Speaking as someone originally from Minnesota, Norm Coleman is all camera-mugging style, with little substance--originally a roadie for second-rate 60s era rock bands, like many of his generation, he turned from counterculture to yuppie culture, and has become part of the Establishment with gusto.
While his involvement in the Food-for-Oil scandal may be seen as laudable, it may also be seen as an attempt by Republicans to deflect heat from their own scandals. Saying he's an 'up and rising star in the RNC' and will be running for president sooner or later sounds impressive, until one considers that the same has been said about Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, Sam Brownback and Tom Tancredo.
To me, this is just another grandstanding play by Coleman--something that looks good to the cameras, but has no substance...
the article is saying nothing new, except that it focuses on pillows, rather than mattresses and carpeting--this is all rather well known to doctors who treat sufferers from hay fever, allergies or asthma--since I've recently been suffering more than usual from allergies, so I picked up this book Hay Fever: The Complete Guide which is a good comprehensive guide to dealing with allergies, debunks some myths, and which describes preventative measures other than wrapping in plastic.
As for the professional debunkers resident here at Slashdot, this isn't sensationalistic--if you don't suffer from allergies, be thankful--personally, i'm going to go wrap my pillows...
your analogy of MS to McDonalds is missing some key points, chiefly that McDonalds 'food' is *bad for your health* --high in fat and sugar, low in nutritional value, and created by very questionable methods, designed for profit first, and health last (Did you know that each McDonalds hamburger contains parts of 20 different cows? What part of the chicken does a Chicken McNugget come from?) Read the book 'Fast Food Nation,' and you will learn some things that make your stomach turn.
your argument is basically saying that people choose McDonalds for it's Lowest Common Denominator appeal, to the long-term detriment of their health--now, *that's* the key analogy of MS to McDonalds!
I don't think he has much good to say about the RIAA and major labels either--fortunately, he's been small enough/smart enough to avoid them, yet he's been one of the most influential musicians of the past 25 years...
bonus question: what does his success say about the need for major labels?
I can, and so can anybody who takes the time to understand the history of copyright and the entertainment biz...which is why the RIAA et al are so busy trying to do an end run around us, and target the 30-40% of the public who believe that the sun revolves around the earth and that Iraq was involved in 9-11.
This article is basically a paid advertisement for the music industry--it is larded with such industry-serving arguments, and is so one-sided that it makes me feel sorry for the good middle-Americans who depend on Newsweek to actually provide them with news...
The industry doesn't want to repeat a history of undervaluing itself.
yes, they've obviously been undervalued for so long--it's really sad how MTV made all that money off of Madonna--and we're supposed to believe that all Warner Bros got was a lousy t-shirt? how many artists made their name off MTV, and now we're supposed to believe that the labels didn't make any money off this?
The industry considers Steve Jobs the latest incarnation of this problem.
so he's a problem because he succeeded where they failed? until the ascendancy of iTunes, they were getting 100% of next to nothing--Apple did what they couldn't do, and now they're complaining because they only get 70% of the proceeds?
And that's the problem--lots of companies are making money from music, just not music companies.
they're not making money from music, or enough money to satisfy their corporate overlords? funny, but the labels weren't complaining when overpriced CDs were flying off the shelves, and all these years of record profits, nor do they complain when somebody buys Led Zeppelin IV for the fourth or fifth time, or until death do you part...
I guess they already know what people 'in the know' think about them, which is why they plant slimy articles like this, to try to keep on picking the low-hanging fruit, using their brand of creativity, which seems to be limited to accounting and FUD...pigs.
that I'm able to finish and output my creative work, rather than have to slave on schlocky corporate work.
if you want to call me dependent on my wife, that's fine--I'd infinitely much rather be in that situation than dependent on some corporate crumbs...
whatever. i made it to the other side. it's nice. hope you can make it.
it can come true-here's my story...
