It's still free software in every sense. You need to consider that just as the folks from mplayer would still have mplayer be free software, the company that they're accusing of breaking the license by incorporating code from mplayer into a proprietary binary-only product would no longer have rights to mplayer.
The sandbox may be free for everybody, but you're still getting kicked out if you keep hitting the other kiddies in the head with your plastic shovel.
I wonder if one could say SCO has actually violated the license. They've certainly made all the effort in the world to bastardize it, but have they broken it by going against any provisions from the license?
Taken from the perspective of "smart business," yeah - MP3 was kinda stupid. The health club, the Hummer (though somebody pointed out that might have been from another instance and just lumped with the auction)... wasteful expenses for a business to make.
Opposingly (and dragging info again from another post), MP3.com's original capital investment was nearly the same as the amount of money they paid out in lawsuits... and they were still valued higher than their capital rating when Vivendi bought them out. They might not have had the most business-savy executives, but they didn't run it into the ground like the rest of the.coms. I think Vivendi had more of a hand to play in that.
Without saying too much... check out SeaChange International (http://schange.com). Definitely not for home usage, but definitely the ultimate high-end shiz for instant access online video storage. Most major Video On Demand deployments by cable companies are run on these systems, and they support cities with populations of millions. The interconnect speed is 2 Gigabit between each chassis in a cluster with full redundancy.
The problem with something that's more or less permanent is that I don't expect there's any rule saying they can't drive another person's vehicle, and that it would terribly suck to be the non-convicted driver of a car with one of those plates.
Birth certificate or naturalization papers. Don't have one, and you don't have proof of citizenship. Not a good sign if for any strange reason INS wants to talk to you.
Yeah, because they all put the yellow plate on their car before they drive drunk in it. Especially the first time, and not to mention when they're using their friends car. I'm sure their family members appreciate that the odds of being pulled over go up when driving that car as well.
A magnetic tag for people with a license for less than a year is one thing - but to expect somebdoy who's drunk to have the presence of mind to put up a warning first is stupid.
Or even better - just let me deal with it on my own and then pay it off once a year before April 15. Withholding is such a crock of shit, and one of the highest prices in tax I can imagine. I have an employee stock purchase program at work, and taking my otherwise witheld money and dropping it into the market would definitely be a better move that saves me some cash, raises my taxes because I'll make more, and doesn't rob me of having money I earned. But, uh... pipedream.
Yes, the market could crash and I could lose it... but that's an issue of financial responsibility. It's also a deductible loss;)
Uh... is there anybody in this country who doesn't bitch about taxes getting higher? Notice how they keep getting higher? Can somebody please do the math, because when I tried it all those people raises taxes were out of office. Obviously I'm missing a step in the equation...
The sentiments brought by it... since Federal law has gotten pretty ridiculous, Mass no longer looks that bad pulling this stunt - and is legitimized in hunting down personal information that probably would have raised a stink even though it was already "public."
As far as other indexes go, probably more because every time I see "supplemental result," the content is basically the same as all the others. I think it's just a nice high number they can brag about otherwise.
I don't think Google going public will be a big issue - they only offered up a small non-controlling portion to raise funds, and even then that's been postponed indefinitely (re: cancelled).
Nobody gets paid to use the 2.5 series kernels to prove 2.6 is good. There will always be people out for the latest & greatest... and plenty of whom would not care about being paid.
I think it's more likely that the reads and writes were done in larger blocks. Nothing kills disk speed like unnecesary seeking across the platter. Of course, it should be noted that this is informed speculation, and not a certainty.
*coughs* what? you've got explain that that... I dig around e2 when I want to look up something with better-than-encyclopia explanation. How getting laid fits into this makes my head spin. I went to check it out now too, totally puzzled. Still don't get it.
