They make wonderful pretty coloured operating systems that work out of the box and improve on your social life and your interviewing skills by getting you to use the phone to speak to microsoft employees you never knew before (and didn't want to) and answer questions about all facets of your computing life.
SCO's response to Novell's Unix IP claims by saying that this is,surprise, a contract violation, and not a copyright violation, although I could pull out half a dozen direct SCO quotes, right now, showing SCO's claim to "owning UNIX IP", which, in the version of the english language I speak, means that they're talking about IP copyrights.
Their current claim about contract breaches means that Linux is not part of their suite, which means that they are open to being sued in Europe for libel(sp?).
I would so dearly love to hear what the Lawyers are going to say about their claims that Contracts are stronger than copyrights, given that copyrights are a binding and do form a kind of contract.
Although this post is about a French craft, and everyone knows how well the Americans and the French get on;), why the hell doesn't someone use some common sense and use a design that is not some overloaded flying brick.
Cut space efforts into two parts: 1.Launching payloads. Ariane 5, Deltas etc can and do this very well. These launchers are designed for lifting satellites, and other heavy payloads into geostationary orbit and beyond. 2.Launching humans. A small purpose designed craft like the Hermes, that can return to earth like the shuttle, AND be launched on top of a heavy lifter such as Ariane 5 is far more practical than the shuttle could be.
But perhaps Americans dislike the idea too much that it's originally French, and perhaps the French can't afford to pay for this anymore.
I wouldn't go to the BSA, but my situation is not the same. But you're right about using handles online etc. The thought occurred to me while writing that post that maybe I should just shut up.
I don't know if there are any good answers to situations like this. The best would probably be just to accept it and make do with what you have. Trying to bust your former boss' arse can be very difficult and can rebound on you badly. But covering yourself in case you do get hauled to court is not a bad idea.
As some of the wiser people have pointed out here, this can backfire on you badly if you talk directly to the cops without informing your boss. It's a shit situation but child pornography is inhuman (it happened to a member of my family) and the people who perpetrate this deserve to get punished.
However the wish to see justice done shouldn't overcome your need to stay employed, or at least to have a good source of money. You need to eat.
My boss regularly browses porn at 6AM in the morning and I don't do anything about it as long as it's not child porn. I do however make private backups of the logs in case I ever get fired so that I can get some nice financial rewards on being fired and can cover my butt in ensuing legal action.
If you're being blacklisted then you might as well phone the BSA anonymously and report your company. A little bit of revenge that they cannot prove was done by you is ok if you're already in shit street.
All of us here, including myself, were dissing South Africa because of it's state takeover of the.ZA TLD. Looking at the potential for large international companies to wreak havoc by patenting everything from Links to DNS lookups, perhaps they were right to attempt to withdraw themselves from the possible financial penalties when said comapnies sue for IP infringement.
see SCO source code and the corresponding code in Linux "in a couple weeks",.
I don't believe SCO will ever show the source code, because it is simply not there. Their new claims that these infringments are even prior to IBM means that there is no infringment.
They are playing a game of very high risk poker, and have just raised the stakes. They are probably praying that IBM will fold, and if not IBM then perhaps some other Linux distros.
I hope these bastards are run out of town after this load of shit. Good luck finding jobs again, all you SCO wankers.
Them thinking that IBM developers used AIX sources to move Linux onto IBM mainframes with many CPUs. Which is a definite possibility. But can they prove it? It also suggests that this is going against the kernel, which once again brings us around to the point of...
File names in the SMP code and line numbers please.
I too, smell a Microsoft rat in this one. It is so similar to Microsoft other vague FUD campaigns of recent years, that it would not in the least surprise me to hear about it. If it ever turns out that MS is funding and aiding this, the fallout would be bigger than the MS antitrust case, as IBM can and does have the financial and legal resources to sue MS for illegal attempts to damage IBM's business, and IBM doesn't come cheap.
The artwork of this movie is fantastic, imo, and the general dark tone and characters seem to borrow from many areas of modern science fiction and popular figures.
The Marauder figure and the organic structures and the overall dark scenery borrow heavily from Giger's work, as the producer notes in the biography section of the site.
The story is in an extremely similar vein to a still rendered series done by an Italian guy in the middle 90's on a Mac with Strata Studio and Photoshop and Deck and sold as a multimedia CD which were still popular back then. Sadly, I can't remember the title.
