TurboTax online is great for me with T1 at work, not so much for my Dad at rural 15,000 baud. It would be even cooler if TurboTax arrived on a self booting CD like Knoppix or PCLinuxOS, which is a Mandrake Live CD. I should not have to install TurboTax on on a hard drive every season.
Folks at the University of Minnesota had a slightly different concept: They used gigantic red, yellow, and blue inflatable game pieces using Minneapolis streets as a game board. It was the Big Urban Game played in September 2003. In case you are wondering, blue won.
Immediately: (from page 13) (re post from above)
The initial option grants to many of our senior management and key employees are fully vested. Therefore, these employees may not have sufficient financial incentive to stay with us.
Many of our senior management personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, substantially vested in their initial stock option grants. While we often grant additional stock options to management personnel and other key employees after their hire dates to provide additional incentives to remain employed by us, their initial grants are usually much larger than follow-on grants. Employees may be more likely to leave us after their initial option grant fully vests, especially if the shares underlying the options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the option exercise price. We have not given any additional grants to Eric, Larry or Sergey. Larry and Sergey are fully vested, and only a small portion of Eric's stock is subject to future vesting.
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Employees will soon see some big cash:
The initial option grants to many of our senior management and key employees are fully vested. Therefore, these employees may not have sufficient financial incentive to stay with us.
Many of our senior management personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, substantially vested in their initial stock option grants. While we often grant additional stock options to management personnel and other key employees after their hire dates to provide additional incentives to remain employed by us, their initial grants are usually much larger than follow-on grants. Employees may be more likely to leave us after their initial option grant fully vests, especially if the shares underlying the options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the option exercise price. We have not given any additional grants to Eric, Larry or Sergey. Larry and Sergey are fully vested, and only a small portion of Eric's stock is subject to future vesting.
Hee Hee, this is fun to watch. Just keep hitting the reload button on the browser and watch the Wiki page update. Forget Geronimo, this thread just became a Wiki implementation discussion.
You are shouting at the wrong crowd. It does not matter how right you are. With a Microsft certificate in hand, Slashdotters are going to mod you down. It is like cheering "Go Bears" in a Green Bay pub. Just be thankful that you made some zealots burn their mod points on you.
Sounds like you are a candidate for VMWare workstation or Microsoft Virtual PC. Maybe you could save yourself a reload or twelve by saving your disk image.
Maybe it can battle SETI@HOME, Kazaa, and Norton Antivirus for all of my CPU cycles, disk bandwidth and network bandwidth. It will not even leave me enough power to compose all my correspondence in notepad.
Evidently someone in the Deer Valley school district must be running a file sharing supernode with lots of recent stuff
Check out Eff's site for guidelines on how to keep the RIAA sniffers at bay. And use common sense! If you are sharing the Usher, "Confessions" album, the current Billboard #1 selling album, you are directly competing with record stores and radio stations. You should get shut down IMO. However, sharing ISOs to FreeBSD is a Good Thing. (You could probably, illegally, share the Perry Como Christmas album and not get noticed....IANAL)
"Agents poured through data and records at a computer command center for the Deer Valley School District in the northwest Valley and blocked the office from the public."
I certainly hope that no evidence was destroyed by whatever was poured through those data records:-O
"Judge Alvarado is also considering a request for attorney's fees from the plaintiffs of about $270 million, including about $50 million in billable hours plus more than $200 million in additional payments because of the risk associated with fighting Microsoft.
So has Sound Track. And, no it is not the same thing. Plus, they are not exactly giving Sound Track or Acid Pro away.
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Clearly there are a number of MIDI loop programs that have been available for PCs and Macs since the 1980s. Garage Band is aimed at the non-professional, but certainly has the capability to produce commercial grade loops.
Where is LGarageBand? Garageband is a "killer app" on the Macs until the next software development cycle brings it to Windows XP and some free OS distributions. Here is an excellent review of GarageBand.
My uncle had always had Macs and most his most up-to-date Mac has OS 8. My aunt (in her 70s) always thought it too complicated. All their finance records are on the computer. Even after my Uncle died, and despite the fact that she was an accountant, she still depends on others to work the computer. Some people are just never going to touch them no matter how "user oriented".
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when she finds out that this revolutionary idea of opening a new window for each folder is one of the first features users turned off in windows 95
Bart Lagerweij of Bart's Boot diskfame has created a
Windows Live CD very similar to Microsoft's Windows Pre-installation environment. The BartPE disk is "a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on."
