They are disabling access with some old versions of their own software.
Yes, because the new versions will probably have some sort up "upgrade" to say "Hello, I am a Microsoft client. My user has agreed to the EULA, etc.. etc.. etc...", whereas the old clients won't have this. It will probably be required, as a method of making sure that users are using a MS client.
I think the whole point is support. With redhat, you're really paying for support - that's the whole point of paying.
With Debian, you don't get any support (IRC and google don't count when you've got to have a problem solved for your business in seconds. In these situations, "dial a tech-support number" == "support").
That could never, ever be a reality in anything other than propriatary hardware+software configurations. So kiss any hopes of having that under Windows or Linux goodbye.
The only reason that's possible is because Apple knows that "this slot will have an airport card in it if it's occupied. If it's not occupied, just ignore it."
Unless you want your motherboard to have 5000 different slots for every single PCI card made, and then have a bootup program run through each one, detecting which are empty and which are used, and then installing the software for the used ones (a process which would take up yards of physical space and loads of processing time), you're going to have to deal with installing drivers and kernel modules.
Instead of trying for one big thing to help you out, try a bunch of small things:
Cut back one beer/soda/candy-bar per day;
If you can bike to work, do that. If you ride your car to work, park far away, and walk the extra distance.
Don't use elevators - use stairs.
On your break, maybe go up a few flights of stairs, then down again.
All you have to do is eat a little less, and burn calories a little more. There's no big trick to it - just add in a bunch of little things that you won't even really notice, and cut back on a little food. You'll probably barely realize that you're doing either, until you start loosing pounds.
I think that would take a little more than a billion dollars;) Though, the I hear the GNU team did make an operating system out of a text-editor, once...so an image manipulator may not be all that hard!;)
(This post is funny. If you don't think it is, buy yourself a sense of humor.)
Whenever you even discuss patents, you have to use obfusticated speech. How else do you patent using a laser to play with a cat, but with language like: "directing an intense coherent beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus to produce a bright highly-focused pattern of light at the intersection of the beam and an opaque surface, said pattern being of visual interest to a cat;"?
I think I'd probably agree with pretty much everything you said. Especially the deep-pockets thing. But, I do believe that before you can get to a federal-level attack on these things, you need states to stand up and act. The federal government is big, fat, and dumb. State governments are easier to influence, and it just becomes that much easier to change federal law when you've got a bunch of states on your side.
"If only more of my countrymen would learn about their right to jury nullification, we'd see fewer stupid laws on the books."
I'm pretty sure you're not allowed on a jury if you have an IQ >= 100.
Unfortunatly, you're right. De jure nullification is dead. But de faco nullification is alive and kicking. Take your marijuana example: locally, Californian state officials generally don't enforce the federal marijuana laws. They don't have to. That's why you get federal officers doing most of the drug-busting in California, which costs the federal government a load of cash and time.
And what happens to people in California, when they're found guilty of growing or posessing medical marijuana? They get just one day in jail.
Now, apply this to ink. Granted, it's a lot different that marijuana laws - but, the state will wind up doing nothing to help the federal government in this matter, which is a big win. And it'll turn a blind-eye to anyone who wants to keep producing 3rd-party ink. Another win.
The idea of nullification now'a'days is just to be such a pain in the ass that the federal government has to eventually rethink their position. Hell, look at all the anti-patriot act bills floating around.
Clifford Stoll talks about this a lot in his book (from back in the day, yes, but the points are still relevant (obviously, with this article)) Silicon Snake Oil. It's officially required reading for any internet junkies, as it will make you rethink all your opinions of technology.
Actually, I've heard from people who deal first-hand with the CIA they are simply an information-gathering agency. They don't even have the authority to operate inside the country (though they have been known to impersonate Air Force officials in matters of high importance)!
Come on, people - I _highly doubt_ Bill really cares whether he makes a hundred million or a billion dollars. If anything, it'd probably be more of a hastle for him, with all the extra taxes. Besides, is he even the guy that makes this decision anymore? He's not CEO. Perhaps an accountain could help me out on this one?
A mathematician, the Hungarian lover of numbers Paul Erdos once said, is a device for converting coffee into theorems. Here, then, are a few glimpses into the Truth Factory. The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, sustained mostly by the National Science Foundation, sits on a hill above the University of California at Berkeley, where it attracts people from around the world for stints of up to a year to lose themselves in subjects like algebraic geometry or special holonomy.
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Consider it an embassy of another world, a Platonic realm of clarity and beauty, of forms and relations, where the answers to questions not yet asked already exist.
Higher mathematics -- as opposed to what we do every April 15 -- has been relevant ever since Archimedes leaped out of his bath shouting "Eureka!" more than 2,000 years ago. Nobody knows when some abstruse bit of math will float off a blackboard at a place like this and become -- often decades later -- a key tool in cryptography, biology, physics or economics (as in "A Beautiful Mind").
Take string theory, a mathematically labyrinthine effort to construct a so-called theory of everything out of the notion that the fundamental elements of nature are tiny strings flopping and wriggling in an 11-dimensional space-time. It has been called a piece of 21st-century physics that fell by accident into the 20th century.
