If you look at CNET's coverage of VoIP on their web site, you'll notice a major trend: FUD.
With that in mind, I take this with a grain of salt. I have Vonage and I disabled my voicemail the first day I got it. Why? I own an answering machine which my wife is somewhat attached to and to be honest, so am I.
Articles that talk about cheap pc's with Linux whether its Lindows or Java Desktop System on it. Because its so trivial. Its a FREE OS. They slap it in to say its functional and keep it cheap. There's no glorious mission to bring Linux to the desktop here.
People buy it and I guarantee that after the initial novelty of an 'alternate OS' wears off, that drive goes NTFS. I think I am even being generous at that. I wouldn't be surprised if that boot sector never got read before an 31337 version of Windows XP is already blowing it out.
Sorry guys, nobody cares. No Linux adoption is happening at Wal-Mart today.
I keep getting this strange feeling Microsoft has a big hand in this whole situation in one way or another, SCO was just a good pivot point to wage a real war against Linux.
It would seem illogical for anyone to invest in SCO based on the extremely high potential to come out of this high and dry. Not to mention that any profits earned are going to fatten the pockets of an attorney anyway. So the questions come to down to these two:
Who does this benefit?
Hint/Quote:
Before this investment SCO only had a few million in cash remaining.
(Seems like SCO is not benefitting)
Based on who would benefit from this, who also would have the cash flow to take this kind of investment risk? (not to mention the state of the economy)
I never knew what it was until I read this article. One of these was present in front of the Burger King at Jackson and Wabash in downtown Chicago. The last time I was at this location was late 2001, so it may have worn away since (it wasn't in good shape even then).
If anyone can confirm if it is still there, I would be curious to know!
I am a year out of school with an IS degree. I make low 20's, and part of me thinks that I am nuts. After all, I owe about 50k in loans from a degree that isn't paying off money-wise. But I'm notcrazy and I am not mad about my situation.
I like what I do, I have been working to start a company that I believe in, with people that I believe in. I hated school and I don't think it gets much worse than school, because you are solving problems that have been solved before and usually you feel no personal gain when it is completed (aside from a decent grade).
In real life, you need to ask yourself what you have a passion for. I have a personal feeling that society should be a much easier place to live. So in my small way I work to automate companies, whether they are medical practices, schools, small businesses, etc... I don't midn that the money isn't good right now because I like what I do. But I also think its important not to stay in one place for too long.
My job affords me the benefit of moving in to a new situation all them time and revisitng old ones on occasion. Your typical IT guy that has worked for a massive company for 20 years in the same cubicle won't give you a great outlook on post-graduation.
The most important thing to remember is that a CS degree is a very impressive and helpful degree in anything you should decide to do. Thats why I was confident in completeing my own CS degree. If my business doesn't work out, I have no problems trying something new. But always keep in mind what you want out of life in general, in that mind set you will most probably find a job that you like and closely matches your talents.
Just keep moving around, it may take a while to figure out what you really like.
So what you're saying is that everyone pitch in a miniscule amounts of money so we could hire a legal team to represent our viewpoint in the topics that interest us?
Hmmm... Sounds to me like the job of a congressman. I am by no means a genius, but it seems absurd we would pay more beyond our tax dollars to pay someone to influence someone else who is already on the payroll.
The Internet, the most widely used medium for communication and freedom of speech is controlled by the tools that allow us to speak. Whether its a messaging system such as ICQ or AIM or your HTML editor itself...
I find it very startling that it is legally possible to license such communication tools as if they were in a communist or censored environment. Now that Microsoft has set the precedent, where do we go from here?
Will every company put in a clause in their licensing saying you can't bash them? How far will it go and where will it end?
Regardless of the fact that you probably wouldn't buy FrontPage 2002 if you had strong regards towards Microsoft - I have to wonder how this is even legal under the laws of free speech. Big companies are going to all out war to control Internet content and make their software the standard, does this mean their licensing will be able to dicate what we can say? Feature-wise it already has some control of what we can do...
How interesting it would be to have a communist Internet in a democratic country.
If I do recall, after talking in to a mouse, Mongomery Scott gave away the formula for transparent steel in Star Trek IV...
Even so, if these cases were perfect I am sure Apple is readying some kind of a lawsuit as we speak.
Scott
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I can't believe this has not yet been mentioned. The Atari 2600 has a novice/advanced setting for both controllers. It's the perfect choice. Duuuuh!!
df
Its all ours.. Al Gore invented the Internet! Stop this madness - this would be like letting them have electricity too.
my sig file is somewhere below..
Star Wars Galaxies. Plenty of serveer shutdowns going on there over protests recently.
...and marked "Cuban" on my DVDs. Now what? Do I wait for the next article for more instructions?
Is this some quest?
Now they'll know where to attack first! Sheesh.
If you look at CNET's coverage of VoIP on their web site, you'll notice a major trend: FUD.
With that in mind, I take this with a grain of salt. I have Vonage and I disabled my voicemail the first day I got it. Why? I own an answering machine which my wife is somewhat attached to and to be honest, so am I.
