Well, as almost any European knows by now, it's pretty darn simple. If the US wants to establish ICANN and make it conform to its rules, that's the way it is.
Legality be darned - why do you think we have warships in Bahrain to be attacked? One of those babies is about one-tenth the size of the Canadian fleet, or one-twentieth the Denmark Navy. And we calve those in such large numbers we don't really know exactly where they all are.
So, in the end, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Unless the entire world is willing to boycott the internet and make its own, it really doesn't matter how we gained the power to create ICANN, it's ours to dispense with as our silly politicians want to.
And it doesn't really matter if it's Al Gore or George Bush - the end result is still going to be the same. Now, Nader, that might be different, but that's why we keep him off the airwaves and the ballots - he might actually do the right thing.
Please ignore the rude American post by Commander Taco. Our military people have a bad habit of offending people, and he seems to have forgotten that Sony is a Japanese company bent on world domination.
Please also give my thanks to Pinky for his wondrous insight which caused him to contribute his artistic talent to the tooth paste accident which resulted in this cutting edge design.
Also, enclosed please find my drawings for the new brain to put in George W. Bush - I'm afraid the last model we ordered, while it is very good at acting, sadly has major malfunctions in the computation department. Feel free to give it to Bill Gates for use in designing his next add-on product for the.Net initiative.
Of course, since I own shares in both the Evil Empitre (MSFT) and in Red Hat (RHAT), I'm kind of biased.
What I think people are saying is that they are perceiving a willingness by Red Hat to ship dot zero releases that are of similar quality to Microsoft dot zero releases.
And, while the Open Source model allows the bugs to be found faster, fixed faster, and patched faster, they're still bugs.
So, unless Red Hat starts donating to the GOP and George W Bush, I don't think they've turned that corner yet.
Seriously, if the Sewing Machine uses Game Boy tech, it would be super cool to plug in a Pokemon Yellow cartridge and get a sewing machine in Jigglypuff Hot Pink or Pikachu Electric Yellow pattern/color.
And just provide an LCD for the game, so kids could be rewarded for doing sewing. You know, do an hour of sewing, play Pokemon for an hour. Parental control device (key enabled) to activate same.
I should also point out that Transmeta chips are much more useful, due to repetitive activity of software, on a Webpad TMTA device. Basic features - browser, Net access, dockable screen, use HDTV to display monitor input. These could achieve lifespans of 6-8 hours easily by 2001, which is killer app vs. non-TMTA webpad.
Laptops, especially multimedia, have little use for TMTA chips, due to non-repetitive, high-CD usage, high-graphics color monitor usage.
Secondary market of kid devices with B/W screens for email/chat/ICQ/surf/dating possibilities - these are major growth industry. Also major security breach for all firms, as they can suck down data fast and are small and transportable.
Based on batteries coming out of B.C. right now, I'd say Transmeta can cut the power on a system with color video screens and CD to about 80-90% of current usage. If you beef up the RAM to the gills, probably 70-85% power usage.
Main drain is monitor power for most people - fastest method to cut this is better screen technology. Time to market of useable low-power high-res screen is probably 2002-2003 product cycle. This will still leave you at 50-60%.
Not a lot of hope on the CD power usage.
On the other hand, a non-CD Ethernet laptop, with honking big RAM and improved hard drive could probably cut power consumption down to 25-30% of current usage. This is with a total redesign. Expect to see these babies in late 2002. Price mark will be high until early 2004.
[Note - I am expecting to put in an indication of interest for TMTA IPO shares - I am biased]
But they did have to give back some of it. My estimate in what they ended up having to give back (and this was just the Affinity group), was in the millions of dollars. This originally would have gone to mutual funds and their own traders and allies.
To give you an example, I eventually got 100 shares, which turned into capital gains of $17,000. I then bought and sold it a few more times. I still have 250 shares (equal to 125 original) and probably made $25,000 all told on Red Hat stock. So, after all was said and done, I still own more than I would have owned, but also got a nice bonus.
As someone said, this is totally unfair. I agree.
All I did was put up $51,000 in an account - most of which I earned interest on and traded with. But IPOs are highly risky - right now one of the ones I got is worth $1 from an IPO cost of $13 for example. Most of mine have done very well (UPS, Coach, etc), but it's not a good idea to put most of your money in this area. And options are even more insane.
Every once in a while, something like this happens.
But look at the cost... something like $10,000 in legal fees were awarded, and the total claim is just over $15,000 (including interest).
Yup. The system is biased in favor of the large player. The main objective of most IPOs is to reward:
1. The brokerage firm that took the IPO public.
2. The best (most profitable) customers of the brokerage firm that took the IPO public. Most of these are VCs and large mutual funds.