In their quest to negotiate this labyrinth, string theorists have made a hot topic of something called Riemann surfaces, invented by the German mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 150 years ago, but they have also helped blaze new fields of mathematics.
"Since our theories are so far ahead of experimental capabilities, we are forced to use mathematics as our eyes," Dr. Brian Greene, a Columbia University string theorist, said recently. "That's why we follow it where it takes us even if we can't see where we're going."
So in some ways the men and women seen here scrutinizing marks on their blackboards collectively represent a kind of particle accelerator of the mind.
But the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics in explaining the world, as the physicist Eugene Wigner once put it, is a minor motivation at best for those immersed in the field. Most mathematicians say they are in it for the math itself, for the delirious quest for patterns, the thrill of the detective chase and the lure of beautiful answers.
"Math is sense," said Dr. Robert Osserman, a Stanford professor and deputy director of the institute, quoting from the play "Copenhagen." "That's what sense is."
Fifty years after a copyrighted work was published, a copyright owner would have to pay a tiny tax. That tax could be as low as $1. If the copyright owner does not pay that tax for three years in a row, then the copyright would be forfeited to the public domain. If the tax is paid, then the form would require the listing of a copyright agent--a person charged with receiving requests about that copyright. The Copyright Office would then make the listing of taxes paid, and copyright agents, available free of charge on their website.
They're not expanding the term of copyright. They're shortening it, in most cases, and making you pay a small fee to hold it for more than 50 years, in all others.
The protestor's signs were regular protest signs - "SCO AWAY" and whatnot. They were somewhat whitty, but they had a serious point to make. But the SCO signs were downright awful. I don't know about you, but portraying Linus as Hitler and Tux as a Nazi, with the phrase "give communism a try" isn't funny to me. Especially seeing as how Linus is European...you see where I'm going with this.
Whether it was intended for humor or not, SCO owes Linus and the OSS community a formal appology.
Slashdot Mirror
They are disabling access with some old versions of their own software.
Yes, because the new versions will probably have some sort up "upgrade" to say "Hello, I am a Microsoft client. My user has agreed to the EULA, etc.. etc.. etc...", whereas the old clients won't have this. It will probably be required, as a method of making sure that users are using a MS client.
I think the whole point is support. With redhat, you're really paying for support - that's the whole point of paying.
With Debian, you don't get any support (IRC and google don't count when you've got to have a problem solved for your business in seconds. In these situations, "dial a tech-support number" == "support").
NPR quoted it at $220 million/year last night.
The site was incredibly slow with no comments, so I figured I'd mirror it for a day here.
:P
Please be nice to it
That could never, ever be a reality in anything other than propriatary hardware+software configurations. So kiss any hopes of having that under Windows or Linux goodbye.
The only reason that's possible is because Apple knows that "this slot will have an airport card in it if it's occupied. If it's not occupied, just ignore it."
Unless you want your motherboard to have 5000 different slots for every single PCI card made, and then have a bootup program run through each one, detecting which are empty and which are used, and then installing the software for the used ones (a process which would take up yards of physical space and loads of processing time), you're going to have to deal with installing drivers and kernel modules.
"Is there enough idiots out there to support all the 'geeks'?"
You're new to tech/user support, I see...
Instead of trying for one big thing to help you out, try a bunch of small things:
Cut back one beer/soda/candy-bar per day;
If you can bike to work, do that. If you ride your car to work, park far away, and walk the extra distance.
Don't use elevators - use stairs.
On your break, maybe go up a few flights of stairs, then down again.
All you have to do is eat a little less, and burn calories a little more. There's no big trick to it - just add in a bunch of little things that you won't even really notice, and cut back on a little food. You'll probably barely realize that you're doing either, until you start loosing pounds.
"Get Adobe to port linux to photoshop."
;) Though, the I hear the GNU team did make an operating system out of a text-editor, once...so an image manipulator may not be all that hard! ;)
I think that would take a little more than a billion dollars
(This post is funny. If you don't think it is, buy yourself a sense of humor.)
Whenever you even discuss patents, you have to use obfusticated speech. How else do you patent using a laser to play with a cat, but with language like:
"directing an intense coherent beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus to produce a bright highly-focused pattern of light at the intersection of the beam and an opaque surface, said pattern being of visual interest to a cat;"?
You haven't been to the store recently, have you? ;)
I think I'd probably agree with pretty much everything you said. Especially the deep-pockets thing. But, I do believe that before you can get to a federal-level attack on these things, you need states to stand up and act. The federal government is big, fat, and dumb. State governments are easier to influence, and it just becomes that much easier to change federal law when you've got a bunch of states on your side.
"If only more of my countrymen would learn about their right to jury nullification, we'd see fewer stupid laws on the books."
I'm pretty sure you're not allowed on a jury if you have an IQ >= 100.
Unfortunatly, you're right. De jure nullification is dead. But de faco nullification is alive and kicking. Take your marijuana example: locally, Californian state officials generally don't enforce the federal marijuana laws. They don't have to. That's why you get federal officers doing most of the drug-busting in California, which costs the federal government a load of cash and time.
