I am a BIG gamer, but I still watch tv. Just one thing. THERE IS LITTLE GOOD new stough coming out. Cut the BS they brung out, and get some good stough, say farscape, and other shows, and hey maby I would wath more.
Well I have been with bell (I am canadian so this actualy dose not affect me) for a long time. and at one point, I almost moved to another companey. the real thing that heldme back was the fact I would lose my cell #. In all honesty, there is no reason I should lose it, its stilll a 416 #, same area... but hey thats how its set up. So yes I think this is a concern, that allowing people to keep the number well mean more people well switch. so how do you fix this, well you have to make the customer want to stay with you. Not use little tricks to almost force them to stay with you. Its a customer market, and if you the phone companey do not bend tot he customer, you well lose them, simple
I am not a lawyer, but have worked at home depot tool rental for over 4 years. In that time you get to know ins and outs of the law when you talk about contracts. We have 2 pages on our contracts, the first talking about what you are renting and such, the second ALL the fine print. If you sign and try to screw us over, well we have many ways to go. BUT if the contract is not signed properly, OR the customer somehow removes the signed contract from tool rental, they really do not have to pay because we do not have a signature proving there consent for the tool. I have eve been called t trial 2 times, and well both times the first thing that happens is the judge wants to verify the signature on the contract and id of the customer (or at this point banned customer).
So by law up here, you could actually use out the credit card, then call them up and say "HEY I did not sign up for a card, you have NO signature, blow me". And it may cause you issues, and be a pain in the ass, but they would have no way of. Making you pay for it.
so if the laws regarding contracts are some what the same in the states, you do have some sort of case, but I well tell you now, you well never get the name removed form all the spamers and such. It's just never going to happen.
Think about it, has Innovation really ever been 100% Innovative.
Here are a few examples of M$ Innovation c# = sun Java Windows = apples OS (they beat M$ by over 10 years) IE = Based on NCSA Mosaic (look at the about IE thing) And also remember M$ just got beat in court over patents.
Really think about it, M$ is a re hash company. But they are good at it. Well at least making people think they are good at it. I have seen very little quality program from M$. I give credit where its due and I admit windows 2000 is a decent system. But again it's just a re hash.
Once they market the crap out of something and get everyone to use it, they look at it and say hey why wastes cash on this. It's making cash, and that's all we care about.
Well In my collage, some nut in a dorm crashed Sheridan entire network somehow by being a huge P2P hog. Find, but others in the school using the network trying to do work get screwed. So yes if you are RUNNING any P2P software, then sure kick them off the network.
Now say I do have p2p software on my laptop that I own, and take home. If the software is never run on the schools networks, just on home net, then there is no issue. The way this reads to me, I would be hit because I still have the software. So there are cases this is a little bit much. Personally in collage, I ran into this case, Only used schools networks for schoolwork (and some games, hey stress relief) and home ran a little p2p. So change it to RUNNING p2p then kicked off network.
Well I ma a programer, and to be honest I do rather have a dead tree version of books for when I am coding. And I still like to read a paper, or watch the newse. But you are right, Sice I got connected, I have been using the net for almost every bit of research. Why Well wy leave my house, go to a libary, when alsmot everything is online someware.
Ok well from what I understand SCO never had the right to just cut off someone's license to sell Unix. Nortel had final say, as nortel did not sell all the rights to Unit to SCO. So well I would love to know if nortel has said no to this as well. And if they have, again SCO is setting them up to be destroyed by another company. You would think they had enough heavy hitters against them with much more resources then they have. Hell even RedHat has more resources the SCO, and IBM's law department has as many employees as SCO dose in its entire company.
So basically, I want to hear form nortel, and if nortel says no, then I want to see SGI see if they can join in with IBM because there cases are now more related (not completely but hey close enough).
Now basically why would sco do all of this, well 2 reasons, One they are M$ bitch, and are meant to just mess linux up, and in all honesty with the crap they keep doing, you could actually believe that. Or they just want to be bought out, and are making sure they are enough pain in the ass that its easier to just buy them out then listen to them. Though IBM looks like they want a court case, hence why SCO is saying o crap, STALL STALL.
