...Is because of Viagra. In our un-ending desire for more and better sex, Viagra is turning out to be a major "culprit" in this arena. While listening to the radio this morning, it was noted that recently a man who had a _diagnosed_ heart condition was able to snag some of those blue pills on the 'net and ended up having a massive heart attack and died because of it. Whoops. Hope he died a happy man... I can see why we need to regulate this. People will do anything to get a fix - whether it be Viagra or painkillers. Why should it be any different than the CVS store down the street? We're not talking about eToys here.
Oh, it's a *book*!....
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And here I had hopes that it was a monster movie starring the uber geek himself.... Next up: Gates Meets Mothra!!
Who cares? Movie was mediocre at best. Doesn't every movie eventually come out in DVD anyway? Doesn't it look/sound just fine on VHS in Dolby surround? I don't know. This is a big fat *yawn* for me.... You guys have to get outside more often.
I don't get it. Aren't there a lot of SUCCESSFUL e-commerce ventures? Last time I checked, Amazon was still deep in the red. How this was an easy decision, I don't know. Wait, yes I do. It's a bunch of half-assed "journalists" at TIME.
I no longer shop at Amazon because they are cowards. They gave in to pressure from the American Family Association (Read: right-wing extortionists) and pulled their advertising from the Howard Stern Show several months ago. They also apparently treat 90% of their employees like dirt. Must be nice making near-minimum wage for the "company of the year"......
I know this Natalie Prtman, petrified & naked stuff has gotten old, but that link is goddamn funny.... heeheehee.... Gave me a great laugh to start of the day... Now, on to my term paper... = /
Hey, Rob, what about that porn opportunity?
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Whatcha gonna call it? TacosHos.com? RobsBitches.com? SlashdotHotties.com? C'mon, let us in on it!;-)
Hell, I boycott those hosers anyway because of the way they treat their employees. More importantly, because they pulled their advertising from the Howard Stern Show because of pressure from the right-wing extremist group The American Family Association - which practices commercial extortion on advertisers. Down wit Amazon!
No, I understand that. I didn't mean to imply that they didn't retain a huge number of shares. I was more pointing out that the company itself does not get the $250/share of the *shares that went to the public.* They got the $30 from those shares. Brokerage whores got the profits.
It's because you aren't a "preferred" customer of one of the underwriters. This is the scam. Anyone should be able to get in on the selling price, but it doesn't work that way. How do you get in? Good question. I guess the only answer is become very good friends with one broker at all the major invetment houses. I am serious.
I think it's disgusting the way this IPO thing works. It's geared towards a few people making a LOT of money. If you don't have the connections, too bad. You're left in the cold to pout.
Seems you need a lesson in stocks. Just because the stock is at $200, doesn't mean Red Hat has free access to all those dollars. Shit, the brokers are the ones who make most of the money. All red Hat got was the initial selling price. The rest is pocketed (hopefully this will be changed by law) by those who got in on the IPO and then made them available at the inflated price. RHAT can start selling of a few million shares to get a lot of the $$$, but that's it. They can only do so much.
Jesus H. Christ!!! Rob! WOW! A Wealthy man as of tomorrow. Maybe that was a mis-print, but if/when these hit $200, homeboy has $28 MILLION. I am starting to feel very ill. Then again,/. has done so much for Linux, it's certainly deserved.
Folks, if you are like me and had no way to place a pre-IPO order, you are shit out of luck on this one. The hype machine has really destroyed the hopes of the little guy getting in on this one. It's just another IPO where 99% of the market is left out (ya gotta love brokerage scamming of IPOs...). On CNBC this evening, LNUX was the hot topic. It's expected to OPEN AT OVER $100!!!! The bell is gonna ring, and no one will be able to get this thing cheap. I think this really sucks balls. There's no way I can afford a stock that's $100-???. Yeah, I'll take...uh...ONE share, thanks... Oh well. Maybe someday my fortune will come through my own company and I can stop getting all worked up over things like this. At least I bought AAPL at 16 and still hanging in there.... Congrats to all you schmucks who got it. I can only imagine the frenzy tomorrow.....
I was actually looking at the Cubes today, thinking it might be good when I set up the network for our new company. But it's so damn limited. I want to be able to tinker with it at least a LITTLE bit. Can I hook up a tape backup? What about 128 MB RAM? A real Linux box looks more likely for us.
C'mon. Think about it. How cool would you be if YOU had a purple cube show up in a COW BOX! Show your friends! Impress your neighbors when you bring that sweet box to the curb!
