Since it causes the hand to be in a more downward (as opposed to a straighter possition) if you can find a spare baseball or rubber band ball it gives you a good idea of what this would feel like to use. I happen to have a rubber band ball from a conference I went to in September handy and noticed the similarity when looking at the pic.
Personally, I kind of like it, I can kind of tell the difference with the tendons, but I'm not sure how well it would react in uses where your moving your hand a lot now that the center of where your pressing on the input device (no longer can you just call it a mouse...) seems to be more toward the wrist, so forward or side to side movements would require more effort or at least leverage. Would be interesting to try it out though.
One thing I submitted a while ago was the ability to import your POP3 box (say from Outlook, or Apple Mail), thus make that transition to webmail and still have all your stuff which seems to be a real focus for google.
It seems that nobody really has solved the email transferal problem have they? (please correct me if I'm wrong) And while I'm biased, it would be an interesting marketing ploy for those who wanted to switch, one that Apple has used with Apple Mail.
I know that there are some areas of IT, which are 95% male dominated (and some of those have English as the primary language as a minority within the office dept).
On the flip side, I recently visited an ERP project team implimenting Peoplesoft (or Oracle/Soft, however you prefer) 8.9 for their university, and of the 24 people employed, only 2 were male.
IT is both broad and deep in its job functions and levels of involvement, so is the diversity of those working in it (both based on culture and sex).
>>>>At some point, we HAVE to realize that we just can't have some type of perfect security. Like a real safe or vault, someone determined enough to get in WILL get in. However, the better the security, the more chance that you will catch them in the act and prevent it, or deter the would-be attacker in the first place. This is the true goal of security.
Ok, fair, but given the bank vault analogy, if you put some sort of weapon (say a machine gun, flame thrower, or some other devilish device) behind the door, and someone can punch in their passcode 3 times, on the fourth time, it gives a green light like you got it right and opens, only to kill you. Yeah, security through obscurity, but it would probably be decent at detering bruteforce password cracking... And make interesting company BBQ picnics (Only if the Super Flamethrower2000 attachment was purchased. Sold seperately)
Amazing what watching an old episode of Get Smart and locked doors at work with a similar alarm mechinism can do for your imagination.
>>> However, I am a bit annoyed at your statement of how you routinely put referral links on Slashdot, yet you don't think you are link spamming. A bit contradictory eh?
spam (as defined by google): (also known as unsolicited commercial e-mail) Unwanted, unsolicited junk e-mail to a large number of recipients.
and
An article that is sent to hundreds or thousands of different newsgroups, and has nothing to do with any of them.
These are two results from the dozen that turn up from google (all saying relitivly the same thing). Ok, so given that, the product here would be defined as the book Cybernetics (which is on topic here). If you clicked the link, chances are you are at least interested in it, and you did take interest in the story enough to read the blurb (of the/. post) so I'd have trouble defining this as spamming. Misguided and possibly riddled with alterior motives; ok, I'll go there, but spam, this is not. I do agree that the more linking in this fashion that is done, the less credibility presumed about the source.
I'll speak from experience on this one as I've delt with purchasing at my organization.
We buy branded Dells because they are cheaper then the no name boxes. This occurs because we arn't purchasing them from Dell directly, but from a 3rd party such as GDW-G which does governmental and education contracts. While (not acurate numbers, I'm using them as a demo since I'm not at work right now) a Dell desktop may be $1300 from Dell, and a generic box may be $1150, we can get that same Dell for $900 (after shipping). When you start ordering 100 or 200 boxes, it makes sense to run with that cheaper solution. Our smaller shops in the area refuse to go lower then that $1150 price as they cant make a profit, but (much like what WalMart does) GDW-G/Dell may because they can deal in bulk. Add in a 3 year no questions asked support contract for your work place, and that adds roughly $100 per box, and your still ahead of the generic or Dell direct without a contract.
I have no idea why others do it, thats just my case.
First off, that was Oracles plan in the beginning, but as of this afternoon, Oracle has publically stated that it will be continuing support, and even furthering development on PeopleSoft's products.
I'm in the same boat.
