Perhaps Bill Gates wants to ensure that Microsoft continues to have competition so to infer that a monopoly does not exist. Thus the reasoning to purchase non-voting shares.
Depending on the outcome of the court case and what they might determine/levie this could be viewed as a backup policy for Microsoft.
Then afterwards, after keeping corel somewhat fat, MS closes in for the kill.
Having spent several years in the military as a combat targeting person, here is the skinny... The ICBM missile will burn for less than 3 minutes which is not enough time for the missile to leave the atmoshere. There after it is like a baseball thrown into the air. If accurately thrown then it will come down from the higher atmoshere right on target.
Adjustments for the Coreasis effect... that is the point of impact is NOT aimed for... for the Earth is rotating under the warhead. The point of impact arrives under the warhead just as the warhead arrives. Depending whether a ground burst (dirty) or an air burst (destructive) is desired this point of impact is calculalted slightly different... allowing for the slight Earth rotation..
It is similar to shooting a flying duck. You aim well ahead of the actual target knowing that by the time the pellets arrive that the duck will also be arriving.
Most guidance is inertial (gryos) so the need for GPS is not required. Believe me... the missiles are VERY accurate.
Glad to hear the release is ready. Installation for a newbie is prolly the hardest thing to get right. It seems each day a new release from another Linux distro is making the installation process much easier...
Scotland Yards could round up any 56 individuals off of the streets who have not had a DNA sample taken and the odds are that one of those individuals would match one of the 660,000 DNA samples on file.
If a person FIRST was a suspect and then his DNA was tested and found to match the crime scene evidence... then that would be 1 in 37 million odds.
But to compare an individual's DNA with the databank would as others here have said be 1 out of 56 chances. NOT good odds.
It reminds me of the old parlor trick of matching birthdays. I forget the exact number (and to lazy to calculate it) however if 15 (approx) persons are in a group and each of their birthdays are matched then it is favorable that two within the group will have a birthday on the same day.
The same corollary exists for the DNA, except that the police are matching against a database of data.
You would think that the police would be smarter than that. Well, on second though, no....
>> (And I won't mention the appalling racist hierarchy that is openly maintained in the US)
Well Michael, I spent 2 1/2 years in Sydney working for a computer company that had offices in all of the major cities so I had an opportunity to get around the country and have a first hand view. The way that the Australians treat the Aborigines is pretty pathetic. I would say your country is about where the U.S. was about a hundred years ago.
Perhaps the NRA should push for the Swiss solution of every male between 18-60 *must* own a working firearm and must do a year (or is it 2?) of national service training.
The US had a draft that lasted up until the early 70's. I myself was drafted out of college as an EE to become a Combat Targeting team member (team of 3). Later I also competed internationally in pistol competitions for the military. I, however only have a rifle for deer hunting now. But there are millions out there like me, who have the knowledge, lack the fear, and will do what is right in our minds if the time comes. I personally do not think it ever will come though, and I am thankful if it does not.
My subscription to PC World ran out last month so this is the first month without it in a while (2 years). I subscribed to it orignally to catch up on all of the info on CPU's as i was going to buy another one. I ended up getting a gateway 300 MHz... state of the art then, but pretty slow compared to what is out there now. I still run Linux on an old 486 boxen that just goes and goes and goes.
I still subscribe to Dr Dobbs and c/c++ Users journal... I really like both of them and it would be hard to do without them.
However PC World just follows Microsoft way too much. If Microsoft stops then PC World breaks their neck.
A move from Belgium to SA. While down here, I continue my "regular" job. The advantage of the Internet business is that one only needs a phone line to be connected! So I can fairly easily just continue working from here. My intention, however, is to set up a real company in South Africa, that is fully equiped, and where we can offer Internet Services. To this end, I have been conducting negotiations with Telkom (the national, government owned phone company), and some Internet Access Providers. This week, after 9 months of negotiations, I finally got an offer that was very interesting and met my demands.
