Eh? SCO is claiming it has a case. IBM is claiming the SCO doesn't have a case. It's hard for us to tell from the outside, since few of us have seen all of the contracts and code in question.
Seems like a judge should decide, and NOT the press. Heck, the press often claims that SCO really does have a case!
I've dropped my Nokia 5100 series about 5 feet from ear level to concrete several times. Except for a few scuffs (mostly on the battery, it must be the heaviest part), it's survived perfectly.
Me too. Well, from 3 ft. But it gave out after the third drop or so.
Even without a hard drive, a cell phone isn't really designed to be dropped all that much.
Whoa! Hold on there bud. The court system isn't for everything.
Want to sue a doctor? No fucking way! Everyone wants to sue the doctor. Malpractice insurance rates means that entry-level doctor can only take home $150,000/year or so. And just because your the doctor made a little mistake and now your back hurts a little... poor you... wimp.
Doctor suing you because he thinks you owe him more money? Great! That's what the court system is for. He'll burn you with the legal fees alone, and fuck up your credit too! And just because your name is the same as another patient. But you know, the rich suing the poor is OK, because the rich don't sue the poor for the big bucks.
(PS - A good friend of mine is an MD, so I don't want to hear it)
Heck, everyone knows that SQL was a mistake and that XML was an even bigger mistake. Merging the two seems like compounding both mistakes.
And, at the same time, most of us know that SQL and XML are pretty good at something, and it'll be a long while before someone develops a compelling alternative.
So the news here is that Fabian Pascal doesn't like some ideas, and to be honest, I don't like some ideas too. He doesn't have to provide alternatives to unloved ideas. I think that's OK.
I worked with a woman who was damned sure that she was going to store a copy of my relational database (Postgres) in her XML database. It sounded like a bad technical idea. I didn't like it, and I expressed that I didn't like it without proposing an alternative that would work with her application. Isn't that OK?
Only less than 2% of users use more than three applications at once, and therefore, as a compromise to cost, it seems wise to start with 256 MG of memory.
The 256MB of system memory keeps costs down for "3 applications at once" users... and lower cost means both more sales and more profit for Apple. As a nice side benefit, this new machine out-competes similar products from Dell & Gateway. HP/Compaq and IBM don't even begin to compete in this category
However, recognize that some users would want or need more memory. As a solution, the memory is upgradable using standard PC memory. Alas, its limit is 2 GB - a limitation of the particularly small board inside the unit. Only VM will get you more than 2 GB on this model.
Eventually, I think that Apple will come out with a new iMac that supports more than 2 GB - but that's likely to be many years away.
The original problem with a flat-screen design was that it was just too bulky. The cooling system and power supply made it into a 6 inch thick unit - and to most people, 6 inches thick ain't a flatscreen.
I'd have to agree with Jobs - if you can't do it right, don't do it.
On the flipside, the new unit is nice. I just wish it'd come in more colors.
When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn't give you two backup copies,"
Ouch, it sounds like he doesn't know the difference between intellectual property and physical property.
By extension: if I'm an artist and I sell a song to him, I guess I only sell that physical media with the song, and not the song itself.
Hmmm, or is he saying that intellectual property can only be owned by a corporation and not an individual? Great! Therefore, if I buy a Cognac glass, I can make a hundred exact (or modified) copies. Isn't that OK?
But then again, who runs down to the department store to by 10 Cognac glasses? Who is this guy?
"I would have bought shares if an investment bank set an arbitrary IPO price of $130/share, instead of buying shares at $85 each via this Auction process."
Why??? What does that mean? I don't get it at all.
1. the wireless companies are making globs of money. "Free" cell phones are their loss-leader, there just to attract dumb customers who care more about the phone than the plan.
2. Microsoft is hoping to take over the console market so that they can make globs of money. The XBox might not be making a huge profit now - however, Microsoft has concluded that it can make a huge long-term profit.
This settlement was a huge fiasco... it makes the states' AGs look like they were walked on, and made the RIAA look like total losers.
