They're right that MS's game shouldn't be called "Mythica", but they should be hit with rotten eggs for taking a shot at the Lindows name. And the fact that it centers on Norse mythology is irrelevant. It should simply be a suit about the name, Mythica. Of course, as devil's advocate, I'd suggest most people know the name Dark Age of Camelot, but they don't even remember "Mythic"...
Considering how well they avoided Slammer (visiting laptops with SQL Server desktop edition), and how well they've managed to keep pre-release software from leaking, I have a really hard time believing they successfully keep their people accessing Linux code.
I forget the exact text and the name of the kid movie, but I'm pretty sure it's a Disney movie.
Problem is, we have a 5 disc changer. When an audio CD ends, it will spin up the next disc. If the next disc is a movie, but I don't want it to play, I instinctively it STOP. Depending on the movie, I'll see some message like "Cannot stop at this time", or something very clearly telling me I'm not allowed to stop.
I'm just trying to stop the whole damned thing, I'm not even trying to skip content. So my only alternative is wait several seconds until I am allowed, or hit the power button. Usually by then I have already forcefully "pressed" the power button.
And of course, not being able to go directly to Menu upon start of disc is BS. I do NOT need to see the same previews for the 100th time (kid movies get watched over and over), and thus, I go thru preview hell over and over. I have to >| >| >| >| to skip the 6 or 8 tracks of previews.
Disney execs should die. Disney is one of the most evil companies. They're purely about the money.
That's like when I'm NOT ALLOWED to press the fucking STOP button on my DVD player during the first several seconds of the the DVD.
And while I'm ranting off topic, FUCK YOU to the anti-fair-use people who won't let me skip previews on DVDs. I paid for use of the movie I bought. There should be no limitations placed on me with respect to previews and my ability to NOT watch them.
That was a lame remark. The tech patent mess is a big serious issue that many people are upset about. Whether this specific patent involves Linux or not isn't the issue.
This would have still been news if Linux didn't exist.
It allows supreme flexibility. If you currently have an assortment of servers doing different tasks (and with Windows 2000 Server, you eventually learn it's better to spread out the service responsibilities), sometimes it's difficult to plan 3-4 years in advance for your resource use.
With VMWare, you can run several virtual servers on a big (quad cpu) server, attach essentially unlimited amounts of fast disk, and shuffle resource allocation around as you see fit.
If absolute uptime is required, you have two such server in different locations, one of which is failover.
If you can afford 2-8 hours of downtime, you just make sure the one server has as much redundancy as possible, and then you plan to call Dell/HP/IBM if the mobo or raid controller card fails.
Whether an image is digitally manipulated or not has a lot more to do with the content than with the photographer.
Christopher Burkett doesn't need to manipulate pictures of nature, but portrait photographers often need to manipulate their shots to present the images of people the way those people think of themselves.
When you take a few pounds of weight off your subject without their knowledge (or you soften some wrinkles), and they dearly love that picture, but they dislike another similar picture that wasn't edited, you start to realize what's going on.
But all images will be manipulated intentionally or unintentionally for color balance and light.
Guy or girl, I don't care. That wasn't my point. If/. would allow me to edit my post, I would correct "that guy". And forgive me for being non-PC, but I still use guy to represent specific males, or general people (male and female).
I think we should have an informal fund raiser for groklaw.
They (that guy?) does a lot for the good of the world (fighting evil (sco) is not just good for linux, it's good for "right").
So, I'll donate $5 to his paypal, and I highly recommend that everyone else do the same. $5 isn't much, but * slashdot it's a lot. Surely we've spent a lot of their money on bandwidth, not to mention the free research time they've spent.
Groklaw has seemed to do fine in the past against/., so the current problems surprise me.
On a different note, perhaps we should all (all/. readers) visit the SCO site each day, maybe even multiple times a day, to make sure we don't miss out on some important information.
And remember, you'll want to disable your cache to do this. Oh, and if you have a browser that allows you to set it to auto refresh, that would be a good idea too. It would really be a shame to miss an important press release just because you forgot to hit Refresh often enough...
Unfortunately, SCO's unknown (linux) server is having some difficulty right now.
What (obviously) amuses me is that this frequent refreshing of their news page would be justified, given their proclivity for using press releases to disseminate important information.
BofA was the bank that allowed an account to be illegally frozen.
