The funny thing is, being formerly Caldera, one of the pioneers of truly commercial Linux, they benefitted hugely from other people's work. In fact, they owe their very existence to Linus & gang since 1994, as I somehow doubt they can claim all their revenues since the company was created come from their few non-free bits, such as NetWare for Linux or Wabi.
SCO has been lobbying Congress about the horrifying ways that Linux and the rest of open source software saves users money, allows others to use the software anyway they see fit and 'gasp' causes SCO to not make as much money as they would like.
It's akin to saying people who donate their time to help newbies understand computers hurt the bottom line of universities offering CS course. That's silly, people do what they want with what they produce. How can they force people to stop donating what they make?
Then again, at least regarding the Linux kernel, they argue that part of it is theirs, and therefore can't be "donated", so it makes sense in their perpective, in an odd acid trip sort of way...
It's been waiting how long for us to visit? Come on think aboutit, it has been just hanging around for a few hundred years, that we have been looking at it, and they expect it to be soft and fresh?!?!??
Look at most computer geeks' male attributes : they've usually never had a single visit and they're rarely very hard. Freshness is another matter though...
The large amount of data -- nearly 100 megabits -- transmitted from Spirit in a single relay session through NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft today "is like getting an upgrade to our Internet connection."
My ISP, 10 miles from me, doesn't even seem to be able to maintain my DSL connection long enough to download 100 megs in one go. Sheesh...
And the other thing is, unlike NASA, whenever I try to download a 100 meg file, I usually get 99 megs, then the idiot on the other end of WinMX decides to cut of the connection before it completes. I guess it's good NASA didn't seem a spotty teenager inside the probe to send the images.
Shuttle's new "Zen" small form factor system, which is almost 20% smaller than current XPCs
I beat them all as far as size is concerned : my PC has no case, and therefore is -100% of the size of a standard beige box PC, since it has the inside out. How about a little of that?
More seriously though, it's bad enough that webpage makers seem to disrespect the HTML standard enough to make life for the blind on the web painful, but it seems that this intersticial video ad thing will just flatly deny them access to the pages behind.
Not to mention the legions of internet users who'll be forced to swallow advertising bull in English for products they don't have (and/or don't want) access to in their own countries.
The Intel High Definition Audio solution will have increased bandwidth that allows for 192 kHz,
192 kilo-Hertz? that's more longwave radio than audio. Hell, it's like 5 times the frequency of ultrasounds. Who are they kidding? This smells of marketting bull, or deceptive commercial practices targetted at trendy audio posers...
I think you'll find that a runaway train derailling in a tight curve in a suburban area can be quite devastating. Not counting the hundreds of passengers casualties inside the train.
Anyway, with the feds controlling the hell out of aviation and watching major cities like never before, I reckon it's only a matter of time before terrorists realize it's far easier to crash trains in less high-profile areas. After all, it'll make quite as much noise in the news as 9/11, which is what terrorists are after. Then the US will turn into a real police state, because they'll realize they have to watch everything the same way they watch airports, and the terrorists will have won.
With all the paranoid hoops the feds make travelers jump through to board an aircraft, I must admit my favorite airline is Amtrack these days, for shorter journeys.
If you put a fast train on a 100year old track, you will never be able to reach 300km/h.
Yes you will, but only once. The French did speed trials in the 70s with conventional train engines and cars (well, apart the engine that had more power), to test the limits of conventional railways, and they reached about 300Km with that train, but the rail track behind the train was all bent out of shape as a result. I saw a very impressive photo of that bent track once, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Perhaps you've heard of this thing called "rounding"
The school teacher taught me about rounding, yes. She also warned the class to use rounding sensibly, that is, you can round somebody's weight to the next kilo up or down because more precision doesn't mean anything, whereas you don't want to round the exposure time of a film camera to the next second up, for example.
In your case, your mile-to-kilometer rounding just cost China $9.6M...
Why in the world are they quoting price per half mile? Or is it really "price per kilometer" and they think the American public is too stupid to understand what a kilometer is?
A half mile is 800m, or 0.8Km.
Ooops, should've used the preview button. Insert foot in mouth now...
