It sounds lame but I downloaded iTunes just to take a peek at their advertised AudioBook collections for sale. I was hoping to pickup a bunch of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror titles for a reasonable price. But as soon as I navigated to the audiobook section, I found that they were selling each title for the full price that you would find in the stores. So I can either go to the store and buy a CD audiobook from $16.00 - $65.00 or I can download it from Apple for the same price. I kinda rather having owning a hard copy if I have to pay full price.
I've always disliked people who take it upon themselves to crusade against technology. This nasty person not only tried to hamper the Concorde but she also has the gall to dance on the grave plot for this mighty jet. She looks as nasty and she behaves.
Stepping outside of the Solaris --vs-- Linux article, I just didn't come away very satisified. It looks like the author only performed a few shoestring tests while I was expecting an exhausting barrage of tests. IMHO I wouldn't take anything to heart from reading this article. Maybe if the author goes back and expands the number of tests it would be an interestig article. Just look at all the comments from our fellow posters. There are so many people pointing out various issues that the tester neglected. I think the author should take all the feedback and perform a new test with an imporved set of criteria and hardware platforms.
Short people got no reason Short people got no reason Short people got no reason To live
They got little hands Little eyes They walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet
Well, i don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people `round here
Short people are just the same As you and i (a fool such as i) All men are brothers Until the day they die
Short people got nobody Short people got nobody Short people got nobody To love
They got little baby legs That stand so low You got to pick 'em up Just to say hello They got little cars That go beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin' peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They're gonna get you every time Well, i don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people 'round here -- by Randy Newman
You reallly have no clue what you're talking about. Just in patent royalty alone, IBM earned 1.1 billion dollars last year alone. IBM is the KING when it comes down to the patent game. In fact in the past 10 years alone, they were granted more patents then any other company. IBM is so large that they're collecting IP tax from just about every technology company.
It's an old adage, but one that's particularly apt when turned to the topic of patents.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted more than 6 million patents -- 177,317 last year alone. Most are destined to languish in obscurity, along with the companies that generated them.
Separating the innovators from the also-rans requires more than simply adding up the number of patents a company receives.
Worthwhile patents have tentacles into the industry a company occupies. They cite the patents and scientific research papers that came before -- and are in turn referenced when new patents are filed.
True breakthroughs can take an industry by storm, and for years afterward the patents elucidating those ideas are cited in other patent applications, said Pat Thomas, a research analyst with CHI Research of Haddon Heights, N.J.
"Companies that own these patents have better sales and better profits," Thomas said.
They also fare better on Wall Street. CHI created a fantasy portfolio of 25 technology-dependent companies and tracked their stock performance from 1990 to 1999.
"Companies with strong patent portfolios outperformed other companies in the same industry," Thomas said.
CHI has invented a formula that measures a company's "technological strength" by multiplying the number of patents it generates by something it calls a "current-impact index."
CHI looks at how often a company's patents from the previous five years are cited in the current year's patents and assigns an index value. A value of 1.0 indicates an average frequency of citations. A value of 1.2 indicates a company's patents are cited 20 percent more often than average.
Armonk-based IBM Corp. has a 10-year history of generating more patents than any other company, so it's no surprise when the computer giant is rated tops in technological strength.
But what about Immersion Corp.? The San Jose, Calif., company has just 132 employees and a modest $20 million in yearly sales. Even so, Immersion -- which invents sensory feedback technology -- was rated No. 1 in "current impact" in the most recent scorecard from CHI and Technology Review magazine.
That impact isn't being felt on the bottom line yet. Immersion lost $16.5 million last year and its stock is trading around $1.20 a share.
Though tiny, Immersion is the only player in an emerging arena, said Dean Chang, Immersion's chief technology officer.
Founded in 1993, Immersion has received 186 patents and has 200 more pending.
Its feedback technology has been widely adopted by makers of gaming devices such as joysticks, including Logitech, Microsoft, Belkin and others who peddle controllers that let players feel every turn, bump and dip.
