According to this site, the currently outstanding shares of SCO are worth less than $150 million. That doesn't mean that the company could be bought for that, but it would be certainly less than a billion. At this point, it would seem to behoove IBM to launch a hostile bid for SCO and go ahead and offer about twenty bucks a share for all outstanding shares. I'm sure they could do it. It is ridiculous that a penny-ante company like SCO is risking a multi-billion dollar per year business.
I never cease to be amazed at the number of "qualified people" (network/system/UNIX administrators and so forth) who decide that they would rather whine to someone on a phone or over email rather than doing simple investigation or troubleshooting.
Amen amen. Where I work, I do the job of a senior sysadmin, mixed in with telephone-based tech support for clueless idiots. I don't have much of a problem with end-users who don't have a clue, but it offends me mightily to get calls from people who make FAR more than I do who ask simplistic questions. I've been tempted many times to send my resume to the corporations that hire these lusers, but if they hired those people in the first place I'm not confident they'd see that my resume was superior anyway.
Not trying to provide any backing to an argument I haven't researched independently, but from what the original poster said your analogy is a little off.
It seems like a more accurate analogy would be informing the person (who owns a large piece of land) there is something called 'driving', then building them a car and driving it for them on their land while they sit around in the back seat. I'm not sure how much they are entitled to because they own the land the car is driving on.
1370 on SAT in 1988, and subsequent testing of 160 or so on IQ tests. According to MENSA in 1990, my SAT score was in the top half of a percent, or roughly the 99.5th percentile or above.
On reading this article, I'm tempted to go take the thing again when my 15 year old niece does just to see if I ace it this time.
If you were going for a juxtaposition of 'egotistical' with the name of the male organ 'testicle', I believe you'd have been closer to the mark with 'egotesticle'.
Ninja Pirates would be a great name for a rock group (apologies to Dave Barry and anyone else that thinks that bit has been run in the ground already).
...astounding defecit (almost 40% of the annual GDP).
Of course you don't mean this. The US GDP is something like ten trillion dollars a year. That would mean our DEFICIT was four trillion a year. It is arguable that it'll even be 400 billion this year (probably not), so you're rather talking about 2-4% of GDP. Don't get me wrong, the sort of deficits Bush is envisioning are obscene, but they sure aren't a large portion of our GDP.
All you had to do was say it out loud one letter at a time and then explain that you were having to access a Windows system and you wanted a nice password:
"Iraq can threaten vital interests locally and has enought WMDs"
I've heard this "Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction" to the point where I'm sick of it. Where is any proof of this? I'm not talking about 11 missiles that COULD have had chemical weapons in the warhead if they'd been put there or long buried bombs with 'something slushy' in them, which Iraq seemed to readily point the finger towards. Where are all these scary WMDs that the government keeps talking about?
And the guy from Great White will probably be doing the same thing in about 10 years.
I figure everyone from Great White will be doing anything possible for the next 30 years to get out from under all the civil liability lawsuits they're going to lose. That's if they manage to get out of going to jail.
I have a pair of Thinkpad A20m laptops, one with a 15" screen and the other with a 14" screen. I dropped a desktop computer on my 15" one while it was running and knocked it off a four foot high table. Broke the shit out of the LCD (crack running top to bottom about 1/3 of the way from the right and diagonal from about 1/3 of the way from the top of the right side to about 1/2 way across the bottom), but the machine didn't even hiccup. I picked it up, said a few choice curses, and then kept using it. I used that machine 8 hours a day for about three months before the LCD fluid leaked enough for me to not be able to see the screen, so I switched to my 14" model.
The best news is that I can buy an exact FRU replacement LCD off Ebay for less than $230, so I can even bring the broke-ass machine back to full usability. I love Thinkpads
May be a little late to respond to this thread, but both my parents have a perspective you lack on the issue of 'taste vs. smoking'. They both started smoking around the time you did. Both smoked for more than 30 years. Both quit cold turkey within a year of each other. Both say now that things taste MUCH better and stronger than they did while they smoked. In fact, both have commented independently that they can't believe the difference not smoking made to their sense of smell and their sense of taste. I've had both tell me recently that they can smell cigarette smoke on people's clothes even if they haven't been smoking recently, and they commented that when they themselves were smokers they couldn't reliably smell cigarette smoke when people were sitting ten feet away puffing smoke like a chimney.
Maybe your sense of taste hasn't been as completely dulled in your seven years as my parents taste was dulled in 30, but I'd bet that it will dull over time.
Three times here, and three more times for my sister and niece. We're trying, but 136? Don't think I'm gonna get there....I hope someone else makes up for me and goes 269 times.
"Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith"
Couldn't tell if you were speaking of yourself, or of the character in the Lord of The Rings. If you are speaking of the latter, Boromir is the son of Denethor and the brother of Faramir. Denethor was the 'Last Ruling Steward of Gondor', and held no claim to the Kingship. Just thought I'd throw that in.
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...still am drawing a blank on what my first big project should be.
:-)
Computer case maybe?
According to this site, the currently outstanding shares of SCO are worth less than $150 million. That doesn't mean that the company could be bought for that, but it would be certainly less than a billion. At this point, it would seem to behoove IBM to launch a hostile bid for SCO and go ahead and offer about twenty bucks a share for all outstanding shares. I'm sure they could do it. It is ridiculous that a penny-ante company like SCO is risking a multi-billion dollar per year business.
