For some reason, the whole thing reminds me of a joke that went "If you remember the '60s, you weren't really involved." But is it really a joke in this case? Or is this actually a masterful bit of insight?
Has anyone actually READ the whole thing cover-to-cover? Someone who can goive an objective review? (Ya, right, look at the crowd I'm asking!)
About twenty minutes after the beta directories were opened up on the mirrors, the first of the ERRATA files were transmitted to the mirrors for downloading... FNORD!
That's if someone manages to clue Judge Jackson and the DOJ into what's happening. It sure would be nice, though. I'm getting tired of trying to make sure websites are either generic enough for everyone to read or add enough browser-specific code to do the job.
The comments about the press trying to portray the Russian space hardware as less safe and advanced reminded me of the line from the movie 'Armageddon'... "Russian components, American components...all made in Taiwan!"
Who said we need to shoot it down? Or even break it up? Trying to destroy it would just cause more problems than it solves. What's wrong with launching a missile which is designed to rendezvous with the rock and just push it out of the way? It wouldn't take much of a nudge if you caught it far enough away from Lunar orbit, a few tenths of a degree would do the job easily. Even inside Lunar orbit, a matter of a degree or two could get it to 'skip' off the atmosphere.
Of course, everything I'm proposing may well be impossible. 'Nuff said.
Just remember...big rocks kill big tanks! (Think of Heinlein.)
So felons CAN profit from their crimes now?
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IANAL, but it seems to me that what Microsoft (and others) are trying to do is get around yet another Federal (US) law that prohibits convicted felons from making monetary profits from their crimes. Admittedly this law was enacted to keep people from selling their life stories or memoirs to movie studios for ridiculous sums (actually, any sum). But since Microsoft has now been convicted of a felony (violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, if I'm not mistaken, is defined as a felony), and they have modified their EULA to basically force the consumer to rent instead of buy the license to the OS, application, middleware or whatever, doesn't that mean they're attempting to profit from their crime?
Just my two cents' worth...please be so kind as to donate the change to the EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign (shameless plug).
Just remember...the only thing that made him an expert on what he's writing about is that he's managed to guess three things correctly at some time in his career. Don't ask me what those three things are, I have absolutely no idea. But I do have more of a clue about the Open Source movement than he does...I can at least identify viable Open Source products four out of five times. 'Nuff said.
By not settling, Microsoft can tie this whole thing up in appeals for decades. In the mean time, they can continue their monopolistic practices.
Umm, not entirely accurate...IANAL, but it seems to me I recall an article someplace (Reuters? ZDNet? I've slept since then) that mentioned an obscure part of the Sherman Act which allowed the DOJ, on proof of predatory practices by any corporation determined to be a monopoly, to basically 'short-circuit' any appeal attempt and shoot it directly up to the US Supreme Court for review and decision. If that happens Microsoft is basically SOL for any hope of tying things up in the appeals courts. Hmmm, wonder if that's why they were throwing everything but the proverbial kitchen sink into trying to settle this in the 11th hour?
Any attorneys or students of law out there who can confirm or deny this?
Let's hope that the Europeans actually get round to investigating MS's other racket: MS Office.
IMHO it's not much of a racket, at least not in North America; there's still WordPerfect Suite. Maybe nowhere as big a market share but to me it's a superior product. And they just released the full suite on Linux...which makes me giggle. In a good way of course...
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
I would like to see M$ get broken into at least three parts; I also don't want to see what's going to happen to their stock price if that happens, considering how many companies have their employees' 401k retirement plans hooked to it. Kind of a two-edged sword; I'm glad I am not the one who has to grab it.
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
IMHO they're more worried about the hundreds of Sherman Act suits that would follow any kind of a ruling by Judge Jackson; that's why they tried to get some kind of a settlement in before it went back to his court. Little-endian users can't do much against them; class-action suits at triple damages would be a bunch more than the 'rounding error' payouts they've had to make to date.
