It's not screwing anyone. It's a standard hedge. It reduces the holders profit potential, but it lessens risk since it basically locks in the shares at the short price.
The only way you could ever consider this screwing anyone is when SCO initially issued the convertibles... convertible debentures and convertible preferred and the like dilute the stock, the same as any other stock issue, it's just that convertibles dilute the stock in ways that might be subtle for the beginning investor. (The dilution isn't immediate).
It's just a classic story of ego causing someone to "go down with the ship"..
Oh well, if anything this is a story of how Free software has a real advantage over anything where the author has more control, if the author goes insane or makes a bad decision, just fork and forget. This is a best case too, since there's not many people willing to maintain a redundant fork, so it's not really dividing community resources.
You obviously have taken more philosophy courses than history. He was referring to the way we supported oppressive regimes in Afghanistan throughout the 80s to defeat the USSR which invaded Afghanistan in late 1979.
My mail hosting used to out and out block spam, and their filter wasn't very well maintained so it blocked lots of legitimate mailing list mail (like Securityfocus and NANOG).
They've went to tagging mail now instead of dropping it, which is a lot better.
ISP/mail server based blocking isn't really a good idea, even with ultra-conservative blocking, you'll still block legitimate emails.
I've played both GTA and Vice City on the PS2 and I can't think of scene where a bomb was in a building I was in and had to maneuver out of...
What about the RC helicopter mission where you set bombs and then get out before they blow?
Or the place right after you "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS".. you set bombs there and then must get out before they blow (which is tricky because the way you came in is blocked).
They said they used caller ID to trace the call... Apparently the coworker didn't know he was talking to the other guy, which indicates someone just called, said the crap and hung up.
It sounds to me more like this guy tried to play a prank on his coworker, got in serious shit over it, and then made up this stupid excuse.
Intel was shipping overdrive capable boards in 1993. They may have been shipping them earlier than that.
Of course, the claims are so fundamental and broad, that something even like IBM's "CPU on a card" that they used with some of their PS/2 series might even qualify.
And that's just in the consumer market. I'm sure theres even more potential prior art if you look at server-class hardware from the 80s.
This looks like it covers something more like the old "DX2" overdrive chips and things, where you install a second chip to upgrade the first. Makes you wonder why they didn't try to sue years ago.
That's just from my preliminary reading though.
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It isn't that they would get sued. The patent holders have never sued non-commercial users, not that I'm aware of at least.
It does open up a liability to get sued though. Of course, if this really was a community based distro, then it wouldn't matter, they'd be no one with money to sue.
Since Red Hat has insisted in keeping such tight control over the project, you get the worst of both worlds.... the extra work and lack of support of not having a company behind the project, and the skittish behavior toward things that might present a liability.
Oh, it really was a vacuum. Once I got it off and cleaned it, and put a tiny amount of grease back on, it formed the vacuum again instantly, and required several minutes of coaxing to come off again.
I don't think it's air trapped in there per se, it was warm when I originally took it off. You don't need air bubbles to have a vacuum.
Have you ever seen a machinists gauge blocks? They are very polished and flat metal blocks. If you stick two of them together, the lack of air between them actually makes them stick together. I think it's a similar effect here. If air can't get in, then it's a vacuum.:)
It's impossible to do it any other way, with AMD64 at least (which has a shroud around the base of the heatsink), and most chips for the last 5 years... the heatsink overhangs the ZIF lever.
I can't believe I'm being modded down as troll, and getting silly replies like yours.
This really happened to me. I don't buy Intel chips anymore, and haven't for years, but I'm not too happy about having to replace a chip that I bought a few months ago, probably out of my own pocket since newegg won't take an OEM CPU back that is over 30 days out, and they claim to not take any back that have physical damage either (though I don't know if this would count, I don't see how a design flaw is my fault).
I went to take the heat sink off the other day, and the vacuum that formed between the heat spreader and heat sink caused the chip to get yanked right out of the closed ZIF socket when I tried to get the heat sink off.
Then, after reinstalling the chip, apparently the heat spreader has become disconnected from the core internally, because the CMOS reports rising temperature up to 120C, but even the heat spreader isn't warm if I turn the system off and get the heat sink off again.
So be very careful. It takes about 10 minutes to take the heat sink off the heat spreader if you used a coating of grease that covers the whole top of the chip, even if you used a thin coat. You have to wiggle the heat sink and gently pull up for quite a while before that vacuum is broken. It doesn't help that the heat sink design makes it impossible to see the chip or slide the heat sink to the side.
And be aware that it doesn't take a whole lot of force to yank the chip right from the ZIF, possibly damaging things in the process.
