I submitted the following to Ask Slashdot earlier today but it probably won't appear "Should RedHat cancel or postpone their IPO? IPO's in general and "internet related" (in the thinking of the general public) IPO's in particular aren't doing as well as hoped in the past few days. If RedHat pulled their IPO and conducted a private sale just to those who got "the e-mail", could they get $15 or so per share, stockholders who would be more sympathetic with company goals that don't wring out every last penny in possible short term profits at the expense of Linux and Open Source, and an incredibly enthusistic response from people who understand the product and the market that they could point to later on in talking with the general financial community who think that computers have pushbutton cupholders?" I still think it's a good idea for them to be careful who they sell to. Another possible Linux-related stock buy could be Corel. They were on CNBC today talking about a Corel Linux distro with a "Windows-like" desktop. It's explained better on their website --linux.corel.com -- but they were talking for the general public in the TV interview. This could mean come the Xmas '99 shopping season a bunch of e-Machines down at circuit city running Word Perfect and 'net surfing software on a user-friendly looking desktop with Linux underneath, selling cheaper than the iMacs and the Windows machines. World domination may be in Santa's sack.
There's a story about how the RTP is all abuzz about the IPO and the profit potential at http://www.news-observer.com/ (click on technology link in lower right hand page corner
and a story about the new RH marketroid at http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1999/08/07/biz_ index.html#top
It especially makes life easier after you've dropped the CD a few times and gotten scratches too deep to polish out. (or if you'd have to install from a big ol' double handful of floppies)
"you can't exspect(sic)old versions of software to support new features in new versions." Why not? Isn't this stuff supposed to have been written by visionary geniuses with a clear view of the road ahead?
a. see subject. feel free to laugh. or not. b. a few years ago my young nephew said something about a black guy(nothing derogatory, used him as a temporary landmark or something like that). what a strange feeling when I discovered he meant a guy in a black shirt.
What about a site with links to a foreign site that say "These links are to an overseas site that has links that would be illegal if it weren't an overseas site."? Or a link to a site with a link to a site...
Or will it shortly be the National Narrow Web?
What part of international don't they understand?
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(Why can't Orrin Hatch just go back to pimping for Novell?) So now only "furriners" can cybersquat? Or are they to be the next airstrike target?
There are people by the last name of Dizney. Can they be denied a website just because of a similar spelling? What about Ditzney? Where will the line be drawn? Why do I suspect it'll have a lot to do with how rich and influential Mr. or Ms. Dizney or Ditzney is or isn't?
"If the measure becomes law, it will create a new federal felony -- punishable by a fine and three years in prison -- that covers Web pages that link to sites with information about where to buy "drug paraphernalia" such as roach clips, bowls, and bongs." So they're not going to bust you for having such a site, but just for having a site that links to such a sight? " It creates another felony, punishable by up to 10 years in the federal pen, banning distribution "by any means" of information about "the manufacture or use of a controlled substance" if the recipient might use it to get high." So if I say something in a bar some night about the ridiculous government plan to ban the presently legal Phenylpropanolamine (my decongestant of choice)because somebody with drug lab can convert a million dollars worth of it to a few thousand worth of some illegal drug, they can put me away for ten years?
Apparently the re-election junkies are jonesing again. And planning to smoke the constitution.
"Yea I guess we should let advertisers say pretty much anything, and then pull the "just kidding" when they have to pay up. Then we could get marketers selling all sorts of wondrous things by saying "It's faster, more stable, plays more games, and works better" when in fact they are selling smoke and mirrors." Well sure, that's the way the software world works but we're talking sodas here.
Don't you just love the way the headline reads "Microsoft hacker challenge foiled" in nice big letters and then in the fine print explains that it wasn't MS foiling hackers but the challenge itself that was foiled. (I said hacker 'cause they did)
("Foil Hackers, cover your equipment with Renyold's Wrap!")
Yeah, but lately it's way more slashdotted than usual. I can't even get into the main page for this topic(banner ad and topics banner loads, rest of page stays black and just sits there), I have to go in through my user page to the one comment I got in hours ago and thread hop from there. I've gotten several "no DNS entry" messages about the slashdot main page. Sumpin ain't right.
Could some kind soul point me toward a link with an explanation of this whole port number thing? I'm assuming this is something entirely else than serial or parallel ports.
To be fair to Microsoft (not because they deserve it), shouldn't there be a non-beta to non-beta contest; in other words let Microsoft set up a server running ("the unstoppable")NT 4.0 for people to take a "crack" at, and compare the results of that to the Linux machine. (NT 4.0 is out of beta, isn't it?)
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I submitted the following to Ask Slashdot earlier today but it probably won't appear
"Should RedHat cancel or postpone their IPO? IPO's in general and "internet related" (in the thinking of the general public) IPO's in
particular aren't doing as well as hoped in the past few days. If RedHat pulled their IPO and conducted a private sale just to those who got "the e-mail", could they get $15 or so per share, stockholders who would be more sympathetic with company goals that don't wring out every last penny in possible short term profits at the expense of Linux and Open Source, and an incredibly enthusistic response from people who
understand the product and the market that they could point to later on in talking with the general financial community who think that computers have pushbutton cupholders?"
