As a person with serious Dyslexia issues, a particular spelling being used in the article title on slashdot doesn't in any way indicate that it's a correct spelling.
That's why utility companies and service providers of all kinds have a whole department to chase down payments from large enterprises. I.e. It makes sense for the company I work for to have a guy send out a couple of warning letters by snail mail and E-Mail and to call a few managers to have a $50,000 invoice settled.
However when the amount involved is as small as a domain registration fee you just send the email notice and then you cut them off.
The 3 most important Star Trek technologies are still unavailable. Sure there are people working on these things but they are not yet workable. Except for the Translator which has a barely working prototype available now.
BTW: Artificial gravity should be invented 1st since it appears to be by far the most reliable of all the technologies as It never once failed in all the episodes of TOS, TNG, DS9 or Voyager.
AG even survived, life support shutdown.:)
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True. Nerds are actualy respected by there none neard peer grupe.
I.e. I sometimes get asked for advise on things way outside my skilset, like medicine, personal relationships or cars. People naturaly asume that if you can resolve an IRQ conflict you can setle a lovers quarel too:)
By this logic if Neerds endorse Google it is sean as great.
For those of us who consistently work 12-20 Hour days (including most weekends) it IS a perk. Especially if it's on the other end of the island so you have to be put in a hotel and your basic needs are covered (free food).
Even if you stay at an all inclusive it doesn't cost that much extra to take your girlfriend along.
Trade shows are in fact a substitute for vacation time if chosen carefully.
Note that no mention is made of new products or educational speeches. Relax and have fun if that means listening to Linus and ESR hurry through a Panel Discussion so they can get to Duns River Falls, cool. If it means going uh-ah-whoa over the same junk they showed last year. Irie. If it means grabbing free stuff from every booth in sight. Enjoy.
For me they are a "Perk". Even on the occasions where my company is presenting and I have to help set up the booth.
The numbers you give look very healthy. I.e. With 64.7% owned by the Employees, 3.4% Owned by Former Employees and 5.2% owned by the TrolTech Foundation
Only 26.6% belongs to people I can't already vouch for. How shareholdings work is that Those minor stockholders are not generally able to overrule anything the major shareholders decide. In other words, Troll could sell another 5% to MS and still not change direction.
PS: Remember SCO was Caldera. That's when the sale was made. Should Troll now buy back the shares and give them cash to persecute us with? Or should they reinvest everything (No dividends) so SCO must find it's war chest else ware?
Too bad he brought up the OJ case. That case was a perfect example of media gone bad.
At the time I was basically on sabbatical or "between schools". I spent all day watching the trial and the spent the nights watching the various pundits; Jeraldo Riviera changed his format to "The OJ Show" during the trial.
What was the difference? Watching the raw unedited trial coverage I got a "Juror's Eye View" and quite frankly, I was ready to acquit before the defense started presenting it's case. They established pretty early on that OJ was framed and under American law, if you are found to be framing a guilty man he goes free.
Slow and expensive yes, but not stupid enough to give SCO a victory in this suite. So don't worry too much about the press release war. What matters is what is brought to court. IBM Could have settled the case or bought SCO before anything went public. They have no incentive to fight a lousing battle. SCO on the other hand will win even if it looses. The stock went up and managers sold. End of story.
At the very top of the "article". I.e. Above the Headline it says
"Press Release Source: The SCO Group, Inc".
Yahoo.com makes it a point to publish unedited, any press release sent to it by "qualified entities". Companies listed on the US Stock exchange automatically qualify.
Latter on they may or may publish an article on the subject that dose nothing more than rephrase the press release. At that point you can fairly criticize them. Not now and not on this.
PS: Real Journalists (I.e. Groklaw) Will in all likelihood dig into this story to find out where the relationships run, who owns who and perhaps even what was paid and in what direction the payments went. Hell they might even seek to find out what the makeup of this companies infrastructure is.
George Bush is worse than the rest. Mostly because he is profoundly incompetent and everyone around him knows this and takes advantage of his stupidity.
IAAEITA (I Am An Expert In This Area) -- Credentials available on request.
