Sounds like a little bit of RAM might help. But I'd look at the disk access - do you have dual hard drives and some level of RAID to increase the access? It takes a lot of time to read those files, and the usual tradeoff is doing it in RAM is 1/1000th the time to do it on disk. First see if just plopping in 128megs of RAM helps, then investigate getting better drives. The CPU is only part of the system.
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That would depend if the option price is set to the annual(or quarterly) high or low. Who knows, maybe some Microsft employees are glad this happened.
Well, I mentioned this to my neighbor last night and she pointed out that, for those who have never exercised their options, or are just starting, most tend to flip them immeadiately, as they need to borrow the cash to buy the options. And since she just bought a townhouse, she's options rich and cash poor. But she is beautiful...
Darn. I keep forgetting most people can't just liquidate a few underperforming stocks and use that to cash in options.
OK, so maybe this would only work if you'd been at MSFT for 5+ years and had some non-retirement cash available.
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There are a handful of other companies that would take a big hit with the death of MS; supply-chain type companies that have been enjoying the generous business of the colossus.
Yes, that's why I said there might be a small, short term recession in Seattle, with most of the impact in the Republik of Redmond.
original comment: Even better, why not a gas tax for space exploration.
Errr... how is this not picking my pocket?
You forget: under a capitalist system it's my job to exploit the workers for my personal gain. So, it's in society's best interest to tie a long-term reward to a short-term reward for you. We use your desire to drive an SUV to pay for the continuation of the species (space exploration) and, if we get enough revenue, perhaps a free vasectomy for you. As a bonus.
You assume I don't want to tax you. I do. It's to both my and our species survival. I could care less about what your copy of the constitution says to you, only in what the Supreme Court says I can get away with.
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OK, in either case, a MSFT employee who exercised a non-qualified stock option would pay taxes on the difference between the strike price and the current market price. Which means executing at a lower price minimizes your capital gains. So my advice is still sound. You exercise, pay a smaller tax, then hold the stock for the bounceback.
thus, a $70 option exercised at $80 would engender taxes on the $10 difference. Minimizing taxable gains. At which point you hold the stock and let it accumulate back up from the overreaction of the market.
If they had incentive stock options, they don't work at MSFT or they already have major holdings. So I don't care about them. I referred to Microserfs, not their masters.
Back when I went to S.F.U., I wrote a primitive OS which had a few interesting commands, including kill (my fave was kill user) and terminate. Of course, this depended upon one keeping the explosive charge devices connected.
Seriously, I've had some CPUs blow in my time, although it's more likely to be the power supplies. One wonders why we need viral warnings like this, when one could have a lot more fun getting them all riled up about the secret plot by the US Illuminati to deny Americans privacy rights that Europeans have.
I Have a Dual-500mhz machine, and i max out both cpu's all the time.
Ever considered buying more RAM? If you're maxing out a dual-500MHz machine, I would hope you've got at least 4 Gig of RAM on that baby. If you have less than 1 Gig, you're starving it, man.
I'm just mentioning this due to my observation that a lot of friends who maxed found problems like that went away when they upgraded from a measly 128Meg or 256Meg to some reasonable number like 512Meg.
Ground Zero - what is the effect?
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And my rent (out in Bellevue - the most boring city in the region) might even go down.
Hmm. Yes, if you're renting and work in another industry, this might be ok. Maybe it would be a good time to buy a house - I'd pick up Bill G's for $250K, if he sweetened the deal a bit.
But I'd be worried about the ripple effect in Bellevue. A lot of financial firms might have to cut losses and there would be a lot of vacate and overpriced real estate.
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OK, here's a primer on what to do. Note: I assume you have money and an open brokerage or retirement account. If you have neither, then you're probably going to stay poor. Like most people.
1. Retirement funds. Easy - DO NOTHING. Wait until MSFT bottoms out. Then, if you have money sitting in non-tech, shove it in a fund with major MSFT holdings to get rich on the upswing. You don't have to worry about capital gains, so go for it.
2. Have cash, can buy stock. Easy - buy MSFT after the EU sucker punches them tomorrow. Don't put more than 25% in it. Hold it for at least a year, then sell at 20% capital gains rate. If you have an IRA with cash, buy there, but sell earlier, in about six months, since you don't have to worry about capital gains.
