RTFA - the request to remand to state court was denied. Novell's motion to dismiss was also denied.
Well, technically it IS dismissed, but on the basis of 'failure to plead special damages' and not on the basis of 'falsity'.
However, Novell's motion to dismiss as grated WITHOUT PREJUDICE, meaning that SCO can amend the complaint later, and the judge has explicitly given them 30 days to do so.
It probably DOES work, but you need to tell linux that a 'vendor 1234, device 2345' (or whatever it is) needs to be activated with the usb-flash driver.
Dinking around with the ID/Driver database generally solves my 'compatibilty' problems. Even with modern kernels, unless the company, or a fan of the device, decides to submit the mapping to the linux project, it'll remain 'apparently' incompatible.
... my digital wristwatch of EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO was doing something like this... you needed to hold down one of the buttons for 2 seconds to get it into 'set' mode.
A long time ago, when I was working for a modem company, we were examining a modem from one of our competitors. On the back, on the model/serial/compliance-sticker, it had these words:
Placing this device near sources of electromagnetic interference may effect performance.
So, that's a use of the word 'effect' as a verb, but I bet you it wasn't the verb that they were looking for.:)
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But... not everyone gets their business listed as a 'case study'. There's going to be SOME kind of deal going on, there, even if its simply 'mutual advertising'. This just indicates that MS and EV1 are a little more closely 'tied' than your average large hosting company. Couple that with the SCO thing, and MS's obvious interest in SCO's pressure on the Linux community, plus the discrepency between Darl 'worth 7 figures' and HeadSurfer's 'I didn't pay that amount', and it adds up to 'things that make you go hmmmm...'.
HeadSurfer made a deal with the devil for gain, and now he's reaping its rewards.
ev1servers.net features as one of Microsoft's case studies. It's possible that there's some kind of Microsoft/SCO/EV1Servers connection... so... look at all of this, including the 'announced regret' with a jaded eye.
I thought so too until I wrote my first project in Python. It becomes totatally invisible; just indent your program like you would anyway. Give it a 'serious try' on a moderately sized project, I'll wager you'll change your mind. </standard python reply>
Prothon is even weirder... you HAVE to indent with tabs, and a 'double indent' counts as a line continuation (rather than a backslash). Lists of items do NOT auto-continue, meaning you MUST double-indent if you have your list spanning multiple lines.
It sounds like the language designer added in a bunch of stuff he thought was cool without giving due consideration to 'User Interface'.
I'm a bit of a 'language lawyer', so new languages that try to solve problems in interesting ways always interests me. So... I decided to give it a good reading. I got turned off IMMEDIATELY as I saw the following text:
"Unlike python, there is no 'global' keyword. Any variable name starting with a capital letter is global."
(Taken from memory... the prothon site is a bit slow at the moment, for some odd reason;) )
That is NOT the sign of an 'industrial strength' language.
I think you got it in one:) In fact, if they'd just stuck to a SINGLE one-hour episode, they could have covered everything (except the requirement for getting Greene's face on the TV for three hours).
So, they spend the first half our of Episode 1 summarising what's going to come up. The first half hour of Ep 2 and 3 was a summary of what was going on before... so... we're down to 1.5 hours now.... and... I'm SURE we could squeeze another 30 minutes out of the show, and down to one hour, if we removed all but ONE of those stupid wiggling string animations.
There! See... nice and compact now... oh... our advertising excutives are tapping me on the shoulder! I wonder what they want???:)
They might get 'stuff' done, but it probably WONT be 'good quality stuff', nor will it be 'stuff that people want to pay for'.
As much as we (as engineers) like to chide and ridicule the 'sales end' of a business, plus everything in between (such as product management), they're TOTALLY necessary if you want to earn money from the coding you do.
Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, the entire three, one-hour episodes could have been condensed down to about 10 minutes. There's a LOT of replay after replay of the same concepts, and even the same animation.
Several times I found myself saying "okay, I get the point already, move ON." But, no, they hadn't gotten around to re-playing a bunch of (probably important and brilliant) physicists saying the same thing as every other physicist.
It plays VERY much like the typical Sunday sports show... lots of "what you just missed" and "coming up next".