One last thing, what about the employees of SCO, relay after all this, they are tainted. No one now well want to hire people from Enron, why, well just because, and that's what's happing here. Some people working there may just be good developers starving for good jobs, but this well just ruin their reputations is this appears on a resume. IBM and other big hitters well look away as well as almost anyone with any ties to linux and do not like SCO.
ya we got a bunch of smart cookies up here. But I bet this well not be in many Us history books. Us always try to rember there side of the story only, not anyone elses, or atleast what happaned good to them. Say the war of 1812, ask any american, they well basicaly know it was a naval batal that they won. but no one knows about the northern expansion where Canada beat back the US and burned the white house down. There are many other examples, but this has to be the best one ever.
Another good one for canadian inventers, daylight savings time thats canadian invented.
Well I said that the 50 million peopel should be asked, never said had to. but hey I would write in saying EXACTALY what you have said here if that ever happaned.
Basiclay say, hey free speach syre, but hey I do not need to be forced to waste my time lissing to your free speach. I can chose which chanals on tv I watch. so why can't I decide who can call my house right.
Ok at 50 million numbers and climing. Its easy to see the US people do not like telemarketing. but seams the US legal system can not take this inot account. I would hope this goes to a higher cort,a nd all 50million people are asked to write in saying why they do not like telemarketing.
Also give out the phone numbers for the judge's house. And you can all call him around dinner time.
Well what happens when I buy mp3's online and then say hey I want to upload them to my work to lissen to them, or maby to my hand held. So basiclay they are saying that we can't realy use even what we leagealy buy. so in that case they can bite me, I am downloading for free then because I well use it out of my home so I am not legal to begin with acording to this.
Kazaa (or any P2P) is not just a US bassed network. I am a canadian,a nd they are not trying to sue any of us up here (tho atleast not yet). And say If you download stough that RIAA has no control over, such as UK hard house and such (my style) why would RIAA scare Bs tactict scare me. Basiclay RIAA may scare some people to be a little more carfule what they downlod (IE avoiding the RIAA stough, to be honest I am not a brintney spares fan aeway).
Is there any way I could obtain a english e mail account. I realy like the idea of having a account that after I use it once online, its not spamed all to hell. But also what happens when say this spammer in say japan spams a UK e mail address. Can they still be fined, or possabley baned
Yep we get mad taxed and the RIAA gets the cash. Now.77 cents dose nto seam like a big deal, the new oncoming raise in this tax well make cd's upto 2$ per blank. I think I well be getting my Us friends to ship them across the border for me to use for backup. they are also moving this to DVD-R, at some extreamly bloated rate. Basiclay ya, when we start getting the RIAA cashing in here in the corts, and from blanks, I see a slight issue. Especialy considering my blanks are for backup, and my music I buy is all from NON RIAA shops (over seas).
I disagree Remember they came out with their original processors when the race to hit 1ghz was still on the go. So they where in the right MHz area then. Though they have not done much to keep up since then. What happened tot hem is they lost their contract with IBM, Sony did not make many laptops and there processors never got really well pushed in the mobile computing market as they should have been. It is a great idea of a chip, but things just never went right for them.
This situation is VERY simple Economy is not in great shape. India has cheep labor, and that now includes a big base of computer labor. So companies just go there and get the job done for cheep, and get rich off the savings. But in this world, I have been a FIR believer you get what you pay for and you pay for cheep code, 9 chances out of 10 you get cheep code, such as the badly ported software example.
Now as willing to move to another place, well that's another fun topic. I live in Canada, and have a computer science technology diploma. But because its a diploma and not a degree, I am not allowed to work in the states tell I have several years experience or upgrade to a degree. Even If a friend in the states wishes to hire me for his firm, legally, he can't, which is actually my case. Many countries have things like this, and some well not even recognize the diploma/degree from you country. So this can be a VERY tricky subject
Well now we believe IBM made up Linux Troval, and that he dose not really exist. Therefor, we are raising our lawsuit to 5Billion dollars. Also we also believe that some marketing drowns in AOL helped add code to Linux, which we have Proof of, but hey again we an't showing.
