He's got the cron daemon running every minute... why not just set the at daemon once and let it go? What's the benefit of using cron this case? Anyone know?
Are there any investors that would recommend a short sell out there? What time frame and price range do you think we are talking about here?
Lost 60 lbs this year - but it's not good
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I wanted to lower my cholesterol and went on a "heart smart" diet (my total cholesterol was ~223). I gained 30 lbs in 4 months doing this and weighed 250 lbs when I finally gave up on it. I reviewed the success stories and the lower cholesterol enjoyed by people on the atkins site and decided to give it a try.
I went on Atkins in January and lost 60 lbs by September. I was feeling great and went to get my cholesterol checked only to find that it has risen 36 points to 259. The Dr. wants to put me on drugs now that I'll have to take for the rest of my life. I've decided to wait a year and try exercising more to see if that helps but I'm going to take his advice if nothing changes by next September.
I'm guessing that investors will go crazy once again having an Internet stock to bet on. This will push the value of the stock up through the roof as we've seen happen with past companies. By only putting out a small percentage (less than 1/10th of the company) it will also unduly raise the total percieved value of the company exponentially.
The problem is that though most industries have a set valuation on shareholders equity in regards to a multiple of earnings, Google is in a league of their own. This allows investors the opportunity to become speculators and instead of looking at the fundamentals and I predict we will see claims of Google becoming as big as Microsoft on paper.
Early investors will cash out at that point (as the article mentions) and the rest of us are left holding the bag. However those early investors will now have cash to start the process again and we may very well see another albeit smaller run on Internet stocks with the momentum generated by Googles rise to power.
I agree wholeheartedly with the message. Too many startups are under the impression that it's the product and the protection of the product that is to make their company sucessful. Ask yourself if you could make a better hamburger than McDonalds? It's the system that makes a business... how well the business is managed, how sales are produced.
Of course the product matters, it has to be something that the market needs or thinks it needs after you show your clients how much it will improve their lives. Produce the best product you can but really more companies should focus not so much on the NDA but on developing their business.
I helped start up an Internet business in '96 that sold for three-quarters of a billion dollars in 2000. We produced innovative products but so did our competitors however we produced a system that allowed us to have better customer service, instant reporting and faster turnaround times. It was the models that we created that attributed to our sucess far more than our products. Of course most people reading this will say that it was just an issue of timing and they are probably right with respect to the purchase price of our business but not the fundamental growth that we produced.
Let me start with a quote from Tom Robbins author of "Still Life With Woodpecker"
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later,
Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
As we continue to move add with technology, let's not forget that the all of this comes from somewhere after all. It's the programmers, the designers and the users that make up the bulk of what we use today and though we
are constantly dicated by doctrine (ie advertisements, public speakers and the like) ultimately it's the masses that dertermine what is useful. It's not the number of features that matter... it's the usefulness.
My son was stillborn in April of this year (8.5 months) and my wife and I wanted to donate his body to science. We were not able to because of some abortion law... Yet we were required to file a death certificate and have a funeral home handle the services.
I wonder what impact this will have our "Home Security" initivates. Will they make it mandatory that we turn in our a digitial signature and identify oursevles? America seems to be drawing nearer and nearer to a police state and I wonder what impact something of this nature will produce in the long run.
When I was in China a couple months ago I found it very easy to see sites like CNN.com by using anonymous proxies. Some of them even used secure SSL encryption and the Chinese firewall didn't detect anything. The sites came up fine.