3. Those friends and relations of the firm that is going public.
4. The directors of the above groups.
Then, usually, less than 1% is left to the rest of the people to scramble after.
The best method almost always of participating in an IPO is... don't. Instead wait for the 90 day lockup and 180 day lockups to expire and pick up shares in the down cycles.
I have made a lot of money on IPOs and I've lost some too. My advice still stands. Just like my advice to contact the SEC and NASD back when Red Hat IPOd. But I'm a determined cuss, as people in Seattle know - that's one of the reasons we're voting on a Monorail here this November.
At my last job (a stint as a network engineer at a _large_ healthcare/insurance corp), I was continuously evangelizing Linux. What did I hear? "Well, I'm sure it works fine, but who do we sue if it breaks?" This from a very not PHB, my direct report.
Don't confuse him with the facts. Geeks don't grok facts of the marketplace - we want truth. Marketing and Sales don't want truth, they want image. Hence, the label sells, and Red Hat == Linux.
As for wanting unquestioning followers: I trust the 275 million individuals in this country to make decisions on their own behalf. It is you who want to subrogate their collective wisdom for your superior intellect. When you want a real education you will have to stop watching "Talk Back Live" and crack the spine of a book. Let me know when you are ready - I can provide you with a reading list.
What's Talk Back Live? Is that that CNN show?
Forgive me for boiling down economics theory and calling an externality an input. I meant it in a programming sense - this is News For Geeks, not News For Economists.
And again, an economic law is based upon a flawed system - always has been, always will be. That doesn't mean it's not a good model, it's just got inherent instabilities due to the flaws in design.
And, last time I checked, we broke 300 million in the US.
Well, as a shareholder in MSFT, of course they do. Heck, they're trying to defeat a shareholder proposal to require them to itemize all their campaign contributions. If that happened, you'd realize how they bought off all the politicians and why they want to drag it on as long as possible, so that they can get their congressmen to kill actions against them.
The law is only for the poor and the middle class. Didn't you learn anything from OJ's trial?
Once again, Red Hat is successfully creating brand recognition - it's not Linux that IBM is selling, it's Red Hat Linux.
But that's what sells Big Iron to PHBs. Brands. You need to wake up and smell the Enterprise Java Beans. If you want a PHB to buy it, they need a face, a brand, someone they can sue the pants off to get support.
And that's where Red Hat is. They are the brand that the non-geek world thinks is Linux.
Which is why some of us own stock in them - it's not that they're better, it's not that they're faster, it's that they will survive the marketplace.
Of course, but since the RIAA and MPAA are all US-based, it will be far too late before they clue in. Mexican courts take years to resolve these things and you just need to have another shell company buy the hardware before the federales knock down the doors and foreclose.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, as almost any European knows by now, it's pretty darn simple. If the US wants to establish ICANN and make it conform to its rules, that's the way it is.
Legality be darned - why do you think we have warships in Bahrain to be attacked? One of those babies is about one-tenth the size of the Canadian fleet, or one-twentieth the Denmark Navy. And we calve those in such large numbers we don't really know exactly where they all are.
So, in the end, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Unless the entire world is willing to boycott the internet and make its own, it really doesn't matter how we gained the power to create ICANN, it's ours to dispense with as our silly politicians want to.
And it doesn't really matter if it's Al Gore or George Bush - the end result is still going to be the same. Now, Nader, that might be different, but that's why we keep him off the airwaves and the ballots - he might actually do the right thing.
Dear Hello Kitty Institute of Industrial Design,
.Net initiative.
Please ignore the rude American post by Commander Taco. Our military people have a bad habit of offending people, and he seems to have forgotten that Sony is a Japanese company bent on world domination.
Please also give my thanks to Pinky for his wondrous insight which caused him to contribute his artistic talent to the tooth paste accident which resulted in this cutting edge design.
Also, enclosed please find my drawings for the new brain to put in George W. Bush - I'm afraid the last model we ordered, while it is very good at acting, sadly has major malfunctions in the computation department. Feel free to give it to Bill Gates for use in designing his next add-on product for the
Guess you're just turning old.
Next thing you know you'll be complaining about the music those young people like to listen to.
Not as cool as the fingerphone, but the new VAIO is up there. I wouldn't buy one, but it's as good a design as the prior one.
Maybe a Paul Allen.
Of course, since I own shares in both the Evil Empitre (MSFT) and in Red Hat (RHAT), I'm kind of biased.
What I think people are saying is that they are perceiving a willingness by Red Hat to ship dot zero releases that are of similar quality to Microsoft dot zero releases.
And, while the Open Source model allows the bugs to be found faster, fixed faster, and patched faster, they're still bugs.