And what happens to people in California, when they're found guilty of growing or posessing medical marijuana? They get just one day in jail.
Now, apply this to ink. Granted, it's a lot different that marijuana laws - but, the state will wind up doing nothing to help the federal government in this matter, which is a big win. And it'll turn a blind-eye to anyone who wants to keep producing 3rd-party ink. Another win.
The idea of nullification now'a'days is just to be such a pain in the ass that the federal government has to eventually rethink their position. Hell, look at all the anti-patriot act bills floating around.
Rather, that's almost what you're doing. Leave it to me to reply to the wrong comment when I first wake up.
I believe what he's doing is:
0.07 cents
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7000/100 = 70 dollars
People, the answer is simple! VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLAR! CD-Baby.com has a load of GOOD music, and not a dime of your money goes to the RIAA.
This is the ONLY way that the RIAA will understand that we're not going to take their shit anymore.
Clifford Stoll talks about this a lot in his book (from back in the day, yes, but the points are still relevant (obviously, with this article)) Silicon Snake Oil. It's officially required reading for any internet junkies, as it will make you rethink all your opinions of technology.
That's foreign. They haven't blown anyone up domestically, have they?
Actually, I've heard from people who deal first-hand with the CIA they are simply an information-gathering agency. They don't even have the authority to operate inside the country (though they have been known to impersonate Air Force officials in matters of high importance)!
Where are you getting your information?
Or an "accountaint" - I hear they're more professional than "accountains."
Come on, people - I _highly doubt_ Bill really cares whether he makes a hundred million or a billion dollars. If anything, it'd probably be more of a hastle for him, with all the extra taxes. Besides, is he even the guy that makes this decision anymore? He's not CEO. Perhaps an accountain could help me out on this one?
..."'substantial goodwill and good reputation' of their meat product'..."
Oh come on, who do they think they're kidding?
Pure Math, Pure Joy
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A mathematician, the Hungarian lover of numbers Paul Erdos once said, is a device for converting coffee into theorems. Here, then, are a few glimpses into the Truth Factory. The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, sustained mostly by the National Science Foundation, sits on a hill above the University of California at Berkeley, where it attracts people from around the world for stints of up to a year to lose themselves in subjects like algebraic geometry or special holonomy.
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Consider it an embassy of another world, a Platonic realm of clarity and beauty, of forms and relations, where the answers to questions not yet asked already exist.
Higher mathematics -- as opposed to what we do every April 15 -- has been relevant ever since Archimedes leaped out of his bath shouting "Eureka!" more than 2,000 years ago. Nobody knows when some abstruse bit of math will float off a blackboard at a place like this and become -- often decades later -- a key tool in cryptography, biology, physics or economics (as in "A Beautiful Mind").
Take string theory, a mathematically labyrinthine effort to construct a so-called theory of everything out of the notion that the fundamental elements of nature are tiny strings flopping and wriggling in an 11-dimensional space-time. It has been called a piece of 21st-century physics that fell by accident into the 20th century.
In their quest to negotiate this labyrinth, string theorists have made a hot topic of something called Riemann surfaces, invented by the German mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 150 years ago, but they have also helped blaze new fields of mathematics.
"Since our theories are so far ahead of experimental capabilities, we are forced to use mathematics as our eyes," Dr. Brian Greene, a Columbia University string theorist, said recently. "That's why we follow it where it takes us even if we can't see where we're going."
So in some ways the men and women seen here scrutinizing marks on their blackboards collectively represent a kind of particle accelerator of the mind.
But the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics in explaining the world, as the physicist Eugene Wigner once put it, is a minor motivation at best for those immersed in the field. Most mathematicians say they are in it for the math itself, for the delirious quest for patterns, the thrill of the detective chase and the lure of beautiful answers.
"Math is sense," said Dr. Robert Osserman, a Stanford professor and deputy director of the institute, quoting from the play "Copenhagen." "That's what sense is."
Please RTFA.
From The Eric Eldred Act FAQ:
2. How would it work?
Fifty years after a copyrighted work was published, a copyright owner would have to pay a tiny tax. That tax could be as low as $1. If the copyright owner does not pay that tax for three years in a row, then the copyright would be forfeited to the public domain. If the tax is paid, then the form would require the listing of a copyright agent--a person charged with receiving requests about that copyright. The Copyright Office would then make the listing of taxes paid, and copyright agents, available free of charge on their website.
They're not expanding the term of copyright. They're shortening it, in most cases, and making you pay a small fee to hold it for more than 50 years, in all others.
The protestor's signs were regular protest signs - "SCO AWAY" and whatnot. They were somewhat whitty, but they had a serious point to make. But the SCO signs were downright awful. I don't know about you, but portraying Linus as Hitler and Tux as a Nazi, with the phrase "give communism a try" isn't funny to me. Especially seeing as how Linus is European...you see where I'm going with this.
Whether it was intended for humor or not, SCO owes Linus and the OSS community a formal appology.
NASA is exempt from the ACME laws of Physics. Didn't you see Armegeddon? A sling system worked wonders for NASA in that mission!