Clearly VA Linux is over valued. There is only so much money you can make assembling off the shelf components. They basically can only compete in three areas: price, quality, or service. Though my impression is VA Linux quality is higher than EBIZ, EBIZ has better prices. Quality I think is moot as they would have have to hire and train 100's (if not 1000's) of new techs to install and service new equipment if their sales were to get anywhere near where they should be to justify the stock price. Such a fast staffing-up will inevitably lead to some quality problems.
Another company that shows how overvalued VA Linux is, is SGI. SGI has something like 1.2M shares of VA Linux thanks to early capital investments. That stock now represents about 1/6 of the total value of SGI.
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A viewer e-mailed us and asked us to check out a piece of frightening video that she found on the web. At first when you look at the tape, it seems like some people are planning to start a riot in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
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Try http://www.penguin-place.com/ I don't know if they have a penguin that looks exactly like Tux, but they have at 20 different plush penguin toys, and probably 500 other penguin related items.
Also (and this probably isn't a good way to get more than one) a free tux comes in the Deluxe version of Corel Linux.
Please try to use a modicum of basic scientific knowledge when writing your headlines. The light is the reflected light from the star, it is NOT the planet's light!
I know that common usage (such as moonlight would have you believe that planetary bodies produce their own light, but except for earth, and perhaps some theoretical planet made of radium, I doubt many do, and if they did, I doubt they would be perceptible at these distances using current technology.
I guess your reasoning is that as the OS version number is ODD (3.51) it is therefor unstable. This would coincide with the Linux kernel numbering system in that kernels with an odd digit in the tenths place are developmental kernels. Perhaps MS has been foloowing the same strategy and never intended NT 4.51 to be stable?
I had another idea for a logo. Now that Disney has completed their takeover of Infoseek/GO they could change the logo to be a green Mickey Mouse sillouette on a yellow background. Instead of one circle it would be three (Head and 2 ears).
I've been thinking they should have something like the green flag they wave at the start of a car race. This has also likely been done before so they will have to take more care to distinguish it.
I think they could have gotten away with the green traffic light idea if they had just made it part of a 3-way traffic. Having it just be better drawn than the GoTo logo (Which really just looks like a green spot on a yellow square, rather than GO's single light green traffic light with 3D shadowing) wasn't enough differentiation.
The download version is just a minimal install to get you up and running. You can then use the Deb package manager to add anything else you want. This way the ftp site only has to handle the actual distribution (Which I am told is just 31M) and you can get your deb packages (which aren't controlled by Corel) from 100's of sites distributing the bandwidth requirement.
This makes a lot more sense than RedHat that has 450M ISO image, which has a lot of rpm's that you either never end up installing (i.e. HowTos in 30 different languages) or that end up being out of date by the time do want to install them.
By the way, expect the distro to be mirrored on LinuxBerg RSN!
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Actually, I think you can pronounce uncommon words (like foreign proper nouns, or words based on them) anyway you like as long as your pronunciation would be a logical way to prnounce the word based on the way it is spelled.
So LYE-nukes would be acceptable but LAYknocks is obviously not. If the contestant had said LEEnicks they might not have accepted it, but I think it is an acceptable pronunciation given the the Finnish pronunciation of Linus and the relationship to Unix.
You can already make free domestic (including AK and HI) PC to POTS (or PC to PC) calls at dialpad.com.
Admittedly they don't have enough lines to meet demand yet, and there is a little latency effect when you do get an open line. But as far as costs, I expect it will be awhile until they start paying us place calls.
Most of the other polls have only two options for each question. These seem to be running 2:1 against MS. However on the M$NBC poll there are three choices for the first question and six for the second. This lets you choose a compromise answer for the Monopoly question, and splits the severe consequences among five different choices.
M$ can then spin the results of the poll (never mind that only loyal users of MSIE are polled to begin with) to read:
- 2/3 of those polled believe M$ did NOT abuse monopoly power.
- A plurality of those polled felt no sanctions were necessary to punish M$.