Other influences seem to be taken from Larry Niven's Integral Tree (the tree in the film), a classic comic series about a world of creatures living in the clouds (the Sharken), and I notice that the one detailed shot of the heroine with hair (the wallpaper section) looks very similar to Virgine Ledoyen who starred in the Beach with Di Caprio.
This film will probably not be that much of a hit, as I think it is very difficult to excite mainstream audiences with fantasy SF, but I think it'll be a pointer to things to come, when bigger film houses with bigger budgets start to produce films in a similar vein.
I don't know why so many are against the French in that fair, wonderful, free, brave, altruistic country of yours. Perhaps it's pure stupidity, a trait surely not limited to the French or any other nation. Perhaps it's some kind of deep frustration.
This movie is along the lines of animation done in Final fantasy, albeit with a story that could entice more interest in the general population than FF did.
There will be more in this genre, and it definitely holds promise.
Microsoft wants to help hardware and software industries work together at the earliest stages of development to aid innovation.
The word innovation when used in this context surely means stifling competition and increasing control. I supervise 20 Windows users all day long and use a Dell laptop and WindowsXP at work, and don't mind Microsoft so much as long as I don't have to pay for it personally. But the words innovation and Microsoft are like the words oil and water.
"There was no intent to try and mimic Apple here,"
Just to show how much I think of poorly concocted PC imitations, I bought a used Titanium Powerbook two days ago. PC's are fine, but copying Apple usually leads to desaterous results until Microsoft gets it right, usually around the third try.
This choice bit of freedom loving news, along with the news that American soldiers fired into a crowd of demonstrators yesterday is sure to help the Iraqi people's view of the occupying armies as being something to ensure their freedom.
I don't know what's going to happen in Iraq in the long term but I know that it isn't going to be nice.
At first I thought that we in Europe are blessed not to be governed by laws as titanicly stupid as this, but no doubt some of our enlightened politicians will also jump on this bandwagon sometime.
The second thing I thought when reading this was of a Dead Kennedy's song, "Now it's 1984, knock knock who's at your back door..." or something like that.
I think that given the way our so called free world is going it is definitely time to start thinking about going to live a life as a warlords gunman in Afghanistan. At least there you know they want want to kill you, and nobody is going to give you long sickly lectures on terrorism while they slowly rob you of any freedoms you may have. Perhaps it's better to go down fighting than living in this pig of a christianised sterile society...?
I'm sure this has been posted further down, but I think I should mention it. I found it strange that someone who is a technical writer claims to be a lousy typist.
Apart from that the write up was instructional. It does show one big problem with Linux from a Windows GUI users perspective: The GUI, either a wm under GNOME or KDE, isn't consistent. I have this same problem under WinXP, though whenever I use software from Win2k or earlier days. A concerted effort on Linux GUI designers part to organise some GUI guidelines would definitely be of help to all concerned.
What would have helped the writer would have been to have tested the Distros on other hardware. One can have similar or worse problems with Windows versions on some hardware, especially when it's older. I have had to test a HP 2500 colour printer with WindowsXP and, while WinXP does have driver, the driver's quality is terrible, and HP stopped supplying drivers for later than WinNT Windows versions.
This gun is about as low tech as you can get, but it works in wind, snow, heat, mud and sand. The new ebombs can't do anything to it and I think that in some war in twenty years time it will still be the mainstay of 80% of all armies worldwide.
Considering that all the high tech currently being thrown at the soldiers in the gulf has not done anything to decrease the number of friendly fire incidents, I imangine that there are only going to be more injuries made using these goggles as soldiers become reliant on it.
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While I must admire the PHP developers for going totally overboard and finally adding features to the almost useless class system they had before, I have found that PHP's great strength has been in smaller websites that need simple code. Java has always been overkill in that arena.
But what has become an increasingly presistant problem is the way that things that are commonly used such as the easy method of automatic variable creation with reg_globals = on, was changed to be default off and similar things that change in every.x rellease. The problem with that is that you don't know anymore if your code will "just work" on an unknown server, or if you're going to have to change php.ini and/or your code (if you do it the new way and the server is old it won't work and if you do the old way and the server is new...).
This, in my opinion is starting to defeat the object of what made PHP so popular in the first place: making a small script easily in an easy language for a small site.
