Mood:  accident prone

This is from recy43 at ProgrammersHeaven where he is called ShellShock. The top one will be erased no doubt but you have it here so you can use it as a yardstick to check his veracity and oil.

http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/authorpage.asp?AuthorID=168102 

ShellShock's Guestbook

This is from my page at ProgrammersHeaven. I think you can get an idea of the twisted sense of injustice seething in this one individual: 

http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/authorpage.asp?AuthorID=118252

Portuno_Diamo's Guestbook

Here's some additional stuff on ShellShock's personal page. Perhaps it will give you some background and a way to dissect what certain posters are writing... you have to dissect those posts like frogs. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 1:39 PM EDT

Updated: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 5:26 PM EDT

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Mood:  suave

There's nothing quite so humorous as watching a non-swimmer splash around in the shallow end of the pool. Except when it's an adult who doesn't care how silly people think he is as long as he can keep them out of the pool to begin with.

That's the aim. 

By: tepe
14 May 2007, 06:54 PM EDT
Msg. 185210 of 185216

This should shed some light on the patent infringement suit. It's not all "in the bag" like some think.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070425-microsoft-accused-of-patent-infringement-with-net.html

Vertical Computing describes itself as a company that "provides administrative software, Internet core technologies, and derivative software application products through its distribution network." Essentially it is a web services company. Its primary product, SiteFlash, is a commercial content management system that uses XML to publish and maintain web sites. On the SiteFlash information page, Vertical Computing takes special care to mention that it is covered under US patent #6,826,744.

The patent itself, like many software patents, uses vague language to describe "a system and method for generating computer applications in an arbitrary object framework." The patent involves creating "objects" in a web-based application. These objects are managed throughout their life cycle in an object library and put together to create complex, interactive web applications. The whole mechanism separates design, function, and content so that each can be developed separately.

To anyone who has some knowledge of web-based software development, it sounds a lot like what Sun's Java or Apple's WebObjects were doing before .NET was even released. In fact, the patent even admits as such: "Prior art solutions have succeeded in partially separating some of these functions. Notably, content management databases and digital repositories provide a means of separating content from form and function." It then defends the need for this separate patent with the incredibly vague assertion that "content management tools typically fail to address form/function issues."

I've used a few content management tools in my time, and none of them have failed to separate content from function—that's basically the entire point of content management systems. The patent goes on to claim that "changes in design or content do not require the intervention of a programmer." Again, it's difficult to see how this is different from any other existing solutions, many of which predate Vertical Computing's efforts.

Even if the patent did describe functionality that was unique to products like SiteFlash, it will be difficult to argue that Microsoft's .NET frameworks are infringing on these ideas.

A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars Technica that the company "has not yet been served with a copy of the lawsuit and that it would be premature for us to comment."

Like I've said for a long time, software patents are pretty hard to enforce. I hope Vertical wins this, but I'm not holding my breath.


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  A Hollow Head Makes A Lovely Vase 

Imagine. According to the patent expert here (who knows nothing of the software or technology) Microsoft has nothing to fear. And yet Microsoft still won't introduce their products. And our little expert is still all by himself... alone...

And let him answer this  I wrote specifically to counter the numbnut developers with bias and self-interests:

Port's Reply to SiteFlash Patent Challenge

...and when you're done there move on to here. He won't follow. 

Is XML Enabler Agent Patent Infringement next?

Now. Compare THAT to the 'expert' in the first post... and consider agendae and motive. 

And THEN he has the desperate gall to try to comment on the Charles Northrup patents LOL I've covered Northrup's work already here

... so after the fire engine companies left we ate Mrs.O'Leary's pet bovine.

but you should see what our expert has to say since apparently he refuses to read anything I write...

By: tepe
14 May 2007, 07:10 PM EDT
Msg. 185218 of 185223

Northrup's Latest Patent: Legitimate or Just "A Silly Claim"?

(April 23, 2003) - In an odd twist, even though the WWW was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and the first public release of a WWW client and server was in 1991, such 'prior art' (as it is known in patent circles) seems not to have discouraged New Jersey-based Charlie Northrup from claiming patent number 6,546,413 ['Access Method Independent Exchange Using a Communication Primitive']. The result - for the US Office of Patents and Trademarks granted it after many years of deliberation - according to many commentators including Maureen O'Gara of LinuxGram, is that Northrup now holds the patent on nothing less universal than what we now call 'Web services.'

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/40611_f.htm

Read the commentary on this website. My fear is that VCSY's patent is similar to this. There are a lot of "bogus" patents out there, whether you pumpers want to believe it or not.

If the patent is good, VCSY will prevail regardless of what's posted here.

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Read Pilgrim. You will learn. Of course, not if you listen to "experts: such as our little friend. Ask him how much he knows about the subjects he's commenting on. Go ahead... _ask.

RapidRobert offers information on Microsoft moves with open-source from the past. http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=185232

Just a small example of what is in the post:

Microsoft denies Ballmer Linux 'warning'
Tags: Windows, Linux, Microsoft
Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK

Published: 23 Nov 2004 17:05 GMT

Microsoft has denied reports that it warned Asian governments that they will face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software.