It has specific packages which enable you to perform work on a Windows NTFS system without booting from the hard drive. I find it still very cool and useful.
It compares favorably, to me, the functionality of the PCLinuxOS Mandrake live CD. Both enable me to boot, plug in my USB hard drive and copy files from my Windows XP/2000 NTFS partition with no security checks!
It is a document and content management system with synchronization capabilities built right into the desktop. And it is going to hit yet another software segment right in the pocketbook: document management and storage.
With the advances in disk drive capacity and network speed, imagine being able to sync your company's entire set of PDF files/engineering drawings/(pr0n?;-) ) to a laptop for use on site.
We needed an OS X virus just to liven things up!
The ratio of viruses in the wild to lab viruses leads one to believe that the Anti virus companies created some to keep them in business. The WildList should be enough to keep all the Antivirus companies on their toes now.
"In October, Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Steven Milunovich suggested Sun put Schwartz in a position to talk to the public more and called him ``brilliant.''
McNealy has resisted slashing more jobs. Merrill's Milunovich had called the company a ``bloated, underachieving, unfocused'' business and said it needs to eliminate 7,000 workers.
Sun has had their market share eroded on both sides - Microsoft and Open source *nixes. Even a $1.6 Billion US is not going to be enough to prop them up. And who knows if SCO has their eyes on that money!
I was an Applied Math BS graduate and wanted to be in business. Now I am coding PERL and VB.NET as a consultant (yea really! each has its purpose.) I'll take your job and you can take mine.
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The cops still tell people to check the local pawn shops. How can pawn shops compete with eBay? Here are some Newly listed today DS3 cards
Sprint uses a lot of Nortel equipment. So does someone have a DMS-100 at their house that needed a couple of cards?
TurboTax online is great for me with T1 at work, not so much for my Dad at rural 15,000 baud. It would be even cooler if TurboTax arrived on a self booting CD like Knoppix or PCLinuxOS, which is a Mandrake Live CD. I should not have to install TurboTax on on a hard drive every season.
Cool Amphicar site here A jeweler on Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota owns one of the Amphicars and drives it in parades and on the water during summer weekends.
I like the Gibbs Aquada too. As posted above, more expensive. But you have to like those retracting wheels.
Folks at the University of Minnesota had a slightly different concept: They used gigantic red, yellow, and blue inflatable game pieces using Minneapolis streets as a game board. It was the Big Urban Game played in September 2003. In case you are wondering, blue won.
The home page of the B.U.G.
Immediately: (from page 13) (re post from above) The initial option grants to many of our senior management and key employees are fully vested. Therefore, these employees may not have sufficient financial incentive to stay with us. Many of our senior management personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, substantially vested in their initial stock option grants. While we often grant additional stock options to management personnel and other key employees after their hire dates to provide additional incentives to remain employed by us, their initial grants are usually much larger than follow-on grants. Employees may be more likely to leave us after their initial option grant fully vests, especially if the shares underlying the options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the option exercise price. We have not given any additional grants to Eric, Larry or Sergey. Larry and Sergey are fully vested, and only a small portion of Eric's stock is subject to future vesting.
The initial option grants to many of our senior management and key employees are fully vested. Therefore, these employees may not have sufficient financial incentive to stay with us.
Many of our senior management personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, substantially vested in their initial stock option grants. While we often grant additional stock options to management personnel and other key employees after their hire dates to provide additional incentives to remain employed by us, their initial grants are usually much larger than follow-on grants. Employees may be more likely to leave us after their initial option grant fully vests, especially if the shares underlying the options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the option exercise price. We have not given any additional grants to Eric, Larry or Sergey. Larry and Sergey are fully vested, and only a small portion of Eric's stock is subject to future vesting.
Hee Hee, this is fun to watch. Just keep hitting the reload button on the browser and watch the Wiki page update. Forget Geronimo, this thread just became a Wiki implementation discussion.
You are shouting at the wrong crowd. It does not matter how right you are. With a Microsft certificate in hand, Slashdotters are going to mod you down. It is like cheering "Go Bears" in a Green Bay pub. Just be thankful that you made some zealots burn their mod points on you.
Sounds like you are a candidate for VMWare workstation or Microsoft Virtual PC. Maybe you could save yourself a reload or twelve by saving your disk image.
Linus' 2 cents undoubtedly cost the hoster of his message more than that in /.ed bandwidth.
