Democrat or Republican it doesn't matter. If you believe the Democratic Party would not have attacked Iraq you are very naive. Ignoring the rhetoric, there is no real difference between the Democratic and Republic parties, both are for big business. Clinton de-regulated industry far more than Reagon ever did.
Removing Bush from office, while needed, would not make much of a change. It would take much more than this to fix things, including replacing most of Congress, state legislatures and governors, and finally mayors and the city councils in the larger cities. Additional strong political parties as well as more independent candidates would also help.
As for attacking Iraq, this would have happened regardless of who is President for one reason. September 11th. The government had to show that it was doing something. Afghanistan wasn't a newsworthy a target, so Iraq was chosen.
Personally, I have no problem with attacking Iraq. What I do have a problem with was it took over ten years after the first Gulf War to remove Saddam from power and the excuse given for the attacking.
It was complete idiocy to leave Saddam in power to balance a perceived threat from Iran. Many of the soldiers I know who came back from the first Gulf War complained about this and even warned that we would have to do it again a decade or two later. In fact it aided the extremists in recruiting new members due in part to our increased presence in the Middle East to contain Saddam, although thats not saying our presense would not have been there anyway, it would have been smaller if we removed him the first time.
Yes, but until the last two or so years most Linux installs were mostly individual users.
I believe you underestimate the average Linux enthusiast. Many programmers I know are both auto enthusiasts and Linux users at home.
As for companies, many still haven't jumped on the Linux bandwagon. The company I used to work at kept switching whether they allowed or banned Linux in production. The last policy was no new Linux builds and all replacements would be either Solaris or AIX. Still many programmers had Linux installed on spare desktops.
Considering one infamous ex-Soloman Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman was privately dumping stocks while publically recommending them. Do you really expect this to happen.
Except that SCO is a U.S. company. Given current French attitude to the U.S., the French will not give up.
As for the French surrender to Germany in WW II it was more their anti-british attitude and stubborness that caused no coordination between British and French forces in France that allowed Germany to roll over them in 1940.
So in 1940 their stubborness hurt them. In 2004 their stubborness would help us.
Boeing was sued in the E.U., although I can't remember the outcome. So I don't see why Daimler couldn't sue SCO.
Although why would they want to, SCO's lawyer fees have got to be higher than revenue (12 million if I remember). In a few months to a year SCO will be bankrupt and dissolved if they keep up the case.
Even if they win they lose since the Linux maintainers and experts have said it would take a small recompilation to remove all 'offending' code.
>My point is that other than investors and AutoZone HQ employee's (and Linux users) very few people will care about this case.
The last estimate I saw of Linux installs in the worldwide was 12 Million in 1999 or 2000 and over half were in the U.S. at that time. Linux counter's current estimate is 18 million worldwide and some sites have the estimate at over 70 million.
Yes, but Daimler Chrysler is also Mercedes Benz. The company should still call itself Daimler Benz since the U.S. side of the company basically lost all their seats.
I wonder who SCO's lawyers and consultants are. They are doing a very bad job of advising them.
I could imagine something like.
SCO CEO: We are losing millions of dollars a year to Solaris and Linux, lets sue two large companies to cower the small.
SCO's head attorney to self: Yes, millions of dollars in fees from SCO now I can upgrade my mansion.
SCO SCO: Lets go after IBM and Daimler Chrysler.
Head attorney: Thats a good idea.
Head attorney to self: Moron. Hey now I can upgrade my mistress' house.
SCO's financial advisor: Good idea sir. Note to self short sell SCO.
Those of us in America dislike it as much as you, although to be fair it has less to do with countries than with greedy corporations.
It looks like the those of you in Europe will have the EUCD (EU Copyright Directive), also known as Euro-DCMA. The vote was pushed till November, but I bet it will pass.
One reason I think the studios don't want non "approved" versions is because the Linux versions allow you to skip the menu's and advertisements.
