what would be the point of turning a Chinese satellite into 10 bzillion bits, creating 10 bzillion new items we'd have to track and avoid in the future, lest we crash into those bits with our expensive computers?
Aren't satellites just computers really high up off the ground? Some have iSights built into them, and most all of them communicate with some kind of WiFi-like technology?
So - again.. why would you want to go and blow them up, causing massive amounts of trouble for not just them, but everyone else the day after? I don't get it.
> I wonder if anyone at the MPAA ever goes "Whoops... Glad we never won that argument!"
I aksed Jack Velenti at the airport, both of us waiting to get on a United flight, that very question.
his answer was totally amazing.
"We're not after things like DVD players, only the software that allows you to illegally copy DVDs"
while i was a little flat footed for this confrentation - two weeks of 90+ hrs per week of work, mostly at night, mostly physical labor - it did not help that he had some lady in a wheelchair with him that he was caring for.
Unfortunately, it would have done me no good to push and prod him there - because i would have been an asshole.. and assholes never win, unlike dicks, who screw assholes and pussies......sorry - in any case, it would have been inappropriate to pester him and so i bid him a good day because i'm respectful of others, even if they are not of me.
If the Firefox web browser sucks, the average Joe can uninstall that web browser from a Windows box....
if IE sucks...
Sparkle will kill puppies and old people
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Office workers, middle aged engineers, and basically anyone who uses a computer and doesn't know what l33t means... they will die.
They are comfortable with Windows 2k. They know and understand Office 2000. It took them years and years - and now they get it. Office 2003 freaks them out, but they are dealing because once you look past the candy colors, its basically just Office 2000 (you know, liek menu items work like they should, etc)
Office 12, Sparkle?? Holy crap.... all of this is going to PISS PEOPLE OFF. Like, all the hyper smart multi-doctoral engineers that i work with who just want to be able to get email, run their applications... they want fscking MATLAB to run and to make powerpoints - they don't want any of this shit! they dont' WANT totally new UIs! They know the one that they have! They just want the computer to do what they want it to do!
So, instead of just fixing Windows, like Microsoft should be doing - in the sense of, making it so My Mom(TM) doens't always have to reinstall Windows after a virus attack, or after a few months, or requiring her to become a IP security guru...
they're going to give developers the ultimate tool to make consistantly inconsistent UIs, totally inconsistent UIs across various applications, fscking buttons flipping up and over... windows flinging themselves all over the place..?
Fscking genie affect and bouncing icons? people will shit their pants for the good old days of nothing worse than the genie affect and bouncing icons.
Now - throw in ALL that above... and heap on viruses, spyware, MAC-UH-FEE renewals, Windows reinstallations,....
Great gobs of gooseshit.
Good show Microsoft - keep it up. And that comment the geek made in the video?
"we thought of the developer first"
makes me know that some things are as steady as death and taxes...
the day they start thinking about USERS before they think about developers will be the day that i'll be scared of Microsoft.
But all this shit? Go for it. If executed poorly (hey, it could happen), it will do nothing less than scare the shit out of your users... the people i work with... and My Mom, and they will either run to Mac OS X 10.5... or worse.. they'll never give up Windows XP.
If there was a chance in hell that the users were to be thought about, and the UI would be consistent... i'd be amazed.
but this? I forsee evil being released upon the earth never dreamed of... it will make us pine for 1996 websites with flashing text, rainbow paragraph dividers, and parchment backdrops....
>Portland, Oregon is apparently going to absorb 15,000 refugees >in the near future. I've no idea what impact trying to cope with >that sort of scale of influx is going to have.
all i can say to that is..
holy shit you have GOT to be kidding. Do you also worry about the impact that your new hat is going to have on your hairdoo?
there is nothing at all stopping apple from doing exactly what this guy says...
When the conditions are most ripe... when Apple is ready to face that challenge from a support perspective... when Microsoft becomes more loathed with the release of Vista which will have 8,000 viruses out for it BEFORE its released...
you don't walk into a saloon and just start shooting up the place even if you're packing a big-ass gun. You wait to size up the situation, you make sure that you're transition to Intel is complete and solid, and you make your move when you want to.