Ok after yesterdays code release, which members of the community had traced and proven was not SCO IP within a matter or mints. Also showing several sources, you would think that someone would start saying, hey maybe we should wait tell SCO proves something before we even allow SCO to sue any users.
But I see this being a good thing and here is why.
SCO "I am suing u, we want one hundred billion dollars"
Me "Ok lets see a judge, hey mister judge why should I pay SCO since they have not shown they any real code proving there IP is in linux"
Judge "SCO please show me why I should make the poor linux user pay you"
SCO "because we say so"
Judge "that is not good enough, we need proof"
SCO "well if we show the code, we can't blackmail Linux and GPL"
Judge "Then you don't get paid"
SCO "Ok here is code sample"
5 min later
Judge "I have 10,000 linux users just e mail showing this is not your IP"
SCO "Um yes it is, we say it is, give us money"
Judge "Hey linux user, u are free, SCO, u are being charged with blackmailing people for money and such, move 4 spaces and go to jail"
Basically I am at the point where, I don't think SCO could prove any court case without getting themselves in more trouble or without showing the code. And when the code is releases, if it is actual IP, and hey maybe SCO had some IP added in there just for this (hey they have bitched this long, makes you think don't it). They have shown no proof, yet act as if the whole linux community should pay them cash. To be honest my 2-year-old god sun doses not cry as much as SCO. I just with the USA would wake up and do what Germany did, basically a put up or shut up stance.
Also on one last note, I wrote SCO about their linux license saying I was a contractor with many clients who where running linux stating some where wondering why they should get the license. Acted in a very professional manner and all, and All I ever got after 2 messages was a automated reply. So they well not even tell someone who is actually interested in buying the license (not really but hey they did not know that) any reason at ALL why we should pay out.
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Ok I got a pitch forh, we need a old preast, a new preast, some fire, and a whole lot of LART weapons. GET the spamers.
I am a BIG gamer, but I still watch tv. Just one thing. THERE IS LITTLE GOOD new stough coming out. Cut the BS they brung out, and get some good stough, say farscape, and other shows, and hey maby I would wath more.
Well I have been with bell (I am canadian so this actualy dose not affect me) for a long time. and at one point, I almost moved to another companey. the real thing that heldme back was the fact I would lose my cell #. In all honesty, there is no reason I should lose it, its stilll a 416 #, same area ... but hey thats how its set up. So yes I think this is a concern, that allowing people to keep the number well mean more people well switch. so how do you fix this, well you have to make the customer want to stay with you. Not use little tricks to almost force them to stay with you. Its a customer market, and if you the phone companey do not bend tot he customer, you well lose them, simple
the faster this can get into court and be over, the better.
O crap
what well I read now in the morning over coffiee
I am not a lawyer, but have worked at home depot tool rental for over 4 years. In that time you get to know ins and outs of the law when you talk about contracts. We have 2 pages on our contracts, the first talking about what you are renting and such, the second ALL the fine print. If you sign and try to screw us over, well we have many ways to go. BUT if the contract is not signed properly, OR the customer somehow removes the signed contract from tool rental, they really do not have to pay because we do not have a signature proving there consent for the tool. I have eve been called t trial 2 times, and well both times the first thing that happens is the judge wants to verify the signature on the contract and id of the customer (or at this point banned customer).
So by law up here, you could actually use out the credit card, then call them up and say "HEY I did not sign up for a card, you have NO signature, blow me". And it may cause you issues, and be a pain in the ass, but they would have no way of. Making you pay for it.
so if the laws regarding contracts are some what the same in the states, you do have some sort of case, but I well tell you now, you well never get the name removed form all the spamers and such. It's just never going to happen.
Think about it, has Innovation really ever been 100% Innovative.
Here are a few examples of M$ Innovation
c# = sun Java
Windows = apples OS (they beat M$ by over 10 years)
IE = Based on NCSA Mosaic (look at the about IE thing)
And also remember M$ just got beat in court over patents.
Really think about it, M$ is a re hash company. But they are good at it. Well at least making people think they are good at it. I have seen very little quality program from M$. I give credit where its due and I admit windows 2000 is a decent system. But again it's just a re hash.