Flash is very good for all sorts of sites. Animations, games, navigation you name it. But in these days of layoffs and corporate scrounging I somehow think this is going to go the way most other products from macromedia have gone recently. What many Flash programmers don't realise (and I've seen this in three companies I've worked for) is that whenever you make a complex database driven site, the sheer expenditure of that site will force you to make an html frontend in order to be sure that you reach all possible customers, because the beancounters will say that "only" reaching 95% of all possible customers is not enough. This means that the extra expenditure of having to design a totally seperate Flash site will get questioned, and in many cases, simply rejected, because time is money and Flash coders cost money.
Think about it. Apart from Macromedia's site, how many other large commercial portals or online businesses are done using Flash?
I started off in this fucked world of computer as an operator on an IBM 3083 in 1985. Watching lines scroll across the screen on a terminal, typing in JCL and NCCF commands, cleaning tape drives and clearing jammed paper drives is not something that is appealing. But it had one major plus over the current IT situation: fixed hours. No huge overtime. A fixed set of tasks and you got to leave at 5PM. No huge headaches. Plain fucking sailing compared to the crap that most of us go through these days with fucked up bosses and ratty coworkers and everyone looking over their shoulders and worrying about their jobs.
Being so l337 at 6AM in the morning, I'll suggest that Apple write the Photoshop and Illustrator killer apps. That will drive Adobe into a flat fucken panic, and I will laugh my butt off. I haven't used AE for years and Premier for longer and am using Photoshop and Illustrator on a PC, but I'll say this:
Calibration is a huge fucking pain on Windows but most Windows joes are so fucking stupid that they don't even know what it is (I have to sys admin a bunch of morons using Corel Draw). These people are too stupid to have ever heard of a Mac and/or ColorSync and would probably complain when given one... because it's too easy.
Adobe used to stand for high quality graphical software (except Premier and Pagemaker, which have always been pisspoor products) but Adobe seems more interested in colourful icon and gimmicks these days than in keeping their customer base.
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They make wonderful pretty coloured operating systems that work out of the box and improve on your social life and your interviewing skills by getting you to use the phone to speak to microsoft employees you never knew before (and didn't want to) and answer questions about all facets of your computing life.
SCO's response to Novell's Unix IP claims by saying that this is ,surprise, a contract violation, and not a copyright violation, although I could pull out half a dozen direct SCO quotes, right now, showing SCO's claim to "owning UNIX IP", which, in the version of the english language I speak, means that they're talking about IP copyrights.
Their current claim about contract breaches means that Linux is not part of their suite, which means that they are open to being sued in Europe for libel(sp?).
I would so dearly love to hear what the Lawyers are going to say about their claims that Contracts are stronger than copyrights, given that copyrights are a binding and do form a kind of contract.
Although this post is about a French craft, and everyone knows how well the Americans and the French get on ;), why the hell doesn't someone use some common sense and use a design that is not some overloaded flying brick.
Cut space efforts into two parts:
1.Launching payloads. Ariane 5, Deltas etc can and do this very well. These launchers are designed for lifting satellites, and other heavy payloads into geostationary orbit and beyond.
2.Launching humans. A small purpose designed craft like the Hermes, that can return to earth like the shuttle, AND be launched on top of a heavy lifter such as Ariane 5 is far more practical than the shuttle could be.
But perhaps Americans dislike the idea too much that it's originally French, and perhaps the French can't afford to pay for this anymore.
I wouldn't go to the BSA, but my situation is not the same. But you're right about using handles online etc. The thought occurred to me while writing that post that maybe I should just shut up.
I don't know if there are any good answers to situations like this. The best would probably be just to accept it and make do with what you have. Trying to bust your former boss' arse can be very difficult and can rebound on you badly. But covering yourself in case you do get hauled to court is not a bad idea.
As some of the wiser people have pointed out here, this can backfire on you badly if you talk directly to the cops without informing your boss. It's a shit situation but child pornography is inhuman (it happened to a member of my family) and the people who perpetrate this deserve to get punished.
However the wish to see justice done shouldn't overcome your need to stay employed, or at least to have a good source of money. You need to eat.
My boss regularly browses porn at 6AM in the morning and I don't do anything about it as long as it's not child porn. I do however make private backups of the logs in case I ever get fired so that I can get some nice financial rewards on being fired and can cover my butt in ensuing legal action.
If you're being blacklisted then you might as well phone the BSA anonymously and report your company. A little bit of revenge that they cannot prove was done by you is ok if you're already in shit street.
