"Actually, I believe SCO is under a restraining order in Germany that prohibits them from making the kinds of outrageous claims about Linux that they have been making in the US."
So much for free speech in Germany.
Not really. The injunction was basically based on the idea that what SCO was doing was essentially libel/harassement. LinuxTAG basically got an injunction that says "Prove something or shutup". SCO did not choose to prove something.
You try to help save the environment by saving energy, but you drink over-priced products from a company that levels thousands of acres of rain forrest to grow coffee. Lets not forget that they fund intertribal warfare to help remove any people living there.
Maybe I missed something, but who's trying to save the environment here? This is all about extended running times without recharging batteries, not saving the environment (as opposed to say, fuel cells in cars).
I don't know about that - I kinda lost interest when he went into the Gnu/Linux is the REAL name nonsense. I'm SO tired of that particular Richardism that I just quit reading after that point.
While I'm generally not all that fond if the name nitpicking either, it's actually a relavent distinction for once - SCO has been spouting off things about "whole programs copied" which tends to imply that they're talking about quite a bit more than the kernel. Which also raises questions - we can all figure out where kernel source code came from. Not all projects are as careful about logging changes.
Why does Apple use DDR as opposed to say RDRAM or some other higher-speed technology? I mean, it might not be 64-bit compatible, I don't know, but they don't put it in their 32-bit machines either.
RDRAM last time I checked had higher total bandwidth than DDR, but fails to be faster where it counts - latency. Latency on non-sequential read/write is where the memory bottle neck is.
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If MS really thought SCO had a smoking gun to put straight through Linux's heart, don't you think they'd do it in a second?
No, actually. The Democrats might win the next presidential election and give the Justice department back their spines.
The technology may be, but it's still a copyright violation if they directly copied the code from SCO. However, I think a more adequate explanation is that they both got the code from Sequent.
What code from SCO? I don't believe any of their products even use this...
Do you have any idea how many people use Linux clusters to predict the weather!
I'm aware of it, I've actually worked with weather models on Linux. However, this nessecarily work well for all pieces of modeling software, and most of this stuff is not going to be re-written over night. (In some cases, it's just been modified by grad student after grad student since about 1970 or so. Fortran. ).
Personally, I'd go with either OpenBSD or Linux. OpenBSD is proven to have rock solid stability, and recent Linux kernels are pretty good. And Solaris has good stability on the right hardware -- say, an Enterprise 10k.
Does OpenBSD even _have_ SMP support? And Linux? If AIX is out, so is Linux. Neither OpenBSD nor Linux are anywhere close to a drop in solution. Not to mention the massive amounts of cash nessecary to replace the kind of big iron AIX generally runs on...
However, if Oracle owns PeopleSoft they suddenly become SAP's largest competitor. As soon as that happens a major SAP infrastructure provider is now the enemy, and SAP might suddenly have reason to push another solution vs. allowing the customer to choose. After the deal with MySQL that solution might well be MySQL.
Yeah, except Oracle is already a major player in this market.
Of course, since you have your bread and butter, you don't see that as a big loss do you? I mean afterall, cashiers are unskilled workers anyway, right? The store is better off without them, no?
We're all better off without them. It's an increase in efficiency, an increase in worker productivity. 1 worker monitoring the all of the automated checkouts now does the work of 10 previously. Efficiency is increased tenfold, prices drop, (and they will, quickly - this is a very competitive market), consumers now have more money to spend on other things, thus re-employing our now out of work cashiers. It's a more efficient use of an often limited resource. Not so limited right now (economy is down after a very long period of growth, which was incidentally largely fuelled by increases in worker productivity from computerized automation) but 2 years ago the job market was so tight that many such places couldn't find enough people. This would have eased their load considerably.
In essecence, it's the same story we've been telling for three hundred years since the start of the industrial revolution - granted, there were abuses and some suckage in the short run, but look where it's gotten us. Thousands of seamstresses put out of work by sewing machines. All kinds of skilled workers out of work due to factories and assembly lines. And guess what? We all live better than those "skill workers" ever did! I'm a constantly broke student whose income just made a stunning jump up to $12,000 dollars a year, and by the standards of the early 1800's I live in many respects like a very wealthy man.
With RFIDs, now they can get rid of ALL of them, and just pay one thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out without paying.
And now the favorite trick, to forstall possible rational argument, we'll demonize those we don't like. Yeah, somebody is going to make sure noone walks off without paying. This is going to be differnt than the current system how exactly? With human cashiers, anyone who doesn't like to pay can just walk off with their groceries? Yeah, there'll be sombody that prevents people from leaving without paying, but they're no more going to be "a thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out wihtout paying" than any of the current cashiers in the grocery stores are.
