And they forgot to mention that IBM is counter-suing SCO, and I think IBM's case against SCO is a lot more water-tight than SCO's case against IBM or Linux: Lanham Act, breech of patents, breech of copyright (SCO has no other permission besides the GPL for distributing *any* IBM-copyrighted code in the Linux kernel - not to mention everyone else's code.)
And of course, SCO has failed to inform either its investors or the SEC of its vulnerability to copyright disputes from Novell.
I pay $AU40 per month for 256/64, with a 2 GB limit ($AU6 per GB thereafter) - that is about $US30 and $US4.50 respectively. But with the way the US dollar is going...
You know those "asteroids" that wiped out 70-90% of life on earth, back in Permian and dinosaur times? Maybe they were just some kids on some distant, really advanced planets trying out their new ray-gun toys.
"Whoops. I didn't know it was loaded."
"You really ought to be more careful, son. One day you might hit a planet that's valuable."
I cannot believe that Google, in their review of the year, made such a huge error as the following:
"The annual Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at Roland Garros in Paris each spring."
Umm, folks, the Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at *Wimbledon* in England. The *French Open* Tennis Tournament is what takes place at Roland Garros in Paris.
Next they'll be saying that the American Open tennis tournament takes place in London, and the Australian Open in New York.
I don't think it is the business of government to tell you that you should consider the use of open source software.
It *is* the business of governments to regulate how government sector organisations purchase software. They aren't trying to tell *you* what to buy... unless you are a government sector employee. In which case they are your employer, and *can* tell you what to buy.
I see this as affirmative action against all those government agencies that automatically think that expensive, multi-national-owned software is intrinsically better than open source, or locally produced stuff from small vendors.
There are plenty of government managers who get their kudos from spending lots of tax-payers' dollars on big-budget projects, when something much more modest would do the job... at a far lower cost. But then the manager wouldn't be able to say, "I have a bigger budget than you!" This legislation helps, a little, to counteract some of this waste.
When I was 9-11 years old, I lived in the US and attended two years of elementary school in California. No one suggested to me that - as an Australian citizen - I could get out of pledging allegiance to the US flag. So I made up my own words - usually I pledged allegiance to the flag of the Confederate States of America (I was into American Civil War history in those days). In all the mumbling and muttering of words by my classmates, no one noticed what I said.
Moral is: do you really know what other people are saying, when they are supposed to be reciting the pledge?
PS: to an Australian, you all sound like you are saying "one nation under guard" (we don't pronounce the 'r' in guard). An interesting thought to those concerned about militarism.
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who like to divide people into two kinds, and those who think dividing people into two kinds is stupid!
"panelists agreed that SCO is targeting companies like IBM in an attempt to raise cash."... in stark contrast to every other corporation in the world that is in existence to better humanity.
no... in stark contrast to lots of other corporations in the world that *provide goods and services* in an attempt to raise cash.
"If you have enough in house talent to not need RH support, why are you even using RH?"
Or... "If you have enough in house talent to not need RH support, why are you even asking Slashdot?" Shouldn't you be asking your "in house talent"? If you need to ask someone else...
Actually, the Constitution doesn't protect your rights - the courts are supposed to do that. The Constitution merely lists the rights that the courts OUGHT to protect. If the courts fail you, the Constitution is just a piece of paper with some nice autographs on it.
Even getting his name right can require special interpretation skills.
I remember listening to an Australian radio news reporter saying that the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr "Shetriong", was visiting Australia. I wondered if there had been a change of government in Canada until I realised that the reporter was trying to pronounce "Chretien".
The reporter should have asked someone how to pronounce it. It just stuck in my mind, because our news readers often go overboard trying to pronounce non-English names with an authentic foreign accent and everything.
I know if I write it bad enough, I could write a C program that would allocate 9M of memory and have the only functional thing it does is be to print out "Hello world."
My absolute pet gripe: sites that don't display the SIZE of a download beforehand, but make you fill in long questionnaires before you can find out how big the file is (2 MB, 20MB, 200MB?).
