No one of the important ideas of a company is (i forget the economics term) limitation of liability. You don't lose your house because of a company going under. Thats important for corporations.
But phoenix companies, those that go under with debts and immediately start again are dangerous for consumers and future creditors. The guy was the founder of the previous company.
If the old business wasn't profitable and had enough debts to be bankrupt. Why is pretty much the same business going to be better now.
Isn't this unethical behaviour. They obviously have debts, i.e. creditors. The creditors get nothing, but the same company has basically started again. These sort of phoenix companies are dangerous to investors and consumers. And when consumers get burnt there is an outrage.
What is different here, except you guys think they are the good guys?
Does anyone else in the world think that releasing this much anger into the world is a bad idea in general.
It must be having a karmic effect somewhere. Like thousands of cute puppy dogs are being born into the world this very minute. Probably Korea, so they won't get to outgrow the cute stage!
Probably because they try to reuse options from there standard equivalants where possible (rsh & cp?). So ssh came first, used -p. scp came next and -p is used to preserve permissions etc.
I believe there are limitations on what stations can do. This probably includes things like not posting a playlist in advance.
In australia I'm pretty sure it limits the number of songs from one artist (or is it album), you can play in a row. To stop people taping a whole album from radio etc.
This is like a final roll of the dice for SCO, with everything on the table. But its still a good idea. They don't really have any valuable IP, they can't compete with IBM, Solaris or Linux in the OS markets.
The were slowly pissing money away on Linux development, something they were obviously not doing well on.
What they did have was a remote chance of making a lot of money by suing IBM. So maybe they have a 30% chance of winning the case, in that case they will do very well.
But instead of being 100% sure of making 50M from licensing. They now have 30% chance of making up to 3 Billion. Economically it makes sense.
If they lose they have just sped up the death spiral.
For example, I do not see how things would become much more dangerous in Java if you added a delete operator to complement the new operator.
Please don't ever get involved with the JCP. Java GC may not always work perfectly but it removes a lot of bugs and save a lot of effort.
Your suggestion would reintroduce those kind of bugs which show up as runtime errors in any part of the code. They would be really hard to track down, and even harder to ensure correctness of multi threaded code.
So, basically Phoenix changed it's name from one that is already taken by a BIOS Maker that can sue, to the name of another OSS product that can't.
Its not a legal matter as far as I'm concerned. Comes down to fact that AOL staff didn't have the imagination to think up a name of their own. So they took one that they know they can stomp all over and make it theirs.
Is this the respect different OSS projects show each other, or only when they are actually heartless multinationals is disguise.
Maybe the focus on new development techniques (patterns, xp) rather than new languages is because entrenched programming languages are not going to be discarded any more?
I can't see people suddenly stopping programming in C, C++, or Java. A new language to gain widespread acceptance needs a huge library or backwards compatibility. Microsoft provided the libraries for.NET, It would of struggled without them.
So maybe the focus over time is going to be in things like AOP, XP and Patterns which don't replace the current languages, but make programmers more efficient and allow them to deal with the continually increasing complexity of these systems.
Then again maybe the next big jump was web services. They make the programming language an implementation detail.
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That's not OO programming, thats a useless programmer, who wastes more time and creates more bugs than a perl programmer just made redundant.
A good OO design would of encapsulated the functionality in a small class. not thousands of lines, just a few more.
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Mänti - Estonian - English
Mänti - Mänd - Evergreen Tree
Ema - Ema - Mother
Päike - Päike - Sun
päive - päev - Day
Not too much of a breakthrough
I think abuse of this sort of thing should be regulated.
But I don't want the government stopping political messages from getting to me. Democracy is more important than stopping a few messages.
Good Mac Apps are not written in Swing/SWT/GTK.
.Net apps and port them to Mac.
Thats why Cocoa# is so important. You can take existing
Spam is unsolicited, so google should filter none of his mail.
This guy solicited it.
I mean asking slashdot for legal advice is bad enough.
Asking slashdot for parenting advice is amazingly funny.
Next up, dating advice.
partner=GOOGLE in the url.
news.google can link directly to articles. I guess its the same technique.
Is anyone else thinking of Bill Gates trying to be cool kind of like the Simpson's episode where Hans Moleman was pretending to be Bart?
No one of the important ideas of a company is (i forget the economics term) limitation of liability. You don't lose your house because of a company going under. Thats important for corporations.
