we sign agreements to say, "If we get overpaid, or udner, the company can rectify that w/ the bank directly, w/o us."
Well, you might. I would regard that as a fairly outrageous clause to put into a contract. Hell, my current employers don't even have the right to deduct overpayments from my next month's pay without my permission.
Does it matter that the code in question was 'removed from the code because it was ugly'? It was still obviously there in the first place and used as a basis for the new code.
Only if it comes to assessing damages (which it won't, of course). SCOs claim is in part that Linux only became 'enterprise ready' because of the magic pixie dust 'professionally written code' code of theirs.
That is kind of hard to square with the truth that the code was ugly, duplicated the function of code that was already present, and only used on an extremely obscure hardware port.
I had thought they were still govt. owned, which is a common practice in the EU.
European competition rules forbid member states financially supporting loss-making airlines. So most of them have been privatized, with varying amounts of government share ownership.
Actually, they were recognized by two countries.The governments of Germany and Belgium ended up sending official representatives to bail out their citizens.
That is pure BS. The local consulate decided that the best way to safeguard its citizens was to humour the Sealand kooks by sending round the office junior. It's their job to protect German citizens abroad.
I could pull a gun on someone and demand to see a priest. If one comes running, it doesn't mean I'm the Pope.
To physical chemists this is old hat. What this basically means is that water exists in a networkd (read hydrogen bonded) state where hydrogen and oxygen atoms are shared, so the effective formula is a bit different.
No, the editing/summary of the paper isn't very good. The thing is, one expects to the contributions of the scattering of the individual atoms to sum linearly at the energies used. An analogy might be that you found a compound that was more or less radioactive than expected from the proportion of it's constituent elements. Chemistry shouldn't affect nuclear interactions like that.
Won't affect the textbooks, don't worry!!
It will, if there is anything in it, because the published results are extremely surprising. They just may not be the chemistry ones.
At college, for anything submitted that counted to my final examination grade, I had to sign a declaration of originality. As I expect material gain from getting a good degree, it would be fraud.
They found several rogue Linux boxes, and were able to hack into them through ftpd.
It's all about control with these guys. ..
So users install Linux, are unable to do it properly and compromise the site security. System guys take over and instead of banning Linux they evilly provide them with properly configured boxes.
Geez your head really is screwed on ass backwards.
Now, I agree with the Libertarian thrust of your comments
I'm no Libertarian but IMHO it's perverse to shrug this off as "it's a free market". A not free market. A free market is where Lexmark gets to sell its printers at the price it likes (below cost or whatever), and if the competition can reverse engineer them cheaper, they get to do so.
Since when are people who donwload a GPLed project customers?
When they pay money for it. So that's more or less anyone that uses SuSE.
It's not a particularly surprising report. I never considered for a moment that the waiver of fitness for purpose was legal. You don't need to be a lawyer to figure that's likely to be true.
What next, 'EULA prohibition on reverse engineering found in 90% of commercial software likely to be illegal just about everywhere'.
In the UK, about 4 years ago. Until I'm convinced there is a cross-border cold calling problem to fix, I think it is best solved at the national level.
The use of spectrometers in discovering hydrogen has long been proven valid (the criteria for proof is all there). This is why astronomers are so confident when claiming that "planet-X", which is a couple hundred thousand light years away, has an atmosphere of mostly hydrogen.
You can do atmospheric measurements with transmitted visible light on far off planets. However, you can't get below the surface measurements.
The main technique the Mars probes have used is neutron spectroscopy. A hydrogen atom is about the same mass as a neutron, so it's good as a moderator. Neutrons are created below the surface, from cosmic ray impacts. Some earlier data from the Mars Odyssey
It's kind of sad how some people insist that software should be chosen on some lofty ideological principles instead of acknowledging the cold, hard reality that MS Windows and Office are and will be the de facto standards in business worldwide for the decades to come
Get real! Decades from now, computing is going to be nothing like today. The whole of the life of the NT family spans just over one decade. Two decades ago would you have backed MS against IBM - I think not.
I'm no Linux zealot but it's noticable that OpenOffice is making strong growth. I wouldn't dream of trying to predict beyond the next ten years but I'd give 50/50 that OpenOffice will be bigger than MS Office in 5. Even died in the wool MS types at work are looking seriously at OpenOffice, and that's only the 1.0 release.
