1. what references? i'd be curious about how he selected the references used to cull the paragraphs/mentions.
2. what about cults of personality? while the analysis methodology seems reasonable enough, certain figures are bound to produce more references. while in many cases, this is reasonable (e.g., shakespeare), in others, it's less so (e.g., byron vs. say shelley). this is going to skew things. while this may in fact be part of "eminence", i think it may not produce adequately objective results.
nice to see that the media still assembles quotes the way i remember being taught...
seriously, though:
while i don't doubt that's true of your clients (since, you know, you're the guy who would know), my question is of what percentage of such businesses are your clients representative? i wouldn't think it was a majority, but i approach this from a position of ignorance.
"one SCO reseller said the decision to leave smaller businesses out of the licensing program will have little effect on his business. most small businesses running Linux wouldn't purchase SCO's license anyway, according to tony lawrence, owner of a.p. lawrence, a consulting firm based in sharon, massachusetts.
"i think the chances of collecting from small businesses are very small, because they have very little to lose," he said. "they don't necessarily know whether they have SCO or linux. the only time they care about their computer is when it crashes.""
does this sound right to anybody here? a small firm that runs linux is insufficiently l337 to take an interest in SCO's antics? wouldn't, in fact, the reverse be true: the local linux admin (and staff) should by slashdotters and hence be paying very close attention indeed.
unless the consultant is speaking of mom & pop shops (which isn't exactly the same thing as fortune 1000), i just can't see this.
agreed. i'm really gonna miss the handspring visors. my visor deluxe is fantastic (still running fine after almost 5 years) and i wish like heck i'd gotten a visorphone for it when they were still available.
unfortunately, the form factors for a good PDA and a good mobile phone have very little overlap, but me, that's all the convergence i really want. 320x320 browsing i don't really need, frankly: it's only function, IMHO, is adding e-mail connectivity.
so does this mean that telcos are going to absorb the recording industry? i know the merger madness is over, but this would actually make a lot of sense.
and in other news, researchers announce the development of a new myomer processing technique. unveiling the product of this new process, the "schwarzenegger bicep". researchers warn against expecting battlemechs too soon, however...
all kidding aside, however: as soon as they can build a bipedal bot that can walk and do this stuff, let me know. while an interesting footnote, IMHO this isn't terribly earth-shattering.
i run opera 7.2 on win2k and while it doesn't crash opera, it does have problems rendering the page correctly the majority of the time. it's to the point where i only fire up IE for critical updates & ESPN. the rest of my browsing takes place here in opera. but i find that i prefer to get my sports fix on foxsports, myself.
opera has a small resource footprint (relatively speaking) and beats the pants off mozilla/netscape for performance & stability, IMX. i'm running it on a win2k box through ISA server in the office and it still runs faster than IE. tabbed browsing, nice interface and no eolas concerns.:D
26 counts of violating section 1030 a5ai 26 counts of violating section 1030 a5aii 27 counts of violating section 1028 a7
that's a total of 79 charges. that works out to about 5.96 years/charge. my question: is this in part function a function of ashcroft's "maximum penalty" guidelines?
that's a good one. the senior minister in my church is a man of no small stature and periodically, he used to get visits. he ties 'em up for hours as he methodically destroys their arguments.
i dunno: i think it's actually pretty fair. scheduling the release time while working with time zone differences globally is actually pretty difficult to accomplish, i should think.
what i found most interesting in the article:
"revolutions will also screen at selected imax venues, the first time a major hollywood release has ever premiered concurrently on both 35mm and the large-screen format.
OK, you just know people are gonna be going from imax to stadium-seating theatres to compare film experiences. heck, i might do it myself.
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i have 2 primary concerns:
1. what references? i'd be curious about how he selected the references used to cull the paragraphs/mentions.
2. what about cults of personality? while the analysis methodology seems reasonable enough, certain figures are bound to produce more references. while in many cases, this is reasonable (e.g., shakespeare), in others, it's less so (e.g., byron vs. say shelley). this is going to skew things. while this may in fact be part of "eminence", i think it may not produce adequately objective results.
ed
what's that old saying? "never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" or something like that?
let's not get reactionary here, folks. it wouldn't make sense to do what's being alleged:
1. every major journalist worth his/her salt would be all over it within hours. so it wouldn't succeed in obscuring information.
2. it would create an incredible backlash as soon as detected. what purpose would this serve?
ed
but, but, but...if we stop spreading FUD about the law, what will we do for posts around here?!
