Cray is back and getting back into the government contract game. Suprisingly, they are doing it just as the DOD is realizing that they need specialized hardware like they used to when Cray was one of their best suppliers. Look for little ol Cray to be back in the black real quick, and pick up a few shares now.
The AIX suit is lame and they will lose. The sequent thing is entirely different. Sequent had a limited licence that clearly states they can't put the nUMA technology into the public realm. This is the first time I have seen SCO actually have a case in their legal argument. The question is how will this affect Linux? Can NUMA be done while working around the SCO IP?
The Linux community as a whole is looking pretty sweet so far. SCO is attacking us through IBM. Let IBM defend us (along with Red Hat). In the end, the appeal of a free, advanced Linux community will appeal over those who charge you (SCO, Sun, M$oft). If FSF recommends any type of action, it will only drag us into the muck that SCO already is in.
You have to know when you have the moral high ground and stay there. Let SCO tarnish the pay-me OS'es. Don't be a monopoly, don't be a tyrant.
If you can create a "bent" or curved flow, you could create 3D images (at least from one side) with this technology. You could replay videos and project them on to the mist with pretty decent laser resolution. It's the whole "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" only in full size.
IBM, one fo the few companies in the world that keeps it's own comprehensive PATENT DATABASE is countersuing SCO (64 million dollars strong LOL!) for patent infringement. I think a bunch of sphincters in Santa Cruz just puckered.
IBM has the best patent attorney's in the world. SCO seems to have the worst legal team in the country. Yankees vs Tigers would be a good comparison. Regardless of the merits of the Linux suit, IBM would not have added the patent thing unless they were sure they could win it. No matter what happens now, SCO is f*&k&d
This portion of the correspondence (where Red Hat explains it's intentions) is the cusp of the thing:
"Claims of infringement could require us to seek to obtain licenses from third parties in order to continue offering our products, to reengineer our products, or to discontinue the sale of our products in the event reengineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis."
So Red Hat requested to know what parts are infringement. The purpose is to either pay a fee to use, rewrite the stuff to eliminate infringement, or stop selling the stuff if they can't get it fixed quickly. They gave SCO 30 days to provide them with the kernel code, then decided to sue them since they were dragging their heels. This is smart. Red Hat depends on Linux (duh). They want to get this resolved. By stating clearly that they will simply rewrite the code in question, SCO balked and delayed. Red Hat's managers seem to have a good grip on how a business is run, and SCO just realized that once Red Hat makes a compliant kernel, the rest of the community will follow, and SCO will have no suit. This is the real reason they are hiding the code till trial. They won't have a case if it comes out sooner.
This announcement means only one thing. IBM would not have gone through this trouble unless there were a few large contracts (DARPA/DOD) that will underwrite the expense in the future. Think I'll buy a few more shares of IBM stock today.
It's actually pretty simple. A bacteria that sheds material is still traceable back to it's progenitor. Complex as in Mammal before reptile, Reptile before arachnid. We are talking creatures in the strata that biologists and anthropologists study every day. You don't find feathers before scales, and you don't find four feet before bacteria. It has never happened, and it never will.
If this planet was "created" the strata would show mammoths, humans, dinosaurs, and birds all walking around at the same time. It doesn't. It shows a gradual progression. I know, I know the new crreationist theory is that GOD created the planet "old". Unfortunately, carbon dating shows that He would have had to do that by actually manipulating atoms at the moment of the big bang then direct the old atoms to lay lower in the strata than the newer ones, etc. You can't cheat physics...sorry.
Biologosts are referring to genus when they make that reference.
In other words, you are not going to find a platypus in the pre-cambrian era. You are not going to find an amoeba before bacteria, you will not find a mammal before reptiles, etc.
As to blind cave fish, they are just as compl9icated as their sighted brethern genetically. The area of the brain that is normally used for sight has been enhanced to pick up vibration and scent. They are every bit as complex. Of course, if you found one of these before say diatoms in the sediment layers, it would definitely make history. It has never happened, and likely never will (unless some Jesus-freak plants it).
