"NO, CHILDREN! I'VE RECOUNTED A HUNDRED AND SIX TIMES NOW AND I KEEP COMING UP WITH SEVEN TO SIX, except in the one incidence where it came out seven to five, and one where it came out twelve to fourteen! IT'S OVER! IKE IS CLASS PRESIDENT!"
"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
Pearl Jam is already doing this on their current tour that kicks off tonight in Australia. If you buy the concert in advance on cd, you'll be able to download unmastered mp3's the day after the from their servers. The fully mastered cd's ship about a week later.
Homer: "Kids, kids. I'm not going to die. That only happens to bad people." Bart: "What about Abraham Lincoln?" Homer: "Uh, he sold poison milk to school children."
Homer: "No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed."
Deorbit burn occured at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 GMT). Communication lost with Columbia at 9:00am EST while Columbia was at approximately 200,000ft over Central Texas.
How about good admins whose hand are tied by bad companies policies? Where I work, we have to have management, developer, security, change management and customer approval before we apply any fixes or service packs. And developers often need budget approval for hardware and software so they can test these changes in the lab first. So basically nothing gets done quickly.
Ten years ago, the RIAA was the only way a band could get nationwide/worldwide exposure. If you wanted your hear your songs on the radio, you had to deal with the cartel. But the internet of course changed all of that. And the RIAA is very scared.
Because by cutting off AT&T, @Home gets to send a message to the cable companies without screwing over their customers. AT&T has a backup plan, so at most you have a 7 day outage. Now if Comcast and Charter don't play ball, @Home can tell then that they're really screwed.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 28/PRNewswire/ -- Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) today announced that it has agreed to sell essentially all of its broadband Internet access business assets and related services to AT&T for $307 million in cash. The company plans to file for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code today in San Francisco. The asset sale is subject to the emergence of higher offers and closing conditions, including bankruptcy court approval.
The Chapter 11 filing will enable Excite@Home to maintain operation of its high-speed cable Internet access services and other related services during the sale approval process.
"This filing is a tool to protect the value of the broadband business for the benefit of the company's financial stakeholders and will help reassure our customers that service will continue uninterrupted through the restructuring process," said Patti Hart, Excite@Home chairman and chief executive officer. "AT&T's offer reflects the value in our network, services, customer base and skilled employees."
While the bankruptcy court reviews the proposed sale and other offers that may emerge, Excite@Home has sufficient cash on hand to finance its operations, including supporting the company's post-petition trade and employee obligations, as well as its ongoing operating needs during the process.
Excite@Home retained the investment-banking firm Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Capital to assist it in pursuing strategic alternatives and continuing with the bidding process.
About Excite@Home
Excite@Home is the leader in broadband, offering consumers residential broadband services and businesses high-speed commercial services. Excite@Home has interests in one joint venture outside of North America delivering high-speed Internet services and three joint ventures outside of North America operating localized versions of the Excite portal.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Action of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to the transaction with AT the bidding process in Chapter 11 and proceeds to creditors; the company's cash position; and the company's ability to provide the service without interruption.
Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, obtaining court approval of motions critical to the company's operations; whether or not other parties make adequate, competitive bids; the company's ability to maintain its relationships with its cable partners and critical vendors; the company's ability to retain key employees; the company's ability to grow and maintain its subscriber base; the company's ability to otherwise manage its operations without interruption; the company's ability to comply with its covenants under its agreement with AT&T and to complete this transaction, and other risks and uncertainties described in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2001 and 8-K reports subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The number in State College has been out of service for probably 18 years now. I think every student there (including me 8 years ago) has tried it at least once.
Kevin made of couple of comments in the View Askew hinting that this probably will not be the last we see of Jay and Silent Bob:
"Well, there's a surprise in store for ya'll if we win the weekend. A very nice surprise, if you like Jay and Silent Bob."
"I know this may come off as desperate, but there's one more thing I'd like to do with Jay and Bob before I put 'em to bed, and in order to do that, we need to win the weekend."
I like the default slashcode look with the tables around the comments and wish they would use it for slashdot. Maybe they could also add some basic support for skins in the next release. This way, you can keep the current look or change it if you want.
Is there any reason why Debian hasn't used the Storm Linux 2000 installer? I always thought it was the best GUI installer I've used for a Linux (and Potato based) system.
Yes and for a relative newbie like myself, I think Storm Linux was much easier the install and run "out of the box".
I loved Storm Linux's GUI install, it was at least up to par with Red Hat and Mandrake 7.x in my honest opinion. Stormpkg is real nice also. Too bad the package in unstable is currently broken, at least as of last weekend.
Making a profit on the box sales won't be easy. Most recent game consoles, as far as I know, are sold at a loss to keep the cost down for the consumer. Any profits come from game sales.
Slashdot Mirror
"NO, CHILDREN! I'VE RECOUNTED A HUNDRED AND SIX TIMES NOW AND I KEEP COMING UP WITH SEVEN TO SIX, except in the one incidence where it came out seven to five, and one where it came out twelve to fourteen! IT'S OVER! IKE IS CLASS PRESIDENT!"
I can see it now. Skynet concludes that the only way to completely stop spam is to eliminate the entire human race!
