I wish journalists (and everyone) would understand
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Vietnam Going Open Source
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But Microsoft products are everywhere in Vietnam, and very few shell out the money for licensed copies. Almost 97 percent of the programs used in Vietnam have been illegally copied, costing Microsoft an estimated $40 million to $50 million a year.
It's not costing Microsoft jack, because that $40-50 million never existed. If you could have never had the money in the first place, then it's not costing you anything.
Because drop in crime isn't "News for Nerds." Cutting off genius, on the other hand is (or at least closer)
It's not/.'s responsibility to report all news./. has a very targetted audience. If you want to know about news corresponding to other areas, look for another site. I, on the other hand, am interested in stuff that has to do with geek stuff.
Btw, the parent poster misspelled "genius" as "genus". Maybe he's married?
There is no magic "defect detector" for software. If there was such a thing, they would be making a helluva lot more money than they get for doing little defect tests.
It is very difficult to prove a program to be correct, and there's a lot of REALLY smart people who have tried.
Maybe these people have stuff than can look for buffer overflows and stuff, but actually being able to tell if Apache is returning the correct results requires far more than generic tests.
And I'll all but guarantee they didn't get together an entire development team to understand the code base and how it works as apache is a very large and complex code base.
Maybe they take what the find for their generic tests and extrapolate that if they find more generic problems there are probably more specialized errors as well, but they make it very clear in the report that the difference between.51 and.53 defects / KLoC (thousand lines of code) is statistical noise.
Anyways, I'm not saying the entire thing is worthless, just not to read too much into it -- either this one that puts Apache slightly behind some unnamed commercial implementation or the one that put the Linux TCP/IP stack ahead of some other commercial implementation (though I'd say it would probably be easier to test a TCP/IP for correct behaviour than a web server).
I'm curious.. how can they distribute GPL code under an NDA. Linux code is copyright the author, and the only right SCO has to redistribute it is under the GPL.
Even if they think it's their code, if they downloaded the Linux source to get their copy, they are bound by the GPL just like the rest of us.
I think. IANAL and such. Anyone?
The only real argument I see is...
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A Mighty Wind
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They're going to use public land (term used loosely, as it's actually water covered land) for a private, for-profit organization. Either a government venture (which I'm not that interested in), or a non-profit organization would be better suited for using public land.
The NIMBY factor is obviously huge here. The part of the article that really stated everything right on the nose was on the last page (did you get there? I did)
To them, the national illusion that you can have electricity, clean air, a stable climate and independence from foreign oil without paying a steep price is ludicrous.
Where "them" are the local residents screaming NIMBY!
There's another great example discussing a local oil tanker that leaked oil into the sound. It basically did far more damage than any wind farm could ever do.
Many of the complaints are rediculous.. The oil lubrication oil will leak from the wind mills and pollute the sound. Birds will die. Arguments that just aren't thought through.
Personally, I'm with some other people here that say windmills aren't particularly ugly, and to me it's like coffee or beer. I didn't like the taste of either initially, but once I realized what they did, they became much more pallitable. Even if I don't really like looking at a siteline spattered with windmills, I know that they're creating electricity in an environmentally friendly way.. and that makes them much more acceptable to me.
I think cursive is a solution for a problem that is going away. I know cursive.. most of it. Actually, I'm not really sure what a capitla 'Q' looks like. If I had to figure it out, I'd probably go get a cursive font and type 'Q' and see what it did.
Back on topic, who cares if kids can't write in cursive? I'd far rather have a kid who can touch type and doesn't know cursive rather than the opposite.
This is people who can't take change whining that their niche is going away.
The guy lives more than 5 km from the local exchange, which is supposedly their rule for qualifying people for DSL.
He tried to get service with another ISP and was rejected because he was more than 5km from the exchange.
He then tried using their service and was accepted (for unknown reasons -- apparently some sort of favoritism for their own service). It worked fine, even though it was supposedly too far away.
He complained that they were giving themselves special treatment.
They said "Well, you're beyond our limit, and since you're demanding equal, fair, and consistent rules, we're turning you off."
I mean.. he really got what he asked for. He shouldn't have ever been qualified for DSL service (and the fact that he was shows something sneaky is probably going on), but they really solved it correctly by shutting him off.