The reason Big Bang and so many other theories are held on to is because there has been some scientific evidence to show their validity. There has yet to be one shred of evidence to prove there is some "intelligent design" behind the creation of the universe.
As for evolution vs. creationism...To this date, there has yet to be a single instance of a complex creature predating a simple one. There has yet to be a single shred of evidence to disprove evolution as a basic theory (simple creatures evolving into more complex ones). There have been some interesting changes in this all-encompassing theory, but complex before simple has never been found.
If anything, music piracy will only be the death of the big-5 studios and their machine. Music will go on, and likely get more popular and creative along the way.
The mass-produced pablum the industry puts out now is not produced for "quality", "talent" or "creativity". Most artists that are meal tickets to the big labels (Britney, Christina A., In-Sync, JLo, and so many others) don't write their own songs. They don't play an insturment, and they barely can sing. Most of the music backing them up are from samples of real music from the last 50 years. Their only real "talent" is to look good and shake their ass.
Look at it this way. Why hire studio musicians and real artists to sit in a studio with a real creative artist (who could be difficult) when you can hire a person whom you own, give them an image and songs, and then lay down tracks with a bunch of pre-stored samples?
The world won't end if the big-5 go down. There was a demand for music before them, and there will be one afterward. The only difference is that artists will be chosen by the listeners for their talent, not by music executives to maximize profits and shove their junk down your throats. Will artists make less? Probably for a time. Will they make more in the long run? Absolutely. Once the big-5 stop deducting stuff from their royalties, real artists will be rewarded, and the Brittney artists will (hopefully) scoured from our collective consciousness.
The way shared music was SUPPOSED to work was to provide unsigned artists with a platform for a wide-listening audience. Their tracks get shared, and if they are good enough, people will go to their site and buy their CD directly from them. The other thing shared networks were good at that the industry hacks STILL have not addressed is out of print tunes. You can't get George Harrison and Paul Simon's duet (performed once on SNL) of The Boxer on a disk. You can't even find half of Robert Johnson's blues collection unless you dig around for vinyl 78's. They don't want you to find this stuff because (heaven forbid) you might aquire a taste for something they can't make a profit from.
It's all relative man, but music has become less diverse instead of more. It's all homogenized now, and the industry isn't going to let you listen to stuff unless they can make a buck. I won't shed a tear if they go down. The only thing that will be lost are music executives with $5 mill a year jobs and executive jets they make off the backs of other people.
"One of its prime objectives was to plot courses that avoid shade"
Um, to my knowledge there isn't a single tree in that desert. How do they know it was successful? I am sure they will claim a 100% success, just as I can claim a 100% success when testing my coffee cup's new "don't move" feature. Yep, it worked. It's right where I left it.
Enough talk about it. Every one of us/.ers should buy 5-10 shares today. Critical mass is only 51%. We reach that and vote as a block and this is all over with. Put Taco in charge as CEO and liquidate the slimy thing before it precreates. Sell the assets, release the code, and set up a virtual boardroom here at/. to discuss strategy.
It seems like a crazy idea till you realize that it might actually work. If nothing else, it certainly will make the press...
"Website users buy out clueless company to out it out of it's misery"
There ARE competent engineers within NASA that have been trying to get the agency to realize the foolishness of abandoning the Saturn 5 booster for years. There are people that realize that ONE Saturn 5 booster that launches two vehicles (a big reusable man-rated ship, and a spam payload can) would be the solution to all of NASA's problems. Hell, some have even suggested that with some attention to return (a huge parafoil) the Saturn 5 itself could be reused.
The problem is that NASA brass haven't been listening for the last two decades. There are too many employees and too many congresspersons with a vested interest in maintaining a very costly and low yielding Shuttle/ISS system. NASA isn't about space anymore. It is a big piece of congressional pork that allows California, Texas, Alabama, and Florida representatives to demonstrate that they are bringing home the bacon to their respective districts. Until more people send more letters to their representatives demanding innovation and change at NASA, it will never have a reason to change. Screw human exploration, screw progress, just keep the dollars rolling into the money-pit called NASA.
