brain products - so basically, Outlook is suffering from Mad Cow disease.
...
...
When we hear that MSFT's gone vegan, we can stop worrying about security exploits with Outlook.
Of course, then we'll have to ignore all their FUD about how we should all be using organic software, instead of software with Open Sores
Oh, wait, that's Open Source
When you sell stock, you aren't selling it to the company that issued it (there is an exception known as a "stock buyback," but that's a different story).
Not necessarily. When you buy an IPO like a Linux one, about 70 to 80 per cent of the money ends up going to the company. When you sell your shares, they may be bought back by the company (for use in ESOPs), bought by other investors, or a market maker may buy them for his float (since he oversold or expects to sell them to a buyer).
You are selling your shares to a broker or a "market maker" that trades in the company's stock. They, in turn, sell it to someone else. If a company's stock loses half its value in a day (or doubles in a day), the company doesn't lose (or make) any money at all. The affect of the stock price on the company is a bit more indirect. It affects market perception of the company, the ability to attract employees by using stock options, and the number of shares necessary to buy other companies using stock swaps.
If a company has an outstanding buy order, such as a recent warrant by ArtistDirect to buy back stock at a price between $1.25 and $1.50 a share (trading below $1 now - I have some), then a number of things can happen - the company can buy directly if it has a seat on the exchange (e.g. MSDW could buy its own stock), a market maker could buy it in anticipation of selling it to the company, another investor could buy it (to hold or to sell, or to fill a short order).
But most of the time, you don't sell it back to the company - unless they just announced a large stock buyback.
One of the tricks of being a major holder is that you have to announce when you sell or buy things - Warren Buffet likes to accumulate stocks very slowly so people don't wise up that he's buying the company, for example, as that drives up the price of the stock he's buying.
A way around this is for two stockholders to make a direct exchange of shares - I sell my MSFT shares direct to Bill Gates, he cuts me a check. But if Bill G is a major holder, he has to announce it beyond a certain level.
As a resident of another country - also a so-called democracy - I've been watching with positive alarm as US citizens' rights get further and further eroded by big business interests. Any advice for the rest of the world's geeks? Should we just be pumping out code and documentation that makes a mockery of US Law? Or are there more direct ways of voicing our concerns?
...
Yes, there is. First, you have to take off your non-US head that says "don't sue". Put on a US-head that says "sue anything that moves". We don't understand anything else, and will ignore any other methods.
So, sue for your rights. Sue over US corporations using your personal information without your permission, if you're a citizen of the EU or Canada.
Then we'll pay attention and fix the problem.
But not before
Now let's see a show of hands of those that have personally spoken with a congressperson. (Probable answer: .0001%)
...
If you just show up at those weekly or monthly Town Halls they announce in the local paper, you can talk with them and they'll even give you coffee/tea and some snack food. You could work on some code during the boring parts, and there are usually only 30 to 40 people at such events.
Not all forms of communication require an equal amount of investment by the communcator--therefore they should get unequal amounts of attention from the communicatee.
Nothing wrong with gaming the program - just look at what everyone else does and do something different. Heck, I'm sure they'd notice if someone hacked their website
If you want your opinion read, just write it down (or print it out)--it only costs $.33 to send.
Nope, only costs $.20 to send a handwritten postcard with name, address, phone and brief message. Forget all the verbiage, and use a cool free postcard from your local coffee house or restaurant.
In news today, Microsquish announced that they will release a version of .Net to run on the Linux OS.
.Not, announced that his uptime was now in excess of 25 hours. "I've only had to reboot my server three times in the last two days, and strip out unnecessary services such as DNS and HTTPS to get it working. Since this is golden code, I'm sure they'll release a patch real soon now, once I send in that check for $500,000 for the bug fix release." said Dirk Quigley, a network administrator for one of Seattle's failed dot-coms.
...
"It's the best thing since pita bread," said San Jose Breathed, a Microsquish spokespenguin, "and will mean a dramatic change in the uptime of Linux servers. Really, really dramatic."
In unrelated news, a recent beta tester of the Linux version, dubbed
Also in the news: the Antichrist grants interviews tomorrow
While it's great that the UK has decided not to permit US-style patents of business concepts, the true crux of the matter will be when the EU rules on it.
