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"Whenever discussing do-it-yourself reporting as exemplified by Slashdot, traditional newshounds inevitably return to the issue of integrity and reliability. They say that consumers must rely on trained, professional journalists to ensure a report is unbiased and free of agendas."
This sort of crap gets under my skin. Slashdot is great because instead of wasting time going from site to site I can get a quick list of things that might interest me and read the ones I want. What does integrity or reliability have to do with it? It's a place for people with a common interest to post opinions and get links. Why twist it into something else...
OTOH I question the integrity of some of the so-called tech sites (Uh..can you say Jessie Burst)...many of them are full of pure crass sensationalism... they are driven by getting my click, not by integrity. Unfortunatly many "trained proffesional journalists" are shills.
Why does wired remind me of MTV.. lots of flashy colors, and stuff seems to be happening, but it's all so vapid in the end.
"But as the technology matures, playing fast and loose isn't acceptable anymore. This is characteristic of the maturing process for a product like Windows. People will put up with more from the bleeding edge."
UH...I'm not sure that anything MS has ever done could be considered "bleeding edge". I mean, they were trying to build a Unix type OS with all of the windows look and feel... I would hardly call that bleeding edge. phlah.... Now with all the resources that any company could ask for they still aren't doing anything bleedign edge... phlah. Bunch of friggin sheep.
What a friggin load. Ya know..I would at least have a little respect for them if they didn't assualt my intelligence at every waking moment.
Maybe I've had too much coffee this morning but I can't for the life of me understand why people keep trying to push this whole thin client thing down our throats. Sheesh...I think TC's are great for some industries but for the majority it will never be popular. So I'm glad they pulled the plug. Blah
Why is it that companies like Sun can come up with these great ideas ( Java ) and then try to plug it into all of these areas where it doesn't fit. Why not let Java evolve a little first, then try to shove it down our throats:) I get so annoyed at all of the people who jump on the bandwagon everytime something new hits the streets...technology often times needs to mature before we can see the best fit for it. It's sad today that we are so driven by what's best for the stockholders and not what's best for technology.
Imagine how badly tcp/ip would have been screwed up if it were developed by a company whose goal was to beat another company to the punch. Luckily when they developed tcp/ip the goal was to get it right. Look at how long it took ARPANET to evolve into what it is today...I'm sort of on a tangent here but some of these ideas just seem so bad that I have to wonder what drives these them.
Now...I've got to get back to writing my real-time nuclear reactor web based monitoring system (Written in Java of course).
I'm not sure why you would think this sucks. I think StarOffice has good potential, but you really need to sink some recources into it to take away some of the rough edges. It takes a big company with some big $$ to do that. Sun can do that. If they can shave some of the bloat, speed it up a bit and put a little shine on it then SO could be the next killer app for *nix.
The interesting thing to me is that Sun has never really aggresivley gone after the desktop market and this product is directly aimed for the desktop. Not to many high end e-commerce servers need to do word processing. So...is Sun doing this just to go after the boys in Redmond....or does Sun have plans to push Solaris on the desktop (something they really have never done, even when they gave away Solaris 7 ) or just what does Sun hope to accomplish?
I think Sun has enough sense not to kill the Linux version. The bad press from that would be nasty!
That really stood out for me also, I've got to believe that's not the norm. Gosh, I'm having a flashback to the early 80's when I was a suffering college student doing everything in Pascal. One of these day's I'm gonna load up a Pascal compiler and play around with that again..or I might even join the 20th century and look at OP.
But anyways...yeah..the results are very slanted. Kinda like taking a survey in a Pizza joint about your favorite Italian foods...Still..I like Borland and I whatever they port to Linux I will buy.
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yeah...but do you have to reboot everytime you make a change:)
I think in the long run one of the benefits of Linux is going to be that the user will have a CHOICE of what desktop / WM to use. I've played with KDE and Gnome and I enjoyed both of them for different reasons. I have been using KDE for the past couple months just because I grew tired of cleaning up core dumps every day with Gnome, but I plan on trying it again with the next release.
When the level of the "average" computer user grows they will want more than what "The Man" tells them is good, they will want to make that decision for themselves. Long kive Freedom of Choice !!!!!
