Yeah, especially the part about why he had to post anonymously--that smells really fishy. That is assuming your fellow dentists read Slashdot, read the comments on this article (which was originally about Lindows pre-installed on hard drives--remember??), know what his Slashdot username is, and would want to take action against him based on some opinion in a private forum. If that were really the case, he would have just not mentioned he was a dentist.
When the average Joe realizes he's getting jerked around and being denied the service he payed for, watch for legitimate and fair businesses to spring forth and pick up the slack.
Yup, that's the beauty of free markets and capitalism. Someone will see the need and fill it, and the users will start switching, which will cause the old company to reform if they hope to keep their customers. This does depend on it getting down to the bulk of customers (the grandmas and such), rather than just the bandwidth-hungry few for it to make an impact. Ah, supply and demand will always win out in the end.
Doh! I was going to go for this in the other direction. I was going to say I would finish removing the H and the A off the moon and see if anyone else would get the reference. Congratulations on beating me to it.
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Speaking of spare time and microwaves, my old roommate discovered something pretty cool to do with a microwave. Put a CD into it for a little while, and (insert cool pyrotechnics show at this point) the output is that it causes the metal layer in the CD to get thousands of little cracks through it in a spiderweb type of pattern.
If the name hasn't been used yet, Phoenix would be a good name for any graphics chip from S3 due to their apparent resurrecting from their own smouldering ashes.
Aye, that'd be a right crafty machine, there matey. If only me land-lubber crew hadn't tossed me old C64 into the briney deep, I'd be pilaging mp3s off the internet with it.
Methinks we could "piratize" every article on the fair ship Slashdot today.
Ah, whatever happened to those good old days when programs were self-contained? It was nice to have a program on a disk, and you could run it on another machine without having to install it there. It's related to how much software packages "have to" interact with the OS now. They have to reference a bunch of libraries/dlls, etc. that the OS has to work.
That is probably a factor in the constant progression of Windows bloat. The keep putting more and more stuff in the operating system instead of the programs having to include it. I remember when I used to have Win 3.1 on about 6 floppies! That's about 8MB! Now, I have gotten WinXP, but have to get a bigger HD for one of my machines at home because it only has a 1GB drive, and XP's min requirements say 2GB. I don't see a 12,000% increase in the usefulness of the system, to correspond to that increase in data size.
I just read the article you linked to from M$ about Windows CE powering their iDrive system in the BMW 7 series, and found something pretty funny:
"When we heard about BMW's telematics vision, we knew the exceptional quality in Microsoft technology would fit hand-in-hand," said Bob McKenzie, general manager of Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit.
"Yeah, and um, it'll be really cool and stuff. Like, it'll point the way to the nearest beer store, eh?"
You are mostly right about your explanation of options, but there is something I want to correct.
You said "However you have to EXERCISE the options, (actually pay the money for them) before you can sell them."
At my company, and I think this would be fairly widespread, we can do a "cashless exercise" of our options, where we don't have to have any money for it. We can instantly buy at the low price, sell at the high(current) price, and collect the difference(profit), minus taxes on the gain, without fronting any money of our own. That is done through the brokerage house that handles our option plan.
The current situation would lend itself very well to the officers selling right now in just that type of situation. Since stock has come up quite a bit in the last few months, they probably had a lot of options at low prices from the last few years that they would want to get cashed out with some gain instead of holding onto until this whole thing crashes down on them.
Why thank you for pointing out to this M$-bashing community that the anger over a code bug should be the same for open source software as for M$ product.
I wish I had a mod point today to give you. I hadn't even noticed his misspellings. It's like trying to find a particular piece of hay in the haystack. The eyes tend to gloss over misspellings on/. after a while. He probably couldn't find his "In Sink" or "M and M" songs, either.
It said that was the plans he found from Farnsworth that got him started on building his reactor. It told of the further advances he made with it that achieved a fusion reaction. Don't YOU read the articles???
> Creationism isn't science, and thus doesn't need proof. The theory of evolution, on the other hand, is science, and so requires proof.
Hm, I never realized that difference of one method of belief requiring proof and one not. It's actually unrelated to the specific belief, but whether it is based on "faith" or "science". I know that creationism is based on a faith in God that will not be proven to most people who do not have a relationship with Him. The first step of faith to belive in Him can be hard, without evidence to support it, but once you've seen Him work in your own life and other Christians, it's not hard to believe anymore. I'm going to use the word "pure evolution", meaning specifically evolution without any action from God because that's the position I'm comparing. If people want to believe in pure evolution as a matter of faith, one can't really say much to that because they are just two opposing views with no scientific evidence, so there is no proving or disproving of them. If, however, pure evolutionists say, as they frequently do, that "there's evidence" to prove evolution, then they are putting it in the realm of fact/proof/science, and that needs to be challenged for them to demonstrate the mentioned proof.