Sensory perception technology is also emerging in the automotive, medical and 3-D design industries, giving Immersion additional licensing and marketing channels for its inventions.
When it comes to patents, it's not how many you have, it's what you do with them, said Ed Kahn, a specialist in strategic intellectual property management and founder of Cambridge, Mass.-based EKMS.
The patent process has traditionally been considered a defensive move to prevent a rival from stealing an invention, but some companies are turning intellectual property into revenue.
IBM, which received $1.1 billion in intellectual property income last year, is a good example. "They really work their patent portfolio," Kahn
What the fuck are you talking about? Aside from low memory issues for smaller systems, OSX Jaguar runs plenty fine on systems that are 6-8 years old. Beige G3s, you know. If you've got memory, then shit's going to fly.
OSX runs like poop on anything lower then a G4 regardless of how much memory you have crammed in. I've tested it on several G3 platforms but the system is unresponisve and sluggish. Of course it runs like a dream on any of the new G4 platforms.
If you answer is no or maybe to any of these than how the hell can you properly decide what the best tool for any of these jobs are? I am sick and tired of @$$hole IT people dictating to experienced skilled professionals how they should do their jobs?
Sit boo-boo. If any clown in our company decided to skirt around all corporate security and try to plug their unauthorized equipment in, he'll find his ass in a sling real quick and his illegal equipment confiscated. Nothing like a snot nosed user like yourself that thinks they know everything about computers. You're the biggest security risk a company has to face.
When trying to copy a Windows 95 file to an NT4 share
I'm hoping this is an old situation that happened to you years ago. I can understand somebody still running Windows NT Server, but how can anybody still be using Win95?
Before the age of OS-X, I want to remember that Apple computers had a long lifespans. Has OS-X killed the long lifespan of Apple computers? I remember seeing some faculty puttering around with some Macs that were approaching 10 years old.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that limited article. I was expecting a broad range of tests over different hardware and network speeds. Instead all we got was an advertisement from the back of a matchbook. How in the world did this author's opinion become an article?
I'm guessing that RedHat went court shopping and decided on using Delaware. Does anybody know the advantages of using Delaware compared to the other states?
What on earth are you talking about? I can multicast a 5-6 GB image over the network to any number of our lab computers with 5600rpm drives in about 8-9 minutes.
These laptops will be handed out to schools. Schools don't just use Word, Excel and IE/Safari. They use specialist programs, and each school will mix and match stuff. While I'm sure a couple of schools will have a clever IT department if they chose Windows and set up a ghost image, I'm betting that a hell of a lot of smaller ones won't have a good IT deperment, if a deparment at all.
How clever is it to have a master district image? All the local staff would have to do is install whatever unique software that the local classes would need. Just about all the work is done. They can even make MSI packages out of the programs for even easier installations.
The university owns the bandwith, they can block it, scan it, whatever. But invading the student's PC's is an invasion of privacy.
A university has the right to restrict moronic students who want to run unpatched & vunerable systems. In fact the university is liable for any computer connected to their netowrk. IMHO students have no right to install any type of server or server software onto a university network. It's perfectly fine if they want to install a workstation in their room for research or to do their homework.
The university should limit its power to scanning internet traffic
So you don't want the ports of a computer scanned but you state it's alright for the University to scan the content of the traffic? I would consider the scanning of the content of Internet Traffic to be an outright invasion of privacy. All the port scanning does it look for vulnerable boxes, backdoors and illegal servers.
SCO hasn't litigated yet. They are asking for a license fee, which you can argue is a mutually acceptable solution.
It sounds more like a protection racket scheme from some street punks. Give us some "insurance" money and we'll make sure nothing happens to your business. This sort of mumbo-jumbo crap is nothing more then base blackmail. Show the world the proof of the IP theft before flapping their mouths off.
I don't know about their other offices, but the LA/Orange County office in CA is good. They've remembered who I am when I called, and were up front about how slow the market was. I was pretty impressed that I got emails from one of the recruiters (forget her name) just letting me know that they were still looking. They eventually did get me a job, even though it took a while.
