Caffeine is bug poison. Tropical plants use it to disturb the central nervous systems of insects, so that they discourage being eaten.
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The chart linked in the parent post shows that the stock value was all downhill. That seems reasonable. Then SCO's stock began going up in December of 2001. Anyone know why?
Then it went down again. Then the stock value began going up when SCO threatened everyone.
Apparently a lot of people who aren't technically minded think that SCO may win.
If there is no gas tax, gas will be cheaper in Oregon. Which would mean that Washington state residents (one mile away across the Columbia river) would come to Oregon to buy tax-free gas.
The GPS scheme will be a wonderful opportunity for hacking, of course. "Yes, yes, it's entirely true that I drove 15,000 miles last month in the mountains of Peru. I wasn't in Oregon, so I should pay no tax."
It seems to me that the GPS idea is part of Oregon government corruption. The
idea cannot work for the reasons mentioned at the end of this article: Airplanes are safe, but laws
often crash. Why are they proposing something that cannot work? Probably
someone is using the idea to make money.
For more about problems in the government of Oregon, see this:
Complicated methods
corrupt Oregon government. Basically, people who want to use government to
make money have found the perfect way to prevent negative court judgements:
The Judiciary in Oregon is not allowed enough money to do its job. Try calling
the Oregon Court of Appeals in Oregon on any Friday and you will find that
they are closed because they don't have enough money to stay open 5 days a
week. With a limited Judiciary, those who want corruption can accomplish
almost anything.
The corruption uses other methods, some of which are mentioned in the
articles.
George W. Bush does not have the mental capacity to run a government. He is only able to sell the government to rich people. If you doubt this, read the stories below from the New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and the Houston Chronicle.
Questionable accounting practices -- The U.S. government becomes another Enron scam:
Questionable accounting practices in the U.S. government: "The U.S.
government is broke." George Bush gave U.S. citizens a tax cut, but it was fraud. The
tax cut will be paid by money the U.S. government will borrow.
FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111
FAX: 202.456.2461
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am GEORGE WALKER BUSH, son of the former president of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush, and currently serving as President of the United States of America. This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to an account requiring maximum confidence.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance in acquiring oil funds that are presently trapped in the republic of iraq. My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring islamic republic of Iran. This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.
My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000). Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by his partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other persian gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Jap
Here's a BIG sales message for Linux: Microsoft has apparently disabled all the methods of downloading IE6 SP1. None of the methods mentioned in answer to the parent post work.
It's that kind of trickiness that will eventually cause the end of Microsoft's dominance.
That doesn't work. That only downloads a small file. I need the full version. If SP1 is the final version, why not save it to CD, and avoid further downloads later?
I don't agree. Everything needs to be marketed. Giving something a name with negative connotations slows acceptance, or may even stop it. They want users don't they?
I live in Portland, Oregon, one of the places Intel designs its microprocessors. It is common to meet Intel employees at parties. We have had long discussions about finding some task that requires more powerful processors. Intel employees are VERY interested in this, because if uses for more powerful processors are not found, some of them will lose their jobs.
Only video requires more processing power. However, I estimate that it will be 3 or 4 years before the software is powerful enough to attract significant numbers of people to video. I have contact several times a week with one of the engineers who designs video applications, so this is not just a wild guess.
SgtChaireBourne also said, "Don't forget that benefits [employee benefits at Microsoft] have been cut way back and there's also been outsourcing like mad. Consultants and contractors don't show up as layoffs when you let them go.
Earlier in this thread, RoLi said, "Microsoft executives know that Microsoft has a lot to lose and not much to gain. The only market where they are strong (the desktop) they have no room to grow, everywhere else they are losing (servers, embedded systems, gaming consoles)." (RoLi's comment #6030636.)
To this must be added that most people who bought a computer as powerful as a Pentium III 866 MHz won't buy another computer. The faster Pentium IIIs were good enough for almost everyone. I have often seen computers survive for more than 10 years. I have a voicemail computer with a 386 SX-16 processor that is perhaps 15 years old, and has been in continual use. The computer market is fast collapsing.
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Hook the fuel cell to your car gas tank and you can talk forever.
True. Management killed Corel. Their advertising is amazingly bad, for example.
I agree it is better to sit farther away.
1024 x 768 is worthless for a big display of a computer screen. Buy a cheap 1024 x 768 LCD and sit closer. Pixels are everything.
Caffeine is bug poison. Tropical plants use it to disturb the central nervous systems of insects, so that they discourage being eaten.
The chart linked in the parent post shows that the stock value was all downhill. That seems reasonable. Then SCO's stock began going up in December of 2001. Anyone know why?
Then it went down again. Then the stock value began going up when SCO threatened everyone.
Apparently a lot of people who aren't technically minded think that SCO may win.
If there is no gas tax, gas will be cheaper in Oregon. Which would mean that Washington state residents (one mile away across the Columbia river) would come to Oregon to buy tax-free gas.
The GPS scheme will be a wonderful opportunity for hacking, of course. "Yes, yes, it's entirely true that I drove 15,000 miles last month in the mountains of Peru. I wasn't in Oregon, so I should pay no tax."
It seems to me that the GPS idea is part of Oregon government corruption. The idea cannot work for the reasons mentioned at the end of this article: Airplanes are safe, but laws often crash. Why are they proposing something that cannot work? Probably someone is using the idea to make money.
