Yes I agree, that's really what I wanted to say, PR/marketing etc aren;t sciences but they're persued as if they were and are generally highly overestimated IMHO. Marketing cloud == lots of $$ || many voices. Should have made that point.
One can dabble about form, tone, and words for weeks, but when it comes down to it, what matters if you have something viable to say.
If not, that's where PR breaks down, (see Dubya).. its presumed you have good things to say, then it'll work or at least not backlash. Please keep in mind this is MBA level stuff.
That's also why PR for damage control after something went wrong is wasted money from the start. It always breaks down. But they'll spend it anyway. The lesser of sciences tend to have the strongest dogma's. And this PR/MBA stuff is certainly a disgrace to science to be ranked with it.
This stuff looks more like a wannabee's homework though. Funny to read I must say.
"I think the US is more preparing for radioactive fallouts from "dirty" bombs"
I don't think so. A dirty bomb could be anything. It's better compared to conventionally exploding rad waste to make it disperse than to a nuclear explosion.
There are basically only a few types of nukes and by looking at the composition of fission products (iodine, cesium and a whole lot more) as well as transuranics (uranium, plutonium and heavier isotopes) it's likely that they can work back to the materials used.
Add to that that you can bet they know all about other countries' bomb designs and specs, or at least quite a lot, then yes it's not a stretch that one can trace where it (originally) came from. Think former soviet states, or even the US itself. It's assumed there is a black market and weapon trade seems to be booming, one wonders why...
The bright side is that a nuke might be not worth it in terms of scale and complexity for a terrorist group although it would depend on who's on who's payroll. It's my sad opinion that if the puppet masters want it to happen, it will.
If interested on my site at www.ricin.com/nuke is some (older) stuff about nuclear proliferation and safeguards. I was laughed at in 1996 by the same kind of people who are now on the fearmongering warwhipping police-us-more-please trip. Specifically the idea of a dirty bomb was considered ludricous. How times change.
"BSD follows the anything you can take is your philosophy"
No, it's based on copyright just like the GPL, though worded differently and more geared towards the "NO WARRANTY" litigation protection. But it certainly requires copyright to be respected and attributed in a visible way, at least in the source code and for the original author.
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
Couldn't resist: "It only takes 2 years of utter submission for a 3rd world "world citizen" to reject both"
Other than that, you make a great point, even if the firefox logo looks very different, it's still very questionable if we should want to go along with this legal branding because ultimately any idea comes from another idea, just like todays copyright police has been spoonded upon piracy in the past.
Incredible how everyone talks about MS being (perhaps) the one pulling the ropes. Of course MS and IBM were and are arch enemies, but anyone who doesn't understand by now that Canopy's business is litigation (perhaps by proxy) might want to go live in a cave. They seem to be doing this kind of thing all the time.
They fucking wrote the cookbook here and it's time their MBA asses got dragged into this SCO soap much more prominently than has happened up until now. Expose them for what they are and stay as far of their bed as you can (hello TrollTech). Once you're sound asleep they'll have a buddy screwing you over.
Small time criminals do the ground work for the bigger ones which do the groundwork for bigger ones,... etc. I tell you: watch Canopy.
Sure. Earth was a 7 day contract. He did Mars to get some practice, and Venus out of curiosity ("Hmm, let's have more greenhouse effect"). Mercury, well, we all get drunk now and then. And as for the giant planets, He's still looking for whoever it was that misappropriated His IP.
(In my defense: Well, what do you expect with a story that says there's going to be a story...)
That's the message here. I'm more interested in seeing how Verisign is going to respond to massive rejection by those who run nameservers. That hasn't disappeared.
That's unless ISC/BIND at one point gives in. No, that would never happen, they wouldn't, would they? Or would they? Of course I'm talking binary distribution here, source is easily patched.
Correction to the hint above: should have included the sentence before that one as well that claims that this is because of Apple's contribution to the codebase.
Please name 5 specific examples of important contributions from Apple to the FreeBSD kernel or userland.
Hint: "The advanced VM and SMP code that allows Mac OS X to run so efficiently is the very same code that finally put FreeBSD on the level with Linux" is sheer nonsense. But I'll let you humor me and come with some example commits. Links to cvsweb or something would be nice.
OK without RTFA,, Sun does alright as it iit seems
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It's more important to get binary packages qualified (FreeBSD...). But other than that, come on, Java can be used pretty much unencumbered. What's the problem for end user apps?
Heck look at the wave of new cellphones, they all have Java and Real as far as I'm aware. This is also where the DRM fight is going to be, not on your PC (otherwise I don't use the little plastic critters at all -- don't ask me).
Yes, in KDE "Launch pager", in its config set "classic mode" and "pixmap". I see my 4 virtual desktops in one window showing their window's contents (snapshot) and I can select windows or move them around. Put that into full screen and you basically have the same thing.
Kinda funny, a bit like a box in a box in a box... etc
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Yes, unions are badly, sorely needed in IT. Then again, people get what they deserve I reckon. It's not like they didn't have the skills to do it.
+N Informative. Folks?
So ypu can afford any principles later.
Sad but true.
Yes I agree, that's really what I wanted to say, PR/marketing etc aren;t sciences but they're persued as if they were and are generally highly overestimated IMHO. Marketing cloud == lots of $$ || many voices. Should have made that point.
Thanks for your response.
One can dabble about form, tone, and words for weeks, but when it comes down to it, what matters if you have something viable to say.
.. its presumed you have good things to say, then it'll work or at least not backlash. Please keep in mind this is MBA level stuff.