Next time: AGs, go for the cash if you're going to recover damages done by the industry. Heck, I know I wouldn't want 10 crap CDs that the industry can't sell - why do you think your librarians would want millions of crap CDs that no one wants to hear?
Heck, I like Lou Reed and all, but does every library in Kansas really need 12 copies of his worst album of the mid 1980's? Does anyone really think that this settlement saved the libraries any money, or made the world a better place for anyone, anywhere?
The only winner is the RIAA - they got rid of a boatload of crappy inventory, and escaped from any real penalty.
Note: not a chance in hell, i'll pay that much for google stock though. Not a chance.
And that's the thing - only experts can possibly value a stock. What if a stock were $15.00 a share? Then would you buy? Or $15,000.00 a share? $0.15?
It's simply impossible to tell the value of a share just by looking at its proposed pricetag. You also have to know how many shares there are, and what the shares represent.
Heck, Berkshire Hathaway goes for $85,000 a share. Is that over-priced or under-priced?
Happily, the dutch auction process removed the influence of a few, biased experts, and puts the valuation process into a collective group of experts that vote with their pocketbook. It has been shown that such collective decision making can be very very accurate. A dutch auction is what the market is all about - why it hasn't always applied to IPOs is beyond me.
No, the stock market isn't about SCO being right or wrong - it's all about guessing how the market will react despite facts.
For instance, ENRON sucked rocks, but the market itself kept it pumped up - resulting in some people making lots of cash. Of course, many people lost lots of cash.
Most people want to be in the first group, and to avoid being in the second.
Regardless of SCO being right of wrong, it's all about money. That's why businesses lobby congress and the president - corporations do NOT care about being right or wrong for America - they care about making globs of money.
Look at how Google got tons of crap from Wall Street after they stated that they wanted to do good for society! Heck, do you know of a business school that permits students to concentrate on ethics??? Fuck no!
Microsoft, the world leader in innovation, has developed a new innovative URL for Google's news service, "news.google.com".
Microsoft has realized that most of their customers are unfamiliar with typing URLs. Therefore, Microsoft has invented "newsbot".
This patent-pending innovation will permit internet users (for example, MSN customers) to click on a web link to read news from various news sources. The newsbot link seemlessly directs users to a near-perfect replica of news.google.com, the premier news aggregation site on the internet.
Microsoft can also leverage this technology to manipulate news stories, promoting and demoting news stories based on a customer's interests, tax records, and party affiliation.
Of course cell phones are profitable - if they were not profitable, the cell phone manufacturers would create more profitable products.
And in fact, that's what they do.
Of course, for tax purposes, it is best if they show on the books that they lose money. As we've seen in many industries (manufacturing, healthcare, defense, MLB, etc) it's rather easy to show enough loss to avoid paying taxes. It is fact that corporations (at least in the USA) pay many fewer taxes as they did 5 years ago. The primary reason? Tax avoidance through "magic" accounting techniques.
If there was no money in the business, the shareholders would put a stop to it - after all, most cell phone manufacturers make many other products. But amazingly, looking at the past 5 years, share prices remain fairly stable compared to the overall tech sector.
Actually, if anyone wants to bother to take this to court, this patent will most likely be declared as "invalid" because it clearly doesn't meet the requirement of being novel and non-obvious.
Even the best lawyers can't pretend that this is novel or non-obvious.
Which means that Crudup's copyright is retaining it's value - an important note to make, as he is the songwriter.
However, Elvis (or his estate) will no longer hold a copyright to the recording - after all, it has been 50 years - and for a pop music recording, 50 years is infinitely long.
I actually read the report, and I have to say that it is pretty sound.
Although ICANN totally sucks as an organization, the committee certainly did a good job with this report. How the original poster could suggest that it is a strongly biased "propaganda" report is beyond me.
Will Verisign try to find issue with the report? I'm sure. After all, isn't it in the financial and legal interest of Verisign to counter its critics?
