I find your flippant attitude towards deplorable business conduct aimed at preventing competition appalling. You really need to spend some time observing the efforts of FOSS projects to provide an open and level playing field, then contrast what you learn with Microsoft's persistent efforts to stifle all competition. While you are at it, stop rewriting history to make it sound as if there never was a conflict.
You seem to be in denial, like a woman who refuses to believe her husband is a mobster. It is time for you to open your eyes and see Microsoft as the crimminal the courts rule they are.
Wrong target; it's not about you. A bit paranoid, today? Too much coffee?
I love that word, fuckpuppet. It sounds so dirty, yet the meaning is so ambiguous. Is it a device? A sexual athlete? Or a passive, masochistic sex slave? Does it connote great sex, or pitiful sex? I can see where a conservative would exclaim, "I don't give a damn what it means, it pisses me off!"
...that expanding stuff they sell in cans at the Home Depot right?
No, silly! It's an old form of contraceptive. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The field collapses when the female achieves orgasm, which is why it is so ineffective.
Obviously the result of translating Japanese to English on Google Translate. Consider this direct translation from today's Yomiuri on-line
With the Tokyo Shibuya Ku dentist house the December last year, junior college raw Buto sub- being clear of the eldest daughter (the [a] completed) (at that time 20 years old) in the incident where the corpse who is cut off is found, it was prosecuted with crime of homicide and the corpse damage, your Defendant original preparatory school raw Isamu of the older brother (22) defense side, being the policy of claiming spiritual judgment on the 14th, it was understood with two men.
Bow shock story brain my head cooked it was understood not. Now, sakesuke put away memory.
For anyone working for the Federal Government and find themselves in a similar situation, report it to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Disclosure Unit. This office "...serves as a safe conduit for the receipt and evaluation of whistleblower disclosures from federal employees, former employees and applicants for federal employment."
Ignore all the advice to quit. That may be a viable option for run-of-the-mill civilian jobs, but in federal service there is only one employer. Move to another position, yes, but don't give up a federal career over something so insignificant as this. And no, you are not expected to fall on your sword. You are expected to disclose fraud, waste, and abuse.
I don't even see the connection between open wireless access points and the problem this guy describes.
Sounds like Yarro is about to flee his sinking ship and swim in the direction of these guys: http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/
The business plan:
1. Outlaw free hotspots ("Save the Children!").
2. Offer proprietary for-fee coldspots with built-in filtering.
3. Become a defacto standard and virtual monopoly.
4. Profit!
... any study that does not indicate a significant penetration of hip hop is biased. The story is from England. They have hip hip, but no hip hop.
On a different tack, how does the genera spread compare with the general population within this age group? Are gifted English students more likely to listen to heavy metal than average kids? Or is this study aimed at consoling parents?
I have not seen IBM make this claim. What IMB has stated is that the 300-odd lines of code identified by SCO as infringing lack the originality required for copyright protection. Most are comments. Many of the remaining are #DEFINE statements in c language header files, the kind of stuff previously established in common law as unqualified for copyright protection.
Consider this:
I am a man. (copyright Gary Dunn, all rights reserved).
I could claim it, but no court would uphold my claim.
Now, go relax and unwind your brain. Software is generally recongnized as subject to copyright protection; there are specific portions of law which apply specifically to software. Don't worry, the GPL is not going to die.
The SCO leadership ought to come under the same scrutiny as Enron execs did. Corporate leaders have a responsibility to the stockholders. Willful misrepresentation of facts resulting in a significant loss of stock value deserve criminal changes. A year from now, with SCO engulfed in bankruptcy, we ought to see the start of criminal proceedings.
Look at it in a Picasso/Miro kind of a way. That's PJ, right? Definitly a female upper half. Might be Frank Zappa on one of my sleepless nights, but hey. That seemingly out of place symmetry break on the right side, that's a bust line, right? Am I reading too much into this?
