It contributes to a preliminary motion to dismiss the suit on the grounds that it's frivilous - as does SCOs tendency to keep changing their minds about what it's supposed to be about.
On the other hand, IBM might choose to keep them in litigation until SCO have exactly enough money left to pay IBM's legal costs, then stop kidding around and put them out of their misery. Either one would be good at this point.
It's like RedHat patents. If you want to, you can infer that you have a license in perpetuity to use them for good. If you actually read the non-license, you'll find that all they're saying is that they probably won't sue you for using them... today.
And sure, they won't sue you, so it's effectively in perpetuity. Until they go Dark Side, or get bought out by a Dark Side company.
The only code that you have unlimited rights to is code that you write yourself or that you have obtained the first and exclusive rights to. RMS has been saying that for years. Who'd have thought the crazy socialist hippy would have been right. Well, SCO, for one.
> Can you claim copyright on someone else's derivative work?
No, but you can say that if they want to use your code to create a binary, the cost is that they cede their source copyright to you. Most "free" code - including GPL - is a honking misnomer. The only free code is one that starts by saying "(C) Bob. Bob says: you may use this for any purpose, in perpetuity."
Hasn't RMS being predicting this since dinosaurs ruled the Earth? Remember how we all thought "Gee, Richard, aren't you being just a little paranoid?"
He might be a slightly crazed filthy socialist hippy, but by golly, he nailed this one.
Next up: all those RedHat "defensive" linux patents, and their sort-of-promise to temporarily refrain from suing over them. Better hope that they never get bought out by someone a little less altruistic, eh?
That I don't have an opinion on this either way, except that if you can't tell "brake" from "break", I'd rather that you left life and death decisions to a Honda computer, you rediculus loosers.
If you say 8, I will beat you with a cluestick until you are within an inch of your life. Then I will beat another foot out of you.
The answer is, of course "It depends". It depends on whether you mean the smallest integral value that a machine can handle, or the size of a character in a given compiler (which isn't always the same thing), or you *might* mean 8 bits. But how would I know? If you think this isn't an issue, try working on code that has to work on everything (hardware and compilers) made between 1989 and 2020 or so.
I've recently put together three boxen for family and friends from my spares pile. We're talking 120-150Mhz PIs, 48-64MB SIMM RAM, 1GB drives, quad speed CD-ROMs, 56K modems and 1MB S3 cards, with Win98SE, Word 97, Outlook Express and not much else.
Now, to me and thee, that spec sucks, but to someone that just wants a box for email, browsing and word processing, it does everything that they need to do, as fast as they need to do it.
Sure, I like being able to buy 3Ghz monsters, but you need to sell a lot of systems to make back the the cost of the R&D for them. And given that we should all be aware by now of the environmental cost of computer systems, I'm going to be keeping "obsolete" hardware in service just as long as I can, and thumb my nose at the marketeers who tell me that there are compelling reasons to upgrade other than the magic smoke getting out.
Here's a giggle. I work in an office that develops for all the best toys; iPAQ's, Palms, 7650's, P800's, tablet PC's, all that jazz. We make decent developer salaries and are all geeks and proud of it.
And yet almost none of us own any of these devices. They're just too expensive for what they do. The only piece of development kit that I even bother to take home is my iPAQ, and that for one thing and one thing only: so my wife can play solitaire on it.
I too am at a loss to explain who is actually buying these top dollar toys.
Symbian is appalling! It's desparately in love with itself and its own idioms, and re-implements everything. "typedef void TAny;", for god's sake, not to mention the tortuous try/throw/catch replacement and cryptic error cleanup. The documentation is truly dreadful: everything returns "KErrNone or another of the system wide error codes", but no hints as to what error codes or under what circumstances, you have to use an undocumented feature to translate error returns to comprehensible values, getting network support in the emulator is a lottery, the develop forums are full of questions but no answers, you have to jump through hoops to fake global variables...
Put it this way. If you never intend to develop for any other platform, then Symbian is worth investing in. If you only plan to live for one human lifetime, then get a P800 (they're superb) but don't waste your life trying to develop for it.
