Well who are they going to go running to when you're gone and their pirated copy of WIndows 2000 is up to the eyeballs in viri? Truth of the matter is, that's way more likely for most people. My mom just wants to surf (firefox) email (Rhnunderbird/Evolution) chat (Gaim) Play Bridge on the net (Firefox again), write her memoirs (OOffice or AbiWord) and perhaps do some accounting (GnuCash).
And, if my Linux friends want some software that Yum won't download, I can always login using an SSH private key and do the install for them. I don't even have to leave home.
Truth of the matter is that Linux comes with far more software builtin than most people know to load into Windows.... Games, starfield simulator, production quality image editor, office suite(s), typing exercisor, VOIP program, Kdict (a nice dictionary program).
If all of that's not enough for you, download the Knoppix Live DVD and try it out for yourself.
Users doing the occassional word-processing, checking email, and web surfing will be perfectly happy with an 8 year old PC.
People like that would be far better off loading Fedora 4, or Umbutu or.....
They would have the same functionality, but with no worries about the BSA coming in with a search warrent and battering ram. More importantly, they wouldn't have to worry about 40,000 viruses making the system useless before they even started working on it.
The would also have a modern, supported operating system, and software to do things like word processing without the need to spend more than the current value of the machine on even more buggy software.
I actually did that last week. Got a machine that was being 'dumped' at the computer store on the corner, loaded FC4 onto it and delivered it to a native elder who doesn't have the money to buy a new machine for himself.
I even gave him an old inkjet printer and enough ink to last him a few years of refills. Now he can surf, write memoires, use email and not have to worry about being 'owned' -- and once he gets cheap broadband, I can even do remote support for him.
It's not
The Supreme Court of Canada, It's the
Supreme Court of British Columbia.
The later is more like a State Superior Court in the US. It can be overruled by the BC Court of Appeals which can then be overruled by the SCC. It's a little bit confusing, but -- hey! It's law.
The Pecking Order for BC:
Supreme Court of Canada Court of last resort
BC Court of Appeals Normally sits as 3 judges but can reconsider it's own rullings with a bank of 5 or 7
BC Supreme Court Civil court, major felonies and appeals of lower courts
BC Provincial Court non-indictable crimes
Somewhere about the provincial court level you can also throw in family and small claims court.
BTW: The injunction is probably unconstitutional, but I can't see anybody appealing it.. By the time the appeal went thru, the book would be released. I'm guessing that the judge who issued it just didn't want to face down his/her kids for not protecting 'ol Harry.
LaGrange points are mostly useful for interplanetary transit, and I really don't see much realistic need to control access to truely "outer" space. Until there's some realistic proof that the far reaches will provide us with access to rare resources, I don't see much need to 'fight' for control of what is, effectively, a hole in space. I understand the value of controling up as far as geosync, but going beyond that seems rather 'dog and straw'ish.
A Navy carrier pilot trying to land his jet thinking: "It'd be a lot easier to land if they'd get rid of the "wave off" lights". He landed safely and, since nobody was killed, they just pulled his wings."
I can easily see someone looking at the inventory and seeing a stack of books:
# on hand: 150
# on shelves: 0
manager: Oh man, what idiot forgot to put this stuff out! ... And it's Harry Potter too! There's probably dozens of kids that'll be hot to buy this garbage to be ready for the big release next week!.
I can't believe that they let this just sit in the stock room. /action rips 'do not release' tapes off of shipment.
/action sees hapless stock drone walk by.
manager: Hey, drone! Put these books out on the bookshelves.. Give them a prime location in the kids section.
Drone: But, but..
manager: Don't "but" me! These should have been out days ago! Get them out before I blow a gasket on you!
Drone: (sigh) Yes sir. (munbles something about not wanting to be in the news)
Before doing that, I'd think about what kind of girls are into Harry Potter if I were you...
Lemme see: Harry's been out for a bit over
8 years now, so someone who picked up her first copy at 12 would be about 20 now. Too bad I'm not about 20 any more.
MS probably is a bad business partner (they seem pretty good at slitting throats of customers and 'business partners' alike). However I would admit that that has nothing to do with the survivability of their website.
Then, of course, there's the problem of needing a scanner at every bus stop too -- and what do you do about bazookas? A missile defence system on every double-decker bus?
