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Small house -- I rent. I'm also buying. A small house, as it turns out. It was a private transaction, at well below market (basically to give an older friend some much-needed income in exchange for a house her estate would just have to put up on the market when she dies).
Children -- got 'em. Grandchildren too. They are my current primary money sink, but I wouldn't trade 'em for anything, including a job. And, when the job starts getting in the way of the family, it's time to start rethinking the job.
Paid-for car -- how about no car? Yes, I realize it's a heretical concept in 21st century America, but I haven't owned a car in 20 years, and it hasn't slowed me or the family down any. All that money I would be otherwise spending for car payments, gasoline, tax on the gasoline, insurance, repairs, speeding tickets and the like can go toward something that benefits me, not someone else.
The best idea I can offer, though, is to get out of debt and stay out of debt. Assuming you're a responsible and honest person, if you owe money, you have to work (for yourself or someone else) so you can pay it back. (Buying a house isn't really going into debt, by the way -- it's investing.) I have no debts other than the mortgage on the house we're buying that aren't month-to-month things like rent and the utility bill. I pay off the credit card every month rather than having to pay 21% interest. And, what do you know? I have the slack to say I'm only going to work 40 hours a week, and the money to spend on things that are important to me.
OK, that entirely makes sense. Thank you for the clarification. My point really was based on the idea that "you should cut your losses and let your profits ride," and there are probably better ways to do that than shorting the stock now, especially since Darl seems determined to push the stock as high as he can get it before it's finally allowed to hit the bottom.
Like I said, I may not know what I'm talking about. And notice that I didn't qualify my statement by saying "for the average investor."
The reason I said what I did is, let's say you short 1000 shares of SCO at 15 (just for example), and the stock goes down to 1. You've made $14,000 (less commissions, etc.). There's a theoretical limit of $15,000 if you could somehow buy the stock back at 0 but $14,000 is more or less the practical limit. Now if the stock were to for some reason go through the roof, you have to buy it back at the inflated price. If it goes to $50 which is probably Darl's target (his strike price is something like $48) you've just lost $35,000. If it goes higher you lose more, except that your broker will probably make you buy it back sometime before it goes stratospheric.
Now if you gamble, oops, I mean invest, the same $15,000 in options you can't lose more than the $15,000, although your profit will still be limited if you bought options to sell.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, like I said I'm not a financial geek but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in learning.
And yes, I know this is a gross oversimplification, could be horribly wrong, and in fact I want to stress that anyone who uses my posts as the basis for an investment strategy should seek counseling from a qualified mental health professional first, or preferably, instead.
I haven't been able to find out. Granted I'm a tech geek, not a financial one, but the sites I looked at yesterday indicated that you couldn't buy options for SCO stock. (Not that I know all the places to look.)
Which is unfortunate, because options seem to me like a much better way to take advantage of a volatile stock, and for less of an initial investment. Certainly better than shorting the stock, which has (in this case at least) limited potential for profit and no upside to the amount you could potentially lose.
(Disclaimer: As I mentioned above, I'm a tech geek, not a financial geek. It is entirely possible that I don't have any idea what I'm talking about.)
Personally I like the skip-ahead feature, probably mostly because I'm used to it. It does have one minor feature you may or may not appreciate: you actually get to see a frame or two of each commercial or promo. Yeah, most of them just verify why you use the skip-ahead in the first place, but occasionally they will have promos for shows you might be interested in, which you can then set up to record. Plus, you get to stop for the occasional clever commercial you actually like ("Hey, honey, come here, they're doing the IBM Linux commercial again!").
That's me, of course. YVMV (your viewing may vary).
On the software side, there's a great set of programs for radio hams called Hamcalc. Useful for things like winding inductors (toroid and air-core), designing antennas, working out resistances in parallel, and all sorts of cool stuff.
Unfortunately it only runs in DOS (and only with GWBasic). I've considered converting some of them to Perl, but the guy makes extensive use of absolute screen positioning, which would make it a bit tricky (yeah yeah I know, I could do it with Perl's ncurses interface).
Still, it's worth keeping around on my laptop's DOS partition. I wonder whether it'd work in dosemu . . .
