And that's why it's almost impossible to buy a decent book these days, unless the author happens to be a J.K. Rowling or such.
The whole bit of authoring books, particularly technical ones, is such a gamble for everybody concerned that authors churn them out as quick as humanly possible these days and doesn't it show.
It's just not worth spending the time to do it properly.
... because, according to Eric Levenez's Unix TimeLine, between June 7th. 2000 and August 21st. SCO incorporated parts of Linux-2.2.16 into UnixWare-7.1.1, and again between September 8th. 2000 and November 27th. 2000 SCO took parts of Linux-2.4.0-test8 into UnixWare-7.1.1
The Linux kernel is published using GPL Version 2, and not any later version. Lines 130 to 138 of the GPL used by Linus clearly state:-
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Note the second sentence beginning "But when you..." Thus the whole of UnixWare is now subject to the GPL.
Therefore one can only come to the conclusion that the shakers and movers in SCO are betting to company, and their shareholders' investments, to squeeze the last two drops out of the third hand lemon which they so stupidly picked up when it was flicked on to them, while considerably increasing their personal wealth at the same time. I thought that this was 'insider trading' and considered criminal behaviour? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I see this exercise as another 'Enron'.
No direct links to Eric Levenez's server to save it from meltdown, but you all know how to find the details.
The first thing you Americans could do which would really improve your standing in the community of mandkind would be to ban the international transmission of spam. 90% of the spam I receive is targetted at American consumers.
The list should be a "you may" list rather than a "you may not list".
Use Federal statue law to prohibit advertising by e-mail. Yes, I know it transgresses your precious first amendment, but the first amendment is only writing on a piece of paper which in turn amends writing on another piece of paper. So why don't you let the rest of the world see that you can live with the rest of us in the 21st. century and amend the amendment. It's not a Sacred Text you know.
Make the unlicensed collection of large e-mail lists a serious crime.
( large being a really huge number like a million )
I'm tempted to make some trite remark about firearms here but I shall refrain.
Squeak smalltalk is a briliant language for smalls. Runs on all small computers under your o/s of choice. Your work will be completely shareable because the Virtual Machine is identical on all hardware platforms. It leads on to the the most productive language ever created.
I have a friend, he's about 50 and has a PhD from Columbia. He is one of a few in the world in his speciality - the 3D analysis of seisimic echo data for the oil industry. He has been here in NZ about 6 or 7 years now. To begin with his employers just put up with the fact that he was in a different time zone, and he was paid the same as if he was an employee in the office. The money saved on commuting and the much lower cost of living was spent on a number of trips back to the office in the US. A while ago the original small company was bought out by a larger one, which was in turn was absorbed by a large conglomerate. Very quickly after that my friend was replaced by a much younger local worker who turned up at the office every day and did as he was told. My friend now finds himself out of work with a set of skills completely inappropriate for the local economy. Another aquaintance is working here doing programming on embedded controls. When he arrived the pay was very generous but the exchange rate has changed from 27 to 35 over the last 6 months. So he has had to take a pay fairly hefty cut in pay. Fortunately that friend has a more marketable skillset locally. I knew somebody else who tried this some years ago and had to return to the real world. The benefit for the employee coming to NZ is that the lifestyle is superb when compared to that which is available to employees in big cities in the Northern Hemisphere. The advantage to the employer is that they can expect, literally, overnight solutions to their problems. The hazards are that you can lose your income at the drop of a PHB's bad day. Exchange rates. Failure of the telecom system. We have had one 4 or 5 hour outage over the last 14 months.
Is it possible that this minute change in the weight of the Pt/Ir ingot is caused by the non-solid core of the Earth being slowly rearranged, thus changing the gravitational constant where the 1kg ingot is stored?
What has happened to the weight of the other ingots mentioned in the article?
A non-beta, standard, production quality journaling filesystem.
Here you are: not one, but two, both of them professional, industrial strength, quality software:-
If it's a professional history lesson wrapped up a some good fun then I'd be into it, but if it's a just a faeiry-story in the Hollywood mould, then it's thanks but no thanks. We haven't got spare $$$ to blow on a regular basis for pure fantasy how ever well done. LOTR took the pure escapism ration for a wee while.
Any body know? It's impossible to tell from the website.
Interesting to note the differences between computer languages and natural languages where, afaik & ianal, copyright does extend to translations. One can't help but wonder how this can be if 'code is speech'.
In particular does translating or re-coding an existing algorithm, expressed in one particular computer language, into another language constitute a "Derivative Work". If so how do you prove that fact in a court of law?
I think "the point" of this law is not so criminals can't get their hands on guns...because I'm sure it would be trivial to take your gun to a shop (or someone's basement) and have it "re-fitted" to you. I believe that "the point" here is to prevent children from getting their hands on guns, which I would consider a noble cause.
No sir. The point of this law is simply to give the weapon manufacturers another lease on their commercial lives creating yet another 200 million devices with which the US citizenry can kill each other. Just pure madness!
... because it does not simulate having prostate problems.
I was in the Vodaphone shop the other day and the sweet young 20-something tried to sell me a 'phone with all these "Super-useful local imformation resources" all full of totally useless guff, but no mention of the most important public facility of all.. the nearest public loo.
Slashdot Mirror
And that's why it's almost impossible to buy a decent book these days, unless the author happens to be a J.K. Rowling or such.
