It was down that low before the news. Investors were beginning to notice the "painting" and other often illegal stock manipulation tactics that were being used to keep SCOX sailing. Royce is one of the prime suspects behind the stock manipulation, having invested $30 million dollars in SCOX through Baystar, and gradually increasing their investment by a small few thousand shares at a time, around the open and close of the market, when most of the suspected "painting" has occurred. The SCOX price always went UP on bad news, an almost sure sign of illegal stock manipulation. Another thing that was keeping the SCOX price up was a $45 price target set by "analyst" Brian Skiba. That price target was recently pulled, leaving only a more realistic, albiet still high $5 price target on the SCOX summary pages of most financial sites.
Today, SCOX price has risen slightly again, on a day when their perceived value should have dropped due to bad news. I have no doubt that the stock manipulation is still going on.
Note: This is all stuff I've read in the Yahoo! SCOX forum, nothing I deserve credit for researching myself.
Layered programming is generally a good thing. It can appear to slow you down in the beginning of development, but it supports fast, easy maintenance, extendability, and code reuse. Even under plain asp, with javascript as the server side language, my projects have always evolved toward a layered design even when they started out simple.
Well put. Though it was the opposite for me. I started programming, and became good at math. Now the two skills compliment each other on even the simple CIS tasks that people claim they can do fine with math. Even if you don't use math directly, it helps to have the skills. Like with CIS, the common example of programming that "doesn't need math", you can typically abstract away 90% of the backend code of a complex web site with a little bit of forethought, like noticing "Hey, these are all variations of the same damn thing", but you rarely ever see CIS people figuring that out. They'll often just write these linear pages with little or no modularity or generalization. Many will take five times as long, for half the functionality, and unfortunately for the client, earning five times as much because they're paid by the hour. And they get jobs based on what they know, what certifications they possess, rather than how they think.
I hope that someday soon Congress will understand the seriousness of the current problems with software patents AND give a damn. Microsoft and other companies are patenting tens of thousands of software ideas, almost all of them obvious and/or existing in prior art, and despite their invalidity, it'll still take more money than any of us has to fight them. Reading a random selection of the software patents that have been granted recently would make me pass out with laughter if they didn't threaten my own freedom to innovate.
I've dealt with setups like that. Started with a password nobody would ever guess, and it gradually got weaker and weaker every time I was forced to change it. Now I just toggle back and forth between two weak passwords.
I won a Treeloot monkey once. Probably everyone who went there did. My cat loves it. It's barely recognizable now, and I have a rope tied to it so I can hang it from the ceiling and watch her jump up and hang from it as she rips the cotton out.
I remember reading a knowledgebase article for Windows Media Player describing an early bug that would frequently corrupt the user's license database, rendering all their purchased downloads unplayable. The recommended workaround was to purchase new licenses.
I too have heard the Shatner tunes. They were funny the first time I listened to them, but he's not exactly talented in that area. Ever seen the video of Leonard Nimoy singing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins? He wasn't trying either, but I could watch that over and over.
It'd take a two unpatched exploits. One to take over a running server, and one to elevate to root, unless the exploited server already runs as root, like ssh or often bind.
But I can tell you now, if Linux were more popular, nearly every home user will want to run with root priveledges and have auto-login. Local security just isn't worth it for most of them.
Tip for those of you who don't live in Westminster, CO: Search ICQ for users in Westminster, CO, and offer them $20 to get your revenge. If you tell them who it is, they may even do it for free. Yahoo email search might work for recruiting as well.
Some ideas: File a complaint in city hall, or at the police department. Say they're running an illegal spam operation, because they are. Submit a story to the local newspaper. Toss in a bucket of bricks, or whatever else perks your interest. Fun with superglue. Slash tires. Follow Scott home and drop a bunch of marijuana plants in the backyard, then tip off police.
Better use two uzis. If one jams up, you still have the other.