The story I'm referencing is as follows (the comment comes about half way down the article, starting with "In its statement Oracle moved": Yahoo News
what you've described and given examples of, is very very similar to what marketing classes call "undercover marketing" (Guerilla and Buzz have both been used for the same concept). The catch with undercover marketing is that you unknowingly are marketed to. Keyword there being unknowingly. If you can pick it up, either you have studied this, or its being done really poorly. There really isnt much if any middle ground there, and the reason is this:
If someone with a thick spanish accent stopped you on the street, and asked you to take a picture of him and his girlfriend. You have never seen this camera, and he shows you how it works so you can take their picture. Its a sweet camera. You take the picture, and your off on your way.
They just pimped a new Sony camera that you'll see next month, yet you were being nice. To pick up on this, either one, you see the example beforehand and wear a tinfoil hat, or two, you dont see it and it doesnt seem like advertising, but just being nice and touristy. That is until you sit across the street in the cafe and watch the preceedings for an hour. This is the classic example I've seen in my classes, and its really hard to pick out without wearing a tinfoil hat and beleaving that everyone is out to get you with advertising.
Personally, that doesnt bother me, cause it doesnt feel like advertising. Thats part of what many people dont like, is that feeling of being sold to. If you can hype a product (which is all this does, if the product sucks, you dont have nearly as much to stand on as tv advertising does), and it is discovered that it was artificial hype, then it goes down in flames faster then the hindenburg, and everyone remembers the bitter taste in their mouths of that betrail, and its *extremely* hard to recover from that. I've seen it go both ways.
1) "A person involved in the creative or maintence process of any aspect related to the production of new software packages." This should be encompassing enough to do coders, designers, and even help desk people, but probably goes against some practical or probable reasoning with unions.
2) no clue, I've never dealt with international employees
3) thats easier done then said (at least was for my work, YMMV of course). I worked at a nationwide place that was fond of extracting 60+ hours from people, and when you have a crew of 14, in long crunch times, revolt. you'll loose 15-20% who wont join, but the company cant offord to loose 80% of their workers all at one time. Just wont happen. Circulate memos, organize anonymous online meetings to discuss stuff, but unify before jumping ship. Worked for us. You just need to band together first, and make sure everyone understands that if they all jump, they can fly, but if they dont, we all fall.
I look at this, and question what open source companys OVP has baught into, and take the statement with a grain of salt.
If you baught into something, and wanted it to succeed, wouldnt you take the more positive and earth shattering (in a good way) side of the issue? Not saying that her statement may not be true, but what stake does that company hold in seeing the statement become true.
Bingo, one of the first generation members of the gay community in San Francisco has a similar immunity while everyone around him died (ok, cant remember a year old episode of tv, my bad).
Whats interesting is that scientists had found some connection to those who had a resistance/immunity to the pleague back in the mideivel times, as the above mentioned indevidual was from a family tree which did not become infected with the pleague.
If someone knows what program I'm talking about, please pipe up.
If you want ogg support, get an iriver h120 (or better yet) a rio karma. They have ogg support that works well (granted the karma is the only one of the two which has gapless support), as they are the companies that are targeting that small segment of ogg users.
Marketing is part of the decision here, the other thing is probably ROI which might just be too little to do an implimentation of ogg support on their mobile system.
Its like the matrix for CPUs (pick 2 of the three, but never all three):
low heat/power consumption uber-fast really cheap
You cant be really trendy and really nerdy at the same time, and still be part of the majority.
If I rmemeber correctly, part of what was the big hitch against fink originally was that it broke rank and did that./usr/local is your stuff, period. Nothing should be put in/usr/bin unless apple installed it, but/usr/local/bin is just your stuff. And fink basically just kinda gave everyone the finger when they said no and put it elsewhere.
Its kinda like, install the Dev tools, then compile something from scratch, where does it go when you do 'make install'? It puts it in/usr/local/bin. Thats just how unix works, and since we are essentailly using a FreeBSD base, thats how it works (notice the reversal of more/less)
I can see arguments both for and against this, but one thing that portage does is it keeps track of what is *your* stuff, and where that stuff is, so if you dont like something, you can remove just that. Now, I've only had to do this once, and what I did was not tied to shared libraries, so someone else who uses Gentoo will need to chime in here (my server was done with "measure twice, cut once" planning).