Unfortunately it's really difficult to tell whether such a piece of Perl is an invective, a quote from Sarge in "Beetle Bailey" or a regular expression that parses an HTML file. In fact, this is Perl, so it could be all three.
obtopic: I never had a C-64. I had by turns a TRS-80, several Apple IIs and an Atari 800. I really wanted a C-64 though, mostly because I had a Commie friend who had a copy of "M.U.L.E.", which I thought was a great game.
For those too lazy to RTFL, the FBI is now dropping the threat of obstruction of justice charges and asking reporters to voluntarily hold on to any notes they may have, saying they hope to come to an agreement later on access to their notes.
If I were a journalist my reply would be, "Um, yeah, I may keep them, but you'll be in touch with my organization's First Amendment lawyer, and you'll see my notes over my thrown-in-jail-for-contempt-of-court body."
Consider it a favor to would-be identity thieves everywhere, so they don't make the same mistake as the ex-Floridian who stole a former neighbor's identity because he knew that with four DUI arrests, he would never get a driver's license in his new home state of Connecticut.
Not until his ID was checked after he was arrested for disorderly conduct did he find out that his former neighbor was a convicted sex offender.
Perhaps if each update was individually accessible, with an explanation of why the update was recommended, people would be more likely to install recommended updates (and they could choose NOT to update, if they don't want to).
I agree, and it's a good point, you can't force people to be secure. Still, I think you could make upgrading easier for the average user than it is now (it's easy for most of us, but we're all above average around here).
Me, I run gentoo's "emerge sync" nightly on my two production machines, then mail myself the results of "emerge -p world" to see what the recommended upgrades are. Then I can choose whether to make the upgrades or wait on them. But unfortunately even that is too much for Joe Average.
But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch. Multiply that by a million users. Now you have millions of machines out there running a rootable linux box.
IMO one of the things that will make Linux ready for Regular User Guy is an automated update process, something like Windows Update, or an automated version of apt-get or emerge. Ideally you'd get to choose the level of updates you want (anywhere from Gimme Everything to Don't Bother Me and including Security Updates Only, Update Installed Programs Only, and Ask Me About New Stuff along the way).
I have my own domain that's run off a Comcast cable modem, with its own DNS entries that point to my Comcast IP address. So far I haven't had a bit of problem with it, but this of course is subject to change at their whim.
In order to send mail to my correspondents who are stuck with AOL (including my mother) I have had to configure Postfix to use Comcast's SMTP server for outgoing mail to aol.com instead of my own. Fortunately this isn't too difficult. I prefer to use my own SMTP server because Comcast's is fairly slow and (I'm guessing here) already carrying a pretty hefty load, but a small scale sysop's gotta do what a small scale sysop's gotta do.
Everything I've read so far leads me to believe that the RIAA is tracking people by IP address. This is more or less impossible if the person you're tracking is coming in from AOL, because everyone accesses the Internet proper through an AOL firewall/proxy, so the person you're tracking has the same IP address as all 3,743 other AOL users in Des Moines, Iowa.
What I'm wondering is, how they managed to find two people to subpoena from AOL.
I would suspect London's cabbies have better spatial imagination, since you'd probably need that to plot out a route in your head, even if you do know every street in London.
This, of course, is not the same thing as being "smart," although it might score you higher on IQ tests.
The Internet is my primary source of information these days, but it's not the only one. I still frequent my local public library, for instance, and even though all the programming information I could want for the languages I use is out there on the Web someplace, there's still nothing like having a book in front of you.
And of course there is some information you just can't find on the World Wide Web. Things like "Mom, what's your secret for making apple pies?" (At least if your mom is anything like mine.)
Since the response to its appeal was adequate, SCO didn't send bills to thousands of Linux users, company spokesman Blake Stowell
Apparently an adequate response to their appeal involved derision, shouting, vilification and references to various fraud statutes, but no actual money. How odd.
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Small house -- I rent. I'm also buying. A small house, as it turns out. It was a private transaction, at well below market (basically to give an older friend some much-needed income in exchange for a house her estate would just have to put up on the market when she dies).
Children -- got 'em. Grandchildren too. They are my current primary money sink, but I wouldn't trade 'em for anything, including a job. And, when the job starts getting in the way of the family, it's time to start rethinking the job.
Paid-for car -- how about no car? Yes, I realize it's a heretical concept in 21st century America, but I haven't owned a car in 20 years, and it hasn't slowed me or the family down any. All that money I would be otherwise spending for car payments, gasoline, tax on the gasoline, insurance, repairs, speeding tickets and the like can go toward something that benefits me, not someone else.