At the Microsoft's Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Linux violates more than 228 patents and that companies will be at risk of legal action if they use Linux, according to Reuters. 

"Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO [World Trade Organisation], somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property," said Ballmer, according to the Reuters report.

A Microsoft spokesperson said that in the presentation Ballmer had merely passed on the information from a study carried out by a pro-Linux third party.

"The reporter got it wrong. This was not a Microsoft report nor is this a Microsoft 'warning'," said the spokesperson. "Steve [Ballmer] was referring to a study done by the Linux community group Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), a pro-free and open-source software organisation."

But Dan Ravicher, the author of the OSRM study and the executive director of the Public Patent Foundation, criticised Microsoft for using soundbites from the report.

"Balmer makes a very bold statement by saying 'Linux infringes X patents', which is much different than saying 'Linux potentially infringes X patents', as the requirement to prove infringement is much stiffer and more difficult than the requirement to simply file a case claiming infringement," said Ravicher. "As the SCO saga shows, filing a case based on an allegation is one thing, proving the merits of the allegation in court is something completely different."

Ravicher added that he feels Microsoft's customers are more at risk of being sued for patent infringement than those who use open-source.
"Not a single open-source software program has ever been sued for patent infringement, much less be found to infringe, while proprietary software, like Windows, is sued and found guilty of patent infringement quite frequently," said Ravicher. 

Useful background stuff that puts the bear's dance into a stage with music. November 2004... where have I heard that date before?

Oh, my, this is going to be deliciously wicked.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 7:40 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007 11:20 PM EDT

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If you folks ever want to get more adrenaline and emotion per poke than participating in a Texas TittyTwister you should log on and opineonate on RagingBull. It's guerilla investment at it's finest.

By: RapidRobert2
11 May 2007, 01:35 PM EDT
Msg. 184968 of 184983
(This msg. is a reply to 184960 by DC-Steve.)

Steve: Duh! "I really don't get it"...So why are you here, again?

Why are you attacking supporters of VCSY? Why are you making 'WILD' accusations against supporters of VCSY? WHY have you in the past stated VCSY wouldn't make it, they were going out of business? WHY ARE YOU HERE! And, you are soooo concerned supporters are responding to NONSENSE from bashers that you are now here daily posting the same NONSENSE as you have for YEARS..and YOU 'really don't get it'? Duh! I 'don't get' why you are here again, except you have an uncanny way of showing up right before a BIG EVENT FOR VCSY!

"What is it you guys are protecting your investment from again?'..

From bashers like you posting false information and making accusations against supporters of VCSY while throwing in negatives against VCSY. Misstatements and 'TWISTING' of information so you can post junk against the company...pleze do NOT respond that you haven't done it...ALL of YOU BASHERS are and have.

"Several of you have been making statements to the effect that you have to respond to so-called "bashers" so they won't succeed in hurting your investment in VCSY"

LONGS respond to correct the misstatements and FALSE information posted by BASHERS, like YOURSELF. I KNOW some of the bashers would like to HARM VCSY...Just like you have over the years because you are 'disgruntled' and your 'ego' bruised by LONGS and you simply can't take it.

"How, exactly, could these "bashers" - most of whom are actually long time VCSY investors themselves - possibly hurt your investment in VCSY?"

Excuse me, but HOW DO YOU KNOW they are 'actually long time VCSY investors'? I doubt if many even own ANY shares, just because someone says they own stock doesn't mean they do and the FACT they are posting attacks against VCSY is a pretty good sign they NEVER owned any shares and are HERE FOR THEIR OWN AGENDA...LIKE YOU! WHY are you here? Why are you attacking honest LONGS and making up WILD accusations against some of us? Again, YOUR MOTIVES are indeed questionable.

""Bashers" can't stop VCSY from prevailing in their patent litigation and "bashers" can't affect the amount of money VCSY might get from the litigation."

YOU and the other bashers would love to try...and ARE trying, just failing in your poor efforts, that is a FACT! WHY are you posting false information? Why are you attacking supporters of VCSY? Why are you here? WHY do you show up when an important EVENT is about to happen? HOW do you KNOW when to return and start the same NONSENSE you have for YEARS?

""Bashers" can't stop VCSY from making billions of dollars liscensing their IP to MSFT, IBM, Verizon and every other Fortune 500 company."

But, YOU and the other BASHERS are certainly trying to harm VCSY with your CONSTANT attacks and MISINFORMATION about the company AND supporters of VCSY. WHY are YOU here, again? Why are you using so much of YOUR TIME if it isn't worth it and doesn't have any effect on the stock or supporters of VCSY...WHY are you using your worktime to post here so often these days? WHY!

"You all claim to be very confident - or in RR's case absolutely positive - that VCSY is on the verge of making billions from liscensing their IP. If you're anywhere close to being right, then the Pope himself could bash 24/7 and it would not stop VCSY's share price from experiencing what would have to be one of the fastest and largest price increases in the history of the stock market."

