After all the nonsensical uninformed crap from SCO, this sort of press release would be all to believable - after all, the claims and arguments in their press releases usually read like they're on the 'shrooms collective bus.
A competitor could've stepped in and done it but they didn't.
Actually, a competitor did - Sun - when they bought StarOffice and spawned OpenOffice.
If we set the value of the two as being on par, then OpenOffice has donated more $$$ in termw of word processors, spread sheets, etc., than Microsoft. Also, this "donation" didn't cost Microsoft $30 million. I'd be surprised if the hard costs were over $30,000 (and that the costs of publicizing it are more than the "donaton" itself) - a cost that is a tax writeoff; ultimately, the taxpayers are helping fund it.
That won't work -- if the hard drive isn't actally running, the heads are parked - any induced current would just harmlessly flow throught the housing.
What they could do is store it on one of those newfangled compressed carbon dioxide memory cubes - heat it up and watch it vanish in a puff of smoke.
Mre realistically - store it on nano-chips printed on paper - just burn it or eat it in an emergency.
I see this as a way to try to position themselves to sell off assets (their sco unix business) before the inevitable bankruptcy. Of course, Novell will soon be getting a large enugh judgment against them (unpaid $$$) that it will put them into bankruptcy.
actually wouldn't mind shows which only showed commercials.
The Price is Right, etc. How much more of a commercial can it be to say "If you can guess which price is right for this bottle of Palmolive, you can win this New Car, a blah blah blah blah... blah blah blah... Aren't you excied?!?"
... but keeping track is a hard thing to do. An example FTFA:
The Huffington Post's traffic makes the ads ripe for engagement: the site attracted nearly 1.2 million unique visitors in May
Usually how these stats work is you log all the different IP addresses that access your site during one day. This gives you an idea of how many unique visitors you have. Of course, the same visitor logging in the next day is again a unique visitor. So divide by 31 (the number of days in May) and you have the lower limit to the number of unique visitors (1,2m/31 = 38,709).
Now before someone bitches and moans about "that's only the lower limit" - consider this: if you're an advertiser, would you rather advertise to 1.2 million people that visit a particular site once, and never come back, or 38,000 that visit on a regular basis, so you can repeat your message a few timex and let it sink in?
assuming that the Registrar does proper due diligence before taking such actions
Read the experience of other posters... that's not what's happened in the past.
If someone's spamming, make them take their business elsewhere. Same as if someone goes into a restaurant and starts screaming at other cutomers - make them take their business elsewhere. The "pay us $199 reactivation fee and you're back up" would be more like telling the screamer in the restaurant "pay us a cover charge and you can abuse the other customers - until I need another cash injection."
... well, seeing as its "reactivation fees charged to the credit card on account"... and that the REAL spammers probably used stolen cc info, they'll be going "no problem, comradeski, here's our NEW credit card info, charge away... heck, charge it twice, you know, one for "next time", dah?".
Of course, the non-spammers end up with a kick in the head.
This isn't going to stop real spammers - they've got millions of windows slaves.
He got where he was by crooked, illegal business practices. The proper course would have been to confiscate his ill-gotten gains, same as you do with any thief. Instead, he not only gets to enjoy them, but to use them to rehabilitate his image.
Hey, if I could rob a bank of a million bucks, get to keep most of it by paying a token fine, and use a small percentage to make myself look good, maybe I'd do it... but that wouldn't make me less of a lying, crooked, cheating, scum-sucking thief.
... except that, according to the first paragraph of the article, he's STILL going to be chairman.
Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates' daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company's chairman and an advisor on key development projects.
... why would you expect a change of policy if he's still head honcho?
Hey, maybe we should switch to a form of taxation [fairtax.org] that doesn't require state and federal agencies to keep personal info on every American citizen
As I pointed out, your assumption that state and federal agencies wouldn't need to keep personal info on people was refuted by fairtax.org's own documents. The details are irrelevant to the argument - the proposal of fairtax.org requires records on everyone, so that prebates can be issued, fraud detected, etc.
Well, we can always put a nanny-cam on them, and make the feed available online... and arrest anyone looking at it on the presumption they were searching for kiddie pr0n:-)... after all, it's a gubbermint opahrashun
Just type sync and wait for the command prompt ti reappear - then you can unplug your usb without unmounting it, providied you're not running programs off it or writing data to it.
KDE was re-spawning it to try to figure out the drive size, so it could show you the free space, etc., in file view. Worse comes to worse, just CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill/respawn the x server (which kills KDE fast), and log in again under another window manager.
if your significant other loses their job, you are now supporting them... they're NOW a dependent... so YOUR prebate has to go up. Same thing if you have a kid. Now, if one of your dependents gets a job, they get the prebate, and your prebate has to go down.
The point is that even issuing prebates requires a list of people to pay the prebates to, and that list is still open to being snatched.
Slashdot Mirror
See - I told you it was in poor taste ...
but ... it gets the brand name out there, and will be repeated "ad nauseum", in a viral fashion.
After all the nonsensical uninformed crap from SCO, this sort of press release would be all to believable - after all, the claims and arguments in their press releases usually read like they're on the 'shrooms collective bus.
Actually, a competitor did - Sun - when they bought StarOffice and spawned OpenOffice.
If we set the value of the two as being on par, then OpenOffice has donated more $$$ in termw of word processors, spread sheets, etc., than Microsoft. Also, this "donation" didn't cost Microsoft $30 million. I'd be surprised if the hard costs were over $30,000 (and that the costs of publicizing it are more than the "donaton" itself) - a cost that is a tax writeoff; ultimately, the taxpayers are helping fund it.
