> If there's a major announcement on Monday, it'll be just in time to send major shock-waves through the stock markets (already reeling from the Microsoft "finding of fact"),
You're right, Monday will see some major stir in the stock markets. But not because of Micro$oft; that was this week. Not because of Transmeta, that's not even publically traded yet.
No, the hero of the day will be Corel. Corel will present its Linux distro at Comdex, and that'll be the day when the unwashed masses will notice that Corel is a Linux company too, and drive its stock price to Red Hat hights. Corel go! I'm in, are you too?
> I've used this product under Windows NT and it sucked,
Name one product which doesn't suck under Windows NT. Around here we've used Visual Cafe, and it sucked much worse than the Visual Age that we use now
> I don't see any reason why version 3.0 should be any better under Linux.
I do see a reason: Linux. At least, under Linux, VA won't have to rebuild its workspace whenever we switch from summer time to winter time and vice versa.
Does anybody else find it odd that this processor is being touted as "primarily for notebooks". If it is really the revolutionary beast that it is rumored to be, it would make much more sense to have it first on desktops than a notebook. Years after, when it will have replaced the Intel processors, we'll see it on notebooks, just as we have Intel compatible processors on notebooks now.
No movement in CYGN's stock though, except for the higher than average volume yesterday.
Beware, CYGN is not the Cygnus we're talking about here; CYGN does pharmaceuticals. Don't be taken in. In the meantime, could somebody please provide the real stock symbol for Cygnus software, or confirm that it isn't publically traded.
Use an Apache.htaccess. Show 404's to the lawyers, and 200's to everybody else. Let them live in their own phantasy world where information is kept hostage. Let everybody else see the truth that information wants to be free.
... you only connect when you pick up (press yes) the phone. And at busy it does happen that all channels are occupied. In that case, you can only dial emergency number (112), as two channels are dedicated for this purpose.
AFAIK, signalling (to manage movement from cell to cell, reception of SMS messages, attribution of channels etc) use a special out of band channel, independant of the main voice and data channels.
> supporting technologies (ex. read in the patent about combining single orders into one order: "expedited order selection").
Can't be that either. The French motorways systems (at least SAPRR and AREA) have prior art: if you take the same motorway twice in a short time (there and back), and pay your toll with Visa, both tolls are combined, and show up as one single transaction on your monthly statement. They've been doing this for a looong time (at least ten years, as far as I know).
In a way, yes. I had put up a protest site about the botched RHAT IPO affair, which featured a parody of their logo. At least that's what I supposed what it was all about. But, it could also have been copyright infringment due to the numerous scanned faxes. Or maybe, they weren't thrilled with my version of the story. Who knows? As the IP block was quite successful they didn't really get around to send a cease and desist order, and so I don't know what exactly they would have objected to.
> The problem is that any device that uses digital logic, such as your CD player, may radiate at frequencies that interfere with communication and navigation systems. Your device may be a weak RF emitter but it is much closer to the aircraft's antenna than the transmitters the flight crew are monitoring.
And if you're flying first class, your transmitter is even closer to the cockpit. So, shouldn't they allow second class passenger to use electronics, and forbid it in first class:-)
This is really old news. The german magazine "Der Spiegel" had article on this very subject already years ago. Actually, in most cases the extortors were just making idle threats. In other cases, the internet wasn't involved at all: the attackers just threatened to detonate a HERF device (which would destroy all data on computers nearby) near the bank's headquarters. Even if network security is up to snuff, there's really not much you could do against physical attacks. And this would also explain why the attackers usually prefer ransom, rather than stealing the money from accounts.
Btw, a couple of years ago, there was an incident where somebody fraudulently transferred away a large sum of money from Pernot-Ricard's (famous pastis drink producer) account to a numbered account in Switzerland. The perps were hoping that the incident would stay undiscovered, in the naive belief that at a company nobody would check bank accounts...
I flipped mine too (at $70), and will buy back twice as much shares when they'll drop to the mid $30's (I don't think they'd go lower than $30). In the meantime, I'm stashing the money into APLX and CORL, the two other Linux companies.
> Furthermore, I do not know for sure but it appears that people will get only the minimum 100 shares
If that's the case, I think they still can complain. As several posters pointed out, myself included, the allotment for those lucky & persistent enough to make it to the first round was 400 shares. Thus, if the people of the second round get anything less than 300, they can rightfully complain.
Maybe E*Trade will eat the losses? Would serve them right. But then, how much will everyone get? 400? Now, what would happen if now zillions of people apply? And out of what pool will those shares come? It can't be the same pool as for the first round, as supposedly those have already been distributed. Questions, questions.
But then of course, the IPOs your interested in won't probably happen at the same broker. Indeed that broker just made itself unpopular with likely IPO candidates such as Caldera, VA Linux Systems, etc.
Actually, there is a way to hedge your gains without risking your good standing with E*Trade: a stop order. This is a sell order which only gets conditionnally executed if RHAT stays above a certain limit (say $45). If the order doesn't get executed (even if submitted), then E*Trade won't penalize you (at least that's what they told me, so take this with a grain of salt).
So there are two possible outcomes:
RHAT falls below $45 (and probably further down from there), the order gets executed, and you become unpopular with Red Hat. But you did keep the price difference, which can be substantial.