I'm presently working in southern CA but I would like to land a job in Florida. So I decided to contact every headhunter/job placement in my target area. It was pretty depressing seeing almost 2/3 of the small headhunter business that went out of business. I finanlly did contact one headhunter that was still in business and had a friendly chat. It turns out all the headhunters are starving to death. He describes the tech jobs have all dried up. It was even more depressing reading through the wanted ads finding jobs like;
* Earn money at home on your computer. * Ads looking for headhunters. * The meager few tech jobs which are looking for 10+ years of IT experience, MCSE, CISCO certs, 24 hour support, database support, email support, support all desktops and support the LAN/WAN. All these skills in one person and their only willing to pay $15k-$20k/year. Sheesh! Nothing like trying to get some low pay sucker to wear a few hats.
One recruiter, who I had never met or spoken to, submitted my resume to the company I had just left two months previously! Not only that, but he grossly exaggerated my experience and qualifications.
I'll never trust another headhunter ever again. I gave a headhunter firm a one page resume. During the second interview with a company, I noticed that the CFO was searching through a 6 page document. After accepting the position, he went into a 5 minute discourse explaining that next time I should have submitted a 1 page resume, not a 6 page resume. Zoinks! WTF did that headhunter do to me?
So instead in order to PvP with the current classes, everybody now is running around with a Bounty Hunter or a Bounty Hunter Hybrid. Commandos can now dish out the damage with single shot kills now. Where's the fun SOE?
Feh! I'm totally disgusted by the state of online games. I'm never going to spend another slim dime on forever beta games. SOE's latest censorship action just demonstrates their contempt for the current and new customers.
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It sounds lame but I downloaded iTunes just to take a peek at their advertised AudioBook collections for sale. I was hoping to pickup a bunch of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror titles for a reasonable price. But as soon as I navigated to the audiobook section, I found that they were selling each title for the full price that you would find in the stores. So I can either go to the store and buy a CD audiobook from $16.00 - $65.00 or I can download it from Apple for the same price. I kinda rather having owning a hard copy if I have to pay full price.
Mary Goldring article at bottom left
I've always disliked people who take it upon themselves to crusade against technology. This nasty person not only tried to hamper the Concorde but she also has the gall to dance on the grave plot for this mighty jet. She looks as nasty and she behaves.
Stepping outside of the Solaris --vs-- Linux article, I just didn't come away very satisified. It looks like the author only performed a few shoestring tests while I was expecting an exhausting barrage of tests. IMHO I wouldn't take anything to heart from reading this article. Maybe if the author goes back and expands the number of tests it would be an interestig article. Just look at all the comments from our fellow posters. There are so many people pointing out various issues that the tester neglected. I think the author should take all the feedback and perform a new test with an imporved set of criteria and hardware platforms.
China = Short oriental communist
At last! We can get Chinese take-out for the new space station.
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live
They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, i don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
`round here
Short people are just the same
As you and i
(a fool such as i)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, i don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'round here -- by Randy Newman
You reallly have no clue what you're talking about. Just in patent royalty alone, IBM earned 1.1 billion dollars last year alone. IBM is the KING when it comes down to the patent game. In fact in the past 10 years alone, they were granted more patents then any other company. IBM is so large that they're collecting IP tax from just about every technology company.
Taking the Measure in Patents
Quantity doesn't always equal quality.
It's an old adage, but one that's particularly apt when turned to the topic of patents.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted more than 6 million patents -- 177,317 last year alone. Most are destined to languish in obscurity, along with the companies that generated them.
Separating the innovators from the also-rans requires more than simply adding up the number of patents a company receives.
Worthwhile patents have tentacles into the industry a company occupies. They cite the patents and scientific research papers that came before -- and are in turn referenced when new patents are filed.
True breakthroughs can take an industry by storm, and for years afterward the patents elucidating those ideas are cited in other patent applications, said Pat Thomas, a research analyst with CHI Research of Haddon Heights, N.J.