But I can see how it can safeguard against that for each replease of OSX, given various components built into portage.
Now, I do understand the reasoning by using/sw, and it is a different way of doing stuff (and what it accomplishes is a very valid point, of keeping things seperate as you noted), just one that some people dont like, or have other reasons against which I am not well versed in.
Audio out: iriver ihp-1xx series units (atleast, probably more, i just own the 120 model) Audio in: NJB3, iriver ihp-1xx series, every freakin minidisc portable unit under the sun post like 1995.
Not a flame, but this isnt new, by any long shot.
Now that I've burned my optrotunity to mod this article (and 2 points already gone), I might as well note that if this thing passes through itunes, and anything itunes will play, gets forwarded correctly, then those out there who have dedicated servies already, could run Namp (namp.sourceforge.net) which can build m3u and shoutcast playlists, which do work in itunes, and shuffle your audio that way, *and* even have it be unit independant if you can continually add songs to the list post-creation (I dunno, still installing the modperl stuff on mine).
It would work better if you had (wait for it), a G5 with ssh and stuff running and acting as a server, but yeah, that would make my life a lot simpler anyway.;-p
I whole heartedly agree, and when you cant get a 10k drive in the size you want (or its just not feesable), consider this one word: raid.
I recently did RAID5 (software, ide, 5400rpm) on a machine I own when building a tivo replacement, and while I was doing the install, I noticed the speed of the system flew. I did some further research into the benchmarks some people were posting for raid0 and its true, it gives a hell of a boost. If you can just get ahold of two older drives, its worth it.
I had this idea while reading it of giving everyone a small chip with an RFID sensor in it, and they return it when they leave. period. No names, no registration, just take a chip and leave it. If someone goes missing, look at the logs to see which chip has not been within 50ft of home base in over X hours. Narrows your search, no name used, and its optional. Place the sensors near trails if you really want, and that gives you an idea of the general area to start looking in.
Kudos to you for thinking of using something to help find people. As much as the tinfoil hat people may be vehemiantly against it, if *you* got lost out there, you wish you could have had something to help people find you.... I know all too well the value of time and searching.
And while it states that they will can your account for sending and using your address to receive illicit information in one form or another, I'm tempted to push the envelope (since I dont need the account, I've got an edu account which is better for me).
As much as P2P has been demonized, there is one content that I can think of that is legal, and distrabution is encouraged, and thats concert recordings of bands that allow taping (see etree.org for more info). Each show typically runs between 700MB-> 1.5GB since its done in a lossless compressiong scheme.
So whats stopping me from having people get GMail accounts and then doing a CC to everyone who wants a show and doing a mass mailing (even if its broken into chunks).
I'm not looking for a technical answer, I'm curious about a legal one. (and thus,/. is the wrong place to ask.;-p) The reason is, whats stopping people from using this for legal functions, but not the intended storage purpose as originally "intended".
Well, not really. (If Peoplesoft publicised this better it probably would help quell fears, but anyway, thats a different problem).
Peoplesoft has a golden clause in their company constitution that states along the lines of:
"If a hostile takeover is done, support must be granted for all customers within the last X years or a full refund of the receipt price will be granted"
Got that tidbit from my advisor who worked with Peoplesoft at NAU university with a beta development team.
This shouldnt happen, but for different reasons (other then I'm working with PSoft at my uni, but anyway).
Ellison and his company bungled this one big time. They badmouthed the company, and on Larry King Live, Oracle openly stated that they would kill off the PS product line after the take over (besides the kill clause in their constitution which they didnt research, it was just a bad PR move). With Sparky being the job runner in earlier PeopleSoft releases, Conway made an interesting analogy that they were going to shoot his dog, and I can remember at the 2003 Peoplesoft Conference in the fall that Conway walked out on stage with his dog (both wearing a bullet proof vest), and proclaimed that he would not let his dog be shot and the crowd went wild.
This deal was just destined not to happen after Oracle's management bungled it. Read over at itmanagersjournal for an interesting history lesson at why they bungled it.
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Since it causes the hand to be in a more downward (as opposed to a straighter possition) if you can find a spare baseball or rubber band ball it gives you a good idea of what this would feel like to use. I happen to have a rubber band ball from a conference I went to in September handy and noticed the similarity when looking at the pic.
