From another article (I can't access groklaw right now, so I don't know if the same is stated on groklaw):
The remaining SCO company will also
continue to enforce its appeal of U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball's ruling in August 2007 that found Novell, not SCO, rightfully owns the copyrights on the Unix operating system, he said.
So this is an attempt to get the remaining cash and Unix assets out of reach of Novell, and leave the shell of SCO (plus some mobile products that most likely have no value) to continue the lawsuit, with no money left over for Novell and IBM when they eventually run out of appeals.
I have a compiled version of Tomboy and it only comes out to around 5-6 megs.
Dude, I have a compiled version of Emacs that comes out to 3.5Mb. So remind me again why a note taking application should take up so much space, plus depend on 45Mb worth of Mono framework.
That design flaw wasn't introduced when the Mac came out, it was when they first moved from 68000 to PowerPC. Older Macs from the XL through to the Classic II had the power button on the keyboard or tucked away somewhere out of sight on the monitor/base.
For me to reach the next city, I need to drive 100km for 7 hours.
That's an average speed of just under 15km/h. Do you still need someone walking in front of your car with a flag to avoid scaring the horses in your sparsely populated country?
I already thought that Blu Ray was destined for a short lifespan, with online distribution quickly supplanting it, but this decision to remove support for non-HDMI video connections will just hasten the demise. If they are removing the capability from players, then it is a near certainty that new discs coming out after that date will require such a player, so anyone buying a Blu Ray player now will be unable to buy content for it in 4 years.
Dashes and ampersands. Are they a problem? Aesthetically unpleasant? I personally restrict punctuation in a filesystem to dashes, periods, and parenthesis (unless the punctuation is a replicable part of the name of the file/folder).
Examples:
01 - The First Track (vocal)
02 - $lashhvertisements Attack!
03 - Where Have All the A.C.'s Gone
I'm not sure if you've done it deliberately, but all of your examples are a problem for cross-platform use. To answer the question, ampersands are always a problem, as they have special meaning in many contexts. Dashes are a problem only when they are the first character in a file name, where they can be misinterpreted as starting a list of options, and it isn't obvious how to make them be understood as a file name (quoting doesn't always work).
I'd have thought a higher level specialised language like GNU Octave or its commercial equivalent would be a good first introduction to computer languages for maths and science majors.
I doesn't have to be an intranet addresses either. Consider that the DNS at Starbucks could have been compromised to redirect slashdot.org to the attacker's servers, thus gaining your login cookies for slashdot. And they could update your cached copy of slashdot's javascript while they're at it. What this boils down to is that connecting over http on an insecure network is a security risk, and not just for the period that you are connected.
I don't think the autopilot would have even attempted the landing in the Hudson river
Computer's can't make abstract decisions. They are however very good at maintaining a set course and the finer details of controlling the plane as it makes an emergency landing. I recall a comment (not sure if it was from the pilot or someone else) that there is no way he could have landed in the Hudson as successfully as he did without the computer overrides on the A320 that keep it stable at near stall speeds.
On the flip side this shows what happens when you have a experienced pilot with a computer that overrides him.
This incident was a combination of pilot misjudgement and a faulty altimeter which Air France was warned about but the pilot had not been informed. From TFL:
The Captain's Version
Indeed, and more fatal Airbus crashes have happened whilst in manual override (on test flights and airshow demos) than have happened while the computer was in control.
Anyone who's stupid enough to start fucking with the copper in their house should be aware that they actually don't own the copper.
That may be the case in the Peoples Socialist Republic of Australia, but in Western democracies, phone companies have a demarcation point at the master socket where the phone line enters your property, beyond which you can do anything you like provided it doesn't cause interference or damage equipment on the other side of that demarcation point.
In addition to GPS, the iPhone has accelerometers, which can be correlated with GPS data to determine which direction the device is travelling in. So you don't need to assume the device is facing the direction of travel, but you do need it to have moved recently to know its orientation with any degree of accuracy.
we went to war with Japan because of Japanese atrocities against China.
If that were the case, the Pacific War would have been over before the war in Europe started. You eventually went to war with Japan because of Pearl Harbour, though you would likely have declared war before long anyway because of Japan seizing some oil fields you had interests in in South East Asia.
Shouldn't that be Yep it certainly is, as they compensate for the font size by setting it bigger by default (16 point - I suspect they actually use pixels instead of points, or divide instead of multiply at some point in their calculation) for Sans and Serif styles, but the fixed font size is left at 12.
Wikipedia is very different from a file upload site like Flickr, in that each page is not the work of one individual, but the combined work of many. Consistent licensing is essential - noone wants to have to check all the licenses of previous edits before they add their own to ensure that no license conflict happens.
There is no one answer to this question. The field of software engineering is broad. For some jobs, perhaps most, work experience is more valuable for sure. But in certain fields, a masters is a must. Government research labs and the financial industry will only consider you for some positions if you have a masters or even PhD, but if that is the sort of job you're aiming for, you'd be better with a maths or perhaps physics or economics masters than a masters in computer science/engineering.
Because they aren't allowed to charge interest (too Jewish or something)
The association between Jews and money lending was formed in medieval Europe, well after Islamic law was written. In medieval Europe, Jews were not allowed to own land, or into most of the professions that were protected by guilds, so they found other ways to make a living - ways that just happened to end up being better ways of generating wealth over the long term than the traditional land ownership of the European upper class.
