It seems to me that Sun is trying to play both sides of the fence here. On one hand they fund Daryl and his other brother Daryl. On the other hand they want to release a Linux desktop with StarOffice 7.0, Gnome, etc. You know, when you stand in the middle of the road you get hit on both sides. If Sun is dirty dealing here the Linux community will rise up against them.
It's all about pumping the stock price. SCO has nothing and really does not care. This is simply a maneuver to pump the stock price and make the execs rich. Nothing more. The company will collapse, but like so many other execs...who cares.
Consider the facts. Mutual fund managers are the ones pumping up their useless stock. Remember how Yahoo was over $300 per share? These same clueless nitwits are still mis-managing our 401k funds. None of them do one ounce of research - it's not their money. They all buy like sheep and sell like sheep. They is a very wise financial move on SCO's part which will make Daryl and his other brother Daryl very rich.
Quit getting so spun-up. This is business as usual in America. It's all about the CEO. How much longer do you think HP is going to be around after Carly sucks the life out of the company? It's fundamentally the same thing. It's all about the CEO getting rich now!
Single guys use passwords based on their cars.
Married guys use kids, wives (if they are newlyweds) or cars.
Married women use kids names.
You would be surprised how easy it is to guess other peoples passwords at work using these simple rules.
Those nice folks in mainland China are just trying to accelerate the transition to Linux in the Asia-Pacific region by exposing the folly of using Windows for anything other than games.
It would seem most of the recent celebrated viruses have been written by semi-skilled script kiddies or worse. Let's face it, VBA makes it simple to write an e-mail virus. My usual response at work or to friends regarding these viruses is: it's probably some bored kid because you do not realize how easy it is to write a virus for Windows...and how stupid your are for using it...then I start one of my Linux rants and they all run away.
Just think what will happen when a skilled programmer writes one of these (if not already).
This could be true. M$ is very desperate. As our corporate networks collapse under yet another M$ security lapse, Linux is looking better and better all the time. I don't allow Windows at home so I can only laugh at other's misery. M$ has an enormous war chest of money to throw at destroying Linux so expect this "war" to go on for many more years.
In the United States, it is one man one vote. That man is a picture of a dead President printed on fancy green paper. The more of them you have, the more votes you have. That is how our government works.
Unless you have "lots of votes" you are screwed.
Given that the U.S. is doing its best to lose any technological edge it may have once held, I think your advice is stupid. Remember, it was the Japanese and German car makes who helped the U.S. car makers get back on track. The U.S. car I bought in 2000 to replace my Japanese car has been more reliable and cost me way less to operate than its predecessor. You had better embrace Linux, Apache, etc. because it may be our only hope out of this mess that we are getting into.
The question around is deregulation responsible for the power outage is probably a yes and no. Under deregulation you can and will delay building new power plants until there are disruptions. You also will be more apt to look at maintenance and captial expenditure with a more keen financial eye. Love 'em or hate 'em the nukes keep the mid-Atlantic states flush with power. New York buys a lot of its power from Canada. When the nukes shut down due to age, there are no plans to add capacity until there are routine disruptions (black outs). All new capacity will be small fossil-fueled plants peppering the landscape because they are the least politically contraversial. I guess we will really need that Iraqi oil, huh? We will not feel the true affects of deregulation for a number of years. The bottom line is that electrical power is no longer an "essential" service by definition of being deregulated. The black out might have been contributed by cost cutting and lack of reserve capacity.
GM's Onstart system already does this quite nicely. A friend of mine has it and when he works late his wife can make a "toll free" phone call and verify the exact position of his car. Fortunately, he is not a cheating husband, but still she can find out what road he is on and the speed he is travelling. In short, if you have a cell phone, you can be tracked...the system is not completely activated yet...comrade.
I started out as an engineer - robotics from the University of California. I even still maintain a P.E. license. With engineering tanking I went into software development since I am pretty good at it. I have my M.S. in comp. sci. Over the last few years I have focused on "soft skills" like project management, people management, communication skills, etc. Nevertheless, becoming a car mechanic or opening my own automobile detailing shop is looking pretty attrative these days. I wonder how many auto mechanics are more credentialed than those who actually design the cars? I am also an adjunct prof. at one of the local colleges. My summer course in C++ was cancelled due to low enrollment. I am not surprised. The CEOs get richer and the worker bees continue to struggle to constantly "reinvent" themselves to be economically viable.
I pay.15 / kW-hr of electricity, the second highest in the country, I believe. PECo (Exelon) makes money hand over fist and siphons a fair amount to Harrisburg. When they "deregulated" PA it was a big sham (scam). The law was written by the utilities so the choice was anything but. All the prices were exactly the same since the small suppliers had to buy from the big suppliers. The advantage to the utilities is that they can reduce customer service in the name of competition and they have scrapped all future plans for more capacity. When our well-run and safe nukes start to shut down in say five to ten years all new capacity will be little "backyard" fossil plants peppering the landscape - but not until there are blackouts. Good thing Halliburton owns the Iraqi oil, huh? BTW - I used to work for PECo / Exelon.