The best idea I can offer, though, is to get out of debt and stay out of debt. Assuming you're a responsible and honest person, if you owe money, you have to work (for yourself or someone else) so you can pay it back. (Buying a house isn't really going into debt, by the way -- it's investing.) I have no debts other than the mortgage on the house we're buying that aren't month-to-month things like rent and the utility bill. I pay off the credit card every month rather than having to pay 21% interest. And, what do you know? I have the slack to say I'm only going to work 40 hours a week, and the money to spend on things that are important to me.
At least home users of Linux can take solace in knowing that they don't have to pay up yet.
Personally I'm taking solace in knowing that I don't have to pay up, ever.
and how could you forget:
DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN REACTOR
??
(Note: Extra verbiage added to get around the lameness filter.)
OK, that entirely makes sense. Thank you for the clarification. My point really was based on the idea that "you should cut your losses and let your profits ride," and there are probably better ways to do that than shorting the stock now, especially since Darl seems determined to push the stock as high as he can get it before it's finally allowed to hit the bottom.
Like I said, I may not know what I'm talking about. And notice that I didn't qualify my statement by saying "for the average investor."
The reason I said what I did is, let's say you short 1000 shares of SCO at 15 (just for example), and the stock goes down to 1. You've made $14,000 (less commissions, etc.). There's a theoretical limit of $15,000 if you could somehow buy the stock back at 0 but $14,000 is more or less the practical limit. Now if the stock were to for some reason go through the roof, you have to buy it back at the inflated price. If it goes to $50 which is probably Darl's target (his strike price is something like $48) you've just lost $35,000. If it goes higher you lose more, except that your broker will probably make you buy it back sometime before it goes stratospheric.
Now if you gamble, oops, I mean invest, the same $15,000 in options you can't lose more than the $15,000, although your profit will still be limited if you bought options to sell.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, like I said I'm not a financial geek but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in learning.
And yes, I know this is a gross oversimplification, could be horribly wrong, and in fact I want to stress that anyone who uses my posts as the basis for an investment strategy should seek counseling from a qualified mental health professional first, or preferably, instead.
Bah. There's only one operating system that does pipes properly.
There's no prob with Bob! (And no, we're not talking about Bob McGrath.)
does sco have options?
I haven't been able to find out. Granted I'm a tech geek, not a financial one, but the sites I looked at yesterday indicated that you couldn't buy options for SCO stock. (Not that I know all the places to look.)
Which is unfortunate, because options seem to me like a much better way to take advantage of a volatile stock, and for less of an initial investment. Certainly better than shorting the stock, which has (in this case at least) limited potential for profit and no upside to the amount you could potentially lose.
(Disclaimer: As I mentioned above, I'm a tech geek, not a financial geek. It is entirely possible that I don't have any idea what I'm talking about.)
Quoth Bill: But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory
He's broadening his outlook (so to speak). I can remember a time when he couldn't think of any reason why you'd need more than 640K.
Personally I like the skip-ahead feature, probably mostly because I'm used to it. It does have one minor feature you may or may not appreciate: you actually get to see a frame or two of each commercial or promo. Yeah, most of them just verify why you use the skip-ahead in the first place, but occasionally they will have promos for shows you might be interested in, which you can then set up to record. Plus, you get to stop for the occasional clever commercial you actually like ("Hey, honey, come here, they're doing the IBM Linux commercial again!").
That's me, of course. YVMV (your viewing may vary).
I just checked, and it doesn't work in dosemu. Bummer.
On the software side, there's a great set of programs for radio hams called Hamcalc. Useful for things like winding inductors (toroid and air-core), designing antennas, working out resistances in parallel, and all sorts of cool stuff.
Unfortunately it only runs in DOS (and only with GWBasic). I've considered converting some of them to Perl, but the guy makes extensive use of absolute screen positioning, which would make it a bit tricky (yeah yeah I know, I could do it with Perl's ncurses interface).
Still, it's worth keeping around on my laptop's DOS partition. I wonder whether it'd work in dosemu . . .