MORE misstatements of what is posted by LONGS. I stated over and over to correct your misstatements that MSFT will sign the license agreements for less than the 'billions' but if they don't and it goes to court...then look for 'BILLIONS' to be awarded by the court for the INFRINGEMENT by MSFT of VCSY technology over SIX YEARS and the FUTURE profit MSFT will make off of illegally using the VCSY Tech. WHY are you and the other BASHERS POSTING HERE 24/7? You have NO REASON to bash the stock or supporters but yet...YOU are NOW POSTING DAILY and during your WORK HOURS and other BASHERS ARE POSTING SEVEN DAYS 24 HOURS A DAY ON THIS BOARD TO HARM VCSY? WHY? You question why LONGS with an INVESTMENT ARE HERE TO RESPOND TO THE NONSENSE OF BASHERS but then throw a question of WHY LONGS post here. WHY are you here, again? IF you don't understand WHY LONGS ARE POSTING HERE then YOU CERTAINLY MUST QUESTION WHY A BASHER, LIKE YOURSELF ARE HERE 24/7 or all day during their work day, like YOU. Don't YOU actually HAVE OTHER work to do rather than spend your DAY writing and POSTING NONSENSE on this board?

"So why do you waste your time attacking and trying to discredit "bashers" - and typically employing dishonest tactis in these attacks - when they can't possibly have any significant impact on how VCSY and its stock price will perform? What logic leads you to the conclusion that you have to take on the "bashers" to protect your investment?"

SO, WHY DO YOU WASTE YOUR TIME ATTACKING AND TRYING TO DISCREDIT LONGS AND SUPPORTERS OF VCSY? Why worry about why LONGS are posting here since you DO NOT WONDER why BASHERS ARE HERE! I sincerely think you MUST KNOW WHY YOU AND THE BASHERS ARE HERE since you aren't questioning WHY YOU ARE POSTING HERE AND WASTING YOUR TIME!

WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME POSTING HERE to ATTACK supporters of VCSY and HARM THE COMPANY? That should be the QUESTION...it should be OBVIOUS WHY LONGS are here.


"I really don't get it. Can any of you Defenders of the Faith explain what you mean when you say it's necessary to defend your investment in VCSY against "bashers"?"

CAN ANY OF YOU BASHERS, ESPECIALLY STEVE, EXPLAIN WHY IT IS NECESSARY FOR YOU TO ATTACK LONGS, SUPPORTERS OF THE COMPANY AND TRY TO HARM OUR INVESTMENT AND THE COMPANY, VCSY?. WHY do you BASHERS of HATE post here? Why are you attempting to HARM our INVESTMENT? WHY are you posting FALSE information, MISinformation, and make up FALSE accusations against LONGS and SUPPORTERS of the company? WHY are you
BASHERS 'TWISTING' the words of LONGS and management to post NONSENSE?

I REALLY DON'T GET IT? EXPLAIN again why you are wasting your time, with lil invested, if ANY, to post on this board?

I REALLY DON'T GET IT? And there is only one reason...YOU HAVE AN AGENDA TO BE HERE AND BE NEGATIVE AGAINST THE COMPANY AND LONGS!

Steve: Thanks for the laughs! That is the most funny post you have ever done! And, shows you are even MORE in a FRANTIC PANIC than I could even imagine.

Thanks for showing yourself.
RR
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Would somebody just clear up a problem for me? If old Direct Current is getting paid to post on VCSY Raging Bull , why is he spending so much time defeneding what he's doing. I thought he was supposed to 'bash' but he throws a gravel shotgun then puts up the garbage can lid and gets pummeled into the dirt with boulders. HA HA HEEE 

Not having fun in the neighborhood. He broke wind for the little newpaper kerfuffel about Microsoft Buys Yahoo! Thursday night... when he should have been home kissin' missis chicken. Instead, he's moonlighting for the wolf. Nice guy. He rolls through the VCSY message board at night and over the weekend to distract the natives and... baboom... they wake up and roll him into a Roy Roger's lunch box.

Meatloaf in a lunchbox... not a pretty sight. It means carelessness and lack of planning and awareness. It speaks to perhaps somebody drinking and then thinking "heck, why not take a spin through the old neighborhod and get even with those little bastids fer tweaking me like that the last time. Skint up the paint on the old Olds."

And then it happens, somebody rolls over you with a Buick.

Question is... which dumbass let his kid ride out in the skreet? 

But, and this is the salient question for so many traders out there, why is such a high dollar guy going to waste so much time on there if all he's going to do is try to patch up the public impression of himself and make off back to thhis other places of enjoyment with a shred of dignity? 

He's arguing with a religious cult about why he should be allowed to post on their site or not? Is it a constitutional question for old Doc Cobbin  and is he going for the politick? Maybe the boy is more into the legal occupation than we thimk. Maybe he knows a reputation is a terrible thing to waste and now he's seing what skillful fire ants can do to your weekend pleasure.

Whoap... nevermind. Somebody called the ambulance already.

By: arthurarnsley
11 May 2007, 02:22 PM EDT
Msg. 184996 of 184999
(This msg. is a reply to 184983 by DC-Steve.)