3. Have MSFT stock. Easy - WAIT. MSFT will make money no matter what - ride this out.
4. Have MSFT options. Easy - exercise them on Thursday, after the EU gives them a second kick down. Take the capital gains hit at a low price, then ride it back up for at least a year so you get the low capital gains rate on the ride up. You are now rich. But you will pay much taxes next year, so be ready to borrow to cover this. Ignore your bosses - they want you not to do this, so that they can get away with doing it.
5. Have RHAT. Um, hope you got in at the IPO price. Well, expect some nice kicks up over the next few months. Be patient.
6. Can't trade in MSFT due to legal restrictions. Um, thanks for doing such a fine job.
Why we will see many exercised options soon
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Microsoft employees who were hired recently now have stock options that are essentially worthless -- they have the option to buy at a higher price than the stock is currently trading at. If the price keeps dropping through the next phase and through appeals then Microsoft can no longer woo or retain employees with options.
OK, MSFT does have many loyal employees - I know a bunch of them. And we should expect the smart ones to exercise their stock options now, so that they take the least tax hit on capital gains. An $70 option on an $80 day means only $10 capital gains, which they can then ride back up to $120 and hold for a year and only pay 20% (instead of 36% on the $10) on.
Which means massive liquidity. Cool, since I'm buying MSFT soon (not much, just $10K worth).
What if MSFT closed it's doors? Or Windows?
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If Microsoft closed it's doors, I don't think we'd have another "great" depression. Just because they go away doesn't mean their software and all of their support people do. Companies would still run Windows for a while, and they'd still have support for it. (There are 250,000 MCSE's after all)
Very true. The world would not have a recession, but more likely it would be a minor correction, allowing third world countries to start using Open Source software and cheaper alternatives, given lesser barriers to entry.
The US might have a minor setback, but even MSFT is only a bit player in the total tech sector valuation based in US corporations.
Now, here's the ouch painful part:
Washington State might have a recession. Boeing is in a downturn, apple sales are off, and it's only MSFT and SBUX that keep us going.
Redmond would have a recession. This would be wonderful, as all the Californians would move back home and we could finally get rid of all those SUVs that clog our roads.
Seattle might have a recession, even though most Seattle businesses are more webcentric, and have little to do with MSFT. For example, Adobe (three blocks from my house, in the Center of the Universe (aka Fremont)) might lose a small fraction of its business.
Over all, this would be a good thing for the world.
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A smart microserf would exercise her/his options in a few days at the low strike price, to avoid undue taxation.
Execute a $24 option at $74 instead of at $104. Then you declare (you have no choice) capital gains at $50, instead of $80. Then, hold on to the stock for at least a year, and sell above $120 while using the low 20% capital gains rate.
Just thought I'd pass this on to all my friends at MSFT, including my beautiful neighbor.
[Note - this could drive the stock price lower in the short term - and I am intending to buy some stock at low prices - but this would maximize your total return and minimize your tax burden. Caveat emptor, qui custodi custode.]
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True, with the EU lawsuit and the appeals process, MSFT still finds it's hands tied and free software and Open Source can continue to take hold.
That said, I'm still buying some MSFT stock when it drops below $80, as they will make money no matter what.
as I read it, I find more and more reasons why we need a strictly Intellectual Property, or Technology-oriented court in this country.
The Seventh Circuit is good for tech rulings in general, and Judge Jackson truly groks tech.
I find it amusing that MSFT defenders feel they have to defend an indefensible position. If it weren't so serious, I'd laugh.
Just because you're not charged for the printer doesn't make the toner cartridges any cheaper. Thus, we have the freeMS IE which helps kill the Netscape competitor (now owned by AOL).
[Note: I intend to buy about $10K of MSFT stock in a few days, when it bottoms out around $75, after the one-two punch of Judge Jackson and the EU decision to finally take action which will be announced tomorrow. But that's just because the market is full of fools who panic - I don't believe in MSFT as a company, I just like to make money off the unreasoned fears of the masses. And I own some Red Hat and AOL, so I'm not unbiased.]
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Well, I've got some Palm stock (yes, at the IPO price, so what) and when I think of the Handspring IPO, I'm not so sure about putting any money into their IPO.
