Be sure to follow a few of the "Next Transactions" links to get a feel for the kind of money these guys are making. Note that in 2002 most of them were getting "award of stock" of as many as 165,000 shares (i.e., they didn't pay for them) as well as stock options, to be exercised later.
Many posters have mentioned that he screwed up by offering to sell the domain to MS for $10,000. (Why these posts have all been modded up when all they've done is re-state what the Register article says is beyond me. I guess moderators don't RTFA either.)
What he *should* have done when they offered to reimburse his out-of-pocket expenses (the $10) is ask for $10,000 to cover his costs not only for the domain, but also for the original marketing research he used to choose an effective domain name, the logo development, marketing expenses related to generating traffic to his website, his legal expenses, etc.
Yeah, that 17 year old should spend his college money on a lawyer in order to protect his $10 investment.
Good advice.
All kidding aside, you're right - he shouldn't have responded. Instead, he should have immediately submitted his story to Slashdot, so that all of us IANAL posters could have given him tons of free legal advice.
Refactoring is worth it in some cases, but not in all. If the entire architecture needs to change dramatically, it could be far more cost effective to rewrite.
I'm running Eclipse 3.0 M6 on a PIII/733 with 512 MB of RAM right now and it's using virtually no CPU. Its performance in general is plenty fast. I suspect something's wrong with your setup, because I personally have never seen it do anything like that with any version on any system.
Most of us are engineers with degrees (or at least I'm guessing). How many of you would (if you could go back in time) persue a different career now? I know I would.
Not me. If I could go back in time, I'd still follow the same career path, except that from the beginning until late 1999, I'd invest every dime I had into Microsoft. Then I'd sell all $10,000,000,000 worth and buy enough HP stock to turn Carly onto my personal . .., well, at any rate I'd be set for life.
Ah, but the catch is that we lose our jobs, to those other people or robots or processes. Oh no!! We have nothing to do with our time because life got too easy! Nobody wants us to work! The horror!
Am I the only one who sees how wonderful the big picture is?
Hmmm, maybe you're the only one who's independently wealthy and doesn't have to work.
Is my mortgage payment going to magically go away when my job goes offshore to India?
What he ignores is that a virus that destroys it's host is pretty much useless, because it no longer has that host.
Hmmm, not sure how you missed it, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he's saying here:
Any of the viruses which appeared in the past year could have wiped hard disks clean once they'd propagated; they didn't. That suggests that,
as in real life, where very few primary infections kill their hosts, the writers of "malware" have realised that destructive programs have shorter lives.
Man, I followed that link, and all I saw for every single AirBag was
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
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Out of Stock
Out of Stock
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I guess Slashdot readers are looking for something a little different and based in Europe!
Just so you know - Al Frankin is a comedian and comedy writer who happens to use right-wing politics as a source. I mean, the guy used to be on Saturday Night Live. The stuff about challenging the guy to a fight was funny, but you have to read it in context - you can't just start reading at that point and assume "wow, this guy's full of himself, bragging about picking a fight".
GOD, WHAT IS WRONG WITH SLASHDOT MODERATORS!?!?!?!
I have mod points myself right now, but how do you mod a post as completely clueless? I could have wasted a mod point on "overrated" but somebody would have just modded it up again.
The parent post was a JOKE!!!!! How could anyone but a PHB read it and not realize it was a joke?
So much for the "everyone at Slashdot is anti-Microsoft" mantra, eh? If that were true, there's no way this drivel could get modded up to (Score:4, Insightful).
If I were the EU, I'd just say "Fine. 500 Euro tarriff on Microsoft Windows. Have a nice day, gentlemen."
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And here's the evidence.
Be sure to follow a few of the "Next Transactions" links to get a feel for the kind of money these guys are making. Note that in 2002 most of them were getting "award of stock" of as many as 165,000 shares (i.e., they didn't pay for them) as well as stock options, to be exercised later.
Many posters have mentioned that he screwed up by offering to sell the domain to MS for $10,000. (Why these posts have all been modded up when all they've done is re-state what the Register article says is beyond me. I guess moderators don't RTFA either.)
What he *should* have done when they offered to reimburse his out-of-pocket expenses (the $10) is ask for $10,000 to cover his costs not only for the domain, but also for the original marketing research he used to choose an effective domain name, the logo development, marketing expenses related to generating traffic to his website, his legal expenses, etc.
Yeah, that 17 year old should spend his college money on a lawyer in order to protect his $10 investment.
Good advice.
All kidding aside, you're right - he shouldn't have responded. Instead, he should have immediately submitted his story to Slashdot, so that all of us IANAL posters could have given him tons of free legal advice.
