prosco isn't so bad, especially when you consider the alternatives: ilovesco.com ohyesyesgimmesco.com chicksdigsco .com mcbrideforprez.com gaysforsco.com scorgasm .com
"The new gold is IP," McBride said....SCO soon to become ghost town, after unsuccessfully mining the Linux kernel and not finding one itty bitty nugget.
Don't mix C and libraries. C is C, the core of the language is so small its list of reserved keywords fits on a half sheet of paper, and the rest isn't much bigger.
Whatever useful you can do on top of C depends on whatever libraries you slap on top of it, that gives you, the programmer, easy access to various abstractions of whatever the OS offers you. conio for example reflects what DOS and the BIOS can do and doesn't exist (originally) in Unix. Some libs are common though, like stdio and stdlib. Those are said to be portable, but they're still not part of the C language per se.
Certainly, there are plenty of UNIX users and admins who understand semaphores but have never written a threaded application, and C programmers who have never left the Windows world,
Newsflash: Windows implements IPC mechanisms. You know, like all modern multitasking OSes?
Other newsflash: C programmers can be found under Windows, Unix, MacOS10, BeOS, GEM, ThingamabobOS... In fact, real professional programmers can program in anything under any environment, they just happen to be a bit more proficient under certain kinds of environments.
...but is there any reason that someone who already owns a PC-capable burner would want to spend another $300 for this?
I bet you a ninepence you still have a separate stereo, alarm clock, TV and DVD player and books at home, while your PC could very well play music, wake you up in the morning (afternoon?), act as a TV, play DVDs and display ebooks. How comes?
The reason is, a PC does many things, but never does any one of these many things well enough to be something you want to life with day by day. Not to mention the horrendous noise and energy expenditure in the form of heat a PC represents.
Sony's latest DVD Burner that can be connected directly to your VCR or Camcorder to directly record or back up your recoded home movies, TV shows, etc.
In other news: Sony launched a recordable DVD burner that records movies and live TV, etc... To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the launch of the same Sony's Betamax product in 1975, the MPAA decided to sue Sony. "It's just like the good ole days" declared MPAA's godfather Jack Valenti.
What follows is the heavily PR'ed Novell letter, interspersed with the layman translation. Marvel at its simplicity and at the bully-like tone of it:
* We believe that customers want and need freedom of choice in making decisions about technology solutions. Those considering Novell offerings, whether proprietary or open source, should be able to make their purchasing decisions based on technical merits, security, quality of service and value, not the threat of litigation. Novell intends to continue to compete based on such criteria. We don't make Netware or NDS products anymore, we don't have the money. So now we jump on the Linux bandwagon and make Linux-based products, and you better believe it's just as good as our old shit. But... * As with all purchasing considerations, customers should keep software patents in perspective. In reality, open source software poses no greater risk of patent infringement than does closed source software.
...don't be afraid: nooo Linux ain't bad, it's aaall good. It's soft and furry and you can sleep with our products at night. So...
* Consistent with this belief, Novell will use its patent portfolio to protect itself against claims made against the Linux kernel or open source programs included in Novell's offerings, as dictated by the actions of others.
...since our very survival depends on Linux and we still have old patents and stuff that are so vague we could slap a lawsuit on any badmouther's face in less time that you can say "disestablishmentarianism",...
* In the event of a patent claim against a Novell open source product, Novell would respond using the same measures generally used to defend proprietary software products accused of patent infringement. Among other things, Novell would seek to address the claim by identifying prior art that could invalidate the patent; demonstrating that the product does not infringe the patent; redesigning the product to avoid infringement; or pursuing a license with the patent owner.
...if you so much as hint at dissing our new shiny products, we'll sue your ass off with our old patents and...
* As appropriate, Novell is prepared to use our patents, which are highly relevant in today's marketplace, to defend against those who might assert patents against open source products marketed, sold or supported by Novell. Some software vendors will attempt to counter the competitive threat of Linux by making arguments about the risk of violating patents. Vendors that assert patents against customers and competitors such as Novell do so at their own peril and with the certainty of provoking a response. We urge customers to remind vendors that all are best served by using innovation and competition to drive purchasing decisions, rather than the threat of litigation.
...you better believe it cuz we're fucking serious about it! You better remember that...
* Novell has previously used its ownership of UNIX copyrights and patents to protect customers against similar threats to open source software made by others.
...we fucking did it before with that old canard Unix so it's fucking true!
What nobody understood, however, was how it knew what proteins to recycle - after all, if proteins were just recycled randomly we'd all be globs of jelly.
Chronic intoxication by McDonald's products seems to randomize protein recycling quite a bit then.
Even worse: Q: The main window doesn't load. What do I do? A: Call our toll-free 1-800 support number! Noooooo! I'm reading this so I *don't* have to directly communicate with other humans!
No, no. The real bitch is when you call up the 1-800 number and the dialog goes like this:
FLOOZY: Hello, my name is Sue-Ann at ACME help desk, how may I annoy the living shit out of you today?
