You should forget about the whole thing. There is no good that can come of this. I understand wanting to be a good samaritan and all, but some people just don't take kindly to that. Considering the risks here (if the company gets pissed off at you, you end up with a computer crimes charge on your record and are basically blacklisted from the industry) I'd say you should delete any copies of any proof-of-concept code you have and forget about the whole thing. Either that or sell it to a fraternity or the football/basketball program at your school.. I'm sure they'd LOVE to get their hands on something like that.
Right, but I think the difference here is that SCO isn't acting under the influence of Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft gave them money, because it's no secret they want to see Linux die a flaming death, but I think the whole situation is too sticky for MS to really get involved in. The most they could do to help was give SCO a huge hunk of cash under the pretense that they were licensing something.
Look at it this way: MS has lots of lawyers, who no doubt have looked at this, scoffed, but then the corporate guys realized that the longer they can extend SCO's lifespan, the more FUD they'll spread. Threatening to charge Linux users borders on fraud and extortion and MS already has enough legal problems. I'm not saying MS is the good guy here, but I honestly doubt they're pulling the strings. You've gotta pick your fights, and I don't think MS is interested in this particular one because SCO's chances of winning are almost nil. The head honchos at SCO are all lawyers who are evil enough in their own right. They're looking to scare people into licensing Linux and then trying to get a quick settlement with IBM. SCO is not trying to destroy Linux, they just want money.
I honestly doubt MS has much, if anything to do with this. This is a case of SCO seeing they had no cash and would fold within a year and trying to scare people into paying for these licenses. Anyone with half an iota of common sense (and a decent understanding of the issues here) knows that you can't claim ownership of work someone else did and paid for. SCO is claiming that they own code IBM wrote for AIX, which was developed using UNIX code, which SCO may or may not own. But the disputed code was never part of SCO's UNIX code, as it was written by IBM for AIX and subsequently GPLed and added to the Linux kernel by IBM themselves. MS knows this lawsuit has absolutely no chance of succeeding, though SCO is spreading FUD about Linux and that's one of MS' favorite pastimes so it's easy to see the similarities. Ever notice how freaked out corporate America is about this? No? Didn't think so.:)
No, really. Go to your doctor and have him write you a prescription for adderall. Your problem is exactly what adderall is designed for. If you want to know what it feels like, EVERYONE on college campuses has some, so buy a pill off someone for a couple bucks and see if it works for you. Just remember to lay off the caffeine when you're on it.
Hah that place is scary. I loved the place in the article where the kids were like "If not for this place, I'd be dead." Hardcore brainwashing, those kids who go there are all saying "Were it not for this place, I'd be dead." Nevermind they have no idea how or why they would have died (most of them are there because they got caught smoking pot in high school and their parents totally flipped.) The place is basically just extreme boot camp for the children of failed marriages between really rich people. Mommy and daddy get new families and don't want to deal with their old kid.. so when he acts up (to get attention, because they ignore him) they send him to that place.
That's where I go to take a crap when I'm on campus.. No joke, they have nice, clean shitters. And if you're quick, you can have gutenberg toilet paper...
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You're thinking of the old bugs. Everyone knew they were shitty cars, but that's pretty much WHY people drove them. Also, because the engine was so easy to remove, repairs cost less. I'm not saying they're the best car ever, but if you were a college student in the 60s, it beats the hell out of mom and dad's old station wagon.
Ehh.. but a "journal" and a "weblog" do different things. The blog gets published to a large audience immediately. It's more like a TV show or a newspaper column. A journal is just a book that someone writes in and doesn't really get read. Granted, both are usually people bitching about stuff nobody cares about, but at least on the blog people can see it and not care.
They stopped making Premiere because nobody uses it. On OS X, everyone uses Final Cut Pro, which is a vastly superior program. So it's not really sad, they just decided to cut their losses and stop porting it to Mac. Premiere honestly isn't that great a program.. Maybe if the full version were $100 or $200 it'd be a great alternative.. but it's just too clunky with a lot of effects to be worth what they want to charge for it.
Nope.. You can get everclear in the states too, it's just about $30 a bottle. Great for making punch, as it tastes like nothing and a little bit goes a long way.