OK, sorry; i'm sure this'll get modded redundant in 0.3 nanoseconds but i just couldn't help it.
ed
that's a fairly modest price for an upgrade to boot. if you've got the chip and space, to me, it's a no-brainer.
ed
nice to see that the media still assembles quotes the way i remember being taught...
seriously, though:
while i don't doubt that's true of your clients (since, you know, you're the guy who would know), my question is of what percentage of such businesses are your clients representative? i wouldn't think it was a majority, but i approach this from a position of ignorance.
ed
what? informed, intelligent discussion? this is slashdot: get a grip! :D
:>
seriously though: not a bad idea at all. if only i could stop posting here long enough to do it...
[twitches]
ed
from TFA:
"one SCO reseller said the decision to leave smaller businesses out of the licensing program will have little effect on his business. most small businesses running Linux wouldn't purchase SCO's license anyway, according to tony lawrence, owner of a.p. lawrence, a consulting firm based in sharon, massachusetts.
"i think the chances of collecting from small businesses are very small, because they have very little to lose," he said. "they don't necessarily know whether they have SCO or linux. the only time they care about their computer is when it crashes.""
does this sound right to anybody here? a small firm that runs linux is insufficiently l337 to take an interest in SCO's antics? wouldn't, in fact, the reverse be true: the local linux admin (and staff) should by slashdotters and hence be paying very close attention indeed.
unless the consultant is speaking of mom & pop shops (which isn't exactly the same thing as fortune 1000), i just can't see this.
ed
do we like patent barratry today, or dislike it?
ed
agreed. i'm really gonna miss the handspring visors. my visor deluxe is fantastic (still running fine after almost 5 years) and i wish like heck i'd gotten a visorphone for it when they were still available.
unfortunately, the form factors for a good PDA and a good mobile phone have very little overlap, but me, that's all the convergence i really want. 320x320 browsing i don't really need, frankly: it's only function, IMHO, is adding e-mail connectivity.
ed
interesting point re: telcos.
so does this mean that telcos are going to absorb the recording industry? i know the merger madness is over, but this would actually make a lot of sense.
ed
yikes, prepare for an onslaught of messages...
ed
and in other news, researchers announce the development of a new myomer processing technique. unveiling the product of this new process, the "schwarzenegger bicep". researchers warn against expecting battlemechs too soon, however...
all kidding aside, however: as soon as they can build a bipedal bot that can walk and do this stuff, let me know. while an interesting footnote, IMHO this isn't terribly earth-shattering.
ed
would there be an isotope DS9?
ed
of course, just after i hit [submit] i realized i missed one: darlscrotium.
what scares me is the possibility that someone is likely running off to netsol or some other registrar to lock up those domains.
ed
my vote would have been for SCOsuxium: much better ring to it, after all.
u m
but imagine if those physics guys were slashdotters: we'd have
goatsexium
hotgritsium
firstpostium
beowulfi
and of course:
cowboynealium
ed
i'd really love it if there was a site that translated press releases into candid & frank english.
ed
i run opera 7.2 on win2k and while it doesn't crash opera, it does have problems rendering the page correctly the majority of the time. it's to the point where i only fire up IE for critical updates & ESPN. the rest of my browsing takes place here in opera. but i find that i prefer to get my sports fix on foxsports, myself.
man, i love opera.
ed
that's interesting: i've had exactly the reverse experience and just last week, in fact.
ed
opera has a small resource footprint (relatively speaking) and beats the pants off mozilla/netscape for performance & stability, IMX. i'm running it on a win2k box through ISA server in the office and it still runs faster than IE. tabbed browsing, nice interface and no eolas concerns. :D
very nice app.
ed
he's facing 471 years b/c there are:
26 counts of violating section 1030 a5ai
26 counts of violating section 1030 a5aii
27 counts of violating section 1028 a7
that's a total of 79 charges. that works out to about 5.96 years/charge. my question: is this in part function a function of ashcroft's "maximum penalty" guidelines?
ed
o, i like that.
:>
my big question, of course, is why do you still have your old ipaq?
ed
that was intelligent, fair-minded and well-written. sadly, this means that it won't be modded up "interesting" or "informative" as it deserves...
hope your luck changes soon.
ed
that's a good one. the senior minister in my church is a man of no small stature and periodically, he used to get visits. he ties 'em up for hours as he methodically destroys their arguments.
but the full latin rite: that's just priceless.
ed
o, sure: i'm sure none of those guys ever would ever install unauthorized software on their desktops... :D
and as the other reply inferred: i was responding more to your comparison to the WTC attacks, etc, than the rest to be honest.
still: you're clearly clue-ful, so i regret using the wrath of khan line on you.
ed
i dunno: i think it's actually pretty fair. scheduling the release time while working with time zone differences globally is actually pretty difficult to accomplish, i should think.
what i found most interesting in the article:
"revolutions will also screen at selected imax venues, the first time a major hollywood release has ever premiered concurrently on both 35mm and the large-screen format.
OK, you just know people are gonna be going from imax to stadium-seating theatres to compare film experiences. heck, i might do it myself.
ed