DC-Steve - Actually Steve he needs therapy. eom


(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Hold; LT Rating- Hold)

Ewwww Guts.

By: DC-Steve
11 May 2007, 02:23 PM EDT
Msg. 184997 of 185020
(This msg. is a reply to 184992 by dfl_15.)

dfl, you skipped a critical step in the logical thought process there.

You assumed RR is correct in stating that I and other "bashers" show up just in advance of big news or big developments, and you concluded this suggests the possession of inside information.

Problem: you didn't verify the assumption RR gave you. If you attempt to do so and you're more careful in your analysis than you were when jumping the the conclusion RR lured you toward, then you'll find that the assumption is invalid. i??
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Whoops here comes some alchohol and peroxeyed. THAT's gonna hurt.

By: beachbumlb
11 May 2007, 01:43 PM EDT
Msg. 184973 of 185000

Persistent aren't they?

By: bhaas2
28 Jan 2005, 10:18 PM EST
Msg. 345624 of 346262
(This msg. is a reply to 345623 by DC-Steve.)
Jump to msg. #


Hey, DC, what stock are you bashing now? I do have to admit that you have a very smooth, and effective, style.


(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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Poor baby dinkycurrency got boobos.

Color me Crumpled

Hey look... he's talking. I think that's his mouth... it's all bloody and puckered...

By: DC-Steve
11 May 2007, 03:27 PM EDT
Msg. 185056 of 185064
(This msg. is a reply to 185042 by arthurarnsley.)

arthur,

You're very perceptive and wise for a VCSY investor! Praise not intended to be faint, I added the caveat for the benefit of others.

Yes, I have previously allowed the flaky character of VCSY's most vocal supporters to influence my attitude about the company. I figured that out a while ago and I don't think I harbor that unconscious bias any longer.

I've been thinking about buying some shares at these prices. I figure if MSFT just settles for, let's say, $20 million the news is likely to generate a spike that goes beyond a rational valuation for a little while. In the event the cult turns out to be right, which would be a matter of coincidence more so than insight, and VCSY generates billions from the patents, so much the better. i??

Hot damm he done figgered it out. Y'all call his mama and tell her he be walking and wiping all by hisself in a couple more months at this rate.

Who's kid is that anyway? Nobody knows this kid from out of nowhere but he's supposed to be well known in the rest of the city.

Hey WAIT! That's the little $#!@head that stuck that broom handle through my mailbox! Darlene! Go get your mama's keys and tell her Jilly needs 'em. 

Hey Look all y'all. He says he learnt which side of the skreet to ride on when he comes through this neighborhood. Musta knocked some sense into him or it was that religious pamphlet. Hey, bring me mama's turkey baster and some mangowango koolaid out the refrigeraider. We'll get him liquidated for when the Sun comes out behind that cloud.

Whoa whut's that brown stuff comin' out of his mouth?

eeeeewwwwwwww 

That ain't his mouth, y'all!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkk

Well, he's still kicking but this time he's kicking about posts getting deleted on the Raging Bull message board. Now, why woul dthis kid be so upset about people saying Raging Bull makes a practice of accommodating folks (certain special folks, that is) by deleting posts they've made that may have words in them that woul dprove ... shall we sayyyy... uncomfortable for later reading?

http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=185313

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:26 PM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 3:59 PM EDT

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Come in Car 30. Green Wienie calling.

Uhhh... Car 30 here.

What's your 20?

Twenty?

Location.

Oh. Right. My twenty is outside the cult headquarters. They got some music blaring on the loudspeaker and it's really groovy... hey sweety, what's your name. Wanna talk to Mister Mikerphone?... heh heh... what's your friend's na... click

Car 20. Green Wienie. Over... Car 20 Green Weinie... Damn it. Lost another patrol to that damn Cult of the Denuded Treefort. They're Satarists, I tell ya. Ever last damn one of them is out to piss me off. Wha... wha... what's THAT? Up in the sky?. 

See THAT? It's a omen! Them cultists are coming after me. Aaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh. 

Was that the Police Commissioner? 

I think so.

Hmmm... Looks like THIS stakeout is blown. You going over to the cult party tonight?

Yep. Soon as I can drop off my nightstick.

Hey, look. Here's a pamphlet the Commissioner dropped. Looks like it was put out by his church, The Recrustificated Church of the Piously Puckered. Here's their deacon Brother Nosterinuimus Bumfustead DD pFUD and no JOB.

By: DC-Steve
10 May 2007, 03:46 PM EDT
Msg. 184844 of 184859

Courtesy of Wikipedia [with my commentary in brackets]:

Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. During Groupthink, members of the group avoid promoting viewpoints outside the comfort zone of consensus thinking. A variety of motives for this may exist such as a desire to avoid being seen as foolish, or a desire to avoid embarrassing or angering other members of the group. Groupthink may cause groups to make hasty, irrational decisions, where individual doubts are set aside, for fear of upsetting the group's balance. The term is usually used as a derogatory term after the results of a bad decision.