But phoenix companies, those that go under with debts and immediately start again are dangerous for consumers and future creditors. The guy was the founder of the previous company.
If the old business wasn't profitable and had enough debts to be bankrupt. Why is pretty much the same business going to be better now.
"Founding father of Trustix Secure Linux, Erlend Midttun"
from the press release
Warning: didn't read article, just the post.
Isn't this unethical behaviour. They obviously have debts, i.e. creditors. The creditors get nothing, but the same company has basically started again. These sort of phoenix companies are dangerous to investors and consumers. And when consumers get burnt there is an outrage.
What is different here, except you guys think they are the good guys?
As long as you trust their staff, not to abuse your privacy.
Well for one thing the phone only needs to be a spot microphone and tiny earpiece. Everything else in the phone, basically is pda.
So why not just a pda that has bluetooth and gsm/3G built in.
Who wants two devices to lose.
Thats outrageous, now they have my passwords as well.
What you guys don't use your social security and bank account numbers as passwords?
Does anyone else in the world think that releasing this much anger into the world is a bad idea in general.
It must be having a karmic effect somewhere. Like thousands of cute puppy dogs are being born into the world this very minute. Probably Korea, so they won't get to outgrow the cute stage!
Probably because they try to reuse options from there standard equivalants where possible (rsh & cp?). So ssh came first, used -p. scp came next and -p is used to preserve permissions etc.
But haven't you just taken out the cd player to install this thing?
But maybe it could work (with extra cabling) with a cd stacker.
I believe there are limitations on what stations can do. This probably includes things like not posting a playlist in advance.
In australia I'm pretty sure it limits the number of songs from one artist (or is it album), you can play in a row. To stop people taping a whole album from radio etc.
This is like a final roll of the dice for SCO, with everything on the table. But its still a good idea. They don't really have any valuable IP, they can't compete with IBM, Solaris or Linux in the OS markets.
The were slowly pissing money away on Linux development, something they were obviously not doing well on.
What they did have was a remote chance of making a lot of money by suing IBM. So maybe they have a 30% chance of winning the case, in that case they will do very well.
But instead of being 100% sure of making 50M from licensing. They now have 30% chance of making up to 3 Billion. Economically it makes sense.
If they lose they have just sped up the death spiral.
Don't open this link with IE. Microsoft seems to let any sort of code run in IE.
I wouldn't be surprised if a plain text assembly program is compiled and executed as a "feature".
For example, I do not see how things would become much more dangerous in Java if you added a delete operator to complement the new operator. Please don't ever get involved with the JCP. Java GC may not always work perfectly but it removes a lot of bugs and save a lot of effort. Your suggestion would reintroduce those kind of bugs which show up as runtime errors in any part of the code. They would be really hard to track down, and even harder to ensure correctness of multi threaded code.
Is it healthy everytime some slashdot article starts a mailbombing of whoever the latest hate target is?
So, basically Phoenix changed it's name from one that is already taken by a BIOS Maker that can sue, to the name of another OSS product that can't.
Its not a legal matter as far as I'm concerned. Comes down to fact that AOL staff didn't have the imagination to think up a name of their own. So they took one that they know they can stomp all over and make it theirs.
Is this the respect different OSS projects show each other, or only when they are actually heartless multinationals is disguise.
Linux isn't a viable platform, both because of the small number of desktop users and probably also because they are less likely to pay for software.
Would be interesting to know if any companies test to make sure their games run fine WITH wine under linux.
Going further, it would be good to see games that are published with acknowledged Wine Support.
Maybe the focus on new development techniques (patterns, xp) rather than new languages is because entrenched programming languages are not going to be discarded any more?
.NET, It would of struggled without them.
I can't see people suddenly stopping programming in C, C++, or Java. A new language to gain widespread acceptance needs a huge library or backwards compatibility. Microsoft provided the libraries for
So maybe the focus over time is going to be in things like AOP, XP and Patterns which don't replace the current languages, but make programmers more efficient and allow them to deal with the continually increasing complexity of these systems.
Then again maybe the next big jump was web services. They make the programming language an implementation detail.
That's not OO programming, thats a useless programmer, who wastes more time and creates more bugs than a perl programmer just made redundant.
A good OO design would of encapsulated the functionality in a small class. not thousands of lines, just a few more.