I _think_ it was Compass bank, but I may have the name wrong, that allowed the illegal account to be created. As you might imagine, that account existed only long enough for $108,000 to be deposited from the ccard company, and then withdrawn/transferred. Then the account was closed.
BofA definitely has legal responsibility for their part, but it's difficult to chase down 100k from a bank that size without spending at least that much in the fight. And when your business is wrecked, your last funds snatched up, and your remaining money tied up in legal costs to regain control of the company that you fully own, there's not enough left to fight with.
There are many places where you can get intelligent answers to this question, and somehow I doubt/. is one of them.
I'd bet most of the answers here will be, "get a digitial". Just because you see Philip Greenspun's amateur stuff here periodically doesn't mean this is a good place for tips:P
I was a signer on an account, and the agreement was that I would draw a set XXXXX/month (at the beginning of each month) from the acct., and the taxes would be back-calculated and sent to the employee outsourcing firm that I was technically an employee of.
Since it was a company with a high risk of failure in my opinion, I had required the up front pay. Obviously the method of payment was a bad idea because it left me with no proof of the situation. That's why I ate the issue and am now paying those taxes.
But a former insurance company owner from Houston Texas named Blaine Ferguson (or Fergusen?) was the person who lied to me about the taxes and my employment status.
He's also the person who: - illegally had Bank of America freeze the corporate bank accounts - illegally opened a corporate business account using the company name (but without legal articles of incorporation, since he wasn't an officer) - instructed EPX, our credit card processing company, to send all settlements to his illegal account
If he weren't already old and frail I might have been inclined to "visit" him.
But if you believe they are witholding, you're probably not going to stash money away for taxes. Obviously had I known what was going on, I would have saved enough to cover the taxes. I did inquire once, and I was told (verbally) that it was being done.
It's my fault for not having more documentation on what the agreement was, but the point remains - not everyone who owes more taxes than they can afford is a criminal, or intended to cheat the govt.
If the stories from the actual military pilots are true, this was not the case on 9/11.
There was only one squadron charged with covering the eastern US, and at that time only two (or four?) sets of pilots on call.
They were scrambled, and in both the NY and DC cases, they were not close enough to the rogue planes to shoot them down.
I think part of the problem was that it wasn't immediately clear which planes were rogue, but either way, on that day, the pilots just did not have the opportunity to shoot them down. They DID have clearance, and they even had a final Yes from Cheney.
I'd say this isn't rocket science, but I suppose it is.
Still, there's no magic. There's no reason any other intelligent, motivated person or group couldn't do the same project. Killing this project will have no positive long term effect. It may stop some "bad" people from buying these, but it sure won't stop bad people from building their own.
This is like every other technology. You can attempt to stop it, but it will continue to develop. So we (the US) happily agree there should be no more nuclear testing, but that's really only because we can afford to buy/build supercomputers to do nuke sims. It's all so... hypocritical.
The truth is rarely as simple as people (you?) believe.
I can't speak for this gentleman, but I can speak for myself. In the US, even if you believe you are an employee of a company, and you believe they are witholding your taxes as they should be, you are personally liable if they didn't.
That's the situation I found myself in, and thus, the reason I ended up owing 5 figures. I'm sure if the government had something personally against me, they could work that debt into something criminal.
I knew settlement was delayed, but I didn't know that executions were not necessarily final. I thought the delay in settlement was just a formality (part of the mechanical process).
When you buy stock, and you get confirmation that your trade has successfully executed, it's a done deal.
You WILL base your future behavior on the premise that you now hold that stock.
If you make a trade based on that (or a promise of a trade, in the case of an option), but then have your original trade canceled, you should not be liable.
Those trades should not have been canceled. The company that created the bogus sell orders should be accountable for actually making those sales, even if it means they now have to buy up stock at a higher price. They should have insurance to cover mistakes/accidents like this.
It is pure, utter bullshit to pull the rug out from under legit trades like this. This kind of behavior will undermine the stock market (and at a time when there's already plenty of reason for potential traders to be wary.)
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They're right that MS's game shouldn't be called "Mythica", but they should be hit with rotten eggs for taking a shot at the Lindows name. And the fact that it centers on Norse mythology is irrelevant. It should simply be a suit about the name, Mythica. Of course, as devil's advocate, I'd suggest most people know the name Dark Age of Camelot, but they don't even remember "Mythic"...
More importantly, AMD has provided real competition for Intel, which has helped greatly reduce the price of non-bleeding-edge CPUs.
