This marks the first time I have EVER considered AOL as a potential ISP.
Feel free to go stick your head in the oven, it amounts to the same thing.
When all you want is a basic connection, AOL used to be the absolute worst way to go. This new option may be more suitable to advanced users.
I've got 5 bucks that say AOL still messes this up. Seriously, an advanced users would shutter at the thought of using aol-anything. Hell, MY MOTHER shutters at the thought, and we are talking about a woman who uses a 6 year old mac with a 28.8k dialup.
You're going to tell me that that doesn't happen with Pee Cee cases? Jumpin' jesus boy, shit gets scratched all the time, METAL INCLUDED! And more often than not, a small scratch on plastic, while noticable yes, is not as noticable as a small scratch that digs through the paint on a metal case (especially the horrid beige colour that most of them are). Clue in.
Yeah, hi. This would be what they call a "Joke". A phrase used to invoke a very specific response, typically of laugher. You might have heard of it.
Get over yourselves. An informed boss can make better decisions and work easier. And, if you can help them in a way that doesn't involve humiliating them, maybe it will come back and reward you.
Absotutely, I couldn't agree more.
Except most bosses don't want to be informed. Not really. They don't want to take the time to learn what they need to learn to make the informed decisions, they want you to tell them that they are right in their biases ( anti-linux, anti-ms, you name it, I've seen it ), and any views to the contrary, and you are being an arrogant jerk, like all tech guys are ( their words, typically ).
Technology scares people. And when people get scared and loose control ( which is what all PHBs truely fear ), their outlook on people become very colored by the reigning prejudices.
I am successful just because I don't talk down to people, I don't talk up to them. I give them the terms they need to know and patiently explain what they need to hear. But I have been called an arrogant prick, just because I wouldn't kiss someone's ass about their tech biases.
So were you to ask me which side I believe more, I would say I side with the techies.
Problem: I have found macs to be made of plastic, at least on the outside, and in that kind of enviroment, it would get scratched and cracked, thust taking away from a Mac's only inherent value.
Money that could otherwise be spent for some better cause such as, lets see, educating our children?
Good placement of the question mark. See, in my district, they spend the bare minimum on the schools, and the rest magically dissappears.
We've had, on average, one board member a year arrested for stealing money from the budget. While most districts are not so bad, I would hazard a guess and say corruption is not an uncommon thing.
When Intuit launched the copy-control program, it predicted that revenue would increase, since customers who had previously purchased only one TurboTax program would have to buy a separate copy for each computer in the house.
...and...
To its credit, Intuit listened to these complaints and reversed course. "We're taking a mulligan," says Julie Miller, a company spokeswoman. "The customer reaction was unexpected."
Ok, so you want to charge people a couple hundred ( most versions of their software run at least that much ) bucks for a software package. That's cool. Now, where they used to be able to install it on various computers so they could, you know, get work done, NOW you want to charge them PER COMPUTER. So, instead of 400 bucks, we're talking 800/1200/1600 for a single household.
What the fuck did they expect from their customers, a parade?
Hey, maybe it's a pre-emptive patent. You know, patent it now so someone with less morals won't screw them over...later...hey, why is everyone laughing at me?:)
I spank on the butt, never anywhere else. And I don't do it out of anger, they know what they have to do to get a spanking, so it's not a surprise. Usually it's a last resort, but sometimes what they do is severe enough to get a spanking immediately.
Besides, the fact that you grew up "right" is evidence that of anything else spanking does do, it doesn't create bad people. And if my daughters grow up to be strong, ethic people, then my job was done correctly, regardless of the cost.
Actually, the punishment depends on the child. Timeouts, for example, work extremely well for one of my daughters. She really is crushed when she is put on timeout, and it prevents her from doing future behavior that landed her on timeout in the first place.
The second one...well, she just needs to be smacked around sometimes.:) Spanking works, timeouts are a joke to this one.
This has long been my one failing when programming, the interface. It works, I make sure of that, and traditionally, my code has far fewer bugs than the industry average, and reading my code is both simple and elegant. But the user interface has always been the part of it that I simply can not do.
I will have to pick up this book, if for no other reason that to make an attempt at figuring it out.
Do we really trust an amazon sponsored search engine when looking for "books on computers"? Do we really believe that they will give us unskewed results?
This is the core of the matter, and why google is so successful. We believe that they are unbiased, and therefore trust their results.
Incidently, this is why msn search will fail as well.
Wait, my government went against a bussiness interest for the sake of the people?
They did a good thing?
