Yes there is a way. Abolish all lawyers! Got a problem with someone? Settle it the old fashioned way: Challenge them to a duel! You meet in a forest with witnesses from both sides. Each takes an ornamented gun from one of those ornamented wooden boxes that contains two guns that are made for this purpose. You stand back-to-back, walk ten paces, turn around, and shoot. Problem solved. No need for lengthy litigation and filing motion after motion for a hundred years.
How many people in the world know how to pirate a microchip? Like, ten? And I'd bet they're busy doing their friggin jobs, so they don't have the time to deal with this nonsense.
Dude, you want to see piracy? The Dread Pirate Roberts takes NO survivors! He'd kill ten people to make five cents. Now that's piracy! Not some pimply faced geek with inch-thick glasses downloading the latest MP3 off the computer.
I want to start a band that makes music that is actually not music at all, but poor quality recordings of terrible noises. Something so stupid and so utterly annoying and maddening to listen to that there isn't a single person on the face of the planet that would bother to pirate it even if paid to do so. Not to mention that playing it back would probably damage any good speaker.
Then, I would get some dirty lawyer to represent my band in court, claiming that thousands of people are illegally pirating my valuable intellectual property. I can just see the looks on the faces of the jury when the so-called "music" is played in the court to demonstrate just how valuable said intellectual property is.
Heh. Even a fool should notice that if this alleged piracy is so bad, then why in the world do their profits increase every year?! I think everyone would like to have a "loss" like that!
Why in the world would someone take $100 Million perfectly good dollars and just throw them into this worthless money pit? Incidentally, if you write SCO as $C0, and then move the C to the front, you've got, "See? $0." And it seems to me that's what everyone ends up with who touches this thing with a 100 million foot pole! Who in the heck wants SCO's OS anymore? You know what? Even if they do want it, does anybody really want software from a company that might disappear at any moment due to all this litigation drying up it's well of money? Where will they get support?
Especially, why would they do this when Linux and the *BSDs are so far superior at this point due to the efforts of millions and the incredible amount of support, mindshare, and money behind them from individuals, small businesses, large businesses, and even governments. Not to mention that all modern Apple Macs are running a UNIX operating system that can accomplish all, or at least nearly all, of the functions that can be accomplished by any other UNIX or UNIX-like system out there. Not to mention further that all of the aforementioned OSes are superior in an uncountable number of ways to SCO's OS. Not to mention that the entire code to Linux and the *BSDs is available for your perusal or participation, as with a tremendous variety of programs that are run on these systems, from Apache to something that starts with a Z. Why would anybody pay good money to SCO for it's stuff when SCO is acting like the bully at the playground and when all of this is available for free, both libre and if you want to download and build stuff yourself, gratis...
In my opinion, SCO is no longer a software company, but a litigation company.
Here's my two cents. It doesn't make sense to send just one dude that far away from home, on a one-way, there's-no-going-back, never-see-home-again mission. Can you imagine how much it would suck to be marooned as the only person on an entire planet, millions of miles from home?
It would make a lot more sense to do the following:
First, figure out how to build a biosphere that can exist on Mars and function properly. This would basically mean that here on Earth, you'd have to build two biospheres, one inside another. The outer one would have to simulate the environment on Mars as closely as possible. The inner one would have to simulate the environment on Earth. This concept must be proven and there must be an implementation that can function for an extended period of time without outside help.
Second, build robots that can assemble a massive biosphere. These would be pretty big robots, so you'd need to build smaller robots that can assemble the bigger ones.
Third, design an enormous unmanned space cargo ship. Since such a thing would have to be extremely large, it would have to be assembled in space, with components that would be built on Earth and launched into orbit for assembly. It would have to be able to fly to Mars and then return to Earth.
Fourth, design packages to parachute down to Mars from the large space vehicle. These packages would be extremely large and would need guidance systems to bring them all to the same landing site. The cargo would be packaged on Earth, launched up to the big cargo ship, and loaded inside.
Fifth, send the unmanned cargo ship to Mars, where it will arrive and begin dropping the packages to the landing site. Once all the packages are dropped, the cargo ship would break orbit with Mars and return to Earth for the next load.