Perl insults tend to look like this:
$_=~s/($!).+?($@[-1])/yomama/g;
Unfortunately it's really difficult to tell whether such a piece of Perl is an invective, a quote from Sarge in "Beetle Bailey" or a regular expression that parses an HTML file. In fact, this is Perl, so it could be all three.
obtopic: I never had a C-64. I had by turns a TRS-80, several Apple IIs and an Atari 800. I really wanted a C-64 though, mostly because I had a Commie friend who had a copy of "M.U.L.E.", which I thought was a great game.
Here's a link from Declan's Politechbot archive.
For those too lazy to RTFL, the FBI is now dropping the threat of obstruction of justice charges and asking reporters to voluntarily hold on to any notes they may have, saying they hope to come to an agreement later on access to their notes.
If I were a journalist my reply would be, "Um, yeah, I may keep them, but you'll be in touch with my organization's First Amendment lawyer, and you'll see my notes over my thrown-in-jail-for-contempt-of-court body."
This cat-and-mouse game that hackers and others like to play with owners of digital property is over...
They'd better hope it's still going, because if it's over, I know who won. (Hint: Hackers are the cat.)
Consider it a favor to would-be identity thieves everywhere, so they don't make the same mistake as the ex-Floridian who stole a former neighbor's identity because he knew that with four DUI arrests, he would never get a driver's license in his new home state of Connecticut.
Not until his ID was checked after he was arrested for disorderly conduct did he find out that his former neighbor was a convicted sex offender.
I could have expected this from a Flyers fan, but a Phillies fan?
What's this world coming to?
Perhaps if each update was individually accessible, with an explanation of why the update was recommended, people would be more likely to install recommended updates (and they could choose NOT to update, if they don't want to).
I agree, and it's a good point, you can't force people to be secure. Still, I think you could make upgrading easier for the average user than it is now (it's easy for most of us, but we're all above average around here).
Me, I run gentoo's "emerge sync" nightly on my two production machines, then mail myself the results of "emerge -p world" to see what the recommended upgrades are. Then I can choose whether to make the upgrades or wait on them. But unfortunately even that is too much for Joe Average.
But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch. Multiply that by a million users. Now you have millions of machines out there running a rootable linux box.
IMO one of the things that will make Linux ready for Regular User Guy is an automated update process, something like Windows Update, or an automated version of apt-get or emerge. Ideally you'd get to choose the level of updates you want (anywhere from Gimme Everything to Don't Bother Me and including Security Updates Only, Update Installed Programs Only, and Ask Me About New Stuff along the way).
I have my own domain that's run off a Comcast cable modem, with its own DNS entries that point to my Comcast IP address. So far I haven't had a bit of problem with it, but this of course is subject to change at their whim.
In order to send mail to my correspondents who are stuck with AOL (including my mother) I have had to configure Postfix to use Comcast's SMTP server for outgoing mail to aol.com instead of my own. Fortunately this isn't too difficult. I prefer to use my own SMTP server because Comcast's is fairly slow and (I'm guessing here) already carrying a pretty hefty load, but a small scale sysop's gotta do what a small scale sysop's gotta do.
Everything I've read so far leads me to believe that the RIAA is tracking people by IP address. This is more or less impossible if the person you're tracking is coming in from AOL, because everyone accesses the Internet proper through an AOL firewall/proxy, so the person you're tracking has the same IP address as all 3,743 other AOL users in Des Moines, Iowa.
What I'm wondering is, how they managed to find two people to subpoena from AOL.
Microsoft Cures Cancer
Posted by michael on Friday October 03, @06:38PM
Cool! Usually only subscribers get to see the new stories early!
Wonder if he can refuse to pay bills, citing death as the reason.
I wonder if he's just doing this for a year for tax purposes.
I would suspect London's cabbies have better spatial imagination, since you'd probably need that to plot out a route in your head, even if you do know every street in London.
This, of course, is not the same thing as being "smart," although it might score you higher on IQ tests.
The Internet is my primary source of information these days, but it's not the only one. I still frequent my local public library, for instance, and even though all the programming information I could want for the languages I use is out there on the Web someplace, there's still nothing like having a book in front of you.
And of course there is some information you just can't find on the World Wide Web. Things like "Mom, what's your secret for making apple pies?" (At least if your mom is anything like mine.)
Since the response to its appeal was adequate, SCO didn't send bills to thousands of Linux users, company spokesman Blake Stowell
Apparently an adequate response to their appeal involved derision, shouting, vilification and references to various fraud statutes, but no actual money. How odd.