If this is 'science for the masses', then the masses are very, very stupid.
Good point. Then again, Slashdot DOES have an incentive to make titles, and articles, more 'sensationalist'... since that will drive more people to read and post commands, and in turn drive more ad revenue.
Yes, yes, that's a very cynical attitude... quite possibly true, and VERY understandable:)
This is just rehashed old news ,not a new event.
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This is a bit of bad reporting by news.com (surprise!). It's just referring to the letters SCO sent out in December, and it's JUST been released NOW that two of those targets were Federal institutions.
Just more lame press releases by SCO. Nothing out of the ordinary. Move along, please.
Except that it is being reported that Apple has had the firmware in the microdrive changed so that you CAN'T use it as a standard compact-flash type drive.
If you want to do that... stick with the MuVo2.
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Because, one day, we are going to run out of fossil fuels, and one day, our energy needs will be greater than that possible by covering the available areas of the Earth with solar energy collectors.
Nuclear power is dirty, but... unless we use and research it NOW, it'll always stay dirty. Coal plants, while still emitting pollution, are MUCH more efficient and much LESS polluting than they were 50 years ago.
I do not argue that it's relatively easy to understand an argument that is otherwise good, but has poor spelling and grammar. However, such bodies of text ARE hard to read, making it easy to 'brush it aside' and concentrate on something else.
In addition, poor spelling and grammar is a sign of disrespect: "I don't care about you enough to spend time ensuring my text is proofed." Again, it's easy to mentally respond with "Well, if you don't care enough to proof your text, I don't care enough to read it."
And, that 'I don't care' attitude WILL be picked up by everyone, even if they don't realise it.
Moral: Spell and grammar check your documents. The more you do this, the easier it is to write good documentation without needing to do the checks.
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That is true only if it is dismissed WITHOUT PREJUDICE. Which in this case it is.
However, if the judge then says DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, then that's it... the plaintiff cannot refile.
Well, technically it IS dismissed, but on the basis of 'failure to plead special damages' and not on the basis of 'falsity'.
However, Novell's motion to dismiss as grated WITHOUT PREJUDICE, meaning that SCO can amend the complaint later, and the judge has explicitly given them 30 days to do so.
So... RTFA right back atcha!
Please... noone visit the AdTI website... we wouldn't want Mr Brown to think that his web site is being attacked again, would we? :)
mmmm.... exfoliating!
No thanks... I've got a boxfull here already, and while at first they were really tasty, they're now bland and unappealing.
It probably DOES work, but you need to tell linux that a 'vendor 1234, device 2345' (or whatever it is) needs to be activated with the usb-flash driver.
Dinking around with the ID/Driver database generally solves my 'compatibilty' problems. Even with modern kernels, unless the company, or a fan of the device, decides to submit the mapping to the linux project, it'll remain 'apparently' incompatible.
... my digital wristwatch of EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO was doing something like this... you needed to hold down one of the buttons for 2 seconds to get it into 'set' mode.
So, that's a use of the word 'effect' as a verb, but I bet you it wasn't the verb that they were looking for. :)
You should have called it 'Andromedia' :)
That's freaky... Then again, SCO are desperate for case studies :)
What company is it, prey tell?
But... not everyone gets their business listed as a 'case study'. There's going to be SOME kind of deal going on, there, even if its simply 'mutual advertising'. This just indicates that MS and EV1 are a little more closely 'tied' than your average large hosting company. Couple that with the SCO thing, and MS's obvious interest in SCO's pressure on the Linux community, plus the discrepency between Darl 'worth 7 figures' and HeadSurfer's 'I didn't pay that amount', and it adds up to 'things that make you go hmmmm...'.
HeadSurfer made a deal with the devil for gain, and now he's reaping its rewards.
ev1servers.net features as one of Microsoft's case studies. It's possible that there's some kind of Microsoft/SCO/EV1Servers connection... so... look at all of this, including the 'announced regret' with a jaded eye.
I'll get back to you on that, once I actually find some truly Yellow People.