I take back some of the bad things I have said about them. Now if only they could continue this trend...think about it...RIAA ruled unconstitutional, it's members shot. MS seperated into many different companies, forced to develop OSS.
The posts are checked for "lameness", specific characters, specific characters in certain arrangements, I am not sure. But I originally copied and pasted all of the article, the top of which had some funky characters which I deleted.
Could we please, just get the article and not the commentary? The entire idea behind kharma whoring with reproducing the article is to reproduce the/.'d article, not the article mixed with your commentary. I'm trying to get what they are posting not you. Grumble, original article/.'d, grumble.
Indeed, the entire point of that post was to provide the article's text for those who didn't get to read it before it was slash dotted.
So why would I add my own commentary in there?
The article was reproduced in full, with NO additions or subtractions ( short of the lame filter requirements ) on my part.
When SCO CEO Darl McBride wrote his open letter last week, he seemed to indicate a hope there could be a viable future partnership between his company and Linux. There is more than a hint as to what that partnership might be like in two research papers prepared back in March and April by Renaissance Ventures, a VC firm that invested in SCO.
The first document is an explanation of Renaissance's reasons for thinking SCO was a good investment. I know you've been wondering what in the world those folks in the stock market have been thinking. The second is an analysis of the SCO v. IBM lawsuit. They are both so blazingly wrong in both facts and conclusions that I fully grasp for the first time how some people may have invested in SCO, based on such misinformation.
First, the investment document. It is based on SCO's telephone conference call in February of 2003. You can listen to it yourself on mp3 here. Renaissance thought it sounded like SCO's bottom line was about to get "prettier" because they believed what SCO reportedly told them in that phone call, namely that most companies were reacting to the new SCOsource licensing program in a positive way.
Renaissance also bought the story -- hook, line and sinker -- that SCO owned the UNIX tree trunk, so to speak, and that all other versions of Unix were branches, or derivatives, off of their tree, including, so they imagined, Linux. (I'm using their language, by the way. They actually mean GNU/Linux, the kernel plus the applications, not Linux the kernel.) They planned on hijacking the GNU/Linux applications and if that meant the death of Linux, so what?
That's their business proposition? And GNU/Linux gets what out of this, other than ripped off and ruined?
Their original strategy was based on the fantasy that the world was clamoring for the ability to stay with UNIX and yet run GNU/Linux applications, and there they'd be, like a troll hiding under the bridge, ready to exact a toll on all those wanting to cross.
SCO, in their daydream, thought they could be the gatekeeper making it possible for companies already on UNIX to sort of transition to Linux, which they knew everyone wanted to do, without leaving their UNIX environment behind. Next step? Backcharge for UNIX shared libraries they believed had been used inappropriately and start scooping the money up in royalties for UNIX code.
Why they imagined companies would rather follow that convoluted, expensive route instead of just running Linux itself is one of those mysteries the tech community can never solve, because it's not based on technical realities but on financial yearning. The tech makes no sense at all. But the ka-ching started ringing in Renaissance's ears, and you know how compelling that can be, like when your telephone starts ringing and you think you have to answer it. But the whole structure is based on a lack of technical knowledge and not enough true facts and a grievous miscalculation about the market. If ever there was a situation illustrating the importance of CEOs and financial analysts comprehending tech, this story is it. Money got invested in a dream that isn't coming true.
Let me let you read it for yourselves, because it's beyond my descriptive abilities to capture all the repulsive nuances, not that this is a subtle document. They begin by describing the conference call and then explain the math potential as they see it:
"We believe management's forecasted $10 million of SCOsource revenue in 2Q represents near-term settlement of possible license violations in arrears (related to heretofore unlicensed use of the SCOsource shared libraries) from one or more large vendors of Linux solutions, but we are unable to glean more specifics at this time. . . . SCO management also stated . . . that the vast majority of interactions with customers and other software vendors with respect to the SCOsource initiative were positive. Our view is that lumpy, and possibly large, bookings of SCOsource license fees will continue for several quarter
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This sounds like a clear case of elder abuse. You must be a terrorist.
Tell you what, *you* try replacing her mac. I'll go pick out your coffin for you.
This marks the first time I have EVER considered AOL as a potential ISP.
Feel free to go stick your head in the oven, it amounts to the same thing.
When all you want is a basic connection, AOL used to be the absolute worst way to go. This new option may be more suitable to advanced users.
I've got 5 bucks that say AOL still messes this up. Seriously, an advanced users would shutter at the thought of using aol-anything. Hell, MY MOTHER shutters at the thought, and we are talking about a woman who uses a 6 year old mac with a 28.8k dialup.