Symptoms of groupthink

-- A feeling of invulnerability creates excessive optimism and encourages risk taking. [invulnerability - as in the belief one can see the future in precise detail and this vision is not vulnerable to error. Even when it's obvious to almost everyone there are too many variables to have great confidence in any predictions about the specific scenario in question]

-- Discounting warnings that might challenge assumptions. [as in warnings that no one knows with any certainty what the future holds in store for us . . . other than death]

-- An unquestioned belief in the group's morality, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions. [Your group's cause is noble and your vision of the future is irrefutably destined to come true, so without even really thinking about it you decide it's morally OK to follow the leaders by practicing random character assassination when you have no reason to believe any of your accusations are true and by intentionally deceiving random strangers who read a message board. It's for their own good, after all.]

-- Stereotyped views of enemy leaders. [including IMAGINARY enemies I would add]

-- Pressure to conform against members of the group who disagree. [any former Friends of Portuno and RapidRob who got kicked out of their VCSY club for your acts of apostasy will immediately recognize this symptom]

-- Shutting down of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus. [no need for this any more - everyone left in the club is not currently capable of independently forming their own ideas]

-- An illusion of unanimity with regards to going along with the group. [may not be an illusion any more in the case of the VCSY cult]

-- Mindguards — self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting opinions. [Hey, sounds like they've met RapidRob!]
 

Bwaaaahh ha ha haaa that's too funny. Hey, bring that with you tonight and we can let some of the treefort sisters give us their interpretation of "Pressure to conform against members of the group who disagree". Bring the cuffs.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:58 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 6:03 PM EDT

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Mood:  smelly

The following notes are my opining on the following article. My notes are [bracketed in the funky font and yellow]. Bolds are mine.

Better read the Excerpts and DISCLAIMER before proceeding or you'll wet your bibbies.

Useful: Der TIMELINE vershtinken mit dem appleboosterfitzen

October 17, 2006

Excerpted 

Zod explained that this is a new system that was built out as an Internet system. It is very modular, very expandable. Only a small piece of it, all the way in the backend is from the Overture.
[So we know this isn't Overture technology but I DO wonder what just that 'small piece' from Overture stuffed all the way in the back end is.] Zod explains why Panama took so long to develop. Yahoo bought Overture in 2003. They first had to get their arms around this large system and it was growing like a weed. They learned that the existing system won't take them where they need to go. So they had to start from scratch. [Hmmm... sounds eerily like the 'Longhorn rewrite of 2004'.] They couldn't use the existing team because they were maintaining Overture. They deployed a new team to build out the new Panama. That took a while. [But it was all done by July 18, 2006 code complete when deployment was delayed.] I quoted http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061011-094042 and they denied the sucking them up drive quote from the NY Times. [See Footnote 1] 10% of his dev team is on Panama, so it is not the case. Brian adds that the integration is key, putting together several pieces and optimize that. Take in huge amount of advertisers, ad types and bring in all of Yahoo products and integrate them [gee.... sounds like SiteFlash to me.]. Brain said they are in a good position, and the key is putting in place a system, and org structure to make them work [thus 'we need a human organization and workflow' meaning this is something organic in Yahoo or they would have already had this in place. Would that we could take a look at the skillsets of folks perhaps laid off or reassigned via the Panama delay.]. With Panama it is about the platform. And they can truly sit down and they is one Yahoo [They sho is, boss. Want me to bring the car around? Want us po' boys and po' womens want to invent something else so y'alls can steal it? Hyuk hyuk hyuk. Yassa, Massa Bill done give us a real cobbin' and you all's done gave us alls some woik. Mighty obliged.]. Zed added that they have a test discipline. Testing concepts, etc [sounds to me like governance coupled with perhaps an idealized simulation regime or continuous activity audit (why not both? - the distributive nature will allow for scale in speed)], gives them a huge edge. Zed responds to Microsoft adCenter's advanced targeting, explaining that if it is too specific, it may not get used. He then responds about click fraud, that they have the most experience with fraud and they are state of the art by far [I would say only if they have IA, StatePointPlus and TecSec. Otherwise that horse needs new shoes.]. It will be a race the whole time.

...........

More excerpts:

Account Structure
- Current structure is flat, like a giant spreadsheet
- New structure is a dynamic structure, more flexible, more relational

[Sounds to me like an unstructured data regime that may be treated relationally. Where have we heard THAT kind of language before?]
-- There are controls at different levels of the hierarchy. Campaign level such as daily spend limit, monthly budget, scheduling, optimization setting and guidelines, default tactic settings, geo-targeting, watch list flag. Ad Group level such as tactic settings, watch list flag, optimization guidelines, creative optimization settings. Keyword level, editorial status, marketplace bid, custom landing URL, alternate text, tactic settings, watch list flag. Ad level, show, long description, landing URL, display URL and editorial status. [Sounds like a WHOLE lot of integration and it was all remedied in 90 days. Hmmm. Then they had to go and put together a culture to be able to deal with the new skill sets and management/governance/testing requirements. A whole LOT of integration going on... how DID they do all that?]

............................