:) Ugly people need not apply. )
(Hey... I have this tub of Yellow Aquacolour here... anyone up for some bodypainting? For science, of course
I thought so too until I wrote my first project in Python. It becomes totatally invisible; just indent your program like you would anyway. Give it a 'serious try' on a moderately sized project, I'll wager you'll change your mind.
</standard python reply>
Prothon is even weirder... you HAVE to indent with tabs, and a 'double indent' counts as a line continuation (rather than a backslash). Lists of items do NOT auto-continue, meaning you MUST double-indent if you have your list spanning multiple lines.
It sounds like the language designer added in a bunch of stuff he thought was cool without giving due consideration to 'User Interface'.
Nice work. Needs thought.
I'm a bit of a 'language lawyer', so new languages that try to solve problems in interesting ways always interests me. So... I decided to give it a good reading. I got turned off IMMEDIATELY as I saw the following text:
;) )
"Unlike python, there is no 'global' keyword. Any variable name starting with a capital letter is global."
(Taken from memory... the prothon site is a bit slow at the moment, for some odd reason
That is NOT the sign of an 'industrial strength' language.
I think you got it in one :) In fact, if they'd just stuck to a SINGLE one-hour episode, they could have covered everything (except the requirement for getting Greene's face on the TV for three hours).
:)
So, they spend the first half our of Episode 1 summarising what's going to come up. The first half hour of Ep 2 and 3 was a summary of what was going on before... so... we're down to 1.5 hours now.... and... I'm SURE we could squeeze another 30 minutes out of the show, and down to one hour, if we removed all but ONE of those stupid wiggling string animations.
There! See... nice and compact now... oh... our advertising excutives are tapping me on the shoulder! I wonder what they want???
They might get 'stuff' done, but it probably WONT be 'good quality stuff', nor will it be 'stuff that people want to pay for'.
As much as we (as engineers) like to chide and ridicule the 'sales end' of a business, plus everything in between (such as product management), they're TOTALLY necessary if you want to earn money from the coding you do.
Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, the entire three, one-hour episodes could have been condensed down to about 10 minutes. There's a LOT of replay after replay of the same concepts, and even the same animation.
Several times I found myself saying "okay, I get the point already, move ON." But, no, they hadn't gotten around to re-playing a bunch of (probably important and brilliant) physicists saying the same thing as every other physicist.
It plays VERY much like the typical Sunday sports show... lots of "what you just missed" and "coming up next".
If this is 'science for the masses', then the masses are very, very stupid.
Good point. Then again, Slashdot DOES have an incentive to make titles, and articles, more 'sensationalist'... since that will drive more people to read and post commands, and in turn drive more ad revenue.
:)
Yes, yes, that's a very cynical attitude... quite possibly true, and VERY understandable
This is a bit of bad reporting by news.com (surprise!). It's just referring to the letters SCO sent out in December, and it's JUST been released NOW that two of those targets were Federal institutions.
Just more lame press releases by SCO. Nothing out of the ordinary. Move along, please.
Mostly Digital Cameras. Trying to buy a 4GB CF card for your digital camera will run you close to $800, I believe.
Except that it is being reported that Apple has had the firmware in the microdrive changed so that you CAN'T use it as a standard compact-flash type drive.
If you want to do that... stick with the MuVo2.
Because, one day, we are going to run out of fossil fuels, and one day, our energy needs will be greater than that possible by covering the available areas of the Earth with solar energy collectors.
Nuclear power is dirty, but... unless we use and research it NOW, it'll always stay dirty. Coal plants, while still emitting pollution, are MUCH more efficient and much LESS polluting than they were 50 years ago.
I do not argue that it's relatively easy to understand an argument that is otherwise good, but has poor spelling and grammar. However, such bodies of text ARE hard to read, making it easy to 'brush it aside' and concentrate on something else.
In addition, poor spelling and grammar is a sign of disrespect: "I don't care about you enough to spend time ensuring my text is proofed." Again, it's easy to mentally respond with "Well, if you don't care enough to proof your text, I don't care enough to read it."
And, that 'I don't care' attitude WILL be picked up by everyone, even if they don't realise it.
Moral: Spell and grammar check your documents. The more you do this, the easier it is to write good documentation without needing to do the checks.
... a beowulf cluster of obligatory beowulf cluster comments.