I'm not sure that the delay of w2k has anything to do with the increased number of Linux users. I have to believe that with the media circus Linux seems to be mired in we would be seeing that number grow regardless. OTOH I think that Linux might cause some people from making the jump to w2k because they have had a chance to see how well Linux works and they have to love the $$$ they are gonna save.
I think MS would be hard pressed to ship that monster this year anyways, with beta... er uh..I mean release cadidate number 2 coming out they will have to test it pretty well and you can be confident that changes will have to be made. They would be insane to rush it any more than they aleady are.
I'll bet my right foot that they area still introducing new "features" into the latest beta..er uh..I mean RC. There is no way that's gonna be bug free.
While it's true that some Linux zealots do tend to be over the top at times, there are MS zealots who do the same thing. Perhaps becasue slashdot tends to cater towards the Linux crowd it's more noticable here.
My favorite MS zealot mantra is to blame everything on the hardware or an unfit sysadmin whenever someone reports an unstable NT server. It;s just not conceavable to the MS zealots that not everybody has "good" experiences with NT.
I use NT at work and while I've only had to give it a hard reset 3-4 times over the past year there are many times when it just chokes so badly that I'm forced to close everything down and reboot it. It's such a resource hog, it just feels like a lumbering giant plodding through the day.
But hey..I'm sure it's because I run on cheap hardware and our sysadmin is a bufoon:)
Where did you get 3.3.4 ? I might be stupid but I have had a hard time finding it. The XFree ftp directories for it were empty...coming soon or something like that... I need support for my piece o crap S3 3DTRIO card...
Jesse Berst is the biggest load on the Internet. I'm not sure why Slashdot would even link his crap. Sheesh...I could do what this guy does.
"Read why you cannot live without WIN2000" "Read why Linux is for real" "Everything you need to survive Y2K" "Blah Blah Blah"...
This guy doesn't know anything and never has any new or pertinent information. He offers very little in the way of facts...just hype hype hype. Sheesh. I honostly hope nobody takes anything this guy writes seriously. Don't waste your click on this moron.
"COME TO MY SITE TO LEARN WHY YOU MUST SWITCH TO A MAC TODAY"
"I"VE GOT THE TEN BEST KEPT SECRETS ABOUT SOFTWARE YOU MUST HAVE"
"I'M SUCH A LOAD OF NOTHINGNESS THAT I HAVE TO WRITE ARTICLES THAT HAVE ZERO CONTENT"
Sheesh...why don't you do a little research and find out soem FACTS before you continue to spew your "He served X years in jail while blah blah blah"...he PLEADED GUILTY to cel-phone fraud and was sentenced to 3 years for that...
Yeah...but I'll bet the Feds forced him to confess to that..yeah..I'll bet they beat him with a rubber hose untill the poor poor victim admitted to crimes that he didn't commit... sheesh... In fact...I'll bet the police set him up the other 2-3 times he was arrested for various cracking/hacking/social engineering crimes. Poor Poor Kevin...everybody was picking on him..they deprived him of his rights..sheesh..get a clue for Christs sake
If any of you script kiddies wanna play with this stuff then expect to be punished if you get caught.
You bring up a good point. It takes time for an OS to mature. It takes time to ferret out all of the bugs and to find all of the design flaws. Unfortunatly the bar has been lowered and the general public has grown to accept an OS that pretty much works, instead of demanding a product that is rock solid. So why should MS care about really getting it right when own the market with %80 right? I have no doubt that MS could get it right if they wanted to. Unfortunatly they are driven by revenue and not by quality so the need to pump out new products overides the need for quality.
I always wondered why MS built NT with any backwards compatability. This was there chance to do it the right way and they started out behind the eight ball from the start.
MS can't even get the bug fixes right. At me company we are afraid to install the latest SP for NT becasue everytime we install one it fixes a few bugs but breaks some things that were working just fine. Why would you want to introduce new *features* in a bug fix. Why do they have to make things that should be simple such a pain in the ass.
I'm not sure that even if they loose the case against the DOJ that it will make any difference. I really have a hard time believing that the judicial system knows what to do.
