I'd be surprised if any company of size would change something as mission critical as their DBMS due to this delay. To me, it says that they're going to get it right first time around
I agree with you about large company decisions remaining unchanged. But I have not ever seen a significant correlation between slipping release dates and improved quality - in fact, my experience says the opposite. Maybe SQL Server will be the exception, but I doubt it.
Can anyone make products out-of-the-box any more?
Ah the good ol' days - when products were bug-free, social engineering was simply social studies, and a women in every port was a sailor's term not a reference to a porno worm.
Insurance. Some companies are protecting their clients from SCO IP suits, why not pay insurance to a third party to CYA rather than to SCO?
If one of the big insurance firms analyzed SCO's suit and calculated the odds of SCO winning, they might be able to offer insurance to these companies at a similar price to the extortion being paid to SCO. Everyone wins, companies can say they did their due diligence and SCO does NOT get a dime until they prove themselves in court.
I completely agree, EXCEPT that it's often difficult to determine how much the service is costing when it's being provided by the government.
Although it may look cheaper, there are often hidden costs that are being supported through tax dollars (capital costs, auditing costs, support costs, etc).
The reason is simple. You have assumed that adding your name to the DNC means that you would never buy something over the phone. Although that seems logical, it's a bad assumption.
To stereotype a bit, think of a husband adding the number to the DNC because the wife keeps buying the "crap" over the phone. Telemarketers want to keep talking to the wife.
and return the current internet to the geeks, it can't be trusted, it was never designed to provide business transactions with the level of trust required.
Create a new business net with all the DRM and legal requirements you need to do business. Forget trying to layer business requirements on the current infrastructure.
MS doesn't want to be left out of the living room. MS believes that the "Home PC" is a dying market and most people want a "Media Station" that does everything. I haven't seen specs for XBox2, but imagine if these include the same functionality as Tivo, with the ability to surf the web / read email, all for the price of a game console and a wireless keyboard/mouse
I know most of my families Home PCs would start gathering dust pretty quick.
We're about the last people who would be out writing Windows viruses. This was probably done to defame us.
I don't think your us, which I respect, is the same us that encompasses most people on/.
I think you should take a step back before creating a small conspiracy theory and look at the amount of hatred towards SCO on this board. It seems far more realistic to me that an idiot wrote the virus and thought it would be "/. cool" to pick on SCO.
Any media that associates this virus with Linux/OSS should be discredited. Life is simpler when I remember most idiots are simply idiots.
Umm, you might want to check your facts. COM has been around a lot longer than java and solves a COMPLETELY different problem..NET is what competes with java. COM always competed with CORBA for remoting, but most of that fight has moved to Web Services. COM replaced OLE2 and DDE and those technologies sucked to work with.
I don't think COM ever had a security model - maybe that's your point?
Are you complaining that MS reuses components or that Outlook renders HTML documents? Would you be happy if MS created a different way to render HTML in email rather than using the IE engine?
You can let go of the shift key - it's not doing anything, at least in XP. Just right click and you get the Run As menu. Doesn't change your point, which I agree with, just thought I would let you know.
I think Linus should be very careful when he starts discussing the law. Look at the quote he uses:
"The term 'financial gain' includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."
I think it's a tough argument that releasing code under the GPL includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value.
When I release code under the GPL, there is definitely no receipt of anything of value, and I would argue that there is no expectation of receipt of anything of value.
The fact that copyrighted works are included in anything of value does not validate the GPL in any way.
Explain to me how I get more access to copyrighted works (my financial gain according to Linus) by releasing code under the GPL.
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and in extreme cases BG could face extradition and trial
1. MS fined 500M2. ???
3. Bill Gates extradited to europe for trial.
It's always that number 2 that's the problem, isn't it? ;)
Hmm. You do know that Martha Stewart wasn't convicted of insider trading but obstruction of justice?