And RCU is clearly a technology that Sequent designed for DYNIX/ptx. Sequent, as the link to RCU states, is now owned by IBM, so I suppose they'd have clear rights to this, no problem. RCU is also notoriously absent from SCO's product, so how they can claim ownership of the technology is beyond me.
I'm guessing that they claim that their contract with Sequent gives them rights over the mods Sequent made to System V, and it can't be GPLd because the developers are 'tainted'. It's hard to believe IBMs lawyers would let that slip by though.
Either I haven't been reading the news, or this hasn't made the news at all... I'm not outraged by the VAT thing, but I am a little disgruntled that I'm reading about this on Slashdot, and not in the local newspaper or on TV.
It was an EU directive that got passed into law over a year ago, that will be coming into effect at the end of the month. So there is no particularly good reason to run the story this week rather than last week or next week.
Clusters suck for some problems. Weather prediction is one classic one, fluid dynamics is a whole class of problems that suck on loosly coupled clusters. Basically you need your message passing interface latency to be much faster than one your calculation cycle or you just spin your tires waiting for results from adjacent cells. If all problems mapped well to cluster of comodity PC's then I can guarentee that Linux would be on almost all of the TOP 500 supercomputers because the cost/MIP is a fraction of the big systems.
A good example of this would be the final problems in the code book: for DES the massively parallel approach worked well but for RSA they used a chunky Alpha.
It's a polite form: just as in English we used to use the plural "you" instead of "thee" as a mark of respect. In German, you use the third-party plural and capitalize it.
That's why the second your is OK. It's not ambiguous because it's capitalized in the middle of the sentence. Who said natural languages aren't case-sensitive?
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we sign agreements to say, "If we get overpaid, or udner, the company can rectify that w/ the bank directly, w/o us."
Well, you might. I would regard that as a fairly outrageous clause to put into a contract. Hell, my current employers don't even have the right to deduct overpayments from my next month's pay without my permission.
Does it matter that the code in question was 'removed from the code because it was ugly'? It was still obviously there in the first place and used as a basis for the new code.
Only if it comes to assessing damages (which it won't, of course). SCOs claim is in part that Linux only became 'enterprise ready' because of the magic pixie dust 'professionally written code' code of theirs.
That is kind of hard to square with the truth that the code was ugly, duplicated the function of code that was already present, and only used on an extremely obscure hardware port.
Giving projects you wish to succeed names that invite misspelling isn't a very good idea
Yeah. Whatever happened to the Googol guys?
You've forgotten the RIAA's secret weapon: CD eating fungus.
Aluminium eating fungus.
MWHAAAA.
I had thought they were still govt. owned, which is a common practice in the EU.
European competition rules forbid member states financially supporting loss-making airlines. So most of them have been privatized, with varying amounts of government share ownership.
Actually, they were recognized by two countries.The governments of Germany and Belgium ended up sending official representatives to bail out their citizens.
That is pure BS. The local consulate decided that the best way to safeguard its citizens was to humour the Sealand kooks by sending round the office junior. It's their job to protect German citizens abroad.
I could pull a gun on someone and demand to see a priest. If one comes running, it doesn't mean I'm the Pope.
It's legal status was determined a long time ago
In their imagination maybe. Until it gets a seat at the UN, or is even recognised by a single real country it remains a joke.
To physical chemists this is old hat. What this basically means is that water exists in a networkd (read hydrogen bonded) state where hydrogen and oxygen atoms are shared, so the effective formula is a bit different.
No, the editing/summary of the paper isn't very good. The thing is, one expects to the contributions of the scattering of the individual atoms to sum linearly at the energies used. An analogy might be that you found a compound that was more or less radioactive than expected from the proportion of it's constituent elements. Chemistry shouldn't affect nuclear interactions like that.
Won't affect the textbooks, don't worry!!
It will, if there is anything in it, because the published results are extremely surprising. They just may not be the chemistry ones.
Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann is not a common name. Google is your friend.
Plagarism at school is NOT a crime AFAIK
At college, for anything submitted that counted to my final examination grade, I had to sign a declaration of originality. As I expect material gain from getting a good degree, it would be fraud.
They found several rogue Linux boxes, and were able to hack into them through ftpd.
.
It's all about control with these guys. .
So users install Linux, are unable to do it properly and compromise the site security. System guys take over and instead of banning Linux they evilly provide them with properly configured boxes.
Geez your head really is screwed on ass backwards.
