Gates is neither the largest shareholder (Paul Allen or Steve Ballmer is I think), nor does he own even close to 50% of the shares. Not even 25%. It's a hair ofer 20% that he owns I think.
Electricity likes the cold - the electrons flow much better. Batteries, however, don't. The cold slows down the chemical process that batteries use to generate electricity (toss a few fresh D-cells in your freezer for a couple hours, put them in a flashlight, and see how bright it is). I read somewhere that the liquid in a fully charged lead/acid car battery will start to crystalize at about -40. A half-charged battery will croak at about 0 F.
I'm on Time Warner Roadrunner and I'll be damned if they turn me into an AOL member. Where's the DSL around here that we were promised not too long ago? My service has enough problems as it is right now (Linux users have to do it on the sly since the techs won't talk to you unless you say "Windows" or "Mac", the local news server is b0rked, screwing EVERY binary newsgroup,we get fed through another network that has downtime at least once a month), I don't want to think about how bad it'll be now that AOL has their hands on it.
Cable was a nice ride, but it's time for me to look elsewhere for broadband if AOL's going to be serving it up to me.
$54/month is about 1/2 of what I shell out for gas now (I drive a pickup). But for that savings, how's the performance in the cold/snow? How many people or how much "stuff" can I haul? Can I get 3 hours of drive time on the highway out of a charge?
Electric cars are a nice idea on paper, but their limitations just don't make them practical for many, many people. Not to mention that my electric company gets me for $0.13/kwh, so that $54/month at $0.08/kwh becomes $88/month. Now I'm saving only $20/month and giving up the performance and capabilities of my truck.
Feh. What's the point in trying to have any kind of reasonable conclusion with someone who may or may not exist. For all I know, "Anonymous Coward" could be a scriptbot looking for posts to make nonsensical replies to.
Until you can prove 100% without a shadow of a doubt that something is perfect, it's flawed to some degree. Just because one person doesn't see the flaw doesn't mean it isn't there. That's one reason why we like our code open - more eyes = more flaws found faster.
Let's say you step on Junior's rollerskate while walking from your desk to the bathroom, you fall and break something. Are you saying that the cleanliness and safety of YOUR home is your employer's responsibility?
Not only do I think it's my responsibility to keep that area safe, I don't want to have the company coming in and inspecting my apartment on a regular basis to ensure everything's kosher. So I leave things lying around sometimes - should I get penalized by my employer for how I keep my home? Will the safety of my kitchen, or lack thereof, be called into question because I work from home? And so on. And require me to pay for anything that needs to get fixed, replaced, adjusted, etc. since it's my home? Let's take it even farther. If I work from home, can the company dictate that I can only do it with "company standard" hardware & software, anf I have to buy the hardware out of my own pocket?
Sure to be appetizing to Linux users, MacOS X is open-source, and uses some FreeBSD code in its kernel, called Darwin
From this story, it's hard to tell just how much is or isn't open sourced. Could be just Darwin (which we pretty much knew already), could be just the "basics" for the OS, or it could be the whole thing. My money's on the first or second.
At the bottom of the press release (nelow the contact info) is a disclaimer that I don't see on any of the previous ones. It reads:
Certain information included in this communication (as well as information included in oral statements or other written statements made or to be made by AbsoluteFuture.com) contains statements that are forward-looking. Such as statements relating to the future anticipated direction of the Internet industry, plans for future expansion, various business development activities, planned capital expenditures, future funding resources, anticipated sales growth and potential contracts. These forward statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual operations or results to differ materially from those anticipated. The NASD has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
I's 7:30 AM, and I'm not totally with it. So I ask: what's this mean? The last press release (#14) also has this disclaimer (but I don't see it on any of the previous ones), but in a smaller font and doesn't mention AbsoluteFuture.com. Is this something they're required to append because they're about to attempt an IPO?
Why not redo it from scratch, if it doesn't work the way you'd like it to GNOME and KDE? While you're "ripping apart" GNOME or KDE, how can you make sure that all the previously compliant apps aren't broken?
I think the media are mostly to blame here. Ask anyone "in the biz" and they'd give you a very different story. One person asked me if they need to be worried about the Y2K compliance of their car. My response: "if there's nowhere to set the date, and nowhere to display the date, there's a 99.99999% chance that the damn thing doesn't care what the date is."
The media blew this whole thing out of proportion, feeding on the fears of an uninformed public. And now they're doing the exact opposite, telling us that it was nothing to get worked up over, and questioning whether the money needed to be spent at all. I haven't heard anyone say "thanks for spending the time and money to fix it" yet.
Damn media. Still not taking the time to understand what they're reporting, and reporting it to a populace that refuses to learn about what they're hearing about and taking whatever they're told by the media as the gospel truth.
Rewrite Slashdot in your language/tool of choice, demonstrate it can do everything/. can do and handle the load, and convince CT that your way really is better
Put up or shut up. If you don't like/., why do you even come here?
My local power plant had no more people on duty than any other night. More might have been carrying beepers at their respective homes/parties, but there weren't any extra people at the plan.
