Bzzzzttt... This exemption applies specifically to copyright law, it's not the type of sweeping antitrust exemption that would remove barriers to corporate mergers.
That said, of course this is just another industry-crafted bill that will work its way through the process just like so many others these days. Fall in, RIAA/MPAA, alongside the domestic steel companies, big agri-business, and textile companies while you all leech off the public teat...
With the way major record companies are consolidating, the RIAA should just get absorbed into a corporate PR department any time now. The real problem is that while indie labels could go off and create their own, new organization, it would have no clout in Washington.
I would bet my bottom dollar that this sequence will be a part of the RotK extended DVD, which is what's going on my bookshelf and will stand the test of time, anyway. Both FotR and TT are vastly improved in the extended edition, so I'm framing my expectations about RotK similarly. In the theater, I'm expecting a grandiose spectacle with a few plots points skipped over (probably noticeable only to me instead of my wife, who hasn't read the books), which will be made up later on...
On the contrary, Kernel Crackers sounds like a snack they should sell over at ThinkGeek...
Something like a combination cracker/pretzel/pizza flavor, heavily fortified with caffeine and vitamins so you don't have to leave your workstation for days at a time!
Rather than the ST, however, I'd pitch in a vote for the Atari 400/800 - although the cartridge format was an unfortunate choice for Atari, those were nice computers that offered great graphics and sound for the time...
Effectiveness doesn't matter. What does matter is that these congressmen and senators can now add "fighting to protect your family from the horrors of spam email" to their campaign literature for next fall. For a certain portion of voters (read: the tech-norant), this actually looks like action...
Hey, I kinda like that word. Tech-norant, as in "tech ignorant."
The one who will really take the hit are the ones buying SCO stock at these prices. While it may take a couple years to unwind, there is a significant chance that these could spiral right back down to zero, leaving the bagholders with nothing but "champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
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This is one aspect of diversity that's often overlooked. As we try to ensure that departments and companies have a sprinkling of various races, genders, creeds, and personality types, one thing that's often overlooked is that not everyone within a group needs to be a "caffiene achiever." There are perfectly good workers who aren't interested in a promotion, but are happy doing what they're doing - very often, they're dependable and are worth their weight in gold in a pinch.
An example would be a night-shift computer operator. I had that position as a 23-year old, but moved up the first chance I got to the daytime shift, then programming, etc. For the department, the next couple years were a constant hassle of finding people to adequately fill the night shift - either they didn't stick around long, or (in one unfortunate case) were more interested in stealing laptops than actually working. Eventually, we found an older guy who was a few years away from retirement and was interested in steady work. He took the position, and has performed well in it for the last 5 years.
I guess the overall lesson is that customer satisfaction can often by strengthened by dependability, which can suffer when management is constantly reshuffling teams in search of marginal improvements.
Since he invented the damn Internet to begin with, why don't all these lawsuits and settlements just get redirected to award Al Gore??? Seems like that would save us all a lot of time...
Another point that seems to get missed during implementations is that IT needs to be flexible and adaptable. While a system may get implemented under a particular business environment, chances are that within a few short years there will be a corporate reorganization, acquisition, or other fundamental change that has a profound effect on the underlying business processes. All too often, however, what you end up with is a smattering of legacy apps spread all over the enterprise, disconnected and expensively redundant...
Not for a long time, that's for sure. These cases will take years to wind through the legal process, and in the meantime, broadening the scope only serves to make the potential windfall look larger in the eyes of "ignorant" investors.
This is why SCO is out beating the PR drums, while IBM quietly prepares its legal attack. SCO is clearly playing a short-term gambit to cash out the company's assets at the highest possible price, while IBM is seeking to secure the legal foundation behind an open computing platform that provides them with an ample marketplace for their service offerings.
you missed the important phrase, "not that I have any reason to go there in the first place." As a happily settled-down family guy in middle America, I don't see myself heading to Africa anytime soon. Nothing personal, but nothing had me leaning in that direction to begin with. The original statement had more to do with emphasizing the nastiness of the Ebola virus than any slander against the continent...
All credit to this interviewer, who refused to swallow the crap this VP kept spewing (if she said "link to business process" one more time...) and focused on what HP is trying to do that's any different from Sun or IBM. Bottom line - not much!
That said, I think utility computing is applicable only to a narrow market so far. You need compatability between various applications to host them within a single environment that shares data center resources. When I look around my company (a $1.5 billion worldwide manufacturer), for example, I see dozens of applications on several different operating systems at various versions. How does utility computing address such a heterogeneous environment?