A few DVD's I rented had the controls locked so you couldn't skip past or fast forward through the advertisements.
The state of Ohio already taxes internet purchases out of state. It is grouped in with the Ohio Use Tax. A very old law on the books that taxes out of state mail order purchases. Ohio grouped internet purchases in with this.
Actual text from the 2001 Ohio EZ.
Please use line 11 of the IT-1040EZ income tax return to report the amount of unpaid sales tax (if any) that you may owe from out-of-state purchase(s) that you made in 2001 (e.g., mail order or internet purchases)...
According to the reporting the last two years that this has shown up on the forms this is regardless of whether the company has a presence in the state or not.
Another article I read mentioned that some representative are debating on making the internet taxfree indefinitely and closing the loopholes in a dozen or so states that allows taxation of internet purchases.
I know what you mean by people trying to bring this in being kicked out. I haven't worked for a place yet where even one of the three steps have been even partially followed. This includes two academic research/work study projects.
Even if the group you work in tries to follow the three principles you mentioned, it is often overridden by upper management some of whom are ex-developers themselves.
More than once I have heard complaints come down the chain about too much time being devoted to testing and pressure put to reduce the time.
Once a "pencil pusher" determined that there is no need for separate QA/test groups and most of the groups where either eliminated, reduced in size or folded into development.
Another problem I have seen is the dislike of many business people of the "Ivory tower academic world". More than once I have heard a comment like the following, "What do they (academics) know about the real world, they don't have realistic budgets or timelines to meet," when someone mentions the established basics of software development or engineering.
I have first hand knowledge that even in academia most of the software engineering ideas are ignored or overly bent, regardless of "unrealistic budgets." One of my work study jobs was to document a fortran mathematics library widely used throughout the academic wor, that was over at the time over 20 years old with almost no documentation, and what existed was wrong.
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Democrat or Republican it doesn't matter. If you believe the Democratic Party would not have attacked Iraq you are very naive. Ignoring the rhetoric, there is no real difference between the Democratic and Republic parties, both are for big business. Clinton de-regulated industry far more than Reagon ever did.
Removing Bush from office, while needed, would not make much of a change. It would take much more than this to fix things, including replacing most of Congress, state legislatures and governors, and finally mayors and the city councils in the larger cities. Additional strong political parties as well as more independent candidates would also help.
As for attacking Iraq, this would have happened regardless of who is President for one reason. September 11th. The government had to show that it was doing something. Afghanistan wasn't a newsworthy a target, so Iraq was chosen.
Personally, I have no problem with attacking Iraq. What I do have a problem with was it took over ten years after the first Gulf War to remove Saddam from power and the excuse given for the attacking.
It was complete idiocy to leave Saddam in power to balance a perceived threat from Iran. Many of the soldiers I know who came back from the first Gulf War complained about this and even warned that we would have to do it again a decade or two later. In fact it aided the extremists in recruiting new members due in part to our increased presence in the Middle East to contain Saddam, although thats not saying our presense would not have been there anyway, it would have been smaller if we removed him the first time.
Yes, but until the last two or so years most Linux installs were mostly individual users.
I believe you underestimate the average Linux enthusiast. Many programmers I know are both auto enthusiasts and Linux users at home.
As for companies, many still haven't jumped on the Linux bandwagon. The company I used to work at kept switching whether they allowed or banned Linux in production. The last policy was no new Linux builds and all replacements would be either Solaris or AIX. Still many programmers had Linux installed on spare desktops.
Lets see GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagon, and BMW for the auto groups.
Then Bank One, Citicorp, Nationwide, State Farm for the insurance and banking group.
And to kick it off Time Warner, Disney, Pixar Paramount.
If they are dumb enough to go after even three of these companies then they will get crushed.
Considering one infamous ex-Soloman Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman was privately dumping stocks while publically recommending them. Do you really expect this to happen.
Except that SCO is a U.S. company. Given current French attitude to the U.S., the French will not give up.