I mean, the fact is, that's a lot of debt and while I think it's cool to have cheaper Handspring PDAs, I'm not sure they're not the AMD (Handspring) of the PDA set to the Intel (Palm) main leader. Microsoft is probably the Cyrix of the PDA set.
My point is, I'm pretty sure Palm's going to make money, but I wouldn't bet the farm on Handspring. I might buy a Handspring for my son or just for fun, but if you cut too much profit, you might get killed by the slim margin.
Oh, to the person who asked can everyone get IPOs:
No. If you've got some money, try E*Trade and you might luck out. Otherwise, you'll need an account at a major backer (e.g. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) with somewhere between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in assets (depends on the brokerage house).
And remember guys, these IPOs are risky. Some flop.
That said, even though I'm still frosted at E*Trade, IPOs (especially Linux) have been very very good to me.
You're committing the common error of assuming that what's mine is ours. If everyone who had a project that required just $10 of every citizen's income got what they wanted, we'd have... Oh wait; we're already there.
No, what's yours is mine. What's mine is mine. [grin]
As for this project, ask me nicely, you can have 10 times that $10 -- but try to pickpocket me, and I'll rip your liver out.
Even better, why not a gas tax for space exploration. Then, the more you drive, the more exploration we do as a nation. In that way, even though you're doing harm to the environment, you're helping our species get off this rock. We could even call the bill "The Law of Intended Consequences".
Our basic problem is that we are getting fairly good at finding planets, but not terrestrial ones. Gas giants, no prob. But Earth-sized, we're not quite there yet.
Additionally, the ones we do find that might be earth-sized we find only because they are erratic in orbit or receive too much radiation (which is how we can find them).
We need to start sending out packages above or below the solar plane, with sufficient telemetry and telescope size (e.g. Hubble), and in greater number. And we need to start sending drone ships with basic measurement devices towards some of the more likely candidates, to extend the search range.
But we would rather spend the money on fueling up our SUVs and creating military forces to get fuel for those SUVs. For only $10 a year per capita, we could (the US or the EU) easily create enough detection equipment and the scientists to analyze it.
I refuse to give ground on some of the more imporant Internet issues until it is clear that the issue has been lost. For example, I do not think that it is entirely inevitable that states and cities will be allowed to charge sales tax on purchases made from companies without some sort of physical presence in their jurisdiction. I also don't think that it is entirely inevitable that the federal government be able to enact some sort of federal sales tax on e-commerce.
I could be wrong, but I'm still willing to bet that it will become based on the physical presence of the consumer or the domicile of the consumer, and possibly also the physical presence (optional) of the seller. I'm not saying there will be a federal sales tax, just that the feds will collect the taxes for the states, counties, and municipalities for a service charge. Which is what some of us call a tax.
There are already tax laws for transactions that are carried out over state boundaries, why not simply use those?
Because, as structured, they allow some players not to pay taxes for transactions. So, I expect the government will "fix" the problem.
I can see why you would hope that the Internet regulations lean that way. On the other hand there are plenty of people that want to make it as hard for new startups as possible:). The big businesses that you are invested in, and who you are sure will force regulation and taxes onto the Internet are among the people that do not want to make it easier for pesky new startups to pollute the waters.
I pride myself on being an optimistic pragmatist. And we need to make sure that the regulations that will exist (unless politicians stop accepting corporate and holding fundraisers for executives) need to be shaped so that they don't stifle the small start-ups.
As an example, my real estate agent said last night that her mom is doing a small e-commerce startup - I think as a society that we need to encourage such things. But if we pretend that nothing will end up happening, I believe we'll get cut out of the debate about the form of the eventual regulations.
A good point. I'm trying to get rid of Windows, but it would be nice to have the option to buy a bundle so that I can mostly run Linux and use VMWare to run the Windows-only games that I have.
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Sounds like a little bit of RAM might help. But I'd look at the disk access - do you have dual hard drives and some level of RAID to increase the access? It takes a lot of time to read those files, and the usual tradeoff is doing it in RAM is 1/1000th the time to do it on disk. First see if just plopping in 128megs of RAM helps, then investigate getting better drives. The CPU is only part of the system.
That would depend if the option price is set to the annual(or quarterly) high or low. Who knows, maybe some Microsft employees are glad this happened.