All of us here, including myself, were dissing South Africa because of it's state takeover of the .ZA TLD. Looking at the potential for large international companies to wreak havoc by patenting everything from Links to DNS lookups, perhaps they were right to attempt to withdraw themselves from the possible financial penalties when said comapnies sue for IP infringement.
see SCO source code and the corresponding code in Linux "in a couple weeks", .
I don't believe SCO will ever show the source code, because it is simply not there. Their new claims that these infringments are even prior to IBM means that there is no infringment.
They are playing a game of very high risk poker, and have just raised the stakes. They are probably praying that IBM will fold, and if not IBM then perhaps some other Linux distros.
I hope these bastards are run out of town after this load of shit. Good luck finding jobs again, all you SCO wankers.
Them thinking that IBM developers used AIX sources to move Linux onto IBM mainframes with many CPUs. Which is a definite possibility. But can they prove it? It also suggests that this is going against the kernel, which once again brings us around to the point of...
File names in the SMP code and line numbers please.
I too, smell a Microsoft rat in this one. It is so similar to Microsoft other vague FUD campaigns of recent years, that it would not in the least surprise me to hear about it. If it ever turns out that MS is funding and aiding this, the fallout would be bigger than the MS antitrust case, as IBM can and does have the financial and legal resources to sue MS for illegal attempts to damage IBM's business, and IBM doesn't come cheap.
The artwork of this movie is fantastic, imo, and the general dark tone and characters seem to borrow from many areas of modern science fiction and popular figures.
The Marauder figure and the organic structures and the overall dark scenery borrow heavily from Giger's work, as the producer notes in the biography section of the site.
The story is in an extremely similar vein to a still rendered series done by an Italian guy in the middle 90's on a Mac with Strata Studio and Photoshop and Deck and sold as a multimedia CD which were still popular back then. Sadly, I can't remember the title.
Other influences seem to be taken from Larry Niven's Integral Tree (the tree in the film), a classic comic series about a world of creatures living in the clouds (the Sharken), and I notice that the one detailed shot of the heroine with hair (the wallpaper section) looks very similar to Virgine Ledoyen who starred in the Beach with Di Caprio.
This film will probably not be that much of a hit, as I think it is very difficult to excite mainstream audiences with fantasy SF, but I think it'll be a pointer to things to come, when bigger film houses with bigger budgets start to produce films in a similar vein.
I don't know why so many are against the French in that fair, wonderful, free, brave, altruistic country of yours. Perhaps it's pure stupidity, a trait surely not limited to the French or any other nation. Perhaps it's some kind of deep frustration.
This movie is along the lines of animation done in Final fantasy, albeit with a story that could entice more interest in the general population than FF did.
There will be more in this genre, and it definitely holds promise.
Microsoft wants to help hardware and software industries work together at the earliest stages of development to aid innovation.
The word innovation when used in this context surely means stifling competition and increasing control. I supervise 20 Windows users all day long and use a Dell laptop and WindowsXP at work, and don't mind Microsoft so much as long as I don't have to pay for it personally. But the words innovation and Microsoft are like the words oil and water.
"There was no intent to try and mimic Apple here,"
Just to show how much I think of poorly concocted PC imitations, I bought a used Titanium Powerbook two days ago. PC's are fine, but copying Apple usually leads to desaterous results until Microsoft gets it right, usually around the third try.
This choice bit of freedom loving news, along with the news that American soldiers fired into a crowd of demonstrators yesterday is sure to help the Iraqi people's view of the occupying armies as being something to ensure their freedom.
I don't know what's going to happen in Iraq in the long term but I know that it isn't going to be nice.
There is no nation on this earth as good at making enemies as fast as you Americans do.
At first I thought that we in Europe are blessed not to be governed by laws as titanicly stupid as this, but no doubt some of our enlightened politicians will also jump on this bandwagon sometime.
The second thing I thought when reading this was of a Dead Kennedy's song, "Now it's 1984, knock knock who's at your back door..." or something like that.
I think that given the way our so called free world is going it is definitely time to start thinking about going to live a life as a warlords gunman in Afghanistan. At least there you know they want want to kill you, and nobody is going to give you long sickly lectures on terrorism while they slowly rob you of any freedoms you may have. Perhaps it's better to go down fighting than living in this pig of a christianised sterile society...?