MIT already has an Open Source project dealing with content -- OpenCourseWare. Perhaps their dispute with the SAE will inspire someone at MIT to go forward with an open-source peer-reviewed journal project, making use of LaTeX and other technology mentioned in previous posts. Sort of a spin on "Put up or shut up."
* Atheros-based cards. Strangely, I don't hear these mentioned very often, but they have excellent support, complete with monitor mode, creating multiple interfaces from one card, etc. Oh and airpwn supports it:) - http://madwifi.org/
That's what is in my MacBook, and apparently Apple uses the same driver as the other beasties. So, maybe they aren't mentioned very often, but there are a lot of them being used outside the Windows realm.
You overlook recent litigation exploring the classification of bloggers as journalists. To what extent does "Freedom of the press" apply to bloggers? Does Pamela enjoy the freedoms guarenteed by America's constitution to journalists, or is she just an ordinary citizen?
Or, for that matter, is she a virtual being? If so, does the constitutional protection apply? Why not?
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That sentence is anything but a tribute. To members of the business culture that Forbes speaks to, anyone who leads "a relentless online crusade" agains a business -- an American business, is an enemy. A communist. A terrorist. A liberal. Un-American. Un-patriotic.
If you're knowledgeable, the amount of time spent configuring Linux/*BSD is comparable with the one securing a new Windows machine. Hence free in this case is apt. Think "free" as in speech. Whenever a comparison between FOSS and commercial software is based on price, Total Cost to Operate, or something similar, the results are inconclusive. The significant difference is in the way *you* get control of your software and data. FOSS programs and file formats are not controlled exclusivley by someone else.
BTW, I use FreeBSD all the time. But that's not to imply that Linux falls short in any way. And at home, we use Macs. Lots of 'em.
Your link is broken. I kept clicking on "fraud" and the only thing that happened was that the word got highlighted. My finger will fall off before I make my first Franklin.
I guess the cars manufacturers could just stop selling their 'horrible' product in CA, and see how that works, eh?
If the California DA truly represented the people, as he or she should, then this would be a moot point, because a majority of the population of California would refuse to purchase smog belching cars. The fact is that people did buy the cars, knowing that they caused polution, and continue to do so. The people's representative therefore has no basis on which to sue. If, say, all of these companies had conspired to understate their cars' emissions data, well that would be worth a trip to court. For this, the DA is wasting the taxpayers' money. Send him the bill, personally, for the cost of this suit. Maybe the Sierra Club will cover it.
So according to the US government Apple is allowed to monopolize portable music players but Microsoft is not allowed to monopolize PCs?
The US fed. gov. allows monopolies provided the result is in the public interest. MS was not prosecuted for being a monopoly, but for taking advantage of their monopolistic position to control the market and limit competition. Apple is not hunting down competition, they are winning in a free market fair and square. Free market does not require free-as-in-speech software.
Clearly Microsoft is not paying off as many politicians and regulators as Apple is.
You can't be serious. All those politicians already have iPods.
MS should seriously object to this crap.
And piss off even more all those politicians who already can't use their virus infected PCs?
In analogy, why isn't apple being prosecuted for bundling Safari with OSX. AFAIK IE does not run on OSX... the horror!
It was not so much the bundling as providing no easy way to uninstall IE, and claiming that Windows would break without IE. The only reason IE does not run on OSX is because Micrtosoft does not want it to.
The parent sounds as though it were wrtten by a high school student, and the logic is so flawed that I fear for my future. People like this will not be able to pay my social security.
LaTeX is hardly minor formatting. It is unsurpassed in creating good-looking printed output that must conform to a specific layout. Academic articles, books, screenplays, term papers. It is equally good at creating PDF files, the point being that these are virtual paper pages.
People who are already handy with LaTeX can use it to do just about anything with it, but I would make the same observation about PowerPoint users.
LaTeX is not an editor. When I work with LaTeX I actually use Lyx, a GUI editor designed to output LaTeX documents. Orders of magnitude easier than working with raw LaTeX.
To see "minor" applied to LaTeX is like describing the Mississippi river as a minor waterway.
