I got a new laptop about a week ago, a Toshiba A200-AH7 for the record. Nice system, I must add; rather inexpensive, and, to be brutally honest with the Mac fandom crowd, a hell of a lot more inexpensive than the Macbook (2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Core Duo 2.0GHz, etc. etc.).
You seem to have left out the most important difference: you can play Warcraft III on a Macbook.
Customers are people who pay for stuff. As far as I can tell, for Google that's corporate users of Google Apps, and advertisers. People who use Google for web searches and gmail are not "customers".
The company is obviously disappointed with the ruling issued last Friday. However, the court clearly determined that SCO owns the copyrights to the technology developed or derived by SCO after Novell transferred the assets to SCO in 1995. This includes the new development in all subsequent versions of UnixWare up through the most current release of UnixWare and substantial portions of SCO UnixWare Gemini 64. Also, SCO owns the exclusive, worldwide license to use the UnixWare trademark, now owned by The Open Group. SCO's ownership of OpenServer and its Mobile Server platforms were not challenged and remain intact. These SCO platforms continue to drive enterprises large and small and our rapidly developing mobile business is being well received in the marketplace.
What's more, the court did not dismiss our claims against Novell regarding the non compete provisions of the 1995 Technology License Agreement relating to Novell's distribution of Linux to the extent implicated by the technology developed by SCO after 1995. Those issues remain to be litigated.
Although the district judge ruled in Novell's favor on important issues, the case has not yet been fully vetted by the legal system and we will continue to explore our options with respect to how we move forward from here.
Amazing. So poor, dirty, unhealthy people are that way through their own laziness and stupidity.
I would never have guessed that such a proposition could come out of the beacon of social and racial enlightenment we know as "California".
I was excited at last November's election, but I've repented of it now.
Here is a story.
It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.
They even had a Congress. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.
Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.
All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.
Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.
And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.
You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.
When the Democrats swept into power in Congress I listened to all the liberal commentators talking about how it was Good News and how Things Would Be Different Now and how the Bad Guys were out and the Good Guys were in. And I shook my head and thought of Mouseland.
I personally don't give a sh*t what operating system and/or applications I'm using so long as the combination DOES WHAT I WANT. In my personal situation, that means Linux on the server, OS X on my desktop and laptop, and Windows in a VM so I can run a few Windows-only apps when I need them. But I don't use any of them because I have some sort of emotional or religious attachment to them.
A choice between a system with apt package management and a system with RPM package management is a no-brainer. RPM is so horrible I'm breaking out in a sweat just remembering it.
I have obtained more enjoyment from the music I have created by sharing tracks, ideas, and inspiration with people I have never met - over the Internet - than from anything Elton the media whore has done in living memory.
I was part of the "far above average" group in my highschool, and we all f*cked like bunnies from around the age of 15-16. Just because it's normal in the USA doesn't mean it's normal anywhere else.
Sounds like someone's been thoroughly frightened by what passes for "sex education" in this country.
Yep, sucks to grow up in a country run by religious fundamentalists. I daresay this "study" is more revealing about the culture of the United States than it is about the behaviour of teenagers.
At my workplace the alpha geeks all use Macs, across Operations, Development, and IT. I think the only groups in which there are no Mac users are senior management and Research:)
The banks are providing a service that the customers pay for by the way of bank fees. In return, the customers are essentially "leasing" their money to the bank so the bank can do stuff with it, and the bank pays for this by way of interest.
No-one is FORCING you to use a particular bank. If you don't like your bank's service, take your money somewhere else. If you don't like banks in general, put your money in a safety deposit box or something.
Comparing the release of the latest overhyped Apple gadget with the invention of the World-wide Web might be just a little bit... over-the-top, don't you think?
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I can only hope the Democrats in Congress grow a spine Yeah, good luck with that.
I got a new laptop about a week ago, a Toshiba A200-AH7 for the record. Nice system, I must add; rather inexpensive, and, to be brutally honest with the Mac fandom crowd, a hell of a lot more inexpensive than the Macbook (2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Core Duo 2.0GHz, etc. etc.).
You seem to have left out the most important difference: you can play Warcraft III on a Macbook.
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Well-said, sir.
People also know that "wherefor" used to mean "why."
I've never heard it used to mean anything else.
Customers are people who pay for stuff. As far as I can tell, for Google that's corporate users of Google Apps, and advertisers. People who use Google for web searches and gmail are not "customers".
-1 Troll? Moderators on crack. Parent is on point.
Riiiiiiiiiight.
Amazing. So poor, dirty, unhealthy people are that way through their own laziness and stupidity. I would never have guessed that such a proposition could come out of the beacon of social and racial enlightenment we know as "California".
Have you ever heard the term "blood pressure"?
Seems like our options are the Oil Industry Party or the Media Industry Party. Great.
I was excited at last November's election, but I've repented of it now.
Here is a story.
With apologies to Clare Gillis.
When the Democrats swept into power in Congress I listened to all the liberal commentators talking about how it was Good News and how Things Would Be Different Now and how the Bad Guys were out and the Good Guys were in. And I shook my head and thought of Mouseland.
I personally don't give a sh*t what operating system and/or applications I'm using so long as the combination DOES WHAT I WANT. In my personal situation, that means Linux on the server, OS X on my desktop and laptop, and Windows in a VM so I can run a few Windows-only apps when I need them. But I don't use any of them because I have some sort of emotional or religious attachment to them.
A choice between a system with apt package management and a system with RPM package management is a no-brainer. RPM is so horrible I'm breaking out in a sweat just remembering it.
Please, just let it die.
Hear that, Elton? That was the sound of you becoming irrelevant to anything creative musicians are doing.
I have obtained more enjoyment from the music I have created by sharing tracks, ideas, and inspiration with people I have never met - over the Internet - than from anything Elton the media whore has done in living memory.
I was part of the "far above average" group in my highschool, and we all f*cked like bunnies from around the age of 15-16. Just because it's normal in the USA doesn't mean it's normal anywhere else.
Sounds like someone's been thoroughly frightened by what passes for "sex education" in this country. Yep, sucks to grow up in a country run by religious fundamentalists. I daresay this "study" is more revealing about the culture of the United States than it is about the behaviour of teenagers.
Does this mean that OSX is more Unixy than Linux?
As of 10.5, OS X is UNIX. Linux is "UNIX-like".
At my workplace the alpha geeks all use Macs, across Operations, Development, and IT. I think the only groups in which there are no Mac users are senior management and Research :)
The CEO is working with ... Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway
*wipes a tear*
Hold on -- this was a joke, right? Please tell me this was a joke.
Has the U.S. gone nuts? Have you been living in a cave for the past six years or something? Of COURSE it has gone nuts.
Remind me never to read another article posted by kdawson that mentions OS X. The guy appears to not have any idea what it is.
The banks are providing a service that the customers pay for by the way of bank fees. In return, the customers are essentially "leasing" their money to the bank so the bank can do stuff with it, and the bank pays for this by way of interest. No-one is FORCING you to use a particular bank. If you don't like your bank's service, take your money somewhere else. If you don't like banks in general, put your money in a safety deposit box or something.
Comparing the release of the latest overhyped Apple gadget with the invention of the World-wide Web might be just a little bit... over-the-top, don't you think?