Now, instead of building one cargo ship, you build many cargo ships and send them in a staggered pattern so that a ship arrives to Mars every several months. Initially, the cargo would consist of robots, robot parts, biosphere parts, and lots of other supplies, like metal, lumber, tools, anything you might find in a hardware store, dishes, soap, computers, vehicles, water, and lots of other stuff. Among all this cargo, you'd send all the materials and parts necessary to build a launch site on the surface of Mars, not to mention rocket parts and whatnot, to enable return transit in the future. It would obviously take a very long time just to engineer all of this and build the parts on Earth and in orbit. Once that is nearing completion, and the first cargo ship is ready to go, the process of sending supplies to Mars would begin. That process alone might take place over a period of 50 years. Once the first shipment arrives, the robots would begin to assemble parts, with help from operators here on Earth. The idea is to build one or more structures, each the size of several city blocks, complete with places of residence, places to work, gardens to grow food, and of course the necessary power generators, water cleaners, and all that good stuff. The entire way of life would actually have to be engineered, so that waste products could be used somehow. And until the first humans arrive, all of this would be done by remote control with the robots serving as our eyes and hands. Kind of like playing ADVENT.
Ok, now that portion is nearing completion, and it's time to start sending people over there. Take a cargo ship and turn it into a huge passenger ship where people can live for the several years that the journey would take. Send 500 people, including doctors, scientists, engineers, handymen, etc. By the way, the cargo ships with supplies never stop going to Mars during this process. And every few years, another ship full of people arrives. Build a small town on Mars! And furthermore, in order for it not to be a one-way trip, the people going there, with the help of the heavy equipment, robots, and whatnot, would get the launch site built. Among all of the thousands of packages sent would be many parts for things that the
Delays of over an hour are no problem for me. I come in to work in the morning, 9:00 AM to be specific. According to my company's rules, I must be on time every day or else risk having my pay cut by a significant amount. So I'm at my desk on time every day, at 9:00 AM, and I push the power button on the computer. It begins to load, and the disk crunches, crunches, crunches, and crunches some more. By about 4:59 PM, it finishes loading and the various spinning wheels and hourglasses stop. Finally, the computer is ready to perform the next operation. At this point, I click "Start," followed by "Shut down" and leave the office. I think it finishes shutting down sometime around 8:55 AM. Vista. Where do you want to avoid going today?
I'll tell you the logic behind what Redmond does. Used to be this dude named Bill Gates ran things. Yeah, say what you will about every OS from DOS up to Windows XP, but at least the technical decisions made sense (not to mention the business decisions made a LOT of cents, and dollars too). They maintained backwards compatibility, which means that most DOS programs from 1980 can still run in a DOS box in every Win9x-based system, and heck, I think even in the NT-based OSes up to XP, for many DOS programs. Things didn't normally break THIS badly from one OS to the next, and even with all the cruft and unnecessary junk cluttering up these OSes, at least this stuff was coherent and made sense. Then Bill Gates goes on to do other things, and it seems that everything in Redmond is slowly falling apart, and the big whack was this Vista disaster. It's like a free advertisement for Apple. People are cramming into Apple stores like there's no tomorrow because they have to upgrade from XP and the upgrade path is to get a Mac! A huge company like Microsoft can absorb this kind of fsck-up for a while, maybe even a long while, but unless something changes and some better technical decisions are made SOON, they're not going to be in the OS business for long. The solution to the immediate problem lies in doing just what a bunch of people here are saying, make up a sandbox environment that can run drivers and programs from XP as if they're actually running in XP. And to do another thing that people here aren't saying: Merge all the 6 different versions of Vista into 2 different versions: Standard and Enterprise, just like XP. Standard would basically be Vista Ultimate and Enterprise would be, well, Vista Enterprise. Get rid of the confusion. And lower the price. $99 for Vista Standard, $69 for Vista Standard Upgrade, and a sky-high price for Vista Enterprise. And, dare I say, make it easy, with one click let's say, to revert to the classic Windows 95 theme without all the graphical junk that bogs everything down. Do all this stuff, sell it for the next five years with occasional updates and patches, and use that time to solve the deeper problems that are sending so many users away at warp speed.
I doubt this is being done to help the browser platforms of competitors. I think it's being done for much the same reason that the OS has changed in such a vastly incompatible way... to mess with Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.
I doubt the decision has anything to do with Opera's complaint or the EU. I think the monkey dancer threw a chair, it him in the head, and the decision came as a result of that.
I think all this court-related mumbo-jumbo should be dropped in favor of a more efficient way to settle things. Darl and Linus should meet in a forest, with witnesses from both sides. They should stand back-to-back, walk ten paces, turn around, and shoot. Darl should be given a water gun. Linus should be given a BFG-9000.
We have discussed some of the ways in which the EU, and its member countries, engage in their own brand of censorship.
The tone of the statement would seem to imply that said censorship is something bad, unwanted, and unnecessary.
"own ways" links to a/. story titled, French Court To Yahoo!: Dump Nazi-Related Auctions
"censorship" links to a/. story titled, EU Moving to Ban Online Hate Speech
Yes, censorship should be avoided whenever possible. No, hate speech is NOT free speech. No, removing hate speech is NOT censorship! It's the right thing to do! And removing Nazis and their evil ways is also the right thing to do!