Mmmm, the rich scent of astroturf on a hot August afternoon sent roiling into the air by the power of mod points. What you have witnessed is the "slash" in slashdot. These zombies fail to grasp that modding down "funny" with "overrated" is in the same class as killing kittens.
What you defend is classic Microsoft anti-competitive behavior. Charge less, and wait for the competition to abandon that market segment or go under. N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E. Operating "Windows Live OneCare" at a loss is not a problem for Microsoft. They don't rely on it to pay the rent.
Consider this series: "OneCare" -- "MonoCare" -- "Monopoly"
"No more worrying about different versions of your antivirus software."
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I find your flippant attitude towards deplorable business conduct aimed at preventing competition appalling. You really need to spend some time observing the efforts of FOSS projects to provide an open and level playing field, then contrast what you learn with Microsoft's persistent efforts to stifle all competition. While you are at it, stop rewriting history to make it sound as if there never was a conflict.
You seem to be in denial, like a woman who refuses to believe her husband is a mobster. It is time for you to open your eyes and see Microsoft as the crimminal the courts rule they are.
Wrong target; it's not about you. A bit paranoid, today? Too much coffee?
I love that word, fuckpuppet. It sounds so dirty, yet the meaning is so ambiguous.
Is it a device? A sexual athlete? Or a passive, masochistic sex slave? Does it connote great sex, or pitiful sex? I can see where a conservative would exclaim, "I don't give a damn what it means, it pisses me off!"
No, silly! It's an old form of contraceptive. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The field collapses when the female achieves orgasm, which is why it is so ineffective.
Obviously the result of translating Japanese to English on Google Translate. Consider this direct translation from today's Yomiuri on-line
Bow shock story brain my head cooked it was understood not. Now, sakesuke put away memory.
For anyone working for the Federal Government and find themselves in a similar situation, report it to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Disclosure Unit. This office "...serves as a safe conduit for the receipt and evaluation of whistleblower disclosures from federal employees, former employees and applicants for federal employment."
Ignore all the advice to quit. That may be a viable option for run-of-the-mill civilian jobs, but in federal service there is only one employer. Move to another position, yes, but don't give up a federal career over something so insignificant as this. And no, you are not expected to fall on your sword. You are expected to disclose fraud, waste, and abuse.
Sounds like Yarro is about to flee his sinking ship and swim in the direction of these guys: http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/
The business plan:
1. Outlaw free hotspots ("Save the Children!").
2. Offer proprietary for-fee coldspots with built-in filtering.
3. Become a defacto standard and virtual monopoly.
4. Profit!
On a different tack, how does the genera spread compare with the general population within this age group? Are gifted English students more likely to listen to heavy metal than average kids? Or is this study aimed at consoling parents?
I have not seen IBM make this claim. What IMB has stated is that the 300-odd lines of code identified by SCO as infringing lack the originality required for copyright protection. Most are comments. Many of the remaining are #DEFINE statements in c language header files, the kind of stuff previously established in common law as unqualified for copyright protection.
Consider this:
I am a man. (copyright Gary Dunn, all rights reserved).
I could claim it, but no court would uphold my claim.
Now, go relax and unwind your brain. Software is generally recongnized as subject to copyright protection; there are specific portions of law which apply specifically to software. Don't worry, the GPL is not going to die.
The SCO leadership ought to come under the same scrutiny as Enron execs did. Corporate leaders have a responsibility to the stockholders. Willful misrepresentation of facts resulting in a significant loss of stock value deserve criminal changes. A year from now, with SCO engulfed in bankruptcy, we ought to see the start of criminal proceedings.
Look at it in a Picasso/Miro kind of a way. That's PJ, right? Definitly a female upper half. Might be Frank Zappa on one of my sleepless nights, but hey. That seemingly out of place symmetry break on the right side, that's a bust line, right? Am I reading too much into this?
