Bill Gates was already knighted. Makes sense if you look at it from the angle of his charitable contributions, since he (and his wife Melissa) send quite a bit of both software and money to schools/etc.
They still owe me 512MB of RAM. I sent in 1 GB of defective RAM, they only sent back 512 MB. No joy getting that memory back from them, so they're on my shit list. That said, the RAM they did send back was remarked Samsung, very good chips (the chips I sent in were generic, godknows who made them). But I'll stick to Kingston next time.
But it appears that the crux of this case is that Red Hat must prove that the mis-stated earnings were the result of an honest mistake, not intentional fudging (*cough* Enron */cough*).
That makes it sound simple, but Red Hat will still have to fork out enormous legal fees to win this case, or settle with the firm (hereafter referred to as "ambulance chasers" or "greedy bastards") and fork over cash that way.
Red Hat is probably in a better position to handle this than most Linux companies (with the obvious exception of IBM), but it has already hurt their stock price, so we'll just have to hold tight and see.
President Carter participated in a nuclear cleanup in Canada, at Chalk River. I'd be willing to bet, however, that he will still be one of the older surviviing presidents.
That said, my father was exposed to a dangerous amount of radioactive Iodine, and I'm worried about what his health may eventually be. I also think that nuclear testing of all sorts should be discontinued-there is more than enough computer power and small-scale lab experimentation available to superpower countries to allow for a stop to nuclear testing. And hopefully smaller countries (Israel, Pakistan, India) will also forego exposing their citizens, and those of nearby countries, to fallout.
Finally, I hope the International community-and my own United States in particular-will look into the nuclear power industry in former Soviet-bloc countries, providing a means of retiring, older, Chernobyl-and their ilk reactors (or other poorly designed graphite-moderated gas cooled reactors) and perhaps replacing them with modern, well-regulated and carefully maintained reactors that are still environmentally friendly and don't create more countries dependant on foreign oil. Not to mention that Chernobyl will need active involvement over several hundred years to prevent a continuing disaster.
Rather than mile-high stacks of punch cards, a paper trail in this case would be a briefcase full of spreadsheets, one for each district. Not nearly as cumbersome, and certainly an easier way to keep the system trustworthy.
The ACM has clout, considerably more than a bunch of unwashed geeks who troll slashdot all day. They're the closest thing the software industry has to a union.
The ACM isn't a bad thing to look into-if I had a regularly meeting chapter within 50 miles I'd probably attend. They're a good deal for students, getting them internships at conferences and hooking them up with lectures and talks. I hadn't even heard of a "public policy" angle to them, but I think it's a good thing.
Point is that this is still not a frugal exercise, Alpine systems are expensive and I, and most people I know, will not be willing to plunk the money down so the can listen to their iPods for an extra hour every day.
Bummer, looks like I was confused. Sorry about that, but I've heard people recommend wearing iPod headphones while they're driving before. And I have enough trouble with people who think they can talk on the phone/do their makeup/shave while driving their SUVs...
Best viewed with Netscape 4.7 for UNIX/X on a 1280x1024 resolution with 24-bit color depth, maximum contrast, minimum brightness, in a 1000x960 window placed in the exact center of your display with this window manager configuration with a colour temperature of 9300K using barco phosphors and connected to an AGP Matrox G200 via 5 individual RG179B/U coax cables with a contact resistance less than 0.1 mOhm on a Sony FX346bp monitor.
Personally (and as an American) I think we shouldn't have made the shuttle into what it was. Most engineers without a stake in the profits were very concerned with the design, since it was rather fragile. It was also expensive.
The problem was that the ISS was concieved and built with a dependency on technology, two decades old, with a somewhat troubling penchant for failure.
As for the "moon base", unless Google is going to chip in and fund it, I doubt America will go through with it. The US space program has lost a lot of the "I did it first" impetus it had when it was competing with the Soviet Union, and that could be a good thing. The NASA of today should focus on the practical, useful aspects of space, instead of being used as a political tool by whatever president is in office. I would rather have my tax dollars spent on putting communications/navigation satellites into orbit than have it spent on a moon base with little practical value to me or America.
Just for kicks, I tried the MSN tech preview, and ran some terms that Microsoft would be expected to fudge (i.e. the infamous X11 term, Linux TCO, and others). From what I can tell, there isn't a bias, but I still doubt that MSN will ever knock Google off the hill, even if everything using Passport does end up there (i.e. Hotmail, and I suspect most of the hits MSN gets never lead to a search query).
More like Windows stole things from VMS, which isn't Unix, but is very Unix-like (although what monolithic-kernel operating system isn't at least something like Unix?). No, I don't think they blatantly copied code, but they had people who were involved with VMS (David Cutler) who probably borrowed a few ideas and concepts.
So, anyone think there might be a IIS or Linux vulnerability that could change that?
I think the grandparent was being too depressed. Measures like this are about the only logical way to combat spam, short of having police raid everyone with a computer and force them to install patches, or sending them to the gallows if they're actually originating spam. And that isn't going to happen. So be happy that Comcast has done this, and hope that they'll continue to be diligent and block any work-arounds.
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Ach, I get 1500 baud via strings and cups, Comrade.
Ouch, just a minute apart, but you beat me to it;)
Bill Gates was already knighted. Makes sense if you look at it from the angle of his charitable contributions, since he (and his wife Melissa) send quite a bit of both software and money to schools/etc.
As for his business contributions, well...
There are so many great games for the Mac.
