On Monday I decided things don't look good for MS, and bought 2 put options on MSFT to sell at 90. They cost me about $400. Right now they've gone up to $625. 72% return in 1 week. Not bad. If only I had bought more options. Oh, well. There's nothing more satisfying than cashing in on Micros~1's misfortune...
That's exactly the kind of thinking that led to the Civil Rights movement and then the ADA. Store owers used to say "if I don't want black people in my store, that's my choice." Well, the Supreme Court saw it differently.
This analogy is fallacious. AOL is not making any choice to exclude any group (except for gays, maybe, but that's another story). AOL is treating all people who visit their site equally and indiscriminantly. The fact that they haven't made special provisions for blind people, or for people who don't speak english, or any other group for that matter, cannot be equated to discrimination. The choice as to whether to spend extra money to make a particular demographic happy is a business decision. If laws are put into place saying that all commercial websites need to be accessible to the blind (whatever that means), the cost of making all websites will go up, and everyone will end up paying more for goods and services. Is that a Good Thing (TM) overall? I don't know, but only a fool would insist that they know the RIGHT answer.
The recent Linux vs. NT security "test." Installing a bloated service pack was OK, but they didn't install 21 RPMs that all together were less than the service pack wasn't done because it was "no enterprise would want to install all that." I wonder how much Microsoft paid them for THAT one.:D
I didn't hear about the security test, but idiots exist in every large company. That doesn't mean that zd is anti-linux. One of the more respectable shows on ZDTV is a show about PC computing called "the screen savers", and the host of the show is a linux advocate, and just had some guests from SVLUG on this week.
For those that haven't heard the story on this, some US enterpreneurs decided they wanted to ease the so-called "domain name crunch", so they made proposals to some small countries like Tongo (.to), Cocos (.cc), and Niue (.nu), that in exchange for the use of their TLDs, or at least a significant portion thereof, these enterpreneurs will pay to upgrade the internet infrastrcucture in those countries. These are 3 of the countries that agreed to the terms, I don't know if there are others, as well.
While I think that the "domain name crunch" is all hype (kxq7m_zy.com is as good a domain name as any), and that these businessmen went about this in the wrong way, it was with the permission, even blessings, of those countries. They get their infrastructure upgraded, the businessmen make their money, and greedy, rapacious Americans (but I repeat myself) get their shiny, new, 1-word domain status symbols to park in their driveways next to their shiny new BMWs.
It would primarily affect Microsoft investors. The govt isn't out to regulate companies in general, just the extremely crooked ones. As far as MS stock prices dropping, GOOD! I have no sympathy for people who invest their money in, and thus support, a company with the market ethics of MS. Even Ballmer says that MS stock is extremely overvalued.
I can see that as a reasonable justification for their position. But if that's the case, why don't they set up a mirror of their database on another server that gets updates during off-peak times? If these 3rd-party search sites want access, they'd probably be willing to pay for this to be set up.
I just don't get it. Why do you need their permission to install Linux if you have free disk space, and why would you work for a company that disrespects you to the point that they won't let you decide for yourself what tools you need to get your job done? Maybe I'm just spoiled, working for a reasonably progressive silicon valley company that I can't mention here by name (Netscape), but it seems to me that the general shortage of skilled high-tech workers these days means that you don't have to put up with that kind of crap, and you'll probably do better elsewhere if that's the kind of place you work for.
(score: -2, flamebait, illegal) Not to burst your bubble, but are the other systems there so unstable that getting a box to run a simple rc5 client for a weekend would impress people? I'm running the rc5 client on a win95 box at work, and it usually can go a weekend without crashing. My Sun ultra 1, on the other hand, has only crashed twice in almost 1 year: once, filesystem full, the other time, a cpu fan failed causing an overheat condition, so it shut itelf down before the cpu overheated (let's see a windows box do that!) Why not keep linux running until the next millenium without crashing? They won't be able to argue with demonstrated reliability like that!
