Because unlike the countries of the EU, we're not a bunch of socialists/commies that need government run health care. You poor bastards need your government to pull you out of every hole you get into. Miserable!
On a side note, while the Space Shuttle is inefficient and expensive - where would the whole world be without it?
Is this the Typical European Trash I smell???
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In this post 911 world we live in, technology has become invaluable to us and our lives in which we live. We make so many strides to compare how our lives are now and what they used to be. Like for example, Currently LNUX is trading down 0.11 to a lowly 0.90. WCOM is also down 0.09 to a said 1.28. This can mean a lot to someone who lives with technology and the human will to derive life.
If you think about all the time we spend each day doing things for our technology - and don't really realize how Columbine changed everyone's life. I can give you an example, two years ago I purchased 30,000 shares of LNUX at $45 for a total investment of $1.35 million. It is now worth $27,000. This is a direct result of the technology of the stock market doing it's evil post-911 deeds. In the same sense, I purchased 30,000 shares of WCOM at $40 for an investment of $1.2 million. It is now worth $38,400. I lost a lot of money in two companies that have no outlook and are surely to be de-listed soon.
Currently LNUX is trading down 0.11 to a lowly 0.90. WCOM is also down 0.09 to a said 1.28.
30,000 shares of LNUX at 0.90 is $27,000 currently. 30,000 shares of WCOM at 1.28 si $38,400.
Assuming you purchased your shares on this date in the year 2000 when LNUX was right around $45, you would have invested $1.35 million for LNUX. WCOM was around $40, so you invested $1.2 million in WCOM.
So in just two years you've lost just about $2.48 million in two completely loser companies.
Analyst Advice: You should never forgive yourself for purchasing LNUX. With no business model and a lack of key upper management, the stock was doomed from the start. I say, Sell! Sell! Sell! Take what you have and invest it in a real company. I suggest MSFT.
ST. LOUIS -- Jack Buck, the broadcaster who in nearly five decades behind the microphone became a St. Louis institution and one of the most recognizable voices in sports, died late Tuesday, his son said. He was 77.
Say what you want about St. Louis, Jack was truely an American icon and apparently a St. Louis institution. He will be missed.
I just got off the phone with an analyst friend of mine who works on Wall Street. She said that she just got out of a conference call about VA Software (LNUX) and it's current status.
She tells me that it's currently being moved to the pink pages. This is a book of stocks that are barely traded and worth so little they don't even track them realtime. These penny pages, as they are referred to, are thinner than the pages in your yellow & white pages. They use about a 6 point font to tell you information about a company.
So as you already guessed it, LNUX is DEAD.
Sell the rest of your stocks now CmdrTaco! Oh yeah, you're just a corporate drone that got screwed out of a stock deal. Sorry.
To watch a stupid Slashdot reader try to build his own house. Instead of being taken to the cleaners by a general contractor that knows what they are doing - the typical Slashdot reader would be taken to the cleaners by each and every person working on each and every part of their new home.
Fact: In the overall since of things, bandwidth is plentiful and very cheap. While it may cost you or I an arm-and-a-leg for a DS1 or DS3 circuit - it costs your average telco very little. With all the huge pipes flowing into Tier 1 and Tier 2 ISPs, the amount of bandwidth used on sending you that 15k spam email is minimal comparied to you using P2P software to download coprighted songs.
So really you should be up-in-arms about the illegal downloading of music using P2P software when you talk about wasting bandwidth.
Maybe if you had any friends in the first place, you could have one that is in Japan for the World Cup so he could buy you this super new and geeky toy.
I know... fly to Japan and meet a boyfriend! You MUST be a luser of Linux. You and your boyfriend will have so much to talk about!
For all you nerds to get your panties in a bunch over:
Toshiba launches iPod competitor By Martyn Williams IDG News Service and Jim Dalrymple, jdalrymple@maccentral.com June 18, 2002 2:10 pm ET
Toshiba Corp. has chosen a removable hard drive for their new portable music player, which means a physically larger player but one with a much greater capacity for your favorite music.
