From a news.comarticle. Congressman Bob Goodlatte equates encryption backdoors to giving you house key to the local police. He's also pushing for more encryption not less inorder to make U.S. companies/systems more secure against cyber attacks.
Nice to see at he's got the right idea. Check out the article for more of his comments...
to account for $33.8 million in costs related to acquisitions made in prior periods
This is typically used to align the books with the 'book value' of any companies they bought. I.E if they paid $100M in stock for company X, yet company X only had $20M of assets on their books, the difference $100M-20M = $80M, must be written off get get all the books to balance, they are not out of any cash, just more outstanding shares of their stock.
The article said that it was also 0 cents this quarter, the 2 cent loss was the year-ago quarter.
As for 100,000 vs 55.3M loss, it's related to one-time charges and write-offs... i.e. serverance packages that won't re-occur (at least for those people already laid-off).
2001-09-10 15:25:55 Via Fires back at Intel (articles,patents) (rejected)
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These still pictures don't do it justice... be sure to look for it to be repeated on the History Channel (it was on last weekend), hopefully they will repeat it again soon..
There are 100 thousand million potential individual combinations available if all digits between 0 and 9 are employed. It is likely, however, that each country would administer its own numbers and use its own area and country codes, which could further increase the possible combinations.
Just say, 100 Billion combinations...
And in the second part of the paragraph... if each country uses it's own area codes, it would decrease, not increase the combinations...
Since the new owners don't have the massive debt load that Metricom had, pricing should be able to be greatly reduced, and stilll allow them to make a profit.
I'm hoping, it can be down to ~$30/month for unlimited access...
Doubtful they will release it for the public.. Companies typically do things like this to get the press, but they don't want the development/support costs to get everything ironed out into an actual product.
They will likely get a bunch of press/developer interest in QNX at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston..
Man, the last trident video card I saw was PCI... With all the major brands going under, I wouldn't have expected Trident to last.
What do they expect to get from keeping their specs private?? It's not like they are the leading chipset maker, and other companies are attempting to steal some secrets.
So when a country's judges make stupid decisions like this, everyone else to just totally block all access to their site from any of that country's IP addresses. I.E. Prevent that entire country from accessing any other's country's content.
Yes, I know that the users in that country could use a special server in another country to get access to the material, but you would not be 'publishing' in that country and should be able to fight this better.
Yahoo should have done this with France...
Eventually the judges may reconsider their rulings...
So, since you're all so quick to bitch at people for the slightest possibility of a so-called GPL violation, will you also bitch at IBM if the entire software kit is not freely available to *ANYONE* who wishes to look at the source?
GPL does NOT require to you give it to ANYONE. You only have to give it to customers that ask for the source, but then you CAN NOT RESTRICT how those customers use or distribute it.
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Did you or the person MODing you up actually read the article??? This is not an physical keyboard, it's for the touchpad of your palm type device. Not many people have used a QWERTY keyboard with the palm Stylus...
And it's true that beaming shouldn't be a fear at all... if the teachers would actually look into it, they'd realize that Palms can only beam when they're pointed right at each other, and are within (I think) 3 feet. Not to mention the beeping. That would make it kind of tough to beam answers without being blatantly obvious.
Cheating IS an ISSUE... You can beam WITHOUT beeping... If a program is not available yet, students could easily write a palm app to help too. And this is not even considering if Bluetooth can make it to the market, and you remove any line-of-sight problems...
But if it was really that big of a 'break-through' why haven't we seen laptops announced with it yet?
They claim:
LumiLeds is already working with LCD panel manufacturers for mass adoption and has targeted having LuxeonTM powered backlights on the market by the end of this year.
This doesn't really say much... Placement of the 'and' makes this sentence vague... is it 'LumiLeds and the LCD panel manufacturers target the end of the year' or 'LumiLeds target the end of the year... hum...
Seems like LumiLed's would have announce a partnership or firm agreement with a manufacturer by now if it was on target.
It's leadership (CEO, Board of Directors, etc.) which are pushing for these changes...
They make MILLIONS/year, and with these extra restrictions, they stand to make MILLIONS more. At that point the $15 DVD, CD, Book is just noise. If they can double their income, what should they care about having to buy a few more items at $15 each...
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The PS2 DID NOT do this... some merchants decided to do this, but it was NOT pushed by Sony...
I had no problem getting the PS2 from Walmart without any additional purchases. Circuit City bundled that awful Fireworks game... But this was the merchant's choice...
In this case, Microsoft is forcing the merchants to do the bundling.
Why are some of these cases being tried under the 'Trade Secret Act'? When someone designs something new... they have an option on what they want to do.
Either they can patent it, which in turn for 'total' disclosure to the public for the 'invention', they get exclusive control over who uses it. The Total Disclosure allows the public to use the 'invention' after the patent expires.
If they decide to keep it a 'trade secret', they don't have to disclose it, but if someone independently discovers it, they have lost their rights to it.. As long as someone doesn't steal the information (or break a contract) from the original inventors, there is no problem.
Has the new 'California Uniform Trade Secrets Act' changed this??? The information above was from a Lawyer from a Fortune 500 Company when I was Co-Op-ing there in early 90's.
