Reading the Linux world article SCO claims that Linux advanced features such as failover SMP etc could only come about after many years of development.
One would think IBM has substantial in-house experience with failover SMP, journaling filesystems, logical volume management, NUMA, and hot-swap hardware. I believe their mainframes had most of these features long before any UNIX machine did. I mean IBM has only be developing operating systems for what 50 years or so?
Of course there are the POSIX and X/Open standards which document most of what is considered to be the "UNIX(TM)" APIs, no reverse engineering or source code access needed.
IBM will just nail SCO for infringing on their intelectuall property. There is undoubtedly some patent, trademark, or copyright of IBM's that SCO is infringing on.
I hope IBM doesn't end up with the USL code base, there seems to be some sort of curse attached to it that affects whoever owns the code. Look at the history, AT&T went off the rails during the time they were trying to market UNIX, Novell went off the rails during the time they owned the USL code, SCO (nee Tantarella) went off the rails during the time they owned the USL code base, and now Caldera (nee SCO) has gone off the rails since they have owned the USL code.
My mom's neighbor has a 1934 GE refrigerator that still works and is still in use. She hasn't had to do anything to it other than replace the door seals every 15 years or so.
Must have patent apps up the wazoo and suddenly are getting bonuses based on number of patents accepted
VERY close to the truth. The USPTO is funded entirely via fees collected for processing Patent and Trademark applications. I believe examiners performance evaulations are based on the number of applications they approve.
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The NTSB should be conducting the accident investigation. They have crediblity with the public and Congress. They also have the relevant experience.
I thought Porsche was at least partly owned by Volkswagen? Even if that is not the case, if Porsche was to get in financial trouble I'm sure VW would just buy them out.
BTW that Porsche SUV is an abomidation. If they'd built it to win the Paris-Dakar rally or some other off road race that would be one thing. But it is very clearly intended to be a luxury suburban assult vehicle.
Yeah, US Airlines pander to Boeing and European airlines pander to Airbus. Tell that to Northwest and United, the two biggest operators of A320s, or British Airways, who until recently did not operate any non-Boeing planes (besides the Concorde).
US Airways and America West are going to an all Airbus fleet. Northwest has a bunch of A330s on order (but is still buying 747-400s and 757-300s).
Rumor has it the UK government ecouraged British Airways to make its order for the A319/A320/A321. They continue to order plenty of other other Boeing aircraft unlike most other European carriers.
... how many poor people could eat a year with $260m.
So you are suggesting all of the money currently used for capital investment be put into feeding programs for "the poor"?
I really don't see what good that would do other than result in a whole bunch more poor people.
BTW you aren't the customer for the plane, if you happen to be CEO of an airline I'm sure a meeting with an Airbus representative can be arranged. Obviously the airlines that have ordered A380s see some benefit or they wouldn't have bought the plane.
Our wealth is at the cost of others, it will always stay like this when we keep on pushing down the poor and say they should work harder.
Funny thing about people in rich industrialized countries whining about how "exploited" the third-world employees of multinationals are. The jobs with the foriegn companies are the "good" jobs. Most workers in Mexico would rather work for GM than a local company, the pay, hours, and working conditions are generally better. They would also rather work a factory job than try to make a living with subsistance farming.
The whiners from the first world are acting like people are being forced out of nice well-paying desk jobs or something.
The production has not scattered around entirely for political reasons, unless China is now part of the European Union?
This is political as well. The Chinese government has negotiated deals for new airplanes that require part of the production to take place in China. Boeing has cut similar deals. I fully expect China to be in the business of building large airliners in 10 or 15 years.
A brand new China Airlines 747-400 went off the end of the runway at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport and into the harbor a few years ago. They ended up scrapping the plane at the airport due to damage.
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Airbus is not French.
I believe their HQ is in Touluse and they have final assembly in France and Germany. They began as a consortium of British, French, German, and Spanish aerospace companies. I believe the French, German, and Spanish parts have been merged. BAe is still a part-owner but did not merge with the others. For what its worth Airbus like Boeing uses subcontractors all over the world including many in the US and Canada.