Zork
Breakout
Super Breakout
ummm.....
*Photoshop?*
(My apologies to Gus).
So, you're incapable of using the tech support mantra:
"Well, it works on my end!"
They still owe me 512MB of RAM. I sent in 1 GB of defective RAM, they only sent back 512 MB. No joy getting that memory back from them, so they're on my shit list. That said, the RAM they did send back was remarked Samsung, very good chips (the chips I sent in were generic, godknows who made them). But I'll stick to Kingston next time.
But it appears that the crux of this case is that Red Hat must prove that the mis-stated earnings were the result of an honest mistake, not intentional fudging (*cough* Enron */cough*).
That makes it sound simple, but Red Hat will still have to fork out enormous legal fees to win this case, or settle with the firm (hereafter referred to as "ambulance chasers" or "greedy bastards") and fork over cash that way.
Red Hat is probably in a better position to handle this than most Linux companies (with the obvious exception of IBM), but it has already hurt their stock price, so we'll just have to hold tight and see.
Strippers writing viruses? Sounds like a Fox special. And, being your typical Slashdotter without a girlfriend, I have to ask, do you have pictures?
President Carter participated in a nuclear cleanup in Canada, at Chalk River. I'd be willing to bet, however, that he will still be one of the older surviviing presidents.
That said, my father was exposed to a dangerous amount of radioactive Iodine, and I'm worried about what his health may eventually be. I also think that nuclear testing of all sorts should be discontinued-there is more than enough computer power and small-scale lab experimentation available to superpower countries to allow for a stop to nuclear testing. And hopefully smaller countries (Israel, Pakistan, India) will also forego exposing their citizens, and those of nearby countries, to fallout.
Finally, I hope the International community-and my own United States in particular-will look into the nuclear power industry in former Soviet-bloc countries, providing a means of retiring, older, Chernobyl-and their ilk reactors (or other poorly designed graphite-moderated gas cooled reactors) and perhaps replacing them with modern, well-regulated and carefully maintained reactors that are still environmentally friendly and don't create more countries dependant on foreign oil. Not to mention that Chernobyl will need active involvement over several hundred years to prevent a continuing disaster.
Rather than mile-high stacks of punch cards, a paper trail in this case would be a briefcase full of spreadsheets, one for each district. Not nearly as cumbersome, and certainly an easier way to keep the system trustworthy.
*pets the troll*
The ACM has clout, considerably more than a bunch of unwashed geeks who troll slashdot all day. They're the closest thing the software industry has to a union.
The ACM isn't a bad thing to look into-if I had a regularly meeting chapter within 50 miles I'd probably attend. They're a good deal for students, getting them internships at conferences and hooking them up with lectures and talks. I hadn't even heard of a "public policy" angle to them, but I think it's a good thing.
Point is that this is still not a frugal exercise, Alpine systems are expensive and I, and most people I know, will not be willing to plunk the money down so the can listen to their iPods for an extra hour every day.
Dipshit, indeed.
Bummer, looks like I was confused. Sorry about that, but I've heard people recommend wearing iPod headphones while they're driving before. And I have enough trouble with people who think they can talk on the phone/do their makeup/shave while driving their SUVs...
It is illegal to drive with heaphones in many states, including California.
Including my 1985 Ford F-150 with 319,000 miles (513,000 km) on it?
So what your saying is that the WSAFGDE will pre-process the TRDYS and polish the XZWQR heads while upping the foozer and lyger levels. Sweet.
Now that's a disclaimer I could go for...
Personally (and as an American) I think we shouldn't have made the shuttle into what it was. Most engineers without a stake in the profits were very concerned with the design, since it was rather fragile. It was also expensive.
The problem was that the ISS was concieved and built with a dependency on technology, two decades old, with a somewhat troubling penchant for failure.
As for the "moon base", unless Google is going to chip in and fund it, I doubt America will go through with it. The US space program has lost a lot of the "I did it first" impetus it had when it was competing with the Soviet Union, and that could be a good thing. The NASA of today should focus on the practical, useful aspects of space, instead of being used as a political tool by whatever president is in office. I would rather have my tax dollars spent on putting communications/navigation satellites into orbit than have it spent on a moon base with little practical value to me or America.
Indeed, my inbox is also still tiny.
Just for kicks, I tried the MSN tech preview, and ran some terms that Microsoft would be expected to fudge (i.e. the infamous X11 term, Linux TCO, and others). From what I can tell, there isn't a bias, but I still doubt that MSN will ever knock Google off the hill, even if everything using Passport does end up there (i.e. Hotmail, and I suspect most of the hits MSN gets never lead to a search query).
Why, for shame, you forgot Cthulhu.
It's called MPlayer. /rimshot
More like Windows stole things from VMS, which isn't Unix, but is very Unix-like (although what monolithic-kernel operating system isn't at least something like Unix?). No, I don't think they blatantly copied code, but they had people who were involved with VMS (David Cutler) who probably borrowed a few ideas and concepts.
Yeah, but you actually have to do it in COBOL, which makes it harder;)
Which is less of a problem provided you de-activate Messenger (the network service, not the chat program).
So, anyone think there might be a IIS or Linux vulnerability that could change that?
I think the grandparent was being too depressed. Measures like this are about the only logical way to combat spam, short of having police raid everyone with a computer and force them to install patches, or sending them to the gallows if they're actually originating spam. And that isn't going to happen. So be happy that Comcast has done this, and hope that they'll continue to be diligent and block any work-arounds.