"640k" vs "64Kbytes"- why change capitalization on the K? That doesn't mean anything, unless k=1024 and K=1000. But "10mb" vs "1MB" does mean millibits in the first case and megabytes in the second- not likely what you intended.
It's not unusual for people to change the capitalization when speaking about bits vs bytes. 640kb/s vs 64KB/s for 640,000 bits per second versus 64,000 bytes per second (ignoring the whole is it 1000 or 1024 issue).
And do you really think it's possible to have China start to rely heavily on nuclear power, without the US getting nervous? Heck, the US is twitchy enough as it is.
Ummm....given that the Chinese already have a number of nuclear weapons (if not particularly great delivery systems) this probably isn't an issue...
I assume that both parties did not incur any legal fees since there was no actual trial right (is that what an injunction is)? if they did incur legal fees, is SearchKing obligated to pay for Google? I sure do hope so!
heh...heeh...hahahahahaha. You obviously have not encountered the American Legal system...Google undoubtably paid a fair amount in legal fees for this matter. Lawyers want money to prepare briefs and file motions in court, whether or not it actually goes to trial. As for recouping them, they'd have to countersue.
point very well taken. Black holes are one of the most dangerous and destructive things in the universe. We have no bussiness messing with them.
If Hawkings theory is wrong or if the black hole falls to the metal walls of the collider before it evaporates then we all die.
Except as you'd know if you RTFA, cosmic rays bombard the earth with more energy than this collider will manage. If dangerous black holes could be created at this energy level, we'd be dead already..
Try the following paragraph from IRS Publication 535 Business Expenses. [irs.gov]
Try reading the paragraph immediately preceding the one you quote:
In determining whether you are carrying on an activity for profit, all the facts are taken into account. No one factor alone is decisive. Among the factors to consider are whether:
1. You carry on the activity in a businesslike manner,
2. The time and effort you put into the activity indicate you intend to make it profitable,
3. You depend on income from the activity for your livelihood,
4. Your losses are due to circumstances beyond your control (or are normal in the start-up phase of your type of business),
5. You change your methods of operation in an attempt to improve profitability,
6. You, or your advisors, have the knowledge needed to carry on the activity as a successful business,
7. You were successful in making a profit in similar activities in the past,
8. The activity makes a profit in some years, and how much profit it makes, and
9. You can expect to make a future profit from the appreciation of the assets used in the activity.
The Presumption of profit is more to keep people from claiming to be a non-profit when they aren't. Quite a lot of businesses have lost money more than 3 years out of 5. Also, the regulations cite are largely for the deduction of business expenses relating to personal tax returns.
Amazon could be profitable any time Jeff wanted it to be. The rules say that a company must show a profit at least once every "n" years, and when they show a profit, they end up paying taxes on it.
Please provide a citation. Theres no such rule in the United States.
Really? Tell that to kids who re-enact "stunts" from Jackass. I thought it was all a bunch of whining parents complaining about it until I saw a bunch of local kids JUMPING OFF THEIR ROOF and videotaping it a few months ago. WTF? Kids are just stupid these days. I blame MTV and Anime like the Power Rangers.;-)
See, the major difference would be that Jackass, depressing though the thought is, is real. They saw a real person do something and survive, thus they're trying it. This is different that seeing Wile E Coyote falling off a several hundred foot cliff, or rolling down such in a big metal ball.
Also, when did the power rangers become Anime? Last time I checked it was home-grown live action crap...
How can this be - how can there exist a formula to get a hexadecimal digit but not a decimal digit?
Easy. There can't. Pi is irrational. By the definition of an irrational number there is no repeating pattern that defines the number, hence no formulas. And for the second impossibilty, how can there possibly be a formula for aribtrary hex digits and not decimal? All you have to do is find at most two hex digits and convert to find the decimal digit.
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I can't remember any time I've sat down and thought "Damn, if only I had 300 more megabytes of space I could cram all my pr0n into ten cds instead of fifteen"
Looks back at 3 foot tall stack 'o' spindles full of fansubbed anime
Linux from Scratch is actually quite a bit different from Gentoo. Gentoo provides you with executable code, you answer some questions and you have a new install, although the process takes longer and is more configurable than say, downloading pre-built packages. Linux from Scratch, last time I checked, provides you with a document. Thats it. No packages. First you create and format your partitions (by hand, using fdsck and mkfs). Then you create your filesystem, (mkdir/usr/var/etc.....), then compile statically linked versions of them minimum utilities needed to boot and compile, then reboot, recompile libraries and dynamically linked versions, then start compiling the rest of your system software. All by hand. And you have to create your own init scripts (although examples are provided).
Why would you want to do this? It's an excellent way to learn about Linux. You learn exactly what components make up your system, get a pretty good idea how they interact, etc.
