Actually, it's a no-brainer -- they will sue Google
They could just sue themselves. I mean, they were a friggin Linux shop called Caldera not so long ago, and one of the most prominent, if not *the* most prominent linux distro makers somes years back. If that's not called a heavy Linux user, I don't know what is.
Besides, if they sue themselves, they'll save on stamps to send themselves subpoenas, and they'll be able to use the same lawyers to sue and defend themselves.
Not counting legacy PC architecture goofiness, 32 bits currently provide a 4G addressable space. So, apart for power-users, servers, hardcore gamers and trendy techno-posers, what's the advantage of running 64-bit systems? Sure you can make biggest calculations in one instruction, but overall you have to move twice as much data around to achieve the same thing if you have less than 4G or RAM.
Yes I know 4G of RAM is getting increasingly common, but is it really needed? just because Windows is as thick as a whale omelette doesn't mean you need that much to achieve the same result.
Honestly, I could understand the need to have more than 8 and 16 bit processors, to make multiprecision calculations less necessary for common things and to avoid segmentation kludges, but for the majority of people (i.e. people running Word and Excel, and playing Minesweeper a little), I don't see the interest at all. Better have good fast cheap 32-bit systems than expensive, underused 64-bit ones. Unless of course future versions of the Windows require that much power, which doesn't even seem likely for the short term.
Where's the double standard? They have yet to challenge the legality of you not picking up your phone.
I think they fight the right to make your phone ring at awkward hours. They don't challenge the right you have to not answer them, insult the heck out of them or slam the phone down on them.
In short, they're in the same sort of situation as the MPAA and RIAA : they have businesses nobody wants anymore, and everybody would be happy to be rid of, so they use any argument and any method to ensure they stay alive as long as possible, against the natural flow of things that would have flushed them a long time ago. I'd do the same if it was my job I suppose, or perhaps I'd start looking for another job...
I get the distinct impression the EU is out to make an example of them and fine them ridiculously.
Yes, you are probably right. The EU probably wants to make some kind of a political statement to corporate America, and show that *they* won't be bribed.
But, Microsoft probably deserves to be smacked anyway, they got away with it once, and I'd be rather disappointed to see them get away with it again.
Microsoft had offered to include rival media player software on a CD-ROM packaged with personal computers to help resolve the case.
Who decides which (presumably free) media players go on the CDROM then? Is it just RealPlayer and 1 or 2 others (the major ones) or can anybody get in, i.e. Mplayer and other lesser known media players? And surely Microsoft's own WMP would have stayed the one installed by default, effectively nulling the advantage of having other alternatives available on the CD.
No really, that was obviously a trick to fool the EU antitrust commision. I'm glad they saw through Microsoft's "good will" proposals, unlike their US counterparts.
It takes 20 minutes to distribute a 90-minute film over a VPN and the system avoids the costs associated with transporting physical copies to areas largely inaccessible by road
I have a feeling that if some area is inaccessible by road, it's not likely to have DSL or fiber running to it either. So they'd still have to bring the hard-disks (or whatever media) by hand.
DVDCCA has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against 321 Studios
Wow, after seeing the MPAA issue hundreds of subpoenas, it somehow didn't occur to me that DVDCCA didn't actually sue 321 studios, but a company named 321 Studios.
Kudos to these guys for the choice of name. It's almost as if they expected to be sued and wanted to make a good joke out of it. Well done!
The patent lawsuit centers on St. Louis-based 321's flagship products, DVD Copy and DVD X Copy, which have reaped strong sales from consumers and bitter criticism from Hollywood.
For us in the Free World, the command is dvdcp
If it's not on your system already, do apt-get install annoydvdcca_utils
Jesus, after "soviet russia", "all your base", SCO owning Linux and countless others, here's the latest running joke on Slashdot:
Microsoft lost its source code, someone built something related to Windows, [make up some context here], it must be because the Windows source code hasn't been release / was just released / should have been released earlier / is now under the GPL...