I have my doubts about enforcing something like censorship on the net. ----------- Resume
ESPN sent us "The Letter" a couple months ago because they copyrighted 'SportsTicker' we own MySportsTicker.com and they are threatening a lawsuit. ----------- Resume
This is to both of you. I have Boston Acoustics 6000's on my computer...
http://www.bostonacoustics.com/home/dt6000.html
I'm also using the Gateway 36" monitor and have a 22GIG hard drive. My computer is my entertainment system. It has an ATI all in wonder pro card so I can watch TV with it and an FM tuner built in -- of course I can watch DVD's on it as well. I have more than 100 CD's and they are quickly becoming MP3's. It also runs Linux. What more could I ask for? ----------- Resume
Though he makes some good points, I can't relate. I have a ton of CD's and I'm working on converting all of them to MP3's. I enjoy organizing my music into categories and playing music based on the category I'm interested in. I enjoy not switching CD's or only listening to part of a CD or a single song. I like the background music to my daily work and listening to 120 mp3's before switching to something else.
I disagree with his philosophical views as well, feeling that the increase in competition will actually cause new forms of music to rise to the top. I especially like the idea that this is a world wide medium and that influences from different cultures than the US and Europe will play larger roles in what becomes popular.
But he does have a strong point of view when you look at your collection and start to drool... and then again -- so what. ----------- Resume
My XWindows environment uses multiple desktops, allows me to zoom in and pan accross a desktop and place icons on the desktop. I wonder if they would entertain the idea of having multiple horizons and each horizon simulates one of my desktops. You could then choose a new horizon in the same manner as I chose a new desktop.
I agree with the judge here. What would stop your competition from anonymously slandering your company rather than leak internal secrets? They could pose as an employee with inside knowledge. I suppose that anonymous messages should be ranked as is done on slashdot and should be viewed as little more than rumor. ----------- Resume
Sagan tells it like is in that book. I think/. should do a review of the demon-haunted world instead. He is open to the possiblities but not so open his brain spills out. People are searching for something with the downfall of organized religion and the world around us has all the beauty and curiousity we need if we would just open our eyes. ----------- Resume
I agree with you there... the prices for these books are outrageous! It makes me wonder though who gets all the money from these ventures as most of the books this program finds on the web average about 40% off of list price. I suppose though that O'Reilly does set the list price but if these companies can still make a profit selling it for 40% of that something is definitely wrong.
Nevertheless, O'Reilly does have a corner on the market as the leading distributor of technical books so I suppose they can abuse their monopoly like everyone else. Luckily we can exploit the competition between vendors using automated programs on the web and overcome the waste. ----------- Resume
If you are more likely to have a book handy than the man pages. Personally, I am so I use this book a great deal but others may not.
Nevertheless...
The book lists for a whopping $24.95 and if you get it from Amazon you only pay $19.96. Through the help of other/. readers I have a program on the web that found it for only $12.95 (48% OFF) from powells. If your interested the source code is available in a developers edition and you can find lowest price here:
The program speciallizes in O'Reillys but you can find any book. Each night I build a list of every O'Reilly and with one click you can find the cheapest price. ----------- Resume
People donate stuff all the time to these causes. I know friends of mine who have given up video and sound cards to have someone develop linux drivers for them. I wonder if at some point they will be seen as tax write-offs and these donations can increase a thousand-fold.
Eventually programmers could be paid for their donations though others donations. ----------- Resume
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What about the idea of evolution whereby the strong survive? Slashdot has overcome the odds in that strong content has allowed it to evolve into something more than most news sites. A site like "my personal list of my favorite CD's" - though it may exist - it won't thrive in this universe.
I think that gravity in this respect won't make it collaspe but gather into larger and more powerful systems that help the web to grow. It's effect will help sort through the trash instead. ----------- Resume
I just signed up with http://www.netbank.com/ and it would be wonderful to not have to mail my signature each time something needs to be initiated. ----------- Resume
Slashdot Mirror
He's got the cron daemon running every minute... why not just set the at daemon once and let it go? What's the benefit of using cron this case? Anyone know?
Are there any investors that would recommend a short sell out there? What time frame and price range do you think we are talking about here?
I wanted to lower my cholesterol and went on a "heart smart" diet (my total cholesterol was ~223). I gained 30 lbs in 4 months doing this and weighed 250 lbs when I finally gave up on it. I reviewed the success stories and the lower cholesterol enjoyed by people on the atkins site and decided to give it a try.