Verizon, PECo (now Exelon) all own our politicians lock stock and barrel. It's not right, but that is how it's done in PA. Anyway, I have Verizon DSL and it works quite well. I don't have down-time more than maybe a couple times a year - usually due to heavy storm activity. I wish it was cheaper but the cable company is a monopoly too and will rip me off just the same. PA does not like competition - it stifles political graft.
Go find another job. If you are a white male you have no recourse but to look around and leave. Suck it up - that is the society we live in. If you try to get legal you will be fired. You won't be missed and you won't miss them.
We have all been there. Most of us use our best judgement to do what is best based on the current circumstances. The PHB's are always quick to criticize after they take credit for the heroics. Get used to it. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Grow a thick skin.
How about a little chip in the forehead or back of the hand? You can't buy or sell without it! http://digitalangel.net built a little biochip a couple of years ago. They don't seem to be talking about it anymore - government contract? Who knows?
A Government more screwed up than the American government. I never thought the Brits would buy into this hogwash. At least in American we can expect Micro$haft to buy our congress and pass laws trying to force M$ as the "national" OS. The U.K. is buying this rubbish independently.
I guess I had better mind my p's and q's. I have a GM car model year 2000...which by the way has turned out to be more trouble-free than my previous rice burner. Maybe I just got lucky, but now I know I am being spied on...... Thank God they don't use Windows or my car would get hacked and probably "crash" on its own....
Given the current "glut" of tech workers, companies can do anything they like and insist that you sign virtually any document. If you don't like it...next tech applicant please...
All of us who live in the Peoples Republic of Amerika know that most court cases are won based on financial resources expended. If you cannot take on a corporation, give it up. For example, I know a number of tech workers who were fired right after they turned 50. They were absolutly forced to sign a myriad of "agreements" to get their pitance. One person told me that "the company" assured them that they would lose their house and savings before they ever had their day in court if they did not like it. The law in Amerika is by and for the wealthy like our politicians. O.J. - need I say more.
Oddly enough where I work which is a large well-known company ALL of our recent It hires have been over 40. This includes Java programmers, architects, etc. This is good news since I am over 40 too. We have one recent hire in his 30's. Very competent but arrogant and mouthly. I have sensed a real aversion to hiring 20-somethings by senior management. All of the resumes that I have reviewed and pre-screenings that I have performed have been on older experienced workers.
My 2 cents....
You have heard, "give 'em an inch and they take a mile." Or "it's not the intent of the law but the letter of the law." It has been PROVEN throughout history that when you give any government more power they will abuse it. And anybody who studies history knows that it repeats itself like a sine wave.
The government promised the peasants in the 30's that your social security number would and could never be used as a means of personal identification. Guess what?
Under the "Patriot Act" an Intel engineer of
Middle Eastern descent is being held indefinitely without charges. Why? He has committed no crime, so he cannot be charged. The FBI has admitted that there is no crime. He has done nothing but have olive skin and an unfortunate (for him) birth location and last name. The same can and will (eventually) happen to you.
If we continue to sit back passively and let what little is left of our constitution be taken away, when we wake up we will have gotten what we deserve.
Benjamin Franklin stated that "those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither." I contend that they will receive neither!!
This was stated in the body, but I think that there could some truth in the assertion that Windows Palladium could become mandated by law. M$ does a nice job greasing the political wheels in Washington as seen by the (in)Justice department cave-in under Bush/As(shole)croft.
Yep, M$ Windows could be mandated to "fight terrorism" and improve the economy (Bill's). Please visit me in jail...I will give up my Linux only when you pry the keyboard (rodent optional) from my cold dead hands....
Oh, here we go again...we need to train more scientists and engineers! Why? Where is the work...or should I say where is the work after 40? Get your accounting degrees and MBA's. I regret my University of CA engineering degree as well as my MSCS. What is it worth? Writing open source software for free? America needs none of these. We can get them cheap from India and China, make share value to enrich the CEO and continue our technical decline. That is the American way. Never look ahead. I should have been a lawyer - then I could sue my way to wealth.
I teach computer science courses part time at one of the local colleges. It is amazing how many students feel that good grades "just happen." I grade to my syllabus and I have given F's. One of my students even had his visa placed in jeopardy because of his lack of effort (boo hoo). The administration completely backs me and I have never had my grades reversed. The point is that technical sciences are pretty "black and white" and I believe that...an A is for superior effort. I also believe that "overall" University's are dumbing down their programs which we will regret as a society rather soon.