AH AH AH HOW FUNNY!!! Gee even the 546th time it's still funny!
10 yo kid knows that Linux is far more secure than Windows
On the other hand, 10 year old kids don't seem to be have enough sense to not make broad statements like this.
Fact #1: Windows has gotten a lot better and continues to get better
Fact #2: Use Linux as a Windows user, i.e. logged as root all the time, installing and disinstalling crap, not knowing what the hell you're doing, and I guarantee you Linux is less secure than Windows.
Fact #3: If Linux had a broader user-base, 90+% like Windows, it'd certainly be the target of worm writers. So far it hasn't been "virus-tested" like Windows, so don't be so prompt to declare it secure.
I'm no Windows fan, but at some point you have to look at the truth, and avoid saying "this is better than that. period.".
I take it a step further - ignore the game release dates altogether and buy them after they've been out for a month - the previously priced 50$ video game is now $10.
You're so right : I've just bought Xenon II for the Atari ST (excellent gameplay under the STonX emulator) and they actually payed me to buy it!
No more formatting when a new employee inherits a machine.
I dunno, I bought a Linux box at the auction the other day, whose FQDN is "dubya.whitehouse.gov". It has a lot of funny-looking maps, boring desert photos with incomprehensible cryptic annotations, and (most shocking of all) a large folder labelled "xmas_party" that has a lot of photos of men in leather shorts doing ungodly things. You say it's okay to leave it like that?
Also, an unrelated issue, but I noticed my phone makes these strange clicks whenever I pick it up, and there are 3 or 4 black vans that have been parked in my street for weeks. Have you noticed that too?
I am looking for help in putting together a pack that can be handed to our IT Directors forum which contains a policy, TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reviews
Even though they didn't leak it, MS still has rights to the code
Are you sure? How about the following scenario, just for the sake of imagining scenarios:
[tinfoil_mode] MS lawyer: You honor, Mr. John McHacker stole pieces of Windows to use in his communistic Linux program
McHacker's lawyer: My client never saw a line of Windows code your honor.
MSL: Here for example, his code says "main(int argc, char **argv)" just like ours does! and he certainly could see our code, as it was rather unfortunately leaked (against our will!!) by a person unknown to us, and therefore was accessible to the entire Linux community at large. In fact, we're planning on suing more Linux developers who, we are certain, have seen our code.
God, this latest karma-whoring technique on Slashdot consisting in posting "I thought I had read first!" or "I could have sworn it said " pisses me off to high heaven : if people can't find funny lines in the article to exploit in a witty post, they just make up their own, and moderators mod up funny for a reason that escapes me.
It would appear that two packages are circulating on the internet, one being the source code to Windows 2000, and the other being the source code to Windows NT
How to easily find the Windows source code packages in your daily P2P incoming directory: rosco@dipstick:~/emule/incoming$ ls -l --sort=size -r. total %@*@&^23462&^% bytes -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 645124103 Feb 12 22:49 starwars.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 658124896 Feb 12 22:50 nt.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 660100457 Feb 12 22:49 goodbadugly.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 705012756 Feb 12 22:49 dasboot.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 706107014 Feb 12 22:56 daftpunk.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 710127685 Feb 12 22:58 chembros.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 9874520782^45 Feb 12 22:59 2ksrc.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 4578924574^37 Feb 12 23:12 ntsrc.zip Segmentation fault. Core dumped.
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Actually, it's a no-brainer -- they will sue Google
They could just sue themselves. I mean, they were a friggin Linux shop called Caldera not so long ago, and one of the most prominent, if not *the* most prominent linux distro makers somes years back. If that's not called a heavy Linux user, I don't know what is.
Besides, if they sue themselves, they'll save on stamps to send themselves subpoenas, and they'll be able to use the same lawyers to sue and defend themselves.
He most certainly contributed to technology in films!
