hehe. Indeed. Retains all the bad stuff, and tries to act like that's the good stuff.
Perhaps even, "Old English 800," bka "8 Ball."
I think the malt liquor experience is lost outside the US...
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How did you reach that conclusion? The open tech community is blasting SCO as well as the open investment community. So the business community cant just listen to one. Its price manipulation from Market Makers, and day traders.
Its not the hammer and the nail, but the stroke that counts.
My nail stroking technique is far superior to yours, and I can build a house in half the time!
If I was not able to patent this stroking technique, do you think I would have invented it??? (notwithstanding the fact that I can build a house in 1/2 the time...)
Its just getting stupider and stupider. I wonder if we will reach a critical mass at some point.
Wrong. 8 million was 1 time. MS has option in current contract to *donate* 250,000 for another 2 (i believe) quarters.
Plus you are not counting revenue as profit are you???
I expect when their profits drop through the floor, or the shareholders realize their only profitability is from MS, they will dump the stock. That will flush the company. Note that many of their bills are paid in stock options.
School is valuable, education is valuable, a degree is only a certificate that says that an individual has completed a course of study. There is a strong correlation between possession of a degree and possession of an education, but it's not 100%. I've met plenty of people with solid CS educations but no degrees, and more than a few with degrees but lacking in the knowledge and skills they should have obtained. That being the case, I can't assume that merely because someone has a degree they know the difference between a compiler and an editor, so I have to try to independently ascertain the knowledge level of every candidate.
I am not suggesting the person gets hired merely because he has a degree. Funny you ask questions of the experienced, but you do not of the degreed? People with degrees have transcripts. They have teachers. They have schools. Each of which gives you another gauge of the value of the degree.
Which means: whether or not you have a degree doesn't tell me squat about how much you know. A few pointed questions plus a brief review of several years of solid work experience, however, tell me a lot about what you know. And it will also tell me quite a bit more about how quickly you can learn.
So then yes. You believe a degree is just a piece of paper. No way you even waste time asking pointed questions of a person with a degree...Why is work experience solid, but an education at an accredited respected US institution of higher learning not?
I mean, just because you have a degree doesn't mean you're good at learning; there are plenty of people who get degrees through sheer force of will despite their lack of ability, and while I admire their tenacity they don't make great programmers.
Yes, and just because you blundered through half a dozen projects does not mean you know squat about programming, nor can do it efficiently. Their are plenty BS artists that pad their resumes and experiences. And don't go telling me you ask questions and know the difference, because you just said you couldn't do the same for the degreed person.
I have no idea why you doubt the large companies in Michigan would not hire as I suggest. Remember, we are not talking about hiring from a resume. Their must be also an interview. And equally you ask people about their experience in class. And on interns and co-ops. And on class projects. College is not just flipping pages in a book...And please do not go comparing someone with 10 years experience to a fresh college graduate. A degree is worth about 5 years tops. But we already know you do not respect it at all. To each his own.
I wonder that too myself considering he owns majority share in The SCO Group. Also most of the SCO folks as I hear it are old Novell folks. Stinks to high hell.
not quite. insiders hold more than 40% of SCO stock. Even though they stock exchange technically reduces investor value, it does not happen till the stock crosses the market.
As soon as they try and off load 500,000 shares into the actual NASDAQ, the price is going to start a nose dive. So they have to sneak it out in maybe 10,000-50,000 share lots per day. Tough job.
in other words, turning that stock into cash is an equally tough job.
Check that my friend. Darl can not sell his stock yet AFAIK. If you check the insider selling you will see everyone BUT Darl. Unsure if he is totally restricted or partially.
In any event, he gets a tidy bonus for 4 straight quarters of profitability before 2005. Hes at 2 straight now.
Further, I do not think this stock has risen on the promise of licensing revenue. This stock has been under heavy manipulation. But it seems that today was the breaking day, and the volume was WAY down today.
MS and SUNW for UNIX licensing. Nothing to do with Linux. not to mention the $5M in stock that went the other way to SUNW. Keep reading the quarterly till you get to that part;)
by the time they make it to court, they will be broke.
Darl predicted about $25M next quarter. thats the current $7M in UNIX stuff, plus $19M from SCOSource I suppose!?
But of course since they pay YOU to buy their license by giving out stock, they will last as long as they can get away with devaluing the cost of the stock they give away in their deals. I think SCO will become transparent in 2 quarters.
Interesting though not entirely relevant, but this is the exact issue the NAACP is struggling with. How to be politically active without being a lobby group?
Increasingly its impossible. That is terribly shameful.
Once again this is a fallacy. Speeding up computer performance does not result in higher user performance. it results in higher quality output as the user will tend to examine much more than otherwise.
When the computers are slower, the users simply skip through tasks, but they get them done is generally the same amount of time.
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hehe. Indeed. Retains all the bad stuff, and tries to act like that's the good stuff.
Perhaps even, "Old English 800," bka "8 Ball."
I think the malt liquor experience is lost outside the US...
How did you reach that conclusion? The open tech community is blasting SCO as well as the open investment community. So the business community cant just listen to one. Its price manipulation from Market Makers, and day traders.
Its not the hammer and the nail, but the stroke that counts.
My nail stroking technique is far superior to yours, and I can build a house in half the time!
If I was not able to patent this stroking technique, do you think I would have invented it??? (notwithstanding the fact that I can build a house in 1/2 the time...)
Its just getting stupider and stupider. I wonder if we will reach a critical mass at some point.