The Gigabeat will playback music stored in the MP3, WMA or WAV digital audio file formats and Toshiba says the bundled 5GB hard disk offers enough space for around 1,000 MP3 files of 5 minutes length recorded at 128Kbps (bits per second). That's 20 or 40 times the capacity of current memory cards.
[picture of a iPod wannabe]
The hard disk drives are 1.8-inch models developed by Toshiba. They are encased in PC Cards and so can also be used with most notebook PCs or other devices with PC Card slots. Of course, using Apple's iPod, simply connecting the player to your Mac via the FireWire cable mounts the drive on your desktop.
With all this data storage space, transferring files to the player could take some time and here Toshiba has implemented the new USB2.0 interface, which can transfer data at 480M bps -- a much higher speed than the 12M bps supported by USB1.1, which is found on most digital music players today. Using the bundled application software, Toshiba says an entire CD worth of audio can be transferred to the device in 30 seconds.
With its rectangular shape, liquid crystal display and circular control panel, the Gigabeat bears a passing resemblance to Apple Inc.'s iPod, which has a fixed 1.8-inch hard disk drive (produced by Toshiba) buried inside. Apple's current model of the iPod contains a 10GB disk, allowing for approximately 2,000 songs.
Partly because of the hard disk slot and ejection mechanism, the Toshiba player is slightly larger but not by much. It measures 7.2 centimeters (cm) by 2.2 cm by 11.2 cm, which puts it around 1 cm wider and taller than the iPod. At 180 grams with no disk and 235 grams with the drive inserted, it also weighs more than the Apple player, which is 185 grams including its internal hard disk.
Other features include an on-screen menu in English, Japanese, French, Spanish or German. The screen has 160 x 120 pixel resolution and is slightly smaller than the iPod's 2-inch screen.
The Gigabeat MEG50JS will go on sale in Japan on June 22 and is expected to cost around 50,000 (US$402) bundled with a 5GB hard disk. At the same time, Toshiba will put removable hard drives in 2GB and 5GB sizes on sale for 20,000 (US$160) and 40,000 (US$321) respectively.
Toshiba said it has plans to put the Gigabeat on sale in the U.S. and then Europe although the company has not decided on a schedule for an overseas launch.
I would like to follow up this comment with the enxtention that all open source projects suck. I can't think of one that has any quality above a propriety solution.
That said, I'll be finishing my article for Troll Tuesday shortly.
Why open sores will never be a viable business option:
THE INCIDENT MONDAY Monday involving Apache's Web software shows that the system to insulate the Internet from attack -- a joint effort of the government and private companies -- is still a long way from perfect.
"It would be good if people would agree on some standards," said Chris Wysopal of Boston security firm AtStake. "People can't be put at risk like this again and again."
Internet Security Systems of Atlanta published a warning early Monday about vulnerabilities in Apache on some computer operating systems. Apache is used on about 60 percent of Web servers, the computers that deliver Web pages to the Internet. Many companies, including IBM and Oracle, create products that rely in part on Apache.
Now ISS is under fire for breaking informal industry agreements by rushing out the warning -- and a partial fix -- before coordinating with Apache developers.
The issue reveals infighting and hasty decisions that have become common in the computer security industry. Experts say the effect is to confuse users and possibly cause even more security problems.
That is simply a lie. I am an expert in the Anti-Virus community and I know for a fact that people are planning virii that will be able to take control of your Linux/*BSD machine easier and spread faster than anything we have seen in Windows.
I works by infecting the kmem section of the kernel code and changing registers to make the operating system think you are the root user. At this point it installs itself in several places. It speads to other Linux machines due to a bug in the kernel. I hope this doesn't harm Linux being taken up as a Desktop OS.