Also, you may have forgotten about this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/21/red_hat_tr umps_ms_poor/ and http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/computing_life /85518. The money that would have been "saved" on OS and Office would have gone towards 800,000 more computers. This wasn't a punishment - this was a great way for Microsoft to get into a lot of schools with the backing of the government, and get a $550,000,000 discount on their fine. What a screw-up.
That won't work -- if the hard drive isn't actally running, the heads are parked - any induced current would just harmlessly flow throught the housing.
What they could do is store it on one of those newfangled compressed carbon dioxide memory cubes - heat it up and watch it vanish in a puff of smoke.
Mre realistically - store it on nano-chips printed on paper - just burn it or eat it in an emergency.
I see this as a way to try to position themselves to sell off assets (their sco unix business) before the inevitable bankruptcy. Of course, Novell will soon be getting a large enugh judgment against them (unpaid $$$) that it will put them into bankruptcy.
Missing step 5 to abbreviate OpenLinux by SCO X to OS X.
Not thaqt they have a hope in hell - this is just another attempt to "wookie wooke" potential bagholders.
Advertising definitely IS helpful.
Top 3 benefits of TV advertising
In other words, an intemission.
Top 3 benefits of Radio advertising
Top 3 benefits of Newspaper advertising
Lets hope the advertisers never catch on ...
The Price is Right, etc. How much more of a commercial can it be to say "If you can guess which price is right for this bottle of Palmolive, you can win this New Car, a blah blah blah blah ... blah blah blah ... Aren't you excied?!?"
'80's ad buyer
00's ad buyer":ies, damn lies, statistics ..."
Usually how these stats work is you log all the different IP addresses that access your site during one day. This gives you an idea of how many unique visitors you have. Of course, the same visitor logging in the next day is again a unique visitor. So divide by 31 (the number of days in May) and you have the lower limit to the number of unique visitors (1,2m /31 = 38,709).
Now before someone bitches and moans about "that's only the lower limit" - consider this: if you're an advertiser, would you rather advertise to 1.2 million people that visit a particular site once, and never come back, or 38,000 that visit on a regular basis, so you can repeat your message a few timex and let it sink in?
agreed, but its obvious that the original poster never read TFA (or they were doing a TFAD :-)
Well, I can't see too many people getting excited over porn featuring pirates myself, but "arrrrgh, matey, to each their own ..."
Poster wrote:
If you had read the article , you would have found that they ARE using magnets to wipe the hard drives. FTFA:
Read the experience of other posters ... that's not what's happened in the past.
If someone's spamming, make them take their business elsewhere. Same as if someone goes into a restaurant and starts screaming at other cutomers - make them take their business elsewhere. The "pay us $199 reactivation fee and you're back up" would be more like telling the screamer in the restaurant "pay us a cover charge and you can abuse the other customers - until I need another cash injection."
... well, seeing as its "reactivation fees charged to the credit card on account" ... and that the REAL spammers probably used stolen cc info, they'll be going "no problem, comradeski, here's our NEW credit card info, charge away ... heck, charge it twice, you know, one for "next time", dah?".
Of course, the non-spammers end up with a kick in the head.
This isn't going to stop real spammers - they've got millions of windows slaves.
... not at this point ... maybe at some future date. Let me get this working first :-)
I say betwee n 3 and 4 ... wanna bet?
well, it DID save you time, didn't it? And you won't get carpal tunnel by doing the three-fingered salute.
Nice troll, but I'm not biting ...
He got where he was by crooked, illegal business practices. The proper course would have been to confiscate his ill-gotten gains, same as you do with any thief. Instead, he not only gets to enjoy them, but to use them to rehabilitate his image.
Hey, if I could rob a bank of a million bucks, get to keep most of it by paying a token fine, and use a small percentage to make myself look good, maybe I'd do it ... but that wouldn't make me less of a lying, crooked, cheating, scum-sucking thief.
That's the reality. He's a crooked liar; sure, he's a rich crooked liar, but he's still a crooked liar. Here's his mug shot http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.html.
Let's recall your original statement:
As I pointed out, your assumption that state and federal agencies wouldn't need to keep personal info on people was refuted by fairtax.org's own documents. The details are irrelevant to the argument - the proposal of fairtax.org requires records on everyone, so that prebates can be issued, fraud detected, etc.
Well, we can always put a nanny-cam on them, and make the feed available online ... and arrest anyone looking at it on the presumption they were searching for kiddie pr0n :-) ... after all, it's a gubbermint opahrashun
... so you have a kid a month after the census, and you're out $X per annum until the next census?
No, it can't work if its only tied into census data. Especially since there are people who refuse to fill in the census for political/privacy reasons.
Just type sync and wait for the command prompt ti reappear - then you can unplug your usb without unmounting it, providied you're not running programs off it or writing data to it.
KDE was re-spawning it to try to figure out the drive size, so it could show you the free space, etc., in file view. Worse comes to worse, just CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill/respawn the x server (which kills KDE fast), and log in again under another window manager.
Hope this helps.
if your significant other loses their job, you are now supporting them ... they're NOW a dependent ... so YOUR prebate has to go up. Same thing if you have a kid. Now, if one of your dependents gets a job, they get the prebate, and your prebate has to go down.
The point is that even issuing prebates requires a list of people to pay the prebates to, and that list is still open to being snatched.