Busy signals? No problem, I'm not alone, there are 10 Million other people also waiting to log on.
You know, I'd imagine that's a failed advertising slogan waiting to happen.
"Can't get online? Don't worry! You aren't alone!"
You know, as much as this was meant to be a troll, it was really amusing and extremely enlightening.
Troll on, Genghis troll, troll on.
You're going to tell me that that doesn't happen with Pee Cee cases? Jumpin' jesus boy, shit gets scratched all the time, METAL INCLUDED! And more often than not, a small scratch on plastic, while noticable yes, is not as noticable as a small scratch that digs through the paint on a metal case (especially the horrid beige colour that most of them are).
Clue in.
Yeah, hi. This would be what they call a "Joke". A phrase used to invoke a very specific response, typically of laugher. You might have heard of it.
Get over yourselves. An informed boss can make better decisions and work easier. And, if you can help them in a way that doesn't involve humiliating them, maybe it will come back and reward you.
Absotutely, I couldn't agree more.
Except most bosses don't want to be informed. Not really. They don't want to take the time to learn what they need to learn to make the informed decisions, they want you to tell them that they are right in their biases ( anti-linux, anti-ms, you name it, I've seen it ), and any views to the contrary, and you are being an arrogant jerk, like all tech guys are ( their words, typically ).
Technology scares people. And when people get scared and loose control ( which is what all PHBs truely fear ), their outlook on people become very colored by the reigning prejudices.
I am successful just because I don't talk down to people, I don't talk up to them. I give them the terms they need to know and patiently explain what they need to hear. But I have been called an arrogant prick, just because I wouldn't kiss someone's ass about their tech biases.
So were you to ask me which side I believe more, I would say I side with the techies.
Problem: I have found macs to be made of plastic, at least on the outside, and in that kind of enviroment, it would get scratched and cracked, thust taking away from a Mac's only inherent value.
"Our value dropped 1/3 virtually overnight. I'm going to dump my remaining shares and leave the lawsuits to the suckers that buy up the remains!"
Can't we leave SCO out of this for at least ONE topic?!
Money that could otherwise be spent for some better cause such as, lets see, educating our children?
Good placement of the question mark. See, in my district, they spend the bare minimum on the schools, and the rest magically dissappears.
We've had, on average, one board member a year arrested for stealing money from the budget. While most districts are not so bad, I would hazard a guess and say corruption is not an uncommon thing.
you too can sue SOMEONE ELSE for a faulty product YOU made.
You just can't make this stuff up folks.
When Intuit launched the copy-control program, it predicted that revenue would increase, since customers who had previously purchased only one TurboTax program would have to buy a separate copy for each computer in the house.
...and...
To its credit, Intuit listened to these complaints and reversed course. "We're taking a mulligan," says Julie Miller, a company spokeswoman. "The customer reaction was unexpected."
Ok, so you want to charge people a couple hundred ( most versions of their software run at least that much ) bucks for a software package. That's cool. Now, where they used to be able to install it on various computers so they could, you know, get work done, NOW you want to charge them PER COMPUTER. So, instead of 400 bucks, we're talking 800/1200/1600 for a single household.
What the fuck did they expect from their customers, a parade?
Gee, ya think?
Hey, maybe it's a pre-emptive patent. You know, patent it now so someone with less morals won't screw them over...later...hey, why is everyone laughing at me? :)
Different strokes, as it were. :)
I spank on the butt, never anywhere else. And I don't do it out of anger, they know what they have to do to get a spanking, so it's not a surprise. Usually it's a last resort, but sometimes what they do is severe enough to get a spanking immediately.
Besides, the fact that you grew up "right" is evidence that of anything else spanking does do, it doesn't create bad people. And if my daughters grow up to be strong, ethic people, then my job was done correctly, regardless of the cost.
Actually, the punishment depends on the child. Timeouts, for example, work extremely well for one of my daughters. She really is crushed when she is put on timeout, and it prevents her from doing future behavior that landed her on timeout in the first place.
:) Spanking works, timeouts are a joke to this one.
The second one...well, she just needs to be smacked around sometimes.
Make it so. :)
This has long been my one failing when programming, the interface. It works, I make sure of that, and traditionally, my code has far fewer bugs than the industry average, and reading my code is both simple and elegant. But the user interface has always been the part of it that I simply can not do.
I will have to pick up this book, if for no other reason that to make an attempt at figuring it out.
Just imagine how much in royalties this guy could have made if he had developed that nowadays with our patent frenzy attitude!
Rich, he would have been rich I tell you!
Mark my words, there will come a day when tcp connections are refused because the server does not trust the chain of trust of the certificate.
