OK, I admit it. I grabbed the mars probe on its way to orbit and put it in my backyard, where I put a bunch of sand and rocks and spray painted everything brown and drab red. Some got onto the lander, my screwup. Neil and Buzz came by and gave me some advice, based on how they faked the moon landing.
Maybe I don't know lawyer-speak, but to me "SCO will settle it's lawsuit against IBM" implies that SCO is the party that can make a decision to settle here. At this point, they can decide to drop the suit. They can't unilaterally decide that IBM will settle the lawsuit.
If I understand the purpose of the class it's to teach about music, not how to be a music pirate. Why the need to teach how to distribute and/or burn "mix" CD's?
Unless there are a bunch of rarities in the playlist, chances are that $10 at a used record shop will net all the originals. (Not those hokey remastered-on-CD things.) Most college-age kids would learn a lot about music by going to such a store.
IMHO there is no good "silent" keyboard. At the extreme end of silent you have membrane keyboards, but if you hit more than a few keys an hour you'll become frustrated at the poor usability. Most mushy keyboards make some noise, but are on the very low end of usability. Getting back to the
first poster's recommendation of the Model M,
that breed of keyboard is the one you want. Put your efforts and mone into soundproofing the computer room.
How can SCO claim that the knowledge of "which" code is supposedly infringing is a trade secret,
when they've been distributing the source code to the linux kernel and a bazillion other packages over their web site for years?
They didn't file any till 1995. Kinda clever, really
So what does this mean for all the floppy
disk manufacturers that sold preformatted
FAT floppy disks through the 80's and early
90's? Can they retroactively sue them? Microsoft
didn't put "patent pending" on floppy disks they sold, did they? Was Microsoft ever in the business of selling blank but preformatted
floppies?
The earliest versions of the FAT file systems
were around in 1981. (Actually probably 1979
or 1980 if you count Seattle Computer's QDOS).
Those patents must've expired by now, right? Or
does Microsoft get a perpetual patents the
same way Disney gets perpetual copyrights?
I know from a brief amount of technical work
(no, I never signed a non-compete) that Google's
Linux server installations are far from "vanilla"
kernel.org setups. Yes, at one point, they
started with a vanilla kernel, but it's grown
from there greatly. And they almost certainly
have excised big blocks of stuff they don't care
about. Unlike a RedHat distro kernel, which has
modules to deal with about every PC that's ever
existed, I'm sure the Google kernels are lean
mean indexing machines.
How much might SCO try to extort from a linux
user that doesn't use the feature under litigation?
The worst part is that unlike IBM, Google may not
have the vast army of lawyers to devote to their
defense. Now they're not poor, and they do have
lawyers, but nothing like the fancy-pants ones
that IBM has on tap.
It's great that they can control traffic lights,
but that requires a bandwidth measured in a few bits per second. Not megabits, like you can get over a regular copper phone line. It's not "broadband" by any means.
I know that marketing of technology requires a
really aggressive stance, but this would be like saying that jet airplane flights are just around the corner, because they've perfected the stone wheel. It took a few more fundamental developments (and new delivery methods) to make that jump!
If a site is so MS-centric that they require I
use MS software to send them E-mail, then I don't
want to send them E-mail. It's that simple.
There is a well-established process (RFC's) for Internet standards. If someone chooses to ignore them, they're the ones going off into fantasy land.
I'll think you'll find the title refers to Linus defending HIMSELF against any accusations by SCO
That's not it either: Linus hasn't been charged with or sued for anything (yet).
I think SCO is trying to pull a "Perry Mason" type move where a hard line of questioning forces Linus/RMS/whoever to break down in front of the court with an admission that they stole EVERYTHING from SCO and they did it FOR IBM. It's gonna backfire on them *so bad*.
I'd be very surprised if Linus was going to defend SCO here. Although obviously SCO thought that it would be advantageous to pump him for *something*, I dunno what.
Much more useful, and way more geeky: a Real Atomic
Clock Wristwatch. No, this is not one of those wimply radio-receiver watches that are mislabeled as "Atomic Clocks". This is the Real Deal:
I wonder if any of the search engines have actually begun to use search patterns as an insight into consumer demands and profit off of such foresight.