More than that, your cable box is quickly getting a more than primitive (can't be less than primitive, right? Maybe I should say "beyond primitive." God love English...) operating system. With all the new VOD stuff the cable companies are doing combined with Tivo... I think he's just as right now, if not more so in the clear definition. VCRs and such are all hardware programmed systems, or running embedded systems. Of course, "Windows XP Embedded" is not my definition of embedded - the MSDN docs stated it was a 4.x Meg kernel, and still couldn't do anything other than talk to hardware once that was loaded. Eep!
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It doesn't discriminate against a person or a group - it discriminates against an action against the other provisions in the license.
The sandbox may be free for everybody, but you're still getting kicked out if you keep hitting the other kiddies in the head with your plastic shovel.
I wonder if one could say SCO has actually violated the license. They've certainly made all the effort in the world to bastardize it, but have they broken it by going against any provisions from the license?
Opposingly (and dragging info again from another post), MP3.com's original capital investment was nearly the same as the amount of money they paid out in lawsuits... and they were still valued higher than their capital rating when Vivendi bought them out. They might not have had the most business-savy executives, but they didn't run it into the ground like the rest of the .coms. I think Vivendi had more of a hand to play in that.
Except maybe the numbers that show up on the pad as well?
Disclaimer: Yup, they pay me.
The problem with something that's more or less permanent is that I don't expect there's any rule saying they can't drive another person's vehicle, and that it would terribly suck to be the non-convicted driver of a car with one of those plates.
Birth certificate or naturalization papers. Don't have one, and you don't have proof of citizenship. Not a good sign if for any strange reason INS wants to talk to you.
A magnetic tag for people with a license for less than a year is one thing - but to expect somebdoy who's drunk to have the presence of mind to put up a warning first is stupid.
Yes, the market could crash and I could lose it... but that's an issue of financial responsibility. It's also a deductible loss ;)
Uh... is there anybody in this country who doesn't bitch about taxes getting higher? Notice how they keep getting higher? Can somebody please do the math, because when I tried it all those people raises taxes were out of office. Obviously I'm missing a step in the equation...
The sentiments brought by it... since Federal law has gotten pretty ridiculous, Mass no longer looks that bad pulling this stunt - and is legitimized in hunting down personal information that probably would have raised a stink even though it was already "public."
As far as other indexes go, probably more because every time I see "supplemental result," the content is basically the same as all the others. I think it's just a nice high number they can brag about otherwise.
I don't think Google going public will be a big issue - they only offered up a small non-controlling portion to raise funds, and even then that's been postponed indefinitely (re: cancelled).
Good luck making the file smaller that way.
Would you believe? All the "view" links involve closed codecs. Thank guys. Go IBM!
Yeah, and how did you find out about Google? I've certainly never seen an ad. Do they make those?
I think that the average has gone down for nurses and teachers because the people in these fields are sticking around for 20+ years as they used to.
Nobody gets paid to use the 2.5 series kernels to prove 2.6 is good. There will always be people out for the latest & greatest... and plenty of whom would not care about being paid.
Check their site - they'll give you MP3, but you have to pay for that right. They're using the proprietary formats for their lack of ease.
I think it's more likely that the reads and writes were done in larger blocks. Nothing kills disk speed like unnecesary seeking across the platter. Of course, it should be noted that this is informed speculation, and not a certainty.
*coughs* what? you've got explain that that... I dig around e2 when I want to look up something with better-than-encyclopia explanation. How getting laid fits into this makes my head spin. I went to check it out now too, totally puzzled. Still don't get it.
More than that, your cable box is quickly getting a more than primitive (can't be less than primitive, right? Maybe I should say "beyond primitive." God love English...) operating system. With all the new VOD stuff the cable companies are doing combined with Tivo... I think he's just as right now, if not more so in the clear definition. VCRs and such are all hardware programmed systems, or running embedded systems. Of course, "Windows XP Embedded" is not my definition of embedded - the MSDN docs stated it was a 4.x Meg kernel, and still couldn't do anything other than talk to hardware once that was loaded. Eep!
Maybe by linking to other sites that don't do as well, we don't look as bad? Then again, more people would have to RTFA for that to work...
*ahem* This is Slashdot. There are no insensitive jerks - only insensitive clods...