On the phone with SCO (Take 2)
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Today's SCO News
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I'm on the phone on this conference call right now.
CALL START
great deal of aconfusion over last 2 weeks re: sco's enforcement actions.
suit against IBM and letter to 1500 commercial linux users.
Based on contract/licenses. None of SCO's actions have been based on copyright/patent. No assertion by anyone that SCO doesn't have contract rights. As to the copyrights, 2 points. Copyrights not important to current actiosn. We have stated that we own the UNIX copyrights and right to enforce. Novell has challenged taht. We disagree with that. Desperate measure to curry favor with the Linux community. We will take all steps to rectify the issues.
1995 agreement -- we own all rights to ownership to unix and unixware. blah blah blah.. blah blah blah.. we own everything.. blah blah blah. He's being a real dick about it, too.
Why SCO bases initial enforcement actions: SCO owns unix licensing agreements. ~30,000 agreements. these licensees include a lot of people. blah blah.. these licenses include restrictions and "standard of care". This applies to the original source code and the derivitive works created by the licensee.
Current enforcement actions are based on these rights. They may do copyright stuff later, but not now.
Second question: Does SCO have evidence of UNIX source in kernel? "Resounding yes" Each of our 3 groups studying linux for UNIX code have individually come back finding code improperly put into LInux.
STarting next week viewing code under NDA. We hope this step will be of benefit of the software community.
Question 1: differences wit Novell causing problems to deal with IBM: very simple answer: we have full right to UNIX.. blah blah.. which gives us full authority to reach agreement with our customers.
Question 2: What does it mean "turned novell issue over to attorneys to rectify issues". We've said very clearly that ocpyright isn't important to current enforcement actions.
Question 3: SCO claims that they're being damaged by presence of their IP in Linux kernel. Aren't you continuing your damage by not showing the code?
We're showing it next week. We'll show our actual code samples. Also derivitive works. ALong with contract info to back up the claim.
Questino 4: SCO has rolled all the dice on this lawsuit. If you lose, what is the remaining company if you lose?
We're enforcing our rights in the UNIX business. Only one compnay can say they own 30,000 contracts on big unix companies. It's an incredible position to be in. Basically saying that all they have is the lawsuits. He talks nothing about actual product or anything. All about suing. All future prospects are regarding lawsuits.
Question 5: Re: novell contract. did not metino copyright and patents. Does it meniton copyright and patent?
56 pages of novell/SCO documents. Majority of contract clearly shows intent that Copyrights covered as related to SCO going to market.
Again, our point is that C&P don't affect our current lawsuits. Contract rights are much more important than C & P. SOme really bad card-game analogy thing.
Question 6: Stupid question. Already been covered.. more stuff about copyright stuff. SCO claims they have copyright and patent, but that it doesn't matter for the current stuff. Dude didn't seem to really have much of a clue. Sounded like some guy living in his parent's bedroom in Wyoming. I hope you're reading this. You're dumb.
Question 7:
Were you surprised what novell did, as you were a previous novell exec.
We had a meeting with their vice chairman scheduled to look at the source code stuff. "Come on over, we'd be glad to show those to you". We set up a time to do that 11am tuesday.. came and went and they didn't show up. Later that evening Novell did their thing with that letter we've all read. We were set to show them the code, but they didn't show up. TH
First question(sounds like a/.'er) -- when are the violations going to be made public? Only under NDA because of ongoing litigation.
What about the Novell announcement this morning? Novell called last week re: the letter. Time set up yesterday morning at 11am. They didn't show up for the meeting. Later sent the letter -- saying SCO should publish the offenses.
"Is my linux illegal?" SCO says people should talk to their own lawyers.
Come June 13 if no resolution with IBM -- revoke AIX license. Details are not being disclosed. Not saying they can't sell AIX -- no real answer.
Blah blah blah about uninteresting stuff.. web services strategy and stuff.. stuff about acquisitions. Blah blah..
They just said they used to be moving people from UNIX to Linux, but when they did that, they lost a lot of money, and they basically said the customer got the same thing in terms of services. So now they're switching them back for a lot more money. Wow. That's ballsy.