Not surprisingly, no one has yet to post counter-claims to the issues and assumptions made in the report.
It is a report, and it may make assumptions, but it certainly isn't a whitewash.
About 4 years ago I decided to experiment and gave everyone the same platform. Part of that platform was IE, Outlook Express, and McAfee VirusScan.
Thank goodness for the VirusScan and auto-update. And thank goodness I told everyone to never open email from people they don't know. And to never open attachments from anyone.
Happily, no one got a virus. But I did have to make sure that their PCs were up to date at least once a week... service patches, etc. Now let me offer some thanks to the VNC developers. (as the family network is distributed around the U.S.A.)
About a month ago, I decided "to hell" with IE and Outlook. In the end, it was an easy upgrade - replacing IE was easy, and everyone likes Mozilla better. Outlook was a little harder to replace, but now everyone is happy with Outlook after a little learning. Everyone LOVES Mozilla's junk mail handling.
The conclusion? Five more windows PCs now run Mozilla instead of IE/Outlook. No one is unhappy with the change. Everyone likes the new features, and now I don't have to spend a big chunk of my time keeping the world up to date.
PS- Everyone is running Windows - except for one Mac (Safari) and my Linux boxes (Mozilla 1.7).
I dunno, the Tour de France is still freakin' incredible.
The fact that cyclists can ride a 40+ mile route at an average of 33+ MPH is amazing. Especially if you consider all the rain. And that I have a tough time going 30+ MPH... downhill.
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Eh? SCO is claiming it has a case. IBM is claiming the SCO doesn't have a case. It's hard for us to tell from the outside, since few of us have seen all of the contracts and code in question.
Seems like a judge should decide, and NOT the press. Heck, the press often claims that SCO really does have a case!
I've dropped my Nokia 5100 series about 5 feet from ear level to concrete several times. Except for a few scuffs (mostly on the battery, it must be the heaviest part), it's survived perfectly.
Me too. Well, from 3 ft. But it gave out after the third drop or so.
Even without a hard drive, a cell phone isn't really designed to be dropped all that much.
Whoa! Hold on there bud. The court system isn't for everything.
Want to sue a doctor? No fucking way! Everyone wants to sue the doctor. Malpractice insurance rates means that entry-level doctor can only take home $150,000/year or so. And just because your the doctor made a little mistake and now your back hurts a little... poor you... wimp.
Doctor suing you because he thinks you owe him more money? Great! That's what the court system is for. He'll burn you with the legal fees alone, and fuck up your credit too! And just because your name is the same as another patient. But you know, the rich suing the poor is OK, because the rich don't sue the poor for the big bucks.
(PS - A good friend of mine is an MD, so I don't want to hear it)
Heck, everyone knows that SQL was a mistake and that XML was an even bigger mistake. Merging the two seems like compounding both mistakes.
And, at the same time, most of us know that SQL and XML are pretty good at something, and it'll be a long while before someone develops a compelling alternative.
So the news here is that Fabian Pascal doesn't like some ideas, and to be honest, I don't like some ideas too. He doesn't have to provide alternatives to unloved ideas. I think that's OK.
I worked with a woman who was damned sure that she was going to store a copy of my relational database (Postgres) in her XML database. It sounded like a bad technical idea. I didn't like it, and I expressed that I didn't like it without proposing an alternative that would work with her application. Isn't that OK?
Only less than 2% of users use more than three applications at once, and therefore, as a compromise to cost, it seems wise to start with 256 MG of memory.
The 256MB of system memory keeps costs down for "3 applications at once" users... and lower cost means both more sales and more profit for Apple. As a nice side benefit, this new machine out-competes similar products from Dell & Gateway. HP/Compaq and IBM don't even begin to compete in this category
However, recognize that some users would want or need more memory. As a solution, the memory is upgradable using standard PC memory. Alas, its limit is 2 GB - a limitation of the particularly small board inside the unit. Only VM will get you more than 2 GB on this model.