My guess (purely uneducated and fully opinionated) is that they haven't. Those who say that there is money to be made in analyzing data from grocery store "loyalty" cards, and sell the analysis services, are the only ones profiting from such data.
For immigration/work permit purposes, at least in the USA and Canada, it's not the payment for work that matters. It's whether any natives might get paid for such work. And for OS work, the answer to that is definitely "yes".
Others here have already pointed out the difficulties with taxing information flow in/out of countries.
But imagine that there was such a scheme. Open source would be dead in the water. What's the linux kernel worth? 3 dollars? 300 million dollars? Customs and governments could make up whatever number they wanted!
The attempt to hide domain registration information is
clearly an attempt by spammers to hide in their caves while
continuing to launch massive strikes against the rest of the world.
On a related note, the flood (several hundred an hour) of Sobig.F's that I was getting since its onset stopped at 11PM EDT on 9-Sep-2003. The last bounces with my forged E-mail address as the sender came in about a half hour later. Media stories said that it would stop on 11-Sep-2003... but something seems to be off by a few days.
Any sightings of Sobig.G in the wild yet? Everybody was predicting it to be released today.
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My kids had lots of fun with those airbags, BTW.
Maybe I don't know lawyer-speak, but to me "SCO will settle it's lawsuit against IBM" implies that SCO is the party that can make a decision to settle here. At this point, they can decide to drop the suit. They can't unilaterally decide that IBM will settle the lawsuit.
Unless there are a bunch of rarities in the playlist, chances are that $10 at a used record shop will net all the originals. (Not those hokey remastered-on-CD things.) Most college-age kids would learn a lot about music by going to such a store.
Does that imply that if you have read it, that it's not a great book?
IMHO there is no good "silent" keyboard. At the extreme end of silent you have membrane keyboards, but if you hit more than a few keys an hour you'll become frustrated at the poor usability. Most mushy keyboards make some noise, but are on the very low end of usability. Getting back to the first poster's recommendation of the Model M, that breed of keyboard is the one you want. Put your efforts and mone into soundproofing the computer room.
How can SCO claim that the knowledge of "which" code is supposedly infringing is a trade secret, when they've been distributing the source code to the linux kernel and a bazillion other packages over their web site for years?
The earliest versions of the FAT file systems were around in 1981. (Actually probably 1979 or 1980 if you count Seattle Computer's QDOS). Those patents must've expired by now, right? Or does Microsoft get a perpetual patents the same way Disney gets perpetual copyrights?
How much might SCO try to extort from a linux user that doesn't use the feature under litigation?
The worst part is that unlike IBM, Google may not have the vast army of lawyers to devote to their defense. Now they're not poor, and they do have lawyers, but nothing like the fancy-pants ones that IBM has on tap.
I know that marketing of technology requires a really aggressive stance, but this would be like saying that jet airplane flights are just around the corner, because they've perfected the stone wheel. It took a few more fundamental developments (and new delivery methods) to make that jump!
If a site is so MS-centric that they require I use MS software to send them E-mail, then I don't want to send them E-mail. It's that simple. There is a well-established process (RFC's) for Internet standards. If someone chooses to ignore them, they're the ones going off into fantasy land.
I think SCO is trying to pull a "Perry Mason" type move where a hard line of questioning forces Linus/RMS/whoever to break down in front of the court with an admission that they stole EVERYTHING from SCO and they did it FOR IBM. It's gonna backfire on them *so bad*.
First Atomic Clock Wristwatch
But imagine that there was such a scheme. Open source would be dead in the water. What's the linux kernel worth? 3 dollars? 300 million dollars? Customs and governments could make up whatever number they wanted!
The attempt to hide domain registration information is clearly an attempt by spammers to hide in their caves while continuing to launch massive strikes against the rest of the world.
Any sightings of Sobig.G in the wild yet? Everybody was predicting it to be released today.
For a little while, yes. They're not made at all anymore.