Not counting legacy PC architecture goofiness, 32 bits currently provide a 4G addressable space. So, apart for power-users, servers, hardcore gamers and trendy techno-posers, what's the advantage of running 64-bit systems? Sure you can make biggest calculations in one instruction, but overall you have to move twice as much data around to achieve the same thing if you have less than 4G or RAM.
Yes I know 4G of RAM is getting increasingly common, but is it really needed? just because Windows is as thick as a whale omelette doesn't mean you need that much to achieve the same result.
Honestly, I could understand the need to have more than 8 and 16 bit processors, to make multiprecision calculations less necessary for common things and to avoid segmentation kludges, but for the majority of people (i.e. people running Word and Excel, and playing Minesweeper a little), I don't see the interest at all. Better have good fast cheap 32-bit systems than expensive, underused 64-bit ones. Unless of course future versions of the Windows require that much power, which doesn't even seem likely for the short term.
Where's the double standard? They have yet to challenge the legality of you not picking up your phone.
I think they fight the right to make your phone ring at awkward hours. They don't challenge the right you have to not answer them, insult the heck out of them or slam the phone down on them.
In short, they're in the same sort of situation as the MPAA and RIAA : they have businesses nobody wants anymore, and everybody would be happy to be rid of, so they use any argument and any method to ensure they stay alive as long as possible, against the natural flow of things that would have flushed them a long time ago. I'd do the same if it was my job I suppose, or perhaps I'd start looking for another job...
I get the distinct impression the EU is out to make an example of them and fine them ridiculously.
Yes, you are probably right. The EU probably wants to make some kind of a political statement to corporate America, and show that *they* won't be bribed.
But, Microsoft probably deserves to be smacked anyway, they got away with it once, and I'd be rather disappointed to see them get away with it again.
Microsoft had offered to include rival media player software on a CD-ROM packaged with personal computers to help resolve the case.
Who decides which (presumably free) media players go on the CDROM then? Is it just RealPlayer and 1 or 2 others (the major ones) or can anybody get in, i.e. Mplayer and other lesser known media players? And surely Microsoft's own WMP would have stayed the one installed by default, effectively nulling the advantage of having other alternatives available on the CD.
No really, that was obviously a trick to fool the EU antitrust commision. I'm glad they saw through Microsoft's "good will" proposals, unlike their US counterparts.
It takes 20 minutes to distribute a 90-minute film over a VPN and the system avoids the costs associated with transporting physical copies to areas largely inaccessible by road
I have a feeling that if some area is inaccessible by road, it's not likely to have DSL or fiber running to it either. So they'd still have to bring the hard-disks (or whatever media) by hand.
My first thought was that it would be perfect for a future handheld game device!
My first thought was that it would be perfect to store 3D porn images.
DVDCCA has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against 321 Studios
Wow, after seeing the MPAA issue hundreds of subpoenas, it somehow didn't occur to me that DVDCCA didn't actually sue 321 studios, but a company named 321 Studios.
Kudos to these guys for the choice of name. It's almost as if they expected to be sued and wanted to make a good joke out of it. Well done!
The patent lawsuit centers on St. Louis-based 321's flagship products, DVD Copy and DVD X Copy, which have reaped strong sales from consumers and bitter criticism from Hollywood.
For us in the Free World, the command is dvdcp
If it's not on your system already, do apt-get install annoydvdcca_utils
Jesus, after "soviet russia", "all your base", SCO owning Linux and countless others, here's the latest running joke on Slashdot:
...
Microsoft lost its source code, someone built something related to Windows, [make up some context here], it must be because the Windows source code hasn't been release / was just released / should have been released earlier / is now under the GPL
AH AH AH HOW FUNNY!!! Gee even the 546th time it's still funny!
10 yo kid knows that Linux is far more secure than Windows
On the other hand, 10 year old kids don't seem to be have enough sense to not make broad statements like this.