Hell, just that very THREAT should be enough to keep Microsoft awake, pissing their pants at night. That's what the US military did to the Iraqi's the first Gulf War... we kept them awake for a whole 36 hours waiting for them to be so tired of staying awake, anticipating the strike that we did far more damage than if we had attacked at zero hour.
Don't be stupid and confuse shrewd business timing tactics for making bad decisions. This linspire guy has his head shoved up his ass if he thinks Jobs isn't interested in beating the stuffing out of Microsoft.
Do you really think bush is going to develop a plan to safely build and manage power plants AND safely store the waste? It can be done, but many people feels Bush is incapable of running a 7-11 let alone deal with public safety issues on this magnitude.
i sure hope he doesn't personally write up the test plans and work out the physics of how to build the reactors either.
With pebble bed reactors, the public safety issues are nil - as in "the reactor coolant has leaked - lets go to lunch and work on it after the going away party."
Look at how we have managed the Iraq war and think how well he would deal with other issues of similar complexity.
seeing as how he was able to overtake a whole country and free 25 million people in less time than it took Janet Reno to overtake some relilgious nuts in a building in Texas.
And for the record, we were in Japan for well over 20 years. You people don't seem to read much in the way of history books much past Nixon.
All we have left to do now is to help them put together enough police to let them take care of the suicide bomber problem that is killing Iraqs 10 to 1 over American troops. I know that placation of Islamic Fascists is the preferred method of dealing with them by the left - but there's something to be said for makiung a stand.
In the States, the problem isn't that environmentalists don't want nuclear power, the problem is that they don't trust the Bush administration with it.
that has to be the single most stupid thing i've ever seen on/.
what in the hell does that even mean? Is he going to set off the nukular reactors and blow someone up? Is he going to use them to drill for oil? Is he going to give the reactors to the Saudi's, you know - those evil dirty Arabs who are just so evil... Arabs... evil... Saudis... evil arabs...
the level of hatred against this guy is epic. He is like Hitler in one way - the level of vilification by the world. Except in one case, it was justified.
public school funding would be acceptable if it was spent on educating kids.
instead it funds anti-Governor ads to the tune of $50M, paying elementary superintendants $250,000 a year to administrate 7,000 kids, and the like.
The single biggest problem (in California) is that our schools are having to subsume 2M children from other nations who's culture doesn't value education. Its that simple. Teachers always lament - and correctly lament - that so many parents don't care. Of course they don't care - because in their country, education is of very little importance.
The only thing amazing is that we continue to fund these/dev/null money ports we call public education. They are hamstrung by lawyers to kick out the kids that don't want to learn, and are forced by law to put up with kids that don't want to be there, and parents that don't want them there either.
if more money was the solution, how can we be spending over 50% of the state's budget, with nothing to show for it - while 40 years ago, it wasn't ANYWHERE near that level of funding?
at least our kids know how to be politcally correct, don't have the stress of having to know how to read their own diplomas, are sensitive to every kind of form of sexual proclivity by the time they are in 4th grade, have shitloads of self-esteem, and can be sure that when they or their neighbors with little or no english skills work so hard that they reach the pinnacle of academic achievement - community college - they can be sure that there will be free childcare for them and their 4 kids when the go to class after working the all night shift at McDonalds.
why are we worrying about science? Thats for nerds that don't watch American Idol. Which is, in and of itself, a sad state of affairs when you look at it...that those people are who we collectively teach our children to idol.
just so long as we can yell and scream and blame every problem in the country on Bush and Judge Roberts, why would you want to fill our kids' heads with crap like science? They won't have room for remembering Nelly lyrics!/bitterness and dispair
I look around and see that everything just north of El Camino Real is in full color and far more recent.
A smidge west of and everything east of Lawrence Expressway and you see the same thing, far newer coverage...
Everything south and west of and including Cupertino appears to be from at least 1989... with Los Gatos and south of Los Gatos appears to be even older than the 1989'ish maps of Cupertino.
