Why the hell should they contribute to any project in a way that doesnt firmly, 100% front and center benefit themselves? There is no requirement for contributions to be altruistic in any way, shape or form.
Samba 4 is still alpha software - not something someone is going to commit an entire organisation to using.
OpenChange, according to their website, doesn't seem to be an actual solution but more of an implementation of the MAPI protocols in library format. And they also are alpha, with a production class release 'to be announced'.
Alfresco looks good, but lacks integration with any office product (OpenOffice.Org or Microsoft Office), and as such requires a lot of manual work when collaborating on documents held in it.
I'm not touting Microsoft here, but people need to stop googling for alternatives and then proudly holding them as alternatives to proven products in the market place. It decreases credibility when two out of three responses are not even touting *themselves* as production standard.
When you wish to download Firefox or Thunderbird, you are redirected from Mozilla.org to Mozilla.com, so in this case calling it a company is most certainly correct - the Mozilla corporation is distributing the software to you, not the Mozilla foundation.
Most of the Virgin Group are actually completely operationally independent companies under ownership or part ownership of the holding company, withg different executives sitting on the boards.
With all due respect, the GP said 'There is jack and shit for evidence of intelligent alien life as of today', and he is entirely correct despite your ranting - there is no evidence of intelligent alien life as of today. None.
Yup, the Russian involvement was certainly something that continued to be frowned upon as an 'extravagence' while the Shuttle was grounded, and the only transport mechanisms to and from the ISS were both Russian for several months...
The question becomes - without the ISS as a destination, what does the CEV do between the deorbit of the ISS and any planned moon or mars mission in the early 2020s? Does NASA just launch this new expensive vehicle to orbit with no destination? What capacity does the CEV have for independent science while in orbit?
Actually, the Beta was released to the general public a week after it hit MSDN, in precisely the same way the Release Candidate was. All you had to do to get either the Beta or the RC was sign up to a public page, and you could get access to the ISO download and an activation key.
Does anyone actually have up to date statistics on this assertion? Its often brought up, but I've never seen anything to support it - remember, Microsoft improved IIS from version 5 onward, and it has tended to have less issues than Apache since then.
I would like to see this turned around: because the RIAA's case did not offer any information about the damages done by download these 24 songs in the trial, the court should enforce that the RIAA sell all its tracks at the value assigned to each song by the jury (~$81,000)
How about you try and get unlimited redistribution rights to these songs and see how much that costs? Because thats more like what the defendent would have needed here to avoid the court case.
I'm not talking about exploits or bugs, I'm talking about knowing *precisely* how the code will react in given circumstances, *precisely* which edge cases are handled in code, *precisely* what results in an error state and how that error state is handled.
Knowing such things will allow you to tailor your fraudulant trades so as to not raise suspicion, or to make more money within a set amount of time. If you know precisely how far to push your actions, and then push no further, then you could continue with the same fraud for longer than you would otherwise without being discovered. If you know how often the trend analysis reports are run, and how they do what they do, then you can tailor your trades so as to not appear on those reports - just enough, no more.
All of which means you can make more money without being detected - and you haven't attacked the software itself, you haven't changed how the code works, you have stayed within the boundaries that the software creates. All because you knew *precisely* how the code works.
What if having the code allowed you to analyse it for ways to game the system? Knowing precisely how the system will react in certain circumstances could give you a serious leg up when attacking the system on the markets (trade limitations, trend spotting for error codes or edge cases et al).
This code could be worth significant amounts of money on the international fraud market.
If the Windows Ext2 people updated the driver, theres nothing stopping you using Ext2 under Vista - I happily use the commercial HFS+ driver from MacDrive with no issues.
So, in short, it sounds like an implementation issue.
The problem is, people will expect this again and again, for the same or less money - when the next 90 day rover is planned, whats its budget going to be set at? The $500m that Spirit and Opportunity cost, or a fraction of that considering how 'overbuilt for the job' these two turned out to be?
The overperforming of this mission could turn out to be a wolf in sheeps clothing. Be wary.
Its a difficult one, but its likely Stalin knew that the western powers disliked the Soviet Union anyway, so there was little in it for Stalin to help the Allies invade Germany from the East.
If such a thing had occurred, it would have been very unlikely that any ground gained could be occupied by the USSR - the gains made in WW2 were solely due to the fact that the USSR was the sole army making those gains from the East, handing most of Germany and Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union. Its highly unlikely the USSR would have ended up with those same gains with a fully mixed Allied army involved.
In all likelihood, the pact between the USSR and Germany would have held, but remained uneasy. Thats not to say Hitler wouldn't have tried something later, but he might have been in a better position to press home any attack.
They can demand it, but is an unknowing party subject to the license or simply required to cease distribution when informed? It would be difficult to legally force Nintendo to provide anything in this circumstance...
Prior to Hitler invading the USSR, remember that they were allies themselves - why would the USSR have allowed the US et al to attack Germany through them? My scenario above assumes no invasion of the USSR at all - it assumes Hitler and Stalin kept their pact to parcel up the eastern states between them.
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And what if someone wanted a computer delivered without screws, because they had their own screws to use when the system arrived?
How about requiring the computer to be sold without hard disk? Memory? CPU? Mainboard?
Computers are sold as a package.
Yup, thats SharePoint all right. If you totally ignore everything else it does, that is.
(I don't work for Google)
Why the hell should they contribute to any project in a way that doesnt firmly, 100% front and center benefit themselves? There is no requirement for contributions to be altruistic in any way, shape or form.