Live Demo of a test account done for us...
- Lots of AJAX

[No doubt – the response should be snappy like a desktop and that's what AJAX was originally staged to address as Microsoft's XMLhttpRequest (and it does what its name suggests – if it's so adequate,why, then, is Microsoft chasing the RSS domain? The XMLhttpArena crowded? No, it's not. Taken? Hmmmm. You may have a point there.).]

[AJAX isn't the issue – the technology used to implement the architecture is not the question in a novel patent – the defined (and in VCSY's place executed) architecture, the enveloping form, and the products produced are the 'question' in question. The degree to which you might integrate the various functions or not when you aim for the same deliverable may make an infringement difficult to prove (complexity by fogged boundaries), the delivered product proves the concepts are in use. This is a dynamic environment where the code is continuously managed and governed even while in use throughout the application's life-cycle. ]

- Same people who helped develop Yahoo! Mail helped with lots of portions on the YSM Panama Interface
[This tells me it's more important you know messaging and transactional scheduling than application building. Uhhhh... yeah.]
- "Watched campaigns" flag, cute
[? Is it cute that machines are 'watching' the campaigns? That's what I think is cute.]
- Within a campaign you see the ad groups, in a similar interface and layout
[Sounds like dynamic content/format management; 'dynamic' meaning any content in any format at any time.]
- Dynamic AJAX drive adjust bid tool, with neat sliders
[In the WebWorld (as opposed to the proprietary object world), AJAX tools will be the realm of really fine looking and well thought-through tooling and the virtualization capability will offer an arbitrary actionface for mating up a control with any other control or feature to build composite format objects that possess knowledge, look. feel and do.]

[The 'feel' of 'look and feel' is what many mistake for 'function' when they erroneously problaim content/format/function management have been combined before. Sorry, pilgrim. You're looking for the Holy Grail Chuggin' Pub on Congress and Commons. Automation is what 'function' means and it means you step out of the boundaries of the 'twist a nob, emote an emation' idea of actuation to providing a service as well as a GUI functionality.]

[And because the assembly of components under a SiteFlash ecology allows for assembling anythin with anything, some envelop pushing concepts will emerge from those people who know more about the subject matter than developers... given developer power with their own industry jargon and actuations. You know some neat and cool and swell animobjects that combine to perform useful automation like balancing your checkbook will be be fashioned together and made available that could, say, do it all right there at the tool on your machine (including thin client) so none of your 'stuff', like, 'goes' anywhere.]

[It's all local or cloud and the 'best security' is the kind that identifies the machines, the configurations, the activity and the strongest encryption architecture available and VCSY markets that... in some instances exclusively with options for a broader range of exclusivity.]
- Shows how budget changes, how they affect the overall campaign
- He shows the "Reports Navigator", you can plot graphs dynamically, etc.

[yada yada yada – like I said, 1. SiteFlash provides an architectural framework to hang all your applications and data/actuation resources (patent #6,826,744) – 2. Emily provides a dynamic, typeless language to describe web applications in abstracted forms up to and beyond human language (patent pending – blocked by {are you ready?} FrontPageTM) – 3. MLE engine provides a virtual executor/agent to conduct the automation described in the Emily language (patent #7,076,521).]

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[MY NOTES]

[Panama - In the real world, Panama contains a canal connecting one ocean to the next ocean. In a technical framework; This is an interconnection/interoperation functionality which, would of necessity, need XML to conduct an interchange (such inter-operation requires the passing of arbitrary typeless messages being sent between two parties).]

[Roosevelt - In the real world, Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt was president (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt) responsible for the Panama Canal. I would think 'Roosevelt' is a very high level construction supervisor to resolve elements at conflict able to knit virtualized objects and elements... able to apply parameters and commands to the project... an application builder. ]

[Cranium - is where it is all figgered out. The hypervisor oversees roosevelt and panama and allows an overview of the entire architecture and all the elements therein with an ability to make arbitrary every element and interface or interconnect for interaction or interoperation.]

[See Footnote 3] 

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[Footnote 1]

[Excerpts for Reference from above mentioned URL http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061011-094042 Article Posted by Barry Schwartz on Oct. 11, 2006]

[(1) They made a bid at YouTube but those deals broke down, according to the article, and Google "swooped" them up.]

[(2) The new Yahoo search ad system, Panama, is over a year delayed. This "delay has sucked up the company’s engineering resources and prevented it from developing new advertising products.]

[Footnote 2] [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Oo48vBopDs4J:news.com.com/Gates%2BLonghorn%2Bchanged%2Bto%2Bmake%2Bdeadlines/2008-1016_3-5327377.html+longhorn+rewrite&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us By Michael Kanellos and Ina Fried Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: August 27, 2004, 1:33 PM PDT Microsoft on Friday set late 2006 as the deadline for it to ship Longhorn, the next major version of Windows.]

[Footnote ongoing]

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 1:22 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 18 May 2007 7:15 PM EDT

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Mood:  hug me

Modeling is a science.

The clothes are the industry's desire.

The model is the palette.

The ability to mold tools is what allows horizontal adoption.

