Colleges and Universities were once the exclusive home of INXU. If you've never seen it spelled that way, then your too young to remember those days ; ) Then Apple made inroads in to educational institutions, with donations of systems and software. Micro$oft soon followed Apple's example. As Micro$oft gained market share, so did their presence in schools and on campus. Now we have the beginning of a return to an INXU like OS - Linux! With patience, the circle will be some day be complete!
Just hope they don't decide to relocate the 'Corporation' to the U.S. due to staffing consolidation and other 'corporate' issues!!! Most companies, once 'Internationalized' forget about borders and such 'Nationalistic foolishness'. Which has the better facilities? Tax benefits/breaks? Nicer weather? I hear Scotts Valley, CA is very nice this time of year.
Arrogance? And your not referring to Microsoft??? It's not arrogance but skepticism due to the source of the survey and Microsoft's earned reputation of using the Media, to promote it's agenda through FUD and misleading or meaningless reports. Just remember the old quote "lies, damned lies and statistics!" Microsoft has made it in to an art form!
I don't read Chinese or understand Cyrillic. That doesn't mean that something written in Mandarin or Russian that I can't understand, is not a protected form of expression or speech!
Win or loose, this case will be subject to appeal by both sides. If the judge makes too may obvious mistakes (and IMHO he has), the possibility of his ruling being reversed on appeal are just that much greater! Mark my words, this is a fight that will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court before it's over!
In this judge's opinion, it is illegal to publish or even point to the code for DeCSS, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the right to publish such other materials, as how to convert your semi-automatic rifle to full-auto. You can publish how to do it, sell parts to do it, but not do it! Why is one illegal and the other protect free speech? This is a case the *WILL* end up before the Supreme Court before it's over.
If it is a port from AIX, it'll rock! JFS under AIX was the best part of the OS IMHO. Dynamic resizing for partitions, fast accurate recover after power outages! Now if IBM would only port SMIT, so we have a fantastic usable admin manager, life would be sweat.
AOL software has always been a problem period! In the beginning it was their replacement Winsock that caused problems, now it's their IP binding. It has been policy in many companies to ban the installation on AOL software on any company owned/supplied systems to prevent needless hours of tech support due to AOL's BAD software and it's related issues. Bottom line is, by stupidity or design, AOL software breaks things. I just wish they could be forced them to pay dollar for dollar, for all the production man hours wasted cleaning up after them by I.T. staff members. I personnel abhor CALs. No one wins except the lawers, but somehow this one seems deserved.
Sorry, I stand corrected, must be an age thing, should of said many of us older lovers of Science Fiction. It is sad but true, that most of his works are now out of print. And as to new works, he's been suffering with Alzheimer's for awhile. In posting the news of his death,/. is doing two services. Letting us know of the passing of a man who's works were once well known and loved, and (indirectly) informing those who were ignorant of his work, of his writings.
Yes, a lot of people have heard of this guy. MOST of us geeks have! Sorry you haven't, your missing out on some great writing and your life is poorer for it's absence.
FYI - They still hold a Color Computer show in the Chicago area each year. It is billed as the ##th Last Annual CoCo Fest and is sponsored by Glenside Color Computer Club. Dennis Báthory-Kitsz has even been known to attend. Even though Tandy gave up on the CoCo long ago, it is still in use and new hardware in the form of Hard Drive interfaces, memory upgrades etc. are still being produced and introduced for it!
It is NOT a dragon, it's a wolf! Fenris the sky wolf, just ask Tyr, Odin or Thor. And the unending winter will be apon us (good thing I live in Florida!
Are they trying to claim that all pages are in English, French or Dutch? What does this indicate as to the rest of their research? I would have thought that the number of pages in Russian (Cyrillic) or one of the eastern languages such as Korean or Japanese, would have been statistically significant enough for inclusion. Makes me wonder about the validity of any of their numbers.