Asks whether as a result of decision you should buy or sell MS stock, and reasons why. However, the link from ZDNet's trial coverage page reads Did Judge Jackson make the right call?
I see it now, a whole planet of cyborgs with holographic penguins on their foreheads where they have their Transmeta(r) Linuxchips implanted.
Everyone will also have built-in wireless networking, so just by being in the same room with a group of people, you will be able to instantly create a Beowulf cluster to think through any problem.
Of course, we all know that no real work would ever get done since we would all be constantly accessing Slasdot. Also, First Post will finally really mean something, since it will demonstrate your fast reflexes and mental prowess.
According to my understanding of this diagram from Physics News, the "self-assembly" process involves tiny little elves with Santa Claus hats. They seem to drag a conductor over a gap in some sort of substrate.
I'M NOT KIDDING! Take a look at the picture! However, this may only relate to his earlier work on molecular wires, but I assume, once you have figured out how to control the elves, the rest is rather straight forward.
Will ICANN handle domain name registration for the.moon.venus.mars etc. domains? Or will they be assigned standard ISO 3166 codes?
I know that.io (which might be a good TLD for banks and other lending institutions) is already assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, so they will have to have a less intuitive domain, unless moons are only given second level domain names under the planet around which they revolve. This would mean that our moon would have to be given the.moon.earth domain or the.luna.earth domain.
By the way, did you know there are already 247 ISO 3166 codes assigned? That means that we are almost 40% of the way to assigning every possible 2-letter abbreviation available.
These are all good ideas (although 1. is essentially in place given their continued suport for paper and DVD editions), but based on the level of response which far exceeded their planned number of hits, they will likely make tons of money off of ads. After all, their advertising-based model must have expected that they would break even at X number of hits per day. Presumably they would have designed their site to handle some multiple of X hits (though this presumption is qualified if it is true that they are NT/IIS based), and they exceeded that multiple.
I guess this was done as the site was not currently accessible. Is this some kinder/gentler/. that backs off after a site gets/.ed? (Though in this case, the site was having serious problems even before I submitted it to/.)
Let's see whether/. reposts the story (or at least includes in the Old Stuff area) once EB gets back on their feet.
I found it surprising that the site was having such problems, since they seem to be combining their efforts with the Newsweek web team, and they managed to live through the Starr Report.
Try the The DICT Development Group. They run FILE: The Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia - it's really a dictionary rather than an Encyclopedia, but it is open source, and it is an attempt to fulfill and extend RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol.
If you read the fine print of the FEC advisory opinion, you'll see they do advocate pro-rating the cost of the PC, domain registration, and internet access: "Some portion of the previous expenses described in your request could be apportioned to each and every web site that you construct as part of your business. These overhead costs would include, for example, the fee to secure the registration of domain name, the amounts you invested in your hardware, and the utility costs to create the site.9"
Which is reasonable. I can't find out where they state that they (the FEC) actually determined that the pro-rated amount actually did exceed $250 during 1998. I also don't see whether they believe the valuation should be based on actual bandwidth usage (which would indicate the FEC would be putting a higher value based on how many people read the page, a potential problem) or merely on harddisk space of the pages in relation to pages for his business.
From my reading, they were ackowledging that any time he put into the effort would not be included in the valuation. So his "speech" was free, only broadcasting of it was considered a contribution, and only in proportion to the other cost of the web site. His argument was that the political website should be valued only at the marginal cost, which was $0.
You're not taking into account that the project is just getting off the ground. Considering it was around two years for SETI@home to go from the first public announcement to the release of version 1.0 of the application, the system requirements listed could very well represent an old box in the corner gathering dust by the time this project is ready to get running.
What I found surprising was the requirements survey didn't ask your connection speed. They should assume by the time they launch we WILL all be on a high-speed network. They mention several times that they will likely have to send out the application on CD-ROM unless you have a very fast connection, but if it does take two years to launch, hopefully most people will have ADSL or cable modem access, if they aren't connecting via a work or school account.
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Seems ideal for Secure Linux!
"Not bad for a company with about $14 million in revenues (they did not profit) last year...."
