Are you saying that stores are starting to, in effect, charge extra if you pay with cash? Sorry, I'm not from the US and have never heard of this.
Here, in Australia, if there is going to be a discrepancy between the price using cash or plastic, cash will be cheaper. This is normally due to the fees that credit card company charge the store (and cheating the tax man).
I think the reason fudgefactor7 did not use something like your version is not (s)he are is a MS marketing director, rather (s)he did not want to sound like an idiot.
Sender authentication is a problem inherent to SMTP, the development of which MS had nothing to do with. Furthermore the standard looks like it's going to be open (the article & Sendmail Inc. on their website state that plug-in will be incorporated into the open source version of sendmail).
Here's a novel idea for you, try using your brain.
In his own words MS offered him "all of my out-of-pocket expenses
for the domain name". Which is kind of nice since they could easily
make a case that they don't have to pay him anything. It would take more than a
reasonable offer to pay him off ( which is what they tried to do ) but they
could do it.
He then costs this at $10, the amount he payed to register the domain name.
A bit weak on the imagination, arriving at that figure. "All out-of-pocket
expenses" could easily be considered to include all his costs in changing
to a new domain name. So the cost of getting new business cards printed,
advising clients of the change and so forth.
All he had to do was agree to their offer an then extend "All out-of-pocket
expenses" to it's reasonable limits. Once he agrees, he has a contract with
MS, which they are going to have a hard time getting out of so long as he
delivers the domain name.
But no, the kid gets greedy, asks for US$10,000. An absurd amount of money.
The domain name is just clearly not worth that much, to him or MS.
I might like MS, but that does not blind me to fact that not all those against
them are angles that can do no wrong. In this case the kid is clearly in the
wrong and a greedy idiot to boot!
His a kid with a web site he knocked together himself & a domain name.
His asking for $10,000 for his cost, starting with a $10 receipt.
That just leaves him with $9,990 to justify that he was not intending
to make a profit.
I don't think you need to explicitly state that you are not a lawyer, or
any good at basic arithmetic for that matter.
It's pretty obvious.
Your post is one of the most rational, thoughtful and well written I have seen here for a long time. Unfortunately I have no moderation points today and thus all the praise I can give is this post.
From the quote from the article I think Philip Greenspun was saying that the machines that handled the physical side, i.e. test tubes and what not, were controlled by programs written in VB. If this is the case then "machines" was a bit confusing. Robots was probably a better word to use.
Then again I could be wrong. I have yet to read the article due to the/. effect.
Nice attempt at a troll, but as it plainly clear that your statements are false (and/or just plain bloody stupid) you have not really pulled it of. Although as there have been some that have taken the bait, so perhaps you have. I do however notice that the only people that have taken the bait seem to be windows users. Going after the small fry are you?
Microkernels... they have a number of advantages (like not needing a reboot to replace large portions of the kernel... a microkernel is well worth the speed trade-off, on the desktop at least
Is being able to replace large portions of the kernel without a reboot on a desktop really that much of advantage?
You could be right. However I' ve noticed that stories about SCO have been braking first in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald (both the same company, just different cities) a bit. More than other/. stories anyway. Furthermore they are in house articles (living here you see a lot of articles that are just reprints form US media outlets).
All this suggests to me that someone at SCO's PR firm here in OZ is a friend of some jorno at Fairfax (parent company of The Age & SMH). I could be totally wrong. However personal friendships do make a difference in the PR/media relationships, well that's what my friend in PR tells me (I know, I know, but I knew her years before she went into PR and if you saw her you would remain friends too;)
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And Americans wonder why the reset of the world think they're stupid.
I don't think this a very good idea, but effecting my "rights"? I did not know I had any rights over Yahoo's business model.
Are you saying that stores are starting to, in effect, charge extra if you pay with cash? Sorry, I'm not from the US and have never heard of this.
Here, in Australia, if there is going to be a discrepancy between the price using cash or plastic, cash will be cheaper. This is normally due to the fees that credit card company charge the store (and cheating the tax man).
I think the reason fudgefactor7 did not use something like your version is not (s)he are is a MS marketing director, rather (s)he did not want to sound like an idiot.
Sender authentication is a problem inherent to SMTP, the development of which MS had nothing to do with. Furthermore the standard looks like it's going to be open (the article & Sendmail Inc. on their website state that plug-in will be incorporated into the open source version of sendmail).
Here's a novel idea for you, try using your brain.
settled all of them out of court for over $1.5 billion in licensing fees
First, if there had been an out of court settlement, there would have been no ruling.