Would you want to run this on a system you actually use? Probably not. It's a pain in the ass. Everything has to be compiled from scratch. No package system to minimize cruft build-up. Every security patch has to be downloaded and applied by hand. It's very time consuming.
Someone at Fox wanted that show to fail. I dunno what they were shooting in their veins at the time, but they did everything in their power to make that show fail (12:20am! I kid you not!).
Kinda like Futurama gets the timeslot of death after Football? I seem to remember something similar happening to Babylon five later in the fourth season (I actually thought it ended there. I didn't realize there was another until I saw it on TNT) but I don't remember for sure if that was FOX.
When did AOL suddenly have the ability to forget what the FCC ruled?
They can't. They filed a petition with the FCC to lift the restriction in light of materially changed circumstances. These circumstances are two-fold - The overtly stated one is that they now have serious competition in the IM arena from MSN and Yahoo!. Restricting AIM while allowing these two to do whatever they wanted would eventually reduce AIM to nothing as the others far surpassed AOL's product. The for the second, look at AOL's stock price. The whole merger thing has turned out to be a nearly unmitigated disaster instead of producing a 21st century powerhouse, as it was expected to.
So you have the cure for AIDS, but you have a patent on it, so what now *I* have to die because you are a greedy bastard?
No, no, you have to die because you have AIDS. Now I could save you if I want because I've found _a_ cure for aids, but if you can't afford it you're not anywhere else that if I'd sunk the billion dollars I spent developing it into, so making a better Furby...
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MY compiler (Microsoft C++) does catch this
if (myPointer = NULL) {
and issues a warning. Doesn't gcc?
Yes, it does. So does every other C compiler I've ever used (quite a few). I suspect the original poster may be the sort who ignores warnings....
So much for free speech in Germany.
Not really. The injunction was basically based on the idea that what SCO was doing was essentially libel/harassement. LinuxTAG basically got an injunction that says "Prove something or shutup". SCO did not choose to prove something.
Maybe I missed something, but who's trying to save the environment here? This is all about extended running times without recharging batteries, not saving the environment (as opposed to say, fuel cells in cars).
While I'm generally not all that fond if the name nitpicking either, it's actually a relavent distinction for once - SCO has been spouting off things about "whole programs copied" which tends to imply that they're talking about quite a bit more than the kernel. Which also raises questions - we can all figure out where kernel source code came from. Not all projects are as careful about logging changes.
RDRAM last time I checked had higher total bandwidth than DDR, but fails to be faster where it counts - latency. Latency on non-sequential read/write is where the memory bottle neck is.
No, actually. The Democrats might win the next presidential election and give the Justice department back their spines.
What code from SCO? I don't believe any of their products even use this...
I'm aware of it, I've actually worked with weather models on Linux. However, this nessecarily work well for all pieces of modeling software, and most of this stuff is not going to be re-written over night. (In some cases, it's just been modified by grad student after grad student since about 1970 or so. Fortran. ).
Does OpenBSD even _have_ SMP support? And Linux? If AIX is out, so is Linux. Neither OpenBSD nor Linux are anywhere close to a drop in solution. Not to mention the massive amounts of cash nessecary to replace the kind of big iron AIX generally runs on...
Yeah, except Oracle is already a major player in this market.
We're all better off without them. It's an increase in efficiency, an increase in worker productivity. 1 worker monitoring the all of the automated checkouts now does the work of 10 previously. Efficiency is increased tenfold, prices drop, (and they will, quickly - this is a very competitive market), consumers now have more money to spend on other things, thus re-employing our now out of work cashiers. It's a more efficient use of an often limited resource. Not so limited right now (economy is down after a very long period of growth, which was incidentally largely fuelled by increases in worker productivity from computerized automation) but 2 years ago the job market was so tight that many such places couldn't find enough people. This would have eased their load considerably.
In essecence, it's the same story we've been telling for three hundred years since the start of the industrial revolution - granted, there were abuses and some suckage in the short run, but look where it's gotten us. Thousands of seamstresses put out of work by sewing machines. All kinds of skilled workers out of work due to factories and assembly lines. And guess what? We all live better than those "skill workers" ever did!
I'm a constantly broke student whose income just made a stunning jump up to $12,000 dollars a year, and by the standards of the early 1800's I live in many respects like a very wealthy man.
With RFIDs, now they can get rid of ALL of them, and just pay one thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out without paying.
And now the favorite trick, to forstall possible rational argument, we'll demonize those we don't like. Yeah, somebody is going to make sure noone walks off without paying. This is going to be differnt than the current system how exactly? With human cashiers, anyone who doesn't like to pay can just walk off with their groceries? Yeah, there'll be sombody that prevents people from leaving without paying, but they're no more going to be "a thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out wihtout paying" than any of the current cashiers in the grocery stores are.