(Dont mind me - I've had a personal vendetta against fax verification since 1996)
I'm with you right there.
Anyway, it doesn't matter much, because since everybody requires people to sign this or that, signatures aren't worth crap anymore. For example, I signed someone else's $1200 credit card slip once (my boss', he had used his credit card to stick me in a hotel for 1 month on a business trip, but left before me, so I signed it myself when I checked out) : I didn't know his signature, so I just used mine. Totally and obviously not his name at all. Neither the hotel nor his bank never said anything at all. They only check if the account holder complains.
somebody like the IRS, with around, oh, 200 million "clients". Now you have to process them all, validate their identity
They've already given keys to everybody : it's called the SSN. [sarcasm]Surely if it's a valid enough proof of identity for banks, it's usable as a digital signature by the IRS. Right? Right?[/sarcasm]
Or maybe it is not completely legal to not to actually use a real pen?
Do you think the guy who signs paycheck in big companies actually uses a pen? or the guy at CompUSA responsible for signing all those mail-in rebates checks ?
As for the guy who receives your fax, unless you slap a 5x5 GIF of your signature on the hi-def document, he'll be hard pressed to know it's not actually written then faxed.
1 - Open document in Gimp or PS 2 - Sign it with your mouse (tricky) or your graphic tablet (well worth the investment, if only for this application) 3 - print document to fax printer device
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I'm just wondering. It'd be awfully funny if it is.
It would appear it isn't.
The funny thing is, being formerly Caldera, one of the pioneers of truly commercial Linux, they benefitted hugely from other people's work. In fact, they owe their very existence to Linus & gang since 1994, as I somehow doubt they can claim all their revenues since the company was created come from their few non-free bits, such as NetWare for Linux or Wabi.
SCO has been lobbying Congress about the horrifying ways that Linux and the rest of open source software saves users money, allows others to use the software anyway they see fit and 'gasp' causes SCO to not make as much money as they would like.
...
It's akin to saying people who donate their time to help newbies understand computers hurt the bottom line of universities offering CS course. That's silly, people do what they want with what they produce. How can they force people to stop donating what they make?
Then again, at least regarding the Linux kernel, they argue that part of it is theirs, and therefore can't be "donated", so it makes sense in their perpective, in an odd acid trip sort of way
It's been waiting how long for us to visit? Come on think aboutit, it has been just hanging around for a few hundred years, that we have been looking at it, and they expect it to be soft and fresh?!?!??
...
Look at most computer geeks' male attributes : they've usually never had a single visit and they're rarely very hard. Freshness is another matter though
Given the current information we estimate that we will be able to travel to pluto in 3 years time.
...
In today's fast-paced modern world, a mere 3 years get you:
- to Pluto
- a copy of Duke Nukem Forever
or perhaps I should await my return from Pluto to get DNF
The large amount of data -- nearly 100 megabits -- transmitted from Spirit in a single relay session through NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft today "is like getting an upgrade to our Internet connection."
My ISP, 10 miles from me, doesn't even seem to be able to maintain my DSL connection long enough to download 100 megs in one go. Sheesh...
And the other thing is, unlike NASA, whenever I try to download a 100 meg file, I usually get 99 megs, then the idiot on the other end of WinMX decides to cut of the connection before it completes. I guess it's good NASA didn't seem a spotty teenager inside the probe to send the images.
Shuttle's new "Zen" small form factor system, which is almost 20% smaller than current XPCs
I beat them all as far as size is concerned : my PC has no case, and therefore is -100% of the size of a standard beige box PC, since it has the inside out. How about a little of that?
Like here in New Zealand? Broadband is still a fairly rare beast, and when it is available, it's 20c per MB thank you very much.
That's right, would you believe this, I have to go stick coins in a machine down the hall regularly to get broadband, otherwise I get disc
Unicast, the company responsible, says the ads will play regardless of pop-up blocking.
Not in my browser they won't
More seriously though, it's bad enough that webpage makers seem to disrespect the HTML standard enough to make life for the blind on the web painful, but it seems that this intersticial video ad thing will just flatly deny them access to the pages behind.
