Plus you've given away some of your jewels in the past, and you can't seem to document correctly or figure out for yourself if the jewels in the pawn shop are stolen or given away freely.
Internet Week: Why doesn't SCO just leave Linux customers, partners and developers alone and out of its dispute with IBM?
McBride: That's like if someone comes into your house while you're sleeping, takes your jewels, and as you start chasing them down [to retrieve your property], and now they want to say you're the one doing the bad thing.
No, more like someone is _alleged_ to have taken your jewels and you try to extort money from the orphanage that got the money from the Pawn shop.
For a "federal judge/court system" to step in, they have to be invited in.
Someone has to sue SCO and then the process starts. Perhaps some corporate lawyer can get a preliminary injunction preventing SCO from demanding license fees pending a court decision on whether they have anything to demand fees on.
Were SCO smart, they would have targeted little guys using Linux (like a small college or something) before attacking someone with pockets. If the cost of Linux licensing is smaller than a legal battle, smaller orgs may start caving in. Going to some big organization, putting pinky to mouth in their best Dr. Evil impression and saying "You owe us.... (pregnant pause) Five MILLION dollars" is of course going to get them a "Not know but Hell No" response.
Cool... I'll have a genetically created mini-Me/rabbit hybrid made in China, then I can bring him to sporting events, saying "he's my good luck charm, no really, he's got real Rabbit's Feet!"
...and you are worried about SCO, simply install a distribution running kernel 2.2.x. Do a feature check and see if you really need what is in 2.4.x, or if any tools you will be using require 2.4.x. If you are doing web, apache, php, mail crap, file sserving, etc, everything is still going to work.
Then when the SCO stuff blows over upgrade if you want.
I think the original poster probably meant to say "Why doesn't Red Hat just offer to acquire them?" SCO, having no idea on how to survive except by litigation, probably wants IBM to snap them up, so they are likely available to any pimp that'll take 'em.
This new processor will give users 16 hours of battery life (impressive!)
Huh? Maybe 16 hours is impressive for a laptop computer or a Windows mobile device but this is a Palm OS device. My current color Clie gets at least that with backlight on most of the time.
The PTO is a fully fee-funded organization. BUT... all the fees they collect go to Congress, who then gives back _A PORTION_ (100%) to the PTO for its operations. If the PTO were allowed to keep 100% of its current fees (without helping balance the rest of the Federal budget with them), the fees probably wouldn't have to go up.
One of my rebate problems was Viking... they had some wierd language on the rebate form saying your had to call them by a certain date if you hadn't received it by that date. They also listed a web site where you could check status. I checked the site, and what did I see? The "expected mail date" was the day _after_ the call-in date on the form. Spooky.
I heard a conflicting report on the radio today about this (surprising!) They said this would be paid for by the telemarketers themselves, then said it would take $16 million to operate in the first year and no additional money was added to the budget for it. So either it's an "unfunded madate" for the FTC, or they intend to collect money from the telemarketing community very quickly.
Right... I rarely get detailed requirements either. I cringed when I typed it, so added the word "hope": in there because I didn't know how else to put it.
The original post dealt with embedded systems, which is sometimes different from the frequent ad-hoc "requirements" crap we usually get. And believe me it isn't limited to government.
Many times, management is the cause of preventing developers to see the "big picture". Sometimes it's "Here, code this" and you don't get a lot of opportunity to ask the questions you know need to be asked. Sometimes you have to hope resolutions to these types of issues are built into the requirements specification or will be ironed out in quality assurance measures.
The developer is only one in a group of responsible parties in any given system, and his/her output depends largely in input from others. If a developer is kept "out of the loop" on things (or is lazy and stays out of the loop opn purpose), you're going to see these problems.
Often it's like blaming clogged fuel injectors _for_ cheap gasoline instead of _on_ it.
With email, the source can be proxied and faked up enough that broad enforcement is difficult. At least a phone company can find the source of a phone call pretty easily if you're on the "do not call" list and get annoyed with a telemarketer.
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Plus you've given away some of your jewels in the past, and you can't seem to document correctly or figure out for yourself if the jewels in the pawn shop are stolen or given away freely.
Internet Week: Why doesn't SCO just leave Linux customers, partners and developers alone and out of its dispute with IBM?
McBride: That's like if someone comes into your house while you're sleeping, takes your jewels, and as you start chasing them down [to retrieve your property], and now they want to say you're the one doing the bad thing.
No, more like someone is _alleged_ to have taken your jewels and you try to extort money from the orphanage that got the money from the Pawn shop.
For a "federal judge/court system" to step in, they have to be invited in.
Someone has to sue SCO and then the process starts. Perhaps some corporate lawyer can get a preliminary injunction preventing SCO from demanding license fees pending a court decision on whether they have anything to demand fees on.
