I doubt that agreement covered all the terms of Oracles relationship with HP. I was referring to the contractual relationship between them which would have included the various other terms. For example, I doubt the benchmarking clause was in any Hurd settlement agreement
It wouldn't surprise me if Mark Hurd was a little lax in the clauses of the contract(s) with Oracle because he was dealing with his buddy Larry.
Of course, once Hurd no longer ran the ship, HP found the terms of their contracts offered them little protection from an uncooperative Oracle....
That said, I'm not convinced Itanium had a future - maybe it was time to change processors. The difference probably was that HP could have done it in a more graceful fashion if they were not being kicked in the ass by Oracle.
It would probably keep the competion tight if Boeing were the company kept on partial funding whilst SpaceX and Blue Origin (or maybe Sierra Nevada) duke it out.
After all its not a company thats heavily dependent on the space program, and could keep a project ticking over easier than any of the others...
The theoretical evaporation of black holes is an incredibly slow process; a black hole the mass of the sun would only evaporate after some 10^67 years. which considering the age of the universe is 13x10^9 years (or about 6000 if you're a creationist) means it won't disappear any time soon.
Forgive me for being dense, but "I suspect Oracle will go for damages, tripled" seems silly - can you sue for damages in a preemptive lawsuit, giving that you are technically the defendant?
Even if you are the defendant, you can make counterclaims and requests for damages on the basis of those counterclaims. Oracle is claiming that Lodsys is damaging their business throught their allegedly bogus patent claims against users of Oracles products. I'm not quite sure where the tripled damages come in, but I suspect that frivolous or bogus claims may be subject to some form of financial sanction.
It's an ROV... Maybe they could follow the tether? Seriously, did you even read the article or do you somehow think this is value added over a boat anchor?
I'm not going to let reading the article get in the way of an opportunity for a good joke.
The UK could at this moment support an extradition request from the USA if it made one at the present time. The US could simply make a case that he is charged with (say) treason or breach of the US equivalent of the Official Secrets Act. Since there are equivalent UK offences a UK judge would be almost powerless to refuse an extradition request from the US at the present time. The US trying to extradite him from Sweden only adds an additional unnecessary level of complexity. He's probably safer in Sweden than the UK, so imagining this is some sort of complicated conspiracy is a bit tin foil hat time....
Actually, those caveats do apply. Assange will be transferred under a European Arrest Warrant, and under the terms of the Warrant he cannot be transferred to another country without the permission of the country from which he is originally extradited (the UK in this case). Given the degree of opprobrium such a move would bring the UK Government, given that extraditions to the US are already a sensitive subject, then this would be extremely unlikely to happen.
...at the same time mobiles are able to establish higher rate connections, and it would probably make sense for Google to purchase a mobile phone operator or assist an one into providing much larger data limits than currently exists. Then the limits discussed above disappear and Google/Facebook resume letting the good times roll.....
Well said. I would mod this up if I had points and is a result of a failure to understand what is being said. The GP question about representing square, triangle and sine waves at a certain frequency is a common misunderstanding.
Whether this is a downside or an upside is up to you.....
I don't think 5 years is a long enough period for film development and recovery of costs. I do think 15-20 years, perhaps with a 10 year extension on payment of a fee would do it though.
If my memory serves back to when I worked on the first A320 used for test flights in 1986, there was an exit chute about halfway down the aircraft in the floor, so pesky things like tailfins wouldn't interrupt egress from the aircraft.
It wouldn't surprise me if they inserted something similar into the plane they crashed.
in the UK probably used the Spectrums rival, the BBC Micro, as it had expansion ports, extension ROMs etc, it was used as the standard computing workhorse for both hobbyists and electronics labs around the country.
Apple ][ was for people who wanted to become accountants....:-)
There's no typo; my (ex) g/f chose it, and since his ancestry is black English on mummys side, I see little wrong in him having a name associated with African ancestry.
I'm perfectly aware of Dante being the possible Italian/Latin original of the name. As I have a degree plus college level English I don't think spelling is a problem for me (with a few exceptions).
As you've said, he's also got a perfectly sensible middle name (which I chose), and there's little wrong with shortening Donte to Don if he wants later. But having said that, having an unusual name also makes you memorable which can be an advantage.
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I doubt that agreement covered all the terms of Oracles relationship with HP. I was referring to the contractual relationship between them which would have included the various other terms. For example, I doubt the benchmarking clause was in any Hurd settlement agreement
Dinosaurs. Not heavy, just big boned.
T-Rex just has to realise that these low carb diets are just a fad, and that it cannot get by on just one brontosaurus a week.
It wouldn't surprise me if Mark Hurd was a little lax in the clauses of the contract(s) with Oracle because he was dealing with his buddy Larry.