> lighten up, it's a joke
It may have been a joke, but it's not a bad idea. Suppose they've cost us a billion dollars in wasted bandwidth, and divide that by 32. That's roughly $31 million dollars damage per employee, for a personal income of probably much less than a hundredth of that. To commit such an act requires a person to be incapable of feeling remorse. The only consequences they weigh are their own. They'd kill you for your wallet if they were 100% sure they could get away with it. They share the same personality traits as serial killers, terrorist leaders, SCO directors, and other villains that would break Godwin's law to mention.
Just to test that, today I plugged one of my digital cameras (Concord EasyToo) into my pc running Suse Linux 9.0 for the first time, having never used a camera with Linux ever before. It detected the camera immediately, and automatically placed a camera icon on my desktop for me to browse the photos.
Whenever the ratings go down the vulcan gets emotional and shows off more of her body, and the 7 season thing is like a tradition now. Though now that they've put her in a sex scene with Tripp, I'm curious what they'll do the next time they get desperate. Lesbians?
I think they've gotta finish the Xindi thing quick and stay away from the time travel / temporal cold war stuff for a few seasons. And Scott Bakula needs to act better. He did well in previous roles, but hasn't made a great captain.
When someone accidentally lets me use their system, I install. patches adaware mozilla firefox, opera, netscape 4 filezilla cacheman java sdk openoffice cygwin k9 (spam filter) irfanview (good for batch image operations)
I was basically just seeing what it can do, personally rather than professionally. I had done some tests to verify that it was giving good answers, and it seemed to pass. Several sets of random starting values all approached the same result. It was only when I added feedback that it was able to get stuck on local minimums.
OpenOffice loads most of our documents perfectly. It supports a wide variety of file formats. Its default compressed xml format produces files that are a tiny fraction of the size of equivelant Office documents. My bosses especially like the fact that it's free of charge, and we install it on every new pc we get.
The main issues I have with it are its slowness and high memory usage under Windows compared to Office. I also miss having an equivelant to the Excel solver utility, which can optimize hundreds of variables at once to minimize/maximize a result. My first use of it involved stock prediction. It performed quite well at optimizing a set of over a hundred weights to predict a stock based on years of past data, if only to prove to me that numerically predicting a single day into a stock's with a profitable level of accuracy is almost impossible. I'll be using NN's in my next attempt. Did I mention I have ADD?
Blocking outgoing port 25 will impact them much more adversely than being on one of the many blackhole lists. Like saying, "We'll stop blocking some of it if you block all of it."
I've spent more on games. But a lot of the newer games out there will require me to buy a new PC just to run them well. Since my PC's run everything else just fine, upgrading just to play the newest games doesn't make sense. Even my oldest PC will run Quake 3 very smoothly at high resolutions, but the requirements for many of the newest games are just absurd, and the screenshots usually look only slightly better in my mind.
I think most game developers can make more money supporting older hardware and attempting to charge the same price. For example, Unreal supported sofware rendering and still looked great with the newest hardware of the time, and had a wide range of quality settings that enabled you to tweak it to run well on all the hardware in between. Patches that followed improved its quality even further on new hardware, extending its market life. Not that I think they need to go as far back as software rendering, but game developers can usually support older systems without sacrificing quality on newer hardware.
I typically buy games 3-4 years after they are released, when they are usually on sale for $2-$10 a piece. Even my new PC's won't run new games, as I tend to buy the cheapest systems and max out the ram and hard disk. Plus my newest PC lacks an M$ operating system, ruling out the chance of me ever buying a new game that requires DirectX.
If game developers don't want my money, it's their loss. If you limit yourself to 1% of the market, so do you limit your profit potential to that 1%.