Yup, it's the same idea. cd-wow is shipping inclusive (free! ha!) as well, and they're much of a muchness. play.com is slightly faster, but cd-wow delivers within a few days and have more region 1 titles. They're both useful for UK buyers.
That read the source for the Opera page and saw this commented out gem that says what Opera really thinks about MS (and Netscape)?
<!--
<h2>Give it up! Don't you realize that Microsoft won the browser war?</h2>
<p>No. The Web was created to offer universal access to information.
No single vendor should be allowed to treat it as private property.
Netscape used to be the bully on the block, but Microsoft outperforms
them in this role. If you would like the Web to remain a place where
no single vendor dominates, please consider using Opera.
-->
It's barely conceivable that you're talking about importing goods into the UK, in which case you don't get charged tax by the seller (although that's nothing to do with the UK). However, you do get charged import duties by customs and excise (or a postal service on their behalf, in which case you get hit with an extra charge for the priviledge) on any single item over £18 GBP in value.
That's one reason why places like cd-wow.com are so great; they post each DVD or CD singly, with the value clearly displayed, so it all just slides through. But order something over £18 in value and you will likely get import duties levied on it (but even with that, and even being posted from Hong Kong, it's still cheaper than buying from inside the UK!)
Here's what we do. Choose the 2.4.18 kernel from LILO, boot to runlevel 5, start XFree86 4.2.99.3, start a KDE 3.1rc6 session, pull up a command prompt and start phoenix& (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5).
Here's what the rest of the world does. Start Windows. Click on the Internet thingy.
A "consumer" package has no choices, and no real options. You get support for all your hardware, one app for each job, and no apps that you don't need for email, browsing, word processing and playing solitaire. You get a one button, idiot proof method of updating your system. You don't have to know what kernel you're running, or what a package is.
That's what a consumer OS is, and that's what KDE and GNOME are moving towards. Whether we want Linux, GNU apps or XFree86 to be used as the basis of such a system is another question entirely.
Gaaa! But at the time, TOS Trek showed daring in breaking these issues in mainstream TV.
So what boundaries are pushed by Voyager and Enterprise? Where are the brave new cultural ideals they espouse? As far as I can see, the theme is "We should all get along by stifling any cultural diversity that threatens to raise contentious"
Contrast with DS-9, specifically Dax. Two incidents spring to mind. One, the hot alien lesbian episode. Unlike the soft porn in the Enterprise opener, this was actually an adjunct to another issue, about what constitutes the self. In doing that, it presented a lesbian relationship as so normal that it warranted absolutely no comment. That's making a big statement.
Second, the time when Worf goes off to kick some bumpy-headed alien ass, and Dax turns up to send him off. "Don't try and talk me out of it," he growls, as we anticipate some cloying speech about the futility of war, and all getting along together. "Qa'pla!" barks Dax, in one fell swoop demonstrating that respect for other cultures means respecting the ways in which they differ from yours, not trying to assimilate and neuter them.
DS-9 was a beacon of hope for the Trek franchise. I believe that it died simply because the titty count was too small. Ironically, they actually padded Dax's bra, just not enough.
That about sums it up, right? It's not as though they have personalities.
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OTOH, the ten people that use Konsole frames in Konqueror and that update to 3.1 could have changed their keybindings. I'm thinking that you could probably have told all ten of them by word of mouth as well.
Given that so much of KDE is, ahem, influenced by other GUIs and apps, switching to the de facto standard in new releases might be a sensible strategy.
Hush now, there's no point trying to debate this. Only the USA is a proper democracy with checks and balances. We know this, because (tee hee) it's written down (snigger) on a musty old bit of paper.
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It contributes to a preliminary motion to dismiss the suit on the grounds that it's frivilous - as does SCOs tendency to keep changing their minds about what it's supposed to be about.
On the other hand, IBM might choose to keep them in litigation until SCO have exactly enough money left to pay IBM's legal costs, then stop kidding around and put them out of their misery. Either one would be good at this point.
And you believe that why exactly?