I like to think I know computers well. I've been programming for a long time. I've used all the programming languages out there and prefer Pascal or Visual Basic. I like these because not only are they easy to write secure and fast code, they allow me to live my life the way I want. I was recently hired for my skills of computer management. When I started at my new company they were all using Linux because it was free. I told them I don't work in a Linux environment because I choose not to bat for the wrong team. So after I got approval from the president of the company I went on IRC and downloaded a CD rip of Windows 2000 Professional edition and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I deployed the server first. One thing people did notice is that we no longer have all the downtime we used to have.
Just yesterday, I unstalled Linux from all the computers at work - and the strangest thing happened...the office is smelling a lot better today? I posted this information to a newsgroup this morning and it mentioned that most Linux users are dirty smelly hippies who don't shower. I guess this morning they all decided to shower - it is very pleasant here now.
I also noticed that about 4 times as many bugs are being completed by our programming staff. I assume this is because of the extra productivity Windows 2000 affords us. Instead of fumbling around with source codes/etc just to play an mp3 or open a file - they are doing their jobs. This is a good day for Microsoft and their NT Technology.
Does anyone know when these Linux hippies with finally go away for good? I don't know what the IT people before me were thinking installing Linux. If you just look at the stock for it's creator LNUX, you'll see a sad tale over the last year or so. Millions lost - and that's just in investments. This doesn't even account for all the productivity lost by using Linux and the fact that you need a Haz-Mat crew to clean an office after a linux hippie was using it.
So - in closing - today is happy Linux is gone day!
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Because unlike the countries of the EU, we're not a bunch of socialists/commies that need government run health care. You poor bastards need your government to pull you out of every hole you get into. Miserable!
On a side note, while the Space Shuttle is inefficient and expensive - where would the whole world be without it?
Is this the Typical European Trash I smell???
What a gay question. n/m
LNUX
hmmmmm...well...let me say this...
In this post 911 world we live in, technology has become invaluable to us and our lives in which we live. We make so many strides to compare how our lives are now and what they used to be. Like for example, Currently LNUX is trading down 0.11 to a lowly 0.90. WCOM is also down 0.09 to a said 1.28. This can mean a lot to someone who lives with technology and the human will to derive life.
If you think about all the time we spend each day doing things for our technology - and don't really realize how Columbine changed everyone's life. I can give you an example, two years ago I purchased 30,000 shares of LNUX at $45 for a total investment of $1.35 million. It is now worth $27,000. This is a direct result of the technology of the stock market doing it's evil post-911 deeds. In the same sense, I purchased 30,000 shares of WCOM at $40 for an investment of $1.2 million. It is now worth $38,400. I lost a lot of money in two companies that have no outlook and are surely to be de-listed soon.
Thank You.
I'm here to help...
Currently LNUX is trading down 0.11 to a lowly 0.90. WCOM is also down 0.09 to a said 1.28.
30,000 shares of LNUX at 0.90 is $27,000 currently.
30,000 shares of WCOM at 1.28 si $38,400.
Assuming you purchased your shares on this date in the year 2000 when LNUX was right around $45, you would have invested $1.35 million for LNUX. WCOM was around $40, so you invested $1.2 million in WCOM.
So in just two years you've lost just about $2.48 million in two completely loser companies.
Analyst Advice: You should never forgive yourself for purchasing LNUX. With no business model and a lack of key upper management, the stock was doomed from the start. I say, Sell! Sell! Sell! Take what you have and invest it in a real company. I suggest MSFT.
See subject. We can do whatever we want.
Kind of like VA Software (LNUX) stock price?
Well since Sam Walton has been dead for a while - probably not.
ST. LOUIS -- Jack Buck, the broadcaster who in nearly five decades behind the microphone became a St. Louis institution and one of the most recognizable voices in sports, died late Tuesday, his son said. He was 77.
Say what you want about St. Louis, Jack was truely an American icon and apparently a St. Louis institution. He will be missed.