I went on Atkins in January and lost 60 lbs by September. I was feeling great and went to get my cholesterol checked only to find that it has risen 36 points to 259. The Dr. wants to put me on drugs now that I'll have to take for the rest of my life. I've decided to wait a year and try exercising more to see if that helps but I'm going to take his advice if nothing changes by next September.
I'm guessing that investors will go crazy once again having an Internet stock to bet on. This will push the value of the stock up through the roof as we've seen happen with past companies. By only putting out a small percentage (less than 1/10th of the company) it will also unduly raise the total percieved value of the company exponentially.
The problem is that though most industries have a set valuation on shareholders equity in regards to a multiple of earnings, Google is in a league of their own. This allows investors the opportunity to become speculators and instead of looking at the fundamentals and I predict we will see claims of Google becoming as big as Microsoft on paper.
Early investors will cash out at that point (as the article mentions) and the rest of us are left holding the bag. However those early investors will now have cash to start the process again and we may very well see another albeit smaller run on Internet stocks with the momentum generated by Googles rise to power.
I agree wholeheartedly with the message. Too many startups are under the impression that it's the product and the protection of the product that is to make their company sucessful. Ask yourself if you could make a better hamburger than McDonalds? It's the system that makes a business... how well the business is managed, how sales are produced.
Of course the product matters, it has to be something that the market needs or thinks it needs after you show your clients how much it will improve their lives. Produce the best product you can but really more companies should focus not so much on the NDA but on developing their business.
I helped start up an Internet business in '96 that sold for three-quarters of a billion dollars in 2000. We produced innovative products but so did our competitors however we produced a system that allowed us to have better customer service, instant reporting and faster turnaround times. It was the models that we created that attributed to our sucess far more than our products. Of course most people reading this will say that it was just an issue of timing and they are probably right with respect to the purchase price of our business but not the fundamental growth that we produced.
it's in our speech everday though.
"I found it in the last place that I looked"
- why would you keep looking?
"needless to say"
- then why say it?
"no offense but..."
- you know you're about to be offended
"new and improved"
- if it's new? how can you improve it?
"save money by purchasing..."
- really?
on a tv ad for bioflex
"to loose the weight you need to add muscle..."
- really?
this list too is endless...
As we continue to move add with technology, let's not forget that the all of this comes from somewhere after all. It's the programmers, the designers and the users that make up the bulk of what we use today and though we are constantly dicated by doctrine (ie advertisements, public speakers and the like) ultimately it's the masses that dertermine what is useful. It's not the number of features that matter... it's the usefulness.
I have a link to listen to their report tomorrow at 11:00am EST and you don't have to signup with SCO to get it.
e se ntation.cfm?MediaID=8930&Player=2
http://ir.sco.com/visitors/event/build2/MediaPr
In case anyone is interested.
My son was stillborn in April of this year (8.5 months) and my wife and I wanted to donate his body to science. We were not able to because of some abortion law... Yet we were required to file a death certificate and have a funeral home handle the services.
Where is our separation of church and state?
I wonder what impact this will have our "Home Security" initivates. Will they make it mandatory that we turn in our a digitial signature and identify oursevles? America seems to be drawing nearer and nearer to a police state and I wonder what impact something of this nature will produce in the long run.
When I was in China a couple months ago I found it very easy to see sites like CNN.com by using anonymous proxies. Some of them even used secure SSL encryption and the Chinese firewall didn't detect anything. The sites came up fine.
I have my doubts about enforcing something like censorship on the net.
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ESPN sent us "The Letter" a couple months ago because they copyrighted 'SportsTicker' we own MySportsTicker.com and they are threatening a lawsuit.
