I don't know much about community internet networks, but I notice that Q-Life where I live in The Dalles is listed. The touted success story is likely mostly true with Q-Life being important in bringing the Google data centers here, but the Internet service available here is about as bad and expensive as anywhere.
There are over 8,000 financial institutions in the US right now. I guarantee that if you look locally, you will find a community bank or credit union that meets your needs and provides all the services of the "big guys."
What a silly remark! The Dalles, Oregon, is a prime example where one of the community banks failed and the other community banks and credit unions to not come close to meeting my needs.
RedHat deserves praise and support for Cygwin, but describing Cywin as "a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows." is misleading on several fronts. First it is primarily a port of the GNU toolset to Windows, it isn't UNIX (which is still a trademark), and it was developed by Cygnus well before they were bought by Red Hat.
Having been a manager at a large high-tech company in Oregon that keeps track of such things, we found that engineers and scientists were called and served on juries at pretty much the same rate as secretaries, techs and even vice presidents.
It's curious how easily history gets turned around.
Theft of technology isn't a new thing, for those who have followed the fortunes of the Alpha processors. Intel was charged with 12 counts of patent infringement, and effectively working in bad faith from the moment they entered a technology sharing agreement with DEC to the moment it broke of and they kept many of the ideas. DEC bided their time, built their case, for two years and then lowered the boom. Intel was lucky to get off as lightly, out of court, as they did, because DEC threatened to block all sales of Pentium processors. Intel ended up paying the long price for the FAB, which they shut down eventually. Yet, all the cash Intel handed DEC didn't save them. As you probably know, DEC was bought by Compaq and now Compaq is part of HP.
At least one part of this is easily seen to be wrong - Intel kept that fab and has invested quite heavily in it:
http://www.intel.com/intel/community/ma/aboutsite. htm
This out of court settlement was the same deal that provided Intel with StrongARM and the base for Intel's IXP technology, all at a bargin price. Many of my friends working in development at DEC feel this was one of Palmer's biggest blunders.
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I don't know much about community internet networks, but I notice that Q-Life where I live in The Dalles is listed. The touted success story is likely mostly true with Q-Life being important in bringing the Google data centers here, but the Internet service available here is about as bad and expensive as anywhere.
And they are smarter too
And why?
There are over 8,000 financial institutions in the US right now. I guarantee that if you look locally, you will find a community bank or credit union that meets your needs and provides all the services of the "big guys."
What a silly remark! The Dalles, Oregon, is a prime example where one of the community banks failed and the other community banks and credit unions to not come close to meeting my needs.
This is certainly what was expected by everyone I've discussed this with!
Pointers to a couple of Perelman's papers having already been posted, here is a good survey (by John Milnor) that give some background:
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http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~jack/PREPR/poincare
RedHat deserves praise and support for Cygwin, but describing Cywin as "a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows." is misleading on several fronts. First it is primarily a port of the GNU toolset to Windows, it isn't UNIX (which is still a trademark), and it was developed by Cygnus well before they were bought by Red Hat.
Having been a manager at a large high-tech company in Oregon that keeps track of such things, we found that engineers and scientists were called and served on juries at pretty much the same rate as secretaries, techs and even vice presidents.
Ah, DWIM rising from the dead yet again!