The court did give CRIA a legal-wedgie, but that was mainly because they were remote-controlled dummies of the RIAA. When they are finally ready to play by Canadian rules, I wouldn't expect the rematch to be as one-sided.
What do research, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors have to do with copyrights? They use trade secrets and patents. Scrapping copyright would be a Bad Thing, but there's no need to outrageously state your case.
Combine it with the Wireless Beer Pitcher Monitoring System and Pizza ordering, and you've got a system that would make the Deliverator (Snow Crash) look pretty tame.
Well that could be fun. Microsoft always uses a pizza ordering system for their speech technology examples like Agent (talking Clippyoids) or telephony.
I doubt SCO had more IT workers than they were contractually obligated to have for tech support. (Assuming there are still any large SCO installations out there.) Anyone there who hasn't been shopping their resume for months must have been scavenging the crack left-overs from the boardroom.
Not that smart or they wouldn't have invested in the first place. Sure, buying SCOX at the start of this freak-show then selling it at the peak could have made a lot of money, but as I recall, RBC got into this fairly late.
"Well, I think we'll do a little better in the short-term because of deals we've already signed. After that, it's a little hazy and depends on memory prices and stuff like that. At least it's better than all that insider stock-trading we had, right?"
Yeah, that should increase investor confidence and get him that raise next year...:^)
I dunno, what's all that 666 and FU in the file name? (Just kidding. I've used it before with no problems, although I don't like to keep an active scanner going all the time on my own machine. The idea is to block the paths a virus could enter, not hope that the scanner catches it.)
They're going to turn it into a new Reality TV show called ComCast. Each week they fire a bunch of people, and in the end, the 100 survivors get relocated to LA.
The Ratings dept said that shows about people getting fired will be the Next Big Thing!
Slight addition: These companies didn't want to pay us after we tried to screw them with our submarine patents. (More like the ole Poison Apple Ploy.)
It's not like anyone had to have secret meetings and illicit agreements to all decide that Rambus were jerks that they didn't want to do business with. Rambus burned all their trust and goodwill and are now suing because no one likes them or trusts them. Boo-hoo.
You might want to expand on what you mean by "pan off someone elses work". Did they claim that it was their software? Or did they offer something like services to install and support Linux, Apache or some other package?
The first is, of course, wrong. The second is the new economic model of how people are supposed to earn a living in the OSS world.
From the description, one of the greatest assets of the event was that Linux users, seeing that the organizers were being swamped, pitched in and volunteered. In Egypt, would a Windows-based event had anywhere near as much spirit?
It's handy to use for Usenet posting, a web site contact address or one-shot subscription signups. People can get in touch, and if I want to, I can shift communication over to a real mailbox. And every four years when the account gets joe-jobbed by a spammer or nut cult, I just open the next account in sequence. (I'd better update my/. journal.)
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I can't wait for some patronizing idiot to complain about bringing Internet access to the wild people of New York...
We do no favour to the
New Yorkers by giving them computers and introducing them to the Internet.
In view of the clearly manipulated photograph in the report on the Dow Brigade site, I had hoped that the story was a hoax.
The report was that an unnamed charity organisation had given laptop computers to the New York tribe and taught them to type.
My reaction to the reports, all of which lack background details, is one of scorn. The fact that these people live only 100km from Long Island does not mean that they need our visits. I do not know the tribe, but possibly, they had not seen more developed people before. After all 100km is a long way in NYC traffic. How far can you walk in a day and in which direction would you set out? You might not even like what you find!
As a traveller (I did not say tourist), one learns to respect the differences in the different cultures. This maxim is even more important for people already living abroad.
An underdeveloped tribe like the New Yorkers has no benefit from the Internet and should be left alone. No charity organisation has a right to infiltrate their ranks in this manner. I will attempt to contact the charity concerned.
I think it is highly uncivilised of us to impose what we call 'our culture' on them. Cultural diversity makes this world so interesting. The New Yorkers have their own culture. Please leave them alone.
First the RIAA would have to prove that some human being wrote that tune. They can't. It was stolen from cthonic flute players in the city of R'lyeh. From the rough translation in the Necrotelecominon the lyrics of the song are "Flee in terror! The Great Old Ones have returned.. with 39 flavours!"
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The court did give CRIA a legal-wedgie, but that was mainly because they were remote-controlled dummies of the RIAA. When they are finally ready to play by Canadian rules, I wouldn't expect the rematch to be as one-sided.
What do research, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors have to do with copyrights? They use trade secrets and patents. Scrapping copyright would be a Bad Thing, but there's no need to outrageously state your case.
And an evil twin with amnesia who faked his own death.
Watch for them building sandtraps around important buildings--and outlawing 7-irons.
And scan that 'Strangely warm' damp spacesuit to figure out where all the moisture came from.
Combine it with the Wireless Beer Pitcher Monitoring System and Pizza ordering, and you've got a system that would make the Deliverator (Snow Crash) look pretty tame.
All that in one project? What's he building, an SCV?
Combined with the Slashdot articles on Build Your Own Cruise Missle, I'm good to go!
Never mind that. What happens when someone ports it to Windows and someone else releases the PizzaBlaster worm?
Well that could be fun. Microsoft always uses a pizza ordering system for their speech technology examples like Agent (talking Clippyoids) or telephony.
I doubt SCO had more IT workers than they were contractually obligated to have for tech support. (Assuming there are still any large SCO installations out there.) Anyone there who hasn't been shopping their resume for months must have been scavenging the crack left-overs from the boardroom.
Not that smart or they wouldn't have invested in the first place. Sure, buying SCOX at the start of this freak-show then selling it at the peak could have made a lot of money, but as I recall, RBC got into this fairly late.
I knew there must be a pony in there somewhere.
Yeah, that should increase investor confidence and get him that raise next year... :^)
I dunno, what's all that 666 and FU in the file name? (Just kidding. I've used it before with no problems, although I don't like to keep an active scanner going all the time on my own machine. The idea is to block the paths a virus could enter, not hope that the scanner catches it.)
The Ratings dept said that shows about people getting fired will be the Next Big Thing!
It's not like anyone had to have secret meetings and illicit agreements to all decide that Rambus were jerks that they didn't want to do business with. Rambus burned all their trust and goodwill and are now suing because no one likes them or trusts them. Boo-hoo.
Hey hey--while Darl and SCO are talented at stupidity, they're just amateurs. RAMBUS are professionals and are into stupidity for the long-haul.
Maybe he was too busy working on Land of the Lost? :^) (That show had quite an array of writers but ad-hoc changes were common.)
Too bad there was no questionnaire that graded the managers that applied systems like that. (The Aerial Stunt-Pig Show will be in town first.)
The first is, of course, wrong. The second is the new economic model of how people are supposed to earn a living in the OSS world.
From the description, one of the greatest assets of the event was that Linux users, seeing that the organizers were being swamped, pitched in and volunteered. In Egypt, would a Windows-based event had anywhere near as much spirit?
It's handy to use for Usenet posting, a web site contact address or one-shot subscription signups. People can get in touch, and if I want to, I can shift communication over to a real mailbox. And every four years when the account gets joe-jobbed by a spammer or nut cult, I just open the next account in sequence. (I'd better update my /. journal.)
First the RIAA would have to prove that some human being wrote that tune. They can't. It was stolen from cthonic flute players in the city of R'lyeh. From the rough translation in the Necrotelecominon the lyrics of the song are "Flee in terror! The Great Old Ones have returned .. with 39 flavours!"