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This is to both of you. I have Boston Acoustics 6000's on my computer...
http://www.bostonacoustics.com/home/dt6000.html
I'm also using the Gateway 36" monitor and have a 22GIG hard drive. My computer is my entertainment system. It has an ATI all in wonder pro card so I can watch TV with it and an FM tuner built in -- of course I can watch DVD's on it as well. I have more than 100 CD's and they are quickly becoming MP3's. It also runs Linux. What more could I ask for?
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Though he makes some good points, I can't relate. I have a ton of CD's and I'm working on converting all of them to MP3's. I enjoy organizing my music into categories and playing music based on the category I'm interested in. I enjoy not switching CD's or only listening to part of a CD or a single song. I like the background music to my daily work and listening to 120 mp3's before switching to something else.
I disagree with his philosophical views as well, feeling that the increase in competition will actually cause new forms of music to rise to the top. I especially like the idea that this is a world wide medium and that influences from different cultures than the US and Europe will play larger roles in what becomes popular.
But he does have a strong point of view when you look at your collection and start to drool... and then again -- so what.
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Resume
My XWindows environment uses multiple desktops, allows me to zoom in and pan accross a desktop and place icons on the desktop. I wonder if they would entertain the idea of having multiple horizons and each horizon simulates one of my desktops. You could then choose a new horizon in the same manner as I chose a new desktop.
Ideas?
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I agree with the judge here. What would stop your competition from anonymously slandering your company rather than leak internal secrets? They could pose as an employee with inside knowledge. I suppose that anonymous messages should be ranked as is done on slashdot and should be viewed as little more than rumor.
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Sagan tells it like is in that book. I think /. should do a review of the demon-haunted world instead. He is open to the possiblities but not so open his brain spills out. People are searching for something with the downfall of organized religion and the world around us has all the beauty and curiousity we need if we would just open our eyes.
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We'll see how things "play" out but I expect a revoloution coming on in the music industry.
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but look at who he has as part of his board of directors now...
John Doerr - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Michael Moritz - Sequoia Capital
Ram Shriram - Amazon VP of business development
and
Andy Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems invested privately.
With names and companies backing them like this they can go after some strong talent and put together something huge before going public.
then again... who knows...
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I agree with you there... the prices for these books are outrageous! It makes me wonder though who gets all the money from these ventures as most of the books this program finds on the web average about 40% off of list price. I suppose though that O'Reilly does set the list price but if these companies can still make a profit selling it for 40% of that something is definitely wrong.
Nevertheless, O'Reilly does have a corner on the market as the leading distributor of technical books so I suppose they can abuse their monopoly like everyone else. Luckily we can exploit the competition between vendors using automated programs on the web and overcome the waste.
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Nevertheless...
The book lists for a whopping $24.95 and if you get it from Amazon you only pay $19.96. Through the help of other /. readers I have a program on the web that found it for only $12.95 (48% OFF) from powells. If your interested the source code is available in a developers edition and you can find lowest price here:
Unix in a Nutshell
The program speciallizes in O'Reillys but you can find any book. Each night I build a list of every O'Reilly and with one click you can find the cheapest price.
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I don't believe that sig means what you think it means.
,hacker Perl another Just)'
,rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ ) ';
instead of:
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-:
try:
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-:
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People donate stuff all the time to these causes. I know friends of mine who have given up video and sound cards to have someone develop linux drivers for them. I wonder if at some point they will be seen as tax write-offs and these donations can increase a thousand-fold.
Eventually programmers could be paid for their donations though others donations.
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Resume
What about the idea of evolution whereby the strong survive? Slashdot has overcome the odds in that strong content has allowed it to evolve into something more than most news sites. A site like "my personal list of my favorite CD's" - though it may exist - it won't thrive in this universe.
I think that gravity in this respect won't make it collaspe but gather into larger and more powerful systems that help the web to grow. It's effect will help sort through the trash instead.
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This would be great!
I just signed up with http://www.netbank.com/ and it would be wonderful to not have to mail my signature each time something needs to be initiated.
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