We seem to have this fear of someone dying in space, or re-entry, and keep grounding the Shuttle. But all things considered I'd rather die on a shuttle flight than in bed -- unless it's in bed with Raquel Welch, that is.
While still promising to deliver a fulfilling experience that makes you crave to upgrade to the more costly versions, do you get less bugs along with less of everything else?
There's options, and there's options. One is vaporware.
1: If they gave him the options, but didn't vest them (he can't actually exercise them until they're vested, a gottcha with most options) then there was nothing he could do, short of sabotaging the TW-AOL merger, to protect their value. If that's the case, then TW-AOL should be reamed royally with a rusty post-hole digger. He's still dumb for not demanding immediate vesting, but TW-AOL was screwing him from the beginning with this vesting crap.
2: If his options were vested, and he didn't exercise them before the crash^H^H^H^H^H slide in value, then he screwed himself for not paying attention and/or the greed of thinking they'd be worth even more if he only waitied a little longer. Sorry Charlie, but you don't have a case for that.
Of course the article doesn't clarify the point above. It's ever so much more inflamitory to say he once had options worth $135M (which was no such thing if he couldn't exercise them) and eventually had to settle for a $10M severence -- which is more than I'm going to make this month.
If the guy is good, then he's employable. He's already working again for several top companies. Don't get out the violins for him yet.
26: Prove how SCO can have any hint of a case against IBM and Linux users. Show your work!
27: At the current rate that the RIAA is suing file sharers, and given the world birthrate and spread of broadband, how long before they sue you? Negative and imaginary answers not accepted.
28: The irresistable force (Slashdot users) and the immovable object (Google file servers) are about to clash. Predict the result to five decimal places.
(After all, we need questions with real world significance, don't we?)
1: Just get inside the door. There are a lot more opportunities to move up in a company once you're on the inside, than trying to break in from the outside. Take even temp work to get to the inside. Good temps are often hired afterwards.
2: Two words: Intern programs. You're not working for essentially free when you're part of an intern program. Instead you're gaining real experience to count towards that 3+ or 5+ years needed and you are showing your skills to a company you liked enough to intern for, and making contacts inside it. Interns have a much better chance of getting hired later to full-time positions than a graduate off the street -- provided you have done well in the position, that is.
If you're good at something and no one will hire you, start your own company to sell your skills. You'll learn a lot more about the real world there than in any entry level position.
This settlement crap won't end until it is required that the lawyers be paid in kind (CD's, vouchers, weird rebate certificates, tiny discounts on future airline travel, Windows upgrades, etc.) that the winning plaintiffs are paid with.
Microsoft characterizes Amadeu's statements as "beyond being absurd and criminal" and as evincing an "excess in freedom of speech and freedom of thought."
And by taking this action, Microsoft has just brought these comments to the attention of the/. crowd, which has dissemenated them much further, and to a technically much more literate crowd, than they could have ever managed if they'd just kept their legal traps SHUT!
The fastest possible CPU, in *true* GHz, not in AMD's inflated "+" bogoghz.
You sound like a shill for Intel.
Or that clockrate (gigahertz numbers to those of you in Rio Linda) is only half the story. The other half is the number of instructions executed per clock. In this regard, AMD Athlons are more efficient than Intel Pentium 4 chips because each AMD chip does more per clock tick than the corresponding Intel chip. That's why AMD can do as much real work as Intel at a lower clockrate.
And if you feel, for some completely unexplainable reason, that this idea is bogus, well Intel has gone back to it with their Pentium-M chips. These P-M chips, at clock rates of around 1.6GHz, do as much work as Pentium 4 chips at a Gigahertz higher.
Either way, your attitude is what keeps Intel profitable -- and you poorer than you might have to be if you were a more savvy buyer.
By the way, when you buy cars, to you look at the speedometers and pick the one that reads to the highest value? Sorry, just had to ask.
All this new technology, and mobos still have parallel and serial ports.
And I'll use them both. I still have an excellent HP LaserJet 6P printer that only understands ECP, and serial Wacom pen pad that there's no reason to discard. So what's your problem?
Intel's significant upgrade to the Pentium 4 platform.
This is only half the story. I feel the change from IA32 to AMD64 instruction sets is equally significant. It's a shame Intel won't just bring out the entire platform at once, since many people buying their 32-bit desktops with these new support chips over the next few months may very well feel their systems were quickly obsoleted when the new instruction set ships.
And while it's only my opinion (lawyers take note), I feel Microsoft is colluding with Intel by not releasing Windows64 until Intel can be fully caught up with AMD's lead. They had good versions of Win64 running many months before the first Opteron hit the market last September, and it's still not released!
So I'm beginning to wonder if there's really any protection on the disks at all. Maybe this is a case of "the emperors new copy protection".
Or maybe you've just used the first of your nine lives, and one day soon instead of ripping again after you had to replace your iPod battery it will pop-up with No more copies allowed.
that products with no purpose other than to circumvent copyright protection are illegal under the DMCA.
And that's the Big Lie. The programs serve the purpose of allowing the making of legal, usable, backups. What you do with those backups may or may not be legal, but making them is. The DMCA was badly flawed from the beginning, and this type of lawsuit shows it. They can't sue on the basis of copyright violation, so now they sue on the fact that you have to break their anti-backup system to back it up. Damn the assholes that ever passed the DMCA in the first place!
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I'd think that next to the smoke alarm and CO detector you put your Fuzzbuster[tm], and all is well.
Be sure to change your batteries regularly.