So, unless Red Hat starts donating to the GOP and George W Bush, I don't think they've turned that corner yet.
Man.. that sure sounds like slave labour.
Hey, we could resell them to Martha Stewart of Cathie Lee! Think, kids all over the world will be cranking out clothing with technological rewards.
Probably the only way most third world kids will ever be able to play one, for that matter, since they cost half a year's salary in some countries.
now we know: Crusoe is a children's toy!
...
I think you mean, Crusoe is child's play
Soon we'll see Game Boy interfaces to sheet metal cutters, lathes, drop forges and welding robots.
Yes! OK, get cranking on making a Robot Wars welding robot with a Pokemon cartridge!
Red Robot for Fire (Welder)
Yellow Robot for Electricity (Arc Welder)
Blue Robot for Water (Water Cutter)
Let the Games Begin! plus you can play Pokemon when your robot is waiting for its turn.
[caveat - I own NTDOY Nintendo stock]
Seriously, if the Sewing Machine uses Game Boy tech, it would be super cool to plug in a Pokemon Yellow cartridge and get a sewing machine in Jigglypuff Hot Pink or Pikachu Electric Yellow pattern/color.
And just provide an LCD for the game, so kids could be rewarded for doing sewing. You know, do an hour of sewing, play Pokemon for an hour. Parental control device (key enabled) to activate same.
I sew you, Pikachu!
[caveat - I own shares of Nintendo NTDOY]
I should also point out that Transmeta chips are much more useful, due to repetitive activity of software, on a Webpad TMTA device. Basic features - browser, Net access, dockable screen, use HDTV to display monitor input. These could achieve lifespans of 6-8 hours easily by 2001, which is killer app vs. non-TMTA webpad.
Laptops, especially multimedia, have little use for TMTA chips, due to non-repetitive, high-CD usage, high-graphics color monitor usage.
Secondary market of kid devices with B/W screens for email/chat/ICQ/surf/dating possibilities - these are major growth industry. Also major security breach for all firms, as they can suck down data fast and are small and transportable.
[still biased, still investing in TMTA]
OK, we're dealing with laptops and webpads.
Based on batteries coming out of B.C. right now, I'd say Transmeta can cut the power on a system with color video screens and CD to about 80-90% of current usage. If you beef up the RAM to the gills, probably 70-85% power usage.
Main drain is monitor power for most people - fastest method to cut this is better screen technology. Time to market of useable low-power high-res screen is probably 2002-2003 product cycle. This will still leave you at 50-60%.
Not a lot of hope on the CD power usage.
On the other hand, a non-CD Ethernet laptop, with honking big RAM and improved hard drive could probably cut power consumption down to 25-30% of current usage. This is with a total redesign. Expect to see these babies in late 2002. Price mark will be high until early 2004.
[Note - I am expecting to put in an indication of interest for TMTA IPO shares - I am biased]
Didn't the proxy say that it's already publically itemizied
Oh, c'mon, do you really believe everything you read in the proxy? Boards never want you to vote for shareholder proposals.
But they did have to give back some of it. My estimate in what they ended up having to give back (and this was just the Affinity group), was in the millions of dollars. This originally would have gone to mutual funds and their own traders and allies.
To give you an example, I eventually got 100 shares, which turned into capital gains of $17,000. I then bought and sold it a few more times. I still have 250 shares (equal to 125 original) and probably made $25,000 all told on Red Hat stock. So, after all was said and done, I still own more than I would have owned, but also got a nice bonus.
As someone said, this is totally unfair. I agree.
All I did was put up $51,000 in an account - most of which I earned interest on and traded with. But IPOs are highly risky - right now one of the ones I got is worth $1 from an IPO cost of $13 for example. Most of mine have done very well (UPS, Coach, etc), but it's not a good idea to put most of your money in this area. And options are even more insane.
Every once in a while, something like this happens.
... don't. Instead wait for the 90 day lockup and 180 day lockups to expire and pick up shares in the down cycles.
But look at the cost... something like $10,000 in legal fees were awarded, and the total claim is just over $15,000 (including interest).
Yup. The system is biased in favor of the large player. The main objective of most IPOs is to reward:
1. The brokerage firm that took the IPO public.
2. The best (most profitable) customers of the brokerage firm that took the IPO public. Most of these are VCs and large mutual funds.
3. Those friends and relations of the firm that is going public.
4. The directors of the above groups.
Then, usually, less than 1% is left to the rest of the people to scramble after.
The best method almost always of participating in an IPO is
I have made a lot of money on IPOs and I've lost some too. My advice still stands. Just like my advice to contact the SEC and NASD back when Red Hat IPOd. But I'm a determined cuss, as people in Seattle know - that's one of the reasons we're voting on a Monorail here this November.