Eventually, I think that Apple will come out with a new iMac that supports more than 2 GB - but that's likely to be many years away.
Excellent question.
The original problem with a flat-screen design was that it was just too bulky. The cooling system and power supply made it into a 6 inch thick unit - and to most people, 6 inches thick ain't a flatscreen.
I'd have to agree with Jobs - if you can't do it right, don't do it.
On the flipside, the new unit is nice. I just wish it'd come in more colors.
When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn't give you two backup copies,"
Ouch, it sounds like he doesn't know the difference between intellectual property and physical property.
By extension: if I'm an artist and I sell a song to him, I guess I only sell that physical media with the song, and not the song itself.
Hmmm, or is he saying that intellectual property can only be owned by a corporation and not an individual? Great! Therefore, if I buy a Cognac glass, I can make a hundred exact (or modified) copies. Isn't that OK?
But then again, who runs down to the department store to by 10 Cognac glasses? Who is this guy?
"I would have bought shares if an investment bank set an arbitrary IPO price of $130/share, instead of buying shares at $85 each via this Auction process."
Why??? What does that mean? I don't get it at all.
Trust me:
1. the wireless companies are making globs of money. "Free" cell phones are their loss-leader, there just to attract dumb customers who care more about the phone than the plan.
2. Microsoft is hoping to take over the console market so that they can make globs of money. The XBox might not be making a huge profit now - however, Microsoft has concluded that it can make a huge long-term profit.
That being said, there are no rest areas on the Dulles Toll Road in Virginia..
But what if you have to go pee?
How is this going to effect my "lifetime" subscription to www.hornywomenbehindbars.com?!
Isn't "horny women behind bars", the movie, on the Lifetime cable TV network every week?
I think it stars Meredith Baxter.
This settlement was a huge fiasco... it makes the states' AGs look like they were walked on, and made the RIAA look like total losers.
Next time: AGs, go for the cash if you're going to recover damages done by the industry. Heck, I know I wouldn't want 10 crap CDs that the industry can't sell - why do you think your librarians would want millions of crap CDs that no one wants to hear?
Heck, I like Lou Reed and all, but does every library in Kansas really need 12 copies of his worst album of the mid 1980's? Does anyone really think that this settlement saved the libraries any money, or made the world a better place for anyone, anywhere?
The only winner is the RIAA - they got rid of a boatload of crappy inventory, and escaped from any real penalty.
Note: not a chance in hell, i'll pay that much for google stock
though. Not a chance.
And that's the thing - only experts can possibly value a stock. What if a stock were $15.00 a share? Then would you buy? Or $15,000.00 a share? $0.15?
It's simply impossible to tell the value of a share just by looking at its proposed pricetag. You also have to know how many shares there are, and what the shares represent.
Heck, Berkshire Hathaway goes for $85,000 a share. Is that over-priced or under-priced?
Happily, the dutch auction process removed the influence of a few, biased experts, and puts the valuation process into a collective group of experts that vote with their pocketbook. It has been shown that such collective decision making can be very very accurate. A dutch auction is what the market is all about - why it hasn't always applied to IPOs is beyond me.
You said it!
Most people carry three or four spare tires around their waste too. A couple hundred extra pounds of body weight isn't that uncommon.
This hybrid SUV can carry 3 kids, a dog, and tow a typical pleasure boat. All at once.
Look at the specs!
No, the stock market isn't about SCO being right or wrong - it's all about guessing how the market will react despite facts.
For instance, ENRON sucked rocks, but the market itself kept it pumped up - resulting in some people making lots of cash. Of course, many people lost lots of cash.
Most people want to be in the first group, and to avoid being in the second.
Regardless of SCO being right of wrong, it's all about money. That's why businesses lobby congress and the president - corporations do NOT care about being right or wrong for America - they care about making globs of money.
Look at how Google got tons of crap from Wall Street after they stated that they wanted to do good for society! Heck, do you know of a business school that permits students to concentrate on ethics??? Fuck no!
I find that RSS is inconsistent and a constant challenge.
