Most of these people probably do not use the Internet for something truly worthwhile. By that I claim that instead of doing research or reading various news sources to gain an unbiased perspective on the world around us, people mostly are just forwarding silly emails, chatting mindlessly with their peers, searching for pornography, and downloading crappy quality pirated music files.
And many of these are the same people that have denigrated the telephone. Rather than using it for noble purposes, they call people they already know, mainly to chit-chat about trivial things! Come on, America, let's give euthenasia a chance.
You have Sam Raimi and Quentin Tarantino, who has been described as resembling the Marvel superhero The Thing.
What? Tarantino resembles the idol to millions, the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing? I take it they meant resembles in temperment... unless he's bulked up a whole lot in the last few years and gotten a bad skin condition.
No, really, that's being too nice to Tarantino. The Thing is hot-headed and on occasion would destroy property or fight with Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch. Tarantino, on the other hand, punches women in the face. Mr. Tarantino, I know the Thing, I've read Fantastic Four, and you, sir, could not handle the Yancy Street Gang.
You're right, they didn't deal with this very directly, but there were two reasons presented.
At the end, one of the Cylons says that the humans will surely strike back at them and attempt to destroy them, for that is their way. So, it's a, uhm, pre-emptive defensive strike, if you will. (Sound familiar?)
Also, at least a couple times it's hinted at by the Cylons that their motivation might be, somehow... religious, as weird as that seems. I can't remember the exact lines, but I swear that this idea was there.
Instead of blowing wads of cash on a home theater system, why not give $100 to your local food bank this holiday season?
If you're someone who is seriously considering spending over $1,000 on a home theatre projector, you can probably afford to give $100 to a charity and still get the projector...
That's particularly interesting, since isn't it AT&T that was contracted to run the Do Not Call registry? I guess they really have no excuse for not following it...
If someone didn't call me in 60 days, why should I care if they have my number or not?
So everyone who you'd want to get a hold of you does so every 2 months? I've had my current cell number and landline number for half a year and I still get calls for the previous owners of each. One call was from his daughter's high school. They had that number on file for him. Another call was from a doctor's office.
If SCO has no problem revoking licenses to IBM and SGI, then why should anyone think SCO would think twice before revoking any of those $699 licenses they're pusing on Linux users?
Do you want free TV? If so then expect commericals. Expect product placement. If you don't then purchase your TV channels.
Oh, that's funny... I pay my cable bills every month, yet somehow I still get all these commercials. I'll have to give the cable company a call, because they must have goofed up and forgotten to take them out.
Whenever someone suggests that science is a religion, it makes me wonder if they know anything about either. If you want to say science is a belief system, ok. But if you know anything about religion you'll realize that there are a lot of things associated with religion that don't have jack to do with science.
It was in the news awhile back that a certain substance in Earl Grey can cause some sort of health problems. I can't find the article(s) I read this in, but I did find this: Too much Earl Grey causes problems
That "barely coherent interview" was anything but.
Go back and re-read the answer to the question, "How so?" Check out this sentence:
And you turn around and you decided they just invented motion pictures. If you can tell me what this means, and how it makes sense, then I'll admit you have a point.
It was a pretty good angle that the lawyer was making, and the interviewer was asking tough questions, the same ones
we all have.
The interviewer asked why SCO showed their source code. The real question is why haven't they done more to show the source code. Flashing some code up on the screen at a conference with obfuscated comments doesn't indicate to me that they actually wanted people to know what code they were claiming was infringing.
If there's so much infringing source code, why don't they put out a press release giving some good examples, citing files and line numbers? That's the question I would have asked.
The main thrust is that he's betting on the fact that Copyright law trumps whatever provisions are in the GPL, so IBM's GPL defense doesn't hold water...
The argument they've made before (which isn't articulated here, except to say, "copyright trumps the GPL," without much clarification) is that since Copyright law allows people to make one copy in certain circumstances without permission from the copyright holder, this means that the GPL cannot allow the copyright holder to grant more rights then that. To call this argument moronic would be a disservice to morons everywhere.
If there was a Linux/Unix worm running around, couldn't the exact same situation happen?
In theory, yes, Linux is vulnerable as well. In the real world, though, there are many more, more severe Windows worms wrecking havoc on the world then there are Linux worms.
