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If you don't know what that is, you should get out of that hole you've been living in!
Of course, most of the people on those 13,000 servers are living in a hole (or, atleast their parent's basement) so if you did live in a hole, odds are you know about CS.
Being the pointy-haired guy means being able to put together a good presentation, being able to sit next to another CEO on the aiplane and talk intelligently about the state of the industry, and being able to address 100 people confidently.
What's an aiplane? And I thought the pointy-haired guy just asked the stupid questions and didn't know marketing from manufacturing.
I highly doubt that someone who is capable of becoming the CEO of a company failed only because they could not spell. The lack of spelling ability is not a deciding factor; a person's inability to spell only an inability to spell. It may be a symptom of something else (laziness?) but is not what will completely stop your climb upward.
Sounds a lot like the US and the Skylarov case huh?
This is not exactly comparable. While I don't agree with the Skylarov case, that was something done in the U.S. (the distibution of the code anyway).
This case does nothing. Makes no real precedent. It just means that people publishing something that Zimbabwe does not like will have problems if they go there - not suprising, given the government's track record there.
What are you just fucking insane? How does implementing a protocol change that protocol itself?
Then I guess there is nothing to worry about and everyone else is in an uproar about nothing - you can write and distribute anything you want that implements the CIFS protocal since it will not be subject to the GPL due to being implemented in a GPL program.
That is, after all, what the CIFS Technical Reference License Agreement
says: Company shall not distribute any Company Implementation in any manner that would subject such Company Implementation to the terms of an IPR Impairing License. So if the protocal does not change, then it can be used. Right?
But that isn't everything. You can implement CIFS in a GPL licensed program in a Windows based program. (1.2 "Company Implementation" shall mean only those portions of the software developed by Company that implement CIFS for use on Non-Microsoft Platforms.) So, this is not an attack on GPL or LGPL programs per se - it is an attack on non-MS operating system programs in the GPL/LGPL.
How infectious is the GPL anyway? If a GPL program that implements TCP/IP is distributed, doesn't TCP/IP now fall under the GPL? And then, by extension, anything that implements TCP/IP??
This seems to be what Microsoft is trying to fight. At first.
In effect, though, this does prevent GPL/LGPL programs from interacting with other programs or OS's via the CIFS - only if the GPL example above is true. If implementing TCP/IP does not make it fall under the GPL, then implementing CIFS would not make it fall under the GPL - and that is what the license says you can not do.
AOL/TW is an 800lb gorilla.
MS is an 800lb gorilla.
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leave for a company that would support the World Domination thru Linux initiative
Which would all be fine, if not for The RH acquisition would be like giving one of them a dart-gun part.
MS or AOL/TW? It isn't an either/or proposition but it is pretty damn close. How can anyone think that AOL using Redhat (and, thusly, Linux) to stymie Microsoft is a bad thing? If that "little weapon" gets ANY support from AOL (or, at worse, is just left alone to its own devices) it will be helpful in the long. Netscape (i.e. Mozilla) did not die due to AOL (as has been pointed out numerous times since this started) - it was already all but dead. AOL, by not "helping" or getting in the way, allowed Mozilla to rise from the ashes of a company that went up against Microsoft and got burned.
Even if AOL is only using Redhat as a way to threaten Microsoft I can't see the bad side for Linux.
I was under the impression this was already being done (pre-9/11). Whenever I checked in for a flight I was always asked the standard litany ("Anyone ask you to carry anything? Bags out of your sight?" etc.) and there were numerous occasions that we waited at the gate for someone to either show up or their bags removed from the plane.
M$ has fought so hard over the years to brainwash people into thinking that computers naturally and unavoidably hang regularly that people actually believe it ! (remember that famous quote supposedly from a M$ support guy saying to a customer that "memory is like gasoline, you use it up then your computer has to fill up the tank again by restarting" ?)
Oh, I always thought this was caused by the computer being on too long, overheating the electrons and causing them to expand to the point that they got stuck in one of the small bends on the circuity resulting in a crash...
Each version of Windows actually is better. Each one is more stable than the last. Each one has more features, more usability. The problem, for Windows users, is that long creep towards true reliability is going to take forever at this pace.