It could be that Cupertino and Los Gatos got lumped in with the little changing mountainous areas south and south-west of the Valley in general, but that's really queer (as in, the original meaning of queer).
The newer things appear to be in the whole Mountain View area and up near Moffett Field. That would make sense because there were probably some cash outlays to get the most recent data for that area - what with everything up there changing so much near (former) Onizuka Air Force Base and it being pretty much all given over to Lockheed Martin (blech).
I worked with Aerospace Corporation, which is a FFRDC. Basically, it means its a non-profit company that works for the govt. strictly, and pays the high prices for Phds that the govt. can't pay - but since its thru a contract, we could. That also meant that they were a neutral party that could help us evaluate what contractors were telling us, since they couldn't possibly ever get the work.
In any case, they made an analysis tool call SOAP - Satellite Orbital Analysts Toolkit. Over time, it became VERY powerful - almost STK powerful.
But since it was developed on the govt's dime, STK had a shit fit. They sent letters to congress bitching that this outfit's tool was taking away their profits, since the govt. types didn't need to buy STK licenses any more in many cases.
I was always pissed about this a) because STK is the kitchen sink, the outhouse, the back yard, and the garage of satellite tools, and SOAP was great because it was a philips-head screwdriver, and often, all i wanted to do was screw in a screw - i didn't NEED anything more. b) STK's basic ppackage was "free" - but it didnt actually do jack shit, and to start working with it seriously was a $30k software outlay. c) we PAID for the SOAP software by paying the salaries of the guys that wrote it - so why should we get bitch slapped around for using it?
In the long run, it just ended up a constant feud, with the STK guys sending out nastygrams every few months, and we'd put boxes of STK on the wall and throw darts at it...
because i worked very close with the SOAP developers, and was sickened to think that TWO GUYS could make a better tool than the whole building full of people at STK. Bastard whiners.
based upon open source software... so it should absolutely be available to the public.
now, if you can tell me anything that should be MORE open source than this, I don't know what it is. Its based on GPL software and developed with my tax dollars. Hells yeah, I should get a copy of this as a US citizen and taxpayer.
I know that there are some very good medical records software pacakages out there... either they innovate or they die. Meaning, either they go to work, work and make their software better, or they die.
That sounds pretty much like why i go to work every day.... i don't see why software developers should get a free pass.
i have released two works so far - a CD and a DVD - under the Creative Commons license. I have made plenty of money on these, and my sales have been beyond what I thought i was going to make.
gsf.org/copyright
the worst part of this is...i fscking clicked on his link...
crap, frazzel,bar, baz... damnit....
shit.
aw hell, i guess the damage is done, i might as well read what he has to say.
The Mac mini cannot run 1080i video. I have no idea what you're talking about.
I cannot play H.264 1080i content on a DP 1.8 G5 with 2 gigs of ram and a 10k SATA drive... so the idea that it can be played on a Mini is silly.
Now, what we could use is some kind of Broadcom H.264 decoder based hardware that does the work for our computers... then yes, the mini would be great for playing this content.
Even EyeTV's HD box, the EyeTV 500, says it requires a DP G5 to make it go.
how the fcsk can it be than a 1999 investigation's initial findings, the Swartz investigation, show up "possible problems" and then in 2002, with Reg and Co examining the output of the 1999 investigation in 2002 and deeming that all the "problems" found in 1999 were actually NOT problems...such as legal use of BSD code, etc...
but the initial 1999 look trumps the more thorough 200*BANG*
3. A variant or clone of UNIX currently exists in the computer marketplace called "Linux." Linux is, in material part, based upon UNIX source code and methods.
4. The UNIX software distribution vendors, such as IBM, are contractually and legally prohibited from giving away or disclosing proprietary UNIX source code and methods for external business purposes, such as contributions to Linux, or from otherwise using UNIX for the benefit of others. This prohibition extends to derivative work products that are modifications of, or derivative works based on, UNIX System V source code or technology. IBM is violating this prohibition, en masse, as though no prohibition or proprietary restrictions exist at all with respect to the UNIX technology. As a result of IBM's wholesale disregard of its contractual and legal obligations to SCO, Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x and the development Linux kernel, 2.5.x, are replete with protected technology. As such, the Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.5.x and 2.6.x kernels are unauthorized derivatives of UNIX System V.
the are, have, and continue to claim that Linux is full of Unix, and that its a derivative because IBM put UNIX code in Linux.