Haha. sorry. Little stuff I find funny.
They say they're sort of looking at buying companies in the 4-5 million dollar (up to maybe 10 million dollars) range. Apparently their stock is doing pretty well.
How much will it cost to go after infringers? Is that being budgeted for? structure with legal council for staying power -- pursuing and defending claims. First quarter of activitiies -- came in below budgeted amount. Set up for the long haul. Feel good about the legal structure.
Is that legal structure related to contingency? Yes Does that include counter suits? Strucutred so that depending on how those come int hat they may be included in it.
I have no idea what that means.
Novell said SCO execs had asked for UNIX copyrights. It was denied. Why was this denied? Stuff with IBM isn't related to copyright or patent. Focused on contracts. "By an order of magnitude" more powerful than copyright or patent. Language in contract between novell and SCo was confusing -- as they looked at it and said "this doesn't make sense".. SCO thinks it's confusing -- they call 'em up cuz SCO knows 'em. "If SCO wants it, then we want it too." As SCO brings in attorneys, they do a review on it and read the contract in its entireity -- SCO says they own copyrights -- that they can enforce that and the patents. Talked to all parties in agreement -- two people in NOVELL, two in SCO -- CEOs and legals of each side. Says intent was everything was transferred to SCO. Maybe some little things that are common.. Feel confident that they have the copyright and patent rights.
Suspension of linux sales -- given small amoutn of money from linux sales -- do you forsee SCO returning to selling Linux? We would only return to Linux once the issues were resolved with Linux and "the community". SCO seems to be getting further away from that path (of selling linux). Claims are very strong and valid and customers are saying "time out here" begfore we do this big linux implementation, we nee to understand what's goign on. Linux leadership -- we like a lot of stuff about open source.. blah blha -- our intellectual property was being abused. Having more problems with that. Fruther from going back to Linux than closer.
What woudl you recommend for previous caldera users looking for an upgrade path? What recomendations? Linux is "UNIX on Intel" UnixWare, and openserver. UnixWare can go anywhere linux can go. Lost ground while chasing the linux dream?
They just said that there were 244 people on the conference call vs 17 people last quarter (or was it two quarters ago? -- either way there's a lot more).
They are talking about the MS SCO licensing deal. Not much info.
They're talking about the IBM lawsuit.. just that they sued them, didn't specify the amount. Said that in June they'd revoke the AIX UNIX license.
Talking about the Linux letter.. that they sent to everyong. Said they found code violations -- not saying what code. Said 3 teams came back with "significant code problems". Said they were legally advised to send letters to enterprise users of Linux to advise misappropriation of code.
Regarding Linux: "Millions of lines of code without knowing where they came from" -- almost a quote. Very close. Grrr.. pissing me off.
Q&A session coming soon...:) This ought to be fun. I'll kharma whore with another post on that as it comes...
. Additionally, with the rampant amount of piracy in Thailand, users could easily purchase the low-cost PCs and install pirated Windows software on them.
"This could make Microsoft tremble in its boots," Ma said. "What you've got is a blank canvas in which the user can paint any color he wishes whether that's officially licensed Microsoft software or pirated software."
The "optimization" relied on the benchmark camera being on 'rails'. It always shows the exact same angles, and there are some things that the benchmark would have the graphics card render, even though it's impossible for the viewer to see.
HOWEVER, in the development version of 3dmark 2k3, you can take the camera "offroading". When you do that, it becomes apparent that things are being drawn incorrectly -- that there are hard-coded limits that result in the video card doing less work than the program requests.
For those of you whining about how they should use "real life" games for benchmarks, this technique could be applied to anything where the camera path is predetermined. It has nothing to do with 3dmark 2k3 specifically.
You really don't understand the issue here, do you? SCO wants nothing more than to be bought by IBM. To get to the point where IBM decides it'll be cheaper to buy SCO to stop the lawsuit than it would be to fight it.
They're going to be cancelling as many contracts and grants, etcetc, as possible to recoup some of those costs.
You obviously have little idea how beaurocratic money works. You don't spend money in one place and move it back into the pot for use by other things.
