We've been Googleblatted (3rd February 2004) and now Slashdotted (5th February 2004). Just when I thought it was safe to try to look at my own home page, we got struck again, this time by Slashdot. Sure enough, as some suggested they would, Slashdot ran a story about the Google incident and within "minutes" our bandwidth was saturated and the server struggling. Talk about hitting someone when they're down!:-)
However this 30K recovery page has been installed before things got too serious, either that or perhaps Slashdot is a clear second to Google (sorry folks, don't punish me for that comment) or perhaps they are more discerning. "
You are one funny zealot. The guy was explaining to you - using short easy to understand words - why free isn't good enough, and you sneered at his opinion. You are the reason why people still prefer MS on the desktop. Yes, you personally. It's your fault.
On your last point, in future please go to hell. If you are honestly incapable of undestanding why someone would rather pay for MS Office than use free OO, then your head is so far up your arse that you should be able to lick the back of your own tonsils.
Let me guess: you clicked on the link to leech it, found the servers overloaded, and came over here to bitch at everyone for doing exactly what you just did.
It's got nothing to do with whether people watch them or not. It's whether he can still keep raking in merchandising money. They'll see the films, sure, but they'll only buy the branded crap if they liked them.
It was a koala turd smoothie, but that's forgivable. What's not forgivable is putting the tag "Star Trek" on it. That's the context here, and what makes it relevant to this story.
You do have one advantage though; you can always throw yourself in front of a car. If you survive, you get rich from suing. If you don't, well, no big loss. It's win-win!
HTWFAIP is full of great ideas for surviving in Cubeville, but it rather expounds the notion of thriving by saying that everything is OK. It's true that noboby likes a whiner, but the era of unchallenged first world corporate dominance is rapidly coming to a end, and Everything Is Not OK.
If you follow the advice in this book, you will rise to a high position in a doomed company. Trouble is, that makes sense for every individual doing it. There's no point in being the squeaky wheel, because every other middle manager is telling upper management that there's no problem, so all you do is make yourself a target.
Just for once, I'd like to hear upper management at a big company (or any company) say "Bring us problems, it's our job to find solutions." And not just say it, but mean it as well.
If SCO can show that Amendment 2 isn't a complete work of fiction, then they will win.
Read Schedule 1.1(a) 1, Schedule 1.1(b) V A, and then read Amendment 2 in the context of 1.1(a) 1.
In 1.1(a) 1 Novell list "All rights and ownership of UNIX and UnixWare [...] including source code, source documentation, source listings and annotation [...]" (my emphasis) in the transferred assets.
They then inexplicably contradict that in 1.1(b) V A by exluding "All copyrights and trademarks, except for the trademarks UNIX and UnixWare." 1.1(b) V A is non-sensical in the context of 1.1(a) 1. If Novell intended to exclude copyrights, then why did they list "All rights" in 1.1(a) 1? What would be the point in SCO "owning" the source if they didn't own the copy rights for it?
Amendment 2 reverses that and restores the clear intent of 1.1(a) 1. The important clause is 1.1(a) 1, not 1.1(b) V A, which in its original incarnation made no sense.
That's just dissembling. The article gives the impression that this is the first time this has happened (implicitely, by not mentioning anything between now and last April). Basic journalistic integrity means not ignoring relevant aspects of a story just because they happen to lessen the impact.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's all click to read the story!
Uh oh.
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/q uaternion/slashdot.html
They need a little more time to swap Gordon Freeman for the new hero.
There's no need to apologise. It's blindingly obvious to anyone not already blinded by the light that shines from Linus's arse.
You are one funny zealot. The guy was explaining to you - using short easy to understand words - why free isn't good enough, and you sneered at his opinion. You are the reason why people still prefer MS on the desktop. Yes, you personally. It's your fault.
On your last point, in future please go to hell. If you are honestly incapable of undestanding why someone would rather pay for MS Office than use free OO, then your head is so far up your arse that you should be able to lick the back of your own tonsils.
Don't be a muppet. The "editors" here were replaced with very small shell scripts years ago.
Let me guess: you clicked on the link to leech it, found the servers overloaded, and came over here to bitch at everyone for doing exactly what you just did.
Correct, but that's not the question that I asked.
An arbitrary wavelength, genius.
Do you really think that Pepsi would have paid two billion dollars to put Jar-Jar on their products if they agreed with you?
It's got nothing to do with whether people watch them or not. It's whether he can still keep raking in merchandising money. They'll see the films, sure, but they'll only buy the branded crap if they liked them.
Including $2 billion dollars from Pepsi. Yes, you read that right. <Dr Evil>Two beeelyon dollars</Dr Evil>
It was a koala turd smoothie, but that's forgivable. What's not forgivable is putting the tag "Star Trek" on it. That's the context here, and what makes it relevant to this story.
You do have one advantage though; you can always throw yourself in front of a car. If you survive, you get rich from suing. If you don't, well, no big loss. It's win-win!
HTWFAIP is full of great ideas for surviving in Cubeville, but it rather expounds the notion of thriving by saying that everything is OK. It's true that noboby likes a whiner, but the era of unchallenged first world corporate dominance is rapidly coming to a end, and Everything Is Not OK.
If you follow the advice in this book, you will rise to a high position in a doomed company. Trouble is, that makes sense for every individual doing it. There's no point in being the squeaky wheel, because every other middle manager is telling upper management that there's no problem, so all you do is make yourself a target.
Just for once, I'd like to hear upper management at a big company (or any company) say "Bring us problems, it's our job to find solutions." And not just say it, but mean it as well.
Shush, don't you go bringing facts into this while we're raging against the machine.
There are a lot of out of work CS majors right now. Lawyers, on the other hand, seem to be in high demand.
If SCO can show that Amendment 2 isn't a complete work of fiction, then they will win.
Read Schedule 1.1(a) 1, Schedule 1.1(b) V A, and then read Amendment 2 in the context of 1.1(a) 1.
In 1.1(a) 1 Novell list "All rights and ownership of UNIX and UnixWare [...] including source code, source documentation, source listings and annotation [...]" (my emphasis) in the transferred assets.
They then inexplicably contradict that in 1.1(b) V A by exluding "All copyrights and trademarks, except for the trademarks UNIX and UnixWare." 1.1(b) V A is non-sensical in the context of 1.1(a) 1. If Novell intended to exclude copyrights, then why did they list "All rights" in 1.1(a) 1? What would be the point in SCO "owning" the source if they didn't own the copy rights for it?
Amendment 2 reverses that and restores the clear intent of 1.1(a) 1. The important clause is 1.1(a) 1, not 1.1(b) V A, which in its original incarnation made no sense.
SCO are going to win, and win fast. Sorry.
Government appointed activists?
For SCO, I mean, given that they claim to own or claim to already be receiving payments for all of the above!
Some of us still remember your vision of 'Trek, rather than the rewarmed replicator gruel that it has become.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
You are full of shit (sorry, can't give any more details).
Hey there, buddy! Everything is great! Don't outsource to India!
You, sir, are worse than Hitler. I realise that you just claimed to be upper management, and I apologise for the redundancy.
That's just dissembling. The article gives the impression that this is the first time this has happened (implicitely, by not mentioning anything between now and last April). Basic journalistic integrity means not ignoring relevant aspects of a story just because they happen to lessen the impact.