-"That sounds great" I said, "So when can you install this?" -"Install this? I'm sorry, Sir, but what do you mean 'install this?' Do you mean you actually want that permanent internet connection?" -"Well, of course! Why would i bother asking about it if I didn't want it! Is there a problem?" -"Oh no, Sir, no problem. We can have that installed for you in 2003, Sir."
-"I beg your pardon?" -"You see, Sir, we don't have the infrastructure yet to implement this in the area you are living, as it's mainly a residential area. If you would find some other businesses that need the same, we may be able to speed things up for you, Sir."
I use a small database that is encryped. The program works similarly to "Password Pal" that is use on windows. This allows me to easily move from system to system and still have my 30+ passwords. For the windows systems that I am forced to work upon I do use password pal with is a free software package ( or was, it may be shareware now)
I agree that it is a choice. Choice is all that we have... no matter if it is geek stuff or anything else.
Some individuals choose their ego which knows only fear. Others choose from a higher road and new opportunities can blossom because of the risk.
This week I interviewed two individuals for a electronic/computer job. Some knowledge of both areas are required. One individual who had his BS in physics thought that everything was a joke. The other individual did not complete college because of money issues but was intent on understanding the functions he would be doing... He is returning this Friday for an interview with the President of our company.
I can understand that the first guy may have been nervous but his replies were continual "off-the-cuff" remarks rather than selling himself.
I handed him a 10k 5% resistor and he only vaguely knew that the value was color coded on it. He had no idea about gates (nands & nor's (not Bill))nor how a flip-flop worked.
And yet he tried to sell himself by being cute rather than knowledgable as if he was above knowing the basics.
I will take someone with desire to excel everytime over someone with paper on the wall. Our company will give this young individual a path for personal progression that will last for good long time.
The employement agency who sent them over was surprised with the choice made. The general manager and the sales manager of our company both agreed that the desire was there and that he would make an excellent employee even though he is not degree'd.
I guess that the employment agency sent over the person they wanted for the job (physics major) and then someone else to make him look good, but in this case it backfired on them.
Both individuals used their choice to determine the outcome of the interviews. Choice was all that they had... one used it wisely and the other did not. The first week of July, one will have a job and the other will not.
This rates right up there with "This is going to hurt me more than it does you", or "You have forced me to do this(some terrible action that the person is dying to do to you) because of your actions", etc.
NLP teaches that the mind has seen the whole page in only an instant and that you can allow the mind to sort out the information so that it can be brought into the conscious mind from the non-conscious.
Each page takes a few seconds to scan and all that moves is the finger moving down the edge of the page in a fairly rapid manner. Your eyes are fixed at a point slightly above the book and are unwavering.
Books can be read in this way upside down and then the mind inverts the pages.
I have seen individuals who have read in this manner reading the odd number pages, then inverting the book and read the even number pages upside down.
Then the mind inverts the pages, reassembles them in the corect order and then downloads to your consciousness some of the information. The rest of the information is still there in the non-conscious, and can be recalled when a need arises for the data. It is as if you just know the answer.
There are a lot of good books on NLP in the libraries. This is only the tip of the iceberg as to what NLP is all about.
Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:27:46 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Copies to: Alexander Viro , "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Alan Cox Subject: Re: fsync on large files
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > This is already working. I'm currently extending ext2fs to call the > joural API to clearly demarkate the beginning and end of each > individual filesystem operation, so that the "patches" (ie. the > journaling transactions) correspond to complete transitions from one > consistent filesystem state to another.
Stephen, I'v etold you before: I will not accept these kinds of extensions to ext2. Make a new filesystem, and if you want, re-use the code (and the layout) of ext2.
There's not a chance in hell that I will ever release a kernel with these kinds of major fs modifications - call it "ext3" and after a year or so of in-production use we can drop ext2.
Certainly Linus is not a God, but just as certainly he is the Spider.