I still think it's a good idea for them to be careful who they sell to.
Another possible Linux-related stock buy could be Corel. They were on CNBC today talking about a Corel Linux distro with a "Windows-like" desktop. It's explained better on their website --linux.corel.com -- but they were talking for the general public in the TV interview. This could mean come the Xmas '99 shopping season a bunch of e-Machines down at circuit city running Word Perfect and 'net surfing software on a user-friendly looking desktop with Linux underneath, selling cheaper than the iMacs and the Windows machines. World domination may be in Santa's sack.
Eat a beaver:)
Members of the Available Sex?
Are you speaking for the descendants of the original white settlers or the people who were there before them?(speaking of tribes)
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There's a story about how the RTP is all abuzz about the IPO and the profit potential at http://www.news-observer.com/
_ index.html#top
(click on technology link in lower right hand page corner
and a story about the new RH marketroid at http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1999/08/07/biz
At last, that AS400 laptop I've been dreaming of!
It especially makes life easier after you've dropped the CD a few times and gotten scratches too deep to polish out. (or if you'd have to install from a big ol' double handful of floppies)
It's only there to keep the U.S. government happy, not to actually be of any use.
"you can't exspect(sic)old versions of software to support new features in new versions."
Why not? Isn't this stuff supposed to have been written by visionary geniuses with a clear view of the road ahead?
Is the July 11, 1995 version "originaler"?
One-handed?
Members of the Apostate Sects?
MOTAS's = Members of the Approximate Sex?
a. see subject. feel free to laugh. or not.
b. a few years ago my young nephew said something about a black guy(nothing derogatory, used him as a temporary landmark or something like that). what a strange feeling when I discovered he meant a guy in a black shirt.
What about a site with links to a foreign site that say "These links are to an overseas site that has links that would be illegal if it weren't an overseas site."?
Or a link to a site with a link to a site...
Or will it shortly be the National Narrow Web?
(Why can't Orrin Hatch just go back to pimping for Novell?)
So now only "furriners" can cybersquat? Or are they to be the next airstrike target?
There are people by the last name of Dizney. Can they be denied a website just because of a similar spelling? What about Ditzney? Where will the line be drawn? Why do I suspect it'll have a lot to do with how rich and influential Mr. or Ms. Dizney or Ditzney is or isn't?
"If the measure becomes law, it will create a new federal felony -- punishable by a fine and three years in prison -- that covers Web pages that link to sites with information about where to buy "drug paraphernalia" such as roach clips, bowls, and bongs."
So they're not going to bust you for having such a site, but just for having a site that links to such a sight?
" It creates another felony, punishable by up to 10 years in the federal pen, banning distribution "by any means" of information about "the manufacture or use of a controlled substance" if the recipient might use it to get high."
So if I say something in a bar some night about the ridiculous government plan to ban the presently legal Phenylpropanolamine (my decongestant of choice)because somebody with drug lab can convert a million dollars worth of it to a few thousand worth of some illegal drug, they can put me away for ten years?
Apparently the re-election junkies are jonesing again. And planning to smoke the constitution.
So that's where they hid the bodies of the ones who died that they never talked about!
"Yea I guess we should let advertisers say pretty much anything, and then pull the "just kidding" when they have to pay up. Then we could get marketers selling all sorts of wondrous things by saying "It's faster, more stable, plays more games, and works better" when in fact they are selling smoke and mirrors."
Well sure, that's the way the software world works but we're talking sodas here.
Why would Saab have any trouble getting ahold of one of their products to use in an ad for another one of their products?
Don't you just love the way the headline reads "Microsoft hacker challenge foiled" in nice big letters and then in the fine print explains that it wasn't MS foiling hackers but the challenge itself that was foiled. (I said hacker 'cause they did)
("Foil Hackers, cover your equipment with Renyold's Wrap!")
Yeah, but lately it's way more slashdotted than usual. I can't even get into the main page for this topic(banner ad and topics banner loads, rest of page stays black and just sits there), I have to go in through my user page to the one comment I got in hours ago and thread hop from there. I've gotten several "no DNS entry" messages about the slashdot main page. Sumpin ain't right.
Could some kind soul point me toward a link with an explanation of this whole port number thing? I'm assuming this is something entirely else than serial or parallel ports.
To be fair to Microsoft (not because they deserve it), shouldn't there be a non-beta to non-beta contest; in other words let Microsoft set up a server running ("the unstoppable")NT 4.0 for people to take a "crack" at, and compare the results of that to the Linux machine.
(NT 4.0 is out of beta, isn't it?)
I thought MS beta was the shrinkwrapped stuff on the store shelves.