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It was down that low before the news. Investors were beginning to notice the "painting" and other often illegal stock manipulation tactics that were being used to keep SCOX sailing. Royce is one of the prime suspects behind the stock manipulation, having invested $30 million dollars in SCOX through Baystar, and gradually increasing their investment by a small few thousand shares at a time, around the open and close of the market, when most of the suspected "painting" has occurred. The SCOX price always went UP on bad news, an almost sure sign of illegal stock manipulation. Another thing that was keeping the SCOX price up was a $45 price target set by "analyst" Brian Skiba. That price target was recently pulled, leaving only a more realistic, albiet still high $5 price target on the SCOX summary pages of most financial sites.
Today, SCOX price has risen slightly again, on a day when their perceived value should have dropped due to bad news. I have no doubt that the stock manipulation is still going on.
Note: This is all stuff I've read in the Yahoo! SCOX forum, nothing I deserve credit for researching myself.
Layered programming is generally a good thing. It can appear to slow you down in the beginning of development, but it supports fast, easy maintenance, extendability, and code reuse. Even under plain asp, with javascript as the server side language, my projects have always evolved toward a layered design even when they started out simple.
Well put. Though it was the opposite for me. I started programming, and became good at math. Now the two skills compliment each other on even the simple CIS tasks that people claim they can do fine with math. Even if you don't use math directly, it helps to have the skills. Like with CIS, the common example of programming that "doesn't need math", you can typically abstract away 90% of the backend code of a complex web site with a little bit of forethought, like noticing "Hey, these are all variations of the same damn thing", but you rarely ever see CIS people figuring that out. They'll often just write these linear pages with little or no modularity or generalization. Many will take five times as long, for half the functionality, and unfortunately for the client, earning five times as much because they're paid by the hour. And they get jobs based on what they know, what certifications they possess, rather than how they think.
I hope that someday soon Congress will understand the seriousness of the current problems with software patents AND give a damn. Microsoft and other companies are patenting tens of thousands of software ideas, almost all of them obvious and/or existing in prior art, and despite their invalidity, it'll still take more money than any of us has to fight them. Reading a random selection of the software patents that have been granted recently would make me pass out with laughter if they didn't threaten my own freedom to innovate.
Just about everything breaks down into salt with time and exposure to a substance of opposite pH. But there are many many things we call salt.
I've dealt with setups like that. Started with a password nobody would ever guess, and it gradually got weaker and weaker every time I was forced to change it. Now I just toggle back and forth between two weak passwords.
I won a Treeloot monkey once. Probably everyone who went there did. My cat loves it. It's barely recognizable now, and I have a rope tied to it so I can hang it from the ceiling and watch her jump up and hang from it as she rips the cotton out.
I remember reading a knowledgebase article for Windows Media Player describing an early bug that would frequently corrupt the user's license database, rendering all their purchased downloads unplayable. The recommended workaround was to purchase new licenses.
I too have heard the Shatner tunes. They were funny the first time I listened to them, but he's not exactly talented in that area. Ever seen the video of Leonard Nimoy singing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins? He wasn't trying either, but I could watch that over and over.
It'd take a two unpatched exploits. One to take over a running server, and one to elevate to root, unless the exploited server already runs as root, like ssh or often bind.
But I can tell you now, if Linux were more popular, nearly every home user will want to run with root priveledges and have auto-login. Local security just isn't worth it for most of them.
Tip for those of you who don't live in Westminster, CO:
Search ICQ for users in Westminster, CO, and offer them $20 to get your revenge. If you tell them who it is, they may even do it for free. Yahoo email search might work for recruiting as well.
Some ideas:
File a complaint in city hall, or at the police department. Say they're running an illegal spam operation, because they are.
Submit a story to the local newspaper.
Toss in a bucket of bricks, or whatever else perks your interest.
Fun with superglue.
Slash tires.
Follow Scott home and drop a bunch of marijuana plants in the backyard, then tip off police.
Better use two uzis. If one jams up, you still have the other.