Lame excuse.
Perhaps it interfers with their revenue model.
My VU meter is tilting on slashdot.
No. If your system does not support what you do on the basic level, then you system is essentially broken for your task anyway.
I am talking about speeding up a functioning system. not making a functioning system out of a broken un-performing one.
Wrong. 8 million was 1 time. MS has option in current contract to *donate* 250,000 for another 2 (i believe) quarters.
Plus you are not counting revenue as profit are you???
I expect when their profits drop through the floor, or the shareholders realize their only profitability is from MS, they will dump the stock. That will flush the company. Note that many of their bills are paid in stock options.
School is valuable, education is valuable, a degree is only a certificate that says that an individual has completed a course of study. There is a strong correlation between possession of a degree and possession of an education, but it's not 100%. I've met plenty of people with solid CS educations but no degrees, and more than a few with degrees but lacking in the knowledge and skills they should have obtained. That being the case, I can't assume that merely because someone has a degree they know the difference between a compiler and an editor, so I have to try to independently ascertain the knowledge level of every candidate.
I am not suggesting the person gets hired merely because he has a degree. Funny you ask questions of the experienced, but you do not of the degreed? People with degrees have transcripts. They have teachers. They have schools. Each of which gives you another gauge of the value of the degree.
Which means: whether or not you have a degree doesn't tell me squat about how much you know. A few pointed questions plus a brief review of several years of solid work experience, however, tell me a lot about what you know. And it will also tell me quite a bit more about how quickly you can learn.
So then yes. You believe a degree is just a piece of paper. No way you even waste time asking pointed questions of a person with a degree...Why is work experience solid, but an education at an accredited respected US institution of higher learning not?
I mean, just because you have a degree doesn't mean you're good at learning; there are plenty of people who get degrees through sheer force of will despite their lack of ability, and while I admire their tenacity they don't make great programmers.
Yes, and just because you blundered through half a dozen projects does not mean you know squat about programming, nor can do it efficiently. Their are plenty BS artists that pad their resumes and experiences. And don't go telling me you ask questions and know the difference, because you just said you couldn't do the same for the degreed person.
I have no idea why you doubt the large companies in Michigan would not hire as I suggest. Remember, we are not talking about hiring from a resume. Their must be also an interview. And equally you ask people about their experience in class. And on interns and co-ops. And on class projects. College is not just flipping pages in a book...And please do not go comparing someone with 10 years experience to a fresh college graduate. A degree is worth about 5 years tops. But we already know you do not respect it at all. To each his own.
I got one to sell you ;)
I am with you. Sounds shaky. The writer of MS Blaster? not very likely, but you know US law enforcement these days.
Just make the public *feel* safe. Its a lot cheaper and more successful that way..
Shit im ready. I just got 355 emails today. I had forgotten how effective the spam catchers were...usually I get about 20-30 legit emails...
so not only are they DoSsing, but they have upped the SPAM to boot!
Probably should not have said j2EE. Should have said RMI. I think thats what java uses for object passing and such.
Of course DCOM is simpler than CORBA or J2EE.
CORBA is cross-language.
J2EE is cross-platform.
DCOM is cross-yourfingers.
(j/k, I actually like DCOM, but it has a much simpler task)
I wonder that too myself considering he owns majority share in The SCO Group. Also most of the SCO folks as I hear it are old Novell folks. Stinks to high hell.
not quite. insiders hold more than 40% of SCO stock. Even though they stock exchange technically reduces investor value, it does not happen till the stock crosses the market.
As soon as they try and off load 500,000 shares into the actual NASDAQ, the price is going to start a nose dive. So they have to sneak it out in maybe 10,000-50,000 share lots per day. Tough job.
in other words, turning that stock into cash is an equally tough job.
Thats a good idea!
I was actually taken aback when she said 'sister.'
No girls allowed around here!
At their current rate of sale, their is no way they will sell off their shares in 2 years. Note, Darl has not sold any in over a year.
Check that my friend. Darl can not sell his stock yet AFAIK. If you check the insider selling you will see everyone BUT Darl. Unsure if he is totally restricted or partially.
In any event, he gets a tidy bonus for 4 straight quarters of profitability before 2005. Hes at 2 straight now.
Further, I do not think this stock has risen on the promise of licensing revenue. This stock has been under heavy manipulation. But it seems that today was the breaking day, and the volume was WAY down today.
MS and SUNW for UNIX licensing. Nothing to do with Linux. not to mention the $5M in stock that went the other way to SUNW. Keep reading the quarterly till you get to that part ;)
Tell it to the drug users and Jons.
I guess you don't meet many gamers.
by the time they make it to court, they will be broke.
Darl predicted about $25M next quarter. thats the current $7M in UNIX stuff, plus $19M from SCOSource I suppose!?
But of course since they pay YOU to buy their license by giving out stock, they will last as long as they can get away with devaluing the cost of the stock they give away in their deals. I think SCO will become transparent in 2 quarters.
Better, transfer copyright to IBM for ~3 years, then put it in the public domain.
Interesting though not entirely relevant, but this is the exact issue the NAACP is struggling with. How to be politically active without being a lobby group?
Increasingly its impossible. That is terribly shameful.
Once again this is a fallacy. Speeding up computer performance does not result in higher user performance. it results in higher quality output as the user will tend to examine much more than otherwise.
When the computers are slower, the users simply skip through tasks, but they get them done is generally the same amount of time.