...they will be able to release "MS Linux - Caldera".
Up to now it's called Longhorn and we have not decided yet under what name we'll release it to the world. We had to push back the release date, because the kernel resisted the torture surprisingly well. But it's beginning to merge. A ruined and terrible form of operating system. And by 2006, perfected. My fighting Linu-XP..."
If there is no prior art and your new gene is a non-obvious technological invention, then yes. You will notice a strange nervous twitching of the patent officer's eyelid when he is explaining this.
Why this still gets modded funny is beyond me. What's not so funny are the health problems associated with the ever increasing amounts of data we can store. Let me quote some of the medical conditions Maxtor says can occur with this kind of hardware:
typewriter's cramp - cause unknown, but strong empiric correlation with large drives. keratitis - to look at 300GB data can seriously irritate the eyes. scoliosis - we don't know this for sure, but our grandmothers told us. meningitis - dangerous for guys who think with their dicks. [editor's note: very funny mike; make sure you delete this prior to release]
The page has apparently has worked to photograph and categorize the use of the term UNIX in other, non software products. Server-response: Object not found
Has apparently has worked
English is my second language, willing to learn: is this the non-subjunctive perfect?
I think I read someting about this in a Douglas Adams book!
"The resonable man adapts himself to the world; the unresonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
Hillary Rosen just walked into my room, unplugged my network cable and ran away with it. I tried to call the police, but my Nokia phone exploded. I'm posting this from an internet cafe. I'm scared now.
In redhat 9 I hotplug/unplug a usb mouse and printer constantly on my laptop (haven't tried a camera, but mouse/printer works fine)
Hotline: Hello, redhat hotline,...
Shrike: um ,... my user is constantly plugging and unplugging the usb mouse... I think it's some kind of loop. It's getting rather annoying, how can I stop it?
Hotline: Have you tried to print some random module dependency errors?
Shrike: Yes, but it made everything worse. Shortly after that I expected a real rush of activity on the port which surprisingly stopped abruptly after 2089 plugging cylces, followed by a shutdown. After that I decided not to try this again.
Hotline: Sounds bad. Normally this should not be necessary, but you could try to support USB not at all.
Shrike: Can I do this without rebooting? Let's see, I move this memory area there and forcefully unload this mod$"&&%!...NO CARRIER
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Why not licence breathing too!?
Already done. And I'm happy to tell you that we have nothing to fear! In 1984 Richard Stallman passed a GPL'd gas in an effort to keep the atmosphere free permanently. It should have merged with the whole air-supply on earth by now. Shortly after that he had the idea to apply the same license to software. The rest is history...
yeah yeah... we're all nazi's in the library business. Real funny.
I'm sorry that you found this joke offending. I never thought seriously that any library would ever install a Deathstar to improve the behaviour of its visitors. These things are mere science fiction, produced by my crude brain.
What's not so funny is how often Computing Students don't return books on Visual C, HTML, C++, etc etc.
But you have to concede that it could definitely be a valuable tool to solve some of your problems...
RFIDs wouldnt be bad. If they threw one in your library card too, that would be good. You could then just grab your books, and walk out the doors, with it automatically being thrown on your card.
That would be really comfortable. But don't forget: the Deathstar increases the intensity-level of its torture-ray every day you are late with returning the book. Better hurry up with this last chapter, or otherwise you won't breed.
Perhaps it has to sound different if played backwards to be music?
Nowadays that's an outlawd technique. Decrypting satanic messages by playing tracks backwards is prohibited by the DMCA (Demonic Message Comprehension Act).
The Windows XP port is nearly finished. It's running user space applications and is generally in pretty good shape thanks to some hard work by the team over the summer.
I'm surprised that this was possible at all with Windows XP. Microsoft's Shared Source program doesn't seem to be as useless as I thought.
Of course, there are issues with releasing this code to others. We should be able to release the source and binaries to anyone that has signed the Microsoft academic source license, which these days has very reasonable terms. We are in discussions with Microsoft about the possibility of being able to make binary releases to a larger user community.
I think there are two possibilities to do this. First, Microsoft incorporates the changes into their main trunk or releases patches for it. Second, Microsoft allowes a group of hackers to distribute modified Windows binaries. Both alternatives don't seem very probable.
What IS more likely is using an obscure OSS package, then the kid who wrote it, say, gets kicked out of college, and doesn't have broadband at his parent's house, so he can't support it any more. Or, the OSS company that wrote it goes belly up.
I know that you're a troll, and I shouldn't bother to answer. But if this is your picture of open source software, then you were living under a rock for at least the last 3-5 years. OSS is supported and actively developed by more than one big company.
Or, the OSS company that wrote it goes belly up.
Then another company can take the source, continue development or just support you. Which is not possible with proprietary software.
Call me nuts, but I feel a bit more secure with one of the largest companies in the world backing up my software than some college kids working out of their dorms.