Industry knowledge and science and art and culture are all content locked up in the 80% of data computers can not touch (at least under DB2 9 [codename Vipers] it can). Thus, these elements of an industry have not yet been translated well into the modeling  industry, for instance. Why? How many artistic geeks are there... really? It's a blend of each (we think) A real typist glides across the keys and is able to trip the switch with the least effort, so it can do what it's supposed to do and move along.

The fingers of a typist address each key in a sequence that is magnitudes more refined than ours. Why is it I know how to touch type and well enough to translate that knowledge into some sort of GUI and underware yet the fastest I can get is the fastest I can go and the best I can reveal is the limit to which you will gain
an expert expression.

A real typist with the technological knowledge I know would be able to devise methods and tests to improve typing performance in large pools of admin talent while they do their work. How? By watching their movement and workflow with each document. By implanting transparent tests in each document the system can track troughout the document lifetime in order to identify bottlenecks. By applying standards of excellence amongst 'top ten' indicators throughout the corporate, governmental, cultural, societal evolution in this monkey-speak we call 'technology'.

The synergy between 'arbitration' (SiteFlash) and 'virtualization' (MLE) and 'actuation' (Emily) mean there is a mediator between process one and process two, a 'know everything necessary' individual acting as an agent between the known and the unknown to act.

Once you see the organic nature of 'technospeak' in a new paradigm where technological functions are not described by a crypto shorthand, but a full fledged wordism driven by a love of man for the sense of order and art in balance, you will be light years ahead of the past-paradigm developers who will always be second best in any industry vertical.

Lucifer was the Morning Star in charge of what we in this world would come to call entertainment. Maybe his problem originated with having only God to entertain.

That is, he was the Morning Star in cultures who believe in such things. These people believe in an entity formed out of cohesive energy capable of full rational and transdental thought. The perfect sense of vibrations gave it a command over the one thing any higher form would appreciate to pass an eternity in the elevator... muzak.

Art or Engineering? That is always the balance point for societal change.

The model walks the runway to show the clothes. The clothes are not there to show the model.

The face does the talking. We're supposed to be watching that instead of focused on what 'it' looks like.

Software is supposed to serve the needs of the customer. Not the customer having to select from an elite cadre of professionals for a servant.

If THAT's how software works, then the world's rationale demands all users take control of their own destiny.

And that envelopes the whole of any future thought in the paradigm.

heh heh heh
pd

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 1:03 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 6 May 2007 1:10 PM EDT

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Mood:  special

Bill Gates sells 2,987,500 shares of MSFT at around $30 (~$90,000,000) and the reaction is odd. What I mean is I haven't heard the thoroughly duped mobs screaming in the streets yet.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000090201207000026/xslF345X02/edgar.xml 

I have to say I think Bill Gates is doing the smart thing by selling here. SMart but not necessarily good-guy-like. The more obvious question is, will he be riding south to hole up?

I say strip him of every freckle from that Alfred E. Neuman head.

What? Me worry? 

By: 4sirius2
03 May 2007, 07:37 PM EDT
Msg. 184082 of 184085
(This msg. is a reply to 184081 by 4sirius2.)

He's selling near the high for the year, and when the market has topped. Smart play. If you crank in speculation that there's more
trouble ahead for the company and their .Net Framework, then you
have a more compelling cause. You might go farther out on the
proverbial limb and say that they might be in negotiations while
stalling for insiders to exit at the optimum point before settling.

Many times there are more than one or two reasons for something
happening.

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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By: mm-buster
03 May 2007, 07:51 PM EDT
Msg. 184083 of 184087
(This msg. is a reply to 184082 by 4sirius2.)

sirius, I smelt a rat after this PR

By: mm-buster
27 Apr 2007, 06:17 PM EDT
Msg. 157071 of 157148
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1.7 Billion in deferred revenue(sounds fishy) imo

http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/27/microsoft-vista-zune-pf-ii-in_jd_0427newsletterwatch_inl.html?partner=yahootix

By: mm-buster
26 Apr 2007, 08:35 PM EDT
Msg. 157052 of 157133
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I think the numbers could be inflated, so the big boys can sell-off at top dollar! lil VCSY is gonna slay this giant! just my opinion

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- No Position; ST Rating- Strong Sell; LT Rating- Strong Sell)


AP
Microsoft COO Sells Shares
Wednesday May 2, 2:38 pm ET
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Brian Kevin Turner Sells 120,000 Shares

NEW YORK (AP) -- The chief operating officer of Microsoft sold 120,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC Tuesday, Brian Kevin Turner reported he sold the shares Monday for $30.03 to $30.06 apiece.

Insiders file Form 4s with the SEC to report transactions in their companies' shares. Open market purchases and sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction.

Microsoft is based in Redmond, Wash.


(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 8:11 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 3 May 2007 8:40 PM EDT

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Mood:  spacey

For those of you wondering why nobody seems to be talking about VCSY: There are a grand total of less than 300 readers on this blog. No $#!@. Which means the audience for VCSY related discussion on a daily basis must be small indeed.

Of course, what that signifies is that any VCSY news sufficient to propel knowledge about the company's current and future state (as opposed to the past state that was pummeled and trashed by negative operatives) will boost above that 300 'diehard fans' number and the stock is tightly held as it stands.