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It seems to me that Sun is trying to play both sides of the fence here. On one hand they fund Daryl and his other brother Daryl. On the other hand they want to release a Linux desktop with StarOffice 7.0, Gnome, etc. You know, when you stand in the middle of the road you get hit on both sides. If Sun is dirty dealing here the Linux community will rise up against them.
It's all about pumping the stock price. SCO has nothing and really does not care. This is simply a maneuver to pump the stock price and make the execs rich. Nothing more. The company will collapse, but like so many other execs...who cares. Consider the facts. Mutual fund managers are the ones pumping up their useless stock. Remember how Yahoo was over $300 per share? These same clueless nitwits are still mis-managing our 401k funds. None of them do one ounce of research - it's not their money. They all buy like sheep and sell like sheep. They is a very wise financial move on SCO's part which will make Daryl and his other brother Daryl very rich. Quit getting so spun-up. This is business as usual in America. It's all about the CEO. How much longer do you think HP is going to be around after Carly sucks the life out of the company? It's fundamentally the same thing. It's all about the CEO getting rich now!
Single guys use passwords based on their cars. Married guys use kids, wives (if they are newlyweds) or cars. Married women use kids names. You would be surprised how easy it is to guess other peoples passwords at work using these simple rules.
Those nice folks in mainland China are just trying to accelerate the transition to Linux in the Asia-Pacific region by exposing the folly of using Windows for anything other than games.
It would seem most of the recent celebrated viruses have been written by semi-skilled script kiddies or worse. Let's face it, VBA makes it simple to write an e-mail virus. My usual response at work or to friends regarding these viruses is: it's probably some bored kid because you do not realize how easy it is to write a virus for Windows...and how stupid your are for using it...then I start one of my Linux rants and they all run away.
Just think what will happen when a skilled programmer writes one of these (if not already).
This could be true. M$ is very desperate. As our corporate networks collapse under yet another M$ security lapse, Linux is looking better and better all the time. I don't allow Windows at home so I can only laugh at other's misery. M$ has an enormous war chest of money to throw at destroying Linux so expect this "war" to go on for many more years.
In the United States, it is one man one vote. That man is a picture of a dead President printed on fancy green paper. The more of them you have, the more votes you have. That is how our government works. Unless you have "lots of votes" you are screwed.
Given that the U.S. is doing its best to lose any technological edge it may have once held, I think your advice is stupid. Remember, it was the Japanese and German car makes who helped the U.S. car makers get back on track. The U.S. car I bought in 2000 to replace my Japanese car has been more reliable and cost me way less to operate than its predecessor. You had better embrace Linux, Apache, etc. because it may be our only hope out of this mess that we are getting into.
The question around is deregulation responsible for the power outage is probably a yes and no. Under deregulation you can and will delay building new power plants until there are disruptions. You also will be more apt to look at maintenance and captial expenditure with a more keen financial eye. Love 'em or hate 'em the nukes keep the mid-Atlantic states flush with power. New York buys a lot of its power from Canada. When the nukes shut down due to age, there are no plans to add capacity until there are routine disruptions (black outs). All new capacity will be small fossil-fueled plants peppering the landscape because they are the least politically contraversial. I guess we will really need that Iraqi oil, huh? We will not feel the true affects of deregulation for a number of years. The bottom line is that electrical power is no longer an "essential" service by definition of being deregulated. The black out might have been contributed by cost cutting and lack of reserve capacity.
GM's Onstart system already does this quite nicely. A friend of mine has it and when he works late his wife can make a "toll free" phone call and verify the exact position of his car. Fortunately, he is not a cheating husband, but still she can find out what road he is on and the speed he is travelling. In short, if you have a cell phone, you can be tracked...the system is not completely activated yet...comrade.
I started out as an engineer - robotics from the University of California. I even still maintain a P.E. license. With engineering tanking I went into software development since I am pretty good at it. I have my M.S. in comp. sci. Over the last few years I have focused on "soft skills" like project management, people management, communication skills, etc. Nevertheless, becoming a car mechanic or opening my own automobile detailing shop is looking pretty attrative these days. I wonder how many auto mechanics are more credentialed than those who actually design the cars? I am also an adjunct prof. at one of the local colleges. My summer course in C++ was cancelled due to low enrollment. I am not surprised. The CEOs get richer and the worker bees continue to struggle to constantly "reinvent" themselves to be economically viable.
I pay .15 / kW-hr of electricity, the second highest in the country, I believe. PECo (Exelon) makes money hand over fist and siphons a fair amount to Harrisburg. When they "deregulated" PA it was a big sham (scam). The law was written by the utilities so the choice was anything but. All the prices were exactly the same since the small suppliers had to buy from the big suppliers. The advantage to the utilities is that they can reduce customer service in the name of competition and they have scrapped all future plans for more capacity. When our well-run and safe nukes start to shut down in say five to ten years all new capacity will be little "backyard" fossil plants peppering the landscape - but not until there are blackouts. Good thing Halliburton owns the Iraqi oil, huh? BTW - I used to work for PECo / Exelon.