MIT already has an Open Source project dealing with content -- OpenCourseWare. Perhaps their dispute with the SAE will inspire someone at MIT to go forward with an open-source peer-reviewed journal project, making use of LaTeX and other technology mentioned in previous posts. Sort of a spin on "Put up or shut up."
That would be the FreeBSD cluster.
You overlook recent litigation exploring the classification of bloggers as journalists. To what extent does "Freedom of the press" apply to bloggers? Does Pamela enjoy the freedoms guarenteed by America's constitution to journalists, or is she just an ordinary citizen?
Or, for that matter, is she a virtual being? If so, does the constitutional protection apply? Why not?
That sentence is anything but a tribute. To members of the business culture that Forbes speaks to, anyone who leads "a relentless online crusade" agains a business -- an American business, is an enemy. A communist. A terrorist. A liberal. Un-American. Un-patriotic.
No no no! We cannot infer that it will work for Sony. This Sony is Blue. Bush is a Red. If they ever cross: total protonic reversal!
BTW, I use FreeBSD all the time. But that's not to imply that Linux falls short in any way. And at home, we use Macs. Lots of 'em.
How about iMod? Mobile Device, and in the phonetic family of iPod. And "mod" sounds hip and cool. "Phone" is such a been-there sound bite.
Your link is broken. I kept clicking on "fraud" and the only thing that happened was that the word got highlighted. My finger will fall off before I make my first Franklin.
If the California DA truly represented the people, as he or she should, then this would be a moot point, because a majority of the population of California would refuse to purchase smog belching cars. The fact is that people did buy the cars, knowing that they caused polution, and continue to do so. The people's representative therefore has no basis on which to sue. If, say, all of these companies had conspired to understate their cars' emissions data, well that would be worth a trip to court. For this, the DA is wasting the taxpayers' money. Send him the bill, personally, for the cost of this suit. Maybe the Sierra Club will cover it.
So according to the US government Apple is allowed to monopolize portable music players but Microsoft is not allowed to monopolize PCs?
The US fed. gov. allows monopolies provided the result is in the public interest. MS was not prosecuted for being a monopoly, but for taking advantage of their monopolistic position to control the market and limit competition. Apple is not hunting down competition, they are winning in a free market fair and square. Free market does not require free-as-in-speech software.
Clearly Microsoft is not paying off as many politicians and regulators as Apple is.
You can't be serious. All those politicians already have iPods.
MS should seriously object to this crap.
And piss off even more all those politicians who already can't use their virus infected PCs?
In analogy, why isn't apple being prosecuted for bundling Safari with OSX. AFAIK IE does not run on OSX... the horror!
It was not so much the bundling as providing no easy way to uninstall IE, and claiming that Windows would break without IE. The only reason IE does not run on OSX is because Micrtosoft does not want it to.
The parent sounds as though it were wrtten by a high school student, and the logic is so flawed that I fear for my future. People like this will not be able to pay my social security.
LaTeX is hardly minor formatting. It is unsurpassed in creating good-looking printed output that must conform to a specific layout. Academic articles, books, screenplays, term papers. It is equally good at creating PDF files, the point being that these are virtual paper pages.
People who are already handy with LaTeX can use it to do just about anything with it, but I would make the same observation about PowerPoint users.
LaTeX is not an editor. When I work with LaTeX I actually use Lyx, a GUI editor designed to output LaTeX documents. Orders of magnitude easier than working with raw LaTeX.
To see "minor" applied to LaTeX is like describing the Mississippi river as a minor waterway.
Mmmm, the rich scent of astroturf on a hot August afternoon sent roiling into the air by the power of mod points. What you have witnessed is the "slash" in slashdot. These zombies fail to grasp that modding down "funny" with "overrated" is in the same class as killing kittens.
What you defend is classic Microsoft anti-competitive behavior. Charge less, and wait for the competition to abandon that market segment or go under. N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E. Operating "Windows Live OneCare" at a loss is not a problem for Microsoft. They don't rely on it to pay the rent.
Consider this series: "OneCare" -- "MonoCare" -- "Monopoly"
"No more worrying about different versions of your antivirus software."