So, we wait.

No, Rastamuffalato is not going to get famous for his magnificent writing at that rate. VCSY won't move as a stock price at that rate either.

The basic truth is: Nobody believes what has been written here or in other places about VCSY so poor Rasta is forced to sit alone on his tuffet twiddling his tomes.

So, if you are likewise wondering why the ladyfinger didn't pop when the match gets put to the fuse, you have a brother in conflict with tepe the magnificents. 

Enjoy reading. In the days ahead, I would like to analyze why a poster like this got it so wrong. It may be useful to see how hoghead cheese is made.

By: tepe
02 May 2007, 05:24 PM EDT
Msg. 183995 of 184030
(This msg. is a reply to 183770 by wacalahan.)

wacalahan, excellent question and one which has been asked here a lot (but it will label you a "basher"). If the "46 reasons" are so great, we should be a lot higher than 2.7 cents. Read through the "46 reasons" and you can distill it down to a few speculative items. But RR loves to add to the list and post endlessly, even though some of the "46 reasons" are 6-7 years old.

This company might have some potential, but it could all fizzle like the Ross lawsuit did. That suit was hyped all last summer, and posters like RR were saying VCSY could get $10-100 million in a verdict. They got $1.3 million plus interest for an alleged $3.5 million in damages when it was all over.

The MSFT lawsuit could be a big deal, if they are really infringing on VCSY's Siteflash patent, and the patent is deemed valid in court. There is a risk that it's deemed too broad and thrown out. OTOH, they could win a significant amount if the verdict is in VCSY's favor. Aside from that, NOW Solutions doesn't appear to be growing, and they're currently the ONLY source of revenue for the company.

The pumpers claim there is an IBM connection to Viper (DB2) but that has never been proven and no revenue has been showing up in the recent filings even though Viper has been shipping for months. I think that's a dead issue....IMO. I see no other revenue source at this time, and it's going to take revenue to move this stock.

If you haven't read the filings, you should. It helps you cut through the hype and specualtion here.

Take what you read here with a grain of salt, and be careful investing. I'm hanging in here just to see how things pan out over the next few months....maybe. GLTY.i??
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Posted by Portuno Diamo at 11:11 AM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:12 AM EDT

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Mood:  smelly

I go on a mad tear sometimes because there are so many small yet solid indications as we get closer and closer to the deadline for Microsoft to show something for the past five years of atrophy and denial.

BUT this blog will soon get to look like a Daffy Duck comic book with so many things popping up so I've decided to dedicate one post to something that really gets my goat... sheep... whatever.

So it will pop up from time to time and (hopefully - there's a size limit) will hold the items of irritation so we can track the path Microsoft bile makes through our own digestive system. Disgusting thought I know, but it really is that vile to use power, influence and money to buy time and favor... tsk tsk tsk.

Oh, well, the truth will out. It does always. It will also now. 

So if you see this post pop up from time to time you can use it to watch your path from the back seat of the station wagon, as it were.

Tonight's travesty will map Microsoft's statements (just as they've been made with Mary Jo) with various experts and incidencts so we can see where they are headed and where they've always been.

There may be no analysis or opinion from me. Just an information osmosis therapy to feed the little potted plant of anger and righteous indignation. Sorry... I should collect my wits, such as they are, and sit quietly in the corner over here whilst you peruse and amuse and abuse and lose shoes and get blues. I get the feeling 'getting blued' is not going to have the same happy connotation it used to for some of you folks. We're just all going to read carefully and let them tell us where they're going. That way we can be there right with them when they finally arrive. 

It's all good.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:58 AM EDT

Updated: Friday, 27 April 2007 3:08 AM EDT

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Mood:  celebratory

I don't like cluttering up the place with thingks but rumors are another think altogether. No matter how vociferously the rumored subject denies and refries, the object rumor usually turn out to be true.

Like remember last year when Vista was going to be a rewrite and that was a rumor? And remember when Leopard was going to be a no show and that was a rumor? Yeah. Rumors are cool.

Here's a good one.

By: 4sirius2
26 Apr 2007, 10:30 PM EDT
Msg. 183646 of 183647

http://millionaires.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=main&action=display&thread=1177588342

Hello all. I just interviewed a candidate who currently works
at TD Ameritrade....Here's the scoop.

Ameritrade is going under. TD Waterhouse will more than likely
buy out Ameritrade therefore Ameritrade will ultimately disapper.
She elaborated on the MANY short positions that Ameritrade has
and how the merge with TD Waterhouse saved them for a moment....

--Boaz


And some Ameritrade, NITE news:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-16017193.htm

Ameritrade sold their investment in NITE...

It seemed a bit incestuous if NITE was the MM for Ameritrade,
maybe the largest OTC broker. Are we witnessing the covering of some shorts to offer cover for Ameritrade on the skids? 4 sirius

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

I didn't know Ameritrade was based in Omaha. I wonder if Warren has his pudgies stuck in there somewheres? 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 10:50 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:33 PM EDT

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