The one place that I'm NOT seeing here is Hamilton, Bermuda. I passed on a chance to work for the largest ISP on the island a couple of years back, and I've often thought about whether I made the right decision.
From the limitted time I spent there, it's a beautiful country, full of haves and have-lots. Any/. ers live there? The IT people I talked to raved about the booming IT trades, the pay (in $US), and the fact that there were few taxes. They were screaming for techies two years ago.
I Had plans to nuke the moon once too, but you know how these things work - you get a bunch of people together, have a couple of beers, work out most of the mathematics and engineering, one guy says he has a cousin who can get us a couple of Saturn V's for free, another guy who can get us some good uranium, and yet another guy who says he can build the whole thing from plans he's found on the internet.
We spent a day or two putting some of the pieces together, had most of the warheads built, and then it turns out that the guy who was going to build the guidance system couldn't get his hands on a Playstation II, and we now I have a half dozen Saturn Vs just taking up space in my back yard.
I expect the same thing happened to the US Government.
Yep, this is part of the reason why Corel shares started to go up 'n up 'n up. The rumours said that Red Hat was going to put some of their shares towards buying Corel. Makes a lot of sense too, since Corel is profitable again, plus they have the Linux software that'll sell in business circles. Corel even has a hand in a Linux hardware company with Rebel.com and their Netwinders.
With this whole Linux frenzy, I bet Cowpland has other ideas. He's no dope, so watch for a half dozen Corel news releases in the next two weeks as Corel tries to push their stock even higher.
...Then use your shares to fund purchases of companies that actually make money. (At least that way when it returns to earth, the stock drop won't hit anyone too hard.)...
Yes, I agree, the securities laws in Canada are a joke. In this case though, the joke may be on Cowpland, since Corel is also traded on the NASDAQ (CORL), and therefore subject to SEC regulations.
Beyond that though, we could fill up a complete/. site with the horrible abuses committed on Canadian exchanges. If you think the Toronto exhange (where Corel trades) is bad, take a look at the Alberta, or the *shudder* Vancouver exchanges.
>companies would be releasing non-GPL versions >under the claim that "it's still beta and >therefore internal" >and then just have continual beta releases, >thereby circumventing the license.
I don't see this as being a problem. A company won't be able to make any money if they keep their products in Beta. I mean who is going to be dumb enough to pay for Beta software?
We're witnessing the ultimate in internet security! Not only is it impossible to hack/crack/smack this box, but they've tightened things up sooooo much that I can't even ping it! Heck, I can't even resolve the name to an IP address.
My next challenge is for all you/.'ers to hack into my old 486. It's sitting in the corner of my office unplugged and collecting dust. Now THAT's security!
We're distributing encryption cracking and alien detection. What else can we distribute? We need something that can be broken down into small parts, worked on in parallel, and isn't overly time-sensitve.
We could get some writers, artists, and 3d animators together and make 'the great Net movie', and render it on the largest rendering farm ever.
Maybe some sort of distributed neural network? Dunno.
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Noooooo....!
Somebody moderate this down! www.mame,dk is the greatest site out there, and I don't want 'Them' to find out about it and shut it down!
Seriously though, if you like MAME, you'll love mame.dk
For more (fictional) information regarding what can be done with He3, take a look at Peter F. Hamilton's 'The Reality Dysfunction'.
News on He3 will be really interesting once we've got bitek habitats orbitting Jupiter.
Check out the software for emulating arcade games at: http://x.mame.net/
You know, the real way to protest McDonalds opening in your neighbourhood is - don't eat there.
You don't eat there, they close up shop and go home. You eat there, Micky D's makes some money, and opens up another franchise down the street.
Capitalism is funny that way.
The one place that I'm NOT seeing here is Hamilton, Bermuda. I passed on a chance to work for the largest ISP on the island a couple of years back, and I've often thought about whether I made the right decision.
/. ers live there? The IT people I talked to raved about the booming IT trades, the pay (in $US), and the fact that there were few taxes. They were screaming for techies two years ago.
From the limitted time I spent there, it's a beautiful country, full of haves and have-lots. Any
Thoughts?
I Had plans to nuke the moon once too, but you know how these things work - you get a bunch of people together, have a couple of beers, work out most of the mathematics and engineering, one guy says he has a cousin who can get us a couple of Saturn V's for free, another guy who can get us some good uranium, and yet another guy who says he can build the whole thing from plans he's found on the internet.
We spent a day or two putting some of the pieces together, had most of the warheads built, and then it turns out that the guy who was going to build the guidance system couldn't get his hands on a Playstation II, and we now I have a half dozen Saturn Vs just taking up space in my back yard.
I expect the same thing happened to the US Government.
Since you only use 10% of your brain, why not remove the other 90% ?
I know someone who'll remove the excess for the low low price of $19.95*, plus they'll throw in a really nice set of Ginsu knives.
*All prices in Canadian funds
Yep, this is part of the reason why Corel shares started to go up 'n up 'n up. The rumours said that Red Hat was going to put some of their shares towards buying Corel. Makes a lot of sense too, since Corel is profitable again, plus they have the Linux software that'll sell in business circles. Corel even has a hand in a Linux hardware company with Rebel.com and their Netwinders.
...Then use your shares to fund purchases of companies that actually make money. (At least that way when it returns to earth, the stock drop won't hit anyone too hard.)...
With this whole Linux frenzy, I bet Cowpland has other ideas. He's no dope, so watch for a half dozen Corel news releases in the next two weeks as Corel tries to push their stock even higher.
Yes, I agree, the securities laws in Canada are a joke. In this case though, the joke may be on Cowpland, since Corel is also traded on the NASDAQ (CORL), and therefore subject to SEC regulations.
/. site with the horrible abuses committed on Canadian exchanges. If you think the Toronto exhange (where Corel trades) is bad, take a look at the Alberta, or the *shudder* Vancouver exchanges.
Beyond that though, we could fill up a complete
>companies would be releasing non-GPL versions
>under the claim that "it's still beta and
>therefore internal"
>and then just have continual beta releases,
>thereby circumventing the license.
I don't see this as being a problem. A company won't be able to make any money if they keep their products in Beta. I mean who is going to be dumb enough to pay for Beta software?
Oh yeah... Windows users...
We're witnessing the ultimate in internet security! Not only is it impossible to hack/crack/smack this box, but they've tightened things up sooooo much that I can't even ping it! Heck, I can't even resolve the name to an IP address.
My next challenge is for all you
We're distributing encryption cracking and alien detection. What else can we distribute? We need something that can be broken down into small parts, worked on in parallel, and isn't overly time-sensitve.
We could get some writers, artists, and 3d animators together and make 'the great Net movie', and render it on the largest rendering farm ever.
Maybe some sort of distributed neural network? Dunno.
Ideas?