If you don't like a function, just turn it off!
df
Not only are they putting themselves out there on the question of redistribution, the Torrent just isn't reliably working.
Some statement for P2P - the cause was better off without this site.
Money always wins.
df
If you've ever been comped for that stuff, consider yourself lucky. As a consultant, most companies in my experience don't do that at all.
df
Articles that talk about cheap pc's with Linux whether its Lindows or Java Desktop System on it. Because its so trivial. Its a FREE OS. They slap it in to say its functional and keep it cheap. There's no glorious mission to bring Linux to the desktop here.
People buy it and I guarantee that after the initial novelty of an 'alternate OS' wears off, that drive goes NTFS. I think I am even being generous at that. I wouldn't be surprised if that boot sector never got read before an 31337 version of Windows XP is already blowing it out.
Sorry guys, nobody cares. No Linux adoption is happening at Wal-Mart today.
Any signs of intelligent life?
It will be interesting to see how the media handles this. By scope, this is probably the biggest scientific discovery in a lifetime!
The article doesn't mention what they can't say. Are you allowed to say what they can't say?
Apparently Microsoft's intellectual property/code segments have already shown up in the Linux kernel..
Ok guys, just kidding... Really... Don't flame m... Ouch!
So... naturally all infected machines are a violation of SCO's intellectual property rights. Talk about bulk licensing...
I had my own household droid, ya know for the truly meaningful stuff. Like picking up the underwear off the floor...
It would seem illogical for anyone to invest in SCO based on the extremely high potential to come out of this high and dry. Not to mention that any profits earned are going to fatten the pockets of an attorney anyway. So the questions come to down to these two:
Who does this benefit?
Hint/Quote:
(Seems like SCO is not benefitting)
Based on who would benefit from this, who also would have the cash flow to take this kind of investment risk? (not to mention the state of the economy)
Some food for thought..
[sig]darkfus[/sig]
Maybe big business can accomplish what a million screaming geeks can't...
sig?
I never knew what it was until I read this article. One of these was present in front of the Burger King at Jackson and Wabash in downtown Chicago. The last time I was at this location was late 2001, so it may have worn away since (it wasn't in good shape even then).
If anyone can confirm if it is still there, I would be curious to know!
Scott
I'm beginning to notice that Linux obviously has no spell checking capabilities.
Imagine filling in 'face' on the back of your driver's license...
sig?
I am a year out of school with an IS degree. I make low 20's, and part of me thinks that I am nuts. After all, I owe about 50k in loans from a degree that isn't paying off money-wise. But I'm notcrazy and I am not mad about my situation.
I like what I do, I have been working to start a company that I believe in, with people that I believe in. I hated school and I don't think it gets much worse than school, because you are solving problems that have been solved before and usually you feel no personal gain when it is completed (aside from a decent grade).
In real life, you need to ask yourself what you have a passion for. I have a personal feeling that society should be a much easier place to live. So in my small way I work to automate companies, whether they are medical practices, schools, small businesses, etc... I don't midn that the money isn't good right now because I like what I do. But I also think its important not to stay in one place for too long.
My job affords me the benefit of moving in to a new situation all them time and revisitng old ones on occasion. Your typical IT guy that has worked for a massive company for 20 years in the same cubicle won't give you a great outlook on post-graduation.
The most important thing to remember is that a CS degree is a very impressive and helpful degree in anything you should decide to do. Thats why I was confident in completeing my own CS degree. If my business doesn't work out, I have no problems trying something new. But always keep in mind what you want out of life in general, in that mind set you will most probably find a job that you like and closely matches your talents.
Just keep moving around, it may take a while to figure out what you really like.
Scott
So what you're saying is that everyone pitch in a miniscule amounts of money so we could hire a legal team to represent our viewpoint in the topics that interest us?
Hmmm... Sounds to me like the job of a congressman. I am by no means a genius, but it seems absurd we would pay more beyond our tax dollars to pay someone to influence someone else who is already on the payroll.
Scott
The Internet, the most widely used medium for communication and freedom of speech is controlled by the tools that allow us to speak. Whether its a messaging system such as ICQ or AIM or your HTML editor itself...
I find it very startling that it is legally possible to license such communication tools as if they were in a communist or censored environment. Now that Microsoft has set the precedent, where do we go from here?
Will every company put in a clause in their licensing saying you can't bash them? How far will it go and where will it end?
Regardless of the fact that you probably wouldn't buy FrontPage 2002 if you had strong regards towards Microsoft - I have to wonder how this is even legal under the laws of free speech. Big companies are going to all out war to control Internet content and make their software the standard, does this mean their licensing will be able to dicate what we can say? Feature-wise it already has some control of what we can do...
How interesting it would be to have a communist Internet in a democratic country.
Scott
If I do recall, after talking in to a mouse, Mongomery Scott gave away the formula for transparent steel in Star Trek IV... Even so, if these cases were perfect I am sure Apple is readying some kind of a lawsuit as we speak. Scott