Sure this letter is really open? No strings? Will I be sued if I don't include parts of this letter into my own?
No strings at all! (That is, as long as you pay me $699.00, but only if you didn't know you had to pay me $699.00 until after you've been reading it for 12 years and I said you could read it for free 5 years ago. All rights reserved LLC Inc. Copyright.)
Seems there are some problems getting even sales people at SCO to answer the phone.
well clearly sco is under legal obligation not to psychologically damage its salespeople, so i'm sure they're all on sick leave after 1 day of harassing phone calls. pity the poor salespeople, they didn't create Darl!
Seriously, from the list of features, it sounds like "one of their cell phones, one of their cell phones, one of their cell phones, OOOH a PVR!" It seems as though they may not pay enough attention to the meat and potatoes, and instead ported their cellphone to a PVR encoder...
well, it might be too much processing overhead for the little bloke to do. Many of linksys' products (including this one?) run linux out of the box, so it's not a question of Linksys being unable to do it. However, perhaps they stick to the 802.11 encryption standards because that's all MS products support at this time...
Good observation though, but also if you're transferring sensitive data, you'll want encrypted communication end-to-end because you can just as easily be snooped on anywhere on the net if someone's actually trying to usurp your data.
I think this would make an excellent platform for the next XBox or any sort of PC-hardware-based game console. It runs cool and fast as the dickens! (I'd say it'd be a much better option than a very hot and power-hungry AMD or Pentium 4 solution).
I have a Pentium M notebook and I absolutely love it:-)
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"The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns the intellectual property rights to it"
Isn't that an ironic sentence? Didn't the world move *from* a unix operating environment 15 years ago? God bless those that stuck through:-)
The SEC can think what they like about the gov't etc, but their job *is* to stop insider trading and scams such as specifically hyping the stock with lies and making a bundle off the suckers who ride the rumors.
I don't care about getting SCO with a fraud lawsuit. It doesn't seem to me like they're a company with any sort of killer app anyway. Mostly harmless, except for this stuff.
But as people have pointed out, upper management at SCO is making off like kings with this. Their stock soared and they all dumped. Isn't this antitrust, hardcore? Using false information to inflate their stock, and then all the insiders dumping it at its peak because they know it's going to crash down at the same time as the lawsuit? This kind of criminal behavior is one thing that *caused* the great depression, people!
Remarkable. Darl says "there's some code in linux that is stolen, we're gonna sue, but not tell anyone what the code is." Stock goes up, Darl & henchmen sell. Fast-forward a few years, lawsuit actually gets trial time, and Darl says "oopsies! I guess that code really WAS from some Berkley Code from 1986, and also some Unix code from 1979 and 1991. Not to mention we've released it in seperate places for free. Sorry about the mixup guys, see ya!"
If he makes off without getting all that money taken away, I think we need to "slashdot effect" his house with porn, spam, packages with illegal substances, junk mail, phone calls, etc. etc.
Wha? The lameness filter wouldn't let me use caps, so let's all pretend. Wait, maybe that my post length is longer the caps/total characters ratio will be good enough?
These are excellent points. Bravo. I agree wholeheartedly with you and several other posters about how Everquest is nto an RPG and it is played differently, which already tends to sway it toward this almost "business model."
I was never a player of Everquest, but several of my friends were (unfortunately) addicted to "Evercrack". I watched them play a couple times, and it seriously was whack-a-wombat, wait for the respawn, do it again. I'm not writing for that; I'd say Everquest can't be turned into a real RPG at some point. I'm writing for newer and more exciting games that I'd love to give a try, namely Star Wars. I think that if there was a realistic virtual world with its own economy and political system, and people played their parts like in a movie, it would not be anti-social behavior but instead a new extension of society itself.
RSVP stands for please respond, so when you say Please RSVP it means "Please Respond Please." I hate to be a nitpick and don't mean to be a jerk, but this is something I hear all the time that kinda irks me! And if you don't do it for me, remember, it's one less thing for those damn Frenchies to ridicule us about (the mis-use of their language)
I was responding to the original article's remarks on relating this to gambling. Sorry if i was unclear; i meant that if this wasn't regulated, we could have 13 year olds mixed up in online money-trading activities. Right now, anyone can play Everquest, but I think it would be bad if any kid would have easy access to doing this kind of stuff with it.
