England doesn't, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do. These two have always fawned on obvious wealth, remember the picture of billG on the steps of number 10 Downing Street. Remember the change of legislation on tobacco company sponsorship after Bernie Ecclestone gave the party 1M.
> Hardly: it should be no surprise that the nation that's quickest to abandon uneconomic technology is the most successful. If only Britain had the same attitude, rather than some Luddite desire to keep trains running no matter how bad and inefficient they may be.
Manchester to London is about 2 hours 30m, even on Virgin trains. Driving takes anything from 4 hours upwards, dependent on when you start. So if I have a London meeting I can do it in a day by train. If I go by car I can`t.
As far as I am concerned that makes it efficient. As for economic, if you actually added in all the costs, such as the time I save, the work I can do on the train, the telephone calls I can legally answer, the hotel bills I don`t have to pay, then the overall economic equation comes out much more evenly.
The road builder`s arguments never take the human factors into account.
Do I believe that rail travel is currently wonderful in the UK? Absolutely not, but it is much better than the Luddites in cars give it credit for.
Even today MVS and z/OS are responsible for moving much of the world`s money.
If you need good CPU utilisation, high data throughput for a small number of applications, then UNIX and Linux are for you.
If you need essentially deterministic scheduling, extremely high availability and the ability to run a large and complex workload then z/OS is a better bet.
Personally, I don't buy that that is true, but it's completely irrelevant to my point. Even if most spam does currently originate in America, if the U.S. somehow passes and enforces an effective anti-spam law, there is effectively zero cost involved in these spammers moving there business out of the States and still spamming Americans.
This is only half of it. Apparently much of the spam received outside the US originates from Florida. I can't see this changing, even if the US passes an anti-spam bill since it will presumably only apply to spamming Americans.
What it needs is a multi-lateral agreement. Perhaps it could be done through the UN;-)
> So we have slowly eroding personal liberties, along with a gradually growing, now almost all-encompassing quasi-socialistic govornment. (here in the US)
Err...
George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft etc. are socialist?
I think this holds true unless M$ leaps in with another handfull of $$$.
Yes, this is the worrying one. I can see SCO going down the tubes and someone inimical to FOSS buying them solely with the idea of clobbering Linux and other Open Source software.
MS is the likeliest candidate, but it probably wouldn't be the only one. There are other software companies whose breakfast is being eaten by FOSS.
As opposed to American publishers who infuriated Charles Dickens by publishing his books without acknowledging his copyright.
And now of course we have American publishers who want to extend copyright in perpetuity to stop people having fair use of characters in the likes of Rudyard Kipling's books.
Agreed - at work we recently had a query about spam and popups. Two or three of us suggested using Mozilla or Netscape instead of IE. We pointed out the ability to suppress popups and minimise email spam within the Netscape mailer in addition to the lower chances of viruses.
To put it mildly we were howled down. People wanted to continue with IE and Outlook. They were happy to add absurd bits of additional software to stop duff information getting as far as IE and Outlook, but they weren't prepared to change them.
As opposed to over consumption?
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> SARS could have very well been the answer to China's overpopulation issues.
So what disease do we need to eliminate American overconsumption?;-)
I can understand that in the early days of the case the likes of VNU and ZD would want to provide coverage of this. But, bar SCO mouthing off, nothing is happening in the case.
So why are the rags still providing enormous amounts of coverage? Is it SCO pestering them, are they besieging SCO to provide information or are third parties putting pressure on them to continue with the coverage.
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Since the USPTO is merely a tool of corporate pigopolists you can't expect it to acknowledge prior art in free software.
However, you could hit them with the fact that CDE implemented virtual screens.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power."
Absolutely - think of Stac and Spyglass.
Hopefully we won't have to add "and Mono" to the list.
> England wants to knight him.
England doesn't, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do. These two have always fawned on obvious wealth, remember the picture of billG on the steps of number 10 Downing Street. Remember the change of legislation on tobacco company sponsorship after Bernie Ecclestone gave the party 1M.
Apparently the people who made the chainmail for the LOTR wore their fingerprints off.
> my BLT drive
You put bacon, lettuce and tomato inside your drive? What do you put in your sandwiches?
How about using the proper tag,
<acronym title="Sender Permitted From">SPF</acronym>
Or if you want to include it in a link
<a title="Sender Permitted From" href="link">SPF</a>
It probably isn't worthwhile counterfeiting it anyway :-)
Sen. James "Global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" Inhofe and I claim my $5.