Once money is allocated for a particular use or group, it stays there. This isn't money that DARPA is losing from the government, just money they decided they weren't going ot give to BSD. They will spend it on something else.
The war will be funded by us, our kids, their kids, and so on as budget deficit.
OT: I think making a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget may be going too far, but make it so that you can't be re-elected as president if you have a budget in the red (or something like that -- though not sure what to do about second-term presidents)..
You don't even have to read the parent article once to realize that, as the original poster said, it is not a tablet PC. It's not ANY kind of PC. It's just a remote-display monitor. It doesn't run any programs, it just shows you what your main computer is doing.
Kinda funny seeing major business plans aorund doing remote displaying with all the comments going around on the X-Windows topics saying how remote displaying applications in X is supposedly never used and the root of all slowness in X.
Anyways, just because this isn't a tablet PC doesn't make it not cool. I'd often like to have the power of my desktop machine anywhere in the house.
I don't even know what some of those are.. and some of them definitely aren't profane. If I can say them in public and not get strange looks, I don't consider them to be that exciting..
Arse? Shag? Boob? WTF? Those aren't anything in my book. You can easily say any of them on broadcast TV in the US.
fuck shit cock cunt tits dick dyke damn Anyways, if you're going to come up with a bad word language do it right. Not saying these are the best, but they're much more fun words than the ones in the actual language specification.
Slashdot Mirror
define google -- look at the top listing where it says: Web Definition.
Google has a couple neat things I never knew about like definitions..
define linux
define irc
It also has a calculator and unit converter:
1.21 GW / 88 mph
1 parsec in lightyears
But Microsoft products are everywhere in Vietnam, and very few shell out the money for licensed copies. Almost 97 percent of the programs used in Vietnam have been illegally copied, costing Microsoft an estimated $40 million to $50 million a year.
It's not costing Microsoft jack, because that $40-50 million never existed. If you could have never had the money in the first place, then it's not costing you anything.
CA -- really big
Isabella -- not so big
In soviet Russia, the GPL declares SCO invalid.
That would mean that computers will have the same power of the human brain in 2041.5.
Here's a link to an adobe site with SVG demos. If you look 4 down from the top, you'll find an interactive chart demo.
I think this may be a good example of what you're looking for.
In terms of support, if you plan on having this application around for a while, SVG is only going to get more popular.
Because drop in crime isn't "News for Nerds." Cutting off genius, on the other hand is (or at least closer)
/.'s responsibility to report all news. /. has a very targetted audience. If you want to know about news corresponding to other areas, look for another site. I, on the other hand, am interested in stuff that has to do with geek stuff.
It's not
Btw, the parent poster misspelled "genius" as "genus". Maybe he's married?
I have to play the BS card here.
.51 and .53 defects / KLoC (thousand lines of code) is statistical noise.
There is no magic "defect detector" for software. If there was such a thing, they would be making a helluva lot more money than they get for doing little defect tests.
It is very difficult to prove a program to be correct, and there's a lot of REALLY smart people who have tried.
Maybe these people have stuff than can look for buffer overflows and stuff, but actually being able to tell if Apache is returning the correct results requires far more than generic tests.
And I'll all but guarantee they didn't get together an entire development team to understand the code base and how it works as apache is a very large and complex code base.
Maybe they take what the find for their generic tests and extrapolate that if they find more generic problems there are probably more specialized errors as well, but they make it very clear in the report that the difference between
Anyways, I'm not saying the entire thing is worthless, just not to read too much into it -- either this one that puts Apache slightly behind some unnamed commercial implementation or the one that put the Linux TCP/IP stack ahead of some other commercial implementation (though I'd say it would probably be easier to test a TCP/IP for correct behaviour than a web server).
but also plans to make a PC within two years that can run continuously for as long as 40 hours.
They plan on installing linux on them? My computer can't run 40 hours continuosly running Windows...
I'm curious.. how can they distribute GPL code under an NDA. Linux code is copyright the author, and the only right SCO has to redistribute it is under the GPL.
Even if they think it's their code, if they downloaded the Linux source to get their copy, they are bound by the GPL just like the rest of us.
I think. IANAL and such. Anyone?