And if anyone noticed, they haven't had the regular single CPU version up for MONTHS! I now have to use the MP capable one. If I am out of the room on startup, the warning message that it may not run correctly on my system stays until I return. I guess I should just find a copy of an older client. But I don't get why they seemed to have abandoned the Mac clients. Maybe because they were jealous of team Evangelista?
Actually, you are very wrong. When M$ decided they needed some political clout, they DID start with mostly the Elephant party. However, if you look at the records, the split the contributions roughly 50/50 this year. They tried to buy help wherever they could.
I used to be a huge Al Gore fan. But this further lowers my opinion of him. What the hell does he need to get involved for? This is between the DOJ and M$. Gee, I wonder who wants to win Washington in the primaries... Hmmm... Who could it be....? I should really get to work on my new site http://www.politicians-suck.com. I'm not kidding.
I can see the university getting upset if this was a case of cybersquatting (i.e. you bought the name and expected to the university to pay $$$ for it), but this is absurd. F him. I agree with an earlier poster. All you need to do is take your plea to the student paper and post flyers all over campus. But I suggest trying to peacefully reason with the dickhead first, if that's posssible. If he won't see how stupid he is, play hardball.What does he think? ANYTHING with the name "Purdue" in it they can claim. That's a bunch of crap.
Perhaps the print preview/setup feature (adjusting margins, etc.) is only present in the Mac version 4.5? Thought they were supposed to roll that into 5.0 for PeeCee.
Look, this project has taken WAY too long. IE, unfortunately, has gained so much ground because of its advanced features, it's sad. I refuse to use it because it always crashes on my Macs, but let's face it: IE *is* better at this point and has been for a year. It caches pages MUCH faster, gives me an actual print setup and preview, etc. I can't run Java on Mac becuase it will drive it into the crapper in a matter of minutes, while I can seleect between different MRJ plugins with IE. And look at all the litle features I see people eating up all the time with IE 5. I still refuse to use it, but I am sometimes forced to b/c I am a web developer. I don't have a choice. Mozilla better appear soon, or we've seen the last of "Navigator" or whatever it is...... Remember "Internet Time?" Seems those hungry buggers working on Nutscrape 5 forgot about the old days......
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...Is because of Viagra. In our un-ending desire for more and better sex, Viagra is turning out to be a major "culprit" in this arena. While listening to the radio this morning, it was noted that recently a man who had a _diagnosed_ heart condition was able to snag some of those blue pills on the 'net and ended up having a massive heart attack and died because of it. Whoops. Hope he died a happy man...
I can see why we need to regulate this. People will do anything to get a fix - whether it be Viagra or painkillers. Why should it be any different than the CVS store down the street? We're not talking about eToys here.
And here I had hopes that it was a monster movie starring the uber geek himself.... Next up: Gates Meets Mothra!!
Who cares? Movie was mediocre at best. Doesn't every movie eventually come out in DVD anyway? Doesn't it look/sound just fine on VHS in Dolby surround? I don't know. This is a big fat *yawn* for me....
You guys have to get outside more often.
I don't get it. Aren't there a lot of SUCCESSFUL e-commerce ventures? Last time I checked, Amazon was still deep in the red. How this was an easy decision, I don't know. Wait, yes I do. It's a bunch of half-assed "journalists" at TIME.
I no longer shop at Amazon because they are cowards. They gave in to pressure from the American Family Association (Read: right-wing extortionists) and pulled their advertising from the Howard Stern Show several months ago. They also apparently treat 90% of their employees like dirt. Must be nice making near-minimum wage for the "company of the year"......
I know this Natalie Prtman, petrified & naked stuff has gotten old, but that link is goddamn funny.... heeheehee.... Gave me a great laugh to start of the day... Now, on to my term paper... = /
Whatcha gonna call it? TacosHos.com? RobsBitches.com? SlashdotHotties.com? C'mon, let us in on it! ;-)
Hell, I boycott those hosers anyway because of the way they treat their employees. More importantly, because they pulled their advertising from the Howard Stern Show because of pressure from the right-wing extremist group The American Family Association - which practices commercial extortion on advertisers.
Down wit Amazon!
No, I understand that. I didn't mean to imply that they didn't retain a huge number of shares. I was more pointing out that the company itself does not get the $250/share of the *shares that went to the public.* They got the $30 from those shares. Brokerage whores got the profits.
It's because you aren't a "preferred" customer of one of the underwriters. This is the scam. Anyone should be able to get in on the selling price, but it doesn't work that way. How do you get in? Good question. I guess the only answer is become very good friends with one broker at all the major invetment houses. I am serious.
I think it's disgusting the way this IPO thing works. It's geared towards a few people making a LOT of money. If you don't have the connections, too bad. You're left in the cold to pout.