"LPFM stations are available to noncommercial educational entities and public safety and transportation organizations"
Pretty much Churches ("God God God!") and Schools ("Snow day today, please floss your cats") can broadcast as LPFM, but no one else is going to get a permit because GOD FORBID some independent vinyl freak may become more listened to than the drabble from MEGACRAPCORP BROADCASTING and their 50k watt transmitter.
Truth is, the same fanboys that are bitching about this are the ones that were aghast that Star Trek centered a show on a space station, went apopletic when they expanded a certain female elf's part in LOTR, complained that Dune wasn't exactly like the book, and demanded that Wolverine wear yellow spandex in X-Men.
My advice is that you accept shows with an open mind if you want to see more sci-fi on TV, and go out and meet a female once in a while. Your comic books and Illustrated Guides to the Enterprise will still be next to your computer when you return. Trust me.
Nice job, I swallowed this hook, line, and sinker for about 3 minutes. I was getting pissed because I have been waiting for him to finish that damned Dark Tower series for the last 20 years! It's about the only good thing he has ever penned.
Perjury in a court is not his personal life. I have no problem with the BJ, but fer cripes sake, if you lied on your oath in a court, you probably lied on that one when you took office as well.
Any man of charachter would have said, yep I got a BJ from Monica, and I got her to lick my balls as well!.
OK, let's call them Crazy Cowards and call it a compromise. Anyone who thinks they are brave by strapping on a vest of explosives and killing "hardened targets" like mothers and children in a market is indeed a coward. I can't back off that. Walk up to a soldier or politician and I would give them marks for having the balls to do it. ANYONE can kill an innocent not expecting the blow. Crazy Cowards is fair, you agree?
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The tighter your grip on desktop users Govenor Gates, the more users will slip through your fingers.
Help the new Linux users rebels, we're their only hope.
Cray is back and getting back into the government contract game. Suprisingly, they are doing it just as the DOD is realizing that they need specialized hardware like they used to when Cray was one of their best suppliers. Look for little ol Cray to be back in the black real quick, and pick up a few shares now.
The AIX suit is lame and they will lose. The sequent thing is entirely different. Sequent had a limited licence that clearly states they can't put the nUMA technology into the public realm. This is the first time I have seen SCO actually have a case in their legal argument. The question is how will this affect Linux? Can NUMA be done while working around the SCO IP?
The Linux community as a whole is looking pretty sweet so far. SCO is attacking us through IBM. Let IBM defend us (along with Red Hat). In the end, the appeal of a free, advanced Linux community will appeal over those who charge you (SCO, Sun, M$oft). If FSF recommends any type of action, it will only drag us into the muck that SCO already is in.
You have to know when you have the moral high ground and stay there. Let SCO tarnish the pay-me OS'es. Don't be a monopoly, don't be a tyrant.
Bond doesn't have the Kung Fu to hack. He's have Q do it.
If you can create a "bent" or curved flow, you could create 3D images (at least from one side) with this technology. You could replay videos and project them on to the mist with pretty decent laser resolution. It's the whole "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" only in full size.
Thanks for pointing that out. I missed it the forst time, but it definitely is beautiful. Good call!
IBM, one fo the few companies in the world that keeps it's own comprehensive PATENT DATABASE is countersuing SCO (64 million dollars strong LOL!)
for patent infringement. I think a bunch of sphincters in Santa Cruz just puckered.
IBM has the best patent attorney's in the world. SCO seems to have the worst legal team in the country. Yankees vs Tigers would be a good comparison. Regardless of the merits of the Linux suit, IBM would not have added the patent thing unless they were sure they could win it. No matter what happens now, SCO is f*&k&d
This portion of the correspondence (where Red Hat explains it's intentions) is the cusp of the thing:
"Claims of infringement could require us to seek to obtain licenses from third parties in order to continue offering our products, to reengineer our products, or to discontinue the sale of our products in the event reengineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis."