No, this is more like you getting the LL Bean catalog, and agreeing to let someone come in your house and stick ad flyers in your LL Bean catalog.
Now, whether you actually consentually agreed (in any meaningful sense) to the person putting the ads there is a different matter. We need to attack the EULA, not the functionality of these programs.
Most people aren't consenting to what they get when they install adware/spyware, they just click next a lot and then their "freeware" is installed. Even if they read the EULA, most of the advertising things are vague, and buried under pages of legalese.
Cows are incredibly stupid, and not particularly aware of what constitutes a threat and what doesn't. They rely almost completely on a herd mob mentality to decide whether something in dangerous or not, and when they are separated and alone, they don't really make very good decisions about when to get scared.
Terrorism was already illegal. The various intelligence forces already had all the tools they needed to surveil a suspected terrorist, and arrest them if needed.
We didn't need any new laws to fight terrorism. Any expansion of government power was just an opportunistic power grab, because they could get away with it.
If you think about it, these politicians are total sleeze, capitalizing on the terrorist attacks to push through an expansion of government powers (one that was already being dreamed about by the power hungry, but was unlikely to pass otherwise due to civil liberties).
The frequency of radio waves has absolutely nothing to do with data transmission speed. Nothing.
That's absolutely incorrect.
It is just how many times the electromagnetic wave oscillates every second
Do you know anything about modulation and keying? Sure we manage to come up with new encodings to pack a few more bits onto each cycle now and then, but data speed is still related to frequency in any practical system.
The the "cure" computer virus went through large controlled trials to prove its safety and efficacy, and then was only administered to computers already infected, sure.
Of course, by that time, most of the Windows lusers will have already cleaned off their computers.
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It's not screwing anyone. It's a standard hedge. It reduces the holders profit potential, but it lessens risk since it basically locks in the shares at the short price.
The only way you could ever consider this screwing anyone is when SCO initially issued the convertibles... convertible debentures and convertible preferred and the like dilute the stock, the same as any other stock issue, it's just that convertibles dilute the stock in ways that might be subtle for the beginning investor. (The dilution isn't immediate).
A CRT only has a rated lifetime of 10,000-20,000 hours, or about 2 years of continuous operation.
Tell that to the guy who always leaves his monitor on overnight at work (with no power management to power down the CRT).
It's just a classic story of ego causing someone to "go down with the ship"..
Oh well, if anything this is a story of how Free software has a real advantage over anything where the author has more control, if the author goes insane or makes a bad decision, just fork and forget. This is a best case too, since there's not many people willing to maintain a redundant fork, so it's not really dividing community resources.
It's not a fallacy dipshit.
You obviously have taken more philosophy courses than history. He was referring to the way we supported oppressive regimes in Afghanistan throughout the 80s to defeat the USSR which invaded Afghanistan in late 1979.
Be careful what you wish for.
My mail hosting used to out and out block spam, and their filter wasn't very well maintained so it blocked lots of legitimate mailing list mail (like Securityfocus and NANOG).
They've went to tagging mail now instead of dropping it, which is a lot better.
ISP/mail server based blocking isn't really a good idea, even with ultra-conservative blocking, you'll still block legitimate emails.
I've played both GTA and Vice City on the PS2 and I can't think of scene where a bomb was in a building I was in and had to maneuver out of...
What about the RC helicopter mission where you set bombs and then get out before they blow?
Or the place right after you "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS".. you set bombs there and then must get out before they blow (which is tricky because the way you came in is blocked).
They said they used caller ID to trace the call... Apparently the coworker didn't know he was talking to the other guy, which indicates someone just called, said the crap and hung up.
It sounds to me more like this guy tried to play a prank on his coworker, got in serious shit over it, and then made up this stupid excuse.
Intel was shipping overdrive capable boards in 1993. They may have been shipping them earlier than that.
Of course, the claims are so fundamental and broad, that something even like IBM's "CPU on a card" that they used with some of their PS/2 series might even qualify.
And that's just in the consumer market. I'm sure theres even more potential prior art if you look at server-class hardware from the 80s.
We all know that worked so well in the "Drug War".
This looks like it covers something more like the old "DX2" overdrive chips and things, where you install a second chip to upgrade the first. Makes you wonder why they didn't try to sue years ago.
That's just from my preliminary reading though.
It isn't that they would get sued. The patent holders have never sued non-commercial users, not that I'm aware of at least.
It does open up a liability to get sued though. Of course, if this really was a community based distro, then it wouldn't matter, they'd be no one with money to sue.