I just got off the phone with an analyst friend of mine who works on Wall Street. She said that she just got out of a conference call about VA Software (LNUX) and it's current status.
She tells me that it's currently being moved to the pink pages. This is a book of stocks that are barely traded and worth so little they don't even track them realtime. These penny pages, as they are referred to, are thinner than the pages in your yellow & white pages. They use about a 6 point font to tell you information about a company.
So as you already guessed it, LNUX is DEAD.
Sell the rest of your stocks now CmdrTaco! Oh yeah, you're just a corporate drone that got screwed out of a stock deal. Sorry.
To watch a stupid Slashdot reader try to build his own house. Instead of being taken to the cleaners by a general contractor that knows what they are doing - the typical Slashdot reader would be taken to the cleaners by each and every person working on each and every part of their new home.
Sounds Great! Good Luck!
Myth: Bandwidth is wasted on spam
Fact: In the overall since of things, bandwidth is plentiful and very cheap. While it may cost you or I an arm-and-a-leg for a DS1 or DS3 circuit - it costs your average telco very little. With all the huge pipes flowing into Tier 1 and Tier 2 ISPs, the amount of bandwidth used on sending you that 15k spam email is minimal comparied to you using P2P software to download coprighted songs.
So really you should be up-in-arms about the illegal downloading of music using P2P software when you talk about wasting bandwidth.
Maybe if you had any friends in the first place, you could have one that is in Japan for the World Cup so he could buy you this super new and geeky toy.
... fly to Japan and meet a boyfriend! You MUST be a luser of Linux. You and your boyfriend will have so much to talk about!
I know
For all you nerds to get your panties in a bunch over:
Toshiba launches iPod competitor
By Martyn Williams IDG News Service and
Jim Dalrymple, jdalrymple@maccentral.com
June 18, 2002 2:10 pm ET
Toshiba Corp. has chosen a removable hard drive for their new portable music player, which means a physically larger player but one with a much greater capacity for your favorite music.
The Gigabeat will playback music stored in the MP3, WMA or WAV digital audio file formats and Toshiba says the bundled 5GB hard disk offers enough space for around 1,000 MP3 files of 5 minutes length recorded at 128Kbps (bits per second). That's 20 or 40 times the capacity of current memory cards.
[picture of a iPod wannabe]
The hard disk drives are 1.8-inch models developed by Toshiba. They are encased in PC Cards and so can also be used with most notebook PCs or other devices with PC Card slots. Of course, using Apple's iPod, simply connecting the player to your Mac via the FireWire cable mounts the drive on your desktop.
With all this data storage space, transferring files to the player could take some time and here Toshiba has implemented the new USB2.0 interface, which can transfer data at 480M bps -- a much higher speed than the 12M bps supported by USB1.1, which is found on most digital music players today. Using the bundled application software, Toshiba says an entire CD worth of audio can be transferred to the device in 30 seconds.
With its rectangular shape, liquid crystal display and circular control panel, the Gigabeat bears a passing resemblance to Apple Inc.'s iPod, which has a fixed 1.8-inch hard disk drive (produced by Toshiba) buried inside. Apple's current model of the iPod contains a 10GB disk, allowing for approximately 2,000 songs.
Partly because of the hard disk slot and ejection mechanism, the Toshiba player is slightly larger but not by much. It measures 7.2 centimeters (cm) by 2.2 cm by 11.2 cm, which puts it around 1 cm wider and taller than the iPod. At 180 grams with no disk and 235 grams with the drive inserted, it also weighs more than the Apple player, which is 185 grams including its internal hard disk.
Other features include an on-screen menu in English, Japanese, French, Spanish or German. The screen has 160 x 120 pixel resolution and is slightly smaller than the iPod's 2-inch screen.
The Gigabeat MEG50JS will go on sale in Japan on June 22 and is expected to cost around 50,000 (US$402) bundled with a 5GB hard disk. At the same time, Toshiba will put removable hard drives in 2GB and 5GB sizes on sale for 20,000 (US$160) and 40,000 (US$321) respectively.
