The Athlons were known for "watt gluttony". Now the Pentium4s and above are as bad or much much worse ("Intel confirms Prescott does dissipate 100W"). Please everyone, update your jokes accordingly.
Directly on topic: I thought the article could have used at least one cheap "no-name-we-have-no-idea-who-manufactured-this" PSU in the tests.
Oh, didn't mean to be anon on that. Anyway, I've RTFA and it says "the keys are no longer rubber" so...
Didn't like what I read about the possible emulation layer though. The HPs have been in need of a seriously good OS for some time now. The Saturn-heritage needs to go, IMHO.
Anyone know what happened to the latest Metallica-album? I mean, recording-wise? I did a quick scan through it once and I've never heard anything so poorly produced, ever.
I'm going to go ahead and state the obvious: There's a definite future in indie games. We've soon come full circle and will have enough framework(s) in place that the indies can play again, really play.
I just heard that Reflexive/Black Isle had to remove the "Childkiller" trait (basically a visible flag that was set if you killed children) from the game Lionheart and make the children in the game immortal, or they couldn't get the rating they wanted. Crap like that is what's nice about doing it yourself, for yourself, in your own time, because you love it, not because you want to become famous and buy a ferrari and get the chick.
Too bad that graphics artists and musicians don't feel about their craft as programmers though, they hardly ever want to get involved in independentt projects from what I've heard. It's a little odd, because there were always artists available on the demo-scene. The best of course went on to do games full-time, if the wanted to. Maybe it's because in those days the community was smaller and more intimate.. I dunno.
Personally I think it's better to hack around the system; use the resources of other games. No, you can't re-distribute them, but noone can stop you from making the game compatible with them either. At least in my genre of choice the graphics/sound is secondary to the things I'd like to explore, which is in AI and other game-play aspects.
If she had only bought on track half of her complaint wouldn't have surfaced; clicking each track to download, verifying each track individually.
Also, it seems some people are quite comfortable using non-DRM WMAs (Why?!), and might feel no reason to believe the DRM-kind would have these amazing problems.
Can someone explain the latest filings. I understand the selling, but a bunch of new players just aquired "Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)" with a price of $0.
Does that mean that they can at a future date buy SCO stock up to the limit for the price the stock held at the date of filing, or that they get them for free?! I guess the price is for the option itself and that the "Conversion or Excercise Price of Derivative Security" regulates the price of/when they exercise?/p>
Is this basically a win-win thing? If the price is $0, then they can select to not exercise and lose nothing? Why would a company give out these for no price? Sounds suspicious.
I don't absolutely hate it, but I think that it is pretty bad. I wrote pretty readable perl when I was active (I like to think), but you could do some really horrible stuff.
I particularly don't like the automagic variables springing up all over the place and don't get me started on "bless" and the class system.. gha... I've even had it commented to me that I could use $_ where in fact I had opted to be explicit, which really irked me. "You want me to make the code less readable?"
And all that bullshit justification about "less to type" you'll hear.. I've never been bound by the speed of my fingers seen over the duration of a project. Sheesh.
(and no, I don't care what issues has been solved in Perl 6 -- I hope I'll never have to use it again)
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As always there's humor in all things SCO. This is from an eweek article on the German injunction against SCO:
SCO's legal counsel also felt that the temporary retraining order had been sought "too quickly, so we believe it may be a bit of a publicity stunt"
Pot, meet...? He also went on to say this about lifting the order:
"We expect to be able to have a hearing within the next two weeks on this, where we will be able to present affidavit and testimony to support those issues subject to the temporary restraining order."
That was the 30:th of May, almost two months ago. How is lifting that order going for you Ryan? Let's see:
Der deutsche Web-Server der SCO Group GmbH ist derzeit nicht erreichbar.
Ah.
(not really gloating, would really want to know if anything's happening on that front)
That's not it exactly. While the company will go down in flames, the people who lead it there will bail with money made from their current scheme; which is to pump the stock by parading their dog'n'pony show in the largely ignorant and unquestioning news-media while selling off stock in batches off-stage. They won't be stuck with "huge legal fees", they'll be off to their next venture while posing for the cover of Fortune Magazine.
In the end there'll be a bunch of fucked dot-bomb-again'ers who bought stock high, and lots and lots of rich lawyers leaving the table well fed.
There can be no victory, no justice unless the now unquestioning media is forced to introspection and betterment, and McBride and his serfs is led off in handcuffs to get ass-raped in prison. Oh, did I say ass-raped? I meant "serve the community as the judicial branch sees fit"
"Linux users also will not get clarity from the courts soon. SCO's Stowell said the Utah court is not scheduled to hear the company's application for a permanent injunction to stop IBM from shipping AIX until 2005." -- eweek.