I'd be surprised if any company of size would change something as mission critical as their DBMS due to this delay. To me, it says that they're going to get it right first time around
I agree with you about large company decisions remaining unchanged. But I have not ever seen a significant correlation between slipping release dates and improved quality - in fact, my experience says the opposite. Maybe SQL Server will be the exception, but I doubt it.
baseball is one of the more computer-friendly sports in that watching the action is almost unnecessary
Excellent endorsement for MLBAnd they are still #1 for suppressing coverage of their activities How do you know? :)
\windows\system32\progman.exe :) (I'm pretty sure this PC is a fresh install of XP, but not positive)
Tell them it's still there
Can anyone make products out-of-the-box any more?
Ah the good ol' days - when products were bug-free, social engineering was simply social studies, and a women in every port was a sailor's term not a reference to a porno worm.
Insurance. Some companies are protecting their clients from SCO IP suits, why not pay insurance to a third party to CYA rather than to SCO?
If one of the big insurance firms analyzed SCO's suit and calculated the odds of SCO winning, they might be able to offer insurance to these companies at a similar price to the extortion being paid to SCO. Everyone wins, companies can say they did their due diligence and SCO does NOT get a dime until they prove themselves in court.
I completely agree, EXCEPT that it's often difficult to determine how much the service is costing when it's being provided by the government. Although it may look cheaper, there are often hidden costs that are being supported through tax dollars (capital costs, auditing costs, support costs, etc).
Yeah, save your money - we're not invading.
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But what happens when the "improvements' make calls to the win32 API?
Don't you get nervous saying "64" and "never need" in the same sentence?
The reason is simple. You have assumed that adding your name to the DNC means that you would never buy something over the phone. Although that seems logical, it's a bad assumption. To stereotype a bit, think of a husband adding the number to the DNC because the wife keeps buying the "crap" over the phone. Telemarketers want to keep talking to the wife.
and return the current internet to the geeks, it can't be trusted, it was never designed to provide business transactions with the level of trust required.
Create a new business net with all the DRM and legal requirements you need to do business. Forget trying to layer business requirements on the current infrastructure.
MS doesn't want to be left out of the living room. MS believes that the "Home PC" is a dying market and most people want a "Media Station" that does everything. I haven't seen specs for XBox2, but imagine if these include the same functionality as Tivo, with the ability to surf the web / read email, all for the price of a game console and a wireless keyboard/mouse
I know most of my families Home PCs would start gathering dust pretty quick.
We're about the last people who would be out writing Windows viruses. This was probably done to defame us.
I don't think your us, which I respect, is the same us that encompasses most people on /.
I think you should take a step back before creating a small conspiracy theory and look at the amount of hatred towards SCO on this board. It seems far more realistic to me that an idiot wrote the virus and thought it would be "/. cool" to pick on SCO.
Any media that associates this virus with Linux/OSS should be discredited. Life is simpler when I remember most idiots are simply idiots.
I'm pretty sure if you don't know if you're a lawyer, you're not a lawyer ;)
But when you work at Walmart, you can't afford to shop anywhere but Walmart :)
You're right, but I think that they are going after people sharing rather than downloading, and I'm pretty sure sharing is just as illegal in Canada.
Of course, I don't think the RIAA will go after them in Canada anyway.
Umm, you might want to check your facts. COM has been around a lot longer than java and solves a COMPLETELY different problem. .NET is what competes with java. COM always competed with CORBA for remoting, but most of that fight has moved to Web Services. COM replaced OLE2 and DDE and those technologies sucked to work with.
I don't think COM ever had a security model - maybe that's your point? Are you complaining that MS reuses components or that Outlook renders HTML documents? Would you be happy if MS created a different way to render HTML in email rather than using the IE engine?
Why do you think Paladium is going to solve this problem? Just curious because I don't think it's going to have much impact.
You can let go of the shift key - it's not doing anything, at least in XP. Just right click and you get the Run As menu. Doesn't change your point, which I agree with, just thought I would let you know.
How are you planning on making derived works of commercial software if you don't have the source code?
I think Linus should be very careful when he starts discussing the law. Look at the quote he uses:
"The term 'financial gain' includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."
I think it's a tough argument that releasing code under the GPL includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value.
When I release code under the GPL, there is definitely no receipt of anything of value, and I would argue that there is no expectation of receipt of anything of value.
The fact that copyrighted works are included in anything of value does not validate the GPL in any way.
Explain to me how I get more access to copyrighted works (my financial gain according to Linus) by releasing code under the GPL.
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