Once they market the crap out of something and get everyone to use it, they look at it and say hey why wastes cash on this. It's making cash, and that's all we care about.
My 2 cents plus 2 more
Doom3 to beat Half-Life 2 to market
Now isn't this a scary messed up thought
Well In my collage, some nut in a dorm crashed Sheridan entire network somehow by being a huge P2P hog. Find, but others in the school using the network trying to do work get screwed. So yes if you are RUNNING any P2P software, then sure kick them off the network.
Now say I do have p2p software on my laptop that I own, and take home. If the software is never run on the schools networks, just on home net, then there is no issue. The way this reads to me, I would be hit because I still have the software. So there are cases this is a little bit much. Personally in collage, I ran into this case, Only used schools networks for schoolwork (and some games, hey stress relief) and home ran a little p2p. So change it to RUNNING p2p then kicked off network.
Well I ma a programer, and to be honest I do rather have a dead tree version of books for when I am coding. And I still like to read a paper, or watch the newse. But you are right, Sice I got connected, I have been using the net for almost every bit of research. Why Well wy leave my house, go to a libary, when alsmot everything is online someware.
Novel I ment Novel
dam it to hell i ment Novel
Hate when i mix those 2 up
Ok well from what I understand SCO never had the right to just cut off someone's license to sell Unix. Nortel had final say, as nortel did not sell all the rights to Unit to SCO. So well I would love to know if nortel has said no to this as well. And if they have, again SCO is setting them up to be destroyed by another company. You would think they had enough heavy hitters against them with much more resources then they have. Hell even RedHat has more resources the SCO, and IBM's law department has as many employees as SCO dose in its entire company.
So basically, I want to hear form nortel, and if nortel says no, then I want to see SGI see if they can join in with IBM because there cases are now more related (not completely but hey close enough).
Now basically why would sco do all of this, well 2 reasons, One they are M$ bitch, and are meant to just mess linux up, and in all honesty with the crap they keep doing, you could actually believe that. Or they just want to be bought out, and are making sure they are enough pain in the ass that its easier to just buy them out then listen to them. Though IBM looks like they want a court case, hence why SCO is saying o crap, STALL STALL.
One last thing, what about the employees of SCO, relay after all this, they are tainted. No one now well want to hire people from Enron, why, well just because, and that's what's happing here. Some people working there may just be good developers starving for good jobs, but this well just ruin their reputations is this appears on a resume. IBM and other big hitters well look away as well as almost anyone with any ties to linux and do not like SCO.
My 2 cents plus 2 more
First off, ITS A JOKE
Second, you are a Anonymous Coward, so hey you don't count towards much aneway
I think we have our new spokesperson for to_Much_Time.com
Still a sweet idea tho
ya we got a bunch of smart cookies up here. But I bet this well not be in many Us history books. Us always try to rember there side of the story only, not anyone elses, or atleast what happaned good to them. Say the war of 1812, ask any american, they well basicaly know it was a naval batal that they won. but no one knows about the northern expansion where Canada beat back the US and burned the white house down. There are many other examples, but this has to be the best one ever.
Another good one for canadian inventers, daylight savings time thats canadian invented.
Well I said that the 50 million peopel should be asked, never said had to. but hey I would write in saying EXACTALY what you have said here if that ever happaned.
Basiclay say, hey free speach syre, but hey I do not need to be forced to waste my time lissing to your free speach. I can chose which chanals on tv I watch. so why can't I decide who can call my house right.
Ok at 50 million numbers and climing. Its easy to see the US people do not like telemarketing. but seams the US legal system can not take this inot account. I would hope this goes to a higher cort,a nd all 50million people are asked to write in saying why they do not like telemarketing.
Also give out the phone numbers for the judge's house. And you can all call him around dinner time.
Well what happens when I buy mp3's online and then say hey I want to upload them to my work to lissen to them, or maby to my hand held. So basiclay they are saying that we can't realy use even what we leagealy buy. so in that case they can bite me, I am downloading for free then because I well use it out of my home so I am not legal to begin with acording to this.
