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  1. Re:Wow - CmdrTaco pissed off on Tech Stocks Tumble · · Score: 1
    I don't really know what to say about it: what I know, and in fact my interest in the Stock Market can fill a shotglass


    Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. On one side you have what basically accounts the promotion of certain companies in order to drive the price up. On the other hand you plead ignorance and disinterest.


    I presume that it's not your intent to drive the prices up for your own portfolio however now that you're a celebrity you need to be aware of appearances...

  2. Re:big deal on Tech Stocks Tumble · · Score: 1
    the common workers didn't feel the impact at all


    When large amounts of money were withdrawn from economies such as Thailand, that money could no longer roll through those Asian economies.


    Instead the money found its way into USA stock markets for the acquisition of corporate stocks, creating an unusual and unprecedented demand for shares traded through US stock exchanges (the prices of which are not truly reflective of the fundamental businesses or investments of those corporations). So, no, the common worker didn't feel the impact as long as they were American.

  3. Re:Bill Gates' loss = everyone's gain on Tech Stocks Tumble · · Score: 1

    It will be BG's gain when the valuation of the linux-based companies falls to pennies on the dollar and BG just picks them up with little effort.

  4. corel linuxcare stampede on Several Stampede Developers Depart · · Score: 1

    linux is definitely in a window of transition this week

  5. gnutella on Paul McCartney Goes After MP3.com · · Score: 1

    find it at www.chords.com

  6. Re:Engineer's strike a bigger story. on Boeing Throws Space Station Parts Away · · Score: 1

    So the engineers took them?!? This is getting better and better...

  7. Microsoft and Linuxone on LinuxOne CTO Interview · · Score: 1

    My concern is that Microsoft does allow Linuxone to sell Office for Linuxone and when everybody gets pissed off at Linuxone Microsoft can turn around and say "We tried to support the community but this is what you have to expect from free software."

  8. Sources for funding, PR, etc on Geek's Startup Business Experiences · · Score: 1

    MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory is helpful. They'll be taping their events and broadcasting them soon also.

    www.deja.com/~vlab
    www.vlab.org

  9. Re:Jurisdiction on iCrave TV Loses Battle against U.S. Broadcasters · · Score: 3

    Reason is because they registered their domain name using Pennsylvania as the address. Oversight?

    Registrant:
    WILLIAM R. CRAIG CONSULTING (ICRAVETV-DOM)
    904 Beaver St
    SEWICKLEY, PA 15143
    US
    Domain Name: ICRAVETV.COM

  10. got it!!! on The GCHQ Challenge · · Score: 1

    it's "do i make you 'orny baby"

  11. Re:Nice photo on Gates Steps Down As CEO, Ballmer In · · Score: 1

    just remember the past

  12. San Francisco on Y2K Rollover - Post Your Experiences Here! · · Score: 1

    Here's how we'll be celebrating in San Francisco...

    http://www.pabulum.com/images/y2k.jpg

  13. Vote on CNN... on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble? · · Score: 2

    CNN has set up one of their polls. Let them know what you think.

    http://www.cnn.com/19 99/TECH/ptech/12/28/dvd.crack/index.html

  14. Re:What it sounds like to me... on The Upcoming LinuxOne IPO · · Score: 1

    And this guy is in the right company...

    Roy Holmes joined the Company as VP of Sales in October 1999. Since 1993 he has provided contract manufacturing services for first tier CEM, GSS Array, and middle tier, ISIS, generating ~$60 million in sales for telephone fraud detection devices, *snip*

  15. Re:Makes you wonder. on Jeff Bezos Named Time Person of the Year · · Score: 1

    Bezos is an e-commerce symbol, nothing more nothing less.

    and I'd say that's having a tiny impact on todays society.


  16. Re:Waste of money on $7.5m for Domain Name · · Score: 1

    you're reading too much into this... think @aol.com and the Me Too! mentality...

  17. Re:Why I do NOT like this! on VA Linux Systems Sends "The Letter" · · Score: 1

    at one time the same was said about the internet in general...

  18. Check out the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab on Suggestions for a Startup Web Company · · Score: 1

    Check out
    www.vlab.org
    www.deja.com/~vlab for good resources.



  19. However the official distribution... on Linux to be Official OS of People's Republic of China · · Score: 2

    However the official distribution is Chinux

  20. Re:Maybe Babelfish for Hemos? on U.S. Military Grapples With Cyber Warfare Rules · · Score: 1

    Using the Hemos-to-English selection, Babelfish returned "The context is which has it supposdly made not becoming not broken in the military service of Serbian"

    So cut him some slack... He made more sense the translation did...

  21. Re:potato! on Debian Freeze Rescheduled · · Score: 1

    thanks Dan for the insight...

  22. This whole article is flamebait. on How the Internet Boom Harms Society · · Score: 3

    /quote/
    Most of my friends work either directly on the Internet or in some sort of Internet-related computer field.
    //quote/

    And then he wonders if this is a good thing?!?

    Why do you think most people who are in the computer field get into the computer field? Because either 1) it's a labor of love and/or 2) it allows the freedom to work at the office, home, on a plane, and if the government gets to oppressive you can pick your marbles and move it all through customs effortlessly to a new playground. Try doing that if you're "happily modifying his neighbors' threshers and steam tractors."

    That is why the New Internet Economy(tm) is growing so rapidly and the industrials didn't. Freedom is the path of least resistance. Is that really so hard to understand. What you're proposing has already been tried in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc.

    Per Investor's Business Daily, "The US several years back boosted the maximum speed limit on its open highways to 65 miles per hour from 55. A surge in computer investment and the Internet have done the same thing for the economy."

    And Roblimo, you need to read 'Atlas Shrugged.'

    Geeeesh, I hate these time changes...

  23. Re:Make your own portal on Altavista Redesign is more 'Portal-Like' · · Score: 1

    You may want to check out http://multiagent.com/bk2site

  24. Re:Paxman's reactions on Jeremy Paxman, BBC, Interview with Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    to paraphrase Henry Ford:

    "One of the things you will be able to select is the personality," Gates tells his interviewer.

    "You're not serious?," Mr Paxman asks.

    "As long as it's Bob," answered the squeaky one.

  25. Re:Bite the Wax Tadpole on Lost in the Translation · · Score: 1

    wasn't there another one where "Coke Adds Life" came out "Coke brings back your dead relatives" or something to that affect?