EBIZ which runs TheLinuxStore had $15M in sales last year, yet they're trading at $4.5/share.
Clearly VA Linux is over valued. There is only so much money you can make assembling off the shelf components. They basically can only compete in three areas: price, quality, or service. Though my impression is VA Linux quality is higher than EBIZ, EBIZ has better prices. Quality I think is moot as they would have have to hire and train 100's (if not 1000's) of new techs to install and service new equipment if their sales were to get anywhere near where they should be to justify the stock price. Such a fast staffing-up will inevitably lead to some quality problems.
Another company that shows how overvalued VA Linux is, is SGI. SGI has something like 1.2M shares of VA Linux thanks to early capital investments. That stock now represents about 1/6 of the total value of SGI.
Is the student male?
Is the student going through puberty?
Was the student brought up in a society full of violent media images? (for example, the US)
If you answered yes to all of these questions, consider the student potentially violent, disruptive, and subject to unpredictable behavior.
Hopefully as soon as they get the damned Andover.net IPO over with they will get a beowulf of XEONs and multiple T3s.
I thought they speed up right away when Andover.net bought 'em out, but I haven't noticed any significant change yet.
As for an xmas present, I'll take some of that Andover.net stock please. I'm not greedy, 1 thousand shares would be fine.
Try http://www.penguin-place.com/ I don't know if they have a penguin that looks exactly like Tux, but they have at 20 different plush penguin toys, and probably 500 other penguin related items.
Also (and this probably isn't a good way to get more than one) a free tux comes in the Deluxe version of Corel Linux.
Please try to use a modicum of basic scientific knowledge when writing your headlines. The light is the reflected light from the star, it is NOT the planet's light!
I know that common usage (such as moonlight would have you believe that planetary bodies produce their own light, but except for earth, and perhaps some theoretical planet made of radium, I doubt many do, and if they did, I doubt they would be perceptible at these distances using current technology.
Not just astrologers. Also groundhogs! (in the US we celebrate 2/2 as groundhogs day, see the movie with Bill Murray for additional information)
I guess your reasoning is that as the OS version number is ODD (3.51) it is therefor unstable. This would coincide with the Linux kernel numbering system in that kernels with an odd digit in the tenths place are developmental kernels. Perhaps MS has been foloowing the same strategy and never intended NT 4.51 to be stable?
I had another idea for a logo. Now that Disney has completed their takeover of Infoseek/GO they could change the logo to be a green Mickey Mouse sillouette on a yellow background. Instead of one circle it would be three (Head and 2 ears).
I've been thinking they should have something like the green flag they wave at the start of a car race. This has also likely been done before so they will have to take more care to distinguish it.
I think they could have gotten away with the green traffic light idea if they had just made it part of a 3-way traffic. Having it just be better drawn than the GoTo logo (Which really just looks like a green spot on a yellow square, rather than GO's single light green traffic light with 3D shadowing) wasn't enough differentiation.
The download version is just a minimal install to get you up and running. You can then use the Deb package manager to add anything else you want. This way the ftp site only has to handle the actual distribution (Which I am told is just 31M) and you can get your deb packages (which aren't controlled by Corel) from 100's of sites distributing the bandwidth requirement.
This makes a lot more sense than RedHat that has 450M ISO image, which has a lot of rpm's that you either never end up installing (i.e. HowTos in 30 different languages) or that end up being out of date by the time do want to install them.
By the way, expect the distro to be mirrored on LinuxBerg RSN!
Actually, I think you can pronounce uncommon words (like foreign proper nouns, or words based on them) anyway you like as long as your pronunciation would be a logical way to prnounce the word based on the way it is spelled.
So LYE-nukes would be acceptable but LAYknocks is obviously not. If the contestant had said LEEnicks they might not have accepted it, but I think it is an acceptable pronunciation given the the Finnish pronunciation of Linus and the relationship to Unix.
Here's an article on a new competitor to the Venus (set-top VCD/internet device) that MS developing for the Mainland Chinese market.
Unfortunately, the author of the new article doesn't seem to know the difference between VCD and DVD.