If you follow the kernel development as I do, then you would see that decisions about clean vs unclean, smooth vs ragged, proper vs hack, consistent vs flakly, smooth vs brute force, sanity check vs bloat all fall to Linus to decide in the final analysis.
Also decisions such as ext3 will be a new, from the ground up development and not a rewrite of ext2. And many many more.
If these *few* examples do not illustrate that Linus is the spider then I recommend that you review the last 100 kernel comments made by Linus. Nearly every one of them will be a decision about Class in the kernel.
My favorite book... Soul of the New Machine by Tracy Kidder. All about the development of a Data General machine (Eclipse I think) without management knowledge or approval and how it saved the company. All those that were a part of this TAO operation are long gone from the company...
I enjoy watching Andrea Arcangeli progress while working on shared memory and memory swap routines, and memory maps.
The poor guy is going to the university and writing code probably 20 hours a day. He needs sleep. Linus tells him to "go away" but Andrea comes back with new ideas and more code:>)
Gateway has already announced that they will be using AMD chips instead of Intel. I believe that cost was the determining factor but the whole PSN fiasco with Intel makes their decision appear to be very timely.
I have been avoiding Toshiba equipment ever since they sold the milling machine software to Russia. That has cost the US billions of dollars in developing more sensitive equipment to hear the prop wash.
For those who have no idea what I am talking about... A decade (about) ago Toshiba sold top secret software (US developed) to Russia that permitted silent propellors to be milled for their nuclear submarines.
Up to that time, the Russian subs were so noisy that it was easy to track them anywhere in the oceans. After Toshiba sold the milling machines and the software then it was much harder to track them and much easier to lose them in the oceans.
For that reason, I will never purchase nor accept as a gift anything with the name Toshiba on it.
I also use my influence not to allow my company to purchase them either.
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Perhaps Bill Gates wants to ensure that Microsoft continues to have competition so to infer that a monopoly does not exist. Thus the reasoning to purchase non-voting shares.
Depending on the outcome of the court case and what they might determine/levie this could be viewed as a backup policy for Microsoft.
Then afterwards, after keeping corel somewhat fat, MS closes in for the kill.
Having spent several years in the military as a combat targeting person, here is the skinny... The ICBM missile will burn for less than 3 minutes which is not enough time for the missile to leave the atmoshere. There after it is like a baseball thrown into the air. If accurately thrown then it will come down from the higher atmoshere right on target.
Adjustments for the Coreasis effect... that is the point of impact is NOT aimed for... for the Earth is rotating under the warhead. The point of impact arrives under the warhead just as the warhead arrives. Depending whether a ground burst (dirty) or an air burst (destructive) is desired this point of impact is calculalted slightly different... allowing for the slight Earth rotation..
It is similar to shooting a flying duck. You aim well ahead of the actual target knowing that by the time the pellets arrive that the duck will also be arriving.
Most guidance is inertial (gryos) so the need for GPS is not required. Believe me... the missiles are VERY accurate.
Glad to hear the release is ready. Installation for a newbie is prolly the hardest thing to get right. It seems each day a new release from another Linux distro is making the installation process much easier...
Scotland Yards could round up any 56 individuals off of the streets who have not had a DNA sample taken and the odds are that one of those individuals would match one of the 660,000 DNA samples on file.
If a person FIRST was a suspect and then his DNA was tested and found to match the crime scene evidence... then that would be 1 in 37 million odds.
But to compare an individual's DNA with the databank would as others here have said be 1 out of 56 chances. NOT good odds.
It reminds me of the old parlor trick of matching birthdays. I forget the exact number (and to lazy to calculate it) however if 15 (approx) persons are in a group and each of their birthdays are matched then it is favorable that two within the group will have a birthday on the same day.
The same corollary exists for the DNA, except that the police are matching against a database of data.
You would think that the police would be smarter than that. Well, on second though, no....