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
Just because one particular chipset design has problems...
Actually, according to this article (which is almost identical to one I submitted from ZDnet three days ago and had rejected, and now this comment will probably get moderated down because I mentioned it, oh well) they wound up scrapping three motherboard designs, not just one. So IMHO this is a fairly expensive black eye they gave themselves.
...it's so damn slow that it'd take 15 minutes to tell whether the damn thing had crashed or was operating normally...
One of the definite advantages Solaris has is the amount of 'high-end' peripheral hardware that it will talk to directly...although I admit I haven't actually gone hunting to find out if there are software drivers to get Linux to talk to the old Ampex 50Gb tape backup with library robot that I saw auctioned off a couple of months ago (moan!). Still, the fact remains that both Linux and Solaris have uptimes that can easily be measured in terms of months (this from personal experience) while the best WinXX platform I've ever seen still has to be rebooted at the very best every other day.
Guess Micros~1 still hasn't managed to hire up all the talent...which IMHO is a Very Good thing.
An undocumented feature that has adverse effects on functionality is still a bug!
Micros~1 says WinNT is more reliable than either Linux or Solaris. Bloor says Linux is more reliable than WinNT. My own experience tells me that Linux and Solaris are comparable in reliability.
I think someone needs to call Micros~1's bank and make sure they have enough funds to cover their reality check before it bounces...
"I am definitely feeling some aggressive tendencies, Captain!" ---Worf, 'Star Trek - Insurrection'
1. Some 'big-name' e-commerce sites were affected, and it made their owners mad.
2. The press was bored; no big political scams, no new wars, no new serial killers...and anything bad relating to high-tech is supposedly newsworthy in the absence of the first three.
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So because of the inherent security risks, we can't just set it and...
FORGET IT!
The difference, of course, being that RIAA can drop a trackable ID onto the chip and charge for every exchange.
Thanks...but no thanks, I get enough banner ads on Web sites already, I don't need one on my Rio.
Serves me right for trying to write a post after 10 hours of work...what that was SUPPOSED to say is "has anyone ELSE actually READ this".
We now return to our regular flame wars, already in progress...
For some reason, the whole thing reminds me of a joke that went "If you remember the '60s, you weren't really involved." But is it really a joke in this case? Or is this actually a masterful bit of insight?
Has anyone actually READ the whole thing cover-to-cover? Someone who can goive an objective review? (Ya, right, look at the crowd I'm asking!)
About twenty minutes after the beta directories were opened up on the mirrors, the first of the ERRATA files were transmitted to the mirrors for downloading...
FNORD!
That's if someone manages to clue Judge Jackson and the DOJ into what's happening. It sure would be nice, though. I'm getting tired of trying to make sure websites are either generic enough for everyone to read or add enough browser-specific code to do the job.
The comments about the press trying to portray the Russian space hardware as less safe and advanced reminded me of the line from the movie 'Armageddon'...
"Russian components, American components...all made in Taiwan!"
No, that was Alan Parsons.
Who said we need to shoot it down? Or even break it up? Trying to destroy it would just cause more problems than it solves.
Of course, everything I'm proposing may well be impossible. 'Nuff said.What's wrong with launching a missile which is designed to rendezvous with the rock and just push it out of the way? It wouldn't take much of a nudge if you caught it far enough away from Lunar orbit, a few tenths of a degree would do the job easily. Even inside Lunar orbit, a matter of a degree or two could get it to 'skip' off the atmosphere.
Just remember...big rocks kill big tanks! (Think of Heinlein.)
IANAL, but it seems to me that what Microsoft (and others) are trying to do is get around yet another Federal (US) law that prohibits convicted felons from making monetary profits from their crimes. Admittedly this law was enacted to keep people from selling their life stories or memoirs to movie studios for ridiculous sums (actually, any sum). But since Microsoft has now been convicted of a felony (violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, if I'm not mistaken, is defined as a felony), and they have modified their EULA to basically force the consumer to rent instead of buy the license to the OS, application, middleware or whatever, doesn't that mean they're attempting to profit from their crime?