One could blame the users of Windows: they aren't technically apt enough to keep the computer from crashing. But that just isn't the case. Windows is being written for, and marketed to, the non-computer literate. These are the people that should have no problem running a windows machine! They don't install cutting edge hardware. They probably don't even open the case. They aren't installing iffy programs, writing code, etc. They are just trying to surf the web, read some email, write a report, and play some games. They could even do all of this with Microsoft products - and it would still crash, through no fault of the user.
So not only am I bothered by other people's pagers, cell phones, and PDAs going off during my dinner - or worse, during a movie! - but it turns out to be a stupid game!?
Maybe you shouldn't worry about a game threatening your life next time that pager goes off; the person behind you is probably a more valid concern.
A better, and more likely, explanation is that people have Google set as their home page - that is the first thing I do when I get a new browser.
It is a lot easier to type "cnn", hit enter, and click on the first link than it is to type "cnn.com" in the URL bar - I save four key strokes (though who is counting.)
The caching on newsite pages didn't occur until later in the day.
Seriously though, as much as I love video games, they don't come before my family, friends, or my health. If you can't pull yourself away from a game for the things that really matter in life, then you do need to get help.
Maybe you need to get your priorities straight! A planar raid for ph4t l3wt is not going to wait on your pregnant wife. If she doesn't have the decency to keep that baby corked up so you can kill Shirk the Blue Dragon for the UberSword of Leetness, then maybe she needs help.
It looks like their system is setup to determine how well a customer should be treated based on past spending at all Harrah's locations. I doubt that collecting data from different locations is all the patents cover.
The question was what WE can do...and the only thing that we can really do, besides gripe about it, is either fix it and make it work or not buy the product. The reason that Novell or MS approved products even display that they work with said OS's is because there is a market and the manufactures know that people will buy thier product BECAUSE it works with aforementioned OS's. The only way that the consumer can express anger about companies misleading them about a product is either writing and complaining (how effective is this really??) or by not buying the product (basically hitting them where it actually hurts.) In a capitalist market your wallet is your biggest voice, unfortunately.
Wow, I remember Habitat...it was the most time I spent on my Commodore 64, racking up HUGE credit card bills for my parents until they got sick of it and canceled my Quantum Link acoount. *sigh* Oh the joy of getting that 1200 baud modem - now that was blazing speed.
First off, I have to say the E*Trade monkey dancing was the only one that made me laugh out loud. Unfortunately nobody else I was with even saw it (they all went to get beers...) so I looked pretty stupid trying to explain a commercial about a dancing monkey through my tears.
The thing that disturbed was the computer animation of Christopher Reeves walking. Was this really nessecary?
That and the HotJobs hand thing is a total bust...I knew that one was going to be a flopped when I read about Superbowl advertising in the last issue of Wired.
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If you don't know what that is, you should get out of that hole you've been living in!
Of course, most of the people on those 13,000 servers are living in a hole (or, atleast their parent's basement) so if you did live in a hole, odds are you know about CS.
Being the pointy-haired guy means being able to put together a good presentation, being able to sit next to another CEO on the aiplane and talk intelligently about the state of the industry, and being able to address 100 people confidently.
What's an aiplane? And I thought the pointy-haired guy just asked the stupid questions and didn't know marketing from manufacturing.
I highly doubt that someone who is capable of becoming the CEO of a company failed only because they could not spell. The lack of spelling ability is not a deciding factor; a person's inability to spell only an inability to spell. It may be a symptom of something else (laziness?) but is not what will completely stop your climb upward.
This is not exactly comparable. While I don't agree with the Skylarov case, that was something done in the U.S. (the distibution of the code anyway).
This case does nothing. Makes no real precedent. It just means that people publishing something that Zimbabwe does not like will have problems if they go there - not suprising, given the government's track record there.
Then I guess there is nothing to worry about and everyone else is in an uproar about nothing - you can write and distribute anything you want that implements the CIFS protocal since it will not be subject to the GPL due to being implemented in a GPL program.
That is, after all, what the CIFS Technical Reference License Agreement says: Company shall not distribute any Company Implementation in any manner that would subject such Company Implementation to the terms of an IPR Impairing License. So if the protocal does not change, then it can be used. Right?