Maybe it can battle SETI@HOME, Kazaa, and Norton Antivirus for all of my CPU cycles, disk bandwidth and network bandwidth. It will not even leave me enough power to compose all my correspondence in notepad.
Don't just give those cycles away! Sell them!
"This Word for Windows" *type* *type* *type* " is quite possibly" *type* *type* *type* "the worst software" *type* *type* *type* "that I have ever used." *type* *type* *type* "Take that, Microsoft" *type* *type* *type* "signed EU"
"oops, better disguise this...Windowd XP Start Menu --> Adobe --> Distiller"
HeeHee!
Evidently someone in the Deer Valley school district must be running a file sharing supernode with lots of recent stuff
Check out Eff's site for guidelines on how to keep the RIAA sniffers at bay. And use common sense! If you are sharing the Usher, "Confessions" album, the current Billboard #1 selling album, you are directly competing with record stores and radio stations. You should get shut down IMO. However, sharing ISOs to FreeBSD is a Good Thing. (You could probably, illegally, share the Perry Como Christmas album and not get noticed....IANAL)
"Agents poured through data and records at a computer command center for the Deer Valley School District in the northwest Valley and blocked the office from the public."
I certainly hope that no evidence was destroyed by whatever was poured through those data records :-O
"Judge Alvarado is also considering a request for attorney's fees from the plaintiffs of about $270 million, including about $50 million in billable hours plus more than $200 million in additional payments because of the risk associated with fighting Microsoft.
What risk? MSFT is cash-rich. They are flinging out money to all watchers like moon pies at the Mardi Gras parade.
IANAL but, I see that it pays more than coding...
Maybe the lawyers could be paid in vouchers. They could then upgrade from the law firm staple: MS-DOS 5.0 + Wordperfect 5.1 on Compaq 386/33 machines.
So has Sound Track. And, no it is not the same thing. Plus, they are not exactly giving Sound Track or Acid Pro away. --> Read up <--
Clearly there are a number of MIDI loop programs that have been available for PCs and Macs since the 1980s. Garage Band is aimed at the non-professional, but certainly has the capability to produce commercial grade loops.
Where is LGarageBand? Garageband is a "killer app" on the Macs until the next software development cycle brings it to Windows XP and some free OS distributions. Here is an excellent review of GarageBand.
My uncle had always had Macs and most his most up-to-date Mac has OS 8. My aunt (in her 70s) always thought it too complicated. All their finance records are on the computer. Even after my Uncle died, and despite the fact that she was an accountant, she still depends on others to work the computer. Some people are just never going to touch them no matter how "user oriented".
when she finds out that this revolutionary idea of opening a new window for each folder is one of the first features users turned off in windows 95
Bart Lagerweij of Bart's Boot diskfame has created a Windows Live CD very similar to Microsoft's Windows Pre-installation environment. The BartPE disk is "a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on." It has specific packages which enable you to perform work on a Windows NTFS system without booting from the hard drive. I find it still very cool and useful.
It compares favorably, to me, the functionality of the PCLinuxOS Mandrake live CD. Both enable me to boot, plug in my USB hard drive and copy files from my Windows XP/2000 NTFS partition with no security checks!
Paul Thurrott's supersite for Windows has this information about what Longhorn is all about from May 2003. I highly recommend that readers check out what MSDN has to say about it.
It is a document and content management system with synchronization capabilities built right into the desktop. And it is going to hit yet another software segment right in the pocketbook: document management and storage.
With the advances in disk drive capacity and network speed, imagine being able to sync your company's entire set of PDF files/engineering drawings/(pr0n? ;-) ) to a laptop for use on site.
We needed an OS X virus just to liven things up! The ratio of viruses in the wild to lab viruses leads one to believe that the Anti virus companies created some to keep them in business. The WildList should be enough to keep all the Antivirus companies on their toes now.
Here is a Bloomberg news link
"In October, Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Steven Milunovich suggested Sun put Schwartz in a position to talk to the public more and called him ``brilliant.''
McNealy has resisted slashing more jobs. Merrill's Milunovich had called the company a ``bloated, underachieving, unfocused'' business and said it needs to eliminate 7,000 workers.
Sun has had their market share eroded on both sides - Microsoft and Open source *nixes. Even a $1.6 Billion US is not going to be enough to prop them up. And who knows if SCO has their eyes on that money!
I was an Applied Math BS graduate and wanted to be in business. Now I am coding PERL and VB.NET as a consultant (yea really! each has its purpose.) I'll take your job and you can take mine.
Maybe a friendlier salesperson at Sears could help you.