>> (And I won't mention the appalling racist hierarchy that is openly maintained in the US)
Well Michael, I spent 2 1/2 years in Sydney working for a computer company that had offices in all of the major cities so I had an opportunity to get around the country and have a first hand view. The way that the Australians treat the Aborigines is pretty pathetic. I would say your country is about where the U.S. was about a hundred years ago.
Perhaps the NRA should push for the Swiss solution of every male between 18-60 *must* own a working firearm and must do a year (or is it 2?) of national service training.
The US had a draft that lasted up until the early 70's. I myself was drafted out of college as an EE to become a Combat Targeting team member (team of 3). Later I also competed internationally in pistol competitions for the military. I, however only have a rifle for deer hunting now. But there are millions out there like me, who have the knowledge, lack the fear, and will do what is right in our minds if the time comes. I personally do not think it ever will come though, and I am thankful if it does not.
My subscription to PC World ran out last month so this is the first month without it in a while (2 years). I subscribed to it orignally to catch up on all of the info on CPU's as i was going to buy another one. I ended up getting a gateway 300 MHz... state of the art then, but pretty slow compared to what is out there now. I still run Linux on an old 486 boxen that just goes and goes and goes.
I still subscribe to Dr Dobbs and c/c++ Users journal... I really like both of them and it would be hard to do without them.
However PC World just follows Microsoft way too much. If Microsoft stops then PC World breaks their neck.
A move from Belgium to SA.
While down here, I continue my "regular" job. The advantage of the Internet business is that one only needs a phone line to be connected! So I can fairly easily just continue working from here. My intention, however, is to set up a real company in South Africa, that is fully equiped, and where we can offer Internet Services. To this end, I have been conducting negotiations with Telkom (the national, government owned phone company), and some Internet Access Providers. This week, after 9 months of negotiations, I finally got an offer that was very interesting and met my demands.
-"That sounds great" I said, "So when can you install this?" -"Install this? I'm sorry, Sir, but what do you mean 'install this?' Do you mean you actually want that permanent internet connection?" -"Well, of course! Why would i bother asking about it if I didn't want it! Is there a problem?" -"Oh no, Sir, no problem. We can have that installed for you in 2003, Sir."
-"I beg your pardon?" -"You see, Sir, we don't have the infrastructure yet to implement this in the area you are living, as it's mainly a residential area. If you would find some other businesses that need the same, we may be
able to speed things up for you, Sir."
Not too many years ago, IBM was considered the great Satan of the computer industry. My, how perceptions change.
I personaly am pleased that a Linux port can be used on the S/390... mighty impressive and a feather in the cap to all that made this possible.
I use a small database that is encryped. The program works similarly to "Password Pal" that is use on windows. This allows me to easily move from system to system and still have my 30+ passwords. For the windows systems that I am forced to work upon I do use password pal with is a free software package ( or was, it may be shareware now)
I agree that it is a choice. Choice is all that we have... no matter if it is geek stuff or anything else.
Some individuals choose their ego which knows only fear. Others choose from a higher road and new opportunities can blossom because of the risk.
This week I interviewed two individuals for a electronic/computer job. Some knowledge of both areas are required. One individual who had his BS in physics thought that everything was a joke. The other individual did not complete college because of money issues but was intent on understanding the functions he would be doing... He is returning this Friday for an interview with the President of our company.
I can understand that the first guy may have been nervous but his replies were continual "off-the-cuff" remarks rather than selling himself.
I handed him a 10k 5% resistor and he only vaguely knew that the value was color coded on it. He had no idea about gates (nands & nor's (not Bill))nor how a flip-flop worked.
And yet he tried to sell himself by being cute rather than knowledgable as if he was above knowing the basics.
I will take someone with desire to excel everytime over someone with paper on the wall. Our company will give this young individual a path for personal progression that will last for good long time.
The employement agency who sent them over was surprised with the choice made. The general manager and the sales manager of our company both agreed that the desire was there and that he would make an excellent employee even though he is not degree'd.
I guess that the employment agency sent over the person they wanted for the job (physics major) and then someone else to make him look good, but in this case it backfired on them.
