I’ve been saying this was going to happen…
“The SCO Group, Inc. (”SCO”) (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO’s subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition [...]
Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. New design going on, so please be patient and let me know on any issues.
To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to [...]
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I’m reminded of a line from Independance Day (The Will Smith Movie):
“You don’t think they actually spent $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat do you?”
A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to [...]
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Ok, it may of been a few years since I’ve used condoms. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t find the following Reuters article interesting…
British condom maker Futura Medical Plc said on Thursday that results of a study showed its new condom helped men have firmer and bigger erections, as well as a longer-lasting sexual [...]
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John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class with flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9 million in his pocket.
It was the most expensive dime ever to pass through San Jose. That’s because it is the most expensive dime in the history of dimes.
“All [...]
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Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at Cambridge University, has just released “Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright,” a brilliant new paper on the economically optimal term of copyright. He’s presenting it in Berlin this week, but it’s already online. Here’s the abstract:
The optimal level for copyright has [...]
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In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.
CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.
[Article #475]
This is interesting, and a smart idea for Apple. By taking a [...]
If I get a new console I’ll probbaly get a wii to play with my son. The thing is, I’ve delayed since we’ve had too many other costs to worry about. And at the same time I hadn’t thought getting a Wii was that big of a deal. After all the Targets here [...]
A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, will be sold in a Pebble Beach, Calif., auction in August.
The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Otto Benz of Germany built their first experimental gasoline-powered cars (The two were working independently of [...]
A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.
But [...]