Personally, I kind of like it, I can kind of tell the difference with the tendons, but I'm not sure how well it would react in uses where your moving your hand a lot now that the center of where your pressing on the input device (no longer can you just call it a mouse...) seems to be more toward the wrist, so forward or side to side movements would require more effort or at least leverage. Would be interesting to try it out though.
One thing I submitted a while ago was the ability to import your POP3 box (say from Outlook, or Apple Mail), thus make that transition to webmail and still have all your stuff which seems to be a real focus for google.
It seems that nobody really has solved the email transferal problem have they? (please correct me if I'm wrong) And while I'm biased, it would be an interesting marketing ploy for those who wanted to switch, one that Apple has used with Apple Mail.
I know that there are some areas of IT, which are 95% male dominated (and some of those have English as the primary language as a minority within the office dept).
On the flip side, I recently visited an ERP project team implimenting Peoplesoft (or Oracle/Soft, however you prefer) 8.9 for their university, and of the 24 people employed, only 2 were male.
IT is both broad and deep in its job functions and levels of involvement, so is the diversity of those working in it (both based on culture and sex).
Ok, fair, but given the bank vault analogy, if you put some sort of weapon (say a machine gun, flame thrower, or some other devilish device) behind the door, and someone can punch in their passcode 3 times, on the fourth time, it gives a green light like you got it right and opens, only to kill you. Yeah, security through obscurity, but it would probably be decent at detering bruteforce password cracking... And make interesting company BBQ picnics (Only if the Super Flamethrower2000 attachment was purchased. Sold seperately)
Amazing what watching an old episode of Get Smart and locked doors at work with a similar alarm mechinism can do for your imagination.
and
These are two results from the dozen that turn up from google (all saying relitivly the same thing). Ok, so given that, the product here would be defined as the book Cybernetics (which is on topic here). If you clicked the link, chances are you are at least interested in it, and you did take interest in the story enough to read the blurb (of the
I'll speak from experience on this one as I've delt with purchasing at my organization.
We buy branded Dells because they are cheaper then the no name boxes. This occurs because we arn't purchasing them from Dell directly, but from a 3rd party such as GDW-G which does governmental and education contracts. While (not acurate numbers, I'm using them as a demo since I'm not at work right now) a Dell desktop may be $1300 from Dell, and a generic box may be $1150, we can get that same Dell for $900 (after shipping). When you start ordering 100 or 200 boxes, it makes sense to run with that cheaper solution. Our smaller shops in the area refuse to go lower then that $1150 price as they cant make a profit, but (much like what WalMart does) GDW-G/Dell may because they can deal in bulk. Add in a 3 year no questions asked support contract for your work place, and that adds roughly $100 per box, and your still ahead of the generic or Dell direct without a contract.
I have no idea why others do it, thats just my case.
First off, that was Oracles plan in the beginning, but as of this afternoon, Oracle has publically stated that it will be continuing support, and even furthering development on PeopleSoft's products.
I'm in the same boat.
The story I'm referencing is as follows (the comment comes about half way down the article, starting with "In its statement Oracle moved":
Yahoo News
what you've described and given examples of, is very very similar to what marketing classes call "undercover marketing" (Guerilla and Buzz have both been used for the same concept). The catch with undercover marketing is that you unknowingly are marketed to. Keyword there being unknowingly. If you can pick it up, either you have studied this, or its being done really poorly. There really isnt much if any middle ground there, and the reason is this:
If someone with a thick spanish accent stopped you on the street, and asked you to take a picture of him and his girlfriend. You have never seen this camera, and he shows you how it works so you can take their picture. Its a sweet camera. You take the picture, and your off on your way.
They just pimped a new Sony camera that you'll see next month, yet you were being nice. To pick up on this, either one, you see the example beforehand and wear a tinfoil hat, or two, you dont see it and it doesnt seem like advertising, but just being nice and touristy. That is until you sit across the street in the cafe and watch the preceedings for an hour. This is the classic example I've seen in my classes, and its really hard to pick out without wearing a tinfoil hat and beleaving that everyone is out to get you with advertising.