But that isn't everything. You can implement CIFS in a GPL licensed program in a Windows based program. (1.2 "Company Implementation" shall mean only those portions of the software developed by Company that implement CIFS for use on Non-Microsoft Platforms.) So, this is not an attack on GPL or LGPL programs per se - it is an attack on non-MS operating system programs in the GPL/LGPL.
This seems to be what Microsoft is trying to fight. At first.
In effect, though, this does prevent GPL/LGPL programs from interacting with other programs or OS's via the CIFS - only if the GPL example above is true. If implementing TCP/IP does not make it fall under the GPL, then implementing CIFS would not make it fall under the GPL - and that is what the license says you can not do.
and
leave for a company that would support the World Domination thru Linux initiative
Which would all be fine, if not for The RH acquisition would be like giving one of them a dart-gun part.
MS or AOL/TW? It isn't an either/or proposition but it is pretty damn close. How can anyone think that AOL using Redhat (and, thusly, Linux) to stymie Microsoft is a bad thing? If that "little weapon" gets ANY support from AOL (or, at worse, is just left alone to its own devices) it will be helpful in the long. Netscape (i.e. Mozilla) did not die due to AOL (as has been pointed out numerous times since this started) - it was already all but dead. AOL, by not "helping" or getting in the way, allowed Mozilla to rise from the ashes of a company that went up against Microsoft and got burned.
Even if AOL is only using Redhat as a way to threaten Microsoft I can't see the bad side for Linux.
I was under the impression this was already being done (pre-9/11). Whenever I checked in for a flight I was always asked the standard litany ("Anyone ask you to carry anything? Bags out of your sight?" etc.) and there were numerous occasions that we waited at the gate for someone to either show up or their bags removed from the plane.
And you thought the disable pop-up features in Mozilla was only for pr0n sites?
Oh, I always thought this was caused by the computer being on too long, overheating the electrons and causing them to expand to the point that they got stuck in one of the small bends on the circuity resulting in a crash...
One could blame the users of Windows: they aren't technically apt enough to keep the computer from crashing. But that just isn't the case. Windows is being written for, and marketed to, the non-computer literate. These are the people that should have no problem running a windows machine! They don't install cutting edge hardware. They probably don't even open the case. They aren't installing iffy programs, writing code, etc. They are just trying to surf the web, read some email, write a report, and play some games. They could even do all of this with Microsoft products - and it would still crash, through no fault of the user.
Maybe you shouldn't worry about a game threatening your life next time that pager goes off; the person behind you is probably a more valid concern.
It is a lot easier to type "cnn", hit enter, and click on the first link than it is to type "cnn.com" in the URL bar - I save four key strokes (though who is counting.)
The caching on newsite pages didn't occur until later in the day.
Maybe you need to get your priorities straight! A planar raid for ph4t l3wt is not going to wait on your pregnant wife. If she doesn't have the decency to keep that baby corked up so you can kill Shirk the Blue Dragon for the UberSword of Leetness, then maybe she needs help.
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It looks like their system is setup to determine how well a customer should be treated based on past spending at all Harrah's locations. I doubt that collecting data from different locations is all the patents cover.
The designer tested it on a runway, with two cops clocking him, and the radar guns topped out at 199mph. Jay Leno has one as well.
And hopefully this is the last time we see AYB...
The question was what WE can do...and the only thing that we can really do, besides gripe about it, is either fix it and make it work or not buy the product. The reason that Novell or MS approved products even display that they work with said OS's is because there is a market and the manufactures know that people will buy thier product BECAUSE it works with aforementioned OS's. The only way that the consumer can express anger about companies misleading them about a product is either writing and complaining (how effective is this really??) or by not buying the product (basically hitting them where it actually hurts.) In a capitalist market your wallet is your biggest voice, unfortunately.
Wow, I remember Habitat...it was the most time I spent on my Commodore 64, racking up HUGE credit card bills for my parents until they got sick of it and canceled my Quantum Link acoount. *sigh* Oh the joy of getting that 1200 baud modem - now that was blazing speed.
The thing that disturbed was the computer animation of Christopher Reeves walking. Was this really nessecary?
That and the HotJobs hand thing is a total bust...I knew that one was going to be a flopped when I read about Superbowl advertising in the last issue of Wired.
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