Re: RE: Estimating Surplus

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sabri Oncu wrote:
> How do you like my reformatting Eric? Apparently, I wrote some C
> programs. Don't like those object oriented languages though. I am
> yet too see their alleged advantage.
>
> What do you say Ravi?

i like to believe that they exist to protect the novices from the
sort of coding errors that veterans like us do not have to worry
about ;-).

the latest news from the computing world, that some of you might
not have heard of:

microsoft and the SEC have come to an agreement on the SEC's
charges against microsoft regarding shady accounting practices.
the agreement does not include a fine or any punishment. instead
microsoft has agreed not to do such things in the future. the
SEC spokesperson was elated at their "success" and opined that
this action should deter other companies from such practices.

in other news, jim allchin, VP at microsoft, famous for referring to
free software as communist activity and against the american spirit,
testified that publishing microsoft APIs and such (as required by
some of the states in the ongoing anti-trust action) would pose a
security threat to the US govt and the army operations in
afghanistan.

lucent has appointed a review panel to examine the validity of
claims by bell labs researchers to have built a single molecule
transistor, after a steady stream of protests from various other
researchers at universities, pointing to suspicious similarities
in graphs and other such anomalies.

nissan.com war continues: mr. nissan, who owns the nissan.com
domain (and is also the big cheese at his company: nissan computer)
is being sued by nissan the automaker, despite the fact that
mr.nissan has produced a receipt from a datsun dealership (datsun
being the old name of nissan) made out to nissan foreign cars, the
latter being one of mr.nissan's various outfits.

napster files for bankruptcy.

	--ravi