Cheers for AMD (in general... and cheers for AMD for surviving this long
Considering how well they avoided Slammer (visiting laptops with SQL Server desktop edition), and how well they've managed to keep pre-release software from leaking, I have a really hard time believing they successfully keep their people accessing Linux code.
I forget the exact text and the name of the kid movie, but I'm pretty sure it's a Disney movie.
Problem is, we have a 5 disc changer. When an audio CD ends, it will spin up the next disc. If the next disc is a movie, but I don't want it to play, I instinctively it STOP. Depending on the movie, I'll see some message like "Cannot stop at this time", or something very clearly telling me I'm not allowed to stop.
I'm just trying to stop the whole damned thing, I'm not even trying to skip content. So my only alternative is wait several seconds until I am allowed, or hit the power button. Usually by then I have already forcefully "pressed" the power button.
And of course, not being able to go directly to Menu upon start of disc is BS. I do NOT need to see the same previews for the 100th time (kid movies get watched over and over), and thus, I go thru preview hell over and over. I have to >| >| >| >| to skip the 6 or 8 tracks of previews.
Disney execs should die. Disney is one of the most evil companies. They're purely about the money.
That's like when I'm NOT ALLOWED to press the fucking STOP button on my DVD player during the first several seconds of the the DVD.
And while I'm ranting off topic, FUCK YOU to the anti-fair-use people who won't let me skip previews on DVDs. I paid for use of the movie I bought. There should be no limitations placed on me with respect to previews and my ability to NOT watch them.
Who are these people who create these rules?
No, you're Anonymous Coward. All anonymous cowards go to hell.
That was a lame remark. The tech patent mess is a big serious issue that many people are upset about. Whether this specific patent involves Linux or not isn't the issue.
This would have still been news if Linux didn't exist.
Get an account. AC is for suckers.
It may be a little early to make this call, but the HP+Compaq merger has already reportedly lowered the combined company's operating expenses.
And of course, it put them on par with Dell in terms of sales (15% vs 15%).
It allows supreme flexibility. If you currently have an assortment of servers doing different tasks (and with Windows 2000 Server, you eventually learn it's better to spread out the service responsibilities), sometimes it's difficult to plan 3-4 years in advance for your resource use.
With VMWare, you can run several virtual servers on a big (quad cpu) server, attach essentially unlimited amounts of fast disk, and shuffle resource allocation around as you see fit.
If absolute uptime is required, you have two such server in different locations, one of which is failover.
If you can afford 2-8 hours of downtime, you just make sure the one server has as much redundancy as possible, and then you plan to call Dell/HP/IBM if the mobo or raid controller card fails.
It's an old idea made new, but it's a good idea.
Whether an image is digitally manipulated or not has a lot more to do with the content than with the photographer.
Christopher Burkett doesn't need to manipulate pictures of nature, but portrait photographers often need to manipulate their shots to present the images of people the way those people think of themselves.
When you take a few pounds of weight off your subject without their knowledge (or you soften some wrinkles), and they dearly love that picture, but they dislike another similar picture that wasn't edited, you start to realize what's going on.
But all images will be manipulated intentionally or unintentionally for color balance and light.
Great, she's a hero.
/. would allow me to edit my post, I would correct "that guy". And forgive me for being non-PC, but I still use guy to represent specific males, or general people (male and female).
Guy or girl, I don't care. That wasn't my point. If
I think we should have an informal fund raiser for groklaw.
They (that guy?) does a lot for the good of the world (fighting evil (sco) is not just good for linux, it's good for "right").
So, I'll donate $5 to his paypal, and I highly recommend that everyone else do the same. $5 isn't much, but * slashdot it's a lot. Surely we've spent a lot of their money on bandwidth, not to mention the free research time they've spent.
On a different note, perhaps we should all (all /. readers) visit the SCO site each day, maybe even multiple times a day, to make sure we don't miss out on some important information.
And remember, you'll want to disable your cache to do this. Oh, and if you have a browser that allows you to set it to auto refresh, that would be a good idea too. It would really be a shame to miss an important press release just because you forgot to hit Refresh often enough...
Unfortunately, SCO's unknown (linux) server is having some difficulty right now.
What (obviously) amuses me is that this frequent refreshing of their news page would be justified, given their proclivity for using press releases to disseminate important information.
BofA was the bank that allowed an account to be illegally frozen.