Now, I agree with the Libertarian thrust of your comments
I'm no Libertarian but IMHO it's perverse to shrug this off as "it's a free market". A not free market. A free market is where Lexmark gets to sell its printers at the price it likes (below cost or whatever), and if the competition can reverse engineer them cheaper, they get to do so.
Also, I have heard rumblings of yet another MS worm run scheduled to run rampant over the 4th of July holiday weekend.
So if you're sysadmin on an alien spacecraft, get patching now!
Since when are people who donwload a GPLed project customers?
When they pay money for it. So that's more or less anyone that uses SuSE.
It's not a particularly surprising report. I never considered for a moment that the waiver of fitness for purpose was legal. You don't need to be a lawyer to figure that's likely to be true.
What next, 'EULA prohibition on reverse engineering found in 90% of commercial software likely to be illegal just about everywhere'.
I'm kind of disappointed that the courts think lawsuit rights are a transferrable property.
It would be much worse if you could easily lose legal liabilities, so it seems only fair that you can transfer the upside too.
when is this going to be applied in euroland?
In the UK, about 4 years ago. Until I'm convinced there is a cross-border cold calling problem to fix, I think it is best solved at the national level.
The use of spectrometers in discovering hydrogen has long been proven valid (the criteria for proof is all there). This is why astronomers are so confident when claiming that "planet-X", which is a couple hundred thousand light years away, has an atmosphere of mostly hydrogen.
You can do atmospheric measurements with transmitted visible light on far off planets. However, you can't get below the surface measurements.
The main technique the Mars probes have used is neutron spectroscopy. A hydrogen atom is about the same mass as a neutron, so it's good as a moderator. Neutrons are created below the surface, from cosmic ray impacts.
Some earlier data from the Mars Odyssey
Overheard in the halls of the Gentoo foundation, to the developers of Zynot:
"Fork you!"
As opposed to RSX folk who are often heard saying fork queue
It's kind of sad how some people insist that software should be chosen on some lofty ideological principles instead of acknowledging the cold, hard reality that MS Windows and Office are and will be the de facto standards in business worldwide for the decades to come
Get real! Decades from now, computing is going to be nothing like today. The whole of the life of the NT family spans just over one decade. Two decades ago would you have backed MS against IBM - I think not.
I'm no Linux zealot but it's noticable that OpenOffice is making strong growth. I wouldn't dream of trying to predict beyond the next ten years but I'd give 50/50 that OpenOffice will be bigger than MS Office in 5. Even died in the wool MS types at work are looking seriously at OpenOffice, and that's only the 1.0 release.
And RCU is clearly a technology that Sequent designed for DYNIX/ptx. Sequent, as the link to RCU states, is now owned by IBM, so I suppose they'd have clear rights to this, no problem. RCU is also notoriously absent from SCO's product, so how they can claim ownership of the technology is beyond me.
I'm guessing that they claim that their contract with Sequent gives them rights over the mods Sequent made to System V, and it can't be GPLd because the developers are 'tainted'. It's hard to believe IBMs lawyers would let that slip by though.
Indeed. How long until Sealand gets its own TLD?
I dunno - haven't checked the long range weather forecast for hell lately.
Quitting and failing to tell management or HR why simply perpetuates the original problem for those that stay behind.
You can bet if I quit in those sort of circumstances, I'd be suing for unfair dismissal. I'm sure the company would get the message then.
Either I haven't been reading the news, or this hasn't made the news at all... I'm not outraged by the VAT thing, but I am a little disgruntled that I'm reading about this on Slashdot, and not in the local newspaper or on TV.
It was an EU directive that got passed into law over a year ago, that will be coming into effect at the end of the month. So there is no particularly good reason to run the story this week rather than last week or next week.
Clusters suck for some problems. Weather prediction is one classic one, fluid dynamics is a whole class of problems that suck on loosly coupled clusters. Basically you need your message passing interface latency to be much faster than one your calculation cycle or you just spin your tires waiting for results from adjacent cells. If all problems mapped well to cluster of comodity PC's then I can guarentee that Linux would be on almost all of the TOP 500 supercomputers because the cost/MIP is a fraction of the big systems.
A good example of this would be the final problems in the code book: for DES the massively parallel approach worked well but for RSA they used a chunky Alpha.
How did Babelfish managed to translate it "Their"
It's a polite form: just as in English we used to use the plural "you" instead of "thee" as a mark of respect. In German, you use the third-party plural and capitalize it.
That's why the second your is OK. It's not ambiguous because it's capitalized in the middle of the sentence. Who said natural languages aren't case-sensitive?