You wouldn't stomp through a mine field wearing snow shoes. If you really care about security, you wouldn't use Windows.
It's all relative man. Take a look at the Hulk movie which you used as an example - about $131 million in earnings, on a production budget of $120 million. That's $11 million in profits, or about 9% return. Compared to a lot of successful movies, a 9% return is not all that great. By comparison, I think the stock market's annual return is something like 8%.
And $131 million can be disappointing when you're hoping to do as well as Spider-Man and get in the $400 - $500 million range. Spider-Man obviously did very well and, clearly, it achieved its success because nobody talked about it.
SCO responded to the countersuit on Thursday, calling IBM's complaint an effort to distract attention from flaws in its own business model and criticizing the GPL.
Clearly, IBM's business model is broken and they're trying to hide that fact. I mean, selling products and services is so 20th Century. Litigation is the way to make money these days. The countersuit just smacks of "me too"ism.
What if they're right? That's the key question over SCO's claims and it's also the one question the open-source community largely refuses to address.
I've heard basically this statement made over and over again: if there is any infringing material in Linux, as soon as it's made public what the infringing material is, the files in question will be rewritten in, at most, a matter of days, and then we can go about our business and forget all about this mess.
I've heard that claim over and over again. Maybe you think that claim smacks of overconfidence, but that's the claim that's being made. We can't really tell if there's much overconfidence involved since SCO won't tell us what parts of the code are in question...
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You could also say that people who think that a UNIX-alike is the pinnacle of operating system design are "conservative."
Someone who is politically conservative would think that the free market should decide what the best operating system design is.
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Most of these people probably do not use the Internet for something truly worthwhile. By that I claim that instead of doing research or reading various news sources to gain an unbiased perspective on the world around us, people mostly are just forwarding silly emails, chatting mindlessly with their peers, searching for pornography, and downloading crappy quality pirated music files.
And many of these are the same people that have denigrated the telephone. Rather than using it for noble purposes, they call people they already know, mainly to chit-chat about trivial things! Come on, America, let's give euthenasia a chance.
Oh, you try to sound all nice and unbiased. Sure. But your true colors show through. Note:
Even though I expect the lawsuit to take 5+ years, the winds will be blowing for or against SCO well before the end.
Ah-HA! By your suggestion that it would be theoretically possible for things to somehow go well for SCO we see the terrible bias which corrupts you.
Wait...
One of our VPs repeatedly compared our site to Google the other day. That's the only barometer I need to worry about...
You have Sam Raimi and Quentin Tarantino, who has been described as resembling the Marvel superhero The Thing.
... unless he's bulked up a whole lot in the last few years and gotten a bad skin condition.
What? Tarantino resembles the idol to millions, the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing? I take it they meant resembles in temperment
No, really, that's being too nice to Tarantino. The Thing is hot-headed and on occasion would destroy property or fight with Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch. Tarantino, on the other hand, punches women in the face. Mr. Tarantino, I know the Thing, I've read Fantastic Four, and you, sir, could not handle the Yancy Street Gang.
You're right, they didn't deal with this very directly, but there were two reasons presented.
At the end, one of the Cylons says that the humans will surely strike back at them and attempt to destroy them, for that is their way. So, it's a, uhm, pre-emptive defensive strike, if you will. (Sound familiar?)
Also, at least a couple times it's hinted at by the Cylons that their motivation might be, somehow... religious, as weird as that seems. I can't remember the exact lines, but I swear that this idea was there.
Instead of blowing wads of cash on a home theater system, why not give $100 to your local food bank this holiday season?
If you're someone who is seriously considering spending over $1,000 on a home theatre projector, you can probably afford to give $100 to a charity and still get the projector...
...I'm dumbfounded.
You and the President, both.
That's particularly interesting, since isn't it AT&T that was contracted to run the Do Not Call registry? I guess they really have no excuse for not following it...
If you use Windows, the terrorists have already won.
If someone didn't call me in 60 days, why should I care if they have my number or not?
So everyone who you'd want to get a hold of you does so every 2 months? I've had my current cell number and landline number for half a year and I still get calls for the previous owners of each. One call was from his daughter's high school. They had that number on file for him. Another call was from a doctor's office.
If SCO has no problem revoking licenses to IBM and SGI, then why should anyone think SCO would think twice before revoking any of those $699 licenses they're pusing on Linux users?
