Their claim seems to state, basically, that IBM copied code from AIX and/or Dynix/ptx into Linux. And that said code is the property of SCO, hence the supposed infringement. So SCO owns this code but has never seen it?
Or is it that IBM created derivative works based on SCO's stuff, and then (allegedly) took some of the same code they'd added to SCO's IP and added it into Linux?
If SCO wrote or bought the code, they should certainly already have a copy of it. If IBM wrote it, then what's SCO's claim?
That's certainly an ethically questionable stance, however pragmatic it may be. Consider this: would you be willing to sacrifice the life of an innocent stranger to eliminate a small (certainly less than 50%) chance of your own wrongful imprisonment? Hopefully not. But you'd sacrifice the life of an intruder, who you could instead incapacitate, for the same purpose. Are you saying that a petty criminal's life is worth less than another person's?
Also, you don't transform gas into energy -- conservation of matter, remember? Of course, some of the electrons in the gas are released as energy when the gas rapidly combines with oxygen -- combusts -- but that's a long way from saying the gax becomes energy.
Unfortunately, the main problem with Gates's views in this interview are indicative of a trend of statistical naivete that is dangerously endemic to our society. Okay, so 1% of their support calls are about bugs. Who believes that this is a scientific measure of public opinion? A number of assumptions are being made, including:
Non-bug calls are all by different people. Nobody's going to call twice to report the same bug, but plenty of clue-challenged folks spend half the day calling MS support on the company dime to ask how to open a file or turn their text purple.
Users believe that it's their responsibility to tell MS that their software is broken. Even if they believe this about the community as a whole, social loafing is bound to kick in as everyone believes that "someone else will call it in."
Users bothered by bugs don't simply abandon MS software for a better product.
Users believe that reporting bugs causes them to be fixed.
And so on...
The bottom line is this: let's have a show of hands. How many people here have experienced a bug in a Microsoft product? Okay, keep your hands up if you think MS should fix those bugs. Now, how many of you have actually reported a bug to MS?
Right, except that MF is an extremely awesome band of four rather hoopy froods who would be more than happy at the exposure generated by the parent post. Go look at their website. Tons of links to fan pages, lots of which certainly post lyrics, tabs, and the like. Früheads approach deadheads in their fanatical band-loyalty, and like the GD, MF know how to support this enthusiasm rather than pointlessly Metallica-ing it away with hissy fits.
Interesting scene in one of the early season one episodes (Banks of the Lethe, maybe? Nah... I dunno which one) where Hunt is playing his first officer and discovers that he's cheating. Caught, he defends with "well, of course I've been cheating. Haven't you?" Probably one of the best scenes for establishing the Nietzschean character motivation.
I haven't seen any of season 3... is the show still any good, anyone?
Please teach your daughter the difference between "its" and "it's." If you get them while they're young, they might retain it. Let's hope it's not too late for this one.
My question is where do you get your news to form opinions about issues you have no direct contact with? Any news site you see are going to biased to some extent.
Which is why I love Google News. Oh sure, the news is as biased as anywhere, but it draws from so many sources all around the world! There's nothing quite like seeing the subtle differences in bias between 70 news sites covering the same small set of actual facts. It's brilliant.
And that's the other thing -- there really are very, very few facts in the news. Low bandwidth, high redundancy. So it's very easy to be just as well-informed, or more so, as someone who watches the TV news, without doing so. And you don't have so much brainwashing. To really drive this point home, do what I did -- get bored and decide to spend a lot of time refreshing Google News, hoping for something new to happen. News moves slow and has few facts.
Seriously though, that's fantastic advice, but completely impractical for many people for one, simple reason: They don't really know what it is they completely love to do. Anyone who has figured out that one thing that totally inspires them and that they really enjoy doing is one damn lucky son-of-a-b*%$h.
That thought is an easy trap to fall into, but I think it's a mistake to do so. The fact of the matter is, people devote so much time to making do with whatever they're making a living at, trying to believe that they like it, that they don't make room in their thinking for consideration of what they might actually love.
I'm a perfect example of this. I spent the first 22 years of my life on track to one thing -- being a computer programmer. I loved programming, and counted myself lucky for the fact that the thing I loved was a well-paying career. I'd go to interviews and people would ask me why I wanted to be a programmer and I'd just say, "it's in my blood!"
Then I got some work experience, a picture of what an actual career in programming is like, and over the course of a year or so the dream died. I began to realize that all the stuff that's fun (to me) about programming just doesn't really apply to how things work on the job -- it's not the same as school. Maybe I could still find a way to make it work, find an enjoyable job somewhere. But I don't feel that passion anymore.
And I've never been happier. Because as soon as I realized I was railroading myself into unhappiness, falling victim to my own outdated expectations, I became open to other possibilities. On a whim last summer, I decided to see if I could learn to draw. I had always considered visual art to be something I just had no gift for. But I was wrong -- I showed immediate, rapid progress. And what's more, it turns out that I love it.