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Colleges and Universities were once the exclusive home of INXU. If you've never seen it spelled that way, then your too young to remember those days ; ) Then Apple made inroads in to educational institutions, with donations of systems and software. Micro$oft soon followed Apple's example. As Micro$oft gained market share, so did their presence in schools and on campus. Now we have the beginning of a return to an INXU like OS - Linux! With patience, the circle will be some day be complete!
Just hope they don't decide to relocate the 'Corporation' to the U.S. due to staffing consolidation and other 'corporate' issues!!! Most companies, once 'Internationalized' forget about borders and such 'Nationalistic foolishness'. Which has the better facilities? Tax benefits/breaks? Nicer weather? I hear Scotts Valley, CA is very nice this time of year.
Knowing the U.S. Government, this will be classified as a class III weapon by the BATF, causing LEGOs to be banned for importatoin, sale or use! ;-)
Arrogance? And your not referring to Microsoft??? It's not arrogance but skepticism due to the source of the survey and Microsoft's earned reputation of using the Media, to promote it's agenda through FUD and misleading or meaningless reports. Just remember the old quote "lies, damned lies and statistics!" Microsoft has made it in to an art form!
I don't read Chinese or understand Cyrillic. That doesn't mean that something written in Mandarin or Russian that I can't understand, is not a protected form of expression or speech!
Win or loose, this case will be subject to appeal by both sides. If the judge makes too may obvious mistakes (and IMHO he has), the possibility of his ruling being reversed on appeal are just that much greater! Mark my words, this is a fight that will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court before it's over!
In this judge's opinion, it is illegal to publish or even point to the code for DeCSS, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the right to publish such other materials, as how to convert your semi-automatic rifle to full-auto. You can publish how to do it, sell parts to do it, but not do it! Why is one illegal and the other protect free speech? This is a case the *WILL* end up before the Supreme Court before it's over.
YES! PLEASE! and SMIT.
If it is a port from AIX, it'll rock! JFS under AIX was the best part of the OS IMHO. Dynamic resizing for partitions, fast accurate recover after power outages! Now if IBM would only port SMIT, so we have a fantastic usable admin manager, life would be sweat.
AOL software has always been a problem period! In the beginning it was their replacement Winsock that caused problems, now it's their IP binding. It has been policy in many companies to ban the installation on AOL software on any company owned/supplied systems to prevent needless hours of tech support due to AOL's BAD software and it's related issues. Bottom line is, by stupidity or design, AOL software breaks things. I just wish they could be forced them to pay dollar for dollar, for all the production man hours wasted cleaning up after them by I.T. staff members. I personnel abhor CALs. No one wins except the lawers, but somehow this one seems deserved.
Free and Open under any definition beats Close and Proprietary any day! I could not agree with you more. Linuxexpo should be open to any and all.
Sorry, I stand corrected, must be an age thing, should of said many of us older lovers of Science Fiction. It is sad but true, that most of his works are now out of print. And as to new works, he's been suffering with Alzheimer's for awhile. In posting the news of his death, /. is doing two services. Letting us know of the passing of a man who's works were once well known and loved, and (indirectly) informing those who were ignorant of his work, of his writings.
Yes, a lot of people have heard of this guy. MOST of us geeks have! Sorry you haven't, your missing out on some great writing and your life is poorer for it's absence.
FYI - They still hold a Color Computer show in the Chicago area each year. It is billed as the ##th Last Annual CoCo Fest and is sponsored by Glenside Color Computer Club. Dennis Báthory-Kitsz has even been known to attend. Even though Tandy gave up on the CoCo long ago, it is still in use and new hardware in the form of Hard Drive interfaces, memory upgrades etc. are still being produced and introduced for it!
It is NOT a dragon, it's a wolf! Fenris the sky wolf, just ask Tyr, Odin or Thor. And the unending winter will be apon us (good thing I live in Florida!
Are they trying to claim that all pages are in English, French or Dutch? What does this indicate as to the rest of their research? I would have thought that the number of pages in Russian (Cyrillic) or one of the eastern languages such as Korean or Japanese, would have been statistically significant enough for inclusion. Makes me wonder about the validity of any of their numbers.