It's not unusual for people to change the capitalization when speaking about bits vs bytes.
640kb/s vs 64KB/s for 640,000 bits per second versus 64,000 bytes per second (ignoring the whole is it 1000 or 1024 issue).
Ummm....given that the Chinese already have a number of nuclear weapons (if not particularly great delivery systems) this probably isn't an issue...
heh...heeh...hahahahahaha. You obviously have not encountered the American Legal system...Google undoubtably paid a fair amount in legal fees for this matter. Lawyers want money to prepare briefs and file motions in court, whether or not it actually goes to trial. As for recouping them, they'd have to countersue.
If Hawkings theory is wrong or if the black hole falls to the metal walls of the collider before it evaporates then we all die.
Except as you'd know if you RTFA, cosmic rays bombard the earth with more energy than this collider will manage. If dangerous black holes could be created at this energy level, we'd be dead already..
I seem to remember one called "Robot Jox" or something similar...
Try reading the paragraph immediately preceding the one you quote:
In determining whether you are carrying on an activity for profit, all the facts are taken into account. No one factor alone is decisive. Among the factors to consider are whether:
1. You carry on the activity in a businesslike manner,
2. The time and effort you put into the activity indicate you intend to make it profitable,
3. You depend on income from the activity for your livelihood,
4. Your losses are due to circumstances beyond your control (or are normal in the start-up phase of your type of business),
5. You change your methods of operation in an attempt to improve profitability,
6. You, or your advisors, have the knowledge needed to carry on the activity as a successful business,
7. You were successful in making a profit in similar activities in the past,
8. The activity makes a profit in some years, and how much profit it makes, and
9. You can expect to make a future profit from the appreciation of the assets used in the activity.
The Presumption of profit is more to keep people from claiming to be a non-profit when they aren't. Quite a lot of businesses have lost money more than 3 years out of 5. Also, the regulations cite are largely for the deduction of business expenses relating to personal tax returns.
Please provide a citation. Theres no such rule in the United States.
See, the major difference would be that Jackass, depressing though the thought is, is real. They saw a real person do something and survive, thus they're trying it. This is different that seeing Wile E Coyote falling off a several hundred foot cliff, or rolling down such in a big metal ball.
Also, when did the power rangers become Anime? Last time I checked it was home-grown live action crap...
Easy. There can't. Pi is irrational. By the definition of an irrational number there is no repeating pattern that defines the number, hence no formulas. And for the second impossibilty, how can there possibly be a formula for aribtrary hex digits and not decimal? All you have to do is find at most two hex digits and convert to find the decimal digit.
Looks back at 3 foot tall stack 'o' spindles full of fansubbed anime
Raises Hand.
Linux from Scratch is actually quite a bit different from Gentoo. Gentoo provides you with executable code, you answer some questions and you have a new install, although the process takes longer and is more configurable than say, downloading pre-built packages. Linux from Scratch, last time I checked, provides you with a document. Thats it. No packages. First you create and format your partitions (by hand, using fdsck and mkfs). Then you create your filesystem, (mkdir /usr /var /etc.....), then compile statically linked versions of them minimum utilities needed to boot and compile, then reboot, recompile libraries and dynamically linked versions, then start compiling the rest of your system software. All by hand. And you have to create your own init scripts (although examples are provided).
Why would you want to do this? It's an excellent way to learn about Linux. You learn exactly what components make up your system, get a pretty good idea how they interact, etc.
Would you want to run this on a system you actually use? Probably not. It's a pain in the ass. Everything has to be compiled from scratch. No package system to minimize cruft build-up. Every security patch has to be downloaded and applied by hand. It's very time consuming.
Someone at Fox wanted that show to fail. I dunno what they were shooting in their veins at the time, but they did everything in their power to make that show fail (12:20am! I kid you not!).
Kinda like Futurama gets the timeslot of death after Football? I seem to remember something similar happening to Babylon five later in the fourth season (I actually thought it ended there. I didn't realize there was another until I saw it on TNT) but I don't remember for sure if that was FOX.
They can't. They filed a petition with the FCC to lift the restriction in light of materially changed circumstances. These circumstances are two-fold - The overtly stated one is that they now have serious competition in the IM arena from MSN and Yahoo!. Restricting AIM while allowing these two to do whatever they wanted would eventually reduce AIM to nothing as the others far surpassed AOL's product. The for the second, look at AOL's stock price. The whole merger thing has turned out to be a nearly unmitigated disaster instead of producing a 21st century powerhouse, as it was expected to.
No, no, you have to die because you have AIDS. Now I could save you if I want because I've found _a_ cure for aids, but if you can't afford it you're not anywhere else that if I'd sunk the billion dollars I spent developing it into, so making a better Furby...