Just my two cents' worth...please be so kind as to donate the change to the EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign (shameless plug).
Just remember...the only thing that made him an expert on what he's writing about is that he's managed to guess three things correctly at some time in his career. Don't ask me what those three things are, I have absolutely no idea. But I do have more of a clue about the Open Source movement than he does...I can at least identify viable Open Source products four out of five times.
'Nuff said.
By not settling, Microsoft can tie this whole thing up in appeals for decades. In the mean time, they can continue their monopolistic practices.
Umm, not entirely accurate...IANAL, but it seems to me I recall an article someplace (Reuters? ZDNet? I've slept since then) that mentioned an obscure part of the Sherman Act which allowed the DOJ, on proof of predatory practices by any corporation determined to be a monopoly, to basically 'short-circuit' any appeal attempt and shoot it directly up to the US Supreme Court for review and decision. If that happens Microsoft is basically SOL for any hope of tying things up in the appeals courts. Hmmm, wonder if that's why they were throwing everything but the proverbial kitchen sink into trying to settle this in the 11th hour?
Any attorneys or students of law out there who can confirm or deny this?
Let's hope that the Europeans actually get round to investigating MS's other racket: MS Office.
IMHO it's not much of a racket, at least not in North America; there's still WordPerfect Suite. Maybe nowhere as big a market share but to me it's a superior product. And they just released the full suite on Linux...which makes me giggle. In a good way of course...
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
I would like to see M$ get broken into at least three parts; I also don't want to see what's going to happen to their stock price if that happens, considering how many companies have their employees' 401k retirement plans hooked to it. Kind of a two-edged sword; I'm glad I am not the one who has to grab it.
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
IMHO they're more worried about the hundreds of Sherman Act suits that would follow any kind of a ruling by Judge Jackson; that's why they tried to get some kind of a settlement in before it went back to his court. Little-endian users can't do much against them; class-action suits at triple damages would be a bunch more than the 'rounding error' payouts they've had to make to date.
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
Just because one particular chipset design has problems...
Actually, according to this article (which is almost identical to one I submitted from ZDnet three days ago and had rejected, and now this comment will probably get moderated down because I mentioned it, oh well) they wound up scrapping three motherboard designs, not just one. So IMHO this is a fairly expensive black eye they gave themselves.
Et in Arcadia ego
One of the definite advantages Solaris has is the amount of 'high-end' peripheral hardware that it will talk to directly...although I admit I haven't actually gone hunting to find out if there are software drivers to get Linux to talk to the old Ampex 50Gb tape backup with library robot that I saw auctioned off a couple of months ago (moan!). Still, the fact remains that both Linux and Solaris have uptimes that can easily be measured in terms of months (this from personal experience) while the best WinXX platform I've ever seen still has to be rebooted at the very best every other day.
Guess Micros~1 still hasn't managed to hire up all the talent...which IMHO is a Very Good thing.
An undocumented feature that has adverse effects on functionality is still a bug!
Micros~1 says WinNT is more reliable than either Linux or Solaris. Bloor says Linux is more reliable than WinNT. My own experience tells me that Linux and Solaris are comparable in reliability.
I think someone needs to call Micros~1's bank and make sure they have enough funds to cover their reality check before it bounces...
"I am definitely feeling some aggressive tendencies, Captain!" ---Worf, 'Star Trek - Insurrection'
Ya know, it could be a WHOLE lot worse...
...they could have decided to try to make a live-action Freakazoid...
IMHO two things got this into the media:
1. Some 'big-name' e-commerce sites were affected, and it made their owners mad.
2. The press was bored; no big political scams, no new wars, no new serial killers...and anything bad relating to high-tech is supposedly newsworthy in the absence of the first three.
Five cents, please...