Martin Fowler might disagree.
Refactoring is worth it in some cases, but not in all. If the entire architecture needs to change dramatically, it could be far more cost effective to rewrite.
Jar-jar can go wherever your imagination takes him.
My imagination takes that annoying little prick right into a supernova, where's he's instantly vaporized never to be seen or heard again.
I found him so annoying in Episode I that I no longer have any interest in seeing the remaining films.
I guess nobody got (or at least appreciated) my San Andreas fault pun. Oh well.
Wow, when I lived there it was only an hour north, so I guess it's getting further away.
It must be San Andrea's fault.
Cool!
I have a LOWER Slashdot ID than the inventor of XML!!!!!
What version?
What platform?
What plugins?
I'm running Eclipse 3.0 M6 on a PIII/733 with 512 MB of RAM right now and it's using virtually no CPU. Its performance in general is plenty fast. I suspect something's wrong with your setup, because I personally have never seen it do anything like that with any version on any system.
Most of us are engineers with degrees (or at least I'm guessing). How many of you would (if you could go back in time) persue a different career now? I know I would.
Not me. If I could go back in time, I'd still follow the same career path, except that from the beginning until late 1999, I'd invest every dime I had into Microsoft. Then I'd sell all $10,000,000,000 worth and buy enough HP stock to turn Carly onto my personal . . ., well, at any rate I'd be set for life.
Ah, but the catch is that we lose our jobs, to those other people or robots or processes. Oh no!! We have nothing to do with our time because life got too easy! Nobody wants us to work! The horror!
Am I the only one who sees how wonderful the big picture is?
Hmmm, maybe you're the only one who's independently wealthy and doesn't have to work.
Is my mortgage payment going to magically go away when my job goes offshore to India?
The price is far too high for what you get
You get 4GB for $249. Let's see, a 256MB iRiver sells for $199, so you get 16 times the storage for a 25% higher price.
Yeah, far too high, right.
Yes, the 4G is smaller, but it's not like the 15G is large by anyone standards.
This is, say it with me folks, A TERRIBLE PRODUCT. If anyone buys one, I consider them a flat-out moron.
Either the market disagrees with you, or there are a heck of a lot of morons out there. Either way, Apple's got a winner. Just visit:
http://store.apple.com/
Oh, what's that, the site's so busy you can't get to it? Hmmm, why would that be?
Yeah, and it would have been even nicer if his explanation were correct! Since when does "consolidate" mean "close"?
Memory sticks as life changing? Sheesh - if my life was that pathetic I'd find a new life or take up raising sea monkeys.
But here you are posting to Slashdot early on New Years Day. So, how are your sea monkeys doing?
What he ignores is that a virus that destroys it's host is pretty much useless, because it no longer has that host.
Hmmm, not sure how you missed it, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he's saying here:
Nominee for Worst Technology of 2003 - the artificial convervative sense of humor. Doesn't work worth a damn.
It was a joke. Lighten up.
I'm just glad this year passed without further proliferation of those damned singing plastic fishes.
Apparently, you missed this Slashdot article.So: the concept here is... what? You clone a supermodel, raise her from infancy to adulthood, then have sex with her?
Everyone knows these new cloning machines skip the whole maturation process. Duh.
It costs $60,000,000, at least when purchased by the U.S. government through a no-bid contract.
. . . have quite a selection of bags available.
Man, I followed that link, and all I saw for every single AirBag was
Out of StockOut of Stock
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
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Out of Stock
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I guess Slashdot readers are looking for something a little different and based in Europe!
Just so you know - Al Frankin is a comedian and comedy writer who happens to use right-wing politics as a source. I mean, the guy used to be on Saturday Night Live. The stuff about challenging the guy to a fight was funny, but you have to read it in context - you can't just start reading at that point and assume "wow, this guy's full of himself, bragging about picking a fight".
GOD, WHAT IS WRONG WITH SLASHDOT MODERATORS!?!?!?!
I have mod points myself right now, but how do you mod a post as completely clueless? I could have wasted a mod point on "overrated" but somebody would have just modded it up again.
The parent post was a JOKE!!!!! How could anyone but a PHB read it and not realize it was a joke?
I guess that's the price you pay for getting to charge 5 times what your software is worth.
So much for the "everyone at Slashdot is anti-Microsoft" mantra, eh? If that were true, there's no way this drivel could get modded up to (Score:4, Insightful).
If I were the EU, I'd just say "Fine. 500 Euro tarriff on Microsoft Windows. Have a nice day, gentlemen."