Both individuals used their choice to determine the outcome of the interviews. Choice was all that they had... one used it wisely and the other did not. The first week of July, one will have a job and the other will not.
This rates right up there with "This is going to hurt me more than it does you", or "You have forced me to do this(some terrible action that the person is dying to do to you) because of your actions", etc.
NLP teaches that the mind has seen the whole page in only an instant and that you can allow the mind to sort out the information so that it can be brought into the conscious mind from the non-conscious.
Each page takes a few seconds to scan and all that moves is the finger moving down the edge of the page in a fairly rapid manner. Your eyes are fixed at a point slightly above the book and are unwavering.
Books can be read in this way upside down and then the mind inverts the pages.
I have seen individuals who have read in this manner reading the odd number pages, then inverting the book and read the even number pages upside down.
Then the mind inverts the pages, reassembles them in the corect order and then downloads to your consciousness some of the information. The rest of the information is still there in the non-conscious, and can be recalled when a need arises for the data. It is as if you just know the answer.
There are a lot of good books on NLP in the libraries. This is only the tip of the iceberg as to what NLP is all about.
Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:27:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie"
Copies to: Alexander Viro , "Theodore Ts'o" ,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Alan Cox
Subject: Re: fsync on large files
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> This is already working. I'm currently extending ext2fs to call the
> joural API to clearly demarkate the beginning and end of each
> individual filesystem operation, so that the "patches" (ie. the
> journaling transactions) correspond to complete transitions from one
> consistent filesystem state to another.
Stephen, I'v etold you before: I will not accept these kinds of extensions
to ext2. Make a new filesystem, and if you want, re-use the code (and the
layout) of ext2.
There's not a chance in hell that I will ever release a kernel with these
kinds of major fs modifications - call it "ext3" and after a year or so of
in-production use we can drop ext2.
Linus
Certainly Linus is not a God, but just as certainly he is the Spider.
If you follow the kernel development as I do, then you would see that decisions about clean vs unclean, smooth vs ragged, proper vs hack, consistent vs flakly, smooth vs brute force, sanity check vs bloat all fall to Linus to decide in the final analysis.
Also decisions such as ext3 will be a new, from the ground up development and not a rewrite of ext2. And many many more.
If these *few* examples do not illustrate that Linus is the spider then I recommend that you review the last 100 kernel comments made by Linus. Nearly every one of them will be a decision about Class in the kernel.
Sprint is my local phone company and I have half a notion to call them up and give them a piece of my mind... but alas, I have none to spare...sigh...
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.
My favorite book... Soul of the New Machine by Tracy Kidder. All about the development of a Data General machine (Eclipse I think) without management knowledge or approval and how it saved the company. All those that were a part of this TAO operation are long gone from the company...
I enjoy watching Andrea Arcangeli progress while working on shared memory and memory swap routines, and memory maps.
The poor guy is going to the university and writing code probably 20 hours a day. He needs sleep. Linus tells him to "go away" but Andrea comes back with new ideas and more code:>)
Gateway has already announced that they will be using AMD chips instead of Intel. I believe that cost was the determining factor but the whole PSN fiasco with Intel makes their decision appear to be very timely.
According to the Qualcomm web site, Eudora has 18 million email users worldwide
Qualcomm
I have been avoiding Toshiba equipment ever since they sold the milling machine software to Russia. That has cost the US billions of dollars in developing more sensitive equipment to hear the prop wash.
For those who have no idea what I am talking about... A decade (about) ago Toshiba sold top secret software (US developed) to Russia that permitted silent propellors to be milled for their nuclear submarines.
Up to that time, the Russian subs were so noisy that it was easy to track them anywhere in the oceans. After Toshiba sold the milling machines and the software then it was much harder to track them and much easier to lose them in the oceans.
For that reason, I will never purchase nor accept as a gift anything with the name Toshiba on it.
I also use my influence not to allow my company to purchase them either.
Toshiba did it for the money....
Sanat