The whole bit of authoring books, particularly technical ones, is such a gamble for everybody concerned that authors churn them out as quick as humanly possible these days and doesn't it show.
It's just not worth spending the time to do it properly.
The Linux kernel is published using GPL Version 2, and not any later version. Lines 130 to 138 of the GPL used by Linus clearly state:-
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Note the second sentence beginning "But when you ..." Thus the whole of UnixWare is now subject to the GPL.
Therefore one can only come to the conclusion that the shakers and movers in SCO are betting to company, and their shareholders' investments, to squeeze the last two drops out of the third hand lemon which they so stupidly picked up when it was flicked on to them, while considerably increasing their personal wealth at the same time. I thought that this was 'insider trading' and considered criminal behaviour? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I see this exercise as another 'Enron'.
No direct links to Eric Levenez's server to save it from meltdown, but you all know how to find the details.
In order of difficulty:
The first thing you Americans could do which would really improve your standing in the community of mandkind would be to ban the international transmission of spam. 90% of the spam I receive is targetted at American consumers.
The list should be a "you may" list rather than a "you may not list".
Use Federal statue law to prohibit advertising by e-mail. Yes, I know it transgresses your precious first amendment, but the first amendment is only writing on a piece of paper which in turn amends writing on another piece of paper. So why don't you let the rest of the world see that you can live with the rest of us in the 21st. century and amend the amendment. It's not a Sacred Text you know.
Make the unlicensed collection of large e-mail lists a serious crime.
( large being a really huge number like a million )
I'm tempted to make some trite remark about firearms here but I shall refrain.
UNIX === System V, the rest are all fakes.
Squeak smalltalk is a briliant language for smalls. Runs on all small computers under your o/s of choice. Your work will be completely shareable because the Virtual Machine is identical on all hardware platforms. It leads on to the the most productive language ever created.
Squeak smalltalk for kids
Squeak smalltalk for grownups
Smalltalk for business
Smalltalk for engineers - Very fast.
There are many others, have a look through The Smalltalk Portal.
Just remember that with 30 years of developemnt it just works!
Now I know.
Thanks Slashdot.
one line, fixes the lot, every time a coconut.
No fuss, no bother, just do it regularly.
I have a friend, he's about 50 and has a PhD from Columbia. He is one of a few in the world in his speciality - the 3D analysis of seisimic echo data for the oil industry. He has been here in NZ about 6 or 7 years now. To begin with his employers just put up with the fact that he was in a different time zone, and he was paid the same as if he was an employee in the office. The money saved on commuting and the much lower cost of living was spent on a number of trips back to the office in the US. A while ago the original small company was bought out by a larger one, which was in turn was absorbed by a large conglomerate. Very quickly after that my friend was replaced by a much younger local worker who turned up at the office every day and did as he was told. My friend now finds himself out of work with a set of skills completely inappropriate for the local economy. Another aquaintance is working here doing programming on embedded controls. When he arrived the pay was very generous but the exchange rate has changed from 27 to 35 over the last 6 months. So he has had to take a pay fairly hefty cut in pay. Fortunately that friend has a more marketable skillset locally. I knew somebody else who tried this some years ago and had to return to the real world. The benefit for the employee coming to NZ is that the lifestyle is superb when compared to that which is available to employees in big cities in the Northern Hemisphere. The advantage to the employer is that they can expect, literally, overnight solutions to their problems. The hazards are that you can lose your income at the drop of a PHB's bad day. Exchange rates. Failure of the telecom system. We have had one 4 or 5 hour outage over the last 14 months.
More than once, I'll be bound!
What has happened to the weight of the other ingots mentioned in the article?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=on&mod e_w=on&site=www.whitehouse.gov&submit=Exam ine
... and leave that totalitarian state.
At this rate they'll be indroducing a reading license soon.
Here you are: not one, but two, both of them professional, industrial strength, quality software:-
- IBM's JFS for Linux
- SGI's XFS filesystem for Linux.
I have been running XFS for several months, faultlessly.How accurate is it historically?
If it's a professional history lesson wrapped up a some good fun then I'd be into it, but if it's a just a faeiry-story in the Hollywood mould, then it's thanks but no thanks. We haven't got spare $$$ to blow on a regular basis for pure fantasy how ever well done. LOTR took the pure escapism ration for a wee while.
Any body know?
It's impossible to tell from the website.
Interesting to note the differences between computer languages and natural languages where, afaik & ianal, copyright does extend to translations. One can't help but wonder how this can be if 'code is speech'.
In particular does translating or re-coding an existing algorithm, expressed in one particular computer language, into another language constitute a "Derivative Work". If so how do you prove that fact in a court of law?
... and then it's yours.
How can they possibly run a country if they can't even organise a domain name for thenselves. Well I ask you!
The XXX in your rant will cause all the filterware programs to go beserk and cut you off, suggest you change it to PQT or something
yup, the world's sick.
boloney n : pretentious or silly talk or writing
I learnt to type on one of those. Really.
Ooh! the nostalgia.
I think so.
No sir. The point of this law is simply to give the weapon manufacturers another lease on their commercial lives creating yet another 200 million devices with which the US citizenry can kill each other. Just pure madness!
... because it does not simulate having prostate problems.
.. the nearest public loo.
I was in the Vodaphone shop the other day and the sweet young 20-something tried to sell me a 'phone with all these "Super-useful local imformation resources" all full of totally useless guff, but no mention of the most important public facility of all