I never cease to be amazed at the number of "qualified people" (network/system/UNIX administrators and so forth) who decide that they would rather whine to someone on a phone or over email rather than doing simple investigation or troubleshooting.
Amen amen. Where I work, I do the job of a senior sysadmin, mixed in with telephone-based tech support for clueless idiots. I don't have much of a problem with end-users who don't have a clue, but it offends me mightily to get calls from people who make FAR more than I do who ask simplistic questions. I've been tempted many times to send my resume to the corporations that hire these lusers, but if they hired those people in the first place I'm not confident they'd see that my resume was superior anyway.
Not trying to provide any backing to an argument I haven't researched independently, but from what the original poster said your analogy is a little off.
It seems like a more accurate analogy would be informing the person (who owns a large piece of land) there is something called 'driving', then building them a car and driving it for them on their land while they sit around in the back seat. I'm not sure how much they are entitled to because they own the land the car is driving on.
1370 on SAT in 1988, and subsequent testing of 160 or so on IQ tests. According to MENSA in 1990, my SAT score was in the top half of a percent, or roughly the 99.5th percentile or above.
On reading this article, I'm tempted to go take the thing again when my 15 year old niece does just to see if I ace it this time.
"egotestical"
If you were going for a juxtaposition of 'egotistical' with the name of the male organ 'testicle', I believe you'd have been closer to the mark with 'egotesticle'.
How about this guy:
Greg Kovacs
He's about as close to a human Hulk that I've ever seen. 6'5" and about 360 pounds ought to scale to Hulk proportions pretty easily.
"I hope his trailer is made of something really strong, like adamantium(sp?) as in Wolverines bones"
No no no....it would be made of unobtainium, just like the ship from 'The Core'. I'd like to see the Hulk smash that!
Mechatronics? Is that the field that helps build and maintain those big robots in Robotech and Power Rangers and all those other shows? Cool.
Maximum Indifference? That would make a great name for a rock band! Oh, wait...
Ninja Pirates would be a great name for a rock group (apologies to Dave Barry and anyone else that thinks that bit has been run in the ground already).
...astounding defecit (almost 40% of the annual GDP).
Of course you don't mean this. The US GDP is something like ten trillion dollars a year. That would mean our DEFICIT was four trillion a year. It is arguable that it'll even be 400 billion this year (probably not), so you're rather talking about 2-4% of GDP. Don't get me wrong, the sort of deficits Bush is envisioning are obscene, but they sure aren't a large portion of our GDP.
Imagine a washing machine that could e-mail me when it's done!
Rather than just buzzing like mine does?
No, he learned to grip the club better so the ball is going straighter down the fairway now.
All you had to do was say it out loud one letter at a time and then explain that you were having to access a Windows system and you wanted a nice password:
"See you, NT".
"Iraq can threaten vital interests locally and has enought WMDs"
I've heard this "Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction" to the point where I'm sick of it. Where is any proof of this? I'm not talking about 11 missiles that COULD have had chemical weapons in the warhead if they'd been put there or long buried bombs with 'something slushy' in them, which Iraq seemed to readily point the finger towards. Where are all these scary WMDs that the government keeps talking about?
And the guy from Great White will probably be doing the same thing in about 10 years.
I figure everyone from Great White will be doing anything possible for the next 30 years to get out from under all the civil liability lawsuits they're going to lose. That's if they manage to get out of going to jail.
I have a pair of Thinkpad A20m laptops, one with a 15" screen and the other with a 14" screen. I dropped a desktop computer on my 15" one while it was running and knocked it off a four foot high table. Broke the shit out of the LCD (crack running top to bottom about 1/3 of the way from the right and diagonal from about 1/3 of the way from the top of the right side to about 1/2 way across the bottom), but the machine didn't even hiccup. I picked it up, said a few choice curses, and then kept using it. I used that machine 8 hours a day for about three months before the LCD fluid leaked enough for me to not be able to see the screen, so I switched to my 14" model.
The best news is that I can buy an exact FRU replacement LCD off Ebay for less than $230, so I can even bring the broke-ass machine back to full usability. I love Thinkpads
May be a little late to respond to this thread, but both my parents have a perspective you lack on the issue of 'taste vs. smoking'. They both started smoking around the time you did. Both smoked for more than 30 years. Both quit cold turkey within a year of each other. Both say now that things taste MUCH better and stronger than they did while they smoked. In fact, both have commented independently that they can't believe the difference not smoking made to their sense of smell and their sense of taste. I've had both tell me recently that they can smell cigarette smoke on people's clothes even if they haven't been smoking recently, and they commented that when they themselves were smokers they couldn't reliably smell cigarette smoke when people were sitting ten feet away puffing smoke like a chimney.
Maybe your sense of taste hasn't been as completely dulled in your seven years as my parents taste was dulled in 30, but I'd bet that it will dull over time.
I'd wait a few more years and send my twelve-year old self the entire Harry Potter set of books and tell him to pass them off as his own.
Three times here, and three more times for my sister and niece. We're trying, but 136? Don't think I'm gonna get there....I hope someone else makes up for me and goes 269 times.
Nah, if it was Hank's dad he would have mentioned something about losing his shins in 'The Big One'.
"Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith"
Couldn't tell if you were speaking of yourself, or of the character in the Lord of The Rings. If you are speaking of the latter, Boromir is the son of Denethor and the brother of Faramir. Denethor was the 'Last Ruling Steward of Gondor', and held no claim to the Kingship. Just thought I'd throw that in.
Try this one on for size:
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A ceramic engineer? In my day we called those folk POTTERS!