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Here's my story, in the hope that somebody will read it, and may be influenced to take a leap...
briefly, I started as a graphic designer and production artist in 1990, first working for a manufacturer, then going on my own for a couple of years--my computer skills have been valuable because I learned the technical aspects of print production, rather than just making pretty layouts--in the mid 90s, I started learning web design and multimedia (Director) --wanting to be my own boss, I started a small design biz and went on my own--during this time, I had my own clients, as well as doing freelance work inside many top ad and marketing agencies in Minneapolis. then, I went to work for a homegrown ad agency, who was actually pretty good to work for, with lots of perks, but also having to put up with typical client BS.
by 2000 i'd had enough, and moved to New York City, to get an advanced degree, learning multimedia art + design, and to see how i'd match up with the best. I was freelancing while going to school, which went fine at first, and then slowly dissipated with the dotcom bubble burst, finally falling on 9-11, which I saw from my classroom window. the next year and a half were spent trying to work out of this--I actually got a job at a remaining dot-com, but the founder split with the last 600k, and I was out of a job a week after I was hired...at this point, my rent wasn't being paid, much less my bills or student loans--also, I'd exhausted any credit I had, or even friends or parents to help me pay my bills--i was on my own, with no income and few prospects (freelance rates dropped through the floor at this time, and the competition became ever more fierce). bankruptcy was imminent...
I still kept my work studio, though, because I found I *needed* to keep working--the silver lining is that with commercial work nonexistent, I could work on my own projects--I distinctly remember waking up to go to the studio being flat broke, knowing that the financial world was closing in on me. strangely, I felt free and ok with this, becausee even though I wasn't being paid, I was going to go and work on my stuff, because that's what I do.
just when things were at their lowest, I met my future wife--she's European, and from a family of artists (and she's a geek;>--we fell in love and got married, and most of my concerns were eliminated...because my wife's father (who died when she was young) left her some money, I am able to work without having to submit to the most lucrative job--I teach interactive multimedia design and spend the rest of my time working on my own projects. Next year, I will be releasing my own creative work, (hopefully in conjunction with a major event that I am working on being a part of), while continuing to teach, and spend time with my beautiful (geek) wife...
what's the point? Surely, I got incredibly lucky, however, that luck came after I stayed true to my own self, and pursued my dream--I was willing to take less, and put in more, in order to pursue my dream, and in the end, it came back to me a thousandfold--before that, however, I gave up a steady job, where I made good money, but got very little satisfaction putting together schlock work for anybody willing to pay.
lots of people would trade places with me now, but which nobody would have done 2 1/2 years ago--I do believe that it was my willingness to stick it out to the bitter end that got me this far--that's the message that I want to send out--you *can* make your dreams come true, if you want them bad enough--they will never turn out quite like you expect in the beginning, but you can see it clearly, looking back...
corporations are like casinos--they may pay you some coin, but they'll take your heart and soul in return--I can't blame anybody who takes a corporate job to feed themselves and their families, however, it's always a tradeoff, and make no mistake, they take as much of your heart and soul as they can. In return, many of the things that you think you need are actually modern 'convenien
for a preview of what this suite will do, look at all the wonderful designers that MS has created via Word--there's a whole generation of secretary-produced Word designs for both print and web!
I started in print design and production in the early 90s, then switched to interactive multimedia design in the late 90s--MS has always been a joke in this arena, and rightly so (FrontPage anyone?)
In the 'modern' standards era, why would you want to work with monopoly software whose parent consistently chooses its own proprietary standards that are not consistent with the rest of the computing world?
don't tell me to RTFA, and how they are planning such wonderful interopterability--I trust MS as far as I chucked my Dell desktop when I went 100% MS free a couple of years ago...
ok, maybe there's a bit of a generation gap going on here--these are all 'Generation X' heroes (my era)--I think there's a lot more going on here than anybody who was born after 1975 appreciates...
personally, here are the one's I think could be good:
Nick Fury: from the Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. days, with DoD dream equipment, fighting the hordes of HYDRA...
Shang-Chi: Master of Martial Arts-great storyline...
The Avengers: much better to put Ant-Man, Giant Man, et al, in a group...
and some that they missed:
Ghost Rider: stuntrider turned into hellspawn riding a fiery chopper...
Silver Surfer: f/x could finally do this character justice...
the Black Falcon: teamed with Captain America to make a biracial crime-fighting superteam...
Howard the Duck: I'm suprised this hasn't been mentioned--a great comic, but the movie set the standard for comic movie flops;>
the biggest reason why Marvel kicked ass in the 70s was due to the storylines--full of humanity and topical action (racism, the war in Vietnam, government corruption, etc. (this is why Spiderman was so successful--the human element, not the f/x)
before is was Apple's name for their OS core, Darwin meant evolution, and this is all part of Apple's plan...
want to try your luck at running OS X on your Intel box? have at it! try to make it run on any old system you'd like, just don't expect any support...