Actually the Google connection seems excessively tenuous; likely they'll just charge us £200 for the privilege of having a functioning internet connection.
And convert their fleet of TV detector vans to detect people using their neighbours' wireless.
Slashdot Mirror
So this is an attempt to get the remaining cash and Unix assets out of reach of Novell, and leave the shell of SCO (plus some mobile products that most likely have no value) to continue the lawsuit, with no money left over for Novell and IBM when they eventually run out of appeals.
Dude, I have a compiled version of Emacs that comes out to 3.5Mb. So remind me again why a note taking application should take up so much space, plus depend on 45Mb worth of Mono framework.
That design flaw wasn't introduced when the Mac came out, it was when they first moved from 68000 to PowerPC. Older Macs from the XL through to the Classic II had the power button on the keyboard or tucked away somewhere out of sight on the monitor/base.
That's an average speed of just under 15km/h. Do you still need someone walking in front of your car with a flag to avoid scaring the horses in your sparsely populated country?
I already thought that Blu Ray was destined for a short lifespan, with online distribution quickly supplanting it, but this decision to remove support for non-HDMI video connections will just hasten the demise. If they are removing the capability from players, then it is a near certainty that new discs coming out after that date will require such a player, so anyone buying a Blu Ray player now will be unable to buy content for it in 4 years.
My SE 850i has a strap hole and accelerometers. It's also a much more comfortable size to hold and swing than either of the aforementioned devices.
I'm not sure if you've done it deliberately, but all of your examples are a problem for cross-platform use. To answer the question, ampersands are always a problem, as they have special meaning in many contexts. Dashes are a problem only when they are the first character in a file name, where they can be misinterpreted as starting a list of options, and it isn't obvious how to make them be understood as a file name (quoting doesn't always work).
I'd have thought a higher level specialised language like GNU Octave or its commercial equivalent would be a good first introduction to computer languages for maths and science majors.
I doesn't have to be an intranet addresses either. Consider that the DNS at Starbucks could have been compromised to redirect slashdot.org to the attacker's servers, thus gaining your login cookies for slashdot. And they could update your cached copy of slashdot's javascript while they're at it. What this boils down to is that connecting over http on an insecure network is a security risk, and not just for the period that you are connected.
Computer's can't make abstract decisions. They are however very good at maintaining a set course and the finer details of controlling the plane as it makes an emergency landing. I recall a comment (not sure if it was from the pilot or someone else) that there is no way he could have landed in the Hudson as successfully as he did without the computer overrides on the A320 that keep it stable at near stall speeds.
This incident was a combination of pilot misjudgement and a faulty altimeter which Air France was warned about but the pilot had not been informed. From TFL: The Captain's Version
Captain Asseline flew the aircraft manually.
Indeed, and more fatal Airbus crashes have happened whilst in manual override (on test flights and airshow demos) than have happened while the computer was in control.
I also had trouble parsing this:
That may be the case in the Peoples Socialist Republic of Australia, but in Western democracies, phone companies have a demarcation point at the master socket where the phone line enters your property, beyond which you can do anything you like provided it doesn't cause interference or damage equipment on the other side of that demarcation point.
In addition to GPS, the iPhone has accelerometers, which can be correlated with GPS data to determine which direction the device is travelling in. So you don't need to assume the device is facing the direction of travel, but you do need it to have moved recently to know its orientation with any degree of accuracy.
As does M-x compile
Emacs itself has one individual source file that exceeds 25k lines (32k if you count generated files), and probably a dozen more around 10k.
Why would you do that from a shell buffer instead of using Emacs built in version control operations?
If that were the case, the Pacific War would have been over before the war in Europe started. You eventually went to war with Japan because of Pearl Harbour, though you would likely have declared war before long anyway because of Japan seizing some oil fields you had interests in in South East Asia.
Shouldn't that be Yep it certainly is, as they compensate for the font size by setting it bigger by default (16 point - I suspect they actually use pixels instead of points, or divide instead of multiply at some point in their calculation) for Sans and Serif styles, but the fixed font size is left at 12.
Wikipedia is very different from a file upload site like Flickr, in that each page is not the work of one individual, but the combined work of many. Consistent licensing is essential - noone wants to have to check all the licenses of previous edits before they add their own to ensure that no license conflict happens.
There is no one answer to this question. The field of software engineering is broad. For some jobs, perhaps most, work experience is more valuable for sure. But in certain fields, a masters is a must. Government research labs and the financial industry will only consider you for some positions if you have a masters or even PhD, but if that is the sort of job you're aiming for, you'd be better with a maths or perhaps physics or economics masters than a masters in computer science/engineering.
The association between Jews and money lending was formed in medieval Europe, well after Islamic law was written. In medieval Europe, Jews were not allowed to own land, or into most of the professions that were protected by guilds, so they found other ways to make a living - ways that just happened to end up being better ways of generating wealth over the long term than the traditional land ownership of the European upper class.
And convert their fleet of TV detector vans to detect people using their neighbours' wireless.
128 *BYTES* thr, fxd it 4 U.