Since the UK has some minor quirks in law (illegal to do many things that the rest of the EU permits), only then will it become meaningful.
There will be no shortage of people who play their GBA on the train or bus on their home to where an Xbox is waiting for big screen fun.
But MSFT is working on an xBoy to compete with GBA - which they'll probably lose money at, since that's their style.
Yeah, I was thinking about that a bit after my first post - that is going to be really cool for kids, which is why Pokemon is such a deal - it encourages trades and fights and mail being sent from one player to another.
And, get this, only one of the four players needs a cartridge. So, if Ian and Maria and Sasha and Jon are all into the same game, and only Ian's parents shelled out for the new Purple version, the whole gang can play.
This is super nifty - addictive on a social level. It also means you can get a Powerpuff Girls group, with one player for each Powerpuff Girl ("I'm Bubbles! No, I'm Bubbles; you're MoJo JoJo this time!") and one can be the bad guy.
Gonna rock!
Hmm. You gotta admit it's a cute little devil, even with the awkward name of Game Boy Advance, but let's think about the real competition.
...) it only needs two or three killer addictive games that encourage player to player action and it will do well.
...).
First, does it make the xBox look like a MSFT kludge? Yup. But that wasn't hard.
Second, does it have primo addictive games and interactivity? Yup. But no killer carts yet.
Third, is it priced well? Hmmm. I'm not so sure of that.
When all is said and done, Nintendo has a good track record of actually making money on the box, as well as the games, so even if it has a few lame titles (ever played MIB on the Color Game Boy? yuck
Of course, I'm biased, since I own NTDOY ADRs and both my son and I have color game boys (but I don't use the cheats
In addition, the DeCSS case has taught us that judges dispense with reason and existing precedent when profits are at stake.
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If that were true, then they'd even interfere with elections and install their own president.
Like that would ever happen
As this story will show, it appears that forwarding securities related spams to the SEC is very effective.
As it says "The S.E.C., announcing its fifth nationwide Internet fraud sweep, said the people accused used so-called spam e-mail messages, electronic newsletters, Web sites, hyperlinks, message boards and other Internet media in cases involving both publicly traded securities and privately held companies."
You use your methods and I'll sic the feds on them.
The ones I really like are the fraud spams by people claiming to represent some government agency in Africa, who just need assistance in transferring money out of the country. The great thing about this is the appearance of truth (Africa is unstable), the appeal to greed (the finder's fee), and the whiff of illegality to keep you from passing it on to your local SEC office.
Me, I just redirect them to the SEC, knowing that not only do they frequently arrest these scoundrels, they use the fines to pay off the national debt.
however they couldn't devise a crushing strategy against Linux, and in a couple of years it will become a serious threat to MS's business.
No, if you look at IDC's graph for 2000 Server Sales, you see MSFT at 40 percent, still about the same as 1999, and Linux now at 26 percent, much larger than 1999.
We already are a threat to MSFT. They failed with directory services because of us, we're eating away at the appliance side as well, and they're really feeling hemmed in. And they know that IBM and a lot of other players are starting to throw the big bucks our way.
When you start flatlining and your growth from in-house products is less than your earnings from holding company actions, while your opposition seems to wiggle out of the way of all your lawyers and keep transmuting into new forms, you know the bell has tolled.
[caveat - I own MSFT and RHAT shares]
First, they use it on smokestacks, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
... poof!
Well, that went fine they say.
Second, they decide to let it loose in low-income apartment buildings and prisons (since the latter comprise 40 percent of US housing by this time) in the smokestacks of the coal furnaces.
But, they ruled out the other materials in the smokestack. We get biogenetic adaptation of a living organism and
Now we've got furnaces breeding little fire devils. And once they see those BSD commercials, they create their own little mobile fireballs to explore outside the smokestacks and find Open Source (which is what they call Heaven (or H.ll if you'd rather)).
Naturally, they take great glee in poking their little pitchforks into Windows 2010 boxen and frying out the OS, replacing it with their own.
Now look what you've done!