...STEALING MHz from poor engineers...multi-tasking OSes have been determined to be 'CPU piracy'
OMG, this was freakin' hilarious. I was lucky I didn't have a mouthful of Dew when I was reading this. I'm sorry you posted as AC, but I'm going to copy this one and forward to several of my friends, not to mention keeping in my humor files.
Thank you, you have just made my day.
>Oh, I'm sure they must have done something "innovative", but whatever it was doesn't seem to be related to their bottom line or have had much of an impact on their products.
Oh, but they DID come out with an innovation recently, and it DID relate to their bottom line. They had that little "feature" in Office2000, where the registration ran out after two years and people had to buy another license for software they already bought! Hey, making people pay for software twice--that'll contribute to your bottom line. Check out the article about it on slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/134420 2&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=128
>>If you are contracted to work 40 hours/week and need to work 50 or 60 hours per week your company forgot to hire somebody for a half time position.
That sounds good, and I wish it were that way, but our internal sense of justice and fairness doesn't always apply well to the real world of business. When a company isn't able to hire that part-timer and is even letting go of some full-timers, how does that noble philosophy help you? Companies have to pay more attention to their profits or lack of it, internal costs, etc. over the idea of being absolutely fair to all their employees. It would be nice to not work more than 40 hours per week, but putting in some extra hours (evenings, weekends sometimes) does some good in the job security arena. My company recently went through and cut 10% of its workforce worldwide. I was glad I had been putting in some unpaid overtime (salaried) because I avoided the axe and sure wouldn't want to be out there hunting for a job in this market. I am really thankful for the job I do have because it's paying pretty well, so I'll give a little more to keep from losing what I've got.
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Yeah, especially the part about why he had to post anonymously--that smells really fishy. That is assuming your fellow dentists read Slashdot, read the comments on this article (which was originally about Lindows pre-installed on hard drives--remember??), know what his Slashdot username is, and would want to take action against him based on some opinion in a private forum. If that were really the case, he would have just not mentioned he was a dentist.
Oh, or Godfather. I'll give you an OS you can't refuse.
In Soviet Russia, the code cracks you!
Yup, that's the beauty of free markets and capitalism. Someone will see the need and fill it, and the users will start switching, which will cause the old company to reform if they hope to keep their customers. This does depend on it getting down to the bulk of customers (the grandmas and such), rather than just the bandwidth-hungry few for it to make an impact. Ah, supply and demand will always win out in the end.
How could you forget the last step?
---> Profit!!
Doh! I was going to go for this in the other direction. I was going to say I would finish removing the H and the A off the moon and see if anyone else would get the reference. Congratulations on beating me to it.
Speaking of spare time and microwaves, my old roommate discovered something pretty cool to do with a microwave. Put a CD into it for a little while, and (insert cool pyrotechnics show at this point) the output is that it causes the metal layer in the CD to get thousands of little cracks through it in a spiderweb type of pattern.
I think SCO owns the rights to Murphy's law. Every time Darl has a chance to say something else stupid, he will.
Hmm, if there were Pr0n and PBS signals in there together when its brain scrambled, PBS might be a little more interesting when the signal comes back.
It's no coincidence this happened today. The sattelite must have been boarded.
If the name hasn't been used yet, Phoenix would be a good name for any graphics chip from S3 due to their apparent resurrecting from their own smouldering ashes.
Aye, that'd be a right crafty machine, there matey. If only me land-lubber crew hadn't tossed me old C64 into the briney deep, I'd be pilaging mp3s off the internet with it.
Methinks we could "piratize" every article on the fair ship Slashdot today.
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
Ah, whatever happened to those good old days when programs were self-contained? It was nice to have a program on a disk, and you could run it on another machine without having to install it there. It's related to how much software packages "have to" interact with the OS now. They have to reference a bunch of libraries/dlls, etc. that the OS has to work.
That is probably a factor in the constant progression of Windows bloat. The keep putting more and more stuff in the operating system instead of the programs having to include it. I remember when I used to have Win 3.1 on about 6 floppies! That's about 8MB! Now, I have gotten WinXP, but have to get a bigger HD for one of my machines at home because it only has a 1GB drive, and XP's min requirements say 2GB. I don't see a 12,000% increase in the usefulness of the system, to correspond to that increase in data size.
