>>SCO calls the GPL "quicksand" and claims it's invalid.
According to scox, the gpl is not just invalid, it actually defies the USA constitution. The reason the gpl is unconstitutional is because it forces the author of the code to surrender his/her copyright to the public domain. That is what scox said.
Somebody may get fired, but not the person who caused the error. Everybody will point their finger at everybody else. And everybody may actually believe that they are not to blame.
My system: HP pavilion ze4200, Laptop, XP-home, 1.7ghz celuron, 192mb ram.
I did a fresh rebuild, the system seemed to be very snappy. I loaded XP SP2 RC2, system seems to run noticable worse.
It seems to take longer to boot to the point where it is usable. After I long on, it seems to several minutes before I can do anything. It froze up on me to where I had to yank the battery - which is something it never used to do. Everything feels more sluggish. Maybe it would be different with a higher end system.
Also, I don't see how to turn off new features, such as firewall, or virus checker.
>>I hope Gates makes more founded arguements next time, perhaps he will suggest that open source causes starvation or maybe malaria outbreaks.
No joke: msft has compared FOSS to cancer, and to communism. Of course msft constantly states that FOSS has a higher TCO, and now msft is saying it kills jobs. Oh yeah, FOSS is also less secure (because anybody can read the source). And of course, FOSS is a huge litigation risk.
Am I missing anything? I must be. That FOSS must some awfully rotton stuff. But then, I guess the competition always is.
There are two windows products lines - the dos line, and the NT line.
The dos line: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME.
The NT line: 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP
Msft seems to want to confuse the two. For example msft comes out with 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, then 3.5. You would think 3.5 would be natural successor, but it isn't. Then msft does the same trick again: 95, 98, 2000. Again, msft throws an NT line windows in the dos line number scheme.
Other than the mechanical arms, Doc Oc is just an ordinary flesh-and-blood type human, right?
Considering the spider strength displayed in the train sceen; it seems to me that if spidy really hauled off and punched somebody in the head - it would look like something out of Gallagar's act.
Also, it seems to me that a gun would be a more effective weapon against doc oc, that a spider-man. For that matter matter, a gun would be probably be more effective than mechanical arms for robbing a bank.
Nobody has ever been sued for just using Linux. However, end-users of a msft product (SQL server) have been sued over a patent violation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/20/sql_serv er _developers_face_huge/
From the evidence that exists so far, it is clear that msft end-users are the ones more likely to be sued.
Of course the most likely to be sued of all, are end-users of scox proprietary products. For the simple reason that scox has made it a normal business practice to sue anybody who has any sort of contract with scox. So far that includes: ibm, chrysler, autozone, and novell.
What was it scox spokesman blake stowell said? "Lawsuits are what you use against people you have a contract with."
But that's just *you* - the advice can not be generalized to the wider market. Often the overworked resume screener with another 500 applicants to screen would just as soon get to meat of the matter, rather than read a bunch of pointless cover letters.
Don't forget most jobs ads are bogus. It's not unusual for companies like Raytheon and Lockheed to flood the jobs boards with jobs they don't really have.
The IT field seems like a cage full of starving wolves fighting to the death over a few tiny scraps of left-over food. The field was the same in the early 90s.
I bet chemical/electrical/mechanical engineers, don't have this sort of trouble. Neither do medical professionals, or truck drivers.
It's not unusual for the lower level IT workers to earn less than the janitor - and with less job security. Not much more upward mobility either - unless there's another dot-com type boom.
When you do find that reasonable entry-level job, chances are it will be filled by somebody with no computer training or experience at all. The higher level jobs will also be filled by the unqualified while the qualified go starving. PHBs that hire computer pros are in a class by themselves.
>> What about our rights not to have to see minorities in the same store as us! Your right to be "left alone" just doesn't exist. Just stop downloading software. It's not hard.
Is being "left alone" in a public store the same as being "left alone" in your own home? Are you saying that absolutely anybody has 100% rights to any of my files or records? If I came into your home, and wrote down your credit card numbers, that wouldn't be a problem?
IANAL. So maybe you can explain to me: if advertisements are protected by the first amendment, then how come there are no more cigerette commercials on television?
In fact, I think there's a lot of laws regarding what you can and can't advertise. Why aren't the advertisers protected by the first amendment?
I have heard that the cost savings of taking the UART off the modem is almost nothing. UART's have been around a long time, they would only cost the HW manufacturer about an additional $1 per modem.
So it would only cost about $1 to build a real modem, instead of a winmodem - so I've heard.
If that's true, then it does it even make sense to make winmodems? Unless:
1) Msft is influencing the HW manufacturers.
or
2) The HW manufacturers like selling winmodems for $20 and real modems for $80.