Kevin was a REPEAT OFFENDER, the reason he was dealt with in a harsh manner was not because of hacking/cracking or whatever, it was because he refused to learn from his past mistakes.
If I break into your house and don't take anything, I just look around then leave, that's fairly harmless yet still against the law. If I do that several times, get arrested, spend time in jail, get out, and do it again then it's not so harmless.
Mitnik wasn't *just* being held in prison waiting for a trial, it's my understanding that Mitnik served somthing like 3 of those years for cel-phone fraud while he was on the run in the Carolinas, or something like that. He plead guilty to those charges, by the way.
If you check the history of Mitnik maybe you will get an understanding of why the judicial system has been playing hardball with him. He has a rather lengthy arrest record(hacking/cracking related), yet he continued to partake in activities that he knew the feds frowned upon. Mitnik has nobody to blame but himself.
Regardless of whether or not he harmed anyone, or caused Sun, Motorola, etc. millions of dollars in damages, he knew when he was doing something wrong and he knew what would happen if he got caught. The choice was his. So why do so many people stll see him as a victim?
I say the more the merrier ! Even if MOT isn't really interested in Linux and they just want to hedge their bets, this is good. Everytime a large company jumps on the bandwagon it gives Linux a little more legitimacy.
There are still a lot of suits who chuckle when the hear the word Linux, I know because I work with some of them. When a large co. comes out of the closet and proclaims their love for the penguin it continues to chip away at these guys. Gee, who knows..maybe we could see Linux running on a PCS phone sometime...hmmmm Linux on a StarTac...:)
Even if MCG is running on IIS, at least Motorola is running Apache on Solaris.
I want to know what he did that was positive for the computing community? I'm not flaming you...I really want to know. Who is to say that if the MS empire didn't exist that things wouldn't have evolved into something much better? Who's to say that the oppressive nature of MS hasn't actually harmed the computing world...
If you want to know why we have PC's in so many houses I would say that the invention of html and browsers (heck tcp/ip too) has everything to do with it and MS Windows very little.
Why does he get so much credit for "what he has done for technology"... the way I see it the man hired some F-ing brilliant marketing people, that is is claim to fame.
Isn't this pretty much the same as IPv6 having the ability to set priority levels for certain packets ? As I understand it your ISP will be able to give a higher priority to packets that originiate from certain locations...ie. customers who are paying a little extra to get better performance. Meanwhile the average schmoe gets a lower priority and spends more time waiting.
Sorry Bro...but your broker is nothing but a "hopefully" well conncted salesperson with acess to finacial data. Do you want to know what your brokers job is....? To get you to buy and sell stocks. Granted if you make money your broker will get a chunk when he gets his commision when you sell...and granted if you make money you will keep calling the same broker, but I doubt that your broker is busting his ass for you.
Don't ever kid yourself that your broker gives a crap about you (unless you have BIG $$$$ invested). You broker only gives a crap about buying and selling..that's how they get paid.
What's the difference between this and listening in on someones phone conversations?
"Well..we just want to listen in on your phone conversation to monitor for certain patterns of words that might indicate wrong-doings"
Lets face it, the public sector is so far advanced in terms of tech stuff that the government is just freaking. So what do you do when your freaking.....something stupid and unconstitutional-ish
Wow...I think you got it right. I think this whole AOL vs MS thing is FUNNY! It reminds me of how my sisters and I would behave when we were little kids.
I also think that most slashdotters are in love with technology, and MS is a marketing-centric company who happens to sell technology products. MS's main concern is not techo-geeks, it's the suits, the ivory tower people. Therefore it's easy to have a certain animosty towards MS.
Then sprinkle on top of that the influx of newbies/sheep who think that MS really is THE INNOVATOR and...yeah..it gets even easier to have angst.
Then when you see this VERY POWERFUL EMPIRE proclaiming "standards" simply because it benefits them...well...yeah....my vision gets a little cloudy.
When Linus and his merry gang of coders built Linux, I honostly believe they wanted to build something for ME. When MS builds a product, I honostly believe they are building it to gain marketshare and crush the competition. Gosh... I wonder who I'm gonna root for...
