I dunno about MS specifically being penalized, but in Texas you can't claim to be an Engineer unless you really are one (and MCSE doesn't count.) I seem to remember hearing something about some computer firms in Tx being pissed about not being able to call their programmers "software engineers."
The code in question was originally developed as a theorhetical process and was then added to UNIX. Stating that because it was subsequently added to UNIX makes it the property of SCO would be like Ford saying that because Pioneer car stereos can be installed in Ford cars that gives them the right to sue Pioneer for making a kit that allows those same radios to be installed in Chevrolet cars.
I suppose you can sign a contract stipulating just about anything - and since we havn't seen the Sequent contract yet (if ever) there could be something idiotic like that in there.
Since Chimera embryos obviously do survive then there must be some way they cope with rejection. D'ya think this could be applied to organ transplant recepients?
Discussing a woman found to be a chimera, an article on Mosaics found that:
Laboratory tests confirmed that she was unable to generate T cells able to react against the cells of either brother or her mother.
Since they don't simply state that she is incapable of producing t-cells, then there may be something in there to allow for selectively suppressing an immunoresponse (sp?) that could be valuable.
I think I oughta patent it now before someone with the ability to actually find it does.
Especially with the wires out of order. Last phone jack I looked at had the red and green wiren in the center two positions with the (optional) black and yellow wires on the outside.
I suppose one could adjust all the jacks in one's house and adjust the plugs to accomodate an incompatible standard but still....
IF Network Solutions had corrected the problem immediately after being notified that they should not have transfered the domain name, THEN I think they should be in the clear. BUT, they didn't. After being told that the domain transfer was fraudulent, it appears to me that they did nothing to correct the problem. As I recall, it was like this for YEARS while it worked its way through the courts. No reason NS couldn't have investigated the original transfer order and properly returned the domain to its rightful owner.
So, did you get a special type of phone line to do this, or is there some sort of off-the-shelf black box I can get to do that?
As it is, I just scream and verbally abuse them like the sub-human slime that they are. I can only hope that people like me have inspired a few up them to move on up the food chain to welfare recepients or crack whores. Might make them feel bad, and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.....
I dunno where you've been looking, but $115 sound damn cheap to me compared to what I've been able to find of more traditional kilts (running say 3 to 4 times as much.)
But what they're doing in only in the company's intrests short-term. It could be easily argued that their actions are damaging the long-term viability of SCO and are therefore BAD for the company.
Ya know, I was initially disappointed that Monterey got canceled, but seeing SCO's true colors, I think that a successful project would've enabled them to be in stronger position when they would have inevitably pulled this Linux-hijacking attempt.
It's also your metabolism. Carbohydrates can increase the insulin levels in your blood which (to my understanding) can increase the percentage of calories that get converted into fat.
Better, I think, to get most of your calories from protien since that can still be burned for energy and will not impact your insulin levels.
Also, exercise is great, and important for overall health, but it is so much easier to lose weight by adopting a healthier diet than by keeping a rotten diet and just exercising more.
The invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by allowing applications and utilities to write several files to a disk as a single file-write operation, yet, after conversion, to individually access the several files.
Ok, so I can download an iso image from my local FTP site (and get the bandwidth economy of downloading only one file) burn it to CD, and then I have access to all the individual files on that image.
Another example is a program that typically maintains large data files containing relatively-separable chunks of data, such as various users' data maintained by an e-mail server program. The invention allows such a program to manipulate its data as a larger data file, and then to save the data as smaller, individually-accessible data files.
Sounds like my mail file, one big file for my inbox and yet each mail message can be minupulated as its own unit and saved off by itself with Pine.
In yet another example, the invention allows files that are generally accessed separately to be aggregated on disk in a common location, which results in improved performance when accessing more than one of the separate files at the same time.
Now this is just a loopback filesystem with the possible exception that it sounds like they've tied this "invention" to the internals of the filesystem so that the aggregate file is not only a single file as far as the OS is concerned, but it also located on a consecutive list of sectors on the physical media. Is this enforcement of contiguous sectors novel?
Besides, I rather imagine that most (literate) kids can still print and even if you accept the premise that handwritten letters are more "chreished" I see no reason that hand printed letters would hold less meaning than scripted letters.
My favorite quote was: "Cursive was so character-defining when I was in school," says Amy Greene, whose 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son prefer keyboards to cursive in their Palo Alto classrooms. "The way you wrote something was considered part of your inner being, your core, your worth.... Now it's considered an anachronism."
Oh come on. Cursive was character defining???? If that's all you have to hang your character on then... Sometimes it's just so hard to not mock those whose values differ from mine. And if I were mature I probably wouldn't.
Even if the 3 conditions you mentioned are met, it is still possible that the code from both Linux and SCO originated from a common source (i.e. the fact that chimps and humans share most of our DNA does not necessarily indicate that one of us evolved from the other, but rather that we evolved froma common ancestor.)
Defending against this would require time to research the questioned code to locate its true common source. Something SCO could be trying to frustrate by not releasing which code is suspect to the community.
