The scarcest things in this commercialized world seem to be common sense and organization.
Advertising has some value but it should be corralled like they are in malls, shopping districts or commercial streets, not left to wander the darker boulevards, and our email boxes, like a pimp renting his trollops and/or their services by the hour or a pusher shouting "I GOT DA GOLD. I GOT DA GOLD," with boxes of "Special K" on their heads while wearing XTC T-shirts.
With a 2006 time frame, (like Windows '95 '98, NT, Cairo etcetera Mr. Gates?) M$ insures that nobody's going to take this seriously. Do they think people use an M$ memory manager in their brain? It'll take three tries again to get their act together and by that time...)
Too many people got burned with vapor-ware and later-ware. Two or three years is too long to wait for the other shoe to drop. Only Bill Gates is made out of money. The rest of us have to generate revenue and profits.
I suspect that lots of companies are going to use the time to hone a Unix/OS X/Linux OS closed-source product development and marketing strategy.
Computer Language Magazine, January 1994 for the original "Rovira Diagrams" article and
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry 1994 "Using Rovira Diagrams to Specify the User Interface, Ken Niehoff (MDDI, Jan 1994, p. 198). Keyword: Development."
It worked then and is scalable (has scaled successfully,) from 327x displays to web-enabled devices.
If you'd invested 50 mil in this bunch of no account losers, guys who can't back a threat and keep extending the deadline for letting the hammer fall, you'd put your guys on the board for sure.
The board will make SCO vanish the moment that there is wind of a settlement.
To dismantle SCO will cost IBM 50 mil.
And SCO won't get a friggin' dime of it which will piss off "what'z hiz puss", the SCO CEO, no end.
Don't get into be with vulture capitalists unless you don't mind waking up looking like Prometheus.
Look at Cisco for an example of how ruthless they can be.
slightly modified to 2MB RAM and a SCSI card hooked up to a 20 MB HD running System 7.0.
I run an OLD copy of Word on it. Apart from that, it's on its own LAN (it doesn't do 10BaseT or TCP/IP so I bridge it through another Mac,) and its basically useless, but it IS ancient and people were asking.
Unles something has a USPO ID# after it, its fair game to get a patent.
The USPO doesn't do any research anymore. That takes time and costs money. Prior art is no longer a meaningful concept. The USPO doesn't get money for refusing patents, it get money for granting them.
It grants them so shoddily that they aren't actually worth the paper they're written on. I bet you could patent "One Click" again.
The average movie is 7+GB in size. 4.5GB drives were no threat to the MPAA. Hence we weren't subjected to a whole lot more than mere rhetoric from the end of Valenti's digestive system incapable of facial expression.
Given that most of the movie leaks to date have come from industry insiders, and that industry capable drives aren't common, the MPAA enjoyed what the RIAA could only whish it had, an exclusive advantage in both the market place and in the means of production.
Look forward to RIAA-style lawsuit writs being included in the installation instructions with every drive.
I haven't used a news reader since the groups got bloated with spam and porn.
My main corporate email account is bloated with spam and with moron viruses sent to "all Microsoft Customers," of which I am not. It has got so bad that I just let the account bump against its mail box limit and bounce messages off.
Unfortunately, I have to use email for the auditability otherwise...
If it wasn't for spam, I'd have no traffic at all most days.
They used "The Glass Teat" to abrogate their parental duties of supervision and provision of moral authority, and their kids turned out, quite predictably in such an ethical vacuum, to be a couple of socio-psychopaths without a shred of compassion or empathy.
What did they expect?
I'd like to hold them up to public ridicule and humiliation.
instead of crackable and socially engineerable techniques password techniques, we should have a central biometric registry (with appropriate provenance verification) to validate that the individual making a transaction on an account is in fact the person who he is claiming to be.
You pass over your whatever card and stick in a finger, (retinal scan and/or DNA sample depending on the degree of security desired,) the machine send sends the biometric data to the center for verification and they get back an encrypted (yes, its notperfect) pass/fail reply.
Getting a fail reply means the transaction, entry or access is denied. In some cases, this would lead to immediate arrest for attempting an unauthorized access or ingress.