Personally, that doesnt bother me, cause it doesnt feel like advertising. Thats part of what many people dont like, is that feeling of being sold to. If you can hype a product (which is all this does, if the product sucks, you dont have nearly as much to stand on as tv advertising does), and it is discovered that it was artificial hype, then it goes down in flames faster then the hindenburg, and everyone remembers the bitter taste in their mouths of that betrail, and its *extremely* hard to recover from that. I've seen it go both ways.
slashdot.org/authors.pl
;-p
my question is, who is "vroom"? But yes, its the first time I've seen him post also.
and why is it front page news? Well, might be a slow news day, who knows...
Ever go sniffing in places that are... well, less then suitable to carry around a laptop (or conceil one while sniffing)?
No, these don't tell you if you can connect, but it at least brings us one step closer to wether there is a network at all.
1) "A person involved in the creative or maintence process of any aspect related to the production of new software packages." This should be encompassing enough to do coders, designers, and even help desk people, but probably goes against some practical or probable reasoning with unions.
2) no clue, I've never dealt with international employees
3) thats easier done then said (at least was for my work, YMMV of course). I worked at a nationwide place that was fond of extracting 60+ hours from people, and when you have a crew of 14, in long crunch times, revolt. you'll loose 15-20% who wont join, but the company cant offord to loose 80% of their workers all at one time. Just wont happen. Circulate memos, organize anonymous online meetings to discuss stuff, but unify before jumping ship. Worked for us. You just need to band together first, and make sure everyone understands that if they all jump, they can fly, but if they dont, we all fall.
not perfect, but its a start.
I look at this, and question what open source companys OVP has baught into, and take the statement with a grain of salt.
If you baught into something, and wanted it to succeed, wouldnt you take the more positive and earth shattering (in a good way) side of the issue? Not saying that her statement may not be true, but what stake does that company hold in seeing the statement become true.
Bingo, one of the first generation members of the gay community in San Francisco has a similar immunity while everyone around him died (ok, cant remember a year old episode of tv, my bad).
Whats interesting is that scientists had found some connection to those who had a resistance/immunity to the pleague back in the mideivel times, as the above mentioned indevidual was from a family tree which did not become infected with the pleague.
If someone knows what program I'm talking about, please pipe up.
Interesting (and valid) observation, but Russian is a nationality, not a race.
If you want ogg support, get an iriver h120 (or better yet) a rio karma. They have ogg support that works well (granted the karma is the only one of the two which has gapless support), as they are the companies that are targeting that small segment of ogg users.
Marketing is part of the decision here, the other thing is probably ROI which might just be too little to do an implimentation of ogg support on their mobile system.
Its like the matrix for CPUs (pick 2 of the three, but never all three):
low heat/power consumption
uber-fast
really cheap
You cant be really trendy and really nerdy at the same time, and still be part of the majority.
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If I rmemeber correctly, part of what was the big hitch against fink originally was that it broke rank and did that. /usr/local is your stuff, period. Nothing should be put in /usr/bin unless apple installed it, but /usr/local/bin is just your stuff. And fink basically just kinda gave everyone the finger when they said no and put it elsewhere.
/usr/local/bin. Thats just how unix works, and since we are essentailly using a FreeBSD base, thats how it works (notice the reversal of more/less)
/sw, and it is a different way of doing stuff (and what it accomplishes is a very valid point, of keeping things seperate as you noted), just one that some people dont like, or have other reasons against which I am not well versed in.
Its kinda like, install the Dev tools, then compile something from scratch, where does it go when you do 'make install'? It puts it in
I can see arguments both for and against this, but one thing that portage does is it keeps track of what is *your* stuff, and where that stuff is, so if you dont like something, you can remove just that. Now, I've only had to do this once, and what I did was not tied to shared libraries, so someone else who uses Gentoo will need to chime in here (my server was done with "measure twice, cut once" planning).
But I can see how it can safeguard against that for each replease of OSX, given various components built into portage.
Now, I do understand the reasoning by using
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http://bt.etree.org
:-)
my cable company doesnt like me (at the average transfer of 3gb up and down daily), but i'm not doing anything illegal.
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fark mod points, I've gotta reply.
