Anonymous criticism has existed since early civilization. I'm surprized the courts are ruling against it, since anonymous criticism has be upheld in the print media. These lawsuits have no other purpose but to to stop dissent.
I guess the lession here is, if you want to make anonymous posts, do it from someone else's PC.
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$150 million, while it seems to be a lot, isn't the reason for the agreement. The reasons Apple entered the agreement was to keep Office for the Mac current with the Windows version. Without Office, the Mac would become another Amiga. Great technology but not enough mainstream applications. The reason M$ entered the deal was to settle once and for all the "look and feel" lawsuit and also to push IE in order to put Netscape six feet under.
Red Hat gives away its OS (you can still download it off the 'net or buy it on a $2 CD). They have contributed code to the open software and only make money off their documentation and support.
SCO, on the other hand, has taken the origonal Unix, repackaged it and sell it for hundreds of dollars per copy and have given nothing back to OS development.
It's well known in the music biz that the artist make there money on peripherals (concerts, licensing, t-shirts etc). Anything that cuts out the suits and gives more money to the artist is a good thing. It will only lead to better quality, more selection and lower prices. If this is successful, everyone will do it and prices will quickly drop.
I saw the article on a newstand yesterday and thought "Oh, he's going to tell us how to cheat, lie and steal your way to the top." Then I glanced through it and thought "What a bunch of crap. Why doesn't he tell us how he REALLY killed off his competitors."
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The best book on cryptography is Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography.
The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford is a pretty good history of Crypto and the NSA.
Memes are kind of like religious beliefs. Most people believe they exist but they are just about
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impossible to quantify.
Hey, it looks like I got first comment
Anonymous criticism has existed since early civilization. I'm surprized the courts are ruling against it, since anonymous criticism has be upheld in the print media. These lawsuits have no other purpose but to to stop dissent.
I guess the lession here is, if you want to make anonymous posts, do it from someone else's PC.
$150 million, while it seems to be a lot, isn't the reason for the agreement. The reasons Apple entered the agreement was to keep Office for the Mac current with the Windows version. Without Office, the Mac would become another Amiga. Great technology but not enough mainstream applications. The reason M$ entered the deal was to settle once and for all the "look and feel" lawsuit and also to push IE in order to put Netscape six feet under.
It will be on demand at www.ttalk.com for the next week.
A nifty shareware program from India. Too bad it is only for Win 95/98 :-(
http://www.davecentral.com/3261.html
I think that is more than $8.
Red Hat gives away its OS (you can still download it off the 'net or buy it on a $2 CD). They have contributed code to the open software and only make money off their documentation and support.
SCO, on the other hand, has taken the origonal Unix, repackaged it and sell it for hundreds of dollars per copy and have given nothing back to OS development.
It sounds like SCO is running scared.
It's well known in the music biz that the artist make there money on peripherals (concerts, licensing, t-shirts etc). Anything that cuts out the suits and gives more money to the artist is a good thing. It will only lead to better quality, more selection and lower prices. If this is successful, everyone will do it and prices will quickly drop.
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/nt/bugs.shtml
I wonder if this was done by the same people who did the infamous video in the antitrust case. There are four things to keep in mind with this test:
1) It was produced and funded by Microsoft.
2) Benchmarks only measure a few factors and don't neccessarily translate into real world results.
3) Optimization is an art as much as it is a science. Microsoft people are probably better at optimizing NT than Linux.
4) Can the results be duplicated by independent parties.
Since the results go contrary to most of the other throughput test, the results probably are not valid for one of the reasons listed above.
Or you just could turn off the macro languages in MS products. Unfortunately, security is an after thought in all MS products.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0 ,3266,21502,00.html
I saw the article on a newstand yesterday and thought "Oh, he's going to tell us how to cheat, lie and steal your way to the top." Then I glanced through it and thought "What a bunch of crap. Why doesn't he tell us how he REALLY killed off his competitors."
http://www.ethepeople.com/affiliates/national/full view.cfm?ETPID=0&PETID=98938
It has about 2600 signatures.
There is an open source project to develop retail software. Check it out at:t ml
http://members.iweb.net.au/~steveoc/gtk_pizza.h