Fact #1: Windows has gotten a lot better and continues to get better
Fact #2: Use Linux as a Windows user, i.e. logged as root all the time, installing and disinstalling crap, not knowing what the hell you're doing, and I guarantee you Linux is less secure than Windows.
Fact #3: If Linux had a broader user-base, 90+% like Windows, it'd certainly be the target of worm writers. So far it hasn't been "virus-tested" like Windows, so don't be so prompt to declare it secure.
I'm no Windows fan, but at some point you have to look at the truth, and avoid saying "this is better than that. period.".
Journalism is a difficult profession, demanding a rigorous editorial line between "church and state".
Yes, I'll second that faster than you can say "Antidisestablishmentarianism".
I take it a step further - ignore the game release dates altogether and buy them after they've been out for a month - the previously priced 50$ video game is now $10.
You're so right : I've just bought Xenon II for the Atari ST (excellent gameplay under the STonX emulator) and they actually payed me to buy it!
No more formatting when a new employee inherits a machine.
I dunno, I bought a Linux box at the auction the other day, whose FQDN is "dubya.whitehouse.gov". It has a lot of funny-looking maps, boring desert photos with incomprehensible cryptic annotations, and (most shocking of all) a large folder labelled "xmas_party" that has a lot of photos of men in leather shorts doing ungodly things. You say it's okay to leave it like that?
Also, an unrelated issue, but I noticed my phone makes these strange clicks whenever I pick it up, and there are 3 or 4 black vans that have been parked in my street for weeks. Have you noticed that too?
I am looking for help in putting together a pack that can be handed to our IT Directors forum which contains a policy, TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reviews
:-)
Here you are. I hope that was helpful
There's also "Jeanet shows her control knob" during the RobotBowl
utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers
Yep, I had the same feelings when I worked at Toys'r'Us...
Even though they didn't leak it, MS still has rights to the code
Are you sure? How about the following scenario, just for the sake of imagining scenarios:
[tinfoil_mode]
MS lawyer: You honor, Mr. John McHacker stole pieces of Windows to use in his communistic Linux program
McHacker's lawyer: My client never saw a line of Windows code your honor.
MSL: Here for example, his code says "main(int argc, char **argv)" just like ours does! and he certainly could see our code, as it was rather unfortunately leaked (against our will!!) by a person unknown to us, and therefore was accessible to the entire Linux community at large. In fact, we're planning on suing more Linux developers who, we are certain, have seen our code.
[/tinfoil_mode]
God, this latest karma-whoring technique on Slashdot consisting in posting "I thought I had read first!" or "I could have sworn it said " pisses me off to high heaven : if people can't find funny lines in the article to exploit in a witty post, they just make up their own, and moderators mod up funny for a reason that escapes me.
MOD PARENT DOWN, IT'S NOT FUNNY...
I'm surprised nobody has sent them patches to fix security issues yet...
It would appear that two packages are circulating on the internet, one being the source code to Windows 2000, and the other being the source code to Windows NT
.
How to easily find the Windows source code packages in your daily P2P incoming directory:
rosco@dipstick:~/emule/incoming$ ls -l --sort=size -r
total %@*@&^23462&^% bytes
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 645124103 Feb 12 22:49 starwars.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 658124896 Feb 12 22:50 nt.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 660100457 Feb 12 22:49 goodbadugly.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 705012756 Feb 12 22:49 dasboot.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 706107014 Feb 12 22:56 daftpunk.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 710127685 Feb 12 22:58 chembros.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 9874520782^45 Feb 12 22:59 2ksrc.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rosco rosco 4578924574^37 Feb 12 23:12 ntsrc.zip
Segmentation fault. Core dumped.
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Yep, looks like an error. Must be real Windows code then...
the XA/21 system has improved utilities' bottom lines
...
Who knows, perhaps it was only the overhead lines that went dead
Pontiac of course, in a desperate effort to redesign the Aztek.