All this is going to do is annoy the passengers and force Al Quaida to bomb places like Heerrods on Christmas eve (or worse yet -- boxing day!)
Oh yeah -- and inconvenience passengers.
And give the security 'droid a woody.
There's a few reasons, from a PR point of view why it's a decent idea to release all of the copies at the same time:
The bell curve says that a couple of (random) stores would get copies way before everybody else. This would result in bedlam (and a few turned- off customers), plus the next reason
If it's a dud, all the big fans will have bought before anybody manages to read it. This is part of the reason why I try to avoid any movie released on a Friday. If they thought it was good they'd release it on a Wednesday and wait for the word of mouth to build.
The pressure of the wait can produce it's own PR... Witness this article.
Nonetheless, there's nothing in these books that restricts when/how someone can use them -- other than the fas that they're on paper. DRM would be things like photocopyer-fouling paper forcing people to manually type in some pages if they wanted to copy or digitize the books.
Microsoft taking the BSD TCP stack 'worked' because MS needed something compatible. Had they been in the position in 1993 that they are now, they would have probably made incompatible changes to the BSD stack and refused to release any of those changes back to the community.
(BTW: has MS contributed anything back to the BSD community?)
With Kerberos, they made incompatible changes and didn't want to feed their changes back to the OS community.
The BSD community seems to expect that big companies that take their code will somehow just want to feed changes back to them -- so they're a bit put out when companies like SUN use their code, but refuse to even give them specs on their hardware much less hardware to develop more code on.
"Yeah, it's their right under the BSD license, but... but.... sheee!"
Part of the problem with BSD-licensed code is that companies that use it, even if they want to contribute their changes back have to presume that their competition will take the contributed changes and close-source them. It's a zero-sum game. In other words, BSD interacts with human greed in a way that discourages code feedback. The GPL, on the other hand, requires code feedback, so companies often feel safer contributing their changes back into the loop.
not that computer starts after this or anything...
It's probably the only way to keep some users from repeatedly re-infecting themselves. That, or Linux and disposable logins.
He knows that Windows will probably never be stable enough and safe enough to trust his life with -- on the other hand, he knows that SlashDot would have an absolute field day if we found out that Gates himself was running on Linux or BSD.
Remember: Gates and Microsoft are all about PR, but only when it hurts somebody else.
Perhaps it's just Saturn's outer atmosphere that's slowing down. That could account for much of the apparent slowdown without as much angular momentum loss.
BTW: Is there any estimate of the mass of the rings and moons compared to the mass of the earth's moon?
I'm not clear as to what they were doing with the collected data either -- but ignoring robots.txt and using other people's open proxies have both been found illegal in court -- and our hero friend saw this as 'bad and wrong' enough that he had to do something.
I will agree with one point -- When you send an open challenge to the CEO like that, you expect one of two choices: Either he turns over a new leaf, or you get fired. I don't think, however, that he expected to find the cops breaking down his door and carting away everything other than the furniture and clothing.
I would, however, point this out as another reason to do regular off-site backups.
I don't disagree with anything that you're saying -- The point is (and Intel obviously knows this), that these points are exacerbated when AMD can't even get their foot in the door because the big retailers are essentially prevented from stocking {,sufficient numbers of} AMD parts. Thus it is that AMD is relegated to serving gamers and such or the high teckies because those are the only groups willing to buy from the retailers small enough to escape Intel's activities.
This also prevents startup companies or special divisions within larger companies from generally ordering AMD, and thus proving (or not) that AMD can run cleanly on for the intended applications.
Companies can only consider the points you're bringing up if they have the realistic choice to use AMD to begin with.
The BSD stack allowed Microsoft to get to market faster with a proprietary version of TCP/IP. The 'Net was already massive by the time Microsoft got into the market, Novell was pretty much on top of local business networks and (as someone else pointed out) Trumpet Winsock already provided a TCP-compatible stack. Hopping onto the TCP/IP compatability bandwagon probably helped MS wrest Business intranet market from novell.
If Microsoft had been the mega-monopoly that is now, and had been 'on top of' the Net explosion before it exploded, they would have done a Kerberos and crapped all over the protocol from day one. (back in 1985-1990).