and then you'll find out why Apple makes their own hardware, and either give in and buy a mini, powerbook, g5, etc, or you'll just keep on having your own kind of fun trying to make everything work properly;>
it's fine that some people like Dell hardware so much, and have more time than money to burn--after trying to run OS X on their beige box, some people may even quit complaining about how expensive Apple hardware is, and realize that some things are worth paying for...
say what you will, but Apple knows how to build hardware--the last PC I had was a Dell (and given to me in lieu of a paycheck by a submerging client), and it worked great for a month or so, before the power supply went out, and it became a doorstop, on it's way to the curb!
so if you want to mess with OS X on your pc, go for it! meanwhile, i'll just keep on being productive with my 4 Apple boxen that just keep on working...
while i only stfa, the sum total of monetary damages seems to me to be RIAA-esque...
meanwhile, why don't we hear about how much something like this costs?
Ideas are most definitely *not* 'protected' (see Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture)--it's only the tangible output of those thoughts.
This is the M.O. of slimy corporations and politicians everywhere--they are basically lying to people through their gross simplification of complex issues (see 'pirates are bad'), misuse of language (this competition), and outright lying (too many examples to mention).
What's next? 'Find the hidden pirate treasure on your parent's computer? '
...like the cattle rancher cares about his cattle!
paraphrased from a quote from Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture (free as in beer download). This book is the best account of how industry cartels like the RIAA have severely diminshed the public's freedom, in order to preserve their entitlements.
anybody who is interested in this issue (especially those parroting the simplistic 'filesharing is stealing, end of story' line) should read this!
...the ones who feel the need to impose their own personal faith on me--religion should be a personal matter, between the individual and their god of choice, so please quit telling me what *you* think God wants!
I'm not at all sorry to say that I believe that my connection to God is no lesser than George Bush's, or Pat Robertson's, or the Pope's for that matter...but i'm not running around telling other people that God told me to tell them what to do!
Does the parent article qualify as news, as in new? From Apple Typography:
The Apple II display system was designed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Apple was granted patents for the technology, since expired. When Microsoft introduced its ClearType technology, it was presented as a new invention. It is unclear whether Microsoft accidentally and independently rediscovered subpixel rendering, or whether they were aware of its roots.
In May 2001, Microsoft received patents for some of ClearType. However, some people, for example Steve Gibson, suggest that the patent would not be enforceable, due to the existence of prior art, from Apple and other companies that explored and optimized subpixel rendering. Despite this, Microsoft runs an IP licensing program for ClearType, which was started in December, 2003. It is unclear if Apple has licensed Microsoft's ClearType patents, but according to John Kheit, they may hold rights to them as part of the cross-licensing and investment agreement in 1997.
Despite the apologists claims, it's not that innovation doesn't occur in a vacuum, but that MS consistently claims these innovations as their own 'sui generis' inventions.
MS product development is like a boy band record producer, trying to synthesize something that approximates the real experience--it may have drums and guitar and bass, but it just don't rock!
While the information provided by analysts like Rob Enderle and Laura DiDio weren't incorrect, their statements represented speculation more fitting to a daytime soap opera than to the business section of a newspaper.
this refers in part to DiDio's many inflammatory statements, in particular one from the SLC Tribune on March 9:
No one could say for sure Wednesday, although Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio had some advice for those watching the fortunes of both Canopy and the Noorda Family Trust - two entities controlling hundreds of millions of dollars.
"This is all about the money, and the ones most closely following the money are the Noordas' [four] kids," she said. "Who stands to gain the most? And what's the only thing that stood between them and the money?
"That was Ralph Yarro. So, good-bye, Ralph," DiDio added. "I don't think Yarro will be reinstated. I find that highly unlikely. . . They will just pay him off and send him on his way - but they won't countenance anyone who's a threat" to their monetary access.
People following the case know about Val Noorda Kreidel's tragic suicide a few weeks ago, and evidently, Brent Noorda felt compelled to address the out-of-bounds tactics of these so-called 'analysts.'
While it could be agreed that there are individual extremists among the pro-FOSS crowd, DiDio and her fellow neo-cons (Enderle, Maureen O'Gara) consider Groklaw itself to be a radical extremist site, despite the solid legal reportage done by Pamela Jones and company (so good, in fact, that SCO raided Groklaw's documents to seed their own prosco site).
While DiDio is crying harrassment, one could have a sense that the best defense is a good offense, as in she'd rather take offense than apologize for her own transgressions...