My plan now is to become a tattoo artist. It's a path with its own difficulties, especially considering my late start with art. But I think that now, I've found something that I really do love and will really enjoy doing. It wasn't luck -- I just got my priorities straight.
Yes, yes, yes! Exactly. People are so *disenfranchised* about their lives today. Spend them feeling bitter about how they never got the lucky break, the opportunity given to them to make a living doing something wonderful and fun.
I think the problem is that people have slowly allowed their definition of "possible" from meaning "something I have the ability to achieve" to "something that might happen to me."
If you only live for yourself, and only make decisions on how those decisions will affect you, then you are an arrogant, selfish prick.
That's intuitive, but I'm not really sure it shakes out that way in practice. All the arrogant, selfish pricks I know seem to be that way on account of trying to impress other people, gain approval by putting others down, etc. Whereas the people I know who have discovered a way to pursue their own geniune happiness without worrying so much about what everyone else is expecting from them... well, they tend to be calm, restful, happy souls who are a pleasure to be around.
Like another responder to this thread, I have read Ayn Rand's major works. Read Atlas Shrugged for the first time quite recently. I found it to be a really intersting experience -- I disagree strongly with her view of the world, but I found the book incredibly thought-provoking in unexpected ways. Rand's solution to the problems of the world may not be up to snuff, but I think she's spot-on in pointing out its problems, to a large extent. After reading the book, I kept noticing in my daily life how every time I felt unhappy, put-upon, not satisfied with myself, or whatever, it was because I was living for others and for their expectations of me.
Anyway... I think I'll go buy this book. Was meaning to anyway -- the excerpted article a few weeks ago resonated extremely well with issues I have been grappling with lately, in my last year of college (studying computer science. And oh yeah, philosophy).
Are you saying the theory doesn't hold water? That it's a tempest in a teapot? I could certainly see getting all steamed up about that. Might have to jet-tison the whole project. Then they'd really be in hot water. On the other hand, if it does work, it would be a real watershed event. Certainly more than just water under the bridge, anyway. Well, maybe they'll just have to set this whole steam thing on the back burner for now -- after all, a watched pot never boils.
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I suppose the heavier gravity might induce premature labor.
Their claim seems to state, basically, that IBM copied code from AIX and/or Dynix/ptx into Linux. And that said code is the property of SCO, hence the supposed infringement. So SCO owns this code but has never seen it?
Or is it that IBM created derivative works based on SCO's stuff, and then (allegedly) took some of the same code they'd added to SCO's IP and added it into Linux?
If SCO wrote or bought the code, they should certainly already have a copy of it. If IBM wrote it, then what's SCO's claim?
Destroys? Destroys?
Ah, my friend...
Surely you meant to say "DEMOLISHES!"
A robot that demolishes everything in its path!
Uh, yeah. You do understand that this is Slashdot, right?
That's certainly an ethically questionable stance, however pragmatic it may be. Consider this: would you be willing to sacrifice the life of an innocent stranger to eliminate a small (certainly less than 50%) chance of your own wrongful imprisonment? Hopefully not. But you'd sacrifice the life of an intruder, who you could instead incapacitate, for the same purpose. Are you saying that a petty criminal's life is worth less than another person's?
You'd prefer "phink," perhaps?
That sounds wonderful. At last we'd be able to physically destroy banner ads.
Combustion is a chemical reaction, genius.
Also, you don't transform gas into energy -- conservation of matter, remember? Of course, some of the electrons in the gas are released as energy when the gas rapidly combines with oxygen -- combusts -- but that's a long way from saying the gax becomes energy.
That was pretty funny. So, shred or slag?
I had 5 grand to blow, but I bought a RealDoll instead.
;)
Well, which would you choose?
(P.S. No, not really. It's funny, laugh.)
- Non-bug calls are all by different people. Nobody's going to call twice to report the same bug, but plenty of clue-challenged folks spend half the day calling MS support on the company dime to ask how to open a file or turn their text purple.
- Users believe that it's their responsibility to tell MS that their software is broken. Even if they believe this about the community as a whole, social loafing is bound to kick in as everyone believes that "someone else will call it in."
- Users bothered by bugs don't simply abandon MS software for a better product.
- Users believe that reporting bugs causes them to be fixed.
- And so on...
The bottom line is this: let's have a show of hands. How many people here have experienced a bug in a Microsoft product? Okay, keep your hands up if you think MS should fix those bugs. Now, how many of you have actually reported a bug to MS?Ah, I see.
Right, except that MF is an extremely awesome band of four rather hoopy froods who would be more than happy at the exposure generated by the parent post. Go look at their website. Tons of links to fan pages, lots of which certainly post lyrics, tabs, and the like. Früheads approach deadheads in their fanatical band-loyalty, and like the GD, MF know how to support this enthusiasm rather than pointlessly Metallica-ing it away with hissy fits.