The only American carrier to order them thus far is FedEx.
I assume you are referring to the A380 as many other US airlines own Airbus aircraft. Off the top of my head United, American (but they won't order any more), Northwest, US Aiways, America West, JetBlue, and Frontier all have Airbus aircraft.
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But really, all a small Cessna needs to take off or land is about 1/2 mile of relatively flat terrain. If conditions were right an experienced pilot could land on a well-mowed field or dirt road.
There was a small airfield like this near where I grew up. It was basicly a mowed field with a windsock. There were maybe 15-25 small planes based out of it. The field had trees on 3 sides and tall powerlines about 1/2 mile from the end of the "runway" on the 4th side.
SIR (Seattle International Raceway) is facing lawsuits over noise. It used to be surrounded by farms and the like. As you relate above urban sprawl has since surrounded the track. To add insult to injury the people leading the main lawsuit live in condos that were advertized as having a view of the track!
Airports face similar problems. Idiots go buy a house near the end of a runway then complain/sue when they realize there are noisy planes flying overhead.
Still airfields can make good drag strips. They are often in the middle of rural areas and the neighbors are usually used to aircraft noise and thus less likely to complain about the racecars.
Thank you for the link to the "infamous Mojave Phone Booth".
Sad the NPS decided it had to be removed. How will ET phone home?
I think I have a new personal quest, to travel around the country and document pay phones in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe just buy my own "Genuine Bell(TM)" pay phone and booth and photograph it from lonely locations.
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Reading the Linux world article SCO claims that Linux advanced features such as failover SMP etc could only come about after many years of development.
One would think IBM has substantial in-house experience with failover SMP, journaling filesystems, logical volume management, NUMA, and hot-swap hardware. I believe their mainframes had most of these features long before any UNIX machine did. I mean IBM has only be developing operating systems for what 50 years or so?
Of course there are the POSIX and X/Open standards which document most of what is considered to be the "UNIX(TM)" APIs, no reverse engineering or source code access needed.
IBM will just nail SCO for infringing on their intelectuall property. There is undoubtedly some patent, trademark, or copyright of IBM's that SCO is infringing on.
I hope IBM doesn't end up with the USL code base, there seems to be some sort of curse attached to it that affects whoever owns the code. Look at the history, AT&T went off the rails during the time they were trying to market UNIX, Novell went off the rails during the time they owned the USL code, SCO (nee Tantarella) went off the rails during the time they owned the USL code base, and now Caldera (nee SCO) has gone off the rails since they have owned the USL code.
We accept donations and use them to purchase nothing other than passes for Linus to the Turkish sauna closest to Linus' place of residence?
I'd think Linus probably prefers Finnish saunas.
I'm not too worried about Linus going around the bend, a level-headed practical wife and kids do wonders for one's sanity.
ESR and RMS seem about as sane or insane as they were 10 or 15 years ago. ESR was just hiding it real well for a while.
Does this have to do with SCO vs. IBM? Or the grandparent post for that matter?
Please go post in a more relevant topic.
My mom's neighbor has a 1934 GE refrigerator that still works and is still in use. She hasn't had to do anything to it other than replace the door seals every 15 years or so.
Yea but those were 8" monsters with a casing like a 5.25" floppy. Single Sided, Single Density and all of 140K or so.
I have an old S100 CP/M computer with dual 8" floppy drives, the things are just massive, they even have large 110 motors.
sounds like he would be happy with a linux text console, vi, and TeX.
As for Bush v. Gore, I think even if God Himself had been Gore's lawyer, He wouldn't have had a chance against the Rehnquist Five.
Don't you mean Satan? Everyone knows he gets all the good lawyers.
Must have patent apps up the wazoo and suddenly are getting bonuses based on number of patents accepted
VERY close to the truth. The USPTO is funded entirely via fees collected for processing Patent and Trademark applications. I believe examiners performance evaulations are based on the number of applications they approve.
The NTSB should be conducting the accident investigation. They have crediblity with the public and Congress. They also have the relevant experience.
I thought Porsche was at least partly owned by Volkswagen? Even if that is not the case, if Porsche was to get in financial trouble I'm sure VW would just buy them out.