Incidently, the richest people on this planet are the ones that save a penny here and there.
You dont (usually) make money by spending irresponsibly
Yup. Buy in bulk, save lots (more than 10% of your income), get rid of debt, invest in yourself.
These are the things that make millionaires.
If you're not maxing out your retirement accounts in your 20s, you won't be a multi-millionaire by the time you retire, in most cases.
Basically, it depends.
If you're doing it for some PHBs, wait a bit and find out which version is selling the most. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be popular.
If you're doing it for yourself or in a non-PHB environment, try them both and see which one holds up the best under loads above your peak usage.
So, I guess now the Gold Standard is:
...
We will ship no distro before it's tested - oh, wait, gotta crank it out before the quarterlies on the street are updated.
Never mind
Red Hat 7.0 - $29.95
CD/RW burner - $229.50
10 pack of CDs - $49.95
Look on luser's face when the server drops - Priceless
Well, actually, in Red Hat speak, /sinb is the directory where you store your pr0n - sin plus binary or sinb.
Some people like to keep their compressed Sinbad MP3 files there too, but I find that corrupts your file structure most of the time.
Woke up this morning
Crawled out of bed
Couldn't wait to get that Red Hat distro you said
Told you to worry
Told you to wait
But no you want to mirror it from outside the state
Refrain
I got the blues
Got them old dot zero blues
Cause I done installed that distro
And it blew up on my shoes
Wish I had DSL
Wish I had fat pipes
But on a 56K modem
The download's such a fright
It's all installed now
Servers up and cool
But I come back three weeks later
And look just like a fool
Refrain
Got burned by Compaq
Got burned by Dell
Got burned by Microsoft
Now I'm in Red Hat dot zero hell
Refrain
Now don't you worry
This one's ok
It won't drop under loads now
Cause if it does we'll make you pay!
Refrain
At my last job (a stint as a network engineer at a _large_ healthcare/insurance corp), I was continuously evangelizing Linux. What did I hear? "Well, I'm sure it works fine, but who do we sue if it breaks?" This from a very not PHB, my direct report.
Don't confuse him with the facts. Geeks don't grok facts of the marketplace - we want truth. Marketing and Sales don't want truth, they want image. Hence, the label sells, and Red Hat == Linux.
As for wanting unquestioning followers: I trust the 275 million individuals in this country to make decisions on their own behalf. It is you who want to subrogate their collective wisdom for your superior intellect. When you want a real education you will have to stop watching "Talk Back Live" and crack the spine of a book. Let me know when you are ready - I can provide you with a reading list.
What's Talk Back Live? Is that that CNN show?
Forgive me for boiling down economics theory and calling an externality an input. I meant it in a programming sense - this is News For Geeks, not News For Economists.
And again, an economic law is based upon a flawed system - always has been, always will be. That doesn't mean it's not a good model, it's just got inherent instabilities due to the flaws in design.
And, last time I checked, we broke 300 million in the US.
Ms believes that it is above the law.
Well, as a shareholder in MSFT, of course they do. Heck, they're trying to defeat a shareholder proposal to require them to itemize all their campaign contributions. If that happened, you'd realize how they bought off all the politicians and why they want to drag it on as long as possible, so that they can get their congressmen to kill actions against them.
The law is only for the poor and the middle class. Didn't you learn anything from OJ's trial?
Once again, Red Hat is successfully creating brand recognition - it's not Linux that IBM is selling, it's Red Hat Linux.
But that's what sells Big Iron to PHBs. Brands. You need to wake up and smell the Enterprise Java Beans. If you want a PHB to buy it, they need a face, a brand, someone they can sue the pants off to get support.
And that's where Red Hat is. They are the brand that the non-geek world thinks is Linux.
Which is why some of us own stock in them - it's not that they're better, it's not that they're faster, it's that they will survive the marketplace.
Last week, IBM said it will overhaul its entire line of servers and mainframes under the brand name eServer
Note the key phrase last week. I have no idea why, but a number of us submitted the news item last week on slashdot and it got rejected.
Guess it's not news until it's stale: right?
Oh, news flash, Al Gore will debate George Whats-My-Sign Bush last week.
And in further news, Slobodan Milosevic is certain that he can stay in power. Oh, wait, he's been overthrown already.
Never mind.
Of course, but since the RIAA and MPAA are all US-based, it will be far too late before they clue in. Mexican courts take years to resolve these things and you just need to have another shell company buy the hardware before the federales knock down the doors and foreclose.
...
I'm listening to a mexican radio, oh wo oh wo