Again, if a closed source company goes belly up, you can trash your installation. If a OSS company dies, you can choose your support from a wide range that starts with college kids in their dorms and ends with IBM and other big companies.
Oh, really? So you have read and signed one of these "shared source" agreements with Microsoft in the past, then?
I doubt the license agreement says anything about whether you will be able to compile the source or not. But it will definitely prevent you from running your business on a system you built yourself. The following quote is from the license agreement of the shared source version of Windows CE.NET
You can use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, including distributing derivatives. Running your business operations would not be considered non-commercial. For commercial purposes, you can reference this Software solely to assist in developing, debugging, and testing your own software and hardware for the Windows CE.NET platform.
Even if you can compile and debug the sources you get from Microsoft, you still have to install their binaries on your production system. Which can be compiled from a different source.
Microsoft already has a wing of MS Research in Beijing, if I recall correctly. Why would it be such a stretch of the imagination to have a "build group" over there that produces Chinese-only builds from the same source tree that is open for government inspection? How do you know this isn't what is being done?
This "build group" would still work for Microsoft, not for the government or local companies? I guess they can't be independent from Microsoft, because the license agreement (see above) would prevent them from distributing useful binaries.
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"As soon as a Unix get over 1,000,000 seats, we will port Office over to it"
Office would be a welcome addition to the SCO product family.
But please don't try to port it over to Linux after that. We would have to cancel your Windows license. So long, and thanks for all the money!
Darl McBride.
Cheyenne: It's being maintained by 2 guys. This surprises you?
Harmonica: Yeah.
[silence]
Harmonica: You know PHP.
Harmonica: And you can count.
Harmonica: Up to two.
Cheyenne: [looking at his tty] Up to 103510 if I have to.
Cheyenne: [looking at Harmonica's project schedule] And faster than you!
[Harmonica smiles and applies Extract Method]
Cheyenne: Yeah go on. Refactor, Harmonica. Refactor, so you can't bullshit.
Cheyenne: Only watch those false types.
Harmonica: int x = new Double(42); Like so?
Cheyenne: [shrugs, nods and leaves]
Up to now it's called Longhorn and we have not decided yet under what name we'll release it to the world. We had to push back the release date, because the kernel resisted the torture surprisingly well. But it's beginning to merge. A ruined and terrible form of operating system. And by 2006, perfected. My fighting Linu-XP..."
Bill.
Yes, but can you patent your genes?
If there is no prior art and your new gene is a non-obvious technological invention, then yes. You will notice a strange nervous twitching of the patent officer's eyelid when he is explaining this.
And there's a Kama Sutra available for it: Larry Wall's Programming Perl, which has the subtitle "There's More Than One Way To Do It".
This is the Fucking Manual, everybody tells you to read when you ask stupid questions.
The only command you need to know.
This blue screen was sure nice and the floppy's sound was soothing like a mill-wheel...
But sooner or later you wanted to learn your second command:
RUN
300GB is a lot of pr0n
Why this still gets modded funny is beyond me. What's not so funny are the health problems associated with the ever increasing amounts of data we can store. Let me quote some of the medical conditions Maxtor says can occur with this kind of hardware:
typewriter's cramp - cause unknown, but strong empiric correlation with large drives.
keratitis - to look at 300GB data can seriously irritate the eyes.
scoliosis - we don't know this for sure, but our grandmothers told us.
meningitis - dangerous for guys who think with their dicks. [editor's note: very funny mike; make sure you delete this prior to release]
Perfect for those long night coding sessions.
That's for the juniors; as a senior programmer I do my coding in a whirlpool.
The page has apparently has worked to photograph and categorize the use of the term UNIX in other, non software products.
Server-response: Object not found
Has apparently has worked
English is my second language, willing to learn: is this the non-subjunctive perfect?
I think I read someting about this in a Douglas Adams book!
So why hasn't Linus registered? Anyone know?
Do you want to register:
( ) online, now
( ) remind me in one week
( ) never
(*) Man, I wrote the damn thing!
[OK] [Cancel]
Now we can finally play Asteroids in all its full glory ;)
Everything beside the Atari 2600 version is pathetic and simply untolerable!
I learned everything I know about flying a spaceship from this game.
So don't make fun of it, only because the pixels were kind of extensive.
Ruby is the best language to use! Down with Python, up with Ruby!
Kids, what's up with you - fighting over what's the best language is stupid!
Love is stronger than hate.
So let's invent a new language together!
the real world can die, thanks.
The real world can change.
"The resonable man adapts himself to the world; the unresonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
oh, and if Rob Enderle is from Microsoft everythingh he says is bad
:)
I can show you countless slashdot-sponsored studies which support this with hard statistical data.
What are these threats?
Hillary Rosen just walked into my room, unplugged my network cable and ran away with it. I tried to call the police, but my Nokia phone exploded. I'm posting this from an internet cafe. I'm scared now.