I encourage everybody who hasn't already, to check out Brent Noorda's open letter on Groklaw, and then decide for yourself who's the real extremist!
i hate to intrude on all of the Flash-bashing, but the bigger issue is screen size--there's no way that a site can look good on both a 20" monitor running 1340x resolution, and a mobile phone screen at 320x240 or less...
therefore, the idea of being able to surf the web from your phone the same as from your desktop is a pipe dream, because sites need to be optimized to run on mobile devices, and served up based on screen-size detection--obviously, this is feasible only if your mobile audiences are a big part of your market, which precludes most sites from targeting mobile users..
while i admire TBL, he spends about as much time in the 'real world' as RMS does--while his idealism is admirable, it tends to be detached from the situation 'on the ground'
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While his involvement in the Food-for-Oil scandal may be seen as laudable, it may also be seen as an attempt by Republicans to deflect heat from their own scandals. Saying he's an 'up and rising star in the RNC' and will be running for president sooner or later sounds impressive, until one considers that the same has been said about Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, Sam Brownback and Tom Tancredo.
To me, this is just another grandstanding play by Coleman--something that looks good to the cameras, but has no substance...
As for the professional debunkers resident here at Slashdot, this isn't sensationalistic--if you don't suffer from allergies, be thankful--personally, i'm going to go wrap my pillows...
your analogy of MS to McDonalds is missing some key points, chiefly that McDonalds 'food' is *bad for your health* --high in fat and sugar, low in nutritional value, and created by very questionable methods, designed for profit first, and health last (Did you know that each McDonalds hamburger contains parts of 20 different cows? What part of the chicken does a Chicken McNugget come from?) Read the book 'Fast Food Nation,' and you will learn some things that make your stomach turn. your argument is basically saying that people choose McDonalds for it's Lowest Common Denominator appeal, to the long-term detriment of their health--now, *that's* the key analogy of MS to McDonalds!
I don't think he has much good to say about the RIAA and major labels either--fortunately, he's been small enough/smart enough to avoid them, yet he's been one of the most influential musicians of the past 25 years...
bonus question: what does his success say about the need for major labels?
This article is basically a paid advertisement for the music industry--it is larded with such industry-serving arguments, and is so one-sided that it makes me feel sorry for the good middle-Americans who depend on Newsweek to actually provide them with news...
The industry doesn't want to repeat a history of undervaluing itself. yes, they've obviously been undervalued for so long--it's really sad how MTV made all that money off of Madonna--and we're supposed to believe that all Warner Bros got was a lousy t-shirt? how many artists made their name off MTV, and now we're supposed to believe that the labels didn't make any money off this?
The industry considers Steve Jobs the latest incarnation of this problem. so he's a problem because he succeeded where they failed? until the ascendancy of iTunes, they were getting 100% of next to nothing--Apple did what they couldn't do, and now they're complaining because they only get 70% of the proceeds?
And that's the problem--lots of companies are making money from music, just not music companies. they're not making money from music, or enough money to satisfy their corporate overlords? funny, but the labels weren't complaining when overpriced CDs were flying off the shelves, and all these years of record profits, nor do they complain when somebody buys Led Zeppelin IV for the fourth or fifth time, or until death do you part...
I guess they already know what people 'in the know' think about them, which is why they plant slimy articles like this, to try to keep on picking the low-hanging fruit, using their brand of creativity, which seems to be limited to accounting and FUD...pigs.
if you want to call me dependent on my wife, that's fine--I'd infinitely much rather be in that situation than dependent on some corporate crumbs...
whatever. i made it to the other side. it's nice. hope you can make it.
briefly, I started as a graphic designer and production artist in 1990, first working for a manufacturer, then going on my own for a couple of years--my computer skills have been valuable because I learned the technical aspects of print production, rather than just making pretty layouts--in the mid 90s, I started learning web design and multimedia (Director) --wanting to be my own boss, I started a small design biz and went on my own--during this time, I had my own clients, as well as doing freelance work inside many top ad and marketing agencies in Minneapolis. then, I went to work for a homegrown ad agency, who was actually pretty good to work for, with lots of perks, but also having to put up with typical client BS.
by 2000 i'd had enough, and moved to New York City, to get an advanced degree, learning multimedia art + design, and to see how i'd match up with the best. I was freelancing while going to school, which went fine at first, and then slowly dissipated with the dotcom bubble burst, finally falling on 9-11, which I saw from my classroom window. the next year and a half were spent trying to work out of this--I actually got a job at a remaining dot-com, but the founder split with the last 600k, and I was out of a job a week after I was hired...at this point, my rent wasn't being paid, much less my bills or student loans--also, I'd exhausted any credit I had, or even friends or parents to help me pay my bills--i was on my own, with no income and few prospects (freelance rates dropped through the floor at this time, and the competition became ever more fierce). bankruptcy was imminent...