The Almighty Zoltar
PS - I think the MS zealots are just as annoying as the Linux zealots...
I picked up my copy of CTP at MicroCenter and I am really enjoying it. I'm not much of a gamer and I have never played a turn based game(oops.. I guess Wasteland on my C64 was turn based) but I thought I would give it a try and I'm glad I did. The quality is excellent and the game has been more fun than I anticipated.
I really feel it's important for the Linux community to support products like this. at >$50 it's a drop in the bucket and it will encourage others to release Linux based apps (games as well as other applications) IMHO it will go a long way to legitimize Linux to the general public when they see Linux apps in retail stores.
well...lets look things as they are now...Amazon claims to be losing millions per year..yer their stock price is in the stratosphere...why??? certainly not because they have a great P/E...people are banking on the future..people are afraid they will miss an opportunity to buy *coke* or *GE* at ground zero. It's the same with RedHat. These are different times...It's fear...hype...momentum...etc..not always the bottomline.
Who's to say if this will be a good long term stock? I certailny don't have the wisdom to make that call. But I think it's as good as anything else out there. If RedHat takes the money and really cranks out some amazing stuff then they will make money, and the stock will be a good long term investment.
OTOH..if Linux burns out..or RedHat falls from grace...then poof...you loose. So buy into the hype...roll the dice and live large:)
This sound like the misguided rant of an idealist. Why shouldn't Amazon sell whatever they want. Heck..maybe they can even make some money at soem point.
At least it's not like the supermarket where you are forced to walk to the corner in the far end of the store just to get a gallon of milk. If you don't want to look at the sother stuff DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK....sheesh
I have had nothing but great luck with Amazon...all of my books have arrived on my doorstep within a couple days, the site is easy to navigate around, and the reviews help alot.
When he says that one of the reasons that IE has become popular is because it's embeddeble (SP).. Uh...huh huh...I'm sure the fact that it's shipped by default with almost every computer over the past couple years has nothing to do with it...
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"Whenever discussing do-it-yourself reporting as exemplified by Slashdot, traditional newshounds inevitably return to the issue of integrity and reliability. They say that consumers must rely on trained, professional journalists to ensure a report is unbiased and free of agendas."
...many of them are full of pure crass sensationalism... they are driven by getting my click, not by integrity. Unfortunatly many "trained proffesional journalists" are shills.
This sort of crap gets under my skin. Slashdot is great because instead of wasting time going from site to site I can get a quick list of things that might interest me and read the ones I want. What does integrity or reliability have to do with it? It's a place for people with a common interest to post opinions and get links. Why twist it into something else...
OTOH I question the integrity of some of the so-called tech sites (Uh..can you say Jessie Burst)
Why does wired remind me of MTV.. lots of flashy colors, and stuff seems to be happening, but it's all so vapid in the end.
Microsofts products are too fragmented and they don't have any development roadmap for the future :)
"But as the technology matures, playing fast and loose isn't acceptable anymore. This is characteristic of the maturing process for a product like Windows. People will put up with more from the bleeding edge."
UH...I'm not sure that anything MS has ever done could be considered "bleeding edge". I mean, they were trying to build a Unix type OS with all of the windows look and feel... I would hardly call that bleeding edge. phlah.... Now with all the resources that any company could ask for they still aren't doing anything bleedign edge... phlah. Bunch of friggin sheep.
What a friggin load. Ya know..I would at least have a little respect for them if they didn't assualt my intelligence at every waking moment.
Maybe I've had too much coffee this morning but I can't for the life of me understand why people keep trying to push this whole thin client thing down our throats. Sheesh...I think TC's are great for some industries but for the majority it will never be popular. So I'm glad they pulled the plug. Blah
:) I get so annoyed at all of the people who jump on the bandwagon everytime something new hits the streets...technology often times needs to mature before we can see the best fit for it. It's sad today that we are so driven by what's best for the stockholders and not what's best for technology.