They're going to use public land (term used loosely, as it's actually water covered land) for a private, for-profit organization. Either a government venture (which I'm not that interested in), or a non-profit organization would be better suited for using public land.
The NIMBY factor is obviously huge here. The part of the article that really stated everything right on the nose was on the last page (did you get there? I did)
To them, the national illusion that you can have electricity, clean air, a stable climate and independence from foreign oil without paying a steep price is ludicrous.
Where "them" are the local residents screaming NIMBY!
There's another great example discussing a local oil tanker that leaked oil into the sound. It basically did far more damage than any wind farm could ever do.
Many of the complaints are rediculous.. The oil lubrication oil will leak from the wind mills and pollute the sound. Birds will die. Arguments that just aren't thought through.
Personally, I'm with some other people here that say windmills aren't particularly ugly, and to me it's like coffee or beer. I didn't like the taste of either initially, but once I realized what they did, they became much more pallitable. Even if I don't really like looking at a siteline spattered with windmills, I know that they're creating electricity in an environmentally friendly way.. and that makes them much more acceptable to me.
Large Hardon Collider?
Just curious...
I think cursive is a solution for a problem that is going away. I know cursive.. most of it. Actually, I'm not really sure what a capitla 'Q' looks like. If I had to figure it out, I'd probably go get a cursive font and type 'Q' and see what it did.
Back on topic, who cares if kids can't write in cursive? I'd far rather have a kid who can touch type and doesn't know cursive rather than the opposite.
This is people who can't take change whining that their niche is going away.
The guy lives more than 5 km from the local exchange, which is supposedly their rule for qualifying people for DSL.
He tried to get service with another ISP and was rejected because he was more than 5km from the exchange.
He then tried using their service and was accepted (for unknown reasons -- apparently some sort of favoritism for their own service). It worked fine, even though it was supposedly too far away.
He complained that they were giving themselves special treatment.
They said "Well, you're beyond our limit, and since you're demanding equal, fair, and consistent rules, we're turning you off."
I mean.. he really got what he asked for. He shouldn't have ever been qualified for DSL service (and the fact that he was shows something sneaky is probably going on), but they really solved it correctly by shutting him off.
I'm on the phone on this conference call right now.
.. blah blah.. which gives us full authority to reach agreement with our customers.
.. came and went and they didn't show up. Later that evening Novell did their thing with that letter we've all read. We were set to show them the code, but they didn't show up. TH
CALL START
great deal of aconfusion over last 2 weeks re: sco's enforcement actions.
suit against IBM and letter to 1500 commercial linux users.
Based on contract/licenses. None of SCO's actions have been based on copyright/patent. No assertion by anyone that SCO doesn't have contract rights. As to the copyrights, 2 points. Copyrights not important to current actiosn. We have stated that we own the UNIX copyrights and right to enforce. Novell has challenged taht. We disagree with that. Desperate measure to curry favor with the Linux community. We will take all steps to rectify the issues.
1995 agreement -- we own all rights to ownership to unix and unixware. blah blah blah.. blah blah blah.. we own everything.. blah blah blah. He's being a real dick about it, too.
Why SCO bases initial enforcement actions: SCO owns unix licensing agreements. ~30,000 agreements. these licensees include a lot of people. blah blah.. these licenses include restrictions and "standard of care". This applies to the original source code and the derivitive works created by the licensee.
Current enforcement actions are based on these rights. They may do copyright stuff later, but not now.
Second question: Does SCO have evidence of UNIX source in kernel? "Resounding yes" Each of our 3 groups studying linux for UNIX code have individually come back finding code improperly put into LInux.
STarting next week viewing code under NDA. We hope this step will be of benefit of the software community.
Question 1: differences wit Novell causing problems to deal with IBM: very simple answer: we have full right to UNIX
Question 2: What does it mean "turned novell issue over to attorneys to rectify issues". We've said very clearly that ocpyright isn't important to current enforcement actions.
Question 3: SCO claims that they're being damaged by presence of their IP in Linux kernel. Aren't you continuing your damage by not showing the code?
We're showing it next week. We'll show our actual code samples. Also derivitive works. ALong with contract info to back up the claim.