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Well, I mentioned this to my neighbor last night and she pointed out that, for those who have never exercised their options, or are just starting, most tend to flip them immeadiately, as they need to borrow the cash to buy the options. And since she just bought a townhouse, she's options rich and cash poor. But she is beautiful
Darn. I keep forgetting most people can't just liquidate a few underperforming stocks and use that to cash in options.
OK, so maybe this would only work if you'd been at MSFT for 5+ years and had some non-retirement cash available.
There are a handful of other companies that would take a big hit with the death of MS; supply-chain type companies that have been enjoying the generous business of the colossus.
Yes, that's why I said there might be a small, short term recession in Seattle, with most of the impact in the Republik of Redmond.
original comment: Even better, why not a gas tax for space exploration.
Errr... how is this not picking my pocket?
You forget: under a capitalist system it's my job to exploit the workers for my personal gain. So, it's in society's best interest to tie a long-term reward to a short-term reward for you. We use your desire to drive an SUV to pay for the continuation of the species (space exploration) and, if we get enough revenue, perhaps a free vasectomy for you. As a bonus.
You assume I don't want to tax you. I do. It's to both my and our species survival. I could care less about what your copy of the constitution says to you, only in what the Supreme Court says I can get away with.
OK, in either case, a MSFT employee who exercised a non-qualified stock option would pay taxes on the difference between the strike price and the current market price. Which means executing at a lower price minimizes your capital gains. So my advice is still sound. You exercise, pay a smaller tax, then hold the stock for the bounceback.
thus, a $70 option exercised at $80 would engender taxes on the $10 difference. Minimizing taxable gains. At which point you hold the stock and let it accumulate back up from the overreaction of the market.
If they had incentive stock options, they don't work at MSFT or they already have major holdings. So I don't care about them. I referred to Microserfs, not their masters.
Back when I went to S.F.U., I wrote a primitive OS which had a few interesting commands, including kill (my fave was kill user) and terminate. Of course, this depended upon one keeping the explosive charge devices connected.
Seriously, I've had some CPUs blow in my time, although it's more likely to be the power supplies. One wonders why we need viral warnings like this, when one could have a lot more fun getting them all riled up about the secret plot by the US Illuminati to deny Americans privacy rights that Europeans have.
I Have a Dual-500mhz machine, and i max out both cpu's all the time.
Ever considered buying more RAM? If you're maxing out a dual-500MHz machine, I would hope you've got at least 4 Gig of RAM on that baby. If you have less than 1 Gig, you're starving it, man.
I'm just mentioning this due to my observation that a lot of friends who maxed found problems like that went away when they upgraded from a measly 128Meg or 256Meg to some reasonable number like 512Meg.
And my rent (out in Bellevue - the most boring city in the region) might even go down.
Hmm. Yes, if you're renting and work in another industry, this might be ok. Maybe it would be a good time to buy a house - I'd pick up Bill G's for $250K, if he sweetened the deal a bit.
But I'd be worried about the ripple effect in Bellevue. A lot of financial firms might have to cut losses and there would be a lot of vacate and overpriced real estate.
OK, here's a primer on what to do. Note: I assume you have money and an open brokerage or retirement account. If you have neither, then you're probably going to stay poor. Like most people.
1. Retirement funds. Easy - DO NOTHING. Wait until MSFT bottoms out. Then, if you have money sitting in non-tech, shove it in a fund with major MSFT holdings to get rich on the upswing. You don't have to worry about capital gains, so go for it.
2. Have cash, can buy stock. Easy - buy MSFT after the EU sucker punches them tomorrow. Don't put more than 25% in it. Hold it for at least a year, then sell at 20% capital gains rate. If you have an IRA with cash, buy there, but sell earlier, in about six months, since you don't have to worry about capital gains.
3. Have MSFT stock. Easy - WAIT. MSFT will make money no matter what - ride this out.
4. Have MSFT options. Easy - exercise them on Thursday, after the EU gives them a second kick down. Take the capital gains hit at a low price, then ride it back up for at least a year so you get the low capital gains rate on the ride up. You are now rich. But you will pay much taxes next year, so be ready to borrow to cover this. Ignore your bosses - they want you not to do this, so that they can get away with doing it.