Of course, once Hurd no longer ran the ship, HP found the terms of their contracts offered them little protection from an uncooperative Oracle....
That said, I'm not convinced Itanium had a future - maybe it was time to change processors. The difference probably was that HP could have done it in a more graceful fashion if they were not being kicked in the ass by Oracle.
It would probably keep the competion tight if Boeing were the company kept on partial funding whilst SpaceX and Blue Origin (or maybe Sierra Nevada) duke it out.
After all its not a company thats heavily dependent on the space program, and could keep a project ticking over easier than any of the others...
The theoretical evaporation of black holes is an incredibly slow process; a black hole the mass of the sun would only evaporate after some 10^67 years. which considering the age of the universe is 13x10^9 years (or about 6000 if you're a creationist) means it won't disappear any time soon.
Forgive me for being dense, but "I suspect Oracle will go for damages, tripled" seems silly - can you sue for damages in a preemptive lawsuit, giving that you are technically the defendant?
Even if you are the defendant, you can make counterclaims and requests for damages on the basis of those counterclaims.
Oracle is claiming that Lodsys is damaging their business throught their allegedly bogus patent claims against users of Oracles products.
I'm not quite sure where the tripled damages come in, but I suspect that frivolous or bogus claims may be subject to some form of financial sanction.
You think maybe the Kelvans are behind this?
No but someone should warn Kevin (Sorbo) that his ship is about to collide with a Galaxy.....
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.....
It's an ROV... Maybe they could follow the tether? Seriously, did you even read the article or do you somehow think this is value added over a boat anchor?
I'm not going to let reading the article get in the way of an opportunity for a good joke.
I am very grateful for this US Coastguard evading tech....
The UK could at this moment support an extradition request from the USA if it made one at the present time. The US could simply make a case that he is charged with (say) treason or breach of the US equivalent of the Official Secrets Act. Since there are equivalent UK offences a UK judge would be almost powerless to refuse an extradition request from the US at the present time. The US trying to extradite him from Sweden only adds an additional unnecessary level of complexity. He's probably safer in Sweden than the UK, so imagining this is some sort of complicated conspiracy is a bit tin foil hat time....
Actually, those caveats do apply. Assange will be transferred under a European Arrest Warrant, and under the terms of the Warrant he cannot be transferred to another country without the permission of the country from which he is originally extradited (the UK in this case). Given the degree of opprobrium such a move would bring the UK Government, given that extraditions to the US are already a sensitive subject, then this would be extremely unlikely to happen.
...at the same time mobiles are able to establish higher rate connections, and it would probably make sense for Google to purchase a mobile phone operator or assist an one into providing much larger data limits than currently exists. Then the limits discussed above disappear and Google/Facebook resume letting the good times roll .....
Well said. I would mod this up if I had points and is a result of a failure to understand what is being said.
The GP question about representing square, triangle and sine waves at a certain frequency is a common misunderstanding.
Whether this is a downside or an upside is up to you.....
I don't think 5 years is a long enough period for film development and recovery of costs. I do think 15-20 years, perhaps with a 10 year extension on payment of a fee would do it though.
I hear Russia has an empty city that could perform this task. Chernobyl I think its called....
Hmm, but cleaning up afterwards could be entertaining, with little blobs of cum floating all around in zero-g......
Actually the judge has explicitly asked the parties to comment on how the EU ruling affects their position.
Whilst Judges are obviously obliged to follow their national precedents, they can look futher afield if non exists.
I get the impression that the US judge will be happy to take a precedent from anywhere if he can.
I'd just like to point out I'm from your side of the big blue myself.... :-)
If my memory serves back to when I worked on the first A320 used for test flights in 1986, there was an exit chute about halfway down the aircraft in the floor, so pesky things like tailfins wouldn't interrupt egress from the aircraft.
It wouldn't surprise me if they inserted something similar into the plane they crashed.
Until it jumped the human
As lomg as Harmony, Melody and Destiny Angel are escorting me down to a Happy Ending
in the UK probably used the Spectrums rival, the BBC Micro, as it had expansion ports, extension ROMs etc, it was used as the standard computing workhorse for both hobbyists and electronics labs around the country.
Apple ][ was for people who wanted to become accountants.... :-)
Rush out a bodged product to market and fix it in Service Pack 1.
There's no typo; my (ex) g/f chose it, and since his ancestry is black English on mummys side, I see little wrong in him having a name associated with African ancestry.
I'm perfectly aware of Dante being the possible Italian/Latin original of the name. As I have a degree plus college level English I don't think spelling is a problem for me (with a few exceptions).
As you've said, he's also got a perfectly sensible middle name (which I chose), and there's little wrong with shortening Donte to Don if he wants later. But having said that, having an unusual name also makes you memorable which can be an advantage.