I HATE having to wade through pages of "fill in this form with 18 pages, wanting your address, what size is your organisation, are you an important person, yada, yada", just to find that the download file is absurdly large, designed for somebody with T1, and totally out of the question for anyone with dial-up (yes, in some countries dial-up is still QUITE COMMON).
Just recently I thought I was looking at a programmer's text editor - it turned out to be over 50 Meg in size. But I couldn't find this out until I began downloading - and I didn't have sufficient HOURS to spend just trying to get this software for testing.
It really is simple: on your download page - before you get them to wade through your 32 page questionnaire and registration form - just give a ballpark figure like this: Floogle 1.1.1 (53MB). Readers can instantly decide whether to go any further.
Microsoft losing would be good here, not because we don't like Microsoft, but because it could be a good high profile publicly visible example of how the patent system is utterly broken.
Yes, and those smiles on our faces aren't because we are happy about Microsoft losing, but because it is better for our face muscles if we don't frown.
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I can understand why Martians would come to Morocco - it is a lot warmer in Morocco, but it still looks like Mars.
Actually, it was annoying the first time, too.
And they forgot to mention that IBM is counter-suing SCO, and I think IBM's case against SCO is a lot more water-tight than SCO's case against IBM or Linux: Lanham Act, breech of patents, breech of copyright (SCO has no other permission besides the GPL for distributing *any* IBM-copyrighted code in the Linux kernel - not to mention everyone else's code.)
And of course, SCO has failed to inform either its investors or the SEC of its vulnerability to copyright disputes from Novell.
I pay $AU40 per month for 256/64, with a 2 GB limit ($AU6 per GB thereafter) - that is about $US30 and $US4.50 respectively. But with the way the US dollar is going ...
And no, I am NOT with Telstra BigPond.
Now that software can recognise banknotes, how long will it be before your computer starts demanding money from you!
"I said, gimme a $50 - not a $5!"
You know those "asteroids" that wiped out 70-90% of life on earth, back in Permian and dinosaur times? Maybe they were just some kids on some distant, really advanced planets trying out their new ray-gun toys.
"Whoops. I didn't know it was loaded."
"You really ought to be more careful, son. One day you might hit a planet that's valuable."
Yeah, imagine if all aliens wanted to talk about was Britney Spears!
I cannot believe that Google, in their review of the year, made such a huge error as the following:
"The annual Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at Roland Garros in Paris each spring."
Umm, folks, the Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at *Wimbledon* in England. The *French Open* Tennis Tournament is what takes place at Roland Garros in Paris.
Next they'll be saying that the American Open tennis tournament takes place in London, and the Australian Open in New York.
comments added, new error numbers, but the file itself doesn't look any diffferent
Wow, they must have used invisible ink!
Let's see if I've got this right.
You've got cancer. You take this medicine. Your cancer catches a cold, but you don't.
So now you have a cancer inside you AND it's got a runny nose, the sniffles, and coughs a lot.
And this is an improvement on just having cancer.
I don't think it is the business of government to tell you that you should consider the use of open source software.
... unless you are a government sector employee. In which case they are your employer, and *can* tell you what to buy.
... at a far lower cost. But then the manager wouldn't be able to say, "I have a bigger budget than you!" This legislation helps, a little, to counteract some of this waste.
It *is* the business of governments to regulate how government sector organisations purchase software. They aren't trying to tell *you* what to buy
I see this as affirmative action against all those government agencies that automatically think that expensive, multi-national-owned software is intrinsically better than open source, or locally produced stuff from small vendors.
There are plenty of government managers who get their kudos from spending lots of tax-payers' dollars on big-budget projects, when something much more modest would do the job
When I was 9-11 years old, I lived in the US and attended two years of elementary school in California. No one suggested to me that - as an Australian citizen - I could get out of pledging allegiance to the US flag. So I made up my own words - usually I pledged allegiance to the flag of the Confederate States of America (I was into American Civil War history in those days). In all the mumbling and muttering of words by my classmates, no one noticed what I said.