That's the basics of their case, in a few words... they are hiding that contention behind their contracts with IBM. But how did they breach contract with SCO? - SCO alleges that they put UNIX in Linux.
If there is no illegal UNIX in Linux, then they've not breached any contracts, have they? To have breached contract, they would have had to have infringed on SCO's "UNIX copyrights"
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OHH SUN OF A BEOTCH!
damnit damnit damnit damnit....
crap.
CRAP!
Screw you guys: i'm going home. And i had JUST gone totaly Microsoft free...
Okay...
what would be the point of turning a Chinese satellite into 10 bzillion bits, creating 10 bzillion new items we'd have to track and avoid in the future, lest we crash into those bits with our expensive computers?
Aren't satellites just computers really high up off the ground? Some have iSights built into them, and most all of them communicate with some kind of WiFi-like technology?
So - again.. why would you want to go and blow them up, causing massive amounts of trouble for not just them, but everyone else the day after? I don't get it.
I just removed Firefox from this computer and installed Opera. No problem.
I also just tried to remove IE... no luck.
Firefox is still better.
> I wonder if anyone at the MPAA ever goes "Whoops... Glad we never won that argument!"
...sorry - in any case, it would have been inappropriate to pester him and so i bid him a good day because i'm respectful of others, even if they are not of me.
I aksed Jack Velenti at the airport, both of us waiting to get on a United flight, that very question.
his answer was totally amazing.
"We're not after things like DVD players, only the software that allows you to illegally copy DVDs"
while i was a little flat footed for this confrentation - two weeks of 90+ hrs per week of work, mostly at night, mostly physical labor - it did not help that he had some lady in a wheelchair with him that he was caring for.
Unfortunately, it would have done me no good to push and prod him there - because i would have been an asshole.. and assholes never win, unlike dicks, who screw assholes and pussies...
Here's the difference.
If the Firefox web browser sucks, the average Joe can uninstall that web browser from a Windows box....
if IE sucks...
Office workers, middle aged engineers, and basically anyone who uses a computer and doesn't know what l33t means... they will die.
They are comfortable with Windows 2k. They know and understand Office 2000. It took them years and years - and now they get it. Office 2003 freaks them out, but they are dealing because once you look past the candy colors, its basically just Office 2000 (you know, liek menu items work like they should, etc)
Office 12, Sparkle?? Holy crap.... all of this is going to PISS PEOPLE OFF. Like, all the hyper smart multi-doctoral engineers that i work with who just want to be able to get email, run their applications... they want fscking MATLAB to run and to make powerpoints - they don't want any of this shit! they dont' WANT totally new UIs! They know the one that they have! They just want the computer to do what they want it to do!
So, instead of just fixing Windows, like Microsoft should be doing - in the sense of, making it so My Mom(TM) doens't always have to reinstall Windows after a virus attack, or after a few months, or requiring her to become a IP security guru...
they're going to give developers the ultimate tool to make consistantly inconsistent UIs, totally inconsistent UIs across various applications, fscking buttons flipping up and over... windows flinging themselves all over the place..?
Fscking genie affect and bouncing icons? people will shit their pants for the good old days of nothing worse than the genie affect and bouncing icons.
Now - throw in ALL that above... and heap on viruses, spyware, MAC-UH-FEE renewals, Windows reinstallations,....
Great gobs of gooseshit.
Good show Microsoft - keep it up. And that comment the geek made in the video?
"we thought of the developer first"
makes me know that some things are as steady as death and taxes...
the day they start thinking about USERS before they think about developers will be the day that i'll be scared of Microsoft.
But all this shit? Go for it. If executed poorly (hey, it could happen), it will do nothing less than scare the shit out of your users... the people i work with... and My Mom, and they will either run to Mac OS X 10.5... or worse.. they'll never give up Windows XP.
