That would be nice if telco service was actually a free market. But it isn't. The RBOCs have monopolies in their regions, so they can pretty much do as they please. Especially since with this ruling we see the FCC isn't going to keep their rapacious greed in check.
This is something that we need to do. If we are going to stand up in front of the world with a holier-than-thou attitude, we must make absolutely sure that our house is in order. We need to determine the origin of every patch applied to ctype.h and whatever other files are named, and prove that we have fair claim to the code.
Please refer to Jakob Nielsen's excellent AlertBox column on why PDF's should not be used for anything other than printing: PDF unfit for human consumption. In short, PDF's present a critical usability problem. Issues include: jarring user interface, linear exposition, lack of editability, and loss of navigation tools. It is true that some PDF files do not suffer from all of these problems, but most do.
I am still in shock that the Dept Of "Justice" did not require MS to open its file format as a result of being found to have abused an illegal monopoly.
You think MS can't find a few more bucks under their well-padded mattress to throw at SCO to fund the lawsuit? Hell, MS could *buy* SCO and pursue the suit themselves. Certainly the Feds won't stop them from doing that!
Actually, I think the point is to change the way Dell, HP and other vendors sell their boxes. It would be much better for the cause of achieving world domination if when my grandmother or some other non-techie goes to buy a piece of hardware, they have a real choice about what OS they get. If the vendors have to go through all this small claims nonsense often enough, they'll stop bundling MS products with their hardware. I hope.
The reason that Macintosh hasn't garnered a larger share of the desktop market is that the darn machines cost so much. Remember, Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. Anyone's grandma can get into a Windows (Or GNU/Linux) machine for under $500, but that isn't practical with Apple's offerings.
It is my understanding that POSIX is interesting, not for technical reasons, but for political ones. Back when I used to work as a sysadmin for the National Weather Service, it was a common criteria for procuring new systems that the new systems were POSIX compliant. If they weren't compliant, the government wasn't allowed to spend money on them. If we want to be able to sell Linux to the government, we might still need to be POSIX compliant.
The America's Cup is not held every three years. There is no set schedule. At the start of each cycle, the Defender and the Challenger of Record sit down and negotiate a schedule. This time around, Team New Zealand and Prada decided on a three year schedule. Last time around, Team New Zealand and the New York Yacht Club agreed on a five year schedule. To my knowledge, the shortest schedule was one year (with the New Zealand "big boat" challenge against Dennis Connor's catamaran - what a fiasco!) in 1988.
Second, there are three American syndicates this year. The poster was correct that two of them are backed by Larry Ellison (Oracle BWM from the Golden Gate Yacht Club) and Craig McCaw (OneWorld from the Seattle Yacht Club). However, there is a third American syndicate this time around: Dennis Connor's Stars and Stripes campaign, from the New York Yacht Club. Dennis Connor (aka Mr America's Cup) has participated in every America's Cup going back over 20 years. He's lost the cup twice, and won it four times. This is also the first time in several America's Cup cycles that Dennis Connor has had the money from his backers to support a two-boat campaign, making him very dangerous to retake the cup.
I also want to take issue with the tone of the original posting. Yes, it takes a lot of money to run a competitive America's Cup campaign these days, but that money isn't being thrown away. There is a lot of community service being done by most of the syndicates. Also, the research done into boat design does trickle down to the common man, making sailing more fun for everyone else. Plus, it's a good venue for advertising and since each syndicate by definition must represent its home country, a good way to be patriotic as well. Most of all though, it's a grand spectacle. Why not sit back and enjoy the show?
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And it won't be resolved quickly.
That would be nice if telco service was actually a free market. But it isn't. The RBOCs have monopolies in their regions, so they can pretty much do as they please. Especially since with this ruling we see the FCC isn't going to keep their rapacious greed in check.
Beakman's world was a much better science show.
Will this Puffin thing fly on top Linux? Locate and find are all well and good, but there is room for improvement.
Except I was serious.
This is something that we need to do. If we are going to stand up in front of the world with a holier-than-thou attitude, we must make absolutely sure that our house is in order. We need to determine the origin of every patch applied to ctype.h and whatever other files are named, and prove that we have fair claim to the code.
Don't we need to inspect all the patches applied to these files and make sure that they were from sources that are as clean as the original code?
Please refer to Jakob Nielsen's excellent AlertBox column on why PDF's should not be used for anything other than printing: PDF unfit for human consumption. In short, PDF's present a critical usability problem. Issues include: jarring user interface, linear exposition, lack of editability, and loss of navigation tools. It is true that some PDF files do not suffer from all of these problems, but most do.
I am still in shock that the Dept Of "Justice" did not require MS to open its file format as a result of being found to have abused an illegal monopoly.
You think MS can't find a few more bucks under their well-padded mattress to throw at SCO to fund the lawsuit? Hell, MS could *buy* SCO and pursue the suit themselves. Certainly the Feds won't stop them from doing that!
Actually, I think the point is to change the way Dell, HP and other vendors sell their boxes. It would be much better for the cause of achieving world domination if when my grandmother or some other non-techie goes to buy a piece of hardware, they have a real choice about what OS they get. If the vendors have to go through all this small claims nonsense often enough, they'll stop bundling MS products with their hardware. I hope.
The reason that Macintosh hasn't garnered a larger share of the desktop market is that the darn machines cost so much. Remember, Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. Anyone's grandma can get into a Windows (Or GNU/Linux) machine for under $500, but that isn't practical with Apple's offerings.
It is my understanding that POSIX is interesting, not for technical reasons, but for political ones. Back when I used to work as a sysadmin for the National Weather Service, it was a common criteria for procuring new systems that the new systems were POSIX compliant. If they weren't compliant, the government wasn't allowed to spend money on them. If we want to be able to sell Linux to the government, we might still need to be POSIX compliant.
The America's Cup is not held every three years. There is no set schedule. At the start of each cycle, the Defender and the Challenger of Record sit down and negotiate a schedule. This time around, Team New Zealand and Prada decided on a three year schedule. Last time around, Team New Zealand and the New York Yacht Club agreed on a five year schedule. To my knowledge, the shortest schedule was one year (with the New Zealand "big boat" challenge against Dennis Connor's catamaran - what a fiasco!) in 1988.
Second, there are three American syndicates this year. The poster was correct that two of them are backed by Larry Ellison (Oracle BWM from the Golden Gate Yacht Club) and Craig McCaw (OneWorld from the Seattle Yacht Club). However, there is a third American syndicate this time around: Dennis Connor's Stars and Stripes campaign, from the New York Yacht Club. Dennis Connor (aka Mr America's Cup) has participated in every America's Cup going back over 20 years. He's lost the cup twice, and won it four times. This is also the first time in several America's Cup cycles that Dennis Connor has had the money from his backers to support a two-boat campaign, making him very dangerous to retake the cup.
I also want to take issue with the tone of the original posting. Yes, it takes a lot of money to run a competitive America's Cup campaign these days, but that money isn't being thrown away. There is a lot of community service being done by most of the syndicates. Also, the research done into boat design does trickle down to the common man, making sailing more fun for everyone else. Plus, it's a good venue for advertising and since each syndicate by definition must represent its home country, a good way to be patriotic as well. Most of all though, it's a grand spectacle. Why not sit back and enjoy the show?
Halmonster
Isn't that exactly what GConf does?