:)
And when that day comes, I will be a happy man.
Do we really trust an amazon sponsored search engine when looking for "books on computers"? Do we really believe that they will give us unskewed results?
This is the core of the matter, and why google is so successful. We believe that they are unbiased, and therefore trust their results.
Incidently, this is why msn search will fail as well.
All hail the king of searches: Google.
I can guarantee TIME itself slows down on the work week, and speeds up during the weekend.
Fact.
Wait, my government went against a bussiness interest for the sake of the people?
They did a good thing?
I take back some of the bad things I have said about them. Now if only they could continue this trend...think about it...RIAA ruled unconstitutional, it's members shot. MS seperated into many different companies, forced to develop OSS.
The posts are checked for "lameness", specific characters, specific characters in certain arrangements, I am not sure. But I originally copied and pasted all of the article, the top of which had some funky characters which I deleted.
Could we please, just get the article and not the commentary? The entire idea behind kharma whoring with reproducing the article is to reproduce the /.'d article, not the article mixed with your commentary. I'm trying to get what they are posting not you. Grumble, original article /.'d, grumble.
Indeed, the entire point of that post was to provide the article's text for those who didn't get to read it before it was slash dotted.
So why would I add my own commentary in there?
The article was reproduced in full, with NO additions or subtractions ( short of the lame filter requirements ) on my part.
So next time, don't assume.
When SCO CEO Darl McBride wrote his open letter last week, he seemed to indicate a hope there could be a viable future partnership between his company and Linux. There is more than a hint as to what that partnership might be like in two research papers prepared back in March and April by Renaissance Ventures, a VC firm that invested in SCO.
The first document is an explanation of Renaissance's reasons for thinking SCO was a good investment. I know you've been wondering what in the world those folks in the stock market have been thinking. The second is an analysis of the SCO v. IBM lawsuit. They are both so blazingly wrong in both facts and conclusions that I fully grasp for the first time how some people may have invested in SCO, based on such misinformation.
First, the investment document. It is based on SCO's telephone conference call in February of 2003. You can listen to it yourself on mp3 here. Renaissance thought it sounded like SCO's bottom line was about to get "prettier" because they believed what SCO reportedly told them in that phone call, namely that most companies were reacting to the new SCOsource licensing program in a positive way.
Renaissance also bought the story -- hook, line and sinker -- that SCO owned the UNIX tree trunk, so to speak, and that all other versions of Unix were branches, or derivatives, off of their tree, including, so they imagined, Linux. (I'm using their language, by the way. They actually mean GNU/Linux, the kernel plus the applications, not Linux the kernel.) They planned on hijacking the GNU/Linux applications and if that meant the death of Linux, so what?
That's their business proposition? And GNU/Linux gets what out of this, other than ripped off and ruined?
Their original strategy was based on the fantasy that the world was clamoring for the ability to stay with UNIX and yet run GNU/Linux applications, and there they'd be, like a troll hiding under the bridge, ready to exact a toll on all those wanting to cross.
SCO, in their daydream, thought they could be the gatekeeper making it possible for companies already on UNIX to sort of transition to Linux, which they knew everyone wanted to do, without leaving their UNIX environment behind. Next step? Backcharge for UNIX shared libraries they believed had been used inappropriately and start scooping the money up in royalties for UNIX code.
Why they imagined companies would rather follow that convoluted, expensive route instead of just running Linux itself is one of those mysteries the tech community can never solve, because it's not based on technical realities but on financial yearning. The tech makes no sense at all. But the ka-ching started ringing in Renaissance's ears, and you know how compelling that can be, like when your telephone starts ringing and you think you have to answer it. But the whole structure is based on a lack of technical knowledge and not enough true facts and a grievous miscalculation about the market. If ever there was a situation illustrating the importance of CEOs and financial analysts comprehending tech, this story is it. Money got invested in a dream that isn't coming true.
Let me let you read it for yourselves, because it's beyond my descriptive abilities to capture all the repulsive nuances, not that this is a subtle document. They begin by describing the conference call and then explain the math potential as they see it:
"We believe management's forecasted $10 million of SCOsource revenue in 2Q represents near-term settlement of possible license violations in arrears (related to heretofore unlicensed use of the SCOsource shared libraries) from one or more large vendors of Linux solutions, but we are unable to glean more specifics at this time. . . . SCO management also stated . . . that the vast majority of interactions with customers and other software vendors with respect to the SCOsource initiative were positive. Our view is that lumpy, and possibly large, bookings of SCOsource license fees will continue for several quarter