So Red Hat requested to know what parts are infringement. The purpose is to either pay a fee to use, rewrite the stuff to eliminate infringement, or stop selling the stuff if they can't get it fixed quickly. They gave SCO 30 days to provide them with the kernel code, then decided to sue them since they were dragging their heels. This is smart. Red Hat depends on Linux (duh). They want to get this resolved. By stating clearly that they will simply rewrite the code in question, SCO balked and delayed. Red Hat's managers seem to have a good grip on how a business is run, and SCO just realized that once Red Hat makes a compliant kernel, the rest of the community will follow, and SCO will have no suit. This is the real reason they are hiding the code till trial. They won't have a case if it comes out sooner.
This announcement means only one thing. IBM would not have gone through this trouble unless there were a few large contracts (DARPA/DOD) that will underwrite the expense in the future. Think I'll buy a few more shares of IBM stock today.
It's actually pretty simple. A bacteria that sheds material is still traceable back to it's progenitor. Complex as in Mammal before reptile, Reptile before arachnid. We are talking creatures in the strata that biologists and anthropologists study every day. You don't find feathers before scales, and you don't find four feet before bacteria. It has never happened, and it never will.
If this planet was "created" the strata would show mammoths, humans, dinosaurs, and birds all walking around at the same time. It doesn't. It shows a gradual progression. I know, I know the new crreationist theory is that GOD created the planet "old". Unfortunately, carbon dating shows that He would have had to do that by actually manipulating atoms at the moment of the big bang then direct the old atoms to lay lower in the strata than the newer ones, etc. You can't cheat physics...sorry.
Biologosts are referring to genus when they make that reference.
In other words, you are not going to find a platypus in the pre-cambrian era. You are not going to find an amoeba before bacteria, you will not find a mammal before reptiles, etc.
As to blind cave fish, they are just as compl9icated as their sighted brethern genetically. The area of the brain that is normally used for sight has been enhanced to pick up vibration and scent. They are every bit as complex. Of course, if you found one of these before say diatoms in the sediment layers, it would definitely make history. It has never happened, and likely never will (unless some Jesus-freak plants it).
The reason Big Bang and so many other theories are held on to is because there has been some scientific evidence to show their validity. There has yet to be one shred of evidence to prove there is some "intelligent design" behind the creation of the universe.
As for evolution vs. creationism...To this date, there has yet to be a single instance of a complex creature predating a simple one. There has yet to be a single shred of evidence to disprove evolution as a basic theory (simple creatures evolving into more complex ones). There have been some interesting changes in this all-encompassing theory, but complex before simple has never been found.
If anything, music piracy will only be the death of the big-5 studios and their machine. Music will go on, and likely get more popular and creative along the way.
The mass-produced pablum the industry puts out now is not produced for "quality", "talent" or "creativity". Most artists that are meal tickets to the big labels (Britney, Christina A., In-Sync, JLo, and so many others) don't write their own songs. They don't play an insturment, and they barely can sing. Most of the music backing them up are from samples of real music from the last 50 years. Their only real "talent" is to look good and shake their ass.
Look at it this way. Why hire studio musicians and real artists to sit in a studio with a real creative artist (who could be difficult) when you can hire a person whom you own, give them an image and songs, and then lay down tracks with a bunch of pre-stored samples?
The world won't end if the big-5 go down. There was a demand for music before them, and there will be one afterward. The only difference is that artists will be chosen by the listeners for their talent, not by music executives to maximize profits and shove their junk down your throats. Will artists make less? Probably for a time. Will they make more in the long run? Absolutely. Once the big-5 stop deducting stuff from their royalties, real artists will be rewarded, and the Brittney artists will (hopefully) scoured from our collective consciousness.
The way shared music was SUPPOSED to work was to provide unsigned artists with a platform for a wide-listening audience. Their tracks get shared, and if they are good enough, people will go to their site and buy their CD directly from them. The other thing shared networks were good at that the industry hacks STILL have not addressed is out of print tunes. You can't get George Harrison and Paul Simon's duet (performed once on SNL) of The Boxer on a disk. You can't even find half of Robert Johnson's blues collection unless you dig around for vinyl 78's. They don't want you to find this stuff because (heaven forbid) you might aquire a taste for something they can't make a profit from.