That's easy. You said what you were going to say anyways, so that's redundant. If you had said something other than what you were going to say, it wouldn't have been redundant. Now do you understand?
I'm glad First USA is working out for you, but ever since I've started dealing with them I've found them unbearable. What you say may be true, but, they send tons of junk mail along with their billing statements and (at least it seems to me) they take a real long time processing payments so that they can charge as many late fees as possible.
I've really liked Bank of America, reasonable rates, no junk mail/telemarketing, 2% cash back, the only CC I've ever been totally happy with.
Consider this: Let's say I do get this Linux CC and charge $10,000 on it over the course of 1 year. Let's say MBNA gives 0.5% of that, or $50, toward Linux development.
-OR-
I use my current card, Bank of America, and get 2% cash back on the same $10,000 I would have spent with the Linux CC and get $200. I send the $200 to say, SourceXchange, and $200 has gone to Linux instead of $50. It's simple math.
I don't know the details of MBNA's offer (and I'm suspicious of them for saying they'll send some of the proceeds towards linux development but failing to disclose exactly how much), but I suspect it's not worthwhile.
Well, lessee: someone mentioned http://www.eletter.com in the USPS article, which lets you send postal mail from your computer. Combine that with a bunch of opinionated Linux freaks and a petition that that can be only signed by snailmail...
If I make a fone call, I don't expect to be monitored, but then again, I don't expect not to. Whenever you speak into a phone, it's not just the person on the other end that hears you, it's also the phones on both ends and all the conductive media in between. If your conversation is soooooooo important, don't go using a technology that broadcasts what you say in all directions.
Personally, I find it pretty amusing...
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I tink you mean "a tinkerer", mon, rather than "a tinker". m-w.com defines a tinker as:
1 a : a usually itinerant mender of household utensils b : an unskillful mender : BUNGLER
On Monday I decided things don't look good for MS, and bought 2 put options on MSFT to sell at 90. They cost me about $400. Right now they've gone up to $625. 72% return in 1 week. Not bad. If only I had bought more options. Oh, well. There's nothing more satisfying than cashing in on Micros~1's misfortune...
That's exactly the kind of thinking that led to the Civil Rights movement and then the ADA. Store owers used to say "if I don't want black people in my store, that's my choice." Well, the Supreme Court saw it differently.
This analogy is fallacious. AOL is not making any choice to exclude any group (except for gays, maybe, but that's another story). AOL is treating all people who visit their site equally and indiscriminantly. The fact that they haven't made special provisions for blind people, or for people who don't speak english, or any other group for that matter, cannot be equated to discrimination. The choice as to whether to spend extra money to make a particular demographic happy is a business decision. If laws are put into place saying that all commercial websites need to be accessible to the blind (whatever that means), the cost of making all websites will go up, and everyone will end up paying more for goods and services. Is that a Good Thing (TM) overall? I don't know, but only a fool would insist that they know the RIGHT answer.
There's an article in Wired about how comdex just decided to let him in, after all.
The recent Linux vs. NT security "test." Installing a bloated service pack was OK, but they didn't install 21 RPMs that all together were less than the service pack wasn't :D
done because it was "no enterprise would want to install all that." I wonder how much Microsoft paid them for THAT one.
I didn't hear about the security test, but idiots exist in every large company. That doesn't mean that zd is anti-linux.
One of the more respectable shows on ZDTV is a show about PC computing called "the screen savers", and the host of the show is a linux advocate, and just had some guests from SVLUG on this week.
For those that haven't heard the story on this, some US enterpreneurs decided they wanted to ease the so-called "domain name crunch", so they made proposals to some small countries like Tongo (.to), Cocos (.cc), and Niue (.nu), that in exchange for the use of their TLDs, or at least a significant portion thereof, these enterpreneurs will pay to upgrade the internet infrastrcucture in those countries. These are 3 of the countries that agreed to the terms, I don't know if there are others, as well.