When the company I work for listed all the systems that HAD to stay online when the clock ticks over, the public website was quite high on the list. Site goes down, people notice, customers worry about your compliance and how good your systems * software are.
Even if you have PLANNED downtime and announce it, it will shake the customers' confidence.
Because Linus is a rather visible person. How many other people at Transmeta does the world know by name, besides Dave Taylor (ddt)? Who's been making the public appearances for Transmeta?
Jesse Berst isn't much deeper into the industry than the average PC World reader. And he doesn't cater to people who are in much deeper than the average PC World reader. So it's a pretty easy conclusion to make that he's just seeing the people that appear in front of the camera.
The root certs shipped with IE4.5 for Macintosh also expire tonight. We just found out at work the beginning of this week. We were waiting all week for the other shoe to drop and find out IE4 or 5 was the same way.
Just this afternoon I was reading some reports from the Meta Group and they were throwing around 2001-2002 and I thought THAT was projecting too far. But 5 years!? Some of my co-workers were asked about a 5-year plan a few weeks ago. Remember that 5 years ago (roughly) MS said that the Internet was meaningless and saw no reason to push on it. 5 years ago I thought I was going to be an engineer (of physical things, not software; dunno if I could be classified as a software engineer now even).
Projecting even 18 months in this business is foolish.
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Gates is neither the largest shareholder (Paul Allen or Steve Ballmer is I think), nor does he own even close to 50% of the shares. Not even 25%. It's a hair ofer 20% that he owns I think.
Electricity likes the cold - the electrons flow much better. Batteries, however, don't. The cold slows down the chemical process that batteries use to generate electricity (toss a few fresh D-cells in your freezer for a couple hours, put them in a flashlight, and see how bright it is). I read somewhere that the liquid in a fully charged lead/acid car battery will start to crystalize at about -40. A half-charged battery will croak at about 0 F.
Cable was a nice ride, but it's time for me to look elsewhere for broadband if AOL's going to be serving it up to me.
"Very bland Rice Cakes" - you mean it's possible to do worse than rice cakes?
Electric cars are a nice idea on paper, but their limitations just don't make them practical for many, many people. Not to mention that my electric company gets me for $0.13/kwh, so that $54/month at $0.08/kwh becomes $88/month. Now I'm saving only $20/month and giving up the performance and capabilities of my truck.
Feh. What's the point in trying to have any kind of reasonable conclusion with someone who may or may not exist. For all I know, "Anonymous Coward" could be a scriptbot looking for posts to make nonsensical replies to.
Nor does any human being believe they are, unless they're delusional.
I openly admit I'm not perfect. Nor is any other human being, unless they're delusional. So how am I below any other human based upon that?
Until you can prove that something is right, assume it's wrong. Until you can prove that there are NO flaws, assume at least one exists.
Until you can prove 100% without a shadow of a doubt that something is perfect, it's flawed to some degree. Just because one person doesn't see the flaw doesn't mean it isn't there. That's one reason why we like our code open - more eyes = more flaws found faster.
Not only do I think it's my responsibility to keep that area safe, I don't want to have the company coming in and inspecting my apartment on a regular basis to ensure everything's kosher. So I leave things lying around sometimes - should I get penalized by my employer for how I keep my home? Will the safety of my kitchen, or lack thereof, be called into question because I work from home? And so on. And require me to pay for anything that needs to get fixed, replaced, adjusted, etc. since it's my home? Let's take it even farther. If I work from home, can the company dictate that I can only do it with "company standard" hardware & software, anf I have to buy the hardware out of my own pocket?
There are articles?
Why not redo it from scratch, if it doesn't work the way you'd like it to GNOME and KDE? While you're "ripping apart" GNOME or KDE, how can you make sure that all the previously compliant apps aren't broken?
The media blew this whole thing out of proportion, feeding on the fears of an uninformed public. And now they're doing the exact opposite, telling us that it was nothing to get worked up over, and questioning whether the money needed to be spent at all. I haven't heard anyone say "thanks for spending the time and money to fix it" yet.
Damn media. Still not taking the time to understand what they're reporting, and reporting it to a populace that refuses to learn about what they're hearing about and taking whatever they're told by the media as the gospel truth.
I started out thinking "hey, this is a nice sarcastic remark" but, uh, well, it kinda works, doesn't it?
while (post == 'not funny") {
Even if you have PLANNED downtime and announce it, it will shake the customers' confidence.
Jesse Berst isn't much deeper into the industry than the average PC World reader. And he doesn't cater to people who are in much deeper than the average PC World reader. So it's a pretty easy conclusion to make that he's just seeing the people that appear in front of the camera.
The root certs shipped with IE4.5 for Macintosh also expire tonight. We just found out at work the beginning of this week. We were waiting all week for the other shoe to drop and find out IE4 or 5 was the same way.
ZDNet kind of started the thing, but run a few of their pages through any validator or check out the site in Mozilla. Crap city!
Projecting even 18 months in this business is foolish.