As for the French surrender to Germany in WW II it was more their anti-british attitude and stubborness that caused no coordination between British and French forces in France that allowed Germany to roll over them in 1940.
So in 1940 their stubborness hurt them. In 2004 their stubborness would help us.
Boeing was sued in the E.U., although I can't remember the outcome. So I don't see why Daimler couldn't sue SCO.
Although why would they want to, SCO's lawyer fees have got to be higher than revenue (12 million if I remember). In a few months to a year SCO will be bankrupt and dissolved if they keep up the case.
Even if they win they lose since the Linux maintainers and experts have said it would take a small recompilation to remove all 'offending' code.
Isn't David Boise the person who handled the Microsoft anti trust case and basically solidified Microsoft's monopoly.
>My point is that other than investors and AutoZone HQ employee's (and Linux users) very few people will care about this case.
The last estimate I saw of Linux installs in the worldwide was 12 Million in 1999 or 2000 and over half were in the U.S. at that time. Linux counter's current estimate is 18 million worldwide and some sites have the estimate at over 70 million.
Yes, but Daimler Chrysler is also Mercedes Benz. The company should still call itself Daimler Benz since the U.S. side of the company basically lost all their seats.
I wonder who SCO's lawyers and consultants are. They are doing a very bad job of advising them.
I could imagine something like.
SCO CEO: We are losing millions of dollars a year to Solaris and Linux, lets sue two large companies to cower the small.
SCO's head attorney to self: Yes, millions of dollars in fees from SCO now I can upgrade my mansion.
SCO SCO: Lets go after IBM and Daimler Chrysler.
Head attorney: Thats a good idea.
Head attorney to self: Moron. Hey now I can upgrade my mistress' house.
SCO's financial advisor: Good idea sir.
Note to self short sell SCO.
Those of us in America dislike it as much as you, although to be fair it has less to do with countries than with greedy corporations.
It looks like the those of you in Europe will have the EUCD (EU Copyright Directive), also known as Euro-DCMA. The vote was pushed till November, but I bet it will pass.
One reason I think the studios don't want non
"approved" versions is because the Linux versions allow you to skip the menu's and advertisements.
A few DVD's I rented had the controls locked so you couldn't skip past or fast forward through the advertisements.
The state of Ohio already taxes internet purchases out of state. It is grouped in with the Ohio Use Tax. A very old law on the books that taxes out of state mail order purchases. Ohio grouped internet purchases in with this.
Actual text from the 2001 Ohio EZ.
Please use line 11 of the IT-1040EZ income tax return to report the amount of unpaid sales tax (if any) that you may owe from out-of-state purchase(s) that you made in 2001 (e.g., mail order or internet purchases)...
According to the reporting the last two years that this has shown up on the forms this is regardless of whether the company has a presence in the state or not.
Another article I read mentioned that some representative are debating on making the internet taxfree indefinitely and closing the loopholes in a dozen or so states that allows taxation of internet purchases.
I know what you mean by people trying to bring this in being kicked out. I haven't worked for a place yet where even one of the three steps have been even partially followed. This includes two academic research/work study projects.
Even if the group you work in tries to follow the three principles you mentioned, it is often overridden by upper management some of whom are ex-developers themselves.
More than once I have heard complaints come down the chain about too much time being devoted to testing and pressure put to reduce the time.
Once a "pencil pusher" determined that there is no need for separate QA/test groups and most of the groups where either eliminated, reduced in size or folded into development.
Another problem I have seen is the dislike of many business people of the "Ivory tower academic world". More than once I have heard a comment like the following, "What do they (academics) know about the real world, they don't have realistic budgets or timelines to meet," when someone mentions the established basics of software development or engineering.
I have first hand knowledge that even in academia most of the software engineering ideas are ignored or overly bent, regardless of "unrealistic budgets." One of my work study jobs was to document a fortran mathematics library widely used throughout the academic wor, that was over at the time over 20 years old with almost no documentation, and what existed was wrong.