I'm sure this has been posted further down, but I think I should mention it. I found it strange that someone who is a technical writer claims to be a lousy typist.
Apart from that the write up was instructional. It does show one big problem with Linux from a Windows GUI users perspective: The GUI, either a wm under GNOME or KDE, isn't consistent. I have this same problem under WinXP, though whenever I use software from Win2k or earlier days. A concerted effort on Linux GUI designers part to organise some GUI guidelines would definitely be of help to all concerned.
What would have helped the writer would have been to have tested the Distros on other hardware. One can have similar or worse problems with Windows versions on some hardware, especially when it's older. I have had to test a HP 2500 colour printer with WindowsXP and, while WinXP does have driver, the driver's quality is terrible, and HP stopped supplying drivers for later than WinNT Windows versions.
I am never ever going to visit the USA as long as these laws and that government is in place. I have no wish to go to jail.
This gun is about as low tech as you can get, but it works in wind, snow, heat, mud and sand. The new ebombs can't do anything to it and I think that in some war in twenty years time it will still be the mainstay of 80% of all armies worldwide.
Considering that all the high tech currently being thrown at the soldiers in the gulf has not done anything to decrease the number of friendly fire incidents, I imangine that there are only going to be more injuries made using these goggles as soldiers become reliant on it.
While I must admire the PHP developers for going totally overboard and finally adding features to the almost useless class system they had before, I have found that PHP's great strength has been in smaller websites that need simple code. Java has always been overkill in that arena.
.x rellease. The problem with that is that you don't know anymore if your code will "just work" on an unknown server, or if you're going to have to change php.ini and /or your code (if you do it the new way and the server is old it won't work and if you do the old way and the server is new...).
But what has become an increasingly presistant problem is the way that things that are commonly used such as the easy method of automatic variable creation with reg_globals = on, was changed to be default off and similar things that change in every
This, in my opinion is starting to defeat the object of what made PHP so popular in the first place: making a small script easily in an easy language for a small site.
Flash is very good for all sorts of sites. Animations, games, navigation you name it. But in these days of layoffs and corporate scrounging I somehow think this is going to go the way most other products from macromedia have gone recently. What many Flash programmers don't realise (and I've seen this in three companies I've worked for) is that whenever you make a complex database driven site, the sheer expenditure of that site will force you to make an html frontend in order to be sure that you reach all possible customers, because the beancounters will say that "only" reaching 95% of all possible customers is not enough. This means that the extra expenditure of having to design a totally seperate Flash site will get questioned, and in many cases, simply rejected, because time is money and Flash coders cost money.
Think about it. Apart from Macromedia's site, how many other large commercial portals or online businesses are done using Flash?
I started off in this fucked world of computer as an operator on an IBM 3083 in 1985. Watching lines scroll across the screen on a terminal, typing in JCL and NCCF commands, cleaning tape drives and clearing jammed paper drives is not something that is appealing. But it had one major plus over the current IT situation: fixed hours. No huge overtime. A fixed set of tasks and you got to leave at 5PM. No huge headaches. Plain fucking sailing compared to the crap that most of us go through these days with fucked up bosses and ratty coworkers and everyone looking over their shoulders and worrying about their jobs.
Fuck bosses. Fuck capitalism. Fuck globalisation.
I asked why TIFFany was so expensive, and why they weren't actually doing any marketing.
The answer I got was that their price suited their "high end customer base in industry and science" and that these people didn't need marketing.
Shows you where acting like an arrogant baboon gets one.
Being so l337 at 6AM in the morning, I'll suggest that Apple write the Photoshop and Illustrator killer apps. That will drive Adobe into a flat fucken panic, and I will laugh my butt off. I haven't used AE for years and Premier for longer and am using Photoshop and Illustrator on a PC, but I'll say this:
Calibration is a huge fucking pain on Windows but most Windows joes are so fucking stupid that they don't even know what it is (I have to sys admin a bunch of morons using Corel Draw). These people are too stupid to have ever heard of a Mac and/or ColorSync and would probably complain when given one... because it's too easy.
Adobe used to stand for high quality graphical software (except Premier and Pagemaker, which have always been pisspoor products) but Adobe seems more interested in colourful icon and gimmicks these days than in keeping their customer base.
Fuck em. Apple, make some competition here!
Why is the fucking mouse always so damn jumpy on Windows?
Thanks for a human view in this inhuman war.