You can already make free domestic (including AK and HI) PC to POTS (or PC to PC) calls at dialpad.com.
Admittedly they don't have enough lines to meet demand yet, and there is a little latency effect when you do get an open line. But as far as costs, I expect it will be awhile until they start paying us place calls.
M$ can then spin the results of the poll (never mind that only loyal users of MSIE are polled to begin with) to read:
Asks whether as a result of decision you should buy or sell MS stock, and reasons why. However, the link from ZDNet's trial coverage page reads Did Judge Jackson make the right call?
I see it now, a whole planet of cyborgs with holographic penguins on their foreheads where they have their Transmeta(r) Linuxchips implanted.
Everyone will also have built-in wireless networking, so just by being in the same room with a group of people, you will be able to instantly create a Beowulf cluster to think through any problem.
Of course, we all know that no real work would ever get done since we would all be constantly accessing Slasdot. Also, First Post will finally really mean something, since it will demonstrate your fast reflexes and mental prowess.
According to my understanding of this diagram from Physics News, the "self-assembly" process involves tiny little elves with Santa Claus hats. They seem to drag a conductor over a gap in some sort of substrate.
I'M NOT KIDDING! Take a look at the picture! However, this may only relate to his earlier work on molecular wires, but I assume, once you have figured out how to control the elves, the rest is rather straight forward.
Will ICANN handle domain name registration for the .moon .venus .mars etc. domains? Or will they be assigned standard ISO 3166 codes?
.io (which might be a good TLD for banks and other lending institutions) is already assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, so they will have to have a less intuitive domain, unless moons are only given second level domain names under the planet around which they revolve. This would mean that our moon would have to be given the .moon.earth domain or the .luna.earth domain.
I know that
By the way, did you know there are already 247 ISO 3166 codes assigned? That means that we are almost 40% of the way to assigning every possible 2-letter abbreviation available.
These are all good ideas (although 1. is essentially in place given their continued suport for paper and DVD editions), but based on the level of response which far exceeded their planned number of hits, they will likely make tons of money off of ads. After all, their advertising-based model must have expected that they would break even at X number of hits per day. Presumably they would have designed their site to handle some multiple of X hits (though this presumption is qualified if it is true that they are NT/IIS based), and they exceeded that multiple.
I guess this was done as the site was not currently accessible. Is this some kinder/gentler /. that backs off after a site gets /.ed? (Though in this case, the site was having serious problems even before I submitted it to /.)
/. reposts the story (or at least includes in the Old Stuff area) once EB gets back on their feet.
Let's see whether
I found it surprising that the site was having such problems, since they seem to be combining their efforts with the Newsweek web team, and they managed to live through the Starr Report.
Try the The DICT Development Group. They run FILE: The Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia - it's really a dictionary rather than an Encyclopedia, but it is open source, and it is an attempt to fulfill and extend RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol.
Which is reasonable. I can't find out where they state that they (the FEC) actually determined that the pro-rated amount actually did exceed $250 during 1998. I also don't see whether they believe the valuation should be based on actual bandwidth usage (which would indicate the FEC would be putting a higher value based on how many people read the page, a potential problem) or merely on harddisk space of the pages in relation to pages for his business.
From my reading, they were ackowledging that any time he put into the effort would not be included in the valuation. So his "speech" was free, only broadcasting of it was considered a contribution, and only in proportion to the other cost of the web site. His argument was that the political website should be valued only at the marginal cost, which was $0.
You're not taking into account that the project is just getting off the ground. Considering it was around two years for SETI@home to go from the first public announcement to the release of version 1.0 of the application, the system requirements listed could very well represent an old box in the corner gathering dust by the time this project is ready to get running.
What I found surprising was the requirements survey didn't ask your connection speed. They should assume by the time they launch we WILL all be on a high-speed network. They mention several times that they will likely have to send out the application on CD-ROM unless you have a very fast connection, but if it does take two years to launch, hopefully most people will have ADSL or cable modem access, if they aren't connecting via a work or school account.