Although this seems like a "new-economy" idea, I can't say I'm a big fan. Firstly, gambling is 21+ and restricted to certain zones. Secondly, this promotes very anti-social behavior--people crouching away at their computers, beating wombat after wombat to get the extra gold and items. It takes the *fun* out of the game, as well as the *realism*. RPG stand for role-playing-game, and if all you're doing is leaching off of this world to try and make the most bucks you can as your primary form of employment, you may be compromising the fun of the game for other casual gamers.
well if they did all their calculations for an 11 kilo plane that weighed 11 pounds, the only thing that would change would be the range. Level flight is level flight no matter how fat the plane, right? So no sound of a splash, unless it's in the Pacific...
Taylor says he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'"
Notice the absence of stability, reliability, and performance. Also once they get the TCOs, they should do a ratio of performance per dollar, reliability per dollar, etc. That would be a comparison worth looking at.
Although it would be horrible if Linux's "survivability" were to suffer due to SCO's barbarian business tactics, there is always the HURD project that could continue the GNU tradition. It is such a great idea from everything I've read: for example, the multi-leveled security model, and hopefully the QNX-like stability (another microkernel where one part of the kernel failure due to crashing or even a hard drive dying does not bring down the system). So the question is, if linux was killed, where would the developers go? I hope a few would go HURD... although the BSDs will survive (and are great, I use FreeBSD for my servers) they're not GNU.
However, does anyone know if the HURD's code has any SCO "IP"?? That would suck.
i'm glad your super-special system with an entirely different version of gcc can compile faster than my vanilla gcc system, but that's not how this test was conducted.
Hardware-wise it was the same system for each distro, and they listed that mandrake and gentoo are running the same exact version of gcc. So Obviously although gentoo is great, Mandrake's got some optimisation tricks thrown in to speed certain things, be them library or kernel-wise.
The point was also to compare relatively stock installs. Sure, you can argue that you can further optimize gentoo, but you can do the same for Mandrake and Debian. This test compared the out-of-the-box performance of Debian, Mandrake, and Gentoo to see if the optimisations that most Gentoo users are running (which just happen to occur "out-of-the-box") really impact the system speed.
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no matter how good their secure coding is, they're no match for the ultimate overflow: the slashdot effect!
Seriously, from the list of features, it sounds like "one of their cell phones, one of their cell phones, one of their cell phones, OOOH a PVR!" It seems as though they may not pay enough attention to the meat and potatoes, and instead ported their cellphone to a PVR encoder...
How else will I be able to look up beyond-my-reach vocabulary words like "strategery" in real-time? This is a killer app, baby!
well, it might be too much processing overhead for the little bloke to do. Many of linksys' products (including this one?) run linux out of the box, so it's not a question of Linksys being unable to do it. However, perhaps they stick to the 802.11 encryption standards because that's all MS products support at this time...
Good observation though, but also if you're transferring sensitive data, you'll want encrypted communication end-to-end because you can just as easily be snooped on anywhere on the net if someone's actually trying to usurp your data.
Hey baby, you can do my security audit anytime!
Hey, wanna go out for a FreeBSD install and a fsck?
Hey baby, bet you can't install a rootkit in my homedirectory!
:-)
Ouch, ouch, I know... well back to hungover slumber then
I think this would make an excellent platform for the next XBox or any sort of PC-hardware-based game console. It runs cool and fast as the dickens! (I'd say it'd be a much better option than a very hot and power-hungry AMD or Pentium 4 solution).
:-)
I have a Pentium M notebook and I absolutely love it
The SEC can think what they like about the gov't etc, but their job *is* to stop insider trading and scams such as specifically hyping the stock with lies and making a bundle off the suckers who ride the rumors.
dumb question, but doesn't it take 2 years to get an MBA?
I don't care about getting SCO with a fraud lawsuit. It doesn't seem to me like they're a company with any sort of killer app anyway. Mostly harmless, except for this stuff.