You mean you actually take them at their word????? This is nothing more than marketingspeak, insincere, good-time rock-n-roll garbage spewing forth from Redmond. I have not seen any of their previous efforts resulting in a relatively error-free environment for me.
You're right in that it's not going to happen overnight. But then again, it's not happened in the past several years (since they launched the whole "trustworthy computing" thing - however long that's been) or even the past decade. I still have computer crashed triggered by cutting and pasting plain text between applications. Now it's not happening daily anymore, but once or twice a week now...then again, this is still completely unacceptable to me.
I'm sorry to rant, but they've had their chances to unf*ck their software, and they've consistantly blown it, and they've been rewarded for it. I see no real incentive for them to change. I DO see an incentive for them to make noise about how they're changing, but all the window dressing in the world won't make my MS Windows workstation any more stable. They have a long history as a pack of unrepentant, unpunished liars, and I just don't believe them.
Besides, their paperclip mascot is nowhere near as cool as our penguin.
So SCO is threating to sue one person unless everyone else (not that person) pays them tribute for patents and copyrights that THEY DON'T EVEN OWN????
Kinda reminds me of a magazine cover I saw once. Had a picture of a puppy (or kitten or some such cute animal) with the caption "Buy this magazine or we shoot the dog."
According to a story on Marketwatch, SCO is intent on suing Linus Torvalds eventually. Now I know his reputation for avoiding political issues, but this one may be nipping at his rear whether he wants it or not: McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement.
Ok, so the IBM lawsuit has always been over contracts, and not IP. SCO was still sending out threatening letters to Linux users telling them that they were infringing on SCO's IP.
What I'm wondering is, if they don't own the "trade secrets" they claim IBM improperly revealed, then how can they reasonably expect to collect damages for those alleged revelations?
It's like me suing my neighbor for driving their car into the fire hydrant in front of my house. Oh, and I've covered the hydrant with a box to prevent anyone from fixing it before I go to court. Never mind that the city owns the hydrant, not me. Never mind that I'm preventing my neighbor from even seeing that there is damage. I'm just going to stay injured until I get my quick check.
If they were interested in protecting whatever it is they claim to own and claim IBM damaged, it would make more sense to reveal what they have so that their damage will stop occuring. That they're only interested in compensation, and not in damage control is telling.
NoW (Networks of Workstations) will in time push both the mainframe and nearly anachronistic programming language Cobol out the door
Yup, I first heard that back in 1981. Given enough time I'm sure that will be true. Of course, given enough time a room full of Eminems with tape recorders could eventually record some music.
I do believe that there are a few COBOL compilers on sourceforge, and even a project to interface COBOL with Tcl.
I think that its uncommon way of handling variables in the data division makes it worth learning for the same reason Lisp is worth learning - it suggests new ways to handle problems that C, Java, etc... just don't necessarily suggest.
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I dunno about MS specifically being penalized, but in Texas you can't claim to be an Engineer unless you really are one (and MCSE doesn't count.) I seem to remember hearing something about some computer firms in Tx being pissed about not being able to call their programmers "software engineers."
The code in question was originally developed as a theorhetical process and was then added to UNIX. Stating that because it was subsequently added to UNIX makes it the property of SCO would be like Ford saying that because Pioneer car stereos can be installed in Ford cars that gives them the right to sue Pioneer for making a kit that allows those same radios to be installed in Chevrolet cars.
I suppose you can sign a contract stipulating just about anything - and since we havn't seen the Sequent contract yet (if ever) there could be something idiotic like that in there.
Discussing a woman found to be a chimera, an article on Mosaics found that: Since they don't simply state that she is incapable of producing t-cells, then there may be something in there to allow for selectively suppressing an immunoresponse (sp?) that could be valuable.
I think I oughta patent it now before someone with the ability to actually find it does.
Especially with the wires out of order. Last phone jack I looked at had the red and green wiren in the center two positions with the (optional) black and yellow wires on the outside.
I suppose one could adjust all the jacks in one's house and adjust the plugs to accomodate an incompatible standard but still....
IF Network Solutions had corrected the problem immediately after being notified that they should not have transfered the domain name, THEN I think they should be in the clear. BUT, they didn't. After being told that the domain transfer was fraudulent, it appears to me that they did nothing to correct the problem. As I recall, it was like this for YEARS while it worked its way through the courts. No reason NS couldn't have investigated the original transfer order and properly returned the domain to its rightful owner.
So, did you get a special type of phone line to do this, or is there some sort of off-the-shelf black box I can get to do that?
As it is, I just scream and verbally abuse them like the sub-human slime that they are. I can only hope that people like me have inspired a few up them to move on up the food chain to welfare recepients or crack whores. Might make them feel bad, and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.....
I dunno where you've been looking, but $115 sound damn cheap to me compared to what I've been able to find of more traditional kilts (running say 3 to 4 times as much.)
Of course they were pretty damn fugly.
But what they're doing in only in the company's intrests short-term. It could be easily argued that their actions are damaging the long-term viability of SCO and are therefore BAD for the company.
Ya know, I was initially disappointed that Monterey got canceled, but seeing SCO's true colors, I think that a successful project would've enabled them to be in stronger position when they would have inevitably pulled this Linux-hijacking attempt.