BTW that Porsche SUV is an abomidation. If they'd built it to win the Paris-Dakar rally or some other off road race that would be one thing. But it is very clearly intended to be a luxury suburban assult vehicle.
Yeah, US Airlines pander to Boeing and European airlines pander to Airbus. Tell that to Northwest and United, the two biggest operators of A320s, or British Airways, who until recently did not operate any non-Boeing planes (besides the Concorde).
US Airways and America West are going to an all Airbus fleet. Northwest has a bunch of A330s on order (but is still buying 747-400s and 757-300s).
Rumor has it the UK government ecouraged British Airways to make its order for the A319/A320/A321. They continue to order plenty of other other Boeing aircraft unlike most other European carriers.
Please get your facts straight.
The 747 was built based on a request from Pan Am.
... how many poor people could eat a year with $260m.
So you are suggesting all of the money currently used for capital investment be put into feeding programs for "the poor"?
I really don't see what good that would do other than result in a whole bunch more poor people.
BTW you aren't the customer for the plane, if you happen to be CEO of an airline I'm sure a meeting with an Airbus representative can be arranged. Obviously the airlines that have ordered A380s see some benefit or they wouldn't have bought the plane.
Our wealth is at the cost of others, it will always stay like this when we keep on pushing down the poor and say they should work harder.
Funny thing about people in rich industrialized countries whining about how "exploited" the third-world employees of multinationals are. The jobs with the foriegn companies are the "good" jobs. Most workers in Mexico would rather work for GM than a local company, the pay, hours, and working conditions are generally better. They would also rather work a factory job than try to make a living with subsistance farming.
The whiners from the first world are acting like people are being forced out of nice well-paying desk jobs or something.
The production has not scattered around entirely for political reasons, unless China is now part of the European Union?
This is political as well. The Chinese government has negotiated deals for new airplanes that require part of the production to take place in China. Boeing has cut similar deals. I fully expect China to be in the business of building large airliners in 10 or 15 years.
A brand new China Airlines 747-400 went off the end of the runway at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport and into the harbor a few years ago. They ended up scrapping the plane at the airport due to damage.
Photos here.
Airbus is not French.
I believe their HQ is in Touluse and they have final assembly in France and Germany. They began as a consortium of British, French, German, and Spanish aerospace companies. I believe the French, German, and Spanish parts have been merged. BAe is still a part-owner but did not merge with the others. For what its worth Airbus like Boeing uses subcontractors all over the world including many in the US and Canada.
The only American carrier to order them thus far is FedEx.
I assume you are referring to the A380 as many other US airlines own Airbus aircraft. Off the top of my head United, American (but they won't order any more), Northwest, US Aiways, America West, JetBlue, and Frontier all have Airbus aircraft.
Retort to the French:
Do you speak German?
You're welcome.
But really, all a small Cessna needs to take off or land is about 1/2 mile of relatively flat terrain. If conditions were right an experienced pilot could land on a well-mowed field or dirt road.
There was a small airfield like this near where I grew up. It was basicly a mowed field with a windsock. There were maybe 15-25 small planes based out of it. The field had trees on 3 sides and tall powerlines about 1/2 mile from the end of the "runway" on the 4th side.
SIR (Seattle International Raceway) is facing lawsuits over noise. It used to be surrounded by farms and the like. As you relate above urban sprawl has since surrounded the track. To add insult to injury the people leading the main lawsuit live in condos that were advertized as having a view of the track!
Airports face similar problems. Idiots go buy a house near the end of a runway then complain/sue when they realize there are noisy planes flying overhead.
Still airfields can make good drag strips. They are often in the middle of rural areas and the neighbors are usually used to aircraft noise and thus less likely to complain about the racecars.
Didn't they do that with some airfield in Arkansas?
Thank you for the link to the "infamous Mojave Phone Booth".
Sad the NPS decided it had to be removed. How will ET phone home?
I think I have a new personal quest, to travel around the country and document pay phones in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe just buy my own "Genuine Bell(TM)" pay phone and booth and photograph it from lonely locations.