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regarding Yahoo! and Microsoft - MS proposes a partial purchase of single, specific Yahoo! services instead of a company acquisition
19 May, 2008 03:22
REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement:
“In
light of developments since the withdrawal of the Microsoft proposal to
acquire Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft announced that it is continuing to
explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online
services and advertising business. Microsoft is considering and has
raised with Yahoo! an alternative that would involve a transaction with
Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo! Microsoft is not
proposing to make a new bid to acquire all of Yahoo! at this time, but
reserves the right to reconsider that alternative depending on future
developments and discussions that may take place with Yahoo! or
discussions with shareholders of Yahoo! or Microsoft or with other
third parties.
I have just a couple short comments on this statement. Microsoft's primary objective is probably to buy Yahoo's Search Engine market, and to a lesser degree their add service.
I don't think the Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) web portal, not including their other services, would survive and take in revenue without some form of web searching ability.
It is somewhat like AOL way back in the day when searching for content was mostly and selfishly limited to just their information services.
This album contains: mpeg (mp3) audio of the rap song "kill -9" in both 64 and 16 bitrate
versions and a text file, kill-9_lyrics.txt with the rap song's lyrics
(for those using rss, please visit this post for the streaming audio of "kill -9" contained below)
"I guess I'll have to shut you down for good this time,
Already tried a SIGQUIT, so now it's KILL DASH 9.
You gotta learn when it's time for your thread to yield;
It shoulda slept; instead you stepped and now your fate is sealed.
I'll take your process off the run queue without even asking
'Cause my flow is like reentrant and preemptive multitasking.
Your sad rhymes are spinnin' like you're in a deadlock,
You're like a synchronous sock that don't know when to block;
So I pull out my keyboard and I pull out my glock,
And I dismount your girl and I mount /proc
And I've got your fuckin pid and the bottom line
Is that you best not front or else it's KILL DASH NINE.
KILL DASH NINE,
No more CPU time.
I run KILL DASH NINE,
And your process is mine.
I run KILL DASH NINE,
'Cause it's MY time to shine
So don't step outta line or else it's
KILL DASH NINE!
See it ain't about the Benjamins or Pentiums or Athlons,
But you rappin' 50 meters while I'm spittin' in decathlons.
Your shit's old and busted, mine's the new hotness;
You're like CLR and I'm like CLRS.
You're running csh and my shell is bash,
You're the tertiary storage; I'm the L1 cache.
I'm a web crawling spider; you an Internet mosquito;
You thought the 7-layer model referred to a burrito.
You're a dialup connection; I'm a gigabit LAN.
I last a mythical man-month; you a one-minute man.
It's like I'm running Thunderbird and you're still stuck with Pine,
Which is why I think it's time for me to KILL DASH NINE.
Yeah it's KILL DASH NINE
No more CPU time.
'Cause it's KILL DASH NINE,
And your process is mine.
I said KILL DASH NINE
'Cause it's my time to shine,
So don't step outta line or else it's
KILL DASH NINE!
My posse throws down like leaky bucket regulators;
I was coding shit in MIPS while you were playing Space Invaders.
With my finger on the trigger I run ./configure
Yo, this package is big, but MY package is bigger.
I roll my weed with Zig Zag while I zag-zig splay,
And I do a bounds check before I write to an array.
I'm a loc'd out baller writing KLOCS a day,
'Cause it's publish or perish, fool, what can I say?
I'm 26 now, will I live to see 28?
Some days I wonder if I'll survive to graduate.
But hey, that's just fine, I won't ever resign,
And if fools try to step then it's KILL DASH NINE!
Yeah it's KILL DASH NINE,
From my command line
It's KILL DASH NINE
Sending chills down your spine,
I said KILL DASH NINE,
'Cause it's my time to shine,
So don't step outta line or else it's
KILL DASH NINE!
fs sa rlidwka
I'll chown your home and take your access away
Comin' straight outta Stanford, ain't nobody tougher,
Control-X, Control-C, I'll discard your fuckin' buffer.
You're outside your scope, son, close them curly brackets,
'Cause I drop punk-ass bitches like a modem drops packets.
Dump your motherfucking core, and trace your stack
'Cause where your ass is going, there won't be no callback.
See my style is divine and my code is sublime,
My career's in a climb and yours is in a decline.
I'll write a pound-define and assign you as mine,
So refine those sad rhymes or remove your plus signs,
Or it's KILL DASH NINE,
No more CPU time,
'Cause it's KILL DASH NINE,
And your process is mine,
I said KILL DASH NINE
'Cause it's my time to shine,
Bitch you stepped outta line and now it's
KILL DASH NINE!"
my failure to prevent failure, I am in need of HD witches brew - most of my 5 year warranties are up
17 May, 2008 05:49
Many of my friends know I have been putting off purchasing storage for my computer for almost a year. My 5 year warranties are past due, and the thought of any amount of data loss frightens me. Again, finances show an outlook another month ahead.
That's when I noticed my post About Gizmodo's HD failure dance tracks contest. I have archived in my album one of my favorites in the contest. In a complete turn around, I have to admit, the DJ kicked some spindles when making this jam. I love it.
(for those using rss, please visit this post for the audio)
Soon after waking up you will of course find the evil furry creature gratifying himself. Sick of the bar, and needing a kick, he quickly moves on to harder drugs. After the initial hit of the high, they tend to get funky. Finally at the end of each day, they not only hurt humanity but those close to us humans as well:
After listening to the interview and studio performance, I was quickly introduced to other acoustic Tea Leaf Green material, calling themselves Coffee Bean Brown.
Here is the interview and performance with Tim Carbone from Railroad Earth (converted from 128 to 64 bps - hi-def audio can be found here:http://www.archive.org/details/tlg2007-06-12.fayetteville-with-radio-set):
I highly suggest visiting http://dgold.info/radio/ for some amazing performances from bands and styles all across the board.
do you use Charter Communications for your ISP? if so, you hold no secrets to your online activity in all its provided provisions
15 May, 2008 14:02
"Charter Communications, one of the nation's largest ISPs, plans to
begin eavesdropping on customers' web surfing activity, to help web
advertisers deliver targeted ads.
I have always been biased against Charter and all of their provided services. This may be the nudge that some of you need to switch to an ISP with policies that protect, and not advertise the private uses of any paid (with hard earned money) services they offer.
.. a drop of Sandalwood Absolute on the temples, a drop of 6 year old patchouli in the diffuser, light rain, and Jerry Garcia / David Grisman - Shady Grove...