YOU: Well hmm, I have this problem with your product: see, it slices but it doesn't dice.
FLOOZY: Ah yes Sir. Do you have the Inter-Net?
YOU: Er, yeah...
FLOOZY: Sir, may I direct you to aych-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-wee-wee-wee-dot -ay-see-em-eeh-dot-com-slash-eff-ay-queue: may I suggest you try to see if this page contains an answer to your question, and then if it doesn't, call me back? Thank you Sir and have a great day *CLICK*
When you use a FAQ with a search facility, and it comes up with some answer to your question, followed by a question asking "Was that answer useful? [Yes] [No]", you can bet without reading the answer that:
1) The answer is invariably completely bad and off-topic
2) You can click on "No" all you want, no-one gives a shit about your end-user experience at the other end, since the FAQ never improves
Hmm let's see: hiring a hitman to get a young hippy programmer working at MIT AI Lab in 1976 before he even started to type "vi/home/richard/great_new_projects_I_have/emacs/main.c" would have been nice... That would have saved 2 generations of programmers early onsets of carpal tunnel...
Ovious and short-sighted: read up about the corporate history of today's SCO Inc. and you'll discover the history of a poorly managed, but essentially benevolent, pioneering Linux shop called Caldera Inc (which turned sour about the time it split in two around 1999 if memory serves), and also the history of a good Unix shop called SCO (the real SCO, now called Tarentella), that used to own a pretty fine Unix clone back in the days and that's been schlepping along, but essentially was honest.
Today's SCO is a combination of a Linux shop that didn't know how to compete with RedHat and ran out of cash, their financial bakers called the Canopy group, and its chief shitheat, millionaire Ray Noorda )who are hell-bent on (1) getting Microsoft and (2) making money off of lawsuits), and their buying SCO's (the real SCO's) IP assets.
In short, SCO hasn't been evil for a long time, and won't be for very long either, and I pity the poor employees who got stuck in the corporate quagmire...
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Perhaps Victor Yodaiken might want to pull another one of his lame patent stunts on Montavista. That'd be rather amusing actually...
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ilovesco.com
ohyesyesgimmesco.com
chicksdigsc
mcbrideforprez.com
gaysforsco.com
scorgas
"The new gold is IP," McBride said. ...SCO soon to become ghost town, after unsuccessfully mining the Linux kernel and not finding one itty bitty nugget.
So far hes saved over $2k by switching to linux from windows 2000.
What did your friend think the 2000 in "Windows 2000" stand for?
Don't mix C and libraries. C is C, the core of the language is so small its list of reserved keywords fits on a half sheet of paper, and the rest isn't much bigger.
Whatever useful you can do on top of C depends on whatever libraries you slap on top of it, that gives you, the programmer, easy access to various abstractions of whatever the OS offers you. conio for example reflects what DOS and the BIOS can do and doesn't exist (originally) in Unix. Some libs are common though, like stdio and stdlib. Those are said to be portable, but they're still not part of the C language per se.
The core of the C la
Certainly, there are plenty of UNIX users and admins who understand semaphores but have never written a threaded application, and C programmers who have never left the Windows world,
Newsflash: Windows implements IPC mechanisms. You know, like all modern multitasking OSes?
Other newsflash: C programmers can be found under Windows, Unix, MacOS10, BeOS, GEM, ThingamabobOS... In fact, real professional programmers can program in anything under any environment, they just happen to be a bit more proficient under certain kinds of environments.
...but is there any reason that someone who already owns a PC-capable burner would want to spend another $300 for this?
I bet you a ninepence you still have a separate stereo, alarm clock, TV and DVD player and books at home, while your PC could very well play music, wake you up in the morning (afternoon?), act as a TV, play DVDs and display ebooks. How comes?
The reason is, a PC does many things, but never does any one of these many things well enough to be something you want to life with day by day. Not to mention the horrendous noise and energy expenditure in the form of heat a PC represents.
Blank screen. What a fantastic DRM.
Sony's latest DVD Burner that can be connected directly to your VCR or Camcorder to directly record or back up your recoded home movies, TV shows, etc.
In other news: Sony launched a recordable DVD burner that records movies and live TV, etc... To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the launch of the same Sony's Betamax product in 1975, the MPAA decided to sue Sony. "It's just like the good ole days" declared MPAA's godfather Jack Valenti.
What follows is the heavily PR'ed Novell letter, interspersed with the layman translation. Marvel at its simplicity and at the bully-like tone of it:
...don't be afraid: nooo Linux ain't bad, it's aaall good. It's soft and furry and you can sleep with our products at night. So...
...since our very survival depends on Linux and we still have old patents and stuff that are so vague we could slap a lawsuit on any badmouther's face in less time that you can say "disestablishmentarianism",...
...if you so much as hint at dissing our new shiny products, we'll sue your ass off with our old patents and...
...you better believe it cuz we're fucking serious about it! You better remember that...
...we fucking did it before with that old canard Unix so it's fucking true!