What an improvement! UNIX started out as a CLI environment that later gained all kinds of GUI interfaces, notably X Window System and more recently the Mac OS X interface. Windows is sort of going the other way around, having started as a GUI environment that is now going CLI. If we follow this trend, Server 2011 might use a teletype as its interface, Server 2015 will use a punched card system, and Server 2019 will be the ultimate, returning to the days of ENIAC, when computers didn't have stored programs at all and were programmed by running wires. What amazing progress is being made!
Business plan: 1. Make a new version that developers will have to support. 2. Send factory-cracked copies to all the pirates. 3. Wait for developers to resort to using the pirated copies. 4. Sue them! 5. Profit!
Dude. I am really surprised at Lieutenant Commander Data in this one. He was smart enough to beat Moriarty in Ship in a Bottle, yet he cannot solve this simple mystery? It is entirely possible that the visor in question is, in fact, the very same visor worn by Mr. Data in the Poker game, which, unless I'm mistaken, takes place in the episode Cause and Effect. Mr. Data later sold this visor in a personal sale. The beneficiary of the aforementioned transaction may have later sold the visor to someone else, and after a string of such sales, it ended up in the hands of one Mr. Moustakis, who asked Mr. Data to autograph it. I may be wrong. Perhaps this is one for the master himself, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
This is a conspiracy to force all users to switch to GNOME. We will NOT be fooled! We will NOT switch from KDE, which works splendidly, to GNOME, which works marvelously. Ubuntu is a splendid OS. It deserves a splendid UI. Not a marvelous one.
They should make up a voting machine that no matter who you vote for, it elects the more corrupt candidate. That would be good for this country. We need more corrpution. No thats' not a typo. Corrpution iz a word.
Proof of my theory, that Jeve Stobs doesn't want people running third-party software on the uPhone. He obviously wants to allow exclusive access to fourth-party apps.
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Yes there is a way. Abolish all lawyers! Got a problem with someone? Settle it the old fashioned way: Challenge them to a duel! You meet in a forest with witnesses from both sides. Each takes an ornamented gun from one of those ornamented wooden boxes that contains two guns that are made for this purpose. You stand back-to-back, walk ten paces, turn around, and shoot. Problem solved. No need for lengthy litigation and filing motion after motion for a hundred years.
How many people in the world know how to pirate a microchip? Like, ten? And I'd bet they're busy doing their friggin jobs, so they don't have the time to deal with this nonsense.
Dude, you want to see piracy? The Dread Pirate Roberts takes NO survivors! He'd kill ten people to make five cents. Now that's piracy! Not some pimply faced geek with inch-thick glasses downloading the latest MP3 off the computer.
I want to start a band that makes music that is actually not music at all, but poor quality recordings of terrible noises. Something so stupid and so utterly annoying and maddening to listen to that there isn't a single person on the face of the planet that would bother to pirate it even if paid to do so. Not to mention that playing it back would probably damage any good speaker.
Then, I would get some dirty lawyer to represent my band in court, claiming that thousands of people are illegally pirating my valuable intellectual property. I can just see the looks on the faces of the jury when the so-called "music" is played in the court to demonstrate just how valuable said intellectual property is.
Heh. Even a fool should notice that if this alleged piracy is so bad, then why in the world do their profits increase every year?! I think everyone would like to have a "loss" like that!
Why in the world would someone take $100 Million perfectly good dollars and just throw them into this worthless money pit? Incidentally, if you write SCO as $C0, and then move the C to the front, you've got, "See? $0." And it seems to me that's what everyone ends up with who touches this thing with a 100 million foot pole! Who in the heck wants SCO's OS anymore? You know what? Even if they do want it, does anybody really want software from a company that might disappear at any moment due to all this litigation drying up it's well of money? Where will they get support?
Especially, why would they do this when Linux and the *BSDs are so far superior at this point due to the efforts of millions and the incredible amount of support, mindshare, and money behind them from individuals, small businesses, large businesses, and even governments. Not to mention that all modern Apple Macs are running a UNIX operating system that can accomplish all, or at least nearly all, of the functions that can be accomplished by any other UNIX or UNIX-like system out there. Not to mention further that all of the aforementioned OSes are superior in an uncountable number of ways to SCO's OS. Not to mention that the entire code to Linux and the *BSDs is available for your perusal or participation, as with a tremendous variety of programs that are run on these systems, from Apache to something that starts with a Z. Why would anybody pay good money to SCO for it's stuff when SCO is acting like the bully at the playground and when all of this is available for free, both libre and if you want to download and build stuff yourself, gratis...