It's all relative man, but music has become less diverse instead of more. It's all homogenized now, and the industry isn't going to let you listen to stuff unless they can make a buck. I won't shed a tear if they go down. The only thing that will be lost are music executives with $5 mill a year jobs and executive jets they make off the backs of other people.
"One of its prime objectives was to plot courses that avoid shade"
Um, to my knowledge there isn't a single tree in that desert. How do they know it was successful? I am sure they will claim a 100% success, just as I can claim a 100% success when testing my coffee cup's new "don't move" feature. Yep, it worked. It's right where I left it.
Most bikes are for transportation, not for extreme downhill. This is a brilliant adaptation of old and new. Great idea IMHO.
That's procreate and put. My bad.
Enough talk about it. Every one of us /.ers should buy 5-10 shares today. Critical mass is only 51%. We reach that and vote as a block and this is all over with. Put Taco in charge as CEO and liquidate the slimy thing before it precreates. Sell the assets, release the code, and set up a virtual boardroom here at /. to discuss strategy.
It seems like a crazy idea till you realize that it might actually work. If nothing else, it certainly will make the press...
"Website users buy out clueless company to out it out of it's misery"
There ARE competent engineers within NASA that have been trying to get the agency to realize the foolishness of abandoning the Saturn 5 booster for years. There are people that realize that ONE Saturn 5 booster that launches two vehicles (a big reusable man-rated ship, and a spam payload can) would be the solution to all of NASA's problems. Hell, some have even suggested that with some attention to return (a huge parafoil) the Saturn 5 itself could be reused.
The problem is that NASA brass haven't been listening for the last two decades. There are too many employees and too many congresspersons with a vested interest in maintaining a very costly and low yielding Shuttle/ISS system. NASA isn't about space anymore. It is a big piece of congressional pork that allows California, Texas, Alabama, and Florida representatives to demonstrate that they are bringing home the bacon to their respective districts. Until more people send more letters to their representatives demanding innovation and change at NASA, it will never have a reason to change. Screw human exploration, screw progress, just keep the dollars rolling into the money-pit called NASA.
From the FCC regulations:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/lpfm/index.html
"LPFM stations are available to noncommercial educational entities and public safety and transportation organizations"
Pretty much Churches ("God God God!") and Schools ("Snow day today, please floss your cats") can broadcast as LPFM, but no one else is going to get a permit because GOD FORBID some independent vinyl freak may become more listened to than the drabble from MEGACRAPCORP BROADCASTING and their 50k watt transmitter.
If Sci-Fi really wants to get off cheap, they should simply show Dr. Who and Red Dwarf in the afternoons. I'd TIVO both of them!
Truth is, the same fanboys that are bitching about this are the ones that were aghast that Star Trek centered a show on a space station, went apopletic when they expanded a certain female elf's part in LOTR, complained that Dune wasn't exactly like the book, and demanded that Wolverine wear yellow spandex in X-Men.
My advice is that you accept shows with an open mind if you want to see more sci-fi on TV, and go out and meet a female once in a while. Your comic books and Illustrated Guides to the Enterprise will still be next to your computer when you return. Trust me.
Nice job, I swallowed this hook, line, and sinker for about 3 minutes. I was getting pissed because I have been waiting for him to finish that damned Dark Tower series for the last 20 years! It's about the only good thing he has ever penned.
Perjury in a court is not his personal life. I have no problem with the BJ, but fer cripes sake, if you lied on your oath in a court, you probably lied on that one when you took office as well.
Any man of charachter would have said, yep I got a BJ from Monica, and I got her to lick my balls as well!.
OK, let's call them Crazy Cowards and call it a compromise. Anyone who thinks they are brave by strapping on a vest of explosives and killing "hardened targets" like mothers and children in a market is indeed a coward. I can't back off that. Walk up to a soldier or politician and I would give them marks for having the balls to do it. ANYONE can kill an innocent not expecting the blow. Crazy Cowards is fair, you agree?