If there was a chance in hell that the users were to be thought about, and the UI would be consistent... i'd be amazed.
but this? I forsee evil being released upon the earth never dreamed of... it will make us pine for 1996 websites with flashing text, rainbow paragraph dividers, and parchment backdrops....
all that means is that Mac OS X still has about 98,000 viruses to go to catch up with Windows....
George Bush.
i mean, seriously.
Who was the one that directed the storms to cruch the beloved city of debauchery to placate Baby Jesus?
George Bush.
Who causes the Great Barrier Reef to be destroyed from pollutants coming mainly from Asia?
George Bush.
Who caused the Challenger and the Discovery to blow up over WHERE!!!!! Florida and Texas?!??!?!
George Bush.
damn skippy.
>Portland, Oregon is apparently going to absorb 15,000 refugees
>in the near future. I've no idea what impact trying to cope with
>that sort of scale of influx is going to have.
all i can say to that is..
holy shit you have GOT to be kidding. Do you also worry about the impact that your new hat is going to have on your hairdoo?
regards,
Southern California/Northern Mexico
I've sent my info to them twice trying to purchase the IP license.
When i call them again, i plan on asking them if the open source software that comes with OpenServer requires the SCOSource IP license as well.
there is nothing at all stopping apple from doing exactly what this guy says...
When the conditions are most ripe...
when Apple is ready to face that challenge from a support perspective...
when Microsoft becomes more loathed with the release of Vista which will have 8,000 viruses out for it BEFORE its released...
you don't walk into a saloon and just start shooting up the place even if you're packing a big-ass gun. You wait to size up the situation, you make sure that you're transition to Intel is complete and solid, and you make your move when you want to.
Hell, just that very THREAT should be enough to keep Microsoft awake, pissing their pants at night. That's what the US military did to the Iraqi's the first Gulf War... we kept them awake for a whole 36 hours waiting for them to be so tired of staying awake, anticipating the strike that we did far more damage than if we had attacked at zero hour.
Don't be stupid and confuse shrewd business timing tactics for making bad decisions. This linspire guy has his head shoved up his ass if he thinks Jobs isn't interested in beating the stuffing out of Microsoft.
Do you really think bush is going to develop a plan to safely build and manage power plants AND safely store the waste? It can be done, but many people feels Bush is incapable of running a 7-11 let alone deal with public safety issues on this magnitude.
i sure hope he doesn't personally write up the test plans and work out the physics of how to build the reactors either.
With pebble bed reactors, the public safety issues are nil - as in "the reactor coolant has leaked - lets go to lunch and work on it after the going away party."
Look at how we have managed the Iraq war and think how well he would deal with other issues of similar complexity.
seeing as how he was able to overtake a whole country and free 25 million people in less time than it took Janet Reno to overtake some relilgious nuts in a building in Texas.
And for the record, we were in Japan for well over 20 years. You people don't seem to read much in the way of history books much past Nixon.
All we have left to do now is to help them put together enough police to let them take care of the suicide bomber problem that is killing Iraqs 10 to 1 over American troops. I know that placation of Islamic Fascists is the preferred method of dealing with them by the left - but there's something to be said for makiung a stand.
In the States, the problem isn't that environmentalists don't want nuclear power, the problem is that they don't trust the Bush administration with it.
/.
that has to be the single most stupid thing i've ever seen on
what in the hell does that even mean? Is he going to set off the nukular reactors and blow someone up? Is he going to use them to drill for oil? Is he going to give the reactors to the Saudi's, you know - those evil dirty Arabs who are just so evil... Arabs... evil... Saudis... evil arabs...
the level of hatred against this guy is epic. He is like Hitler in one way - the level of vilification by the world. Except in one case, it was justified.
we pay $11k per kid in Souther california....
/dev/null money ports we call public education. They are hamstrung by lawyers to kick out the kids that don't want to learn, and are forced by law to put up with kids that don't want to be there, and parents that don't want them there either.
public school funding would be acceptable if it was spent on educating kids.
instead it funds anti-Governor ads to the tune of $50M, paying elementary superintendants $250,000 a year to administrate 7,000 kids, and the like.