Seems odd to me that "Robbie" and Sony's robot are included together, as if there is no difference between 1950s SciFi cheese, and real break-through technology.
I have a $200 sony clie, which I never use. It was given to me as a gift.
In fairness, it will do a few things that I can't do with pen and paper. But for 95% of what I do, a pen and paper is *far* more efficent. Jotting down down notes, looking up an address, if far easier with paper.
BTW: I keep an address file in a plain text document on my PC. I've had it for years. I spend maybe one minute every month updating it.
Haven't you been reading the pop-media-tech-news? This is 100% positive for scox, and bad for FOSS. And there are no tanks in Baghdad! Here's a sample:
"There's going to be weeping and gnashing of teeth today among the open source set when they hear that a Utah federal court has decided that SCO's suit against Novell - the one Novell wanted thrown out on its ear - is worth hearing after all."
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/45223.htm
Funny, I didn't know that's what "dismisial" meant. In fact, I thought it meant the opposite. Guess I'm not smart enough to write for the tech-pop-media.
Do you think people will buy an OS that doesn't serve their purpose, just to save a few nickles and dimes?
XP raises the cost of a PC about $100, figure most people will use that PC for about four year, that comes to a whopping $25 a year. You couldn't take the family to McDonald's for $25.
The cost of any linux is not that significant either.
The best value, by a mile, is to use the OS that best suits your purpose.
>>Religion really isn't about heaven, or hell, or converting as many atheists as possible, or strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing up a cafe. Religion is about suppressing your own ego and having compassion for those around you, which is something that a lot of scientists could sorely use.
Maybe that's what religion is/isn't about to you. But, to many people, religion certainly is about strapping a bomb to yourself, etc.
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>>SCO calls the GPL "quicksand" and claims it's invalid.
According to scox, the gpl is not just invalid, it actually defies the USA constitution. The reason the gpl is unconstitutional is because it forces the author of the code to surrender his/her copyright to the public domain. That is what scox said.
Somebody may get fired, but not the person who caused the error. Everybody will point their finger at everybody else. And everybody may actually believe that they are not to blame.
My system: HP pavilion ze4200, Laptop, XP-home, 1.7ghz celuron, 192mb ram.
I did a fresh rebuild, the system seemed to be very snappy. I loaded XP SP2 RC2, system seems to run noticable worse.
It seems to take longer to boot to the point where it is usable. After I long on, it seems to several minutes before I can do anything. It froze up on me to where I had to yank the battery - which is something it never used to do. Everything feels more sluggish. Maybe it would be different with a higher end system.
Also, I don't see how to turn off new features, such as firewall, or virus checker.
>>I hope Gates makes more founded arguements next time, perhaps he will suggest that open source causes starvation or maybe malaria outbreaks.
No joke: msft has compared FOSS to cancer, and to communism. Of course msft constantly states that FOSS has a higher TCO, and now msft is saying it kills jobs. Oh yeah, FOSS is also less secure (because anybody can read the source). And of course, FOSS is a huge litigation risk.
Am I missing anything? I must be. That FOSS must some awfully rotton stuff. But then, I guess the competition always is.
The x86-PC wasn't exactly "open source" but the hardware was standard enough that it could by copied. Just had to reverse engineer the bios.
That meant that anybody could make an x86-PC, not just IBM.
Is the situation similiar with hardware?
There are two windows products lines - the dos line, and the NT line.
The dos line: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME.
The NT line: 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP
Msft seems to want to confuse the two. For example msft comes out with 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, then 3.5. You would think 3.5 would be natural successor, but it isn't. Then msft does the same trick again: 95, 98, 2000. Again, msft throws an NT line windows in the dos line number scheme.
>>This surge in "stealing" hasn't affected the auto industry or any other industry
Oh please. Isn't that because stealling a car isn't nearly as easy? You can't create a duplicate car with a $100 device and a few mouse clicks.
Other than the mechanical arms, Doc Oc is just an ordinary flesh-and-blood type human, right?
Considering the spider strength displayed in the train sceen; it seems to me that if spidy really hauled off and punched somebody in the head - it would look like something out of Gallagar's act.
Also, it seems to me that a gun would be a more effective weapon against doc oc, that a spider-man. For that matter matter, a gun would be probably be more effective than mechanical arms for robbing a bank.
Nobody has ever been sued for just using Linux. However, end-users of a msft product (SQL server) have been sued over a patent violation.
v er _developers_face_huge/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/20/sql_ser
From the evidence that exists so far, it is clear that msft end-users are the ones more likely to be sued.
