I guess they should get a form letter back... "Thank you for taking interest in our Linux license program. Please visit our website for further details and be sure to sign up for our mailing list".
That might work in the USA but other countries actually have working legal systems.
can someone explain why this particular point isn't true?
Sure first things first you have to consider that SCO and the intellectual property it holds are not the only ones running on multiprocessor systems. SUN, IBM, Cray etc etc have been doing it for years. IBM in fact has been doing it for ages before even UNIX itself existed. So why couldn't IBM have put their knowledge into Linux.
Next think about the fact that if other people have written this sort of code before then other people can too.
Also do not be blinded by the big words SCO uses. SCO wants to make it sound hard with their 25 years claims but how long did it really take? How long before UNIX ran on those machines anyway? Was the original code written in a state of the art UNIX lab or just a university lab by university students?
Much of the Unix code in the slides was obscured, because the company wants to keep its intellectual property under wraps, but SCO is allowing people who want to see a more extensive side-by-side comparison during the conference to do so if they sign a nondisclosure agreement.
You think these guys would have heard of autoconfig or something similar. Their current build system for unix systems is terrible. I though the game looked good on the linux game tome but after downloading it and trying to install it you soon realise that not enough effort has gone into making building it easier.
What if what you think is a bad gene is really a good gene? In the instance of a disease like Sickle Cell Anemia, what is a disease on one hand is also a protection against malaria. Imagine if you had a genetic disease and it was removed. Later on a plague (like SARS) moves through civilisation and you get it because the gene you had removed confered immunity. Bad luck there. Genetics is always a game of dice even if you are GM'd.
Or what about this one? You have a delusion that the government is out to get you. One day your best friend says something that makes you suspect he is part of the government plot. Later that night at home with your wife, you think you recieve a important message through your toothbrush. The message is that the feds are going to break into your house and kidnap your wife. You pull out your gun and walk agitated around the house. You hear a knock on the door. Opening it you see your friend but the voices in your head tell you he is the government agent, you pull the trigger, all you see is the government agent die. Later on they tell you that you just shot your best friend.
That is the sort of scenario that should be a insanity plea. It is not about awareness of the act itself but rather what the circumstances are at the time. Most of the time people like that don't understand the circumstances because of their delusions. Shooting someone in cold blood is one thing shooting someone because you "think" they are going to kill you is another.
Yes it does occur to me and also many other options also exist.
As for it appealling to older literature, if they intended to do such a thing they screwed up. The gopels do not actually follow the prophesies through to conclusion only Revelation (another book) goes into those topics. If you read Zechariah you will see that it mentions redemption, then the end of this world and the start of the next. None of the gospels go into this. They end with Jesus's resurrection and subsequent ascention. If you study literature that tries to copy the essence of older literature from that period you will find that they do not do what the gospels did.
I am not an actual scholar but I do know enough to know that it is far more complicated than just looking at one book and saying it looks like another. There are things like culture, language etc to take into account.
According to most Jewish beliefs at the time Jesus should have destroyed the Romans but he didn't in the Bible. If someone was writing the bible to please people, who were they trying to please? Not the Jews because according to the Jews Jesus was not the messiah (at least not to the majority). The Christians believed he was the messiah and didn't really need the Literature proof at such a level. If they did there would be other versions of these books that are older and do not have these pieces. The later versions would try to bring the old legends into place. This would lead to the existance of at least some remaining books that contained the alternate versions but all the versions (old and new) contain these Old Testament prophesy fulfillments. So unless someone covered it up wonderfully, the actual accounts were origonally written with these pieces in them. Do you have a good explanation for how they come to be there? They did not seem to be neccesary at the birth of the religion.
It's all over the old testament for example in Zechariah Ch 11 it says
I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" the handsome price at which they priced me! so I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter.
Now in Matthew 27 it says
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money." So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.
Thirty pieces thrown into the temple and then given to the potter. Written some 400 years apart.
Yes but note that I said it was not funny. Just call it a seperation of humours or mabye I'm just so sick of the Desktop crowd that I see no humour in that subject. So in my opinion it wasn't funny, others have the right to differ
I should point out that such a plague is highly unlikley and even if it did happen no-one being immune would be even more unlikely. Be more worried about hamsters evolving into a super race and making us all slaves. It is just that it is possible (maybe not the hamsters:)
A virsus that kills 100% of it's host population is not more likely to survive- there is no way natural selection could create one. But that doesn't disprove the possibility of one being created artificially.
It couldn't survive past its morbidity but that doesn't mean it couldn't evolve in the first place. The probability is there but after it happened there would be nothing left. So obviously it hasn't happened yet. Also note that viruses can survive for very long periods without the host(some bacterias[0] can survive for hundreds of years). This would enable it to infect almost everyone and anyone who wasn't infected to die at a later point. The only hope against such a plague would be that someone was left who had a genetic immunity and were in a large enough colony to breed.
[0] No I am not saying that a virus is a bacteria; but a plague could be caused by either.
I'm not Usian but I think that the Chinese government is very likely to cover something like this up mainly because it would hurt their national pride. Their pride is something they regard highly and wo behold anyone who trys to tarnish it. The Chinese government is in a constant state of denial about things like this.
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Why would I want 5 copies of The Rainmaker?
Please Note that this is not the real Bruce Perens but is an imposter.
That link is to the origional report filed with the ACCC submitted in July. The ACCC has now said they are looking into it.