Moral is: do you really know what other people are saying, when they are supposed to be reciting the pledge?
PS: to an Australian, you all sound like you are saying "one nation under guard" (we don't pronounce the 'r' in guard). An interesting thought to those concerned about militarism.
Engine-powered, heavier-than-air flight has now been uninvented?
Losing a case about software patents is something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy ... hang on, it's MS ... hmm, let me think about this a little.
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who like to divide people into two kinds, and those who think dividing people into two kinds is stupid!
"panelists agreed that SCO is targeting companies like IBM in an attempt to raise cash." ... in stark contrast to every other corporation in the world that is in existence to better humanity.
no ... in stark contrast to lots of other corporations in the world that *provide goods and services* in an attempt to raise cash.
"If you have enough in house talent to not need RH support, why are you even using RH?"
Or ... "If you have enough in house talent to not need RH support, why are you even asking Slashdot?" Shouldn't you be asking your "in house talent"? If you need to ask someone else ...
Actually, the Constitution doesn't protect your rights - the courts are supposed to do that. The Constitution merely lists the rights that the courts OUGHT to protect. If the courts fail you, the Constitution is just a piece of paper with some nice autographs on it.
Why do the peaceniks never ask Hussein to step down and free the country?
Wow! So all we have to do is ask Bush to step down, and we can free the US too?
Even getting his name right can require special interpretation skills.
I remember listening to an Australian radio news reporter saying that the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr "Shetriong", was visiting Australia. I wondered if there had been a change of government in Canada until I realised that the reporter was trying to pronounce "Chretien".
The reporter should have asked someone how to pronounce it. It just stuck in my mind, because our news readers often go overboard trying to pronounce non-English names with an authentic foreign accent and everything.
Itanium is too expensive, and isn't that fast, nor does it have the really attractive property of other Intel CPU's: volume.
And.. Mac "is too expensive, and isn't that fast, nor does it have the really attractive property of other [PCs]: volume."
Hmmm... sounds like a perfect fit to me.
Hell, they're still running around like a two-year-old, grabbing everything and yelling "MINE!"
But that is what people do when they are middle-aged. I know I do.
Ever since I had children, I spent more time watching children's movies, and reading children's books, than I ever did when I was a child.
I'm so excited that the next Harry Potter book is coming out - and I have never seen the Matrix, only Monsters, Inc.
(You think I'm joking - just you wait.)
Middle age IS the new childhood.
I know if I write it bad enough, I could write a C program that would allocate 9M of memory and have the only functional thing it does is be to print out "Hello world."
Here: I'll save you the trouble:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
char *wastemem = malloc(9*1024*1024);
printf("Hello world.");
return 0;
}
We could add in a call to wait a few seconds too, if you want it to run more slowly.
My absolute pet gripe: sites that don't display the SIZE of a download beforehand, but make you fill in long questionnaires before you can find out how big the file is (2 MB, 20MB, 200MB?).
I HATE having to wade through pages of "fill in this form with 18 pages, wanting your address, what size is your organisation, are you an important person, yada, yada", just to find that the download file is absurdly large, designed for somebody with T1, and totally out of the question for anyone with dial-up (yes, in some countries dial-up is still QUITE COMMON).
Just recently I thought I was looking at a programmer's text editor - it turned out to be over 50 Meg in size. But I couldn't find this out until I began downloading - and I didn't have sufficient HOURS to spend just trying to get this software for testing.
It really is simple: on your download page - before you get them to wade through your 32 page questionnaire and registration form - just give a ballpark figure like this: Floogle 1.1.1 (53MB). Readers can instantly decide whether to go any further.
Microsoft losing would be good here, not because we don't like Microsoft, but because it could be a good high profile publicly visible example of how the patent system is utterly broken.
Yes, and those smiles on our faces aren't because we are happy about Microsoft losing, but because it is better for our face muscles if we don't frown.