While I think that the "domain name crunch" is all hype (kxq7m_zy.com is as good a domain name as any), and that these businessmen went about this in the wrong way, it was with the permission, even blessings, of those countries. They get their infrastructure upgraded, the businessmen make their money, and greedy, rapacious Americans (but I repeat myself) get their shiny, new, 1-word domain status symbols to park in their driveways next to their shiny new BMWs.
It would primarily affect Microsoft investors. The govt isn't out to regulate companies in general, just the extremely crooked ones. As far as MS stock prices dropping, GOOD! I have no sympathy for people who invest their money in, and thus support, a company with the market ethics of MS. Even Ballmer says that MS stock is extremely overvalued.
I can see that as a reasonable justification for their position.
But if that's the case, why don't they set up a mirror of their database on another server that
gets updates during off-peak times? If these 3rd-party search sites want access, they'd probably be willing to pay for this to be set up.
(score: -2, illegal)
I just don't get it. Why do you need their permission to install Linux if you have free disk space, and why would you work for a company that disrespects you to the point that they won't let you decide for yourself what tools you need to get your job done? Maybe I'm just spoiled, working for a reasonably progressive silicon valley company that I can't mention here by name (Netscape), but it seems to me that the general shortage of skilled high-tech workers these days means that you don't have to put up with that kind of crap, and you'll probably do better elsewhere if that's the kind of place you work for.
(score: -2, flamebait, illegal) Not to burst your bubble, but are the other systems there so unstable that getting a box to run a simple rc5 client for a weekend would impress people? I'm running the rc5 client on a win95 box at work, and it usually can go a weekend without crashing. My Sun ultra 1, on the other hand, has only crashed twice in almost 1 year: once, filesystem full, the other time, a cpu fan failed causing an overheat condition, so it shut itelf down before the cpu overheated (let's see a windows box do that!) Why not keep linux running until the next millenium without crashing? They won't be able to argue with demonstrated reliability like that!
That's easy. You said what you were going to say anyways, so that's redundant. If you had said something other than what you were going to say, it wouldn't have been redundant. Now do you understand?
Unfortunately I don't know German, but I've run the article through the Dialectizer for you with (dialect=Pig Latin). Hope this helps. :)
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I looked it up on www.netcraft.com.
The webserver, at least, is:
www.hotmail.com
www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD
I'm glad First USA is working out for you, but ever since I've started dealing with them I've found them unbearable. What you say may be true,
but, they send tons of junk mail along with their billing statements and (at least it seems to me) they take a real long time processing payments so that they can charge as many late fees as possible.
I've really liked Bank of America, reasonable rates, no junk mail/telemarketing, 2% cash back, the only CC I've ever been totally happy with.
Consider this:
Let's say I do get this Linux CC and charge $10,000 on it over the course of 1 year. Let's say MBNA gives 0.5% of that, or $50, toward Linux development.
-OR-
I use my current card, Bank of America, and get 2% cash back on the same $10,000 I would have spent with the Linux CC and get $200. I send the $200 to
say, SourceXchange, and $200 has gone to Linux instead of $50. It's simple math.
I don't know the details of MBNA's offer (and I'm suspicious of them for saying they'll send some of the proceeds towards linux development but failing to disclose exactly how much), but I suspect it's not worthwhile.
I agree with you totally. The site is a little more readable, though, if you use an ad-blocker like interMute.
Well, lessee:
someone mentioned http://www.eletter.com in the
USPS article, which lets you send postal mail from your computer.
Combine that with a bunch of opinionated Linux freaks and a petition that that can be only signed by snailmail...
Are _YOU_ first class?
Hey, I resent that remark about grave-robbers!
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my cpu is bigger than your cpu!
There's always inbreeding.
That's the stuff that MS is made of, you know...
If I make a fone call, I don't expect to be monitored, but then again, I don't expect not to. Whenever you speak into a phone, it's not just the person on the other end that hears you, it's also the phones on both ends and all the conductive media in between. If your conversation is soooooooo important, don't go using a technology that broadcasts what you say in all directions.
Personally, I find it pretty amusing...
nyaa-nyaa! I can be more petty than you can!