Questino 4: SCO has rolled all the dice on this lawsuit. If you lose, what is the remaining company if you lose?
We're enforcing our rights in the UNIX business. Only one compnay can say they own 30,000 contracts on big unix companies. It's an incredible position to be in. Basically saying that all they have is the lawsuits. He talks nothing about actual product or anything. All about suing. All future prospects are regarding lawsuits.
Question 5:
Re: novell contract. did not metino copyright and patents. Does it meniton copyright and patent?
56 pages of novell/SCO documents. Majority of contract clearly shows intent that Copyrights covered as related to SCO going to market.
Again, our point is that C&P don't affect our current lawsuits. Contract rights are much more important than C & P. SOme really bad card-game analogy thing.
Question 6:
Stupid question. Already been covered.. more stuff about copyright stuff. SCO claims they have copyright and patent, but that it doesn't matter for the current stuff. Dude didn't seem to really have much of a clue. Sounded like some guy living in his parent's bedroom in Wyoming. I hope you're reading this. You're dumb.
Question 7:
Were you surprised what novell did, as you were a previous novell exec.
We had a meeting with their vice chairman scheduled to look at the source code stuff. "Come on over, we'd be glad to show those to you". We set up a time to do that 11am tuesday
Waiting on the Q&A session...
/.'er) -- when are the violations going to be made public?
First question(sounds like a
Only under NDA because of ongoing litigation.
What about the Novell announcement this morning?
Novell called last week re: the letter. Time set up yesterday morning at 11am. They didn't show up for the meeting. Later sent the letter -- saying SCO should publish the offenses.
"Is my linux illegal?"
SCO says people should talk to their own lawyers.
Come June 13 if no resolution with IBM -- revoke AIX license.
Details are not being disclosed. Not saying they can't sell AIX -- no real answer.
Blah blah blah about uninteresting stuff.. web services strategy and stuff.. stuff about acquisitions. Blah blah..
They just said they used to be moving people from UNIX to Linux, but when they did that, they lost a lot of money, and they basically said the customer got the same thing in terms of services. So now they're switching them back for a lot more money. Wow. That's ballsy.
Haha. sorry. Little stuff I find funny.
They say they're sort of looking at buying companies in the 4-5 million dollar (up to maybe 10 million dollars) range. Apparently their stock is doing pretty well.
How much will it cost to go after infringers? Is that being budgeted for?
structure with legal council for staying power -- pursuing and defending claims. First quarter of activitiies -- came in below budgeted amount. Set up for the long haul. Feel good about the legal structure.
Is that legal structure related to contingency?
Yes
Does that include counter suits?
Strucutred so that depending on how those come int hat they may be included in it.
I have no idea what that means.
Novell said SCO execs had asked for UNIX copyrights. It was denied. Why was this denied?
Stuff with IBM isn't related to copyright or patent. Focused on contracts. "By an order of magnitude" more powerful than copyright or patent. Language in contract between novell and SCo was confusing -- as they looked at it and said "this doesn't make sense".. SCO thinks it's confusing -- they call 'em up cuz SCO knows 'em. "If SCO wants it, then we want it too." As SCO brings in attorneys, they do a review on it and read the contract in its entireity -- SCO says they own copyrights -- that they can enforce that and the patents. Talked to all parties in agreement -- two people in NOVELL, two in SCO -- CEOs and legals of each side. Says intent was everything was transferred to SCO. Maybe some little things that are common.. Feel confident that they have the copyright and patent rights.
Suspension of linux sales -- given small amoutn of money from linux sales -- do you forsee SCO returning to selling Linux?
We would only return to Linux once the issues were resolved with Linux and "the community". SCO seems to be getting further away from that path (of selling linux). Claims are very strong and valid and customers are saying "time out here" begfore we do this big linux implementation, we nee to understand what's goign on. Linux leadership -- we like a lot of stuff about open source.. blah blha -- our intellectual property was being abused. Having more problems with that. Fruther from going back to Linux than closer.
What woudl you recommend for previous caldera users looking for an upgrade path? What recomendations?
Linux is "UNIX on Intel" UnixWare, and openserver. UnixWare can go anywhere linux can go. Lost ground while chasing the linux dream?