"Carey said this indicates that SCO's strategy is to let "the pot simmer for years and let people get increasingly worried about the legal risk."
More like it's their way to pump'n'dump the stock to make thousands on insider trades. Fucking scumbags.
He'd backup his linux-install somewhere, install from the DVD, and then re-install linux afterwards?
First it sounded like the DVD was necessary on every boot, but that's not makes very little sense (it'll overwrite updates, patches, servicepacks?!). Okay, so you can't easily make it install into something other than the whole disk? That's bad, but you can deal with it. No?
I suspect a language-barrier problem is the root of this article/misunderstanding.
Anyone knows if BitKeeper holds any patents? I fear that if their first collection of attempts at lock-in doesn't succeed, they'll settle for creating a hastle for everyone else in moving on, even if it means that no-one in the free software world is using their tools. Again, we'll see patents not fostering "innovasion", but stifling it.
Dear Bride et al. Some day I hope the SEC
catches up with you. We all know you're mouthing off in the news to pump the stock so that you can sell and get richer. That's no secret, we can all see it in your trade statements. Your mouth says
one thing (all lies), your actions another (the whole truth and nothing but the truth). You use battary and deception
to work your shady stockmarket magics, and it will catch up with you. I have a video-capture of the Adelphia directors
being led off in hand-cuffs. They thought they'd get away with it too, just like you guys.
Mark my words, in a week we'll see seven more consecutive SELL filings in the database. They're greedy, and greedy people run the constant risk of taking it that one last step too far...
That said, I think this SCO news is great for humor. I can't wait till monday!
Yes. Microsoft bad, linux good. Now, speaking of Commodore.
"Currently there are about 300 commercial websites that use the name Commodore or Commodore 64 without having a license from Tulip. Tulip will not allow unauthorised use of the Commodore brand."
I kid you not. The only reason the Commodore brand is worth more than a stamp is the fan community, and now the brand owners are going to piss all over it (references to "commercial" not-withstanding, they're talking about the fan base here).
Though honestly, much of MS software is also sold shrinkwrapped. This gives a latency between the final build, documentation print run, CD pressing, packaging and distribution that doesn't exist with something like the linux kernel. During this time development continues, which is why you can have patches for a game or application avaliable before said product is even in wide distribution.
And again honestly, I don't think you can argue that the linux stable series are released as "full quality" and don't need patches right away. History does not support such claims.
Indeed, Linus knows this; he sees the problem that the unstable series doesn't get tested well enough and that only slapping a 2.even.0 number on it increase the testing crosssection several orders of magnitude.
In conclusion, I think you should read "it'll be released when it's done" not mainly as an assurance of release quality, but as a short form for "it'll be released when I think we'll have a good enough chance of getting people to test this without getting too badly burned".
After reading this I thought.. "that sounds interesting, but... wrong" and I pondered it all and thought "if you're to pay 0.07 cent per song per listener, and if we have this fee because webcasting is classified as redistribution (storage) and not broadcast in the radio-sense..." well, then wouldn't it be possible to implement a distributed radio system. I googled for "distributed webcasting" but none of the hits sounded like what I was thinking about.
Simply: The webcast is distributed so that each listener serves at least one other listener with the same data he's recieving (think "like BitTorrent"). In essence, we have a digital version of listening in on your neighbour. Since we have N webcasters (I assume all it takes is software to become a "webcaster") each serving one (or a small set of) listener -- as apposed to 1 webscater serving N listeners, they won't have to pay anything?
You could argue that this creates a tree where the root is still serving all N listeners, but I think there's a possibility -- however slight -- that this would in fact stand up to scrutiny by the "webcasting laws".
The core argument is that since it's already classified as redistribution, node N pays for N+1, and that's that. N doesn't know if N+1 just listenes to the stream, stores it on his computer, or redistributes it... but if he redistribute it, that is up to N+1, and N has already paid the fee associated with that possible act?
Technically you'd need some way for each listener to announce open slots, but I honestly don't think latency would be a big deal -- in fact it only underscores the point that there isn't one distince webcaster paying the bill, there are N of them.
I'm sure someone smarter than myself has already argued/refuted this...?
What about Skousen K Freds buy option on 45000 shares? Seems like a self-sacrifical "must do something to show belief in our futute"-move on his part. It is dated several days before the filing you mention though.
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The Athlons were known for "watt gluttony". Now the Pentium4s and above are as bad or much much worse ("Intel confirms Prescott does dissipate 100W"). Please everyone, update your jokes accordingly.
Directly on topic: I thought the article could have used at least one cheap "no-name-we-have-no-idea-who-manufactured-this" PSU in the tests.
Oh, didn't mean to be anon on that. Anyway, I've RTFA and it says "the keys are no longer rubber" so...