I still kept my work studio, though, because I found I *needed* to keep working--the silver lining is that with commercial work nonexistent, I could work on my own projects--I distinctly remember waking up to go to the studio being flat broke, knowing that the financial world was closing in on me. strangely, I felt free and ok with this, becausee even though I wasn't being paid, I was going to go and work on my stuff, because that's what I do.
just when things were at their lowest, I met my future wife--she's European, and from a family of artists (and she's a geek;>--we fell in love and got married, and most of my concerns were eliminated...because my wife's father (who died when she was young) left her some money, I am able to work without having to submit to the most lucrative job--I teach interactive multimedia design and spend the rest of my time working on my own projects. Next year, I will be releasing my own creative work, (hopefully in conjunction with a major event that I am working on being a part of), while continuing to teach, and spend time with my beautiful (geek) wife...
what's the point? Surely, I got incredibly lucky, however, that luck came after I stayed true to my own self, and pursued my dream--I was willing to take less, and put in more, in order to pursue my dream, and in the end, it came back to me a thousandfold--before that, however, I gave up a steady job, where I made good money, but got very little satisfaction putting together schlock work for anybody willing to pay.
lots of people would trade places with me now, but which nobody would have done 2 1/2 years ago--I do believe that it was my willingness to stick it out to the bitter end that got me this far--that's the message that I want to send out--you *can* make your dreams come true, if you want them bad enough--they will never turn out quite like you expect in the beginning, but you can see it clearly, looking back...
corporations are like casinos--they may pay you some coin, but they'll take your heart and soul in return--I can't blame anybody who takes a corporate job to feed themselves and their families, however, it's always a tradeoff, and make no mistake, they take as much of your heart and soul as they can. In return, many of the things that you think you need are actually modern 'convenien
I started in print design and production in the early 90s, then switched to interactive multimedia design in the late 90s--MS has always been a joke in this arena, and rightly so (FrontPage anyone?)
In the 'modern' standards era, why would you want to work with monopoly software whose parent consistently chooses its own proprietary standards that are not consistent with the rest of the computing world?
don't tell me to RTFA, and how they are planning such wonderful interopterability--I trust MS as far as I chucked my Dell desktop when I went 100% MS free a couple of years ago...
personally, here are the one's I think could be good:
Nick Fury: from the Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. days, with DoD dream equipment, fighting the hordes of HYDRA...
Shang-Chi: Master of Martial Arts-great storyline...
The Avengers: much better to put Ant-Man, Giant Man, et al, in a group...
and some that they missed:
Ghost Rider: stuntrider turned into hellspawn riding a fiery chopper...
Silver Surfer: f/x could finally do this character justice...
the Black Falcon: teamed with Captain America to make a biracial crime-fighting superteam...
Howard the Duck: I'm suprised this hasn't been mentioned--a great comic, but the movie set the standard for comic movie flops;>
the biggest reason why Marvel kicked ass in the 70s was due to the storylines--full of humanity and topical action (racism, the war in Vietnam, government corruption, etc. (this is why Spiderman was so successful--the human element, not the f/x)
want to try your luck at running OS X on your Intel box? have at it! try to make it run on any old system you'd like, just don't expect any support...
and then you'll find out why Apple makes their own hardware, and either give in and buy a mini, powerbook, g5, etc, or you'll just keep on having your own kind of fun trying to make everything work properly;>
it's fine that some people like Dell hardware so much, and have more time than money to burn--after trying to run OS X on their beige box, some people may even quit complaining about how expensive Apple hardware is, and realize that some things are worth paying for...
say what you will, but Apple knows how to build hardware--the last PC I had was a Dell (and given to me in lieu of a paycheck by a submerging client), and it worked great for a month or so, before the power supply went out, and it became a doorstop, on it's way to the curb!
so if you want to mess with OS X on your pc, go for it! meanwhile, i'll just keep on being productive with my 4 Apple boxen that just keep on working...
let's see what's hot these days, and then build a copycat product, and stamp our name on it, which is sure to make it big...
or not.
most likely, not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah_Centre
The Butler =mom or dad
you could probably save a significant part of the $1,109,574 by sticking with 'local geek' or 'comic book guy' as an alter ego...