I _think_ it was Compass bank, but I may have the name wrong, that allowed the illegal account to be created. As you might imagine, that account existed only long enough for $108,000 to be deposited from the ccard company, and then withdrawn/transferred. Then the account was closed.
BofA definitely has legal responsibility for their part, but it's difficult to chase down 100k from a bank that size without spending at least that much in the fight. And when your business is wrecked, your last funds snatched up, and your remaining money tied up in legal costs to regain control of the company that you fully own, there's not enough left to fight with.
It's all in the past. Only the tax bill remains.
You are SO on the wrong forum.
/. is one of them.
:P
There are many places where you can get intelligent answers to this question, and somehow I doubt
I'd bet most of the answers here will be, "get a digitial". Just because you see Philip Greenspun's amateur stuff here periodically doesn't mean this is a good place for tips
I was a signer on an account, and the agreement was that I would draw a set XXXXX/month (at the beginning of each month) from the acct., and the taxes would be back-calculated and sent to the employee outsourcing firm that I was technically an employee of.
Since it was a company with a high risk of failure in my opinion, I had required the up front pay. Obviously the method of payment was a bad idea because it left me with no proof of the situation. That's why I ate the issue and am now paying those taxes.
Nope.
But a former insurance company owner from Houston Texas named Blaine Ferguson (or Fergusen?) was the person who lied to me about the taxes and my employment status.
He's also the person who:
- illegally had Bank of America freeze the corporate bank accounts
- illegally opened a corporate business account using the company name (but without legal articles of incorporation, since he wasn't an officer)
- instructed EPX, our credit card processing company, to send all settlements to his illegal account
If he weren't already old and frail I might have been inclined to "visit" him.
But if you believe they are witholding, you're probably not going to stash money away for taxes. Obviously had I known what was going on, I would have saved enough to cover the taxes. I did inquire once, and I was told (verbally) that it was being done.
It's my fault for not having more documentation on what the agreement was, but the point remains - not everyone who owes more taxes than they can afford is a criminal, or intended to cheat the govt.
If the stories from the actual military pilots are true, this was not the case on 9/11.
There was only one squadron charged with covering the eastern US, and at that time only two (or four?) sets of pilots on call.
They were scrambled, and in both the NY and DC cases, they were not close enough to the rogue planes to shoot them down.
I think part of the problem was that it wasn't immediately clear which planes were rogue, but either way, on that day, the pilots just did not have the opportunity to shoot them down. They DID have clearance, and they even had a final Yes from Cheney.
I'd say this isn't rocket science, but I suppose it is.
Still, there's no magic. There's no reason any other intelligent, motivated person or group couldn't do the same project. Killing this project will have no positive long term effect. It may stop some "bad" people from buying these, but it sure won't stop bad people from building their own.
This is like every other technology. You can attempt to stop it, but it will continue to develop. So we (the US) happily agree there should be no more nuclear testing, but that's really only because we can afford to buy/build supercomputers to do nuke sims. It's all so... hypocritical.
The truth is rarely as simple as people (you?) believe.
I can't speak for this gentleman, but I can speak for myself. In the US, even if you believe you are an employee of a company, and you believe they are witholding your taxes as they should be, you are personally liable if they didn't.
That's the situation I found myself in, and thus, the reason I ended up owing 5 figures. I'm sure if the government had something personally against me, they could work that debt into something criminal.
Thank you for the education.
I knew settlement was delayed, but I didn't know that executions were not necessarily final. I thought the delay in settlement was just a formality (part of the mechanical process).
When you buy stock, and you get confirmation that your trade has successfully executed, it's a done deal.
You WILL base your future behavior on the premise that you now hold that stock.
If you make a trade based on that (or a promise of a trade, in the case of an option), but then have your original trade canceled, you should not be liable.
Those trades should not have been canceled. The company that created the bogus sell orders should be accountable for actually making those sales, even if it means they now have to buy up stock at a higher price. They should have insurance to cover mistakes/accidents like this.
It is pure, utter bullshit to pull the rug out from under legit trades like this. This kind of behavior will undermine the stock market (and at a time when there's already plenty of reason for potential traders to be wary.)
Actually fartknocker, had I been allowed to edit my own post I wouldn't have needed to respond to myself.
Besides, what good is karma? Mine's been excellent for so long, why would I need to whore?
And, if you look at some of my recent posts, you'll see I'm no friend of the moderators...