I just read the article you linked to from M$ about Windows CE powering their iDrive system in the BMW 7 series, and found something pretty funny:
"When we heard about BMW's telematics vision, we knew the exceptional quality in Microsoft technology would fit hand-in-hand," said Bob McKenzie, general manager of Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit.
"Yeah, and um, it'll be really cool and stuff. Like, it'll point the way to the nearest beer store, eh?"
You are mostly right about your explanation of options, but there is something I want to correct. You said "However you have to EXERCISE the options, (actually pay the money for them) before you can sell them." At my company, and I think this would be fairly widespread, we can do a "cashless exercise" of our options, where we don't have to have any money for it. We can instantly buy at the low price, sell at the high(current) price, and collect the difference(profit), minus taxes on the gain, without fronting any money of our own. That is done through the brokerage house that handles our option plan. The current situation would lend itself very well to the officers selling right now in just that type of situation. Since stock has come up quite a bit in the last few months, they probably had a lot of options at low prices from the last few years that they would want to get cashed out with some gain instead of holding onto until this whole thing crashes down on them.
Oh, sweet! A reference to "A piece of the action", one of my favorite ORIGINAL Star Trek episodes.
Why thank you for pointing out to this M$-bashing community that the anger over a code bug should be the same for open source software as for M$ product.
I wish I had a mod point today to give you. I hadn't even noticed his misspellings. It's like trying to find a particular piece of hay in the haystack. The eyes tend to gloss over misspellings on /. after a while. He probably couldn't find his "In Sink" or "M and M" songs, either.
It said that was the plans he found from Farnsworth that got him started on building his reactor. It told of the further advances he made with it that achieved a fusion reaction. Don't YOU read the articles???
> Creationism isn't science, and thus doesn't need proof. The theory of evolution, on the other hand, is science, and so requires proof. Hm, I never realized that difference of one method of belief requiring proof and one not. It's actually unrelated to the specific belief, but whether it is based on "faith" or "science". I know that creationism is based on a faith in God that will not be proven to most people who do not have a relationship with Him. The first step of faith to belive in Him can be hard, without evidence to support it, but once you've seen Him work in your own life and other Christians, it's not hard to believe anymore. I'm going to use the word "pure evolution", meaning specifically evolution without any action from God because that's the position I'm comparing. If people want to believe in pure evolution as a matter of faith, one can't really say much to that because they are just two opposing views with no scientific evidence, so there is no proving or disproving of them. If, however, pure evolutionists say, as they frequently do, that "there's evidence" to prove evolution, then they are putting it in the realm of fact/proof/science, and that needs to be challenged for them to demonstrate the mentioned proof.
...STEALING MHz from poor engineers ...multi-tasking OSes have been determined to be 'CPU piracy'
OMG, this was freakin' hilarious. I was lucky I didn't have a mouthful of Dew when I was reading this. I'm sorry you posted as AC, but I'm going to copy this one and forward to several of my friends, not to mention keeping in my humor files.
Thank you, you have just made my day.
>Oh, I'm sure they must have done something "innovative", but whatever it was doesn't seem to be related to their bottom line or have had much of an impact on their products. Oh, but they DID come out with an innovation recently, and it DID relate to their bottom line. They had that little "feature" in Office2000, where the registration ran out after two years and people had to buy another license for software they already bought! Hey, making people pay for software twice--that'll contribute to your bottom line. Check out the article about it on slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/134420 2&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=128
>>If you are contracted to work 40 hours/week and need to work 50 or 60 hours per week your company forgot to hire somebody for a half time position.
That sounds good, and I wish it were that way, but our internal sense of justice and fairness doesn't always apply well to the real world of business. When a company isn't able to hire that part-timer and is even letting go of some full-timers, how does that noble philosophy help you? Companies have to pay more attention to their profits or lack of it, internal costs, etc. over the idea of being absolutely fair to all their employees. It would be nice to not work more than 40 hours per week, but putting in some extra hours (evenings, weekends sometimes) does some good in the job security arena. My company recently went through and cut 10% of its workforce worldwide. I was glad I had been putting in some unpaid overtime (salaried) because I avoided the axe and sure wouldn't want to be out there hunting for a job in this market. I am really thankful for the job I do have because it's paying pretty well, so I'll give a little more to keep from losing what I've got.