The single biggest problem (in California) is that our schools are having to subsume 2M children from other nations who's culture doesn't value education. Its that simple. Teachers always lament - and correctly lament - that so many parents don't care. Of course they don't care - because in their country, education is of very little importance.
The only thing amazing is that we continue to fund these
if more money was the solution, how can we be spending over 50% of the state's budget, with nothing to show for it - while 40 years ago, it wasn't ANYWHERE near that level of funding?
at least our kids know how to be politcally correct, don't have the stress of having to know how to read their own diplomas, are sensitive to every kind of form of sexual proclivity by the time they are in 4th grade, have shitloads of self-esteem, and can be sure that when they or their neighbors with little or no english skills work so hard that they reach the pinnacle of academic achievement - community college - they can be sure that there will be free childcare for them and their 4 kids when the go to class after working the all night shift at McDonalds.
/bitterness and dispair
why are we worrying about science? Thats for nerds that don't watch American Idol. Which is, in and of itself, a sad state of affairs when you look at it...that those people are who we collectively teach our children to idol.
just so long as we can yell and scream and blame every problem in the country on Bush and Judge Roberts, why would you want to fill our kids' heads with crap like science? They won't have room for remembering Nelly lyrics!
"My Buddy." (Is the commercial jingle stuck in your mind yet? Bwuhahahahahhah....)
i FSCKING HATE YOU!!!!!!!
o/~my buddy an' me like to climb up a tree...
DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!
o/~my buddy... my BUDDY... MY BUDDY AND ME!
AAAAAARGHGGHGHHG
I look around and see that everything just north of El Camino Real is in full color and far more recent.
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A smidge west of and everything east of Lawrence Expressway and you see the same thing, far newer coverage...
Everything south and west of and including Cupertino appears to be from at least 1989... with Los Gatos and south of Los Gatos appears to be even older than the 1989'ish maps of Cupertino.
It could be that Cupertino and Los Gatos got lumped in with the little changing mountainous areas south and south-west of the Valley in general, but that's really queer (as in, the original meaning of queer).
The newer things appear to be in the whole Mountain View area and up near Moffett Field. That would make sense because there were probably some cash outlays to get the most recent data for that area - what with everything up there changing so much near (former) Onizuka Air Force Base and it being pretty much all given over to Lockheed Martin (blech).
You can even see the infamous "blue cube" building, who's contents will not be spoken of here.http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=
Geesh - even the SJ Airport is not anywhere near what it is today.
While one could argue for "selective" oudatenedness, it appears as though its just a random hodgepodge of outdatedness, looking at the whole area.
^Satellite Orbital Analysts Toolkit^Satellite Orbital Analysts Program
STK = Satellite ToolKit, made by Analytical Graphics
Here is what an FFRDC is. I would actually love to work at Aerospace if it wasn't so fscking far away from me on the freeway... stupid SoCal.
I worked with Aerospace Corporation, which is a FFRDC. Basically, it means its a non-profit company that works for the govt. strictly, and pays the high prices for Phds that the govt. can't pay - but since its thru a contract, we could. That also meant that they were a neutral party that could help us evaluate what contractors were telling us, since they couldn't possibly ever get the work.
In any case, they made an analysis tool call SOAP - Satellite Orbital Analysts Toolkit. Over time, it became VERY powerful - almost STK powerful.
But since it was developed on the govt's dime, STK had a shit fit. They sent letters to congress bitching that this outfit's tool was taking away their profits, since the govt. types didn't need to buy STK licenses any more in many cases.
I was always pissed about this a) because STK is the kitchen sink, the outhouse, the back yard, and the garage of satellite tools, and SOAP was great because it was a philips-head screwdriver, and often, all i wanted to do was screw in a screw - i didn't NEED anything more. b) STK's basic ppackage was "free" - but it didnt actually do jack shit, and to start working with it seriously was a $30k software outlay. c) we PAID for the SOAP software by paying the salaries of the guys that wrote it - so why should we get bitch slapped around for using it?