But as people have pointed out, upper management at SCO is making off like kings with this. Their stock soared and they all dumped. Isn't this antitrust, hardcore? Using false information to inflate their stock, and then all the insiders dumping it at its peak because they know it's going to crash down at the same time as the lawsuit? This kind of criminal behavior is one thing that *caused* the great depression, people!
Remarkable. Darl says "there's some code in linux that is stolen, we're gonna sue, but not tell anyone what the code is." Stock goes up, Darl & henchmen sell. Fast-forward a few years, lawsuit actually gets trial time, and Darl says "oopsies! I guess that code really WAS from some Berkley Code from 1986, and also some Unix code from 1979 and 1991. Not to mention we've released it in seperate places for free. Sorry about the mixup guys, see ya!"
If he makes off without getting all that money taken away, I think we need to "slashdot effect" his house with porn, spam, packages with illegal substances, junk mail, phone calls, etc. etc.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Say it with me now...
F A T A L I T Y !
Wha? The lameness filter wouldn't let me use caps, so let's all pretend. Wait, maybe that my post length is longer the caps/total characters ratio will be good enough?
These are excellent points. Bravo. I agree wholeheartedly with you and several other posters about how Everquest is nto an RPG and it is played differently, which already tends to sway it toward this almost "business model."
I was never a player of Everquest, but several of my friends were (unfortunately) addicted to "Evercrack". I watched them play a couple times, and it seriously was whack-a-wombat, wait for the respawn, do it again. I'm not writing for that; I'd say Everquest can't be turned into a real RPG at some point. I'm writing for newer and more exciting games that I'd love to give a try, namely Star Wars. I think that if there was a realistic virtual world with its own economy and political system, and people played their parts like in a movie, it would not be anti-social behavior but instead a new extension of society itself.
I was responding to the original article's remarks on relating this to gambling. Sorry if i was unclear; i meant that if this wasn't regulated, we could have 13 year olds mixed up in online money-trading activities. Right now, anyone can play Everquest, but I think it would be bad if any kid would have easy access to doing this kind of stuff with it.
Although this seems like a "new-economy" idea, I can't say I'm a big fan. Firstly, gambling is 21+ and restricted to certain zones. Secondly, this promotes very anti-social behavior--people crouching away at their computers, beating wombat after wombat to get the extra gold and items. It takes the *fun* out of the game, as well as the *realism*. RPG stand for role-playing-game, and if all you're doing is leaching off of this world to try and make the most bucks you can as your primary form of employment, you may be compromising the fun of the game for other casual gamers.
well if they did all their calculations for an 11 kilo plane that weighed 11 pounds, the only thing that would change would be the range. Level flight is level flight no matter how fat the plane, right? So no sound of a splash, unless it's in the Pacific...
this makes buying music cds seem like a bargain!
Although it would be horrible if Linux's "survivability" were to suffer due to SCO's barbarian business tactics, there is always the HURD project that could continue the GNU tradition. It is such a great idea from everything I've read: for example, the multi-leveled security model, and hopefully the QNX-like stability (another microkernel where one part of the kernel failure due to crashing or even a hard drive dying does not bring down the system). So the question is, if linux was killed, where would the developers go? I hope a few would go HURD... although the BSDs will survive (and are great, I use FreeBSD for my servers) they're not GNU.
However, does anyone know if the HURD's code has any SCO "IP"?? That would suck.
this was purely a joke aimed at the RIAA's hatred for all things non-server-oriented filesharing. but you already knew that, didn't you...
it seems to be pretty resilient to the /. effect, actually. maybe they're distributing the load using bittorrent?
i'm glad your super-special system with an entirely different version of gcc can compile faster than my vanilla gcc system, but that's not how this test was conducted.
Hardware-wise it was the same system for each distro, and they listed that mandrake and gentoo are running the same exact version of gcc. So Obviously although gentoo is great, Mandrake's got some optimisation tricks thrown in to speed certain things, be them library or kernel-wise.
The point was also to compare relatively stock installs. Sure, you can argue that you can further optimize gentoo, but you can do the same for Mandrake and Debian. This test compared the out-of-the-box performance of Debian, Mandrake, and Gentoo to see if the optimisations that most Gentoo users are running (which just happen to occur "out-of-the-box") really impact the system speed.