3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost
the corporate mentality never ceases to disillusion me--where's the class action lawsuit?
This is the M.O. of slimy corporations and politicians everywhere--they are basically lying to people through their gross simplification of complex issues (see 'pirates are bad'), misuse of language (this competition), and outright lying (too many examples to mention).
What's next? 'Find the hidden pirate treasure on your parent's computer? '
paraphrased from a quote from Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture (free as in beer download). This book is the best account of how industry cartels like the RIAA have severely diminshed the public's freedom, in order to preserve their entitlements.
anybody who is interested in this issue (especially those parroting the simplistic 'filesharing is stealing, end of story' line) should read this!
Mr. Sherman, why are you hate freedom?
I'm not at all sorry to say that I believe that my connection to God is no lesser than George Bush's, or Pat Robertson's, or the Pope's for that matter...but i'm not running around telling other people that God told me to tell them what to do!
he's good at toeing the company line, and can be had pretty cheap these days!
PDF killer, aka 'myPDF'
iTunes killer aka 'MSItunes'
Flash killer, aka 'WinFlash'
let's just say i'm not holding my breath...
when was the last time MS came out with a really great app? can you remember back that far?
The Apple II display system was designed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Apple was granted patents for the technology, since expired. When Microsoft introduced its ClearType technology, it was presented as a new invention. It is unclear whether Microsoft accidentally and independently rediscovered subpixel rendering, or whether they were aware of its roots.
In May 2001, Microsoft received patents for some of ClearType. However, some people, for example Steve Gibson, suggest that the patent would not be enforceable, due to the existence of prior art, from Apple and other companies that explored and optimized subpixel rendering. Despite this, Microsoft runs an IP licensing program for ClearType, which was started in December, 2003. It is unclear if Apple has licensed Microsoft's ClearType patents, but according to John Kheit, they may hold rights to them as part of the cross-licensing and investment agreement in 1997.
Despite the apologists claims, it's not that innovation doesn't occur in a vacuum, but that MS consistently claims these innovations as their own 'sui generis' inventions.
MS product development is like a boy band record producer, trying to synthesize something that approximates the real experience--it may have drums and guitar and bass, but it just don't rock!
didn't they do the same thing with 'Plug and Play' a few years back?
if you were a politician, which would you rather do, given the choice?
how do we know that the files weren't planted by the RIAA? Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence
Yesterday, Brent Noorda posted an open letter on Groklaw Brent Noorda Sets the Record Straight --here's a key quote:
While the information provided by analysts like Rob Enderle and Laura DiDio weren't incorrect, their statements represented speculation more fitting to a daytime soap opera than to the business section of a newspaper.
this refers in part to DiDio's many inflammatory statements, in particular one from the SLC Tribune on March 9:
No one could say for sure Wednesday, although Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio had some advice for those watching the fortunes of both Canopy and the Noorda Family Trust - two entities controlling hundreds of millions of dollars. "This is all about the money, and the ones most closely following the money are the Noordas' [four] kids," she said. "Who stands to gain the most? And what's the only thing that stood between them and the money?
"That was Ralph Yarro. So, good-bye, Ralph," DiDio added. "I don't think Yarro will be reinstated. I find that highly unlikely. . . They will just pay him off and send him on his way - but they won't countenance anyone who's a threat" to their monetary access.
People following the case know about Val Noorda Kreidel's tragic suicide a few weeks ago, and evidently, Brent Noorda felt compelled to address the out-of-bounds tactics of these so-called 'analysts.'
While it could be agreed that there are individual extremists among the pro-FOSS crowd, DiDio and her fellow neo-cons (Enderle, Maureen O'Gara) consider Groklaw itself to be a radical extremist site, despite the solid legal reportage done by Pamela Jones and company (so good, in fact, that SCO raided Groklaw's documents to seed their own prosco site).
While DiDio is crying harrassment, one could have a sense that the best defense is a good offense, as in she'd rather take offense than apologize for her own transgressions...
I encourage everybody who hasn't already, to check out Brent Noorda's open letter on Groklaw, and then decide for yourself who's the real extremist!
therefore, the idea of being able to surf the web from your phone the same as from your desktop is a pipe dream, because sites need to be optimized to run on mobile devices, and served up based on screen-size detection--obviously, this is feasible only if your mobile audiences are a big part of your market, which precludes most sites from targeting mobile users..
while i admire TBL, he spends about as much time in the 'real world' as RMS does--while his idealism is admirable, it tends to be detached from the situation 'on the ground'