;-p
Combined optical/minijack examples
Audio out: iriver ihp-1xx series units (atleast, probably more, i just own the 120 model)
Audio in: NJB3, iriver ihp-1xx series, every freakin minidisc portable unit under the sun post like 1995.
Not a flame, but this isnt new, by any long shot.
Now that I've burned my optrotunity to mod this article (and 2 points already gone), I might as well note that if this thing passes through itunes, and anything itunes will play, gets forwarded correctly, then those out there who have dedicated servies already, could run Namp (namp.sourceforge.net) which can build m3u and shoutcast playlists, which do work in itunes, and shuffle your audio that way, *and* even have it be unit independant if you can continually add songs to the list post-creation (I dunno, still installing the modperl stuff on mine).
It would work better if you had (wait for it), a G5 with ssh and stuff running and acting as a server, but yeah, that would make my life a lot simpler anyway.
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I whole heartedly agree, and when you cant get a 10k drive in the size you want (or its just not feesable), consider this one word: raid.
I recently did RAID5 (software, ide, 5400rpm) on a machine I own when building a tivo replacement, and while I was doing the install, I noticed the speed of the system flew. I did some further research into the benchmarks some people were posting for raid0 and its true, it gives a hell of a boost. If you can just get ahold of two older drives, its worth it.
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I had this idea while reading it of giving everyone a small chip with an RFID sensor in it, and they return it when they leave. period. No names, no registration, just take a chip and leave it. If someone goes missing, look at the logs to see which chip has not been within 50ft of home base in over X hours. Narrows your search, no name used, and its optional. Place the sensors near trails if you really want, and that gives you an idea of the general area to start looking in.
Kudos to you for thinking of using something to help find people. As much as the tinfoil hat people may be vehemiantly against it, if *you* got lost out there, you wish you could have had something to help people find you.... I know all too well the value of time and searching.
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If your formating your machine once a month, just ghost it.
I've got all of the lab machines where I work set up so that we ghost them every other week when stuff breaks. Its great.
So yeah, the first program I install, is Norton Ghost.
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And while it states that they will can your account for sending and using your address to receive illicit information in one form or another, I'm tempted to push the envelope (since I dont need the account, I've got an edu account which is better for me).
/. is the wrong place to ask. ;-p) The reason is, whats stopping people from using this for legal functions, but not the intended storage purpose as originally "intended".
As much as P2P has been demonized, there is one content that I can think of that is legal, and distrabution is encouraged, and thats concert recordings of bands that allow taping (see etree.org for more info). Each show typically runs between 700MB-> 1.5GB since its done in a lossless compressiong scheme.
So whats stopping me from having people get GMail accounts and then doing a CC to everyone who wants a show and doing a mass mailing (even if its broken into chunks).
I'm not looking for a technical answer, I'm curious about a legal one. (and thus,
Is to show up at the shareholder meeting and see who all was there for company reps.
Wear a good suit and tie, make up a company, and have fun with a notepad...
Hell, even bring a laptop or mini camera and take pictures of everyone! A true kodak moment.
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Well, not really. (If Peoplesoft publicised this better it probably would help quell fears, but anyway, thats a different problem).
Peoplesoft has a golden clause in their company constitution that states along the lines of:
"If a hostile takeover is done, support must be granted for all customers within the last X years or a full refund of the receipt price will be granted"
Got that tidbit from my advisor who worked with Peoplesoft at NAU university with a beta development team.
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This shouldnt happen, but for different reasons (other then I'm working with PSoft at my uni, but anyway).
Ellison and his company bungled this one big time. They badmouthed the company, and on Larry King Live, Oracle openly stated that they would kill off the PS product line after the take over (besides the kill clause in their constitution which they didnt research, it was just a bad PR move). With Sparky being the job runner in earlier PeopleSoft releases, Conway made an interesting analogy that they were going to shoot his dog, and I can remember at the 2003 Peoplesoft Conference in the fall that Conway walked out on stage with his dog (both wearing a bullet proof vest), and proclaimed that he would not let his dog be shot and the crowd went wild.
This deal was just destined not to happen after Oracle's management bungled it. Read over at itmanagersjournal for an interesting history lesson at why they bungled it.
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