RHAT does not fall below $45, but slowly rises further. Your order does not execute, and you stay popular with E*Trade, and selling would not have made sense anyways. After two weeks cancel your stop order: if RHAT didn't fall til then, it won't probably fall.
Just one word of advice: leave a sufficient difference between your stop price and the current market price, or your order might be triggered "accidentally" by a momentary fluctuation.
The rationale behind selling of immediately is the (often confirmed) theory that usually IPO's open very high, but then level off quickly, before appreciating again. So you might by shares at the IPO price of $14, sell the first day at $55, and buy them back later at $30. So you end up roughly with twice as much shares, and thus twice as much voice in the company.
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You're right, Monday will see some major stir in the stock markets. But not because of Micro$oft; that was this week. Not because of Transmeta, that's not even publically traded yet.
No, the hero of the day will be Corel. Corel will present its Linux distro at Comdex, and that'll be the day when the unwashed masses will notice that Corel is a Linux company too, and drive its stock price to Red Hat hights. Corel go! I'm in, are you too?
Name one product which doesn't suck under Windows NT. Around here we've used Visual Cafe, and it sucked much worse than the Visual Age that we use now
> I don't see any reason why version 3.0 should be any better under Linux.
I do see a reason: Linux. At least, under Linux, VA won't have to rebuild its workspace whenever we switch from summer time to winter time and vice versa.
Does anybody else find it odd that this processor is being touted as "primarily for notebooks". If it is really the revolutionary beast that it is rumored to be, it would make much more sense to have it first on desktops than a notebook. Years after, when it will have replaced the Intel processors, we'll see it on notebooks, just as we have Intel compatible processors on notebooks now.
Thanks for the confirmation
Check out this rumor on Slashdot
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/10/082
No movement in CYGN's stock though, except for
the higher than average volume yesterday.
Beware, CYGN is not the Cygnus we're talking about here; CYGN does pharmaceuticals. Don't be taken in. In the meantime, could somebody please provide the real stock symbol for Cygnus software, or confirm that it isn't publically traded.
Use an Apache .htaccess. Show 404's to the lawyers, and 200's to everybody else. Let them live in their own phantasy world where information is kept hostage. Let everybody else see the truth that information wants to be free.
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu
AFAIK, signalling (to manage movement from cell to cell, reception of SMS messages, attribution of channels etc) use a special out of band channel, independant of the main voice and data channels.
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Is cheaper, and works better too.
Come in and join the fun
Can't be that either. The French motorways systems (at least SAPRR and AREA) have prior art: if you take the same motorway twice in a short time (there and back), and pay your toll with Visa, both tolls are combined, and show up as one single transaction on your monthly statement. They've been doing this for a looong time (at least ten years, as far as I know).
In a way, yes. I had put up a protest site about the botched RHAT IPO affair, which featured a parody of their logo. At least that's what I supposed what it was all about. But, it could also have been copyright infringment due to the numerous scanned faxes. Or maybe, they weren't thrilled with my version of the story. Who knows? As the IP block was quite successful they didn't really get around to send a cease and desist order, and so I don't know what exactly they would have objected to.
And if you're flying first class, your transmitter is even closer to the cockpit. So, shouldn't they allow second class passenger to use electronics, and forbid it in first class :-)
Btw, a couple of years ago, there was an incident where somebody fraudulently transferred away a large sum of money from Pernot-Ricard's (famous pastis drink producer) account to a numbered account in Switzerland. The perps were hoping that the incident would stay undiscovered, in the naive belief that at a company nobody would check bank accounts...
... all is in the name of the company.
I flipped mine too (at $70), and will buy back twice as much shares when they'll drop to the mid $30's (I don't think they'd go lower than $30). In the meantime, I'm stashing the money into APLX and CORL, the two other Linux companies.
If that's the case, I think they still can complain. As several posters pointed out, myself included, the allotment for those lucky & persistent enough to make it to the first round was 400 shares. Thus, if the people of the second round get anything less than 300, they can rightfully complain.
Maybe E*Trade will eat the losses? Would serve them right. But then, how much will everyone get? 400? Now, what would happen if now zillions of people apply? And out of what pool will those shares come? It can't be the same pool as for the first round, as supposedly those have already been distributed. Questions, questions.
I got 400
Mine was also filled. Got 400 too (out of 400 or 500: I don't know. My initial order was 400, but I profited from confirmation to adjust it to 500).
Finally I got 400 shares (which was my initial IOI. I had later updated it to 500 though).
Actually, there is a way to hedge your gains without risking your good standing with E*Trade: a stop order. This is a sell order which only gets conditionnally executed if RHAT stays above a certain limit (say $45). If the order doesn't get executed (even if submitted), then E*Trade won't penalize you (at least that's what they told me, so take this with a grain of salt).
So there are two possible outcomes:
Just one word of advice: leave a sufficient difference between your stop price and the current market price, or your order might be triggered "accidentally" by a momentary fluctuation.
The rationale behind selling of immediately is the (often confirmed) theory that usually IPO's open very high, but then level off quickly, before appreciating again. So you might by shares at the IPO price of $14, sell the first day at $55, and buy them back later at $30. So you end up roughly with twice as much shares, and thus twice as much voice in the company.
Actually, for those of us who will eventually get their shares, E*Trade may actually be doing us a favor: RHAT has risen to $52 1/16 ;-)