Pah, we used to do that and it was fine. You could get a liter of everclear (which is 96% ethanol) for about $4. That's more than enough to get about 10 people stinking drunk. Beats paying $5 for a cocktail at a bar.
Yup. Cause if you do, your replacement ain't gonna be a 6 gig drive. They'll replace it with whatever they have handy, because giving all their RMA replacements a 40 gig drive is cheaper than continuing to make 6 gig drives.
Aha, but a lot of the more unscrupulous telemarketers don't even get blocked by the do not call lists. If I recall right, charities are not blocked. The scam with charities is that companies will solicit donations for say, the local highway patrolman's widows fund. The local highway patrolman's widows fund sees about ooh.. 10-20% of what people donate, the rest of it goes to the company that actually does the solicitation. So the industry won't die, it'll just change forms. Which is why I only have a cell phone, NOBODY can call and solicit you on a cell phone.
If I bought stuff from even 1/1000 of the spam I got, I'd have about 37 college diplomas, a 2 foot long penis and several billion in laundered Nigerian money in my bank account. Alas, it gets caught by my spam filter, so I'm left working really hard for one college diploma, a tiny caucasean penis and almost nothing in my bank account. Thanks a lot, spamassassin >:(
Yeah, except the homeless people are probably still living there, only in squalid conditions ripe for disease and drug use. I think the point of its inclusion in said book was that the homeless people would be much better off if the nuns were to take over the buildings and keep them from deteriorating further than if the city just left them abandoned.
Well also the Apple 17" laptop is a 17" widescreen... which is smaller than a "normal" 17" screen. People complain about the high price of Apple hardware, but then complain how crappy PC hardware is in comparison. You can't have it both ways. Any PC maker can make a laptop that's as nice as a Powerbook, it would just cost $4000 and anyone who's gonna spend that much on a laptop will probably just buy the Mac anyway. Also, keep in mind that Apple has more control over hardware than PC manufacturers do. Most PC laptops are just rebranded Taiwanese things anyway. No need to spend money on R&D.
People are good in smaller communities because their neighbor's opinion is more powerful. If they're greedy and not good, their neighbors will ostracize them and they won't get what they want. By contrast, in a crowded city, you can be piss-all mean and there's not too many negative consequences. People only do good things because it gets them what they want. Plato's fable of the Ring of Gyges is a good illustration of this. I'll not repeat it here, as it's long and rather complicated, but basically if you could do anything you wanted and get away with it, most people would. It's easy to have hippie idealism and believe "the simple man is a good man," but he is only good because it is ruinous for him to be bad.
Trick I learned is to find the heavily Asian part of town. They'll usually have "import stores" that sell knockoffs of batteries imported from Taiwan for next to nothing. They probably come from the same manufacturer as the name brand batteries, but they cost about a quarter of the price. I used to get vibrating Li+ batteries for my Nokia 5100 (which Nokia didn't even make) for about $10, when Nokia wanted $90 for a Li+ battery that didn't even vibrate. Actually most laptop batteries are just a bunch of Li+ cells connected together. If you can pry open your battery case without destroying it, you could probably replace it (though if you manage to kill yourself doing this, forget I said anything.:)
Okay, if I DO game, let's see what the difference is here. Who really cares if the R9800 gives me 400 fps in Quake 3 when the R9600 gives me 300? That's still way faster than you're ever going to notice. My question is "why buy a top of the line card when the mid-range cards are just as good for all intents and purposes?" Game designers don't design games that can only run on the latest and greatest cards. They design games that can run well on a 2 year old midrange card. I usually play games at 1280x1024, mostly because that's the native resolution of my LCD (and don't give me crap about LCDs being horrible for gamers, that is yet again another fabrication by "hardware review" sites. It works fine for games and I don't notice any ghosting at all.)
There is a very small segment of the population willing to pay more than $200 for a video card. People don't look at the video card market and say "hmm, what is the best card out there?" They say "hmm, what is the best card I can get for less than $200 (or some other arbitrary price point)?" I have a GeForce4 ti4400 and it's never been too slow to run anything I've thrown at it at 1280x1024. FSAA doesn't excite me, I can't tell the difference at those high of resolutions anyway. I'm not saying a fast video card isn't worth it. But it will be just as fast a year from now when it's half the price and games are actually coming out where the difference in speed is even noticible. Most people who buy these huge cards are just playing counterstrike on them anyway, and for CS a geforce2 or radeon 7500 will do you just as well as any newer card.