About the only time she made sense was at the very end:
"The lines between business and IT are blurring. One CIO told me they don't have IT projects anymore. It's a business project with IT ramifications in it as well as others. "
Heck, the description at the beginning of The Hot Zone is enough to keep me well clear of any Ebola vaccine trials, let alone the continent of Africa itself (not that I have any reason to go there in the first place).
I can't wait to see their next quarterly 10Q statement, and see how the death spiral continues in their main business while the rest of the enterprise hinges on settlements and/or courthouse victories. Either way, I suspect in 5 years SCO will be but a distant memory.
One means of detecting these particles is through the use of scintillating tile, which gives off tiny (and I mean tiny) flashes of light when certain particles pass through them. About 15 years ago I had a work study job in a physics lab at Michigan testing photomultiplier tubes, which would take the flashes of light generated when cosmic ray particles passed through the tile, and convert that to an electronic signal that could be monitored.
While I'm sure there are also other means they're using to pick these signals up, I don't think that wavelength idea holds much water. That would have more to do with the spectrum of light that they are trying to observe a given object with (i.e. x-rays, uv, etc.) than anything else.
A sad, sad tale that's far from over...
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The air must be getting stuffy in Darl's bunker. Apparently, he'll be suing Sun and China next!
Although if you think about it, a potential 1 billion users popping for Linux licenses at $699 apiece (but only if they act NOW!)... Gotta get me somma that SCOX!
Ugh! Cro-Magnons over there getting all the best meat, but they bring no fire that I see. It like Ugar over there banging rocks together! Any fool know that fire come from sky, not from rocks and stones.
Me say build many many fire pits and fill them with kindling. When great fire strikes come from sky, it sure to hit one of them, which we can use to light others and always have fire. That would help whole tribe, and we can do it NOW.
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Thanks, bud - now I don't think I'll be able to look at that stuffed turkey quite the same way... Ewwww!
Bzzzzttt... This exemption applies specifically to copyright law, it's not the type of sweeping antitrust exemption that would remove barriers to corporate mergers.
That said, of course this is just another industry-crafted bill that will work its way through the process just like so many others these days. Fall in, RIAA/MPAA, alongside the domestic steel companies, big agri-business, and textile companies while you all leech off the public teat...
With the way major record companies are consolidating, the RIAA should just get absorbed into a corporate PR department any time now. The real problem is that while indie labels could go off and create their own, new organization, it would have no clout in Washington.
I would bet my bottom dollar that this sequence will be a part of the RotK extended DVD, which is what's going on my bookshelf and will stand the test of time, anyway. Both FotR and TT are vastly improved in the extended edition, so I'm framing my expectations about RotK similarly. In the theater, I'm expecting a grandiose spectacle with a few plots points skipped over (probably noticeable only to me instead of my wife, who hasn't read the books), which will be made up later on...
Like H.L. Mencken observed, "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
I think Fox already adopted this as their corporate vision statement.
Pimp/Bitch, Government/Taxpayer...
what's the difference? I could totally see W tricking out the presidential limo and getting himself decked out in full-length fur coats!
On the contrary, Kernel Crackers sounds like a snack they should sell over at ThinkGeek...
Something like a combination cracker/pretzel/pizza flavor, heavily fortified with caffeine and vitamins so you don't have to leave your workstation for days at a time!
Rather than the ST, however, I'd pitch in a vote for the Atari 400/800 - although the cartridge format was an unfortunate choice for Atari, those were nice computers that offered great graphics and sound for the time...
Effectiveness doesn't matter. What does matter is that these congressmen and senators can now add "fighting to protect your family from the horrors of spam email" to their campaign literature for next fall. For a certain portion of voters (read: the tech-norant), this actually looks like action...
Hey, I kinda like that word. Tech-norant, as in "tech ignorant."
Next thing you know, Apple will be selling condoms as well. Call it the iWrap, and you can include them in the same commercial...
The one who will really take the hit are the ones buying SCO stock at these prices. While it may take a couple years to unwind, there is a significant chance that these could spiral right back down to zero, leaving the bagholders with nothing but "champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
This is one aspect of diversity that's often overlooked. As we try to ensure that departments and companies have a sprinkling of various races, genders, creeds, and personality types, one thing that's often overlooked is that not everyone within a group needs to be a "caffiene achiever." There are perfectly good workers who aren't interested in a promotion, but are happy doing what they're doing - very often, they're dependable and are worth their weight in gold in a pinch.