"Companies that own these patents have better sales and better profits," Thomas said.
They also fare better on Wall Street. CHI created a fantasy portfolio of 25 technology-dependent companies and tracked their stock performance from 1990 to 1999.
"Companies with strong patent portfolios outperformed other companies in the same industry," Thomas said.
CHI has invented a formula that measures a company's "technological strength" by multiplying the number of patents it generates by something it calls a "current-impact index."
CHI looks at how often a company's patents from the previous five years are cited in the current year's patents and assigns an index value. A value of 1.0 indicates an average frequency of citations. A value of 1.2 indicates a company's patents are cited 20 percent more often than average.
Armonk-based IBM Corp. has a 10-year history of generating more patents than any other company, so it's no surprise when the computer giant is rated tops in technological strength.
But what about Immersion Corp.? The San Jose, Calif., company has just 132 employees and a modest $20 million in yearly sales. Even so, Immersion -- which invents sensory feedback technology -- was rated No. 1 in "current impact" in the most recent scorecard from CHI and Technology Review magazine.
That impact isn't being felt on the bottom line yet. Immersion lost $16.5 million last year and its stock is trading around $1.20 a share.
Though tiny, Immersion is the only player in an emerging arena, said Dean Chang, Immersion's chief technology officer.
Founded in 1993, Immersion has received 186 patents and has 200 more pending.
Its feedback technology has been widely adopted by makers of gaming devices such as joysticks, including Logitech, Microsoft, Belkin and others who peddle controllers that let players feel every turn, bump and dip.
Sensory perception technology is also emerging in the automotive, medical and 3-D design industries, giving Immersion additional licensing and marketing channels for its inventions.
When it comes to patents, it's not how many you have, it's what you do with them, said Ed Kahn, a specialist in strategic intellectual property management and founder of Cambridge, Mass.-based EKMS.
The patent process has traditionally been considered a defensive move to prevent a rival from stealing an invention, but some companies are turning intellectual property into revenue.
IBM, which received $1.1 billion in intellectual property income last year, is a good example. "They really work their patent portfolio," Kahn
Geez, weren't the K series of Kilgon ships just a frigate or police ship?
No! You're all wrong. OS/2 is truly dead and we're using Amiga & Atari computers as headstones.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Aside from low memory issues for smaller systems, OSX Jaguar runs plenty fine on systems that are 6-8 years old. Beige G3s, you know. If you've got memory, then shit's going to fly.
OSX runs like poop on anything lower then a G4 regardless of how much memory you have crammed in. I've tested it on several G3 platforms but the system is unresponisve and sluggish. Of course it runs like a dream on any of the new G4 platforms.
If you answer is no or maybe to any of these than how the hell can you properly decide what the best tool for any of these jobs are? I am sick and tired of @$$hole IT people dictating to experienced skilled professionals how they should do their jobs?
Sit boo-boo. If any clown in our company decided to skirt around all corporate security and try to plug their unauthorized equipment in, he'll find his ass in a sling real quick and his illegal equipment confiscated. Nothing like a snot nosed user like yourself that thinks they know everything about computers. You're the biggest security risk a company has to face.
When trying to copy a Windows 95 file to an NT4 share
I'm hoping this is an old situation that happened to you years ago. I can understand somebody still running Windows NT Server, but how can anybody still be using Win95?
Before the age of OS-X, I want to remember that Apple computers had a long lifespans. Has OS-X killed the long lifespan of Apple computers? I remember seeing some faculty puttering around with some Macs that were approaching 10 years old.
Where are the numbers? Where are the graphs?
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that limited article. I was expecting a broad range of tests over different hardware and network speeds. Instead all we got was an advertisement from the back of a matchbook. How in the world did this author's opinion become an article?
I'm guessing that RedHat went court shopping and decided on using Delaware. Does anybody know the advantages of using Delaware compared to the other states?
a) Or even over ethernet.