Kazaa (or any P2P) is not just a US bassed network. I am a canadian,a nd they are not trying to sue any of us up here (tho atleast not yet). And say If you download stough that RIAA has no control over, such as UK hard house and such (my style) why would RIAA scare Bs tactict scare me. Basiclay RIAA may scare some people to be a little more carfule what they downlod (IE avoiding the RIAA stough, to be honest I am not a brintney spares fan aeway).
Is there any way I could obtain a english e mail account. I realy like the idea of having a account that after I use it once online, its not spamed all to hell. But also what happens when say this spammer in say japan spams a UK e mail address. Can they still be fined, or possabley baned
Yep we get mad taxed and the RIAA gets the cash. Now .77 cents dose nto seam like a big deal, the new oncoming raise in this tax well make cd's upto 2$ per blank. I think I well be getting my Us friends to ship them across the border for me to use for backup. they are also moving this to DVD-R, at some extreamly bloated rate. Basiclay ya, when we start getting the RIAA cashing in here in the corts, and from blanks, I see a slight issue. Especialy considering my blanks are for backup, and my music I buy is all from NON RIAA shops (over seas).
I disagree
Remember they came out with their original processors when the race to hit 1ghz was still on the go. So they where in the right MHz area then. Though they have not done much to keep up since then. What happened tot hem is they lost their contract with IBM, Sony did not make many laptops and there processors never got really well pushed in the mobile computing market as they should have been. It is a great idea of a chip, but things just never went right for them.
This situation is VERY simple
Economy is not in great shape. India has cheep labor, and that now includes a big base of computer labor. So companies just go there and get the job done for cheep, and get rich off the savings. But in this world, I have been a FIR believer you get what you pay for and you pay for cheep code, 9 chances out of 10 you get cheep code, such as the badly ported software example.
Now as willing to move to another place, well that's another fun topic. I live in Canada, and have a computer science technology diploma. But because its a diploma and not a degree, I am not allowed to work in the states tell I have several years experience or upgrade to a degree. Even If a friend in the states wishes to hire me for his firm, legally, he can't, which is actually my case. Many countries have things like this, and some well not even recognize the diploma/degree from you country. So this can be a VERY tricky subject
"Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of this mess"
O dear god no, what well I have to read with my coffiee in the morning on slashdat
O wate, maby real important news
Well now we believe IBM made up Linux Troval, and that he dose not really exist. Therefor, we are raising our lawsuit to 5Billion dollars. Also we also believe that some marketing drowns in AOL helped add code to Linux, which we have Proof of, but hey again we an't showing.
Ok after yesterdays code release, which members of the community had traced and proven was not SCO IP within a matter or mints. Also showing several sources, you would think that someone would start saying, hey maybe we should wait tell SCO proves something before we even allow SCO to sue any users.
But I see this being a good thing and here is why.
SCO "I am suing u, we want one hundred billion dollars"
Me "Ok lets see a judge, hey mister judge why should I pay SCO since they have not shown they any real code proving there IP is in linux"
Judge "SCO please show me why I should make the poor linux user pay you"
SCO "because we say so"
Judge "that is not good enough, we need proof"
SCO "well if we show the code, we can't blackmail Linux and GPL"
Judge "Then you don't get paid"
SCO "Ok here is code sample"
5 min later
Judge "I have 10,000 linux users just e mail showing this is not your IP"
SCO "Um yes it is, we say it is, give us money"
Judge "Hey linux user, u are free, SCO, u are being charged with blackmailing people for money and such, move 4 spaces and go to jail"
Basically I am at the point where, I don't think SCO could prove any court case without getting themselves in more trouble or without showing the code. And when the code is releases, if it is actual IP, and hey maybe SCO had some IP added in there just for this (hey they have bitched this long, makes you think don't it). They have shown no proof, yet act as if the whole linux community should pay them cash. To be honest my 2-year-old god sun doses not cry as much as SCO. I just with the USA would wake up and do what Germany did, basically a put up or shut up stance.
Also on one last note, I wrote SCO about their linux license saying I was a contractor with many clients who where running linux stating some where wondering why they should get the license. Acted in a very professional manner and all, and All I ever got after 2 messages was a automated reply. So they well not even tell someone who is actually interested in buying the license (not really but hey they did not know that) any reason at ALL why we should pay out.