> Hardly: it should be no surprise that the nation that's quickest to abandon uneconomic technology is the most successful. If only Britain had the same attitude, rather than some Luddite desire to keep trains running no matter how bad and inefficient they may be.
Manchester to London is about 2 hours 30m, even on Virgin trains. Driving takes anything from 4 hours upwards, dependent on when you start. So if I have a London meeting I can do it in a day by train. If I go by car I can`t.
As far as I am concerned that makes it efficient. As for economic, if you actually added in all the costs, such as the time I save, the work I can do on the train, the telephone calls I can legally answer, the hotel bills I don`t have to pay, then the overall economic equation comes out much more evenly.
The road builder`s arguments never take the human factors into account.
Do I believe that rail travel is currently wonderful in the UK? Absolutely not, but it is much better than the Luddites in cars give it credit for.
z/OS didn`t exist in 1966.
Even today MVS and z/OS are responsible for moving much of the world`s money.
If you need good CPU utilisation, high data throughput for a small number of applications, then UNIX and Linux are for you.
If you need essentially deterministic scheduling, extremely high availability and the ability to run a large and complex workload then z/OS is a better bet.
A technology they invented and can't actually implement to the published standards.
Oh, and what about the box model, MS coders don't seem to be able to tell the difference between plus and minus.
If they can't do the basic stuff then what odds this turns out to be an incompatible and partially working mess?
If you were black and lived in Florida this might just allow you to vote instead of being turned away from the voting booths.
Of course there might be other ways of eliminating votes from inappropriate people - "His name is Leroy, just drop the vote into the bit bucket~.
Personally, I don't buy that that is true, but it's completely irrelevant to my point. Even if most spam does currently originate in America, if the U.S. somehow passes and enforces an effective anti-spam law, there is effectively zero cost involved in these spammers moving there business out of the States and still spamming Americans.
;-)
This is only half of it. Apparently much of the spam received outside the US originates from Florida. I can't see this changing, even if the US passes an anti-spam bill since it will presumably only apply to spamming Americans.
What it needs is a multi-lateral agreement. Perhaps it could be done through the UN
> My first reaction was "they won't pursue this".
Like the MPAA didn't pursue a Norwegian boy for releasing a few lines of code you mean.
> So we have slowly eroding personal liberties, along with a gradually growing, now almost all-encompassing quasi-socialistic govornment. (here in the US)
Err...
George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft etc. are socialist?
So what is your definition of right-wing?
I hear he has to consult his lawyers these days before he travels.
Wouldn't want to be tried before the International Criminal Court now, would he?
This will be in version 3, aka "Great Big Billy Goat Gruff".
Using the courts (read: government)
I thought one of the benefits of the American constitution was the formal separation of executive and judiciary?
I think this holds true unless M$ leaps in with another handfull of $$$.
Yes, this is the worrying one. I can see SCO going down the tubes and someone inimical to FOSS buying them solely with the idea of clobbering Linux and other Open Source software.
MS is the likeliest candidate, but it probably wouldn't be the only one. There are other software companies whose breakfast is being eaten by FOSS.
As opposed to American publishers who infuriated Charles Dickens by publishing his books without acknowledging his copyright.
And now of course we have American publishers who want to extend copyright in perpetuity to stop people having fair use of characters in the likes of Rudyard Kipling's books.
Agreed - at work we recently had a query about spam and popups. Two or three of us suggested using Mozilla or Netscape instead of IE. We pointed out the ability to suppress popups and minimise email spam within the Netscape mailer in addition to the lower chances of viruses.
To put it mildly we were howled down. People wanted to continue with IE and Outlook. They were happy to add absurd bits of additional software to stop duff information getting as far as IE and Outlook, but they weren't prepared to change them.
> SARS could have very well been the answer to China's overpopulation issues.
;-)
So what disease do we need to eliminate American overconsumption?
I can understand that in the early days of the case the likes of VNU and ZD would want to provide coverage of this. But, bar SCO mouthing off, nothing is happening in the case.
So why are the rags still providing enormous amounts of coverage? Is it SCO pestering them, are they besieging SCO to provide information or are third parties putting pressure on them to continue with the coverage.
Inquiring minds want to know!
"Since when is it cheaper to use wireless than to plug in a wire?"
Since the time it takes between copper cable being laid and taken up and stolen is very short.