Seems you need a lesson in stocks. Just because the stock is at $200, doesn't mean Red Hat has free access to all those dollars. Shit, the brokers are the ones who make most of the money. All red Hat got was the initial selling price. The rest is pocketed (hopefully this will be changed by law) by those who got in on the IPO and then made them available at the inflated price. RHAT can start selling of a few million shares to get a lot of the $$$, but that's it. They can only do so much.
The answers to your questions are yes and yes. Just waiting til 1/15 or maybe before when earnings are due. Blowout quarter expected... = )
Jesus H. Christ!!! Rob! WOW! A Wealthy man as of tomorrow. Maybe that was a mis-print, but if/when these hit $200, homeboy has $28 MILLION. I am starting to feel very ill. Then again, /. has done so much for Linux, it's certainly deserved.
Dude, read the message over at E*Trade. You are SOL. They stopped taking orders a couple of days ago.
Folks, if you are like me and had no way to place a pre-IPO order, you are shit out of luck on this one. The hype machine has really destroyed the hopes of the little guy getting in on this one. It's just another IPO where 99% of the market is left out (ya gotta love brokerage scamming of IPOs...).
On CNBC this evening, LNUX was the hot topic. It's expected to OPEN AT OVER $100!!!! The bell is gonna ring, and no one will be able to get this thing cheap. I think this really sucks balls. There's no way I can afford a stock that's $100-???. Yeah, I'll take...uh...ONE share, thanks...
Oh well. Maybe someday my fortune will come through my own company and I can stop getting all worked up over things like this. At least I bought AAPL at 16 and still hanging in there....
Congrats to all you schmucks who got it. I can only imagine the frenzy tomorrow.....
I was actually looking at the Cubes today, thinking it might be good when I set up the network for our new company. But it's so damn limited. I want to be able to tinker with it at least a LITTLE bit. Can I hook up a tape backup? What about 128 MB RAM? A real Linux box looks more likely for us.
C'mon. Think about it. How cool would you be if YOU had a purple cube show up in a COW BOX! Show your friends! Impress your neighbors when you bring that sweet box to the curb!
Anyone else think there are a bunch of green guys with two heads laughing their assess off saying:
"BWRRRRP!! ZZZZZPT! HAHA! We got another one! Hey, BLappht***ty! Can you use that one for a car or a spine massager?"
Seems to be the penalty these days for making a mistake on your 'puter....
LOL! Dat's a good wun.
And if anyone noticed, they haven't had the regular single CPU version up for MONTHS! I now have to use the MP capable one. If I am out of the room on startup, the warning message that it may not run correctly on my system stays until I return. I guess I should just find a copy of an older client. But I don't get why they seemed to have abandoned the Mac clients. Maybe because they were jealous of team Evangelista?
Actually, you are very wrong. When M$ decided they needed some political clout, they DID start with mostly the Elephant party. However, if you look at the records, the split the contributions roughly 50/50 this year. They tried to buy help wherever they could.
I used to be a huge Al Gore fan. But this further lowers my opinion of him. What the hell does he need to get involved for? This is between the DOJ and M$. Gee, I wonder who wants to win Washington in the primaries... Hmmm... Who could it be....?
I should really get to work on my new site http://www.politicians-suck.com. I'm not kidding.
I can see the university getting upset if this was a case of cybersquatting (i.e. you bought the name and expected to the university to pay $$$ for it), but this is absurd. F him. I agree with an earlier poster. All you need to do is take your plea to the student paper and post flyers all over campus. But I suggest trying to peacefully reason with the dickhead first, if that's posssible. If he won't see how stupid he is, play hardball.What does he think? ANYTHING with the name "Purdue" in it they can claim. That's a bunch of crap.
Perhaps the print preview/setup feature (adjusting margins, etc.) is only present in the Mac version 4.5? Thought they were supposed to roll that into 5.0 for PeeCee.
Look, this project has taken WAY too long. IE, unfortunately, has gained so much ground because of its advanced features, it's sad. I refuse to use it because it always crashes on my Macs, but let's face it: IE *is* better at this point and has been for a year. It caches pages MUCH faster, gives me an actual print setup and preview, etc. I can't run Java on Mac becuase it will drive it into the crapper in a matter of minutes, while I can seleect between different MRJ plugins with IE. And look at all the litle features I see people eating up all the time with IE 5. I still refuse to use it, but I am sometimes forced to b/c I am a web developer. I don't have a choice.
Mozilla better appear soon, or we've seen the last of "Navigator" or whatever it is...... Remember "Internet Time?" Seems those hungry buggers working on Nutscrape 5 forgot about the old days......