That would discourage low-level identity theft as soon as the word gets out.
The higher-level stuff which is usually done in a more secure check-in environment would be better controlled and the same actions could be taken as they are now when somebody gets caught.
The RIAA must be ROTFLTAO at the thought that the plastic they sell is a perishable good. Only slightly (take the long view, some books are hundreds of years old,) more perishable that the original source which only lasts as long as an echo.
I have vinyl from the '60s and '70s that I played on a good turntable then and (since I still have that turn table,) I can still listen to now.
Since the early 20th century, our industrial processes have been destroying our heritage.
A biometric key (one that is not mathematically reducible) is the best insurance.
Even then, our systems are deaf and blind, there will be no proper, certifiable security until we addres that.
Security comes from ''provenance'' and maintaining a chain of trust. We're still a long way from being able to provide that.
Passwords suck. I just the default one that I get from the help desk, put 'em on a PostIt note that I keep in my wallet, and use it until the sys admins roll it over.
Suing customers NOT distributors?
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If you buy something (a book or a magazine,) in good faith, you're not liable to be sued for infringement. The distributors are liable. And Caldera is a Distributor.
Suing the customers would victimize them TWICE.
SCO is trying to do the impossible and switching stories fast enoung in the hopes that nobody notices that they have the bull by the end incapable of facial expression instead of by the horns.
To continue with the metaphor, they're going to get gored like a slow runner dressed in Red at Pamplona.
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Maybe its in one of the additions to OS X 10.3 so there's no update required for 10.u | where u 3.
The scarcest things in this commercialized world seem to be common sense and organization.
Advertising has some value but it should be corralled like they are in malls, shopping districts or commercial streets, not left to wander the darker boulevards, and our email boxes, like a pimp renting his trollops and/or their services by the hour or a pusher shouting "I GOT DA GOLD. I GOT DA GOLD," with boxes of "Special K" on their heads while wearing XTC T-shirts.
We arrest THOSE people.
Big Deal!
With a 2006 time frame, (like Windows '95 '98, NT, Cairo etcetera Mr. Gates?) M$ insures that nobody's going to take this seriously. Do they think people use an M$ memory manager in their brain? It'll take three tries again to get their act together and by that time...)
Too many people got burned with vapor-ware and later-ware. Two or three years is too long to wait for the other shoe to drop. Only Bill Gates is made out of money. The rest of us have to generate revenue and profits.
I suspect that lots of companies are going to use the time to hone a Unix/OS X/Linux OS closed-source product development and marketing strategy.
Sorry but there are after markets for cars. You can still buy parts for Studebaker Avantis.
Neither Studebaker or the Avanti have any market presence but there is an after market.
The history of the auto market is a junk yard litered with companies that wrecked themselves faster than their customers wrecked their cars.
Computer Language Magazine, January 1994 for the original "Rovira Diagrams" article and
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry 1994 "Using Rovira Diagrams to Specify the User Interface, Ken Niehoff (MDDI, Jan 1994, p. 198). Keyword: Development."
It worked then and is scalable (has scaled successfully,) from 327x displays to web-enabled devices.
Sorry (and I've writtten for AI Expert and PC-AI,) but as long as M$ is in charge, we don't have any possibility of any such issue coming to life.
They best they've fone in Bob and Clippy.
Bwahahahaha....
If you'd invested 50 mil in this bunch of no account losers, guys who can't back a threat and keep extending the deadline for letting the hammer fall, you'd put your guys on the board for sure.
The board will make SCO vanish the moment that there is wind of a settlement.
To dismantle SCO will cost IBM 50 mil.
And SCO won't get a friggin' dime of it which will piss off "what'z hiz puss", the SCO CEO, no end.
Don't get into be with vulture capitalists unless you don't mind waking up looking like Prometheus.
Look at Cisco for an example of how ruthless they can be.
I'm picking nits here but...
slightly modified to 2MB RAM and a SCSI card hooked up to a 20 MB HD running System 7.0.
I run an OLD copy of Word on it. Apart from that, it's on its own LAN (it doesn't do 10BaseT or TCP/IP so I bridge it through another Mac,) and its basically useless, but it IS ancient and people were asking.