"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
James Madison - 1788
Pearl Jam is already doing this on their current tour that kicks off tonight in Australia. If you buy the concert in advance on cd, you'll be able to download unmastered mp3's the day after the from their servers. The fully mastered cd's ship about a week later.
His ass is going to blow!
Here's some other random quotes:
Homer: "Kids, kids. I'm not going to die. That only happens to bad people."
Bart: "What about Abraham Lincoln?"
Homer: "Uh, he sold poison milk to school children."
Homer: "No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed."
It's updated:
Deorbit burn occured at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 GMT). Communication lost with Columbia at 9:00am EST while Columbia was at approximately 200,000ft over Central Texas.
NASA loses contact with the Space Shuttle Columbia during landing.
How about good admins whose hand are tied by bad companies policies? Where I work, we have to have management, developer, security, change management and customer approval before we apply any fixes or service packs. And developers often need budget approval for hardware and software so they can test these changes in the lab first. So basically nothing gets done quickly.
But isn't the Linux name just a variation of Minux?
Ten years ago, the RIAA was the only way a band could get nationwide/worldwide exposure. If you wanted your hear your songs on the radio, you had to deal with the cartel. But the internet of course changed all of that. And the RIAA is very scared.
Because by cutting off AT&T, @Home gets to send a message to the cable companies without screwing over their customers. AT&T has a backup plan, so at most you have a 7 day outage. Now if Comcast and Charter don't play ball, @Home can tell then that they're really screwed.
ILM did the FX for Star Trek 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8.
"REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 28"
Mod this down. Dammit, I should have paid more attention to the date.
From tomorrow's press release:
/PRNewswire/ -- Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) today announced that it has agreed to sell essentially all of its broadband Internet access business assets and related services to AT&T for $307 million in cash. The company plans to file for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code today in San Francisco. The asset sale is subject to the emergence of higher offers and closing conditions, including bankruptcy court approval.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 28
The Chapter 11 filing will enable Excite@Home to maintain operation of its high-speed cable Internet access services and other related services during the sale approval process.
"This filing is a tool to protect the value of the broadband business for the benefit of the company's financial stakeholders and will help reassure our customers that service will continue uninterrupted through the restructuring process," said Patti Hart, Excite@Home chairman and chief executive officer. "AT&T's offer reflects the value in our network, services, customer base and skilled employees."
While the bankruptcy court reviews the proposed sale and other offers that may emerge, Excite@Home has sufficient cash on hand to finance its operations, including supporting the company's post-petition trade and employee obligations, as well as its ongoing operating needs during the process.
Excite@Home retained the investment-banking firm Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Capital to assist it in pursuing strategic alternatives and continuing with the bidding process.
About Excite@Home
Excite@Home is the leader in broadband, offering consumers residential broadband services and businesses high-speed commercial services. Excite@Home has interests in one joint venture outside of North America delivering high-speed Internet services and three joint ventures outside of North America operating localized versions of the Excite portal.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Action of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to the transaction with AT the bidding process in Chapter 11 and proceeds to creditors; the company's cash position; and the company's ability to provide the service without interruption.
Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, obtaining court approval of motions critical to the company's operations; whether or not other parties make adequate, competitive bids; the company's ability to maintain its relationships with its cable partners and critical vendors; the company's ability to retain key employees; the company's ability to grow and maintain its subscriber base; the company's ability to otherwise manage its operations without interruption; the company's ability to comply with its covenants under its agreement with AT&T and to complete this transaction, and other risks and uncertainties described in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2001 and 8-K reports subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
*sigh*
and I've had my new ATA100 60GB hard drive for a week and a half.....
It's kind of hard to "read the damn announcement" when the web page is slashdotted.
The number in State College has been out of service for probably 18 years now. I think every student there (including me 8 years ago) has tried it at least once.
No, after reading his comments, I don't think he's talking about Clerks: Sell Out.
He is going to do Fletch after a smaller "Chasing Amy" type movie about fatherhood.
The comments are from the View Askew message board.
Kevin made of couple of comments in the View Askew hinting that this probably will not be the last we see of Jay and Silent Bob:
"Well, there's a surprise in store for ya'll if we win the weekend. A very nice surprise, if you like Jay and Silent Bob."
"I know this may come off as desperate, but there's one more thing I'd like to do with Jay and Bob before I put 'em to bed, and in order to do that, we need to win the weekend."
I like the default slashcode look with the tables around the comments and wish they would use it for slashdot. Maybe they could also add some basic support for skins in the next release. This way, you can keep the current look or change it if you want.
Is there any reason why Debian hasn't used the Storm Linux 2000 installer? I always thought it was the best GUI installer I've used for a Linux (and Potato based) system.
Yes and for a relative newbie like myself, I think Storm Linux was much easier the install and run "out of the box".
I loved Storm Linux's GUI install, it was at least up to par with Red Hat and Mandrake 7.x in my honest opinion. Stormpkg is real nice also. Too bad the package in unstable is currently broken, at least as of last weekend.
Making a profit on the box sales won't be easy. Most recent game consoles, as far as I know, are sold at a loss to keep the cost down for the consumer. Any profits come from game sales.