Why is it that companies like Sun can come up with these great ideas ( Java ) and then try to plug it into all of these areas where it doesn't fit. Why not let Java evolve a little first, then try to shove it down our throats
Imagine how badly tcp/ip would have been screwed up if it were developed by a company whose goal was to beat another company to the punch. Luckily when they developed tcp/ip the goal was to get it right. Look at how long it took ARPANET to evolve into what it is today...I'm sort of on a tangent here but some of these ideas just seem so bad that I have to wonder what drives these them.
Now...I've got to get back to writing my real-time nuclear reactor web based monitoring system (Written in Java of course).
I'm not sure why you would think this sucks. I think StarOffice has good potential, but you really need to sink some recources into it to take away some of the rough edges. It takes a big company with some big $$ to do that. Sun can do that. If they can shave some of the bloat, speed it up a bit and put a little shine on it then SO could be the next killer app for *nix.
The interesting thing to me is that Sun has never really aggresivley gone after the desktop market and this product is directly aimed for the desktop. Not to many high end e-commerce servers need to do word processing. So...is Sun doing this just to go after the boys in Redmond....or does Sun have plans to push Solaris on the desktop (something they really have never done, even when they gave away Solaris 7 ) or just what does Sun hope to accomplish?
I think Sun has enough sense not to kill the Linux version. The bad press from that would be nasty!
"development language of choice Object Pascal"
That really stood out for me also, I've got to believe that's not the norm. Gosh, I'm having a flashback to the early 80's when I was a suffering college student doing everything in Pascal. One of these day's I'm gonna load up a Pascal compiler and play around with that again..or I might even join the 20th century and look at OP.
But anyways...yeah..the results are very slanted. Kinda like taking a survey in a Pizza joint about your favorite Italian foods...Still..I like Borland and I whatever they port to Linux I will buy.
yeah...but do you have to reboot everytime you make a change :)
I think in the long run one of the benefits of Linux is going to be that the user will have a CHOICE of what desktop / WM to use. I've played with KDE and Gnome and I enjoyed both of them for different reasons. I have been using KDE for the past couple months just because I grew tired of cleaning up core dumps every day with Gnome, but I plan on trying it again with the next release.
When the level of the "average" computer user grows they will want more than what "The Man" tells them is good, they will want to make that decision for themselves. Long kive Freedom of Choice !!!!!
I'm not sure that the delay of w2k has anything to do with the increased number of Linux users. I have to believe that with the media circus Linux seems to be mired in we would be seeing that number grow regardless. OTOH I think that Linux might cause some people from making the jump to w2k because they have had a chance to see how well Linux works and they have to love the $$$ they are gonna save.
... er uh..I mean release cadidate number 2 coming out they will have to test it pretty well and you can be confident that changes will have to be made. They would be insane to rush it any more than they aleady are.
I think MS would be hard pressed to ship that monster this year anyways, with beta
I'll bet my right foot that they area still introducing new "features" into the latest beta..er uh..I mean RC. There is no way that's gonna be bug free.
While it's true that some Linux zealots do tend to be over the top at times, there are MS zealots who do the same thing. Perhaps becasue slashdot tends to cater towards the Linux crowd it's more noticable here.
:)
My favorite MS zealot mantra is to blame everything on the hardware or an unfit sysadmin whenever someone reports an unstable NT server. It;s just not conceavable to the MS zealots that not everybody has "good" experiences with NT.
I use NT at work and while I've only had to give it a hard reset 3-4 times over the past year there are many times when it just chokes so badly that I'm forced to close everything down and reboot it. It's such a resource hog, it just feels like a lumbering giant plodding through the day.
But hey..I'm sure it's because I run on cheap hardware and our sysadmin is a bufoon
Where did you get 3.3.4 ? I might be stupid but I have had a hard time finding it. The XFree ftp directories for it were empty...coming soon or something like that... I need support for my piece o crap S3 3DTRIO card...
Jesse Berst is the biggest load on the Internet. I'm not sure why Slashdot would even link his crap. Sheesh...I could do what this guy does.
"Read why you cannot live without WIN2000"
"Read why Linux is for real"
"Everything you need to survive Y2K"
"Blah Blah Blah"...
This guy doesn't know anything and never has any new or pertinent information. He offers very little in the way of facts...just hype hype hype. Sheesh. I honostly hope nobody takes anything this guy writes seriously. Don't waste your click on this moron.