Do you want free TV? If so then expect commericals. Expect product placement. If you don't then purchase your TV channels.
Oh, that's funny... I pay my cable bills every month, yet somehow I still get all these commercials. I'll have to give the cable company a call, because they must have goofed up and forgotten to take them out.
Whenever someone suggests that science is a religion, it makes me wonder if they know anything about either. If you want to say science is a belief system, ok. But if you know anything about religion you'll realize that there are a lot of things associated with religion that don't have jack to do with science.
They're under another kind of cyber attack now. Can't get through to the linked website.
Damn Chinese hackers.
As digital video cameras spawn in the hands of you, me, parents and tourists like cockroaches in my kitchen....
Seriously, rather than buying a digital video camera you might consider finding a nicer place to live. Or at least call Orkin for cryin' out loud.
It was in the news awhile back that a certain substance in Earl Grey can cause some sort of health problems. I can't find the article(s) I read this in, but I did find this: Too much Earl Grey causes problems
That "barely coherent interview" was anything but.
Go back and re-read the answer to the question, "How so?" Check out this sentence: And you turn around and you decided they just invented motion pictures. If you can tell me what this means, and how it makes sense, then I'll admit you have a point.
It was a pretty good angle that the lawyer was making, and the interviewer was asking tough questions, the same ones we all have.
The interviewer asked why SCO showed their source code. The real question is why haven't they done more to show the source code. Flashing some code up on the screen at a conference with obfuscated comments doesn't indicate to me that they actually wanted people to know what code they were claiming was infringing.
If there's so much infringing source code, why don't they put out a press release giving some good examples, citing files and line numbers? That's the question I would have asked.
The main thrust is that he's betting on the fact that Copyright law trumps whatever provisions are in the GPL, so IBM's GPL defense doesn't hold water...
The argument they've made before (which isn't articulated here, except to say, "copyright trumps the GPL," without much clarification) is that since Copyright law allows people to make one copy in certain circumstances without permission from the copyright holder, this means that the GPL cannot allow the copyright holder to grant more rights then that. To call this argument moronic would be a disservice to morons everywhere.
How is this any different from;
Use a Windows 2000 machine....
If there was a Linux/Unix worm running around, couldn't the exact same situation happen?
In theory, yes, Linux is vulnerable as well. In the real world, though, there are many more, more severe Windows worms wrecking havoc on the world then there are Linux worms.
You wouldn't stomp through a mine field wearing snow shoes. If you really care about security, you wouldn't use Windows.
It's all relative man. Take a look at the Hulk movie which you used as an example - about $131 million in earnings, on a production budget of $120 million. That's $11 million in profits, or about 9% return. Compared to a lot of successful movies, a 9% return is not all that great. By comparison, I think the stock market's annual return is something like 8%.
And $131 million can be disappointing when you're hoping to do as well as Spider-Man and get in the $400 - $500 million range. Spider-Man obviously did very well and, clearly, it achieved its success because nobody talked about it.
but subject to major, non-reversable programming glitches when subjected to large electro-magnetic fields (such as lightning strikes).
But then again, so are humans.
SCO responded to the countersuit on Thursday, calling IBM's complaint an effort to distract attention from flaws in its own business model and criticizing the GPL.
Clearly, IBM's business model is broken and they're trying to hide that fact. I mean, selling products and services is so 20th Century. Litigation is the way to make money these days. The countersuit just smacks of "me too"ism.
Why the heck don't beer, wine, and liquor have to have the nutriton information label on them like all food does in the U.S.?
What if they're right? That's the key question over SCO's claims and it's also the one question the open-source community largely refuses to address.
I've heard basically this statement made over and over again: if there is any infringing material in Linux, as soon as it's made public what the infringing material is, the files in question will be rewritten in, at most, a matter of days, and then we can go about our business and forget all about this mess.
I've heard that claim over and over again. Maybe you think that claim smacks of overconfidence, but that's the claim that's being made. We can't really tell if there's much overconfidence involved since SCO won't tell us what parts of the code are in question...
You could also say that people who think that a UNIX-alike is the pinnacle of operating system design are "conservative."
Someone who is politically conservative would think that the free market should decide what the best operating system design is.
1 pound = $1.60 U.S., Ergo 3.11 pounds = $4.98
Cheapest. Notebook. EVAR.