Oh, and as for the lack of performance boost on AGP8x and DDR400.. there is a reason for that. Both of these are just gimmicks by motherboard companies. AGP4x is able to push more data than the motherboard can handle anyway, so AGP8x does nothing (except break compatibility with older cards.) DDR400 doesn't benefit you that much because your CPU is still running on a slower FSB. Mobo manufacturers know these technologies are just hitting the bottleneck anyway, but "performance" crazed gamers want them so they deliver them, even if they're useless.
Who really cares? I'm not about to drop $500 on a video card, nor are most people on slashdot. Honestly, the video card market is totally uninteresting these days. There aren't many games available right now that take advantage of the features of these cards. And when games really start appearing, the cards will be available for much less. NVidia vs. ATI, I mean seriously, who cares? Both companies are full of lying sleazeballs, both companies offer similar products at similar prices, and both companies pay off "hardware review" sites to give their products favorable reviews.
"Brand loyalty" in video cards is a joke. It's like having brand loyalty on paper clips. This holy war between NVidia and ATI fans is retarded, it's like people are TRYING to find something to argue over. Neither company offers a product that really distinguishes itself from the other, so it's all a wash anyway. Can we please stop posting these "reviews," as they're all obviously biased in one way or another (based upon the "reviewer's" chosen side in the holy war.) It's just a goddamn video card, not the cure for cancer.
You can usually call your cell phone provider and request they disable SMS on your account. I find SMS incredibly useful, but there is an option to disable it if you don't agree.:)
The 5-10 cents is an over-quote. With my plan, I get 300 incoming SMS messages a month, any more than that they charge you $2 or $3 for an extra 50, etc. I imagine other cell phone plans are similarly structured. Text messages aren't free, but they're included with the price of the plan in most cases.
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You should forget about the whole thing. There is no good that can come of this. I understand wanting to be a good samaritan and all, but some people just don't take kindly to that. Considering the risks here (if the company gets pissed off at you, you end up with a computer crimes charge on your record and are basically blacklisted from the industry) I'd say you should delete any copies of any proof-of-concept code you have and forget about the whole thing. Either that or sell it to a fraternity or the football/basketball program at your school.. I'm sure they'd LOVE to get their hands on something like that.
Right, but I think the difference here is that SCO isn't acting under the influence of Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft gave them money, because it's no secret they want to see Linux die a flaming death, but I think the whole situation is too sticky for MS to really get involved in. The most they could do to help was give SCO a huge hunk of cash under the pretense that they were licensing something.
Look at it this way: MS has lots of lawyers, who no doubt have looked at this, scoffed, but then the corporate guys realized that the longer they can extend SCO's lifespan, the more FUD they'll spread. Threatening to charge Linux users borders on fraud and extortion and MS already has enough legal problems. I'm not saying MS is the good guy here, but I honestly doubt they're pulling the strings. You've gotta pick your fights, and I don't think MS is interested in this particular one because SCO's chances of winning are almost nil. The head honchos at SCO are all lawyers who are evil enough in their own right. They're looking to scare people into licensing Linux and then trying to get a quick settlement with IBM. SCO is not trying to destroy Linux, they just want money.
I honestly doubt MS has much, if anything to do with this. This is a case of SCO seeing they had no cash and would fold within a year and trying to scare people into paying for these licenses. Anyone with half an iota of common sense (and a decent understanding of the issues here) knows that you can't claim ownership of work someone else did and paid for. SCO is claiming that they own code IBM wrote for AIX, which was developed using UNIX code, which SCO may or may not own. But the disputed code was never part of SCO's UNIX code, as it was written by IBM for AIX and subsequently GPLed and added to the Linux kernel by IBM themselves. MS knows this lawsuit has absolutely no chance of succeeding, though SCO is spreading FUD about Linux and that's one of MS' favorite pastimes so it's easy to see the similarities. Ever notice how freaked out corporate America is about this? No? Didn't think so. :)
Alas, we still have to wear pants.. Some of us even need emergency pants.