They just said that there were 244 people on the conference call vs 17 people last quarter (or was it two quarters ago? -- either way there's a lot more).
:) This ought to be fun. I'll kharma whore with another post on that as it comes...
They are talking about the MS SCO licensing deal. Not much info.
They're talking about the IBM lawsuit.. just that they sued them, didn't specify the amount. Said that in June they'd revoke the AIX UNIX license.
Talking about the Linux letter.. that they sent to everyong. Said they found code violations -- not saying what code. Said 3 teams came back with "significant code problems". Said they were legally advised to send letters to enterprise users of Linux to advise misappropriation of code.
Regarding Linux: "Millions of lines of code without knowing where they came from" -- almost a quote. Very close. Grrr.. pissing me off.
Q&A session coming soon...
. Additionally, with the rampant amount of piracy in Thailand, users could easily purchase the low-cost PCs and install pirated Windows software on them.
...
"This could make Microsoft tremble in its boots," Ma said. "What you've got is a blank canvas in which the user can paint any color he wishes whether that's officially licensed Microsoft software or pirated software."
Or you could run Linux on it...
The "optimization" relied on the benchmark camera being on 'rails'. It always shows the exact same angles, and there are some things that the benchmark would have the graphics card render, even though it's impossible for the viewer to see.
HOWEVER, in the development version of 3dmark 2k3, you can take the camera "offroading". When you do that, it becomes apparent that things are being drawn incorrectly -- that there are hard-coded limits that result in the video card doing less work than the program requests.
For those of you whining about how they should use "real life" games for benchmarks, this technique could be applied to anything where the camera path is predetermined. It has nothing to do with 3dmark 2k3 specifically.
No. No. No. No.
You really don't understand the issue here, do you? SCO wants nothing more than to be bought by IBM. To get to the point where IBM decides it'll be cheaper to buy SCO to stop the lawsuit than it would be to fight it.
If IBM buys SCO, SCO wins.
You don't want SCO to win do you?
They're going to be cancelling as many contracts and grants, etcetc, as possible to recoup some of those costs.
You obviously have little idea how beaurocratic money works. You don't spend money in one place and move it back into the pot for use by other things.
Once money is allocated for a particular use or group, it stays there. This isn't money that DARPA is losing from the government, just money they decided they weren't going ot give to BSD. They will spend it on something else.
The war will be funded by us, our kids, their kids, and so on as budget deficit.
OT: I think making a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget may be going too far, but make it so that you can't be re-elected as president if you have a budget in the red (or something like that -- though not sure what to do about second-term presidents)..
You don't even have to read the parent article once to realize that, as the original poster said, it is not a tablet PC. It's not ANY kind of PC. It's just a remote-display monitor. It doesn't run any programs, it just shows you what your main computer is doing.
Kinda funny seeing major business plans aorund doing remote displaying with all the comments going around on the X-Windows topics saying how remote displaying applications in X is supposedly never used and the root of all slowness in X.
Anyways, just because this isn't a tablet PC doesn't make it not cool. I'd often like to have the power of my desktop machine anywhere in the house.
I don't even know what some of those are.. and some of them definitely aren't profane. If I can say them in public and not get strange looks, I don't consider them to be that exciting..
Arse? Shag? Boob? WTF? Those aren't anything in my book. You can easily say any of them on broadcast TV in the US.
fuck
shit
cock
cunt
tits
dick
dyke
damn
Anyways, if you're going to come up with a bad word language do it right. Not saying these are the best, but they're much more fun words than the ones in the actual language specification.
nice listing of words people tell you shouldn't use...
Unless you have a copy of the CDROM Duke Nuken: Atomic Edition, you can't use this. The shareware version doesn't work.
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This leaves me pretty much out in the cold..
...why would you want to sign on with a label, since everyone knows that the labels screw artists?
Ahh, but the only way you can make the (relative to my salary) big $$$ is to have the exposure that you get when you're on with a major label.
And 3 guesses who has it set up so that you don't get airplay unless you're with a major label.. first 2 guess don't count.
So in order for you to make your money, the label has to make its money first..
It's basically a price-fixing multi-headed monopoly.