So you endorse the policy of "separate but equal," then? Trent Lott would love you. ;)
Star Trek: chess++.
Majel^H^H^H^H^HGene Roddenberry's Andromeda: go++
Interesting scene in one of the early season one episodes (Banks of the Lethe, maybe? Nah... I dunno which one) where Hunt is playing his first officer and discovers that he's cheating. Caught, he defends with "well, of course I've been cheating. Haven't you?" Probably one of the best scenes for establishing the Nietzschean character motivation.
I haven't seen any of season 3... is the show still any good, anyone?
During the Breen assault on Earth, I'd imagine.
I know, I know. Sorry.
Please teach your daughter the difference between "its" and "it's." If you get them while they're young, they might retain it. Let's hope it's not too late for this one.
I don't know, but I'm never drinking filtered water at your house.
We should all be so lucky, to have such good friends. Most will simply let you be unhappy.
Which is why I love Google News. Oh sure, the news is as biased as anywhere, but it draws from so many sources all around the world! There's nothing quite like seeing the subtle differences in bias between 70 news sites covering the same small set of actual facts. It's brilliant.
And that's the other thing -- there really are very, very few facts in the news. Low bandwidth, high redundancy. So it's very easy to be just as well-informed, or more so, as someone who watches the TV news, without doing so. And you don't have so much brainwashing. To really drive this point home, do what I did -- get bored and decide to spend a lot of time refreshing Google News, hoping for something new to happen. News moves slow and has few facts.
That thought is an easy trap to fall into, but I think it's a mistake to do so. The fact of the matter is, people devote so much time to making do with whatever they're making a living at, trying to believe that they like it, that they don't make room in their thinking for consideration of what they might actually love.
I'm a perfect example of this. I spent the first 22 years of my life on track to one thing -- being a computer programmer. I loved programming, and counted myself lucky for the fact that the thing I loved was a well-paying career. I'd go to interviews and people would ask me why I wanted to be a programmer and I'd just say, "it's in my blood!"
Then I got some work experience, a picture of what an actual career in programming is like, and over the course of a year or so the dream died. I began to realize that all the stuff that's fun (to me) about programming just doesn't really apply to how things work on the job -- it's not the same as school. Maybe I could still find a way to make it work, find an enjoyable job somewhere. But I don't feel that passion anymore.
And I've never been happier. Because as soon as I realized I was railroading myself into unhappiness, falling victim to my own outdated expectations, I became open to other possibilities. On a whim last summer, I decided to see if I could learn to draw. I had always considered visual art to be something I just had no gift for. But I was wrong -- I showed immediate, rapid progress. And what's more, it turns out that I love it.
My plan now is to become a tattoo artist. It's a path with its own difficulties, especially considering my late start with art. But I think that now, I've found something that I really do love and will really enjoy doing. It wasn't luck -- I just got my priorities straight.
Yes, yes, yes! Exactly. People are so *disenfranchised* about their lives today. Spend them feeling bitter about how they never got the lucky break, the opportunity given to them to make a living doing something wonderful and fun.
I think the problem is that people have slowly allowed their definition of "possible" from meaning "something I have the ability to achieve" to "something that might happen to me."
That's intuitive, but I'm not really sure it shakes out that way in practice. All the arrogant, selfish pricks I know seem to be that way on account of trying to impress other people, gain approval by putting others down, etc. Whereas the people I know who have discovered a way to pursue their own geniune happiness without worrying so much about what everyone else is expecting from them... well, they tend to be calm, restful, happy souls who are a pleasure to be around.
Like another responder to this thread, I have read Ayn Rand's major works. Read Atlas Shrugged for the first time quite recently. I found it to be a really intersting experience -- I disagree strongly with her view of the world, but I found the book incredibly thought-provoking in unexpected ways. Rand's solution to the problems of the world may not be up to snuff, but I think she's spot-on in pointing out its problems, to a large extent. After reading the book, I kept noticing in my daily life how every time I felt unhappy, put-upon, not satisfied with myself, or whatever, it was because I was living for others and for their expectations of me.
Anyway... I think I'll go buy this book. Was meaning to anyway -- the excerpted article a few weeks ago resonated extremely well with issues I have been grappling with lately, in my last year of college (studying computer science. And oh yeah, philosophy).
Are you saying the theory doesn't hold water? That it's a tempest in a teapot? I could certainly see getting all steamed up about that. Might have to jet-tison the whole project. Then they'd really be in hot water. On the other hand, if it does work, it would be a real watershed event. Certainly more than just water under the bridge, anyway. Well, maybe they'll just have to set this whole steam thing on the back burner for now -- after all, a watched pot never boils.
Hehe. Alternately, you could mention that while this LCD has sort of vivid colors, they're nothing compared to the ones you see on LSD.
Not sure if you're referring to the ignorance of the public, or Bush. Funny either way, really. And sad. Very sad. Heh.