To say that there should be no judicial oversight of property siezure seems absurd to me -- and in violation of the constitutional provision about being safe from 'unreasonable search and seizure'.
If there is no judicial oversight of legislative fiat, then the constitution might as well not even exist.
If some legislator manages to pass a law that says 'strip searches on the basis of a cop's whim or hunch shall be considered reasonable', is the Supreme Court going to demur to the legislature?
Thing is that He's one of the people who decided that there should be no judicial oversight, so if people can convince the city that this is a good use of his land, then he gets to eat the results of his decision. I see nothing wrong with that.
I'm gonna be nice and chaulk the GP to horrid misreading.
Salzenberg was working for a company that started using some seriously shady practices. He did the legally appropriate thing, and brought it to the attention of upper management/officers. They went ballistic and pulled the plug on him insteas of the illegal activity. (what says that they already knew of the illegal activities?).
They then called the cops on hime and got them to sieze his compuers on the flimsiest of evidence.
I'm thinking that AMD's take on this may be along the lines of "Cant get AMD machines that easy? Start asking some hard questions!"
SCO has a lot more to lose in taking this to the public court than SCO's nothing.
If claims like this are false, then AMD is opening themselves up to some nasty libel suits, so I'm guessing that they lawyers are pretty sure of their case to be OKing something like this. The only other explanation would be that AMD was on it's last legs and grasping at straws -- and nothing that I see points to that. If anything, it appears that AMD is gaining ground, and I can easily see that AMD's customer quotas are getting seriously in the way.
I don't have the URL on hand, but this sounds soo much like the stuff was reading on Groklaw that came out of the Microsoft/DR-DOS anti-competition suit. Microsoft would set quotas for each distributor such that if they didn't produce (near) 100% MS-DOS boxes, they'd be fscked because the bulk of their business was still with them, and DR-DOS was something of a (large) niche market.
Given a choice of "Give up that niche market or we'll double your price and make your developers' lives hell," most OEM's are going to drop the niche. Back in 1992 it was DR-DOS on the business end of the monopoly club. Today it appears to be AMD.
Think about it for a second: It's all over slashdot. AMD's chips are (for the most part) faster, cheaper, lower power and better designed. Intel had to eat crow and follow AMD's lead in the 64-bit CPU field. So why aren't OEMs jumping ship like ants to a jam-spill for AMD parts? Anti-competetive pressure on the part of Intel is one of the few things that fit into this equation.
People who get capped are those abusing the TOS(if you read it you'll see any abuse is not tolerated).
Can I take it you work for OOL, and have seen some proof?
Downloading a Legal copy of Linux is not Wares. It's a perfectly legitimate way to use the 'net. It's not abuse, and it's not illegal. Similarly, Uploading pictures of the family vacation is completely legitimate, and not illegal (as long as the vacation was legal).
If the company was advertising 'unlimited', then capping people who make heavy use of The 'Net is false and misleading advertising, breach of contract and probably an unfair business practice (not to mention abusing your customers).
Sooner or later someone is going to rip them a new orifice with a class-action lawsuit (at least, one can hope!).
| If governments can bring down other government's internet access, this is a major problem.
They go into the water and cut the large cable feeding the country.
The original tin-hat posting seemed to suggest that this was an accidental result of an unnamed country botching up a tap attempt. If you have the kind of signaling intelligence capabilities that the NSA probably does, you might be able to find some very interesting information about Al Quaida and the likes from such a tap.
On the other hand, bringing down the link while (or in the aftermath of) putting in such a tap, just brings attention to your activities, and might upset your superiors.
There's no real use to the US wilfully cutting Pakistan's link. I can only see India gaining from such an action -- and even then, only if they were about to launch an all-out attack against Pakistan, and I've seen no signs of that happening.
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Not many of them can do that for WIndows, either.
And, if my Linux friends want some software that Yum won't download, I can always login using an SSH private key and do the install for them. I don't even have to leave home.
Truth of the matter is that Linux comes with far more software builtin than most people know to load into Windows.... Games, starfield simulator, production quality image editor, office suite(s), typing exercisor, VOIP program, Kdict (a nice dictionary program).
If all of that's not enough for you, download the Knoppix Live DVD and try it out for yourself.