5. Have RHAT. Um, hope you got in at the IPO price. Well, expect some nice kicks up over the next few months. Be patient.
6. Can't trade in MSFT due to legal restrictions. Um, thanks for doing such a fine job.
Microsoft employees who were hired recently now have stock options that are essentially worthless -- they have the option to buy at a higher price than the stock is currently trading at. If the price keeps dropping through the next phase and through appeals then Microsoft can no longer woo or retain employees with options.
OK, MSFT does have many loyal employees - I know a bunch of them. And we should expect the smart ones to exercise their stock options now, so that they take the least tax hit on capital gains. An $70 option on an $80 day means only $10 capital gains, which they can then ride back up to $120 and hold for a year and only pay 20% (instead of 36% on the $10) on.
Which means massive liquidity. Cool, since I'm buying MSFT soon (not much, just $10K worth).
If Microsoft closed it's doors, I don't think we'd have another "great" depression. Just because they go away doesn't mean their software and all of their support people do. Companies would still run Windows for a while, and they'd still have support for it. (There are 250,000 MCSE's after all)
Very true. The world would not have a recession, but more likely it would be a minor correction, allowing third world countries to start using Open Source software and cheaper alternatives, given lesser barriers to entry.
The US might have a minor setback, but even MSFT is only a bit player in the total tech sector valuation based in US corporations.
Now, here's the ouch painful part:
Washington State might have a recession. Boeing is in a downturn, apple sales are off, and it's only MSFT and SBUX that keep us going.
Redmond would have a recession. This would be wonderful, as all the Californians would move back home and we could finally get rid of all those SUVs that clog our roads.
Seattle might have a recession, even though most Seattle businesses are more webcentric, and have little to do with MSFT. For example, Adobe (three blocks from my house, in the Center of the Universe (aka Fremont)) might lose a small fraction of its business.
Over all, this would be a good thing for the world.
A smart microserf would exercise her/his options in a few days at the low strike price, to avoid undue taxation.
Execute a $24 option at $74 instead of at $104. Then you declare (you have no choice) capital gains at $50, instead of $80. Then, hold on to the stock for at least a year, and sell above $120 while using the low 20% capital gains rate.
Just thought I'd pass this on to all my friends at MSFT, including my beautiful neighbor.
[Note - this could drive the stock price lower in the short term - and I am intending to buy some stock at low prices - but this would maximize your total return and minimize your tax burden. Caveat emptor, qui custodi custode.]
True, with the EU lawsuit and the appeals process, MSFT still finds it's hands tied and free software and Open Source can continue to take hold.
That said, I'm still buying some MSFT stock when it drops below $80, as they will make money no matter what.
[yes, I own AOL and RHAT too]
as I read it, I find more and more reasons why we need a strictly Intellectual Property, or Technology-oriented court in this country.
The Seventh Circuit is good for tech rulings in general, and Judge Jackson truly groks tech.
I find it amusing that MSFT defenders feel they have to defend an indefensible position. If it weren't so serious, I'd laugh.
Just because you're not charged for the printer doesn't make the toner cartridges any cheaper. Thus, we have the freeMS IE which helps kill the Netscape competitor (now owned by AOL).
[Note: I intend to buy about $10K of MSFT stock in a few days, when it bottoms out around $75, after the one-two punch of Judge Jackson and the EU decision to finally take action which will be announced tomorrow. But that's just because the market is full of fools who panic - I don't believe in MSFT as a company, I just like to make money off the unreasoned fears of the masses. And I own some Red Hat and AOL, so I'm not unbiased.]
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Utilizing Linux in a Windows 2000 Environment or 'How do I work around all those intentional problems with the Windows 2000 boxen my boss insists we buy'
Actually, if you look at the Palm quarterlies, a lot of licensing revenues are coming in from cell phones, not just PDAs.
Less marketshare for WinCE - this is good.
Well, I've got some Palm stock (yes, at the IPO price, so what) and when I think of the Handspring IPO, I'm not so sure about putting any money into their IPO.
I mean, the fact is, that's a lot of debt and while I think it's cool to have cheaper Handspring PDAs, I'm not sure they're not the AMD (Handspring) of the PDA set to the Intel (Palm) main leader. Microsoft is probably the Cyrix of the PDA set.