That might work in the USA but other countries actually have working legal systems.
Or maybe telinit 1
They can increase ziggys pay packet.
Sure first things first you have to consider that SCO and the intellectual property it holds are not the only ones running on multiprocessor systems. SUN, IBM, Cray etc etc have been doing it for years. IBM in fact has been doing it for ages before even UNIX itself existed. So why couldn't IBM have put their knowledge into Linux.
Next think about the fact that if other people have written this sort of code before then other people can too.
Also do not be blinded by the big words SCO uses. SCO wants to make it sound hard with their 25 years claims but how long did it really take? How long before UNIX ran on those machines anyway? Was the original code written in a state of the art UNIX lab or just a university lab by university students?
But read more and you will see
Much of the Unix code in the slides was obscured, because the company wants to keep its intellectual property under wraps, but SCO is allowing people who want to see a more extensive side-by-side comparison during the conference to do so if they sign a nondisclosure agreement.
So basically they show nothing again
Other games can why not Slashem
I'm sorry what was your window manager called again? :)
No but it probably sounded good at the time.
What if what you think is a bad gene is really a good gene? In the instance of a disease like Sickle Cell Anemia, what is a disease on one hand is also a protection against malaria. Imagine if you had a genetic disease and it was removed. Later on a plague (like SARS) moves through civilisation and you get it because the gene you had removed confered immunity. Bad luck there. Genetics is always a game of dice even if you are GM'd.
Or what about this one? You have a delusion that the government is out to get you. One day your best friend says something that makes you suspect he is part of the government plot. Later that night at home with your wife, you think you recieve a important message through your toothbrush. The message is that the feds are going to break into your house and kidnap your wife. You pull out your gun and walk agitated around the house. You hear a knock on the door. Opening it you see your friend but the voices in your head tell you he is the government agent, you pull the trigger, all you see is the government agent die. Later on they tell you that you just shot your best friend.
That is the sort of scenario that should be a insanity plea. It is not about awareness of the act itself but rather what the circumstances are at the time. Most of the time people like that don't understand the circumstances because of their delusions. Shooting someone in cold blood is one thing shooting someone because you "think" they are going to kill you is another.
As for it appealling to older literature, if they intended to do such a thing they screwed up. The gopels do not actually follow the prophesies through to conclusion only Revelation (another book) goes into those topics. If you read Zechariah you will see that it mentions redemption, then the end of this world and the start of the next. None of the gospels go into this. They end with Jesus's resurrection and subsequent ascention. If you study literature that tries to copy the essence of older literature from that period you will find that they do not do what the gospels did.
I am not an actual scholar but I do know enough to know that it is far more complicated than just looking at one book and saying it looks like another. There are things like culture, language etc to take into account.
According to most Jewish beliefs at the time Jesus should have destroyed the Romans but he didn't in the Bible. If someone was writing the bible to please people, who were they trying to please? Not the Jews because according to the Jews Jesus was not the messiah (at least not to the majority). The Christians believed he was the messiah and didn't really need the Literature proof at such a level. If they did there would be other versions of these books that are older and do not have these pieces. The later versions would try to bring the old legends into place. This would lead to the existance of at least some remaining books that contained the alternate versions but all the versions (old and new) contain these Old Testament prophesy fulfillments. So unless someone covered it up wonderfully, the actual accounts were origonally written with these pieces in them. Do you have a good explanation for how they come to be there? They did not seem to be neccesary at the birth of the religion.
I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" the handsome price at which they priced me! so I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter.
Now in Matthew 27 it says
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money." So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.
Thirty pieces thrown into the temple and then given to the potter. Written some 400 years apart.
You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.
Yes but note that I said it was not funny. Just call it a seperation of humours or mabye I'm just so sick of the Desktop crowd that I see no humour in that subject. So in my opinion it wasn't funny, others have the right to differ
Why are you fiddling with the partitions if you are upgrading Slackware or do you mean you are upgradeing by reinstalling?
Which part of the installer setup? fdisk, formatting partitions, choosing the partition to install to, LILO setup?
Oh no another Desktop OS Moron. Slackware is normally used in things like servers. Therefore your comment is redundant.
You must of missed the Slackware reference in the article or maybe you haven't a clue what that might mean.
I should point out that such a plague is highly unlikley and even if it did happen no-one being immune would be even more unlikely. Be more worried about hamsters evolving into a super race and making us all slaves. It is just that it is possible (maybe not the hamsters :)
It couldn't survive past its morbidity but that doesn't mean it couldn't evolve in the first place. The probability is there but after it happened there would be nothing left. So obviously it hasn't happened yet. Also note that viruses can survive for very long periods without the host(some bacterias[0] can survive for hundreds of years). This would enable it to infect almost everyone and anyone who wasn't infected to die at a later point. The only hope against such a plague would be that someone was left who had a genetic immunity and were in a large enough colony to breed.
[0] No I am not saying that a virus is a bacteria; but a plague could be caused by either.
Ah yes but in this case it is a Deus Ex Machina to the problem at hand :)
I'm not Usian but I think that the Chinese government is very likely to cover something like this up mainly because it would hurt their national pride. Their pride is something they regard highly and wo behold anyone who trys to tarnish it. The Chinese government is in a constant state of denial about things like this.
It is the speed of the deaths that is the problem. You don't die from AIDS in a couple of days.