No, really. Go to your doctor and have him write you a prescription for adderall. Your problem is exactly what adderall is designed for. If you want to know what it feels like, EVERYONE on college campuses has some, so buy a pill off someone for a couple bucks and see if it works for you. Just remember to lay off the caffeine when you're on it.
If the guy has trouble reading text on a normal monitor, he probably won't notice how blurry it is.
Hah that place is scary. I loved the place in the article where the kids were like "If not for this place, I'd be dead." Hardcore brainwashing, those kids who go there are all saying "Were it not for this place, I'd be dead." Nevermind they have no idea how or why they would have died (most of them are there because they got caught smoking pot in high school and their parents totally flipped.) The place is basically just extreme boot camp for the children of failed marriages between really rich people. Mommy and daddy get new families and don't want to deal with their old kid.. so when he acts up (to get attention, because they ignore him) they send him to that place.
That's where I go to take a crap when I'm on campus.. No joke, they have nice, clean shitters. And if you're quick, you can have gutenberg toilet paper...
You're thinking of the old bugs. Everyone knew they were shitty cars, but that's pretty much WHY people drove them. Also, because the engine was so easy to remove, repairs cost less. I'm not saying they're the best car ever, but if you were a college student in the 60s, it beats the hell out of mom and dad's old station wagon.
Ehh.. but a "journal" and a "weblog" do different things. The blog gets published to a large audience immediately. It's more like a TV show or a newspaper column. A journal is just a book that someone writes in and doesn't really get read. Granted, both are usually people bitching about stuff nobody cares about, but at least on the blog people can see it and not care.
They stopped making Premiere because nobody uses it. On OS X, everyone uses Final Cut Pro, which is a vastly superior program. So it's not really sad, they just decided to cut their losses and stop porting it to Mac. Premiere honestly isn't that great a program.. Maybe if the full version were $100 or $200 it'd be a great alternative.. but it's just too clunky with a lot of effects to be worth what they want to charge for it.
Nope.. You can get everclear in the states too, it's just about $30 a bottle. Great for making punch, as it tastes like nothing and a little bit goes a long way.
Pah, we used to do that and it was fine. You could get a liter of everclear (which is 96% ethanol) for about $4. That's more than enough to get about 10 people stinking drunk. Beats paying $5 for a cocktail at a bar.
Yup. Cause if you do, your replacement ain't gonna be a 6 gig drive. They'll replace it with whatever they have handy, because giving all their RMA replacements a 40 gig drive is cheaper than continuing to make 6 gig drives.
Aha, but a lot of the more unscrupulous telemarketers don't even get blocked by the do not call lists. If I recall right, charities are not blocked. The scam with charities is that companies will solicit donations for say, the local highway patrolman's widows fund. The local highway patrolman's widows fund sees about ooh.. 10-20% of what people donate, the rest of it goes to the company that actually does the solicitation. So the industry won't die, it'll just change forms. Which is why I only have a cell phone, NOBODY can call and solicit you on a cell phone.
If I bought stuff from even 1/1000 of the spam I got, I'd have about 37 college diplomas, a 2 foot long penis and several billion in laundered Nigerian money in my bank account. Alas, it gets caught by my spam filter, so I'm left working really hard for one college diploma, a tiny caucasean penis and almost nothing in my bank account. Thanks a lot, spamassassin >:(
Or maybe this one. If you've seen the movie, you'll know what I mean (the mile long penis cannons were great, as was the glowing member.)
Yeah, except the homeless people are probably still living there, only in squalid conditions ripe for disease and drug use. I think the point of its inclusion in said book was that the homeless people would be much better off if the nuns were to take over the buildings and keep them from deteriorating further than if the city just left them abandoned.
Well also the Apple 17" laptop is a 17" widescreen... which is smaller than a "normal" 17" screen. People complain about the high price of Apple hardware, but then complain how crappy PC hardware is in comparison. You can't have it both ways. Any PC maker can make a laptop that's as nice as a Powerbook, it would just cost $4000 and anyone who's gonna spend that much on a laptop will probably just buy the Mac anyway. Also, keep in mind that Apple has more control over hardware than PC manufacturers do. Most PC laptops are just rebranded Taiwanese things anyway. No need to spend money on R&D.