In the long run, it just ended up a constant feud, with the STK guys sending out nastygrams every few months, and we'd put boxes of STK on the wall and throw darts at it...
because i worked very close with the SOAP developers, and was sickened to think that TWO GUYS could make a better tool than the whole building full of people at STK. Bastard whiners.
based upon open source software... so it should absolutely be available to the public.
now, if you can tell me anything that should be MORE open source than this, I don't know what it is. Its based on GPL software and developed with my tax dollars. Hells yeah, I should get a copy of this as a US citizen and taxpayer.
I know that there are some very good medical records software pacakages out there... either they innovate or they die. Meaning, either they go to work, work and make their software better, or they die.
That sounds pretty much like why i go to work every day.... i don't see why software developers should get a free pass.
i have released two works so far - a CD and a DVD - under the Creative Commons license. I have made plenty of money on these, and my sales have been beyond what I thought i was going to make.
,bar, baz... damnit....
gsf.org/copyright
the worst part of this is...i fscking clicked on his link...
crap, frazzel
shit.
aw hell, i guess the damage is done, i might as well read what he has to say.
The Mac mini cannot run 1080i video. I have no idea what you're talking about.
I cannot play H.264 1080i content on a DP 1.8 G5 with 2 gigs of ram and a 10k SATA drive... so the idea that it can be played on a Mini is silly.
Now, what we could use is some kind of Broadcom H.264 decoder based hardware that does the work for our computers... then yes, the mini would be great for playing this content.
Even EyeTV's HD box, the EyeTV 500, says it requires a DP G5 to make it go.
nice to see its bi-partisan names on the bill.
Goes to show that evil is not a party line problem; its a congressional whore problem, spanning both parties.
I hope that this passes. Reasonable R's and D's need to get behind this kind of thing, putting the assholes like Hollings and Hatch out to pasture...
how the fcsk can it be than a 1999 investigation's initial findings, the Swartz investigation, show up "possible problems" and then in 2002, with Reg and Co examining the output of the 1999 investigation in 2002 and deeming that all the "problems" found in 1999 were actually NOT problems...such as legal use of BSD code, etc...
but the initial 1999 look trumps the more thorough 200*BANG*
my mind just exploded.
i hate this case.
this was ORIGINALLY a lawsuit about the derivative works from a company working with a Unix license that IBM bought.
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what are you talking about? In their first filing,
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040704
their first cause of action was "Linux is full of UNIX, which belongs to us"
First cause of action - (Misappropriation of Trade Secrets--Utah Code Ann. 13-24-1 et seq.)
this is in reference to their placing UNIX code in linux... read the previous 103 statements to see what they are alleging.
in their second (and current) complaint, they keep it up!
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040207
3. A variant or clone of UNIX currently exists in the computer marketplace called "Linux." Linux is, in material part, based upon UNIX source code and methods.
4. The UNIX software distribution vendors, such as IBM, are contractually and legally prohibited from giving away or disclosing proprietary UNIX source code and methods for external business purposes, such as contributions to Linux, or from otherwise using UNIX for the benefit of others. This prohibition extends to derivative work products that are modifications of, or derivative works based on, UNIX System V source code or technology. IBM is violating this prohibition, en masse, as though no prohibition or proprietary restrictions exist at all with respect to the UNIX technology. As a result of IBM's wholesale disregard of its contractual and legal obligations to SCO, Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x and the development Linux kernel, 2.5.x, are replete with protected technology. As such, the Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.5.x and 2.6.x kernels are unauthorized derivatives of UNIX System V.
the are, have, and continue to claim that Linux is full of Unix, and that its a derivative because IBM put UNIX code in Linux.
That's the basics of their case, in a few words... they are hiding that contention behind their contracts with IBM. But how did they breach contract with SCO? - SCO alleges that they put UNIX in Linux.
If there is no illegal UNIX in Linux, then they've not breached any contracts, have they? To have breached contract, they would have had to have infringed on SCO's "UNIX copyrights"