Modern desktop systems have so few physical components that you can solve problems by swapping out parts in less time than any diagnostic software will take.
With experience you can pick up the more obvious hardware problems without doing that.
On Servers with lots of complex subsystems the diagnostic software is shipped with the system or available for download. I.e. On a Dell PowerEdge 2650 You need to run the 32 bit diags to discover which fan is misbehaving if one is performing below spec.
PS: Don't buy complex server hardware without accompanying diagnostics, online and phone support accompanied by a solid and reliable warranty.
I can just see all those sufering martian citezens crying about the UFOs overhead while the neighbors who mised the "baloon" ofer to have them commited.
I always bid on and sometimes buy misspelt items. With fewer people noticing it, I can usually get a better deal.
I see the same situation shopping downtown. The stalls at the front, near the car parks or the bus stops have much higher prices than the back road stalls. When I have to walk by 30 people selling Nikes you have to give me a better deal to make it worth the trip:)
Since I am Dyslectic, I often stumble across these auctions by making the same mistake in searching that the vendor made in posting:)
We don't get snow (Tropical Island == No snow, ever).
All our cable providers are located close to the clients (Within a few miles). That means that Heavy rain which affects satellite will affect the cable in the same way. More importantly there is the additional wire vulnerability.
If you are a major achiver within the comonwelt then a Nighthood is expected. I.e. Several Criketers have been Nighted including the curent chairman of the west indies criket board. Sir Vivian Richards.
For a none comonwelth citezen it takes a much larger acivment so only the people who dominate a field are considerd. I.e. Micheal Jordan and Tiger Woods.
While I am not a fan of Windows (Except that it's failures provide me with profit:) I do believe that this is a well deserved award.
The criteria for a Knighthood are well established. I.e. You must excel for an extended period at something that the Quean find important. That's all. Note that "Quean" refers not just to 'liz, but also the battalion of "advisors" that command her.
Bill Gates has led one of the planets most profitable companies for over a decade. He deserves a Knighthood.
Other future Knights to consider (Assuming the Monarchy lasts long enough); "Lord Linus" For contributions to science. "Sir Tiger" For contribution to sport. "Lady Margaret" for contribution to politics.
So yes. Gates deserves his Knighthood. Congratulate him and move on. Antitrust aside, MS is not built on crime and in modern times that is about the only thing that would make him not be Knighted. For the record in olden days, outright criminals would be considered. I.e. "Sir Henry Morgan" (Pirate captain" was not just knighted but also put in charge of a whole colony (Jamaica)
Are they puting back the Kernel source? It wasn't on the ISOs I downloaded for 9.2
I had to go back for that RPM when I needed to use it (and thus discoverd it's absence).
Sure the 3 ISOs were a virtualy maximum size anyway but you can prioritise. I.e. Mandrak's target audience (Desktop users) are more likely to need the Kernel Source (WinModem setup forinstance) than Emacs.
PS: Good of them to put the end user text editors in the instalation. Joe, and Jed come to mind.
It's not so much that there was anything wrong with the environment perse. It was a corner of a backroom in a bank.
The problem is that the server was crammed in there such that in order to work in it I had to dangle upside down from a metal rod. I did all work on that ancient wreck of a server for 2 years (5 visits in all) because at 6'2" and 26 Years old I was the only engineer who could reach it without moving a couple tons of filing cabinets and furniture.
Dell has the option of buying "Compleat Care" waranty. This costs a little more than the regular 3 year waranty but it explicitly covers you for everything but fire and watter.
What this means is the kind of damage that dosn't typicaly destroy the entire system has waranty protection.
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This means 4 distinkt lawsuites against the same company (IBM), Each one filed after the 1st was shown to be completly baseless.
:)
This last one hasn't a ghost of a chance but SCO can always fantasize.
BTW: I partied with Cinderela and I dated Blessed for I while.
Almost forgot about Frigga. Nice girl, I spent a whole day teling her what her name means.
Why not just popular historical and fictional characters or religus concepts.
St. Aubin
I.e. I have met the folowing people.
Mona Lisa
Cleopatra
Cinderela
Faith
Hope
Blessed
Slashdot logic.