For more about problems in the government of Oregon, see this: Complicated methods corrupt Oregon government. Basically, people who want to use government to make money have found the perfect way to prevent negative court judgements: The Judiciary in Oregon is not allowed enough money to do its job. Try calling the Oregon Court of Appeals in Oregon on any Friday and you will find that they are closed because they don't have enough money to stay open 5 days a week. With a limited Judiciary, those who want corruption can accomplish almost anything.
The corruption uses other methods, some of which are mentioned in the articles.
Please don't visit a story in which you have no interest.
It is probably Streisand's private access to the beach. That's what she is complaining about.
This court case has caused everyone and his little sister to have the photo, all 6 MB of it. Streisand has been self-defeating.
George W. Bush does not have the mental capacity to run a government. He is only able to sell the government to rich people. If you doubt this, read the stories below from the New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and the Houston Chronicle.
More U.S. government corruption:
War Profiteers card deck.
"Speaking to Pentagon reporters in a video teleconference from Iraq, General Conway said, 'What the regime was intending to do in terms of its use of the weapons, we thought we understood.' He added, 'We were simply wrong.'" [last paragraphs]
Powell believes he may have lied to about weapons in Iraq: Powell's doubts over CIA intelligence on Iraq prompted him to set up secret review.
"Could be the greatest intelligence hoax of all time."
More about war profiteers and conflict of interest: Lawmaker Questions Scope Of Iraq-Related Contracts.
Questionable accounting practices -- The U.S. government becomes another Enron scam:
Questionable accounting practices in the U.S. government: "The U.S. government is broke." George Bush gave U.S. citizens a tax cut, but it was fraud. The tax cut will be paid by money the U.S. government will borrow.
Questionable accounting practices at Halliburton, Vice President of the U.S. Dick Cheney's company.
Humor -- George Bush Nigerian Scam Letter:
Subject: FW: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
URGENT ASSISTANCE - FROM USA
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED : HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111
FAX: 202.456.2461
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am GEORGE WALKER BUSH, son of the former president of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush, and currently serving as President of the United States of America. This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to an account requiring maximum confidence.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance in acquiring oil funds that are presently trapped in the republic of iraq. My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring islamic republic of Iran. This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.
My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000). Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by his partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other persian gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Jap
Here's a BIG sales message for Linux: Microsoft has apparently disabled all the methods of downloading IE6 SP1. None of the methods mentioned in answer to the parent post work.
It's that kind of trickiness that will eventually cause the end of Microsoft's dominance.
Thanks for the help. However, I followed the instructions, got the menu mentioned, and then the program just exited.
That doesn't work. That only downloads a small file. I need the full version. If SP1 is the final version, why not save it to CD, and avoid further downloads later?
Does anyone have a link to download the full version of IE 6 SP1?
I interpret the story to mean: "We won't fix any of the IE security vulnerabilities."
Down 12% before and now going back up.
SCO stock today. Down 25% yesterday, and an additional 12% today, Thursday, May 29, 2003.
I don't agree. Everything needs to be marketed. Giving something a name with negative connotations slows acceptance, or may even stop it. They want users don't they?
"Waste" is such a user-friendly name. NOT!
Another example of the marketing skill of technically minded people?
SCO stock price is dropping fast.
If there are two formats, manufacturers make twice as much money for a while.
I live in Portland, Oregon, one of the places Intel designs its microprocessors. It is common to meet Intel employees at parties. We have had long discussions about finding some task that requires more powerful processors. Intel employees are VERY interested in this, because if uses for more powerful processors are not found, some of them will lose their jobs.
Only video requires more processing power. However, I estimate that it will be 3 or 4 years before the software is powerful enough to attract significant numbers of people to video. I have contact several times a week with one of the engineers who designs video applications, so this is not just a wild guess.
If Mr. Gates seriously wanted to be philanthropic, he would direct his company to make good products.
Philanthropy is an amusement for the idle rich. No matter how badly you do, no one will complain, because you are giving them money.
Microsoft very much needs management attention now, and Mr. Gates' wife's amusements are drawing him away from the company.
Slashdot reader SgtChaireBourne mentioned this 2 weeks ago in a comment titled Pump & Dump, in response to a post of mine saying that probably Microsoft code is difficult to maintain because Microsoft isn't fixing bugs.
According to SgtChaireBourne, selling of Microsoft stock by Microsoft executives is common. He said, "Both the frequency and volume of sales is increasing: They're all selling as fast as they get."
SgtChaireBourne pointed to the SEC (U.S. government Securities and Exchange Commission) list of Microsoft executive trades of stock. I looked around and quickly found an example. A Microsoft Group Vice President, Kevin R. Johnson, received 322,560 shares of stock and sold it the same day. He received 244,760 shares of stock on March 6, 2003 and sold that the same day.
SgtChaireBourne also said, "Don't forget that benefits [employee benefits at Microsoft] have been cut way back and there's also been outsourcing like mad. Consultants and contractors don't show up as layoffs when you let them go.
Earlier in this thread, RoLi said, "Microsoft executives know that Microsoft has a lot to lose and not much to gain. The only market where they are strong (the desktop) they have no room to grow, everywhere else they are losing (servers, embedded systems, gaming consoles)." (RoLi's comment #6030636.)
To this must be added that most people who bought a computer as powerful as a Pentium III 866 MHz won't buy another computer. The faster Pentium IIIs were good enough for almost everyone. I have often seen computers survive for more than 10 years. I have a voicemail computer with a 386 SX-16 processor that is perhaps 15 years old, and has been in continual use. The computer market is fast collapsing.