Unles something has a USPO ID# after it, its fair game to get a patent.
The USPO doesn't do any research anymore. That takes time and costs money. Prior art is no longer a meaningful concept. The USPO doesn't get money for refusing patents, it get money for granting them.
It grants them so shoddily that they aren't actually worth the paper they're written on. I bet you could patent "One Click" again.
Spam is only a problem because its not costing the spammers' clients nothing. Make them pay for using spam and the entire industry'll dissapear.
Since they are the ones who are visible, they can and should be sued.
The average movie is 7+GB in size. 4.5GB drives were no threat to the MPAA. Hence we weren't subjected to a whole lot more than mere rhetoric from the end of Valenti's digestive system incapable of facial expression.
Given that most of the movie leaks to date have come from industry insiders, and that industry capable drives aren't common, the MPAA enjoyed what the RIAA could only whish it had, an exclusive advantage in both the market place and in the means of production.
Look forward to RIAA-style lawsuit writs being included in the installation instructions with every drive.
Put your company's name in Spam, pay a million dollar fine per day.
Spam stops. Simple. Straight-forward. Effective. Needs no tech to implement at all.
I haven't used a news reader since the groups got bloated with spam and porn.
My main corporate email account is bloated with spam and with moron viruses sent to "all Microsoft Customers," of which I am not. It has got so bad that I just let the account bump against its mail box limit and bounce messages off.
Unfortunately, I have to use email for the auditability otherwise...
If it wasn't for spam, I'd have no traffic at all most days.
Silly silly silly!
First: Intel warning a potential customer that not buying their product might screw them on standards is really self-serving.
Next: Like there are no other CPU architectures?
Hey, maybe the Chinese would like to buy licences for the right to build Macs and use OS X, as long as they promise to keep them over there...
they have no one to blame but themselves.
They used "The Glass Teat" to abrogate their parental duties of supervision and provision of moral authority, and their kids turned out, quite predictably in such an ethical vacuum, to be a couple of socio-psychopaths without a shred of compassion or empathy.
What did they expect?
I'd like to hold them up to public ridicule and humiliation.
You pass over your whatever card and stick in a finger, (retinal scan and/or DNA sample depending on the degree of security desired,) the machine send sends the biometric data to the center for verification and they get back an encrypted (yes, its not perfect) pass/fail reply.
Getting a fail reply means the transaction, entry or access is denied. In some cases, this would lead to immediate arrest for attempting an unauthorized access or ingress.
That would discourage low-level identity theft as soon as the word gets out.
The higher-level stuff which is usually done in a more secure check-in environment would be better controlled and the same actions could be taken as they are now when somebody gets caught.
And acid free paper doesn't turn to ash.
The RIAA must be ROTFLTAO at the thought that the plastic they sell is a perishable good. Only slightly (take the long view, some books are hundreds of years old,) more perishable that the original source which only lasts as long as an echo.
I have vinyl from the '60s and '70s that I played on a good turntable then and (since I still have that turn table,) I can still listen to now.
Since the early 20th century, our industrial processes have been destroying our heritage.
A biometric key (one that is not mathematically reducible) is the best insurance.
Even then, our systems are deaf and blind, there will be no proper, certifiable security until we addres that.
Security comes from ''provenance'' and maintaining a chain of trust. We're still a long way from being able to provide that.
Passwords suck. I just the default one that I get from the help desk, put 'em on a PostIt note that I keep in my wallet, and use it until the sys admins roll it over.
The very existence of music was denied under the Taliban. Was the RIAA behind the invasion of Afghanistan?
Conspiracy theories for the masses.
I'd drink to that
Look for "Clippy" junior and "Bob Part Deux"
I wonder who they're going to rip off now?
If you buy something (a book or a magazine,) in good faith, you're not liable to be sued for infringement. The distributors are liable. And Caldera is a Distributor.
Suing the customers would victimize them TWICE.
SCO is trying to do the impossible and switching stories fast enoung in the hopes that nobody notices that they have the bull by the end incapable of facial expression instead of by the horns.
To continue with the metaphor, they're going to get gored like a slow runner dressed in Red at Pamplona.