Of course the most likely to be sued of all, are end-users of scox proprietary products. For the simple reason that scox has made it a normal business practice to sue anybody who has any sort of contract with scox. So far that includes: ibm, chrysler, autozone, and novell.
What was it scox spokesman blake stowell said? "Lawsuits are what you use against people you have a contract with."
But that's just *you* - the advice can not be generalized to the wider market. Often the overworked resume screener with another 500 applicants to screen would just as soon get to meat of the matter, rather than read a bunch of pointless cover letters.
Don't forget most jobs ads are bogus. It's not unusual for companies like Raytheon and Lockheed to flood the jobs boards with jobs they don't really have.
The IT field seems like a cage full of starving wolves fighting to the death over a few tiny scraps of left-over food. The field was the same in the early 90s.
I bet chemical/electrical/mechanical engineers, don't have this sort of trouble. Neither do medical professionals, or truck drivers.
It's not unusual for the lower level IT workers to earn less than the janitor - and with less job security. Not much more upward mobility either - unless there's another dot-com type boom.
When you do find that reasonable entry-level job, chances are it will be filled by somebody with no computer training or experience at all. The higher level jobs will also be filled by the unqualified while the qualified go starving. PHBs that hire computer pros are in a class by themselves.
>>
What about our rights not to have to see minorities in the same store as us!
Your right to be "left alone" just doesn't exist. Just stop downloading software. It's not hard.
Is being "left alone" in a public store the same as being "left alone" in your own home? Are you saying that absolutely anybody has 100% rights to any of my files or records? If I came into your home, and wrote down your credit card numbers, that wouldn't be a problem?
IANAL. So maybe you can explain to me: if advertisements are protected by the first amendment, then how come there are no more cigerette commercials on television?
In fact, I think there's a lot of laws regarding what you can and can't advertise. Why aren't the advertisers protected by the first amendment?
Yeah, as it is, there are only about 40 different IT security certifications. We certainly need more.
I don't know, maybe we really do need more security certs; it's just beginning to seem a little ridiculous.
I have heard that the cost savings of taking the UART off the modem is almost nothing. UART's have been around a long time, they would only cost the HW manufacturer about an additional $1 per modem.
So it would only cost about $1 to build a real modem, instead of a winmodem - so I've heard.
If that's true, then it does it even make sense to make winmodems? Unless:
1) Msft is influencing the HW manufacturers.
or
2) The HW manufacturers like selling winmodems for $20 and real modems for $80.
Seems odd to me that "Robbie" and Sony's robot are included together, as if there is no difference between 1950s SciFi cheese, and real break-through technology.
Agree 100%.
I have a $200 sony clie, which I never use. It was given to me as a gift.
In fairness, it will do a few things that I can't do with pen and paper. But for 95% of what I do, a pen and paper is *far* more efficent. Jotting down down notes, looking up an address, if far easier with paper.
BTW: I keep an address file in a plain text document on my PC. I've had it for years. I spend maybe one minute every month updating it.
Haven't you been reading the pop-media-tech-news? This is 100% positive for scox, and bad for FOSS. And there are no tanks in Baghdad! Here's a sample:
"There's going to be weeping and gnashing of teeth today among the open source set when they hear that a Utah federal court has decided that SCO's suit against Novell - the one Novell wanted thrown out on its ear - is worth hearing after all."
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/45223.htm
Funny, I didn't know that's what "dismisial" meant. In fact, I thought it meant the opposite. Guess I'm not smart enough to write for the
tech-pop-media.
As I understand it, there is some grade of heating oil that's close enough to diesel that you can modify your diesel car to use it.
It might not be $0.41 a gallon, but I think it's way under $2.00 a gallon.
btw: diesel fuel used to cost about half that of regular. I'm not sure what changed.
Speak for yourself, I shorted scox at $15.91.
Just in case there are any UNIX/Linux history experts here.
I don't know anybody in China. Maybe, if I had a list of the email servers, I could block 71% of my spam.
Do you think people will buy an OS that doesn't serve their purpose, just to save a few nickles and dimes?
XP raises the cost of a PC about $100, figure most people will use that PC for about four year, that comes to a whopping $25 a year. You couldn't take the family to McDonald's for $25.
The cost of any linux is not that significant either.
The best value, by a mile, is to use the OS that best suits your purpose.
>>Religion really isn't about heaven, or hell, or converting as many atheists as possible, or strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing up a cafe. Religion is about suppressing your own ego and having compassion for those around you, which is something that a lot of scientists could sorely use.
Maybe that's what religion is/isn't about to you. But, to many people, religion certainly is about strapping a bomb to yourself, etc.
I couldn't get to ninnle's web-site. I couldn't find anything about ninnle on distrowatch.org, or osnews.com. Couldn't find it on ibiblio.org either.