People like that would be far better off loading Fedora 4, or Umbutu or.....
They would have the same functionality, but with no worries about the BSA coming in with a search warrent and battering ram. More importantly, they wouldn't have to worry about 40,000 viruses making the system useless before they even started working on it.
The would also have a modern, supported operating system, and software to do things like word processing without the need to spend more than the current value of the machine on even more buggy software.
I actually did that last week. Got a machine that was being 'dumped' at the computer store on the corner, loaded FC4 onto it and delivered it to a native elder who doesn't have the money to buy a new machine for himself.
I even gave him an old inkjet printer and enough ink to last him a few years of refills. Now he can surf, write memoires, use email and not have to worry about being 'owned' -- and once he gets cheap broadband, I can even do remote support for him.
The Pecking Order for BC:
-
Supreme Court of Canada Court of last resort
-
BC Court of Appeals Normally sits as 3 judges but can reconsider it's own rullings with a bank of 5 or 7
-
BC Supreme Court Civil court, major felonies and appeals of lower courts
-
BC Provincial Court non-indictable crimes
Somewhere about the provincial court level you can also throw in family and small claims court.BTW: The injunction is probably unconstitutional, but I can't see anybody appealing it.. By the time the appeal went thru, the book would be released. I'm guessing that the judge who issued it just didn't want to face down his/her kids for not protecting 'ol Harry.
Try creating a new user (or even just a new profile) and see if that helps. It might be someting in your user config that's breaking things.
LaGrange points are mostly useful for interplanetary transit, and I really don't see much realistic need to control access to truely "outer" space. Until there's some realistic proof that the far reaches will provide us with access to rare resources, I don't see much need to 'fight' for control of what is, effectively, a hole in space.
I understand the value of controling up as far as geosync, but going beyond that seems rather 'dog and straw'ish.
A Navy carrier pilot trying to land his jet thinking: "It'd be a lot easier to land if they'd get rid of the "wave off" lights". He landed safely and, since nobody was killed, they just pulled his wings."
I can easily see someone looking at the inventory and seeing a stack of books:
Lemme see: Harry's been out for a bit over 8 years now, so someone who picked up her first copy at 12 would be about 20 now. Too bad I'm not about 20 any more.
MS probably is a bad business partner (they seem pretty good at slitting throats of customers and 'business partners' alike). However I would admit that that has nothing to do with the survivability of their website.
They edited my last accepted submission before they posted it...
BLAM!
Then, of course, there's the problem of needing a scanner at every bus stop too -- and what do you do about bazookas? A missile defence system on every double-decker bus?
All this is going to do is annoy the passengers and force Al Quaida to bomb places like Heerrods on Christmas eve (or worse yet -- boxing day!)
Oh yeah -- and inconvenience passengers.
And give the security 'droid a woody.
- The bell curve says that a couple of (random) stores would get copies way before everybody else. This would result in bedlam (and a few turned- off customers), plus the next reason
- If it's a dud, all the big fans will have bought before anybody manages to read it. This is part of the reason why I try to avoid any movie released on a Friday. If they thought it was good they'd release it on a Wednesday and wait for the word of mouth to build.
- The pressure of the wait can produce it's own PR... Witness this article.
Nonetheless, there's nothing in these books that restricts when/how someone can use them -- other than the fas that they're on paper. DRM would be things like photocopyer-fouling paper forcing people to manually type in some pages if they wanted to copy or digitize the books.(BTW: has MS contributed anything back to the BSD community?)
With Kerberos, they made incompatible changes and didn't want to feed their changes back to the OS community.
The BSD community seems to expect that big companies that take their code will somehow just want to feed changes back to them -- so they're a bit put out when companies like SUN use their code, but refuse to even give them specs on their hardware much less hardware to develop more code on. ... but.... sheee!"
"Yeah, it's their right under the BSD license, but
Part of the problem with BSD-licensed code is that companies that use it, even if they want to contribute their changes back have to presume that their competition will take the contributed changes and close-source them. It's a zero-sum game. In other words, BSD interacts with human greed in a way that discourages code feedback. The GPL, on the other hand, requires code feedback, so companies often feel safer contributing their changes back into the loop.
not that computer starts after this or anything... It's probably the only way to keep some users from repeatedly re-infecting themselves. That, or Linux and disposable logins.