And I always thought Nigeria was just being friendly to 419 scammers because they were getting a piece of the action.
We seem to have this fear of someone dying in space, or re-entry, and keep grounding the Shuttle. But all things considered I'd rather die on a shuttle flight than in bed -- unless it's in bed with Raquel Welch, that is.
And just what idiot made it an external circuit breaker?
Just convert VINs to run on 64-bit processors. I'm assured this solves all addressing problems into the foressable future.
Okay Thunderbird, here's your chance to shine. Make sending and receiving of encrypted e-mail as easy as regular e-mail is now.
While still promising to deliver a fulfilling experience that makes you crave to upgrade to the more costly versions, do you get less bugs along with less of everything else?
1: If they gave him the options, but didn't vest them (he can't actually exercise them until they're vested, a gottcha with most options) then there was nothing he could do, short of sabotaging the TW-AOL merger, to protect their value. If that's the case, then TW-AOL should be reamed royally with a rusty post-hole digger. He's still dumb for not demanding immediate vesting, but TW-AOL was screwing him from the beginning with this vesting crap.
2: If his options were vested, and he didn't exercise them before the crash^H^H^H^H^H slide in value, then he screwed himself for not paying attention and/or the greed of thinking they'd be worth even more if he only waitied a little longer. Sorry Charlie, but you don't have a case for that.
Of course the article doesn't clarify the point above. It's ever so much more inflamitory to say he once had options worth $135M (which was no such thing if he couldn't exercise them) and eventually had to settle for a $10M severence -- which is more than I'm going to make this month.
If the guy is good, then he's employable. He's already working again for several top companies. Don't get out the violins for him yet.
27: At the current rate that the RIAA is suing file sharers, and given the world birthrate and spread of broadband, how long before they sue you? Negative and imaginary answers not accepted.
28: The irresistable force (Slashdot users) and the immovable object (Google file servers) are about to clash. Predict the result to five decimal places.
(After all, we need questions with real world significance, don't we?)
2: Two words: Intern programs. You're not working for essentially free when you're part of an intern program. Instead you're gaining real experience to count towards that 3+ or 5+ years needed and you are showing your skills to a company you liked enough to intern for, and making contacts inside it. Interns have a much better chance of getting hired later to full-time positions than a graduate off the street -- provided you have done well in the position, that is.
If you're good at something and no one will hire you, start your own company to sell your skills. You'll learn a lot more about the real world there than in any entry level position.
If only it truly assassinated spamers.
How long before I can get one converted over to ethanol, and installed in my stomach to use excess fuel to power my array of personal electronics?
Money.
They have it, and they know how to use it.
This settlement crap won't end until it is required that the lawyers be paid in kind (CD's, vouchers, weird rebate certificates, tiny discounts on future airline travel, Windows upgrades, etc.) that the winning plaintiffs are paid with.
And by taking this action, Microsoft has just brought these comments to the attention of the /. crowd, which has dissemenated them much further, and to a technically much more literate crowd, than they could have ever managed if they'd just kept their legal traps SHUT!
Major audio improvement over AC97 at essentially no additional cost.
8 USB 2.0 high speed connections.
Firewire? (The Intel manufactured boards at least are including this.)
You sound like a shill for Intel.
Or that clockrate (gigahertz numbers to those of you in Rio Linda) is only half the story. The other half is the number of instructions executed per clock. In this regard, AMD Athlons are more efficient than Intel Pentium 4 chips because each AMD chip does more per clock tick than the corresponding Intel chip. That's why AMD can do as much real work as Intel at a lower clockrate.
And if you feel, for some completely unexplainable reason, that this idea is bogus, well Intel has gone back to it with their Pentium-M chips. These P-M chips, at clock rates of around 1.6GHz, do as much work as Pentium 4 chips at a Gigahertz higher.
Either way, your attitude is what keeps Intel profitable -- and you poorer than you might have to be if you were a more savvy buyer.
By the way, when you buy cars, to you look at the speedometers and pick the one that reads to the highest value? Sorry, just had to ask.
And I'll use them both. I still have an excellent HP LaserJet 6P printer that only understands ECP, and serial Wacom pen pad that there's no reason to discard. So what's your problem?
This is only half the story. I feel the change from IA32 to AMD64 instruction sets is equally significant. It's a shame Intel won't just bring out the entire platform at once, since many people buying their 32-bit desktops with these new support chips over the next few months may very well feel their systems were quickly obsoleted when the new instruction set ships.
And while it's only my opinion (lawyers take note), I feel Microsoft is colluding with Intel by not releasing Windows64 until Intel can be fully caught up with AMD's lead. They had good versions of Win64 running many months before the first Opteron hit the market last September, and it's still not released!
Or maybe you've just used the first of your nine lives, and one day soon instead of ripping again after you had to replace your iPod battery it will pop-up with No more copies allowed.
Oh, but now you have an excuse. I couldn't have possibly copied it because it is copy protected.
Or just return it as defective. After all, you didn't know it didn't play until after you opened it.
/. their telephone lines with complaints, and they'll start seeing things differently.
Huge insight. And a lesson that seems incapable of being learned.
And that's the Big Lie. The programs serve the purpose of allowing the making of legal, usable, backups. What you do with those backups may or may not be legal, but making them is. The DMCA was badly flawed from the beginning, and this type of lawsuit shows it. They can't sue on the basis of copyright violation, so now they sue on the fact that you have to break their anti-backup system to back it up. Damn the assholes that ever passed the DMCA in the first place!