Were SCO smart, they would have targeted little guys using Linux (like a small college or something) before attacking someone with pockets. If the cost of Linux licensing is smaller than a legal battle, smaller orgs may start caving in. Going to some big organization, putting pinky to mouth in their best Dr. Evil impression and saying "You owe us.... (pregnant pause) Five MILLION dollars" is of course going to get them a "Not know but Hell No" response.
"This agreement cements ATI's position as the prime graphics supplier for the future of the games industry," ATI CEO K. Y. Ho said in a statement.
I like this new graphics chip already.
Cool... I'll have a genetically created mini-Me/rabbit hybrid made in China, then I can bring him to sporting events, saying "he's my good luck charm, no really, he's got real Rabbit's Feet!"
And in doing so would violate the GPL and the only things this whole process gains are unearned money to SCO and a greatly weakened or destroyed GPL.
...and you are worried about SCO, simply install a distribution running kernel 2.2.x. Do a feature check and see if you really need what is in 2.4.x, or if any tools you will be using require 2.4.x. If you are doing web, apache, php, mail crap, file sserving, etc, everything is still going to work.
Then when the SCO stuff blows over upgrade if you want.
I think the original poster probably meant to say "Why doesn't Red Hat just offer to acquire them?" SCO, having no idea on how to survive except by litigation, probably wants IBM to snap them up, so they are likely available to any pimp that'll take 'em.
I think you've got the wrong Wilson there, son.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tkinzey/new-2.jpg
This new processor will give users 16 hours of battery life (impressive!)
Huh? Maybe 16 hours is impressive for a laptop computer or a Windows mobile device but this is a Palm OS device. My current color Clie gets at least that with backlight on most of the time.
10 pounds, montrous dimensions, and they could fit a FLOPPY DRIVE in there?
How will I run my Slackware 2.0?
Leave it to the GNU/OSS/GPL guys to give you an acronym without spelling it out first.
:)
"The CE Linux Forum (CELF)..."
They tried describing it but only got there halfway
Wouldn't it be easier for your to filter in whatever country you are interested in?
From article: A few freshman machine came out of one their dorms, and they said, could you turn the volume down, we're trying to study for finals?
Ah, the freshman machines... they were to beautiful then even with their freshman 15!
Oops... that's "_A PORTION_ ([less than] 100%)
damn tag processing...
The PTO is a fully fee-funded organization. BUT... all the fees they collect go to Congress, who then gives back _A PORTION_ (100%) to the PTO for its operations. If the PTO were allowed to keep 100% of its current fees (without helping balance the rest of the Federal budget with them), the fees probably wouldn't have to go up.
One of my rebate problems was Viking... they had some wierd language on the rebate form saying your had to call them by a certain date if you hadn't received it by that date. They also listed a web site where you could check status. I checked the site, and what did I see? The "expected mail date" was the day _after_ the call-in date on the form. Spooky.
One thing open-source projects should NEVER do is rename their product to the name of ANOTHER open-source project.
p hoenix.com/
In this case, they've given it the same name as Interbase's open-source flavor.
I mean, it's plainly there on SourceForge... not like it couldn't have been researched.
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ib
"it is infeasible to rebuild the software for Windows NT 4.0 to eliminate the vulnerability"
M$ has billions of dollars and rebuilding software is infeasible? Why didn't they just say it would be a pain in the ass?
From the article:
"Providers also said the cost for revamping their networks could run as high as $1 billion in the first year alone."
So this isn't just a policy or "rule" issue... there's one thousand millions reasons in the first year alone why they would object.
Maybe Spider Man is getting more out of Mary Jane than the movie let on ;)
I heard a conflicting report on the radio today about this (surprising!) They said this would be paid for by the telemarketers themselves, then said it would take $16 million to operate in the first year and no additional money was added to the budget for it. So either it's an "unfunded madate" for the FTC, or they intend to collect money from the telemarketing community very quickly.
Right... I rarely get detailed requirements either. I cringed when I typed it, so added the word "hope": in there because I didn't know how else to put it.
The original post dealt with embedded systems, which is sometimes different from the frequent ad-hoc "requirements" crap we usually get. And believe me it isn't limited to government.
Many times, management is the cause of preventing developers to see the "big picture". Sometimes it's "Here, code this" and you don't get a lot of opportunity to ask the questions you know need to be asked. Sometimes you have to hope resolutions to these types of issues are built into the requirements specification or will be ironed out in quality assurance measures.
The developer is only one in a group of responsible parties in any given system, and his/her output depends largely in input from others. If a developer is kept "out of the loop" on things (or is lazy and stays out of the loop opn purpose), you're going to see these problems.
Often it's like blaming clogged fuel injectors _for_ cheap gasoline instead of _on_ it.
With email, the source can be proxied and faked up enough that broad enforcement is difficult. At least a phone company can find the source of a phone call pretty easily if you're on the "do not call" list and get annoyed with a telemarketer.