What on earth are you talking about? I can multicast a 5-6 GB image over the network to any number of our lab computers with 5600rpm drives in about 8-9 minutes.
These laptops will be handed out to schools. Schools don't just use Word, Excel and IE/Safari. They use specialist programs, and each school will mix and match stuff. While I'm sure a couple of schools will have a clever IT department if they chose Windows and set up a ghost image, I'm betting that a hell of a lot of smaller ones won't have a good IT deperment, if a deparment at all.
How clever is it to have a master district image? All the local staff would have to do is install whatever unique software that the local classes would need. Just about all the work is done. They can even make MSI packages out of the programs for even easier installations.
The university owns the bandwith, they can block it, scan it, whatever. But invading the student's PC's is an invasion of privacy.
A university has the right to restrict moronic students who want to run unpatched & vunerable systems. In fact the university is liable for any computer connected to their netowrk. IMHO students have no right to install any type of server or server software onto a university network. It's perfectly fine if they want to install a workstation in their room for research or to do their homework.
The university should limit its power to scanning internet traffic
So you don't want the ports of a computer scanned but you state it's alright for the University to scan the content of the traffic? I would consider the scanning of the content of Internet Traffic to be an outright invasion of privacy. All the port scanning does it look for vulnerable boxes, backdoors and illegal servers.
SCO hasn't litigated yet. They are asking for a license fee, which you can argue is a mutually acceptable solution.
It sounds more like a protection racket scheme from some street punks. Give us some "insurance" money and we'll make sure nothing happens to your business. This sort of mumbo-jumbo crap is nothing more then base blackmail. Show the world the proof of the IP theft before flapping their mouths off.
LOL, that comment got a (Score:2, Insightful)?
I don't know about their other offices, but the LA/Orange County office in CA is good. They've remembered who I am when I called, and were up front about how slow the market was. I was pretty impressed that I got emails from one of the recruiters (forget her name) just letting me know that they were still looking. They eventually did get me a job, even though it took a while.
I'm presently working in southern CA but I would like to land a job in Florida. So I decided to contact every headhunter/job placement in my target area. It was pretty depressing seeing almost 2/3 of the small headhunter business that went out of business. I finanlly did contact one headhunter that was still in business and had a friendly chat. It turns out all the headhunters are starving to death. He describes the tech jobs have all dried up. It was even more depressing reading through the wanted ads finding jobs like;
* Earn money at home on your computer.
* Ads looking for headhunters.
* The meager few tech jobs which are looking for 10+ years of IT experience, MCSE, CISCO certs, 24 hour support, database support, email support, support all desktops and support the LAN/WAN. All these skills in one person and their only willing to pay $15k-$20k/year. Sheesh! Nothing like trying to get some low pay sucker to wear a few hats.
One recruiter, who I had never met or spoken to, submitted my resume to the company I had just left two months previously! Not only that, but he grossly exaggerated my experience and qualifications.
I'll never trust another headhunter ever again. I gave a headhunter firm a one page resume. During the second interview with a company, I noticed that the CFO was searching through a 6 page document. After accepting the position, he went into a 5 minute discourse explaining that next time I should have submitted a 1 page resume, not a 6 page resume. Zoinks! WTF did that headhunter do to me?
[b]"A strongman in tights? It'll never fly!" A part of our heritage.[/b]
Ahhh, that would explain his stupid accident which left him a cripple.
Nah, she probably growing pot in a seceret room.
So instead in order to PvP with the current classes, everybody now is running around with a Bounty Hunter or a Bounty Hunter Hybrid. Commandos can now dish out the damage with single shot kills now. Where's the fun SOE?
Feh! I'm totally disgusted by the state of online games. I'm never going to spend another slim dime on forever beta games. SOE's latest censorship action just demonstrates their contempt for the current and new customers.
"I cummed across Emmastory's site before, ..."
Ick, they should outlaw one-handed typing.
Can somebody please put up a few mirror sites for this? I'm getting tired of seeing the message stating that the site can't handle the load.