In redhat 9 I hotplug/unplug a usb mouse and printer constantly on my laptop (haven't tried a camera, but mouse/printer works fine)
...
... my user is constantly plugging and unplugging the usb mouse... I think it's some kind of loop. It's getting rather annoying, how can I stop it?
Hotline: Hello, redhat hotline,
Shrike: um ,
Hotline: Have you tried to print some random module dependency errors?
Shrike: Yes, but it made everything worse. Shortly after that I expected a real rush of activity on the port which surprisingly stopped abruptly after 2089 plugging cylces, followed by a shutdown. After that I decided not to try this again.
Hotline: Sounds bad. Normally this should not be necessary, but you could try to support USB not at all.
Shrike: Can I do this without rebooting? Let's see, I move this memory area there and forcefully unload this mod$"&&%!...NO CARRIER
Why not licence breathing too!?
Already done. And I'm happy to tell you that we have nothing to fear! In 1984 Richard Stallman passed a GPL'd gas in an effort to keep the atmosphere free permanently. It should have merged with the whole air-supply on earth by now. Shortly after that he had the idea to apply the same license to software. The rest is history...
I'm certain that once Linux is more popular than Windows, all of the people who used to code for Windows will simultaneously implode
And then their souls will shiver with cold, because hell will be seriously frozen over.
yeah yeah... we're all nazi's in the library business. Real funny.
I'm sorry that you found this joke offending. I never thought seriously that any library would ever install a Deathstar to improve the behaviour of its visitors. These things are mere science fiction, produced by my crude brain.
What's not so funny is how often Computing Students don't return books on Visual C, HTML, C++, etc etc.
But you have to concede that it could definitely be a valuable tool to solve some of your problems...
RFIDs wouldnt be bad. If they threw one in your library card too, that would be good. You could then just grab your books, and walk out the doors, with it automatically being thrown on your card.
That would be really comfortable. But don't forget: the Deathstar increases the intensity-level of its torture-ray every day you are late with returning the book. Better hurry up with this last chapter, or otherwise you won't breed.
That means that we're going to have a bigger, badder SiteFinder pretty soon, right?
We could find: "www.gnu.org"
There is a Web site at this address.
Are you sure? (*) No ( ) Yes [SUMBIT]
Did You Mean ?
We did find these similar Web addresses.
www.sun.com
www.microsoft.com
www.sco.com
Perhaps it has to sound different if played backwards to be music?
Nowadays that's an outlawd technique. Decrypting satanic messages by playing tracks backwards is prohibited by the DMCA (Demonic Message Comprehension Act).
The Windows XP port is nearly finished. It's running user space applications and is generally in pretty good shape thanks to some hard work by the team over the summer.
I'm surprised that this was possible at all with Windows XP. Microsoft's Shared Source program doesn't seem to be as useless as I thought.
Of course, there are issues with releasing this code to others. We should be able to release the source and binaries to anyone that has signed the Microsoft academic source license, which these days has very reasonable terms. We are in
discussions with Microsoft about the possibility of being able to make
binary releases to a larger user community.
I think there are two possibilities to do this. First, Microsoft incorporates the changes into their main trunk or releases patches for it. Second, Microsoft allowes a group of hackers to distribute modified Windows binaries. Both alternatives don't seem very probable.
What IS more likely is using an obscure OSS package, then the kid who wrote it, say, gets kicked out of college, and doesn't have broadband at his parent's house, so he can't support it any more. Or, the OSS company that wrote it goes belly up.
I know that you're a troll, and I shouldn't bother to answer. But if this is your picture of open source software, then you were living under a rock for at least the last 3-5 years. OSS is supported and actively developed by more than one big company.
Or, the OSS company that wrote it goes belly up.
Then another company can take the source, continue development or just support you. Which is not possible with proprietary software.
Call me nuts, but I feel a bit more secure with one of the largest companies in the world backing up my software than some college kids working out of their dorms.
Again, if a closed source company goes belly up, you can trash your installation. If a OSS company dies, you can choose your support from a wide range that starts with college kids in their dorms and ends with IBM and other big companies.
I doubt the license agreement says anything about whether you will be able to compile the source or not. But it will definitely prevent you from running your business on a system you built yourself. The following quote is from the license agreement of the shared source version of Windows CE
Even if you can compile and debug the sources you get from Microsoft, you still have to install their binaries on your production system. Which can be compiled from a different source.
Microsoft already has a wing of MS Research in Beijing, if I recall correctly. Why would it be such a stretch of the imagination to have a "build group" over there that produces Chinese-only builds from the same source tree that is open for government inspection? How do you know this isn't what is being done?
This "build group" would still work for Microsoft, not for the government or local companies? I guess they can't be independent from Microsoft, because the license agreement (see above) would prevent them from distributing useful binaries.