In my opinion, SCO is no longer a software company, but a litigation company.
Here's my two cents. It doesn't make sense to send just one dude that far away from home, on a one-way, there's-no-going-back, never-see-home-again mission. Can you imagine how much it would suck to be marooned as the only person on an entire planet, millions of miles from home?
It would make a lot more sense to do the following:
First, figure out how to build a biosphere that can exist on Mars and function properly. This would basically mean that here on Earth, you'd have to build two biospheres, one inside another. The outer one would have to simulate the environment on Mars as closely as possible. The inner one would have to simulate the environment on Earth. This concept must be proven and there must be an implementation that can function for an extended period of time without outside help.
Second, build robots that can assemble a massive biosphere. These would be pretty big robots, so you'd need to build smaller robots that can assemble the bigger ones.
Third, design an enormous unmanned space cargo ship. Since such a thing would have to be extremely large, it would have to be assembled in space, with components that would be built on Earth and launched into orbit for assembly. It would have to be able to fly to Mars and then return to Earth.
Fourth, design packages to parachute down to Mars from the large space vehicle. These packages would be extremely large and would need guidance systems to bring them all to the same landing site. The cargo would be packaged on Earth, launched up to the big cargo ship, and loaded inside.
Fifth, send the unmanned cargo ship to Mars, where it will arrive and begin dropping the packages to the landing site. Once all the packages are dropped, the cargo ship would break orbit with Mars and return to Earth for the next load.
Now, instead of building one cargo ship, you build many cargo ships and send them in a staggered pattern so that a ship arrives to Mars every several months. Initially, the cargo would consist of robots, robot parts, biosphere parts, and lots of other supplies, like metal, lumber, tools, anything you might find in a hardware store, dishes, soap, computers, vehicles, water, and lots of other stuff. Among all this cargo, you'd send all the materials and parts necessary to build a launch site on the surface of Mars, not to mention rocket parts and whatnot, to enable return transit in the future. It would obviously take a very long time just to engineer all of this and build the parts on Earth and in orbit. Once that is nearing completion, and the first cargo ship is ready to go, the process of sending supplies to Mars would begin. That process alone might take place over a period of 50 years. Once the first shipment arrives, the robots would begin to assemble parts, with help from operators here on Earth. The idea is to build one or more structures, each the size of several city blocks, complete with places of residence, places to work, gardens to grow food, and of course the necessary power generators, water cleaners, and all that good stuff. The entire way of life would actually have to be engineered, so that waste products could be used somehow. And until the first humans arrive, all of this would be done by remote control with the robots serving as our eyes and hands. Kind of like playing ADVENT.
Ok, now that portion is nearing completion, and it's time to start sending people over there. Take a cargo ship and turn it into a huge passenger ship where people can live for the several years that the journey would take. Send 500 people, including doctors, scientists, engineers, handymen, etc. By the way, the cargo ships with supplies never stop going to Mars during this process. And every few years, another ship full of people arrives. Build a small town on Mars! And furthermore, in order for it not to be a one-way trip, the people going there, with the help of the heavy equipment, robots, and whatnot, would get the launch site built. Among all of the thousands of packages sent would be many parts for things that the
They don't want to disclose anything because like Darl's lawsuit, the court will find out that the whole suit is a bunch of hogwash.
Delays of over an hour are no problem for me. I come in to work in the morning, 9:00 AM to be specific. According to my company's rules, I must be on time every day or else risk having my pay cut by a significant amount. So I'm at my desk on time every day, at 9:00 AM, and I push the power button on the computer. It begins to load, and the disk crunches, crunches, crunches, and crunches some more. By about 4:59 PM, it finishes loading and the various spinning wheels and hourglasses stop. Finally, the computer is ready to perform the next operation. At this point, I click "Start," followed by "Shut down" and leave the office. I think it finishes shutting down sometime around 8:55 AM. Vista. Where do you want to avoid going today?