Since Red Hat has insisted in keeping such tight control over the project, you get the worst of both worlds.... the extra work and lack of support of not having a company behind the project, and the skittish behavior toward things that might present a liability.
Oh, it really was a vacuum. Once I got it off and cleaned it, and put a tiny amount of grease back on, it formed the vacuum again instantly, and required several minutes of coaxing to come off again.
:)
I don't think it's air trapped in there per se, it was warm when I originally took it off. You don't need air bubbles to have a vacuum.
Have you ever seen a machinists gauge blocks? They are very polished and flat metal blocks. If you stick two of them together, the lack of air between them actually makes them stick together. I think it's a similar effect here. If air can't get in, then it's a vacuum.
It might be worth the warantee.
It's impossible to do it any other way, with AMD64 at least (which has a shroud around the base of the heatsink), and most chips for the last 5 years... the heatsink overhangs the ZIF lever.
What?
I can't believe I'm being modded down as troll, and getting silly replies like yours.
This really happened to me. I don't buy Intel chips anymore, and haven't for years, but I'm not too happy about having to replace a chip that I bought a few months ago, probably out of my own pocket since newegg won't take an OEM CPU back that is over 30 days out, and they claim to not take any back that have physical damage either (though I don't know if this would count, I don't see how a design flaw is my fault).
I had an AMD64 chip with the heat spreader.
I went to take the heat sink off the other day, and the vacuum that formed between the heat spreader and heat sink caused the chip to get yanked right out of the closed ZIF socket when I tried to get the heat sink off.
Then, after reinstalling the chip, apparently the heat spreader has become disconnected from the core internally, because the CMOS reports rising temperature up to 120C, but even the heat spreader isn't warm if I turn the system off and get the heat sink off again.
So be very careful. It takes about 10 minutes to take the heat sink off the heat spreader if you used a coating of grease that covers the whole top of the chip, even if you used a thin coat. You have to wiggle the heat sink and gently pull up for quite a while before that vacuum is broken. It doesn't help that the heat sink design makes it impossible to see the chip or slide the heat sink to the side.
And be aware that it doesn't take a whole lot of force to yank the chip right from the ZIF, possibly damaging things in the process.
No, this is more like you getting the LL Bean catalog, and agreeing to let someone come in your house and stick ad flyers in your LL Bean catalog.
Now, whether you actually consentually agreed (in any meaningful sense) to the person putting the ads there is a different matter. We need to attack the EULA, not the functionality of these programs.
Most people aren't consenting to what they get when they install adware/spyware, they just click next a lot and then their "freeware" is installed. Even if they read the EULA, most of the advertising things are vague, and buried under pages of legalese.
You assume way too much of a bovine.
Cows are incredibly stupid, and not particularly aware of what constitutes a threat and what doesn't. They rely almost completely on a herd mob mentality to decide whether something in dangerous or not, and when they are separated and alone, they don't really make very good decisions about when to get scared.
As a C64 Doom Clone! :)
..to jam a penny into the keyboard such that it kept the return key held down, so that the key-repeat would dismiss the dialog box over & over again
Ever run fsck on a badly damaged fs? You might use the penny too. (Until you remember to just pipe "yes" output to it).
I'm not really sure how to respond to this.
Terrorism was already illegal. The various intelligence forces already had all the tools they needed to surveil a suspected terrorist, and arrest them if needed.
We didn't need any new laws to fight terrorism. Any expansion of government power was just an opportunistic power grab, because they could get away with it.
If you think about it, these politicians are total sleeze, capitalizing on the terrorist attacks to push through an expansion of government powers (one that was already being dreamed about by the power hungry, but was unlikely to pass otherwise due to civil liberties).
Under your definition, nothing is pure thought. Even the philosopher needs his pen and paper, or a venue to discuss philosophy with others.
The mathematician needs his ruler or compass, pencil and paper, and education.
I guess those things should be patentable too, since they aren't in your "realm of pure thought".
The frequency of radio waves has absolutely nothing to do with data transmission speed. Nothing.
That's absolutely incorrect.
It is just how many times the electromagnetic wave oscillates every second
Do you know anything about modulation and keying? Sure we manage to come up with new encodings to pack a few more bits onto each cycle now and then, but data speed is still related to frequency in any practical system.
The the "cure" computer virus went through large controlled trials to prove its safety and efficacy, and then was only administered to computers already infected, sure.
Of course, by that time, most of the Windows lusers will have already cleaned off their computers.
At least it'd be something worth dying for.
If you think our views would change one bit even if we lost someone close to us (or we were maimed by) and act of "terrorism", you are sadly mistaken.
Freedom is something worth fighting and dying for, if necessary.