* We believe that customers want and need freedom of choice in making decisions about technology solutions. Those considering Novell offerings, whether proprietary or open source, should be able to make their purchasing decisions based on technical merits, security, quality of service and value, not the threat of litigation. Novell intends to continue to compete based on such criteria.
We don't make Netware or NDS products anymore, we don't have the money. So now we jump on the Linux bandwagon and make Linux-based products, and you better believe it's just as good as our old shit. But...
* As with all purchasing considerations, customers should keep software patents in perspective. In reality, open source software poses no greater risk of patent infringement than does closed source software.
* Consistent with this belief, Novell will use its patent portfolio to protect itself against claims made against the Linux kernel or open source programs included in Novell's offerings, as dictated by the actions of others.
* In the event of a patent claim against a Novell open source product, Novell would respond using the same measures generally used to defend proprietary software products accused of patent infringement. Among other things, Novell would seek to address the claim by identifying prior art that could invalidate the patent; demonstrating that the product does not infringe the patent; redesigning the product to avoid infringement; or pursuing a license with the patent owner.
* As appropriate, Novell is prepared to use our patents, which are highly relevant in today's marketplace, to defend against those who might assert patents against open source products marketed, sold or supported by Novell. Some software vendors will attempt to counter the competitive threat of Linux by making arguments about the risk of violating patents. Vendors that assert patents against customers and competitors such as Novell do so at their own peril and with the certainty of provoking a response. We urge customers to remind vendors that all are best served by using innovation and competition to drive purchasing decisions, rather than the threat of litigation.
* Novell has previously used its ownership of UNIX copyrights and patents to protect customers against similar threats to open source software made by others.
The software is being distributed through electronic download at $49.99 USD...
Oh good. I'm growing really tired of mechanical downloads...
will be happy to accept your kind PayPal donation. ... just as soon as it comes back online.
Yet Another Wonderful New Operating System...
A computer game has been released. The President isn't scheduled to comment on the momentous event...
What nobody understood, however, was how it knew what proteins to recycle - after all, if proteins were just recycled randomly we'd all be globs of jelly.
Chronic intoxication by McDonald's products seems to randomize protein recycling quite a bit then.
Even worse:
t -ay-see-em-eeh-dot-com-slash-eff-ay-queue: may I suggest you try to see if this page contains an answer to your question, and then if it doesn't, call me back? Thank you Sir and have a great day *CLICK*
Q: The main window doesn't load. What do I do?
A: Call our toll-free 1-800 support number!
Noooooo! I'm reading this so I *don't* have to directly communicate with other humans!
No, no. The real bitch is when you call up the 1-800 number and the dialog goes like this:
FLOOZY: Hello, my name is Sue-Ann at ACME help desk, how may I annoy the living shit out of you today?
YOU: Well hmm, I have this problem with your product: see, it slices but it doesn't dice.
FLOOZY: Ah yes Sir. Do you have the Inter-Net?
YOU: Er, yeah...
FLOOZY: Sir, may I direct you to aych-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-wee-wee-wee-do
When you use a FAQ with a search facility, and it comes up with some answer to your question, followed by a question asking "Was that answer useful? [Yes] [No]", you can bet without reading the answer that:
1) The answer is invariably completely bad and off-topic
2) You can click on "No" all you want, no-one gives a shit about your end-user experience at the other end, since the FAQ never improves
I can stop whenever I want. Whoever says otherwise, I'll blow his head clean off with a BFG10K.
Hmm let's see: hiring a hitman to get a young hippy programmer working at MIT AI Lab in 1976 before he even started to type "vi /home/richard/great_new_projects_I_have/emacs/main .c" would have been nice... That would have saved 2 generations of programmers early onsets of carpal tunnel...
Ovious and short-sighted: read up about the corporate history of today's SCO Inc. and you'll discover the history of a poorly managed, but essentially benevolent, pioneering Linux shop called Caldera Inc (which turned sour about the time it split in two around 1999 if memory serves), and also the history of a good Unix shop called SCO (the real SCO, now called Tarentella), that used to own a pretty fine Unix clone back in the days and that's been schlepping along, but essentially was honest.
Today's SCO is a combination of a Linux shop that didn't know how to compete with RedHat and ran out of cash, their financial bakers called the Canopy group, and its chief shitheat, millionaire Ray Noorda )who are hell-bent on (1) getting Microsoft and (2) making money off of lawsuits), and their buying SCO's (the real SCO's) IP assets.
In short, SCO hasn't been evil for a long time, and won't be for very long either, and I pity the poor employees who got stuck in the corporate quagmire...
Dear Rob,
One question: do you like programming in Pike?
redmondmag.com who claims to be the independent voice of the microsoft IT community.
I hear they're FAIR AND BALANCED...
if you drop a ball of plutonium on your foot, all you get is broken toes.
All 7 of them...
And guess who lost money in Kodak stock when the bubble collapsed?
Python, most modern basics (GFA, QBasic, ...), Perl,...
Shall I write the check to Kodak or Eastman-Kodak sir? Cuz I have a script to hack on the server tonite.
sheesh...