An example would be a night-shift computer operator. I had that position as a 23-year old, but moved up the first chance I got to the daytime shift, then programming, etc. For the department, the next couple years were a constant hassle of finding people to adequately fill the night shift - either they didn't stick around long, or (in one unfortunate case) were more interested in stealing laptops than actually working. Eventually, we found an older guy who was a few years away from retirement and was interested in steady work. He took the position, and has performed well in it for the last 5 years.
I guess the overall lesson is that customer satisfaction can often by strengthened by dependability, which can suffer when management is constantly reshuffling teams in search of marginal improvements.
Since he invented the damn Internet to begin with, why don't all these lawsuits and settlements just get redirected to award Al Gore??? Seems like that would save us all a lot of time...
Perhaps you should have read the article.
Are you kidding? If he did that, he wouldn't get modded "Insightful"!
Another point that seems to get missed during implementations is that IT needs to be flexible and adaptable. While a system may get implemented under a particular business environment, chances are that within a few short years there will be a corporate reorganization, acquisition, or other fundamental change that has a profound effect on the underlying business processes. All too often, however, what you end up with is a smattering of legacy apps spread all over the enterprise, disconnected and expensively redundant...
Not for a long time, that's for sure. These cases will take years to wind through the legal process, and in the meantime, broadening the scope only serves to make the potential windfall look larger in the eyes of "ignorant" investors.
This is why SCO is out beating the PR drums, while IBM quietly prepares its legal attack. SCO is clearly playing a short-term gambit to cash out the company's assets at the highest possible price, while IBM is seeking to secure the legal foundation behind an open computing platform that provides them with an ample marketplace for their service offerings.
Well, give them a bit of credit. The most prominent story in the Tech department is Sun's plan to partner with AMD and offer Wintel alternatives...
you missed the important phrase, "not that I have any reason to go there in the first place." As a happily settled-down family guy in middle America, I don't see myself heading to Africa anytime soon. Nothing personal, but nothing had me leaning in that direction to begin with. The original statement had more to do with emphasizing the nastiness of the Ebola virus than any slander against the continent...
That said, I think utility computing is applicable only to a narrow market so far. You need compatability between various applications to host them within a single environment that shares data center resources. When I look around my company (a $1.5 billion worldwide manufacturer), for example, I see dozens of applications on several different operating systems at various versions. How does utility computing address such a heterogeneous environment?
About the only time she made sense was at the very end:
How true...
Heck, the description at the beginning of The Hot Zone is enough to keep me well clear of any Ebola vaccine trials, let alone the continent of Africa itself (not that I have any reason to go there in the first place).
Lawsuits!
I can't wait to see their next quarterly 10Q statement, and see how the death spiral continues in their main business while the rest of the enterprise hinges on settlements and/or courthouse victories. Either way, I suspect in 5 years SCO will be but a distant memory.
err... not exactly.
One means of detecting these particles is through the use of scintillating tile, which gives off tiny (and I mean tiny) flashes of light when certain particles pass through them. About 15 years ago I had a work study job in a physics lab at Michigan testing photomultiplier tubes, which would take the flashes of light generated when cosmic ray particles passed through the tile, and convert that to an electronic signal that could be monitored.
While I'm sure there are also other means they're using to pick these signals up, I don't think that wavelength idea holds much water. That would have more to do with the spectrum of light that they are trying to observe a given object with (i.e. x-rays, uv, etc.) than anything else.
The air must be getting stuffy in Darl's bunker. Apparently, he'll be suing Sun and China next!
Although if you think about it, a potential 1 billion users popping for Linux licenses at $699 apiece (but only if they act NOW!)... Gotta get me somma that SCOX!
~~~ diddly doo - diddly doo - diddly doo ~~~
(as we head further and further back...)
Ugh! Cro-Magnons over there getting all the best meat, but they bring no fire that I see. It like Ugar over there banging rocks together! Any fool know that fire come from sky, not from rocks and stones.
Me say build many many fire pits and fill them with kindling. When great fire strikes come from sky, it sure to hit one of them, which we can use to light others and always have fire. That would help whole tribe, and we can do it NOW.
~~~ diddly doo - diddly doo - diddly doo ~~~
The poor sap shoulda posted as AC, eh?