Pump up the stock price based on nice big numbers ("43
million active users and 425 advertisers") that lead
the unwary/uninformed to assume that this company has
specialized capabilities that can be the beginning of
the next Internet boom; the executives and investment
backers incrementally cash out while stories about the
sure thing are dribbled to the media to keep the stock
price up.
Groklaw
discusses the SCO strategy in greater detail.
Windows 98 support was extended
through 2006
"Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition support was scheduled to end on January 16, 2004. However, continual evaluation of the Support Lifecycle policy revealed that customers in the smaller and the emerging markets needed additional time to upgrade their product. "
In other words, customers who we were going to abandon looked like they might jump to Linux rather than buy XP; so we decided we would string them along for another couple of years until we can convince them that Longhorn "is the most secure version of Windows ever" TM
Yes! Amazing in this day of attempts to install back doors in the Linux kernel and the nearly daily discovery of buffer overflow exploits in that other, integrated operating system that this is the first mention of Thompson's classic. Every would be programmer should read Reflections on Trusting Trust
Lots of good ideas here, but as one who has done it too (for an upper class computer science class) if the students have access to the Internet in general they'll abuse it.
Freshman will spend all their time AIMing their old high school buddies, checking out those sites that are blocked in the library, or messaging their classmates to do it. These are freshman who are having their first taste of freedom; not maybe motivated post-docs.
If Internet capabilities are a necessary part of your class, get the sysadmins to put that access at _your_ control. That way you can turn off all Internet access except when you want to illustrate some point.
Think about ways you can lead the students to see and do what _you_ think is important to the study of English in your class; but give them free rein and the CS majors in class will be re-writing your blog software for you. English will be the last thing they learn.
The easiest: ask for a room change and give them Internet related assignments.
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Pump up the stock price based on nice big numbers ("43 million active users and 425 advertisers") that lead the unwary/uninformed to assume that this company has specialized capabilities that can be the beginning of the next Internet boom; the executives and investment backers incrementally cash out while stories about the sure thing are dribbled to the media to keep the stock price up. Groklaw discusses the SCO strategy in greater detail.
In other words, customers who we were going to abandon looked like they might jump to Linux rather than buy XP; so we decided we would string them along for another couple of years until we can convince them that Longhorn "is the most secure version of Windows ever" TM
I've said this before; read Reflections on Trusting Trust
Yes! Amazing in this day of attempts to install back doors in the Linux kernel and the nearly daily discovery of buffer overflow exploits in that other, integrated operating system that this is the first mention of Thompson's classic. Every would be programmer should read Reflections on Trusting Trust
Lots of good ideas here, but as one who has done it too (for an upper class computer science class) if the students have access to the Internet in general they'll abuse it.
Freshman will spend all their time AIMing their old high school buddies, checking out those sites that are blocked in the library, or messaging their classmates to do it. These are freshman who are having their first taste of freedom; not maybe motivated post-docs.
If Internet capabilities are a necessary part of your class, get the sysadmins to put that access at _your_ control. That way you can turn off all Internet access except when you want to illustrate some point.
Think about ways you can lead the students to see and do what _you_ think is important to the study of English in your class; but give them free rein and the CS majors in class will be re-writing your blog software for you. English will be the last thing they learn.
The easiest: ask for a room change and give them Internet related assignments.