Not to mention the legions of internet users who'll be forced to swallow advertising bull in English for products they don't have (and/or don't want) access to in their own countries.
The Intel High Definition Audio solution will have increased bandwidth that allows for 192 kHz,
...
192 kilo-Hertz? that's more longwave radio than audio. Hell, it's like 5 times the frequency of ultrasounds. Who are they kidding? This smells of marketting bull, or deceptive commercial practices targetted at trendy audio posers
If you ever steal a car, never take it into London. They will know about it.
Or steal a bus.
I think you'll find that a runaway train derailling in a tight curve in a suburban area can be quite devastating. Not counting the hundreds of passengers casualties inside the train.
:-(
Anyway, with the feds controlling the hell out of aviation and watching major cities like never before, I reckon it's only a matter of time before terrorists realize it's far easier to crash trains in less high-profile areas. After all, it'll make quite as much noise in the news as 9/11, which is what terrorists are after. Then the US will turn into a real police state, because they'll realize they have to watch everything the same way they watch airports, and the terrorists will have won.
This country has a bleak future indeed
They were once my favorite airline.
With all the paranoid hoops the feds make travelers jump through to board an aircraft, I must admit my favorite airline is Amtrack these days, for shorter journeys.
The official standard for length measurements in China is Mao's foot, which is somewhat shorter that an imperial foot.
If you put a fast train on a 100year old track, you will never be able to reach 300km/h.
Yes you will, but only once. The French did speed trials in the 70s with conventional train engines and cars (well, apart the engine that had more power), to test the limits of conventional railways, and they reached about 300Km with that train, but the rail track behind the train was all bent out of shape as a result. I saw a very impressive photo of that bent track once, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Perhaps you've heard of this thing called "rounding"
...
The school teacher taught me about rounding, yes. She also warned the class to use rounding sensibly, that is, you can round somebody's weight to the next kilo up or down because more precision doesn't mean anything, whereas you don't want to round the exposure time of a film camera to the next second up, for example.
In your case, your mile-to-kilometer rounding just cost China $9.6M
Why in the world are they quoting price per half mile? Or is it really "price per kilometer" and they think the American public is too stupid to understand what a kilometer is?
...
A half mile is 800m, or 0.8Km.
Ooops, should've used the preview button. Insert foot in mouth now
Here's a technology more appropriate to China.
"the maglev technique was excluded because it does not match the wheel-track technique used by railways in China,"
NEWSFLASH: Chinese researchers have discovered magnetic trains could not use a standard rail track.
Despite that, the Blade series still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging.
This is by far the most overrated device since the Hindenburg won the 1937 Lakehurst Best Lighter-than-air Aircraft competition.
-- Ray Charles
Finland ?
Africa ?
Russia ?
California ?
(Dont mind me - I've had a personal vendetta against fax verification since 1996)
I'm with you right there.
Anyway, it doesn't matter much, because since everybody requires people to sign this or that, signatures aren't worth crap anymore. For example, I signed someone else's $1200 credit card slip once (my boss', he had used his credit card to stick me in a hotel for 1 month on a business trip, but left before me, so I signed it myself when I checked out) : I didn't know his signature, so I just used mine. Totally and obviously not his name at all. Neither the hotel nor his bank never said anything at all. They only check if the account holder complains.
somebody like the IRS, with around, oh, 200 million "clients". Now you have to process them all, validate their identity
They've already given keys to everybody : it's called the SSN. [sarcasm]Surely if it's a valid enough proof of identity for banks, it's usable as a digital signature by the IRS. Right? Right?[/sarcasm]
Or maybe it is not completely legal to not to actually use a real pen?
Do you think the guy who signs paycheck in big companies actually uses a pen? or the guy at CompUSA responsible for signing all those mail-in rebates checks ?
As for the guy who receives your fax, unless you slap a 5x5 GIF of your signature on the hi-def document, he'll be hard pressed to know it's not actually written then faxed.
This may help you:
1 - Open document in Gimp or PS
2 - Sign it with your mouse (tricky) or your graphic tablet (well worth the investment, if only for this application)
3 - print document to fax printer device