:)
Testing mathematical theories by means of slightly twisted democracy.
Kieran O'Shaugnessy
Am I the only one seeing this as a character for the next Austin Powers movie?
PS: RTFA. It's there.
As a person with serious Dyslexia issues, a particular spelling being used in the article title on slashdot doesn't in any way indicate that it's a correct spelling.
I.e. You can do just as well by guessing.
In short. Yes.
That's why utility companies and service providers of all kinds have a whole department to chase down payments from large enterprises. I.e. It makes sense for the company I work for to have a guy send out a couple of warning letters by snail mail and E-Mail and to call a few managers to have a $50,000 invoice settled.
However when the amount involved is as small as a domain registration fee you just send the email notice and then you cut them off.
Transporter, Warp Drive & Universal Translator.
:)
The 3 most important Star Trek technologies are still unavailable. Sure there are people working on these things but they are not yet workable. Except for the Translator which has a barely working prototype available now.
BTW: Artificial gravity should be invented 1st since it appears to be by far the most reliable of all the technologies as It never once failed in all the episodes of TOS, TNG, DS9 or Voyager.
AG even survived, life support shutdown.
True. Nerds are actualy respected by there none neard peer grupe.
:)
I.e. I sometimes get asked for advise on things way outside my skilset, like medicine, personal relationships or cars. People naturaly asume that if you can resolve an IRQ conflict you can setle a lovers quarel too
By this logic if Neerds endorse Google it is sean as great.
For those of us who consistently work 12-20 Hour days (including most weekends) it IS a perk. Especially if it's on the other end of the island so you have to be put in a hotel and your basic needs are covered (free food).
Even if you stay at an all inclusive it doesn't cost that much extra to take your girlfriend along.
Trade shows are in fact a substitute for vacation time if chosen carefully.
Note that no mention is made of new products or educational speeches. Relax and have fun if that means listening to Linus and ESR hurry through a Panel Discussion so they can get to Duns River Falls, cool. If it means going uh-ah-whoa over the same junk they showed last year. Irie. If it means grabbing free stuff from every booth in sight. Enjoy.
For me they are a "Perk". Even on the occasions where my company is presenting and I have to help set up the booth.
The numbers you give look very healthy.
I.e. With 64.7% owned by the Employees, 3.4% Owned by Former Employees and 5.2% owned by the TrolTech Foundation
Only 26.6% belongs to people I can't already vouch for. How shareholdings work is that Those minor stockholders are not generally able to overrule anything the major shareholders decide. In other words, Troll could sell another 5% to MS and still not change direction.
PS: Remember SCO was Caldera. That's when the sale was made. Should Troll now buy back the shares and give them cash to persecute us with? Or should they reinvest everything (No dividends) so SCO must find it's war chest else ware?
Too bad he brought up the OJ case. That case was a perfect example of media gone bad.
At the time I was basically on sabbatical or "between schools". I spent all day watching the trial and the spent the nights watching the various pundits; Jeraldo Riviera changed his format to "The OJ Show" during the trial.
What was the difference? Watching the raw unedited trial coverage I got a "Juror's Eye View" and quite frankly, I was ready to acquit before the defense started presenting it's case. They established pretty early on that OJ was framed and under American law, if you are found to be framing a guilty man he goes free.
Slow and expensive yes, but not stupid enough to give SCO a victory in this suite. So don't worry too much about the press release war. What matters is what is brought to court. IBM Could have settled the case or bought SCO before anything went public. They have no incentive to fight a lousing battle. SCO on the other hand will win even if it looses. The stock went up and managers sold. End of story.
You are being unfair to Yahoo.
At the very top of the "article". I.e. Above the Headline it says
"Press Release Source: The SCO Group, Inc".
Yahoo.com makes it a point to publish unedited, any press release sent to it by "qualified entities". Companies listed on the US Stock exchange automatically qualify.
Latter on they may or may publish an article on the subject that dose nothing more than rephrase the press release. At that point you can fairly criticize them. Not now and not on this.