> lighten up, it's a joke
It may have been a joke, but it's not a bad idea. Suppose they've cost us a billion dollars in wasted bandwidth, and divide that by 32. That's roughly $31 million dollars damage per employee, for a personal income of probably much less than a hundredth of that. To commit such an act requires a person to be incapable of feeling remorse. The only consequences they weigh are their own. They'd kill you for your wallet if they were 100% sure they could get away with it. They share the same personality traits as serial killers, terrorist leaders, SCO directors, and other villains that would break Godwin's law to mention.
Looks like it only took them 14 tries.
Just to test that, today I plugged one of my digital cameras (Concord EasyToo) into my pc running Suse Linux 9.0 for the first time, having never used a camera with Linux ever before. It detected the camera immediately, and automatically placed a camera icon on my desktop for me to browse the photos.
Whenever the ratings go down the vulcan gets emotional and shows off more of her body, and the 7 season thing is like a tradition now. Though now that they've put her in a sex scene with Tripp, I'm curious what they'll do the next time they get desperate. Lesbians?
I think they've gotta finish the Xindi thing quick and stay away from the time travel / temporal cold war stuff for a few seasons. And Scott Bakula needs to act better. He did well in previous roles, but hasn't made a great captain.
When someone accidentally lets me use their system, I install.
patches
adaware
mozilla firefox, opera, netscape 4
filezilla
cacheman
java sdk
openoffice
cygwin
k9 (spam filter)
irfanview (good for batch image operations)
I was basically just seeing what it can do, personally rather than professionally. I had done some tests to verify that it was giving good answers, and it seemed to pass. Several sets of random starting values all approached the same result. It was only when I added feedback that it was able to get stuck on local minimums.
OpenOffice loads most of our documents perfectly. It supports a wide variety of file formats. Its default compressed xml format produces files that are a tiny fraction of the size of equivelant Office documents. My bosses especially like the fact that it's free of charge, and we install it on every new pc we get.
The main issues I have with it are its slowness and high memory usage under Windows compared to Office. I also miss having an equivelant to the Excel solver utility, which can optimize hundreds of variables at once to minimize/maximize a result. My first use of it involved stock prediction. It performed quite well at optimizing a set of over a hundred weights to predict a stock based on years of past data, if only to prove to me that numerically predicting a single day into a stock's with a profitable level of accuracy is almost impossible. I'll be using NN's in my next attempt. Did I mention I have ADD?
That ISP serves almost the entire country. Until recently it served all of it.
Blocking outgoing port 25 will impact them much more adversely than being on one of the many blackhole lists. Like saying, "We'll stop blocking some of it if you block all of it."
I've spent more on games. But a lot of the newer games out there will require me to buy a new PC just to run them well. Since my PC's run everything else just fine, upgrading just to play the newest games doesn't make sense. Even my oldest PC will run Quake 3 very smoothly at high resolutions, but the requirements for many of the newest games are just absurd, and the screenshots usually look only slightly better in my mind.
I think most game developers can make more money supporting older hardware and attempting to charge the same price. For example, Unreal supported sofware rendering and still looked great with the newest hardware of the time, and had a wide range of quality settings that enabled you to tweak it to run well on all the hardware in between. Patches that followed improved its quality even further on new hardware, extending its market life. Not that I think they need to go as far back as software rendering, but game developers can usually support older systems without sacrificing quality on newer hardware.
Add "Or I'll eat a kitten. Please forward this to 20 people" and it just might work.
The United States produces more spam than any other country.
I guess paying off SCO warrants a blackhole entry as well:
EV1
I typically buy games 3-4 years after they are released, when they are usually on sale for $2-$10 a piece. Even my new PC's won't run new games, as I tend to buy the cheapest systems and max out the ram and hard disk. Plus my newest PC lacks an M$ operating system, ruling out the chance of me ever buying a new game that requires DirectX.
If game developers don't want my money, it's their loss. If you limit yourself to 1% of the market, so do you limit your profit potential to that 1%.