Makes a lot of sense. Venture firms in general have been hurting lately thanks to the depressing influence of the-monopoly-who-shall-not-be-named. If a little seed money can help break things open, it could pay off handsomely. Of course, having first crack at people with serious ability is probaby worth the ante all by itself.
Why the hell can't you filter files by extension? I won't rant for long, but I loved using IRIX in the early 90s because all I had to do was type "*.blah" in the (what is now called the address bar) of the graphical file manager, and, wala, only those files would appear in the window. How hard is this to do? Not very. Why doesn't ANYONE do it?
Not to argue or anything, but I just opened Konqueror on file://home/overshoot/*.mp3 and the only files showing (no matter which view mode I use) are the ones with mp3 extensions.
Could you be wrong about that "Why doesn't ANYONE do it?"
The orbit degrades (loss of angular momentum) on each "toss up" and recovers on each "snatch." One of the cheap sources of angular momentum would be a mass driver on the Moon (think "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") tossing rock or whatever down the chain. The stations on the chain snatch the falling rocks and recover both energy and angular momentum.
Rockets would also work, but would be much more wasteful. Solar sails might work too, but I suspect you'd need some honkers to get adequate results.
The proposal has been around in science fiction circles for decades. The engineering is nontrivial, but carbon filiament cable makes it possible. You also need an energy source at the waystations to make up for the transfer (think nuke here, solar ain't enough).
In some ways the neatest thing about it is that it does away with the need for reaction mass, which is is nothing else an environmental improvement.
Linus certainly has good company. I know that my employer, at least, tells us the same thing: don't sweat the patents. Our Corporate IP department (not a small one, either) doesn't even do patent clearances on request, because it's too expensive.
If SCO tries to make this case at trial, they're gonna get reamed when IBM inquires into their patent clearance process.
Nobody can afford to do prior patent clearance. All engineering work would stop dead if we did.
Keep a rigid schedule. The less you make optional, the less room for impulse.
Lots of exercise.
Sex. No, I'm not joking (although I already mentioned exercise.)
Those fatty acids won't hurt, although they may not do much.
In general, anything that makes you healthier helps.
Lots of organizational aids. A weekly pillbox, for instance. PDAs are lifesavers. Whiteboards are my favorite.
Sunshine. Seriously. See exercise.
Get enough sleep. If you're not waking up before the alarm goes off, go to bed earlier. No exceptions.
There are bunches more. alt.support.attn-deficit has an even lower S/N ration than/. but it does have some very supportive and clueful posters, too. Read the FAQ.
180ÂC is considerably hotter than 180F (about 100K hotter, to be absolutist:-))
A lot of Americans on/., and you just wrote "degrees." I figured better to assume the worst.
Point about kosher chicken taken - I'd never really considered it... might have to nip down the local halal butcher and see what there's is like (there being more Muslims than Jews round this particular neck of the woods)
I don't think sharia is as fussy about the pre-butchery treatment of animals as halaka is, but then I'm neither an imam nor a rabbi. You might be able to get frozen (yeah, I know) kosher poultry at general markets.
Kosher chicken is fairly available, not hopelessly expensive, and less "industrial" if not mature free-range.
OTOH, I'd really advise against cooking poultry at 180F -- you won't get the inner portions hot enough to kill off salmonella, and anyone who's had salmonella will tell you it's not worth the difference. Besides, a higher temperature for a shorter time causes less drying.
Its probably a better risk/reward route to fight in court than just to stop shipping AIX. I mean, did anybody really think IBM would just snap its fingers and go, "Drat." like that?
Ahead of all the others, SCO's biggest mistake was that they accused IBM of ignoring its confidentiality obligations. IBM either partners with or manages systems for every major company on Earth. (Maybe a few other planets, too, for all I know.) IBM Global Services' main stock in trade is its trustworthiness in keeping secrets. A measly $billion$ isn't even in the noise compared to the value of IBM's reputation in this matter, so IBM simply can not afford for SCO to have even a shred of credibility when the dust settles.