Verizon, PECo (now Exelon) all own our politicians lock stock and barrel. It's not right, but that is how it's done in PA. Anyway, I have Verizon DSL and it works quite well. I don't have down-time more than maybe a couple times a year - usually due to heavy storm activity. I wish it was cheaper but the cable company is a monopoly too and will rip me off just the same. PA does not like competition - it stifles political graft.
Go find another job. If you are a white male you have no recourse but to look around and leave. Suck it up - that is the society we live in. If you try to get legal you will be fired. You won't be missed and you won't miss them.
We have all been there. Most of us use our best judgement to do what is best based on the current circumstances. The PHB's are always quick to criticize after they take credit for the heroics. Get used to it. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Grow a thick skin.
How about a little chip in the forehead or back of the hand? You can't buy or sell without it! http://digitalangel.net built a little biochip a couple of years ago. They don't seem to be talking about it anymore - government contract? Who knows?
Of all things, I play the cello...
A Government more screwed up than the American government. I never thought the Brits would buy into this hogwash. At least in American we can expect Micro$haft to buy our congress and pass laws trying to force M$ as the "national" OS. The U.K. is buying this rubbish independently.
I guess I had better mind my p's and q's. I have a GM car model year 2000...which by the way has turned out to be more trouble-free than my previous rice burner. Maybe I just got lucky, but now I know I am being spied on...... Thank God they don't use Windows or my car would get hacked and probably "crash" on its own....
Given the current "glut" of tech workers, companies can do anything they like and insist that you sign virtually any document. If you don't like it...next tech applicant please... All of us who live in the Peoples Republic of Amerika know that most court cases are won based on financial resources expended. If you cannot take on a corporation, give it up. For example, I know a number of tech workers who were fired right after they turned 50. They were absolutly forced to sign a myriad of "agreements" to get their pitance. One person told me that "the company" assured them that they would lose their house and savings before they ever had their day in court if they did not like it. The law in Amerika is by and for the wealthy like our politicians. O.J. - need I say more.
Oddly enough where I work which is a large well-known company ALL of our recent It hires have been over 40. This includes Java programmers, architects, etc. This is good news since I am over 40 too. We have one recent hire in his 30's. Very competent but arrogant and mouthly. I have sensed a real aversion to hiring 20-somethings by senior management. All of the resumes that I have reviewed and pre-screenings that I have performed have been on older experienced workers. My 2 cents....
You have heard, "give 'em an inch and they take a mile." Or "it's not the intent of the law but the letter of the law." It has been PROVEN throughout history that when you give any government more power they will abuse it. And anybody who studies history knows that it repeats itself like a sine wave. The government promised the peasants in the 30's that your social security number would and could never be used as a means of personal identification. Guess what? Under the "Patriot Act" an Intel engineer of Middle Eastern descent is being held indefinitely without charges. Why? He has committed no crime, so he cannot be charged. The FBI has admitted that there is no crime. He has done nothing but have olive skin and an unfortunate (for him) birth location and last name. The same can and will (eventually) happen to you. If we continue to sit back passively and let what little is left of our constitution be taken away, when we wake up we will have gotten what we deserve. Benjamin Franklin stated that "those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither." I contend that they will receive neither!!
This was stated in the body, but I think that there could some truth in the assertion that Windows Palladium could become mandated by law. M$ does a nice job greasing the political wheels in Washington as seen by the (in)Justice department cave-in under Bush/As(shole)croft. Yep, M$ Windows could be mandated to "fight terrorism" and improve the economy (Bill's). Please visit me in jail...I will give up my Linux only when you pry the keyboard (rodent optional) from my cold dead hands....
Oh, here we go again...we need to train more scientists and engineers! Why? Where is the work...or should I say where is the work after 40? Get your accounting degrees and MBA's. I regret my University of CA engineering degree as well as my MSCS. What is it worth? Writing open source software for free? America needs none of these. We can get them cheap from India and China, make share value to enrich the CEO and continue our technical decline. That is the American way. Never look ahead. I should have been a lawyer - then I could sue my way to wealth.
I teach computer science courses part time at one of the local colleges. It is amazing how many students feel that good grades "just happen." I grade to my syllabus and I have given F's. One of my students even had his visa placed in jeopardy because of his lack of effort (boo hoo). The administration completely backs me and I have never had my grades reversed. The point is that technical sciences are pretty "black and white" and I believe that...an A is for superior effort. I also believe that "overall" University's are dumbing down their programs which we will regret as a society rather soon.