If not, that's where PR breaks down, (see Dubya)
That's also why PR for damage control after something went wrong is wasted money from the start. It always breaks down. But they'll spend it anyway. The lesser of sciences tend to have the strongest dogma's. And this PR/MBA stuff is certainly a disgrace to science to be ranked with it.
This stuff looks more like a wannabee's homework though. Funny to read I must say.
"I think the US is more preparing for radioactive fallouts from "dirty" bombs"
I don't think so. A dirty bomb could be anything. It's better compared to conventionally exploding rad waste to make it disperse than to a nuclear explosion.
There are basically only a few types of nukes and by looking at the composition of fission products (iodine, cesium and a whole lot more) as well as transuranics (uranium, plutonium and heavier isotopes) it's likely that they can work back to the materials used.
Add to that that you can bet they know all about other countries' bomb designs and specs, or at least quite a lot, then yes it's not a stretch that one can trace where it (originally) came from. Think former soviet states, or even the US itself. It's assumed there is a black market and weapon trade seems to be booming, one wonders why...
The bright side is that a nuke might be not worth it in terms of scale and complexity for a terrorist group although it would depend on who's on who's payroll. It's my sad opinion that if the puppet masters want it to happen, it will.
If interested on my site at www.ricin.com/nuke is some (older) stuff about nuclear proliferation and safeguards. I was laughed at in 1996 by the same kind of people who are now on the fearmongering warwhipping police-us-more-please trip. Specifically the idea of a dirty bomb was considered ludricous. How times change.
"BSD follows the anything you can take is your philosophy"
No, it's based on copyright just like the GPL, though worded differently and more geared towards the "NO WARRANTY" litigation protection.
But it certainly requires copyright to be respected and attributed in a visible way, at least in the source code and for the original author.
Hear hear!
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
Couldn't resist: "It only takes 2 years of utter submission for a 3rd world "world citizen" to reject both"
Other than that, you make a great point, even if the firefox logo looks very different, it's still very questionable if we should want to go along with this legal branding because ultimately any idea comes from another idea, just like todays copyright police has been spoonded upon piracy in the past.
Good point.
Incredible how everyone talks about MS being (perhaps) the one pulling the ropes. Of course MS and IBM were and are arch enemies, but anyone who doesn't understand by now that Canopy's business is litigation (perhaps by proxy) might want to go live in a cave. They seem to be doing this kind of thing all the time.
... etc. I tell you: watch Canopy.
They fucking wrote the cookbook here and it's time their MBA asses got dragged into this SCO soap much more prominently than has happened up until now. Expose them for what they are and stay as far of their bed as you can (hello TrollTech). Once you're sound asleep they'll have a buddy screwing you over.
Small time criminals do the ground work for the bigger ones which do the groundwork for bigger ones,
and pull one or two other "major" stunts like today... my gut tells me they're very close to contempt here. That would be a laugh.
Sure. Earth was a 7 day contract. He did Mars to get some practice, and Venus out of curiosity ("Hmm, let's have more greenhouse effect"). Mercury, well, we all get drunk now and then. And as for the giant planets, He's still looking for whoever it was that misappropriated His IP.
(In my defense: Well, what do you expect with a story that says there's going to be a story...)
"Finally, is it just me or does Ballmer look really evil in that photo [thestar.com]?"
Ah, we knew who the apprentice was (Darl), finally we see who the master is *shiver*
That's the message here. I'm more interested in seeing how Verisign is going to respond to massive rejection by those who run nameservers. That hasn't disappeared.
That's unless ISC/BIND at one point gives in. No, that would never happen, they wouldn't, would they? Or would they? Of course I'm talking binary distribution here, source is easily patched.
I'll stick with DJB in the meantime.
Correction to the hint above: should have included the sentence before that one as well that claims that this is because of Apple's contribution to the codebase.
Please name 5 specific examples of important contributions from Apple to the FreeBSD kernel or userland.
Hint: "The advanced VM and SMP code that allows Mac OS X to run so efficiently is the very same code that finally put FreeBSD on the level with Linux" is sheer nonsense. But I'll let you humor me and come with some example commits. Links to cvsweb or something would be nice.
Shows that people ought to buy a python book for Sunday afternoons :)
Thanks, very interesting.
"Knows stuff"
That was all
It's more important to get binary packages qualified (FreeBSD...). But other than that, come on, Java can be used pretty much unencumbered. What's the problem for end user apps?
Heck look at the wave of new cellphones, they all have Java and Real as far as I'm aware. This is also where the DRM fight is going to be, not on your PC (otherwise I don't use the little plastic critters at all -- don't ask me).
Yes, in KDE "Launch pager", in its config set "classic mode" and "pixmap". I see my 4 virtual desktops in one window showing their window's contents (snapshot) and I can select windows or move them around. Put that into full screen and you basically have the same thing.
Kinda funny, a bit like a box in a box in a box... etc
sell something under legal dispute or based upon that (that is after the dispute has already started)?
Up until now I assumed that this was the reason why they didn't have any "small" licences for purchase.
Since they're fishing a lot anyway lately, perhaps this is the fishing-for-suckers expedition. I'm afraid it quite a few will bite.
Sidenote: I have Caldera 1.4 and 2.2 CDs; will they get me a free SCO license?
I think the influx of new users I notice moving to FreeBSD (often coming from RedHat or such) is sorta the same effect.
We might be heading for "Open Source" vs "Open Source Inc" becoming the great divide after MS goes down or during the same period.
Who would have thought...
I remembered the first two off the top of my head :)