This sucker is going to a finish, and I somehow doubt that IBM will be the one finished.
What you're describing is a strike. If you do it right (start organizing the shop, aka unionize) your employer can't legally retaliate. Organizing for a union is also a pretty good way to get the Company's attention; most employers would much rather head off unionization by treating you well than have you organize and then force them to treat you well anyway.
Yuppers -- SCO has really hosed themselves this time. No matter which way they play it, they're toast. If they lose in court, IBM owns them. If they win in court, the FSF owns them. It's like a Faustian morality play: selling your soul to Redmond and getting nothing of value after all.
Talk about foot-in-mouth. According to this, SCO deliberately and after consultation with Counsel chose to distribute copies of a copyrighted work without authorization (the non-SCO portions of the Linux kernel.) [1].
Therefore, every copy of Linux that they've distributed since then (and maybe some before) meets all of the statutory requirements for "willful infringement," which carries a statutory damage of $50,000 to $150,000 per copy. It's not necessary to show damages in this case, the law itself specifies them. Slam-dunk summary judgment stuff.
The FSF (assignee of at least some of the GPL contributions) should sue SCO pronto, citing their own testimony. SCO is estopped from denying the charge, the Court awards $50,000 times a whole bunch of copies, plus legal fees, and the FSF ends up owning what's left of SCO.
Happily ever after.
[1] Since they knew that portions of the work were encumbered, the GPL ceases to enable distribution of any of it, thus copyright law applies. See damages above.
The chances are that if Microsoft see that enough people are moving away from IE because it doesn't have these features then they'll do something about it
And Microsoft will know this... how? When sales of IE start to decline?
It's not like MS has the kind of corporate culture that actively looks for user dissatisfaction and tries to head it off, after all. "Shoot the messenger" is more like it.
You begin freaking out but that doesn't compare to the reaction your boss is going to have when he walks by...
ITYM, "when she walks by..." Actually, doesn't have to be your boss; it's almost worse if it's the summer intern. Either way, with "workplace environment" law you're pretty well done for.
Garbage like this just makes b0rken browsers like IE less and less tolerable to Joe User. Making Joe unhappy with IE is good because the sites the rest of us need to use will be less and less able to count on IE as some "universal standard."
As the French Revolutionaries put it, "The worse, the better."
Section (b)(1)(A) prohibits receiving communication services without the express consent of the communication service provider. This means that you can't use a radio or television without permission from the broadcasters. Nobody is going to tell you that you can't watch TV
They don't have to tell you that you don't have permission; without their "express permission" you're a criminal.
It's been pointed out that in many States, citizens have standing to sue to force the State to comply with its own laws. I wonder if the good people of Illinois should sue to take down the firewalls on Illinois networks?
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Makes a lot of sense. Venture firms in general have been hurting lately thanks to the depressing influence of the-monopoly-who-shall-not-be-named. If a little seed money can help break things open, it could pay off handsomely. Of course, having first crack at people with serious ability is probaby worth the ante all by itself.
Not to argue or anything, but I just opened Konqueror on file://home/overshoot/*.mp3 and the only files showing (no matter which view mode I use) are the ones with mp3 extensions.
Could you be wrong about that "Why doesn't ANYONE do it?"
Where do you think I got the idea for the comment?
Rockets would also work, but would be much more wasteful. Solar sails might work too, but I suspect you'd need some honkers to get adequate results.
They last longer if you take them off first.
In some ways the neatest thing about it is that it does away with the need for reaction mass, which is is nothing else an environmental improvement.
If SCO tries to make this case at trial, they're gonna get reamed when IBM inquires into their patent clearance process.
Nobody can afford to do prior patent clearance. All engineering work would stop dead if we did.
- Keep a rigid schedule. The less you make optional, the less room for impulse.
- Lots of exercise.
- Sex. No, I'm not joking (although I already mentioned exercise.)