Remember: Gates and Microsoft are all about PR, but only when it hurts somebody else.
BTW: Is there any estimate of the mass of the rings and moons compared to the mass of the earth's moon?
I will agree with one point -- When you send an open challenge to the CEO like that, you expect one of two choices: Either he turns over a new leaf, or you get fired. I don't think, however, that he expected to find the cops breaking down his door and carting away everything other than the furniture and clothing.
I would, however, point this out as another reason to do regular off-site backups.
This also prevents startup companies or special divisions within larger companies from generally ordering AMD, and thus proving (or not) that AMD can run cleanly on for the intended applications.
Companies can only consider the points you're bringing up if they have the realistic choice to use AMD to begin with.
If Microsoft had been the mega-monopoly that is now, and had been 'on top of' the Net explosion before it exploded, they would have done a Kerberos and crapped all over the protocol from day one. (back in 1985-1990).
If there is no judicial oversight of legislative fiat, then the constitution might as well not even exist.
If some legislator manages to pass a law that says 'strip searches on the basis of a cop's whim or hunch shall be considered reasonable', is the Supreme Court going to demur to the legislature?
Thing is that He's one of the people who decided that there should be no judicial oversight, so if people can convince the city that this is a good use of his land, then he gets to eat the results of his decision. I see nothing wrong with that.
Salzenberg was working for a company that started using some seriously shady practices. He did the legally appropriate thing, and brought it to the attention of upper management/officers. They went ballistic and pulled the plug on him insteas of the illegal activity. (what says that they already knew of the illegal activities?).
They then called the cops on hime and got them to sieze his compuers on the flimsiest of evidence.
SCO has a lot more to lose in taking this to the public court than SCO's nothing. If claims like this are false, then AMD is opening themselves up to some nasty libel suits, so I'm guessing that they lawyers are pretty sure of their case to be OKing something like this. The only other explanation would be that AMD was on it's last legs and grasping at straws -- and nothing that I see points to that. If anything, it appears that AMD is gaining ground, and I can easily see that AMD's customer quotas are getting seriously in the way.
I don't have the URL on hand, but this sounds soo much like the stuff was reading on Groklaw that came out of the Microsoft/DR-DOS anti-competition suit. Microsoft would set quotas for each distributor such that if they didn't produce (near) 100% MS-DOS boxes, they'd be fscked because the bulk of their business was still with them, and DR-DOS was something of a (large) niche market.
Given a choice of "Give up that niche market or we'll double your price and make your developers' lives hell," most OEM's are going to drop the niche. Back in 1992 it was DR-DOS on the business end of the monopoly club. Today it appears to be AMD.
Think about it for a second: It's all over slashdot. AMD's chips are (for the most part) faster, cheaper, lower power and better designed. Intel had to eat crow and follow AMD's lead in the 64-bit CPU field. So why aren't OEMs jumping ship like ants to a jam-spill for AMD parts? Anti-competetive pressure on the part of Intel is one of the few things that fit into this equation.
Can I take it you work for OOL, and have seen some proof?
Downloading a Legal copy of Linux is not Wares. It's a perfectly legitimate way to use the 'net. It's not abuse, and it's not illegal. Similarly, Uploading pictures of the family vacation is completely legitimate, and not illegal (as long as the vacation was legal).
If the company was advertising 'unlimited', then capping people who make heavy use of The 'Net is false and misleading advertising, breach of contract and probably an unfair business practice (not to mention abusing your customers).
Sooner or later someone is going to rip them a new orifice with a class-action lawsuit (at least, one can hope!).
They go into the water and cut the large cable feeding the country.
The original tin-hat posting seemed to suggest that this was an accidental result of an unnamed country botching up a tap attempt. If you have the kind of signaling intelligence capabilities that the NSA probably does, you might be able to find some very interesting information about Al Quaida and the likes from such a tap.
On the other hand, bringing down the link while (or in the aftermath of) putting in such a tap, just brings attention to your activities, and might upset your superiors.
There's no real use to the US wilfully cutting Pakistan's link. I can only see India gaining from such an action -- and even then, only if they were about to launch an all-out attack against Pakistan, and I've seen no signs of that happening.