Didn't like what I read about the possible emulation layer though. The HPs have been in need of a seriously good OS for some time now. The Saturn-heritage needs to go, IMHO.
Anyone know what happened to the latest Metallica-album? I mean, recording-wise? I did a quick scan through it once and I've never heard anything so poorly produced, ever.
Jokes aside, why? Is it supposed to sound "cool"?
I couldn't buy that even if I wanted to!
I'm going to go ahead and state the obvious: There's a definite future in indie games. We've soon come full circle and will have enough framework(s) in place that the indies can play again, really play.
I just heard that Reflexive/Black Isle had to remove the "Childkiller" trait (basically a visible flag that was set if you killed children) from the game Lionheart and make the children in the game immortal, or they couldn't get the rating they wanted. Crap like that is what's nice about doing it yourself, for yourself, in your own time, because you love it, not because you want to become famous and buy a ferrari and get the chick.
Too bad that graphics artists and musicians don't feel about their craft as programmers though, they hardly ever want to get involved in independentt projects from what I've heard. It's a little odd, because there were always artists available on the demo-scene. The best of course went on to do games full-time, if the wanted to. Maybe it's because in those days the community was smaller and more intimate.. I dunno.
Personally I think it's better to hack around the system; use the resources of other games. No, you can't re-distribute them, but noone can stop you from making the game compatible with them either. At least in my genre of choice the graphics/sound is secondary to the things I'd like to explore, which is in AI and other game-play aspects.
Does this only track mp3s? I'd be interested if for example I could filter to get only Vorbis files.
If they wanted to, surely they could have a "deauthorization"-step the customer could subject to in order to get the money back?
See, its stuff like this that should have been explored in the business plan before you implement it.
If she had only bought on track half of her complaint wouldn't have surfaced; clicking each track to download, verifying each track individually.
Also, it seems some people are quite comfortable using non-DRM WMAs (Why?!), and might feel no reason to believe the DRM-kind would have these amazing problems.
Can someone explain the latest filings. I understand the selling, but a bunch of new players just aquired "Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)" with a price of $0.
Does that mean that they can at a future date buy SCO stock up to the limit for the price the stock held at the date of filing, or that they get them for free?! I guess the price is for the option itself and that the "Conversion or Excercise Price of Derivative Security" regulates the price of/when they exercise?/p>
Is this basically a win-win thing? If the price is $0, then they can select to not exercise and lose nothing? Why would a company give out these for no price? Sounds suspicious.
Thanks.
I don't absolutely hate it, but I think that it is pretty bad. I wrote pretty readable perl when I was active (I like to think), but you could do some really horrible stuff.
I particularly don't like the automagic variables springing up all over the place and don't get me started on "bless" and the class system.. gha... I've even had it commented to me that I could use $_ where in fact I had opted to be explicit, which really irked me. "You want me to make the code less readable?"
And all that bullshit justification about "less to type" you'll hear.. I've never been bound by the speed of my fingers seen over the duration of a project. Sheesh.
(and no, I don't care what issues has been solved in Perl 6 -- I hope I'll never have to use it again)
As always there's humor in all things SCO. This is from an eweek article on the German injunction against SCO:
SCO's legal counsel also felt that the temporary retraining order had been sought "too quickly, so we believe it may be a bit of a publicity stunt"
Pot, meet...? He also went on to say this about lifting the order:
"We expect to be able to have a hearing within the next two weeks on this, where we will be able to present affidavit and testimony to support those issues subject to the temporary restraining order."
That was the 30:th of May, almost two months ago. How is lifting that order going for you Ryan? Let's see:
Der deutsche Web-Server der SCO Group GmbH ist derzeit nicht erreichbar.
Ah.
(not really gloating, would really want to know if anything's happening on that front)
That's not it exactly. While the company will go down in flames, the people who lead it there will bail with money made from their current scheme; which is to pump the stock by parading their dog'n'pony show in the largely ignorant and unquestioning news-media while selling off stock in batches off-stage. They won't be stuck with "huge legal fees", they'll be off to their next venture while posing for the cover of Fortune Magazine.
In the end there'll be a bunch of fucked dot-bomb-again'ers who bought stock high, and lots and lots of rich lawyers leaving the table well fed.
There can be no victory, no justice unless the now unquestioning media is forced to introspection and betterment, and McBride and his serfs is led off in handcuffs to get ass-raped in prison. Oh, did I say ass-raped? I meant "serve the community as the judicial branch sees fit"
What do you call a dead SCO-employee?
"Linux users also will not get clarity from the courts soon. SCO's Stowell said the Utah court is not scheduled to hear the company's application for a permanent injunction to stop IBM from shipping AIX until 2005." -- eweek.
"Carey said this indicates that SCO's strategy is to let "the pot simmer for years and let people get increasingly worried about the legal risk."