Samba 4 is still alpha software - not something someone is going to commit an entire organisation to using.
OpenChange, according to their website, doesn't seem to be an actual solution but more of an implementation of the MAPI protocols in library format. And they also are alpha, with a production class release 'to be announced'.
Alfresco looks good, but lacks integration with any office product (OpenOffice.Org or Microsoft Office), and as such requires a lot of manual work when collaborating on documents held in it.
I'm not touting Microsoft here, but people need to stop googling for alternatives and then proudly holding them as alternatives to proven products in the market place. It decreases credibility when two out of three responses are not even touting *themselves* as production standard.
Then there is something seriously wrong with your disk - a full format of a 500GB disk here takes no more than 10 minutes here, on Windows XP.
When you wish to download Firefox or Thunderbird, you are redirected from Mozilla.org to Mozilla.com, so in this case calling it a company is most certainly correct - the Mozilla corporation is distributing the software to you, not the Mozilla foundation.
Most of the Virgin Group are actually completely operationally independent companies under ownership or part ownership of the holding company, withg different executives sitting on the boards.
But Microsoft has a positive cash flow to go with its status.
With all due respect, the GP said 'There is jack and shit for evidence of intelligent alien life as of today', and he is entirely correct despite your ranting - there is no evidence of intelligent alien life as of today. None.
Yup, the Russian involvement was certainly something that continued to be frowned upon as an 'extravagence' while the Shuttle was grounded, and the only transport mechanisms to and from the ISS were both Russian for several months...
The question becomes - without the ISS as a destination, what does the CEV do between the deorbit of the ISS and any planned moon or mars mission in the early 2020s? Does NASA just launch this new expensive vehicle to orbit with no destination? What capacity does the CEV have for independent science while in orbit?
Actually, the Beta was released to the general public a week after it hit MSDN, in precisely the same way the Release Candidate was. All you had to do to get either the Beta or the RC was sign up to a public page, and you could get access to the ISO download and an activation key.
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Does anyone actually have up to date statistics on this assertion? Its often brought up, but I've never seen anything to support it - remember, Microsoft improved IIS from version 5 onward, and it has tended to have less issues than Apache since then.
I would like to see this turned around: because the RIAA's case did not offer any information about the damages done by download these 24 songs in the trial, the court should enforce that the RIAA sell all its tracks at the value assigned to each song by the jury (~$81,000)
How about you try and get unlimited redistribution rights to these songs and see how much that costs? Because thats more like what the defendent would have needed here to avoid the court case.
I never meant to give the impression that its a 'slam dunk', but it does put you into a better position than you would otherwise be.
I'm not talking about exploits or bugs, I'm talking about knowing *precisely* how the code will react in given circumstances, *precisely* which edge cases are handled in code, *precisely* what results in an error state and how that error state is handled.
Knowing such things will allow you to tailor your fraudulant trades so as to not raise suspicion, or to make more money within a set amount of time. If you know precisely how far to push your actions, and then push no further, then you could continue with the same fraud for longer than you would otherwise without being discovered. If you know how often the trend analysis reports are run, and how they do what they do, then you can tailor your trades so as to not appear on those reports - just enough, no more.
All of which means you can make more money without being detected - and you haven't attacked the software itself, you haven't changed how the code works, you have stayed within the boundaries that the software creates. All because you knew *precisely* how the code works.
What if having the code allowed you to analyse it for ways to game the system? Knowing precisely how the system will react in certain circumstances could give you a serious leg up when attacking the system on the markets (trade limitations, trend spotting for error codes or edge cases et al).
This code could be worth significant amounts of money on the international fraud market.
If the Windows Ext2 people updated the driver, theres nothing stopping you using Ext2 under Vista - I happily use the commercial HFS+ driver from MacDrive with no issues.
So, in short, it sounds like an implementation issue.
Kaltix was a search engine company that Google bought...
Since when did Microsoft buy out a competing Operating System company?
The problem is, people will expect this again and again, for the same or less money - when the next 90 day rover is planned, whats its budget going to be set at? The $500m that Spirit and Opportunity cost, or a fraction of that considering how 'overbuilt for the job' these two turned out to be?
The overperforming of this mission could turn out to be a wolf in sheeps clothing. Be wary.
Its a difficult one, but its likely Stalin knew that the western powers disliked the Soviet Union anyway, so there was little in it for Stalin to help the Allies invade Germany from the East.
If such a thing had occurred, it would have been very unlikely that any ground gained could be occupied by the USSR - the gains made in WW2 were solely due to the fact that the USSR was the sole army making those gains from the East, handing most of Germany and Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union. Its highly unlikely the USSR would have ended up with those same gains with a fully mixed Allied army involved.
In all likelihood, the pact between the USSR and Germany would have held, but remained uneasy. Thats not to say Hitler wouldn't have tried something later, but he might have been in a better position to press home any attack.
They can demand it, but is an unknowing party subject to the license or simply required to cease distribution when informed? It would be difficult to legally force Nintendo to provide anything in this circumstance...
Prior to Hitler invading the USSR, remember that they were allies themselves - why would the USSR have allowed the US et al to attack Germany through them? My scenario above assumes no invasion of the USSR at all - it assumes Hitler and Stalin kept their pact to parcel up the eastern states between them.
Those were added later on in the development process, they were not included on the first few flights of the first prototype.