"COME TO MY SITE TO LEARN WHY YOU MUST SWITCH TO A MAC TODAY"
"I"VE GOT THE TEN BEST KEPT SECRETS ABOUT SOFTWARE YOU MUST HAVE"
"I'M SUCH A LOAD OF NOTHINGNESS THAT I HAVE TO WRITE ARTICLES THAT HAVE ZERO CONTENT"
sheesh...I really don't like this guy.
Sheesh...why don't you do a little research and find out soem FACTS before you continue to spew your "He served X years in jail while blah blah blah"...he PLEADED GUILTY to cel-phone fraud and was sentenced to 3 years for that...
/hacking/social engineering crimes. Poor Poor Kevin...everybody was picking on him..they deprived him of his rights..sheesh..get a clue for Christs sake
Yeah...but I'll bet the Feds forced him to confess to that..yeah..I'll bet they beat him with a rubber hose untill the poor poor victim admitted to crimes that he didn't commit... sheesh... In fact...I'll bet the police set him up the other 2-3 times he was arrested for various cracking
If any of you script kiddies wanna play with this stuff then expect to be punished if you get caught.
You bring up a good point. It takes time for an OS to mature. It takes time to ferret out all of the bugs and to find all of the design flaws. Unfortunatly the bar has been lowered and the general public has grown to accept an OS that pretty much works, instead of demanding a product that is rock solid. So why should MS care about really getting it right when own the market with %80 right? I have no doubt that MS could get it right if they wanted to. Unfortunatly they are driven by revenue and not by quality so the need to pump out new products overides the need for quality.
I always wondered why MS built NT with any backwards compatability. This was there chance to do it the right way and they started out behind the eight ball from the start.
MS can't even get the bug fixes right. At me company we are afraid to install the latest SP for NT becasue everytime we install one it fixes a few bugs but breaks some things that were working just fine. Why would you want to introduce new *features* in a bug fix. Why do they have to make things that should be simple such a pain in the ass.
I'm not sure that even if they loose the case against the DOJ that it will make any difference. I really have a hard time believing that the judicial system knows what to do.
Kevin was a REPEAT OFFENDER, the reason he was dealt with in a harsh manner was not because of hacking/cracking or whatever, it was because he refused to learn from his past mistakes.
If I break into your house and don't take anything, I just look around then leave, that's fairly harmless yet still against the law. If I do that several times, get arrested, spend time in jail, get out, and do it again then it's not so harmless.
Mitnik wasn't *just* being held in prison waiting for a trial, it's my understanding that Mitnik served somthing like 3 of those years for cel-phone fraud while he was on the run in the Carolinas, or something like that. He plead guilty to those charges, by the way.
If you check the history of Mitnik maybe you will get an understanding of why the judicial system has been playing hardball with him. He has a rather lengthy arrest record(hacking/cracking related), yet he continued to partake in activities that he knew the feds frowned upon. Mitnik has nobody to blame but himself.
Regardless of whether or not he harmed anyone, or caused Sun, Motorola, etc. millions of dollars in damages, he knew when he was doing something wrong and he knew what would happen if he got caught. The choice was his. So why do so many people stll see him as a victim?
I say the more the merrier ! Even if MOT isn't really interested in Linux and they just want to hedge their bets, this is good. Everytime a large company jumps on the bandwagon it gives Linux a little more legitimacy.
There are still a lot of suits who chuckle when the hear the word Linux, I know because I work with some of them. When a large co. comes out of the closet and proclaims their love for the penguin it continues to chip away at these guys. Gee, who knows..maybe we could see Linux running on a PCS phone sometime...hmmmm Linux on a StarTac...:)
Even if MCG is running on IIS, at least Motorola is running Apache on Solaris.
I want to know what he did that was positive for the computing community? I'm not flaming you...I really want to know. Who is to say that if the MS empire didn't exist that things wouldn't have evolved into something much better? Who's to say that the oppressive nature of MS hasn't actually harmed the computing world...
If you want to know why we have PC's in so many houses I would say that the invention of html and browsers (heck tcp/ip too) has everything to do with it and MS Windows very little.