It's like RedHat patents. If you want to, you can infer that you have a license in perpetuity to use them for good. If you actually read the non-license, you'll find that all they're saying is that they probably won't sue you for using them... today.
And sure, they won't sue you, so it's effectively in perpetuity. Until they go Dark Side, or get bought out by a Dark Side company.
The only code that you have unlimited rights to is code that you write yourself or that you have obtained the first and exclusive rights to. RMS has been saying that for years. Who'd have thought the crazy socialist hippy would have been right. Well, SCO, for one.
> Can you claim copyright on someone else's derivative work?
No, but you can say that if they want to use your code to create a binary, the cost is that they cede their source copyright to you. Most "free" code - including GPL - is a honking misnomer. The only free code is one that starts by saying "(C) Bob. Bob says: you may use this for any purpose, in perpetuity."
Your a rediculus looser, but I could care less.
Hasn't RMS being predicting this since dinosaurs ruled the Earth? Remember how we all thought "Gee, Richard, aren't you being just a little paranoid?"
He might be a slightly crazed filthy socialist hippy, but by golly, he nailed this one.
Next up: all those RedHat "defensive" linux patents, and their sort-of-promise to temporarily refrain from suing over them. Better hope that they never get bought out by someone a little less altruistic, eh?
That I don't have an opinion on this either way, except that if you can't tell "brake" from "break", I'd rather that you left life and death decisions to a Honda computer, you rediculus loosers.
Cretinous counter. It doesn't matter who's at fault, just that you're dead because the car took a decision that you wouldn't have taken.
USB 2 Ramming Speed
How many bits in a byte?
If you say 8, I will beat you with a cluestick until you are within an inch of your life. Then I will beat another foot out of you.
The answer is, of course "It depends". It depends on whether you mean the smallest integral value that a machine can handle, or the size of a character in a given compiler (which isn't always the same thing), or you *might* mean 8 bits. But how would I know? If you think this isn't an issue, try working on code that has to work on everything (hardware and compilers) made between 1989 and 2020 or so.
If you mean 8 bits, say octet.
Q: So, what have you achieved this month, loyal peon?
A: Marvellous, wonderful things. But for the good of humanity, I destroyed all my research.
Wonder how long I could get away with that?
Context for this can be found here.
See here for the translation/explanation of this post.
And Lunis is his beeyatch.
Just thought I'd share that little epiphany with you.
I've recently put together three boxen for family and friends from my spares pile. We're talking 120-150Mhz PIs, 48-64MB SIMM RAM, 1GB drives, quad speed CD-ROMs, 56K modems and 1MB S3 cards, with Win98SE, Word 97, Outlook Express and not much else.
Now, to me and thee, that spec sucks, but to someone that just wants a box for email, browsing and word processing, it does everything that they need to do, as fast as they need to do it.
Sure, I like being able to buy 3Ghz monsters, but you need to sell a lot of systems to make back the the cost of the R&D for them. And given that we should all be aware by now of the environmental cost of computer systems, I'm going to be keeping "obsolete" hardware in service just as long as I can, and thumb my nose at the marketeers who tell me that there are compelling reasons to upgrade other than the magic smoke getting out.
Here's a giggle. I work in an office that develops for all the best toys; iPAQ's, Palms, 7650's, P800's, tablet PC's, all that jazz. We make decent developer salaries and are all geeks and proud of it.
And yet almost none of us own any of these devices. They're just too expensive for what they do. The only piece of development kit that I even bother to take home is my iPAQ, and that for one thing and one thing only: so my wife can play solitaire on it.
I too am at a loss to explain who is actually buying these top dollar toys.
Symbian is appalling! It's desparately in love with itself and its own idioms, and re-implements everything. "typedef void TAny;", for god's sake, not to mention the tortuous try/throw/catch replacement and cryptic error cleanup. The documentation is truly dreadful: everything returns "KErrNone or another of the system wide error codes", but no hints as to what error codes or under what circumstances, you have to use an undocumented feature to translate error returns to comprehensible values, getting network support in the emulator is a lottery, the develop forums are full of questions but no answers, you have to jump through hoops to fake global variables...