Second, the press release quoted the CEO as saying "we won't receive a single cent from Lemelson".
In his own words MS offered him "all of my out-of-pocket expenses for the domain name". Which is kind of nice since they could easily make a case that they don't have to pay him anything. It would take more than a reasonable offer to pay him off ( which is what they tried to do ) but they could do it.
He then costs this at $10, the amount he payed to register the domain name.
A bit weak on the imagination, arriving at that figure. "All out-of-pocket expenses" could easily be considered to include all his costs in changing to a new domain name. So the cost of getting new business cards printed, advising clients of the change and so forth.
All he had to do was agree to their offer an then extend "All out-of-pocket expenses" to it's reasonable limits. Once he agrees, he has a contract with MS, which they are going to have a hard time getting out of so long as he delivers the domain name.
But no, the kid gets greedy, asks for US$10,000. An absurd amount of money.
The domain name is just clearly not worth that much, to him or MS.
I might like MS, but that does not blind me to fact that not all those against them are angles that can do no wrong. In this case the kid is clearly in the wrong and a greedy idiot to boot!
His a kid with a web site he knocked together himself & a domain name. His asking for $10,000 for his cost, starting with a $10 receipt. That just leaves him with $9,990 to justify that he was not intending to make a profit.
I don't think you need to explicitly state that you are not a lawyer, or any good at basic arithmetic for that matter. It's pretty obvious.
Your post is one of the most rational, thoughtful and well written I have seen here for a long time. Unfortunately I have no moderation points today and thus all the praise I can give is this post.
- ebh
being just a 9x9 matrix
It's a 3x3 matrix.
- ebh
He was talking about Windows. The hint, and I know it was subtle, was it was the only OS he mentioned.
Don't know why you are laughing when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL. The fact that Linux can't exclusively trap CTRL-ALT-DEL is in fact a security flaw.
- Ebh
I thought it was 3.0 * 10**9
Nope, it is 3.0 * 10 ** 8.
- Ebh
From the quote from the article I think Philip Greenspun was saying that the machines that handled the physical side, i.e. test tubes and what not, were controlled by programs written in VB. If this is the case then "machines" was a bit confusing. Robots was probably a better word to use.
Then again I could be wrong. I have yet to read the article due to the /. effect.
- EBH
The way I see it, those that get infected eventually die off... Leaving only the fittest of boxen.
Not really paying that much attention to the empirical evidence are we?
- ebh
MS does have one hell of a spell checker!
What the hell are you talking about!?! When I us the darn thing it always comes up with "no spelling suggestions".
Then again my getting-my-legs-behind-my-head-while-playing-the-b agpipes skills are better than my spelling.
- ebh
I was being sarcastic.
- ebh
Thanks for that. 'Cause you know Yahoo gets /.ed every time.
- ebh
Nice attempt at a troll, but as it plainly clear that your statements are false (and/or just plain bloody stupid) you have not really pulled it of. Although as there have been some that have taken the bait, so perhaps you have. I do however notice that the only people that have taken the bait seem to be windows users. Going after the small fry are you?
- ebh
Microkernels ... they have a number of advantages (like not needing a reboot to replace large portions of the kernel ... a microkernel is well worth the speed trade-off, on the desktop at least
Is being able to replace large portions of the kernel without a reboot on a desktop really that much of advantage?
- ebh
Not saying your friend is a lier. My flatmate's friends say the same thing, only they're from Iraq.
- ebh
Good call.
- EBH
I finally see what their plan is! I have proof! If you want to see it you'll just have to sign this little thing here, called a NDA.
- EBH
You could be right. However I' ve noticed that stories about SCO have been braking first in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald (both the same company, just different cities) a bit. More than other /. stories anyway. Furthermore they are in house articles (living here you see a lot of articles that are just reprints form US media outlets).
All this suggests to me that someone at SCO's PR firm here in OZ is a friend of some jorno at Fairfax (parent company of The Age & SMH). I could be totally wrong. However personal friendships do make a difference in the PR/media relationships, well that's what my friend in PR tells me (I know, I know, but I knew her years before she went into PR and if you saw her you would remain friends too ;)
- EBH
Now may be the time to update your illegal mp3 file MD5 hash sums
Is it just me or does this make no sense at all?
- Alex
They could well not be using MD5. However if your trying prosecute a case you don't want to be using a "fuzzy" hashing algorithm.
- Alex
which is the requirement for a criminal case, civil suits are far less strict
It is a civil case.
- Alex