PS: Real Journalists (I.e. Groklaw) Will in all likelihood dig into this story to find out where the relationships run, who owns who and perhaps even what was paid and in what direction the payments went. Hell they might even seek to find out what the makeup of this companies infrastructure is.
George Bush is worse than the rest.
Mostly because he is profoundly incompetent and everyone around him knows this and takes advantage of his stupidity.
IAAEITA (I Am An Expert In This Area) -- Credentials available on request.
Modern desktop systems have so few physical components that you can solve problems by
swapping out parts in less time than any diagnostic software will take.
With experience you can pick up the more obvious hardware problems without doing that.
On Servers with lots of complex subsystems the diagnostic software is shipped with the system
or available for download. I.e. On a Dell PowerEdge 2650 You need to run the 32 bit diags to
discover which fan is misbehaving if one is performing below spec.
PS: Don't buy complex server hardware without accompanying diagnostics, online and phone
support accompanied by a solid and reliable warranty.
I can just see all those sufering martian citezens crying about the UFOs overhead while the neighbors who mised the "baloon" ofer to have them commited.
It may be hard to belive but there are sweters with wide necks. Some can actual be removed by a downward tog.
I always bid on and sometimes buy misspelt items. With fewer people noticing it, I can usually get a better deal.
:)
:)
I see the same situation shopping downtown. The stalls at the front, near the car parks or the bus stops have much higher prices than the back road stalls. When I have to walk by 30 people selling Nikes you have to give me a better deal to make it worth the trip
Since I am Dyslectic, I often stumble across these auctions by making the same mistake in searching that the vendor made in posting
We don't get snow (Tropical Island == No snow, ever).
All our cable providers are located close to the clients (Within a few miles). That means that Heavy rain which affects satellite will affect the cable in the same way. More importantly there is the additional wire vulnerability.
If you are a major achiver within the comonwelt then a Nighthood is expected. I.e. Several Criketers have been Nighted including the curent chairman of the west indies criket board. Sir Vivian Richards.
For a none comonwelth citezen it takes a much larger acivment so only the people who dominate a field are considerd. I.e. Micheal Jordan and Tiger Woods.
Yes.
Remember Britain was capitalis before the USA existed.
While I am not a fan of Windows (Except that it's failures provide me with profit :) I do believe that this is a well deserved award.
The criteria for a Knighthood are well established. I.e. You must excel for an extended period at something that the Quean find important. That's all. Note that "Quean" refers not just to 'liz, but also the battalion of "advisors" that command her.
Bill Gates has led one of the planets most profitable companies for over a decade. He deserves a Knighthood.
Other future Knights to consider (Assuming the Monarchy lasts long enough); "Lord Linus" For contributions to science. "Sir Tiger" For contribution to sport. "Lady Margaret" for contribution to politics.
So yes. Gates deserves his Knighthood. Congratulate him and move on. Antitrust aside, MS is not built on crime and in modern times that is about the only thing that would make him not be Knighted. For the record in olden days, outright criminals would be considered. I.e. "Sir Henry Morgan" (Pirate captain" was not just knighted but also put in charge of a whole colony (Jamaica)
Are they puting back the Kernel source? It wasn't on the ISOs I downloaded for 9.2
I had to go back for that RPM when I needed to use it (and thus discoverd it's absence).
Sure the 3 ISOs were a virtualy maximum size anyway but you can prioritise. I.e. Mandrak's target audience (Desktop users) are more likely to need the Kernel Source (WinModem setup forinstance) than Emacs.
PS: Good of them to put the end user text editors in the instalation. Joe, and Jed come to mind.
It's not so much that there was anything wrong with the environment perse. It was a corner of a backroom in a bank.
The problem is that the server was crammed in there such that in order to work in it I had to dangle upside down from a metal rod. I did all work on that ancient wreck of a server for 2 years (5 visits in all) because at 6'2" and 26 Years old I was the only engineer who could reach it without moving a couple tons of filing cabinets and furniture.
Dell has the option of buying "Compleat Care" waranty. This costs a little more than the regular 3 year waranty but it explicitly covers you for everything but fire and watter.
What this means is the kind of damage that dosn't typicaly destroy the entire system has waranty protection.