People are good in smaller communities because their neighbor's opinion is more powerful. If they're greedy and not good, their neighbors will ostracize them and they won't get what they want. By contrast, in a crowded city, you can be piss-all mean and there's not too many negative consequences. People only do good things because it gets them what they want. Plato's fable of the Ring of Gyges is a good illustration of this. I'll not repeat it here, as it's long and rather complicated, but basically if you could do anything you wanted and get away with it, most people would. It's easy to have hippie idealism and believe "the simple man is a good man," but he is only good because it is ruinous for him to be bad.
Trick I learned is to find the heavily Asian part of town. They'll usually have "import stores" that sell knockoffs of batteries imported from Taiwan for next to nothing. They probably come from the same manufacturer as the name brand batteries, but they cost about a quarter of the price. I used to get vibrating Li+ batteries for my Nokia 5100 (which Nokia didn't even make) for about $10, when Nokia wanted $90 for a Li+ battery that didn't even vibrate. Actually most laptop batteries are just a bunch of Li+ cells connected together. If you can pry open your battery case without destroying it, you could probably replace it (though if you manage to kill yourself doing this, forget I said anything. :)
Okay, if I DO game, let's see what the difference is here. Who really cares if the R9800 gives me 400 fps in Quake 3 when the R9600 gives me 300? That's still way faster than you're ever going to notice. My question is "why buy a top of the line card when the mid-range cards are just as good for all intents and purposes?" Game designers don't design games that can only run on the latest and greatest cards. They design games that can run well on a 2 year old midrange card. I usually play games at 1280x1024, mostly because that's the native resolution of my LCD (and don't give me crap about LCDs being horrible for gamers, that is yet again another fabrication by "hardware review" sites. It works fine for games and I don't notice any ghosting at all.)
There is a very small segment of the population willing to pay more than $200 for a video card. People don't look at the video card market and say "hmm, what is the best card out there?" They say "hmm, what is the best card I can get for less than $200 (or some other arbitrary price point)?" I have a GeForce4 ti4400 and it's never been too slow to run anything I've thrown at it at 1280x1024. FSAA doesn't excite me, I can't tell the difference at those high of resolutions anyway. I'm not saying a fast video card isn't worth it. But it will be just as fast a year from now when it's half the price and games are actually coming out where the difference in speed is even noticible. Most people who buy these huge cards are just playing counterstrike on them anyway, and for CS a geforce2 or radeon 7500 will do you just as well as any newer card.
Oh, and as for the lack of performance boost on AGP8x and DDR400.. there is a reason for that. Both of these are just gimmicks by motherboard companies. AGP4x is able to push more data than the motherboard can handle anyway, so AGP8x does nothing (except break compatibility with older cards.) DDR400 doesn't benefit you that much because your CPU is still running on a slower FSB. Mobo manufacturers know these technologies are just hitting the bottleneck anyway, but "performance" crazed gamers want them so they deliver them, even if they're useless.
Who really cares? I'm not about to drop $500 on a video card, nor are most people on slashdot. Honestly, the video card market is totally uninteresting these days. There aren't many games available right now that take advantage of the features of these cards. And when games really start appearing, the cards will be available for much less. NVidia vs. ATI, I mean seriously, who cares? Both companies are full of lying sleazeballs, both companies offer similar products at similar prices, and both companies pay off "hardware review" sites to give their products favorable reviews.
"Brand loyalty" in video cards is a joke. It's like having brand loyalty on paper clips. This holy war between NVidia and ATI fans is retarded, it's like people are TRYING to find something to argue over. Neither company offers a product that really distinguishes itself from the other, so it's all a wash anyway. Can we please stop posting these "reviews," as they're all obviously biased in one way or another (based upon the "reviewer's" chosen side in the holy war.) It's just a goddamn video card, not the cure for cancer.
You can usually call your cell phone provider and request they disable SMS on your account. I find SMS incredibly useful, but there is an option to disable it if you don't agree. :)
The 5-10 cents is an over-quote. With my plan, I get 300 incoming SMS messages a month, any more than that they charge you $2 or $3 for an extra 50, etc. I imagine other cell phone plans are similarly structured. Text messages aren't free, but they're included with the price of the plan in most cases.