My point is, I'm pretty sure Palm's going to make money, but I wouldn't bet the farm on Handspring. I might buy a Handspring for my son or just for fun, but if you cut too much profit, you might get killed by the slim margin.
Oh, to the person who asked can everyone get IPOs:
No. If you've got some money, try E*Trade and you might luck out. Otherwise, you'll need an account at a major backer (e.g. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) with somewhere between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in assets (depends on the brokerage house).
And remember guys, these IPOs are risky. Some flop.
That said, even though I'm still frosted at E*Trade, IPOs (especially Linux) have been very very good to me.
You're committing the common error of assuming that what's mine is ours. If everyone who had a project that required just $10 of every citizen's income got what they wanted, we'd have... Oh wait; we're already there.
No, what's yours is mine. What's mine is mine. [grin]
As for this project, ask me nicely, you can have 10 times that $10 -- but try to pickpocket me, and I'll rip your liver out.
Even better, why not a gas tax for space exploration. Then, the more you drive, the more exploration we do as a nation. In that way, even though you're doing harm to the environment, you're helping our species get off this rock. We could even call the bill "The Law of Intended Consequences".
Cool! Why not wait to do a Press Release and fake demo on this until half an hour after the next MSFT vapourware announcement about WinCE?
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Who needs ethics when we can just get down in the mud with Bill...
And, while we're at it, why not get rid of this whole Open Source concept for this Linux PDA - it's not like we're any different than the old guard
Our basic problem is that we are getting fairly good at finding planets, but not terrestrial ones. Gas giants, no prob. But Earth-sized, we're not quite there yet.
Additionally, the ones we do find that might be earth-sized we find only because they are erratic in orbit or receive too much radiation (which is how we can find them).
We need to start sending out packages above or below the solar plane, with sufficient telemetry and telescope size (e.g. Hubble), and in greater number. And we need to start sending drone ships with basic measurement devices towards some of the more likely candidates, to extend the search range.
But we would rather spend the money on fueling up our SUVs and creating military forces to get fuel for those SUVs. For only $10 a year per capita, we could (the US or the EU) easily create enough detection equipment and the scientists to analyze it.
I refuse to give ground on some of the more imporant Internet issues until it is clear that the issue has been lost. For example, I do not think that it is entirely inevitable that states and cities will be allowed to charge sales tax on purchases made from companies without some sort of physical presence in their jurisdiction. I also don't think that it is entirely inevitable that the federal government be able to enact some sort of federal sales tax on e-commerce.
I could be wrong, but I'm still willing to bet that it will become based on the physical presence of the consumer or the domicile of the consumer, and possibly also the physical presence (optional) of the seller. I'm not saying there will be a federal sales tax, just that the feds will collect the taxes for the states, counties, and municipalities for a service charge. Which is what some of us call a tax.
There are already tax laws for transactions that are carried out over state boundaries, why not simply use those?
Because, as structured, they allow some players not to pay taxes for transactions. So, I expect the government will "fix" the problem.
I think they're running 41,000 Linux instances on the mainframe to practice for the Code Wars competition ... capture the flag!
none of the games I've tried in vmware-1.1.2 running windoze NT worked
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Darn. Especially StarCraft and Age of Empires! My son wants StarCraft and I'd like to try Age of Empires
Maybe I have to wait for the port then
I can see why you would hope that the Internet regulations lean that way. On the other hand there are plenty of people that want to make it as hard for new startups as possible :). The big businesses that you are invested in, and who you are sure will force regulation and taxes onto the Internet are among the people that do not want to make it easier for pesky new startups to pollute the waters.
I pride myself on being an optimistic pragmatist. And we need to make sure that the regulations that will exist (unless politicians stop accepting corporate and holding fundraisers for executives) need to be shaped so that they don't stifle the small start-ups.
As an example, my real estate agent said last night that her mom is doing a small e-commerce startup - I think as a society that we need to encourage such things. But if we pretend that nothing will end up happening, I believe we'll get cut out of the debate about the form of the eventual regulations.
A good point. I'm trying to get rid of Windows, but it would be nice to have the option to buy a bundle so that I can mostly run Linux and use VMWare to run the Windows-only games that I have.
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