Why does he get so much credit for "what he has done for technology"... the way I see it the man hired some F-ing brilliant marketing people, that is is claim to fame.
Tha Almighty Zoltar
Isn't this pretty much the same as IPv6 having the ability to set priority levels for certain packets ? As I understand it your ISP will be able to give a higher priority to packets that originiate from certain locations...ie. customers who are paying a little extra to get better performance. Meanwhile the average schmoe gets a lower priority and spends more time waiting.
Sorry Bro...but your broker is nothing but a "hopefully" well conncted salesperson with acess to finacial data. Do you want to know what your brokers job is....? To get you to buy and sell stocks. Granted if you make money your broker will get a chunk when he gets his commision when you sell...and granted if you make money you will keep calling the same broker, but I doubt that your broker is busting his ass for you.
Don't ever kid yourself that your broker gives a crap about you (unless you have BIG $$$$ invested). You broker only gives a crap about buying and selling..that's how they get paid.
What's the difference between this and listening in on someones phone conversations?
"Well..we just want to listen in on your phone conversation to monitor for certain patterns of words that might indicate wrong-doings"
Lets face it, the public sector is so far advanced in terms of tech stuff that the government is just freaking. So what do you do when your freaking.....something stupid and unconstitutional-ish
Wow...I think you got it right. I think this whole AOL vs MS thing is FUNNY! It reminds me of how my sisters and I would behave when we were little kids.
I also think that most slashdotters are in love with technology, and MS is a marketing-centric company who happens to sell technology products. MS's main concern is not techo-geeks, it's the suits, the ivory tower people. Therefore it's easy to have a certain animosty towards MS.
Then sprinkle on top of that the influx of newbies/sheep who think that MS really is THE INNOVATOR and...yeah..it gets even easier to have angst.
Then when you see this VERY POWERFUL EMPIRE proclaiming "standards" simply because it benefits them...well...yeah....my vision gets a little cloudy.
When Linus and his merry gang of coders built Linux, I honostly believe they wanted to build something for ME. When MS builds a product, I honostly believe they are building it to gain marketshare and crush the competition. Gosh... I wonder who I'm gonna root for...
The Almighty Zoltar
PS - I think the MS zealots are just as annoying as the Linux zealots...
I picked up my copy of CTP at MicroCenter and I am really enjoying it. I'm not much of a gamer and I have never played a turn based game(oops.. I guess Wasteland on my C64 was turn based) but I thought I would give it a try and I'm glad I did. The quality is excellent and the game has been more fun than I anticipated.
I really feel it's important for the Linux community to support products like this. at >$50 it's a drop in the bucket and it will encourage others to release Linux based apps (games as well as other applications) IMHO it will go a long way to legitimize Linux to the general public when they see Linux apps in retail stores.
well...lets look things as they are now...Amazon claims to be losing millions per year..yer their stock price is in the stratosphere...why??? certainly not because they have a great P/E...people are banking on the future..people are afraid they will miss an opportunity to buy *coke* or *GE* at ground zero. It's the same with RedHat. These are different times...It's fear...hype...momentum...etc..not always the bottomline.
:)
Who's to say if this will be a good long term stock? I certailny don't have the wisdom to make that call. But I think it's as good as anything else out there. If RedHat takes the money and really cranks out some amazing stuff then they will make money, and the stock will be a good long term investment.
OTOH..if Linux burns out..or RedHat falls from grace...then poof...you loose. So buy into the hype...roll the dice and live large
This sound like the misguided rant of an idealist. Why shouldn't Amazon sell whatever they want. Heck..maybe they can even make some money at soem point.
At least it's not like the supermarket where you are forced to walk to the corner in the far end of the store just to get a gallon of milk. If you don't want to look at the sother stuff DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK....sheesh
I have had nothing but great luck with Amazon...all of my books have arrived on my doorstep within a couple days, the site is easy to navigate around, and the reviews help alot.
When he says that one of the reasons that IE has become popular is because it's embeddeble (SP) ..
Uh...huh huh...I'm sure the fact that it's shipped by default with almost every computer over the past couple years has nothing to do with it...