It's also your metabolism. Carbohydrates can increase the insulin levels in your blood which (to my understanding) can increase the percentage of calories that get converted into fat.
Better, I think, to get most of your calories from protien since that can still be burned for energy and will not impact your insulin levels.
Also, exercise is great, and important for overall health, but it is so much easier to lose weight by adopting a healthier diet than by keeping a rotten diet and just exercising more.
Icehouse is an "ale" and not a beer.
I know I'm picking nits here, but last I heard both pilsners and ales were both considered beers.
Is Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (the Betamax case). Perhaps if enough people requested it (hint hint)...
Besides, I rather imagine that most (literate) kids can still print and even if you accept the premise that handwritten letters are more "chreished" I see no reason that hand printed letters would hold less meaning than scripted letters.
... Now it's considered an anachronism."
My favorite quote was:
"Cursive was so character-defining when I was in school," says Amy Greene, whose 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son prefer keyboards to cursive in their Palo Alto classrooms. "The way you wrote something was considered part of your inner being, your core, your worth.
Oh come on. Cursive was character defining???? If that's all you have to hang your character on then...
Sometimes it's just so hard to not mock those whose values differ from mine. And if I were mature I probably wouldn't.
Yea, and I'll bet most kids today can read or write shorthand either.
I remember going to a special remedial handwriting class when I was in elementary school. My teacher finally gave up and taught me how to type.
Counting by the RIAA method? (must be that new math)
Personally, I think it would've looked cleaner had he placed the floppy drive and the CF reader along the side of the monitor case.
Several cities, including mine (New Orleans) are already trying that.
Pathetic really.
Even if the 3 conditions you mentioned are met, it is still possible that the code from both Linux and SCO originated from a common source (i.e. the fact that chimps and humans share most of our DNA does not necessarily indicate that one of us evolved from the other, but rather that we evolved froma common ancestor.)
Defending against this would require time to research the questioned code to locate its true common source. Something SCO could be trying to frustrate by not releasing which code is suspect to the community.
Tristero wasn't ready for his empire to be anything but silent.
You mean you actually take them at their word????? This is nothing more than marketingspeak, insincere, good-time rock-n-roll garbage spewing forth from Redmond. I have not seen any of their previous efforts resulting in a relatively error-free environment for me.
You're right in that it's not going to happen overnight. But then again, it's not happened in the past several years (since they launched the whole "trustworthy computing" thing - however long that's been) or even the past decade. I still have computer crashed triggered by cutting and pasting plain text between applications. Now it's not happening daily anymore, but once or twice a week now...then again, this is still completely unacceptable to me.
I'm sorry to rant, but they've had their chances to unf*ck their software, and they've consistantly blown it, and they've been rewarded for it. I see no real incentive for them to change. I DO see an incentive for them to make noise about how they're changing, but all the window dressing in the world won't make my MS Windows workstation any more stable. They have a long history as a pack of unrepentant, unpunished liars, and I just don't believe them.
Besides, their paperclip mascot is nowhere near as cool as our penguin.
So SCO is threating to sue one person unless everyone else (not that person) pays them tribute for patents and copyrights that THEY DON'T EVEN OWN????
Kinda reminds me of a magazine cover I saw once. Had a picture of a puppy (or kitten or some such cute animal) with the caption "Buy this magazine or we shoot the dog."
According to a story on Marketwatch, SCO is intent on suing Linus Torvalds eventually. Now I know his reputation for avoiding political issues, but this one may be nipping at his rear whether he wants it or not:
McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement.
So if I'm understanding this, SCO can only sue those it has contracts with, like IBM, SuSE, Microsoft, etc...
Well, that's an incentive to NOT do business with them.
Ok, so the IBM lawsuit has always been over contracts, and not IP. SCO was still sending out threatening letters to Linux users telling them that they were infringing on SCO's IP.
What I'm wondering is, if they don't own the "trade secrets" they claim IBM improperly revealed, then how can they reasonably expect to collect damages for those alleged revelations?
It's like me suing my neighbor for driving their car into the fire hydrant in front of my house. Oh, and I've covered the hydrant with a box to prevent anyone from fixing it before I go to court. Never mind that the city owns the hydrant, not me. Never mind that I'm preventing my neighbor from even seeing that there is damage. I'm just going to stay injured until I get my quick check.
If they were interested in protecting whatever it is they claim to own and claim IBM damaged, it would make more sense to reveal what they have so that their damage will stop occuring. That they're only interested in compensation, and not in damage control is telling.
NoW (Networks of Workstations) will in time push both the mainframe and nearly anachronistic programming language Cobol out the door
Yup, I first heard that back in 1981. Given enough time I'm sure that will be true. Of course, given enough time a room full of Eminems with tape recorders could eventually record some music.
Nah, OpenVMS isn't really "mainframe".
I do believe that there are a few COBOL compilers on sourceforge, and even a project to interface COBOL with Tcl.
I think that its uncommon way of handling variables in the data division makes it worth learning for the same reason Lisp is worth learning - it suggests new ways to handle problems that C, Java, etc... just don't necessarily suggest.