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I only saw one Laser Disc on EBay's site ;-)
Looks like someone been working star trek too long ;-)
From the article:
Does all this work and they just abandon it ;-)
If it was someone like NIN, it would be news worthy, but does any here really care about Micheal Jackson...
From a news.com article. Congressman Bob Goodlatte equates encryption backdoors to giving you house key to the local police. He's also pushing for more encryption not less inorder to make U.S. companies/systems more secure against cyber attacks.
Nice to see at he's got the right idea. Check out the article for more of his comments...
A large chunk of that was
to account for $33.8 million in costs related to acquisitions made in prior periods
This is typically used to align the books with the 'book value' of any companies they bought. I.E if they paid $100M in stock for company X, yet company X only had $20M of assets on their books, the difference $100M-20M = $80M, must be written off get get all the books to balance, they are not out of any cash, just more outstanding shares of their stock.
The article said that it was also 0 cents this quarter, the 2 cent loss was the year-ago quarter.
As for 100,000 vs 55.3M loss, it's related to one-time charges and write-offs... i.e. serverance packages that won't re-occur (at least for those people already laid-off).
Apparently, it depends on who submits an article on whether or not it's posted...
The article at infoworld , I submitted.
These still pictures don't do it justice... be sure to look for it to be repeated on the History Channel (it was on last weekend), hopefully they will repeat it again soon..
From the article...
Just say, 100 Billion combinations...
And in the second part of the paragraph... if each country uses it's own area codes, it would decrease, not increase the combinations...
Since the new owners don't have the massive debt load that Metricom had, pricing should be able to be greatly reduced, and stilll allow them to make a profit.
I'm hoping, it can be down to ~$30/month for unlimited access...
Doubtful they will release it for the public.. Companies typically do things like this to get the press, but they don't want the development/support costs to get everything ironed out into an actual product.
They will likely get a bunch of press/developer interest in QNX at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston..
Man, the last trident video card I saw was PCI... With all the major brands going under, I wouldn't have expected Trident to last.
What do they expect to get from keeping their specs private?? It's not like they are the leading chipset maker, and other companies are attempting to steal some secrets.
The three images of the racquetball, especially the last donut shaped image was great.
So when a country's judges make stupid decisions like this, everyone else to just totally block all access to their site from any of that country's IP addresses. I.E. Prevent that entire country from accessing any other's country's content.
Yes, I know that the users in that country could use a special server in another country to get access to the material, but you would not be 'publishing' in that country and should be able to fight this better.
Yahoo should have done this with France...
Eventually the judges may reconsider their rulings...
So, since you're all so quick to bitch at people for the slightest possibility of a so-called GPL violation, will you also bitch at IBM if the entire software kit is not freely available to *ANYONE* who wishes to look at the source?
GPL does NOT require to you give it to ANYONE. You only have to give it to customers that ask for the source, but then you CAN NOT RESTRICT how those customers use or distribute it.
So, um, would CP/Q be the fifth version of CP/M? That would certainly explain why they found it lacking...
No the fifth version of CP/M is MS-DOS 5.0.
The news.com site also covered the story.
So how is this any different than your old article.
Did you or the person MODing you up actually read the article??? This is not an physical keyboard, it's for the touchpad of your palm type device. Not many people have used a QWERTY keyboard with the palm Stylus...
Cheating IS an ISSUE... You can beam WITHOUT beeping... If a program is not available yet, students could easily write a palm app to help too. And this is not even considering if Bluetooth can make it to the market, and you remove any line-of-sight problems...
But if it was really that big of a 'break-through' why haven't we seen laptops announced with it yet?
They claim:
This doesn't really say much... Placement of the 'and' makes this sentence vague... is it 'LumiLeds and the LCD panel manufacturers target the end of the year' or 'LumiLeds target the end of the year... hum...
Seems like LumiLed's would have announce a partnership or firm agreement with a manufacturer by now if it was on target.
It's leadership (CEO, Board of Directors, etc.) which are pushing for these changes...
They make MILLIONS/year, and with these extra restrictions, they stand to make MILLIONS more. At that point the $15 DVD, CD, Book is just noise. If they can double their income, what should they care about having to buy a few more items at $15 each...
Do you need buy.com Coupons ?
The PS2 DID NOT do this... some merchants decided to do this, but it was NOT pushed by Sony...
I had no problem getting the PS2 from Walmart without any additional purchases. Circuit City bundled that awful Fireworks game... But this was the merchant's choice...
In this case, Microsoft is forcing the merchants to do the bundling.
Do you need buy.com Coupons ?
Why are some of these cases being tried under the 'Trade Secret Act'? When someone designs something new... they have an option on what they want to do.
Either they can patent it, which in turn for 'total' disclosure to the public for the 'invention', they get exclusive control over who uses it. The Total Disclosure allows the public to use the 'invention' after the patent expires.
If they decide to keep it a 'trade secret', they don't have to disclose it, but if someone independently discovers it, they have lost their rights to it.. As long as someone doesn't steal the information (or break a contract) from the original inventors, there is no problem.
Has the new 'California Uniform Trade Secrets Act' changed this??? The information above was from a Lawyer from a Fortune 500 Company when I was Co-Op-ing there in early 90's.