Yum, how many different implementations of RSS can YOU deal with? It is, in fact, a game.
[If you've never implemented a client, don't bother replying.]
Microsoft, the world leader in innovation, has developed a new innovative URL for Google's news service, "news.google.com".
Microsoft has realized that most of their customers are unfamiliar with typing URLs. Therefore, Microsoft has invented "newsbot".
This patent-pending innovation will permit internet users (for example, MSN customers) to click on a web link to read news from various news sources. The newsbot link seemlessly directs users to a near-perfect replica of news.google.com, the premier news aggregation site on the internet.
Microsoft can also leverage this technology to manipulate news stories, promoting and demoting news stories based on a customer's interests, tax records, and party affiliation.
Of course cell phones are profitable - if they were not profitable, the cell phone manufacturers would create more profitable products.
And in fact, that's what they do.
Of course, for tax purposes, it is best if they show on the books that they lose money. As we've seen in many industries (manufacturing, healthcare, defense, MLB, etc) it's rather easy to show enough loss to avoid paying taxes. It is fact that corporations (at least in the USA) pay many fewer taxes as they did 5 years ago. The primary reason? Tax avoidance through "magic" accounting techniques.
If there was no money in the business, the shareholders would put a stop to it - after all, most cell phone manufacturers make many other products. But amazingly, looking at the past 5 years, share prices remain fairly stable compared to the overall tech sector.
Actually, if anyone wants to bother to take this to court, this patent will most likely be declared as "invalid" because it clearly doesn't meet the requirement of being novel and non-obvious.
Even the best lawyers can't pretend that this is novel or non-obvious.
"As the county is one of the best-run in the nation, this could set quite the precedent."
Sure does look like an ad to me. Do county-generated press releases, like the one glorifying the county supervisor, count as political advertising?
Or did the county supervisor have to pay to have that press release posted to the county web site?
Which means that Crudup's copyright is retaining it's value - an important note to make, as he is the songwriter.
However, Elvis (or his estate) will no longer hold a copyright to the recording - after all, it has been 50 years - and for a pop music recording, 50 years is infinitely long.
I actually read the report, and I have to say that it is pretty sound.
Although ICANN totally sucks as an organization, the committee certainly did a good job with this report. How the original poster could suggest that it is a strongly biased "propaganda" report is beyond me.
Will Verisign try to find issue with the report? I'm sure. After all, isn't it in the financial and legal interest of Verisign to counter its critics?
Not surprisingly, no one has yet to post counter-claims to the issues and assumptions made in the report.
It is a report, and it may make assumptions, but it certainly isn't a whitewash.
I upgraded my family network to Mozilla 1.6.
About 4 years ago I decided to experiment and gave everyone the same platform. Part of that platform was IE, Outlook Express, and McAfee VirusScan.
Thank goodness for the VirusScan and auto-update. And thank goodness I told everyone to never open email from people they don't know. And to never open attachments from anyone.
Happily, no one got a virus. But I did have to make sure that their PCs were up to date at least once a week... service patches, etc. Now let me offer some thanks to the VNC developers. (as the family network is distributed around the U.S.A.)
About a month ago, I decided "to hell" with IE and Outlook. In the end, it was an easy upgrade - replacing IE was easy, and everyone likes Mozilla better. Outlook was a little harder to replace, but now everyone is happy with Outlook after a little learning. Everyone LOVES Mozilla's junk mail handling.
The conclusion? Five more windows PCs now run Mozilla instead of IE/Outlook. No one is unhappy with the change. Everyone likes the new features, and now I don't have to spend a big chunk of my time keeping the world up to date.
PS- Everyone is running Windows - except for one Mac (Safari) and my Linux boxes (Mozilla 1.7).
I dunno, the Tour de France is still freakin' incredible.
... downhill.
The fact that cyclists can ride a 40+ mile route at an average of 33+ MPH is amazing. Especially if you consider all the rain. And that I have a tough time going 30+ MPH
Go Lance!