- Those fatty acids won't hurt, although they may not do much.
- In general, anything that makes you healthier helps.
- Lots of organizational aids. A weekly pillbox, for instance. PDAs are lifesavers. Whiteboards are my favorite.
- Sunshine. Seriously. See exercise.
- Get enough sleep. If you're not waking up before the alarm goes off, go to bed earlier. No exceptions.
There are bunches more. alt.support.attn-deficit has an even lower S/N ration thanA lot of Americans on /., and you just wrote "degrees." I figured better to assume the worst.
Point about kosher chicken taken - I'd never really considered it... might have to nip down the local halal butcher and see what there's is like (there being more Muslims than Jews round this particular neck of the woods)
I don't think sharia is as fussy about the pre-butchery treatment of animals as halaka is, but then I'm neither an imam nor a rabbi. You might be able to get frozen (yeah, I know) kosher poultry at general markets.
Somehow I don't think they want to go there, but courts don't much like "heads I win, tails you lose" contracts.
OTOH, I'd really advise against cooking poultry at 180F -- you won't get the inner portions hot enough to kill off salmonella, and anyone who's had salmonella will tell you it's not worth the difference. Besides, a higher temperature for a shorter time causes less drying.
Ahead of all the others, SCO's biggest mistake was that they accused IBM of ignoring its confidentiality obligations. IBM either partners with or manages systems for every major company on Earth. (Maybe a few other planets, too, for all I know.) IBM Global Services' main stock in trade is its trustworthiness in keeping secrets. A measly $billion$ isn't even in the noise compared to the value of IBM's reputation in this matter, so IBM simply can not afford for SCO to have even a shred of credibility when the dust settles.
This sucker is going to a finish, and I somehow doubt that IBM will be the one finished.
What you're describing is a strike. If you do it right (start organizing the shop, aka unionize) your employer can't legally retaliate. Organizing for a union is also a pretty good way to get the Company's attention; most employers would much rather head off unionization by treating you well than have you organize and then force them to treat you well anyway.
That's Philips, with one L, not two. The Phillips with two LL in the middle is a petroleum company.
Bwahahaaaa!
Therefore, every copy of Linux that they've distributed since then (and maybe some before) meets all of the statutory requirements for "willful infringement," which carries a statutory damage of $50,000 to $150,000 per copy. It's not necessary to show damages in this case, the law itself specifies them. Slam-dunk summary judgment stuff.
The FSF (assignee of at least some of the GPL contributions) should sue SCO pronto, citing their own testimony. SCO is estopped from denying the charge, the Court awards $50,000 times a whole bunch of copies, plus legal fees, and the FSF ends up owning what's left of SCO.
Happily ever after.
[1] Since they knew that portions of the work were encumbered, the GPL ceases to enable distribution of any of it, thus copyright law applies. See damages above.
After my degree in CS, all I've ever had were hardware jobs. All my code now is written in SPICE.
And Microsoft will know this ... how? When sales of IE start to decline?
It's not like MS has the kind of corporate culture that actively looks for user dissatisfaction and tries to head it off, after all. "Shoot the messenger" is more like it.
Yesssss!
ITYM, "when she walks by ..."
Actually, doesn't have to be your boss; it's almost worse if it's the summer intern. Either way, with "workplace environment" law you're pretty well done for.
Garbage like this just makes b0rken browsers like IE less and less tolerable to Joe User. Making Joe unhappy with IE is good because the sites the rest of us need to use will be less and less able to count on IE as some "universal standard."
As the French Revolutionaries put it, "The worse, the better."
Less than two years ago an airliner crashed in Pennsylvania after several passengers used cellphones on board.
My favorite kind of story: it may not be true, but it should be.
They don't have to tell you that you don't have permission; without their "express permission" you're a criminal.
It's been pointed out that in many States, citizens have standing to sue to force the State to comply with its own laws. I wonder if the good people of Illinois should sue to take down the firewalls on Illinois networks?
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