Put it this way. If you never intend to develop for any other platform, then Symbian is worth investing in. If you only plan to live for one human lifetime, then get a P800 (they're superb) but don't waste your life trying to develop for it.
Yup, it's the same idea. cd-wow is shipping inclusive (free! ha!) as well, and they're much of a muchness. play.com is slightly faster, but cd-wow delivers within a few days and have more region 1 titles. They're both useful for UK buyers.
That read the source for the Opera page and saw this commented out gem that says what Opera really thinks about MS (and Netscape)?
<!--
<h2>Give it up! Don't you realize that Microsoft won the browser war?</h2>
<p>No. The Web was created to offer universal access to information. No single vendor should be allowed to treat it as private property. Netscape used to be the bully on the block, but Microsoft outperforms them in this role. If you would like the Web to remain a place where no single vendor dominates, please consider using Opera.
-->
OK, but in the final analysis, taxes are what keeps you from being killed and eaten by a mob of starved trailer park or 'hood kids. Literally.
It's barely conceivable that you're talking about importing goods into the UK, in which case you don't get charged tax by the seller (although that's nothing to do with the UK). However, you do get charged import duties by customs and excise (or a postal service on their behalf, in which case you get hit with an extra charge for the priviledge) on any single item over £18 GBP in value.
That's one reason why places like cd-wow.com are so great; they post each DVD or CD singly, with the value clearly displayed, so it all just slides through. But order something over £18 in value and you will likely get import duties levied on it (but even with that, and even being posted from Hong Kong, it's still cheaper than buying from inside the UK!)
Here's what we do. Choose the 2.4.18 kernel from LILO, boot to runlevel 5, start XFree86 4.2.99.3, start a KDE 3.1rc6 session, pull up a command prompt and start phoenix& (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5).
Here's what the rest of the world does. Start Windows. Click on the Internet thingy.
A "consumer" package has no choices, and no real options. You get support for all your hardware, one app for each job, and no apps that you don't need for email, browsing, word processing and playing solitaire. You get a one button, idiot proof method of updating your system. You don't have to know what kernel you're running, or what a package is.
That's what a consumer OS is, and that's what KDE and GNOME are moving towards. Whether we want Linux, GNU apps or XFree86 to be used as the basis of such a system is another question entirely.
Gaaa! But at the time, TOS Trek showed daring in breaking these issues in mainstream TV.
So what boundaries are pushed by Voyager and Enterprise? Where are the brave new cultural ideals they espouse? As far as I can see, the theme is "We should all get along by stifling any cultural diversity that threatens to raise contentious"
Contrast with DS-9, specifically Dax. Two incidents spring to mind. One, the hot alien lesbian episode. Unlike the soft porn in the Enterprise opener, this was actually an adjunct to another issue, about what constitutes the self. In doing that, it presented a lesbian relationship as so normal that it warranted absolutely no comment. That's making a big statement.
Second, the time when Worf goes off to kick some bumpy-headed alien ass, and Dax turns up to send him off. "Don't try and talk me out of it," he growls, as we anticipate some cloying speech about the futility of war, and all getting along together. "Qa'pla!" barks Dax, in one fell swoop demonstrating that respect for other cultures means respecting the ways in which they differ from yours, not trying to assimilate and neuter them.
DS-9 was a beacon of hope for the Trek franchise. I believe that it died simply because the titty count was too small. Ironically, they actually padded Dax's bra, just not enough.
- Captain America
- Titty Girl Alien
- Cowboy Guy
- Giles
- Token Black Guy
That about sums it up, right? It's not as though they have personalities.OTOH, the ten people that use Konsole frames in Konqueror and that update to 3.1 could have changed their keybindings. I'm thinking that you could probably have told all ten of them by word of mouth as well.
Given that so much of KDE is, ahem, influenced by other GUIs and apps, switching to the de facto standard in new releases might be a sensible strategy.
Hush now, there's no point trying to debate this. Only the USA is a proper democracy with checks and balances. We know this, because (tee hee) it's written down (snigger) on a musty old bit of paper.