I'll tell you the logic behind what Redmond does. Used to be this dude named Bill Gates ran things. Yeah, say what you will about every OS from DOS up to Windows XP, but at least the technical decisions made sense (not to mention the business decisions made a LOT of cents, and dollars too). They maintained backwards compatibility, which means that most DOS programs from 1980 can still run in a DOS box in every Win9x-based system, and heck, I think even in the NT-based OSes up to XP, for many DOS programs. Things didn't normally break THIS badly from one OS to the next, and even with all the cruft and unnecessary junk cluttering up these OSes, at least this stuff was coherent and made sense. Then Bill Gates goes on to do other things, and it seems that everything in Redmond is slowly falling apart, and the big whack was this Vista disaster. It's like a free advertisement for Apple. People are cramming into Apple stores like there's no tomorrow because they have to upgrade from XP and the upgrade path is to get a Mac! A huge company like Microsoft can absorb this kind of fsck-up for a while, maybe even a long while, but unless something changes and some better technical decisions are made SOON, they're not going to be in the OS business for long. The solution to the immediate problem lies in doing just what a bunch of people here are saying, make up a sandbox environment that can run drivers and programs from XP as if they're actually running in XP. And to do another thing that people here aren't saying: Merge all the 6 different versions of Vista into 2 different versions: Standard and Enterprise, just like XP. Standard would basically be Vista Ultimate and Enterprise would be, well, Vista Enterprise. Get rid of the confusion. And lower the price. $99 for Vista Standard, $69 for Vista Standard Upgrade, and a sky-high price for Vista Enterprise. And, dare I say, make it easy, with one click let's say, to revert to the classic Windows 95 theme without all the graphical junk that bogs everything down. Do all this stuff, sell it for the next five years with occasional updates and patches, and use that time to solve the deeper problems that are sending so many users away at warp speed.
I doubt this is being done to help the browser platforms of competitors. I think it's being done for much the same reason that the OS has changed in such a vastly incompatible way... to mess with Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.
I doubt the decision has anything to do with Opera's complaint or the EU. I think the monkey dancer threw a chair, it him in the head, and the decision came as a result of that.
I bet the Monkey Dancer took the case.
I think all this court-related mumbo-jumbo should be dropped in favor of a more efficient way to settle things. Darl and Linus should meet in a forest, with witnesses from both sides. They should stand back-to-back, walk ten paces, turn around, and shoot. Darl should be given a water gun. Linus should be given a BFG-9000.
The story states:
The tone of the statement would seem to imply that said censorship is something bad, unwanted, and unnecessary.
"own ways" links to a /. story titled, French Court To Yahoo!: Dump Nazi-Related Auctions
"censorship" links to a /. story titled, EU Moving to Ban Online Hate Speech
Yes, censorship should be avoided whenever possible. No, hate speech is NOT free speech. No, removing hate speech is NOT censorship! It's the right thing to do! And removing Nazis and their evil ways is also the right thing to do!
What an improvement! UNIX started out as a CLI environment that later gained all kinds of GUI interfaces, notably X Window System and more recently the Mac OS X interface. Windows is sort of going the other way around, having started as a GUI environment that is now going CLI. If we follow this trend, Server 2011 might use a teletype as its interface, Server 2015 will use a punched card system, and Server 2019 will be the ultimate, returning to the days of ENIAC, when computers didn't have stored programs at all and were programmed by running wires. What amazing progress is being made!
Business plan:
1. Make a new version that developers will have to support.
2. Send factory-cracked copies to all the pirates.
3. Wait for developers to resort to using the pirated copies.
4. Sue them!
5. Profit!
Maybe that's why I keep having that nightmare about turning on my Mac one day only to find it's suddenly running Vista!
Dude. I am really surprised at Lieutenant Commander Data in this one. He was smart enough to beat Moriarty in Ship in a Bottle, yet he cannot solve this simple mystery? It is entirely possible that the visor in question is, in fact, the very same visor worn by Mr. Data in the Poker game, which, unless I'm mistaken, takes place in the episode Cause and Effect. Mr. Data later sold this visor in a personal sale. The beneficiary of the aforementioned transaction may have later sold the visor to someone else, and after a string of such sales, it ended up in the hands of one Mr. Moustakis, who asked Mr. Data to autograph it. I may be wrong. Perhaps this is one for the master himself, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
This is a CONSPIRACY! They are deliberately writing software code to do this! It's a graphics package not a piece of spyware. That is the suxx0rz.
This is a conspiracy to force all users to switch to GNOME. We will NOT be fooled! We will NOT switch from KDE, which works splendidly, to GNOME, which works marvelously. Ubuntu is a splendid OS. It deserves a splendid UI. Not a marvelous one.
Yoo dont haf too convins tha milateri too yooz owpen sors softwer. Thei iz alredi yoozing it.
They should make up a voting machine that no matter who you vote for, it elects the more corrupt candidate. That would be good for this country. We need more corrpution. No thats' not a typo. Corrpution iz a word.
Proof of my theory, that Jeve Stobs doesn't want people running third-party software on the uPhone. He obviously wants to allow exclusive access to fourth-party apps.
Repost? What is this supposed to accomplish? Fighting bit rot of yesterday's news?
When asked in court to define "monopoly", Microsloth said simply, "us."