Toshiba said it has plans to put the Gigabeat on sale in the U.S. and then Europe although the company has not decided on a schedule for an overseas launch.
n/m
It just seemed so right!
You Open Sores Hippies
First for CLIT!
I Agree With This Post.
I'd guess this really pisses your Open Sores nerdics off pretty bad! hahahaha!
I guess that's what you get for being stupid and giving all your code away! You just let "the enemy" swoop in a steal all your hard work.
hahah HAH h ah ah H AH AH AH AHAH AH AHEH EH EH E
I would like to follow up this comment with the enxtention that all open source projects suck. I can't think of one that has any quality above a propriety solution.
That said, I'll be finishing my article for Troll Tuesday shortly.
Why open sores will never be a viable business option:
THE INCIDENT MONDAY Monday involving Apache's Web software shows that the system to insulate the Internet from attack -- a joint effort of the government and private companies -- is still a long way from perfect.
"It would be good if people would agree on some standards," said Chris Wysopal of Boston security firm AtStake. "People can't be put at risk like this again and again."
Internet Security Systems of Atlanta published a warning early Monday about vulnerabilities in Apache on some computer operating systems. Apache is used on about 60 percent of Web servers, the computers that deliver Web pages to the Internet. Many companies, including IBM and Oracle, create products that rely in part on Apache.
Now ISS is under fire for breaking informal industry agreements by rushing out the warning -- and a partial fix -- before coordinating with Apache developers.
The issue reveals infighting and hasty decisions that have become common in the computer security industry. Experts say the effect is to confuse users and possibly cause even more security problems.
I'll just be redundant much like all the other slashbots and say that this has been done before.
Go a head and mod me down for all I care, I already have 50 karma and can stand to lose some.
n/m
I did enjoy reading your attempted first post though. Very catchy tune!
That is simply a lie. I am an expert in the Anti-Virus community and I know for a fact that people are planning virii that will be able to take control of your Linux/*BSD machine easier and spread faster than anything we have seen in Windows.
I works by infecting the kmem section of the kernel code and changing registers to make the operating system think you are the root user. At this point it installs itself in several places. It speads to other Linux machines due to a bug in the kernel. I hope this doesn't harm Linux being taken up as a Desktop OS.
I like to think I know computers well. I've been programming for a long time. I've used all the programming languages out there and prefer Pascal or Visual Basic. I like these because not only are they easy to write secure and fast code, they allow me to live my life the way I want. I was recently hired for my skills of computer management. When I started at my new company they were all using Linux because it was free. I told them I don't work in a Linux environment because I choose not to bat for the wrong team. So after I got approval from the president of the company I went on IRC and downloaded a CD rip of Windows 2000 Professional edition and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I deployed the server first. One thing people did notice is that we no longer have all the downtime we used to have.
Just yesterday, I unstalled Linux from all the computers at work - and the strangest thing happened...the office is smelling a lot better today? I posted this information to a newsgroup this morning and it mentioned that most Linux users are dirty smelly hippies who don't shower. I guess this morning they all decided to shower - it is very pleasant here now.
I also noticed that about 4 times as many bugs are being completed by our programming staff. I assume this is because of the extra productivity Windows 2000 affords us. Instead of fumbling around with source codes/etc just to play an mp3 or open a file - they are doing their jobs. This is a good day for Microsoft and their NT Technology.
Does anyone know when these Linux hippies with finally go away for good? I don't know what the IT people before me were thinking installing Linux. If you just look at the stock for it's creator LNUX, you'll see a sad tale over the last year or so. Millions lost - and that's just in investments. This doesn't even account for all the productivity lost by using Linux and the fact that you need a Haz-Mat crew to clean an office after a linux hippie was using it.
So - in closing - today is happy Linux is gone day!