More like it's their way to pump'n'dump the stock to make thousands on insider trades. Fucking scumbags.
I think it's clear from this just how much IBM fears SCO!
:-P
He'd backup his linux-install somewhere, install from the DVD, and then re-install linux afterwards?
First it sounded like the DVD was necessary on every boot, but that's not makes very little sense (it'll overwrite updates, patches, servicepacks?!). Okay, so you can't easily make it install into something other than the whole disk? That's bad, but you can deal with it. No?
I suspect a language-barrier problem is the root of this article/misunderstanding.
Anyone knows if BitKeeper holds any patents? I fear that if their first collection of attempts at lock-in doesn't succeed, they'll settle for creating a hastle for everyone else in moving on, even if it means that no-one in the free software world is using their tools. Again, we'll see patents not fostering "innovasion", but stifling it.
Dear Bride et al. Some day I hope the SEC catches up with you. We all know you're mouthing off in the news to pump the stock so that you can sell and get richer. That's no secret, we can all see it in your trade statements. Your mouth says one thing (all lies), your actions another (the whole truth and nothing but the truth). You use battary and deception to work your shady stockmarket magics, and it will catch up with you. I have a video-capture of the Adelphia directors being led off in hand-cuffs. They thought they'd get away with it too, just like you guys.
Mark my words, in a week we'll see seven more consecutive SELL filings in the database. They're greedy, and greedy people run the constant risk of taking it that one last step too far...
That said, I think this SCO news is great for humor. I can't wait till monday!
Yes. Microsoft bad, linux good. Now, speaking of Commodore.
"Currently there are about 300 commercial websites that use the name Commodore or Commodore 64 without having a license from Tulip. Tulip will not allow unauthorised use of the Commodore brand."
I kid you not. The only reason the Commodore brand is worth more than a stamp is the fan community, and now the brand owners are going to piss all over it (references to "commercial" not-withstanding, they're talking about the fan base here).
"Secondly, not all "Linux people" are loners who never get laid."
True. Most of us are, but not all, I'll grant you that.
For another example check my earlier post on the punishment for crimes against humanity.
Though honestly, much of MS software is also sold shrinkwrapped. This gives a latency between the final build, documentation print run, CD pressing, packaging and distribution that doesn't exist with something like the linux kernel. During this time development continues, which is why you can have patches for a game or application avaliable before said product is even in wide distribution.
And again honestly, I don't think you can argue that the linux stable series are released as "full quality" and don't need patches right away. History does not support such claims.
Indeed, Linus knows this; he sees the problem that the unstable series doesn't get tested well enough and that only slapping a 2.even.0 number on it increase the testing crosssection several orders of magnitude.
In conclusion, I think you should read "it'll be released when it's done" not mainly as an assurance of release quality, but as a short form for "it'll be released when I think we'll have a good enough chance of getting people to test this without getting too badly burned".
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Interesting, but I think they're making a little too big a hoopla of it. Or?
After reading this I thought.. "that sounds interesting, but... wrong" and I pondered it all and thought "if you're to pay 0.07 cent per song per listener, and if we have this fee because webcasting is classified as redistribution (storage) and not broadcast in the radio-sense..." well, then wouldn't it be possible to implement a distributed radio system. I googled for "distributed webcasting" but none of the hits sounded like what I was thinking about.
Simply: The webcast is distributed so that each listener serves at least one other listener with the same data he's recieving (think "like BitTorrent"). In essence, we have a digital version of listening in on your neighbour. Since we have N webcasters (I assume all it takes is software to become a "webcaster") each serving one (or a small set of) listener -- as apposed to 1 webscater serving N listeners, they won't have to pay anything?
You could argue that this creates a tree where the root is still serving all N listeners, but I think there's a possibility -- however slight -- that this would in fact stand up to scrutiny by the "webcasting laws".
The core argument is that since it's already classified as redistribution, node N pays for N+1, and that's that. N doesn't know if N+1 just listenes to the stream, stores it on his computer, or redistributes it... but if he redistribute it, that is up to N+1, and N has already paid the fee associated with that possible act?
Technically you'd need some way for each listener to announce open slots, but I honestly don't think latency would be a big deal -- in fact it only underscores the point that there isn't one distince webcaster paying the bill, there are N of them.
I'm sure someone smarter than myself has already argued/refuted this...?
Our friends Charles Broughton (Sr VP Int'l Sales), Robert Bench (CFO) and Jeff Hunsaker (VP, Worldwide Marketing) are selling, selling and.. wait for it... selling.
What about Skousen K Freds buy option on 45000 shares? Seems like a self-sacrifical "must do something to show belief in our futute"-move on his part. It is dated several days before the filing you mention though.