smelly, long haired man wearing taped glasses and a T-shirt with the DECSS code on it, attacks executive with railgun he made in his garage. Violent video games were blamed for the incident. Also found on his person were caffeine pills, a computer edited picture of natalie portman with what looks like grits poured all over her, and something witnesses can only describe as slimy hollow tube of squishy rubber....
you completely missed the references to snow crash i think... go read it if you havent, great book.
and to the parent, damn, I thought I was the only one who it reminded of snow crash... heh
It reminded me of the metaverse in snow crash, somewhat. Like how hiro and da5id had complete control etc over their areas, inside the common "proprietary" metaverse...
omg. give it up. You might not be able to go to dell, but there are plenty of smaller firms that you can order "personal dual cpu computers" from, esp over the internet. Said firms usually let you pick and choose what parts you want, build it, and ship it to you...
It certainly is a "personal computer" In fact, I consider a "PC" any machine that a "single consumer" would buy, rather than a corporation would buy, such as a major "workstation"
And yes, there are PLENTY of dual cpu motherboards that aren't designed as "server boards" and so on... just look around. they are all over the place.
The grocklaw article hit it right on the head. Novell now owns SuSE. SCO cant sue novell due to it's UNIX IP.
So, any major company who feels threatened by sco, only has to move over to suse linux, and they no longer need to worry... SCO then of course dies a slow, painfull death. woot.
But what can they use besides linux? what else clusters on x86 hardware? I honestly dont see how any judge would do shit to some company that sco sues, without any "proof" or judgement saying that linux IS infringing on sco's IP...
Either way, the legal fees for said company would easily be cheaper than it would be to up and change out their clusters away from linux...
well, valve had their source stolen.... I dont think anyone has heard any reports that valves source tree that they have was modified to insert a back door....
although I am sure they are spending a good amount of time auditing their code, just in case.
Yeah, well, the german daimler-benz bought out our american chrysler, so its kinda tit for tat in a way. Obviously insanely different corporate scales, but you get my meaning I'm sure...
I'm not a fan of novell really, but maybe this will change... It will be interesting to see how they handle liscensing, how proprietary they keep their software, so on and so forth.
... I dont think anyone thinks its a good idea that people can vote from anywhere other than a standard voting center, like schools and fire stations like you do now....
no, but it *is* a valid step in the right direction.
And I mean, come on, seriously. Its not like the code can be all that complicated... I bet a first year cs 101 student could write a decent electronic voting system, outside of the drivers needed for the interfaces. its not exactly a hard concept. It could even be replaced with a simple shell script.
there shouldnt be any question that we should need a paper trail.
Well, sure, I absolutely bet that the average person they "polled" at the election on whether they thought the new touch screen method was a good one, thought it was.
Its the crap we hear afterwards, the contemplation and realisation that there is no Paper trail, and the info found in those diebold memos, the articles about the -16000 gore votes, and all the other scary crap is when people start to question.
I dont trust the current electronic voting system what so ever. I *do* think that they could make a very effective and trustworthy touch screen. there is a reason that the cnn story quoted that most computer scientists they talked to thought the system sucked.... And I think its quite sad that they didnt go into the diebold memos portion of the story, and the other doubts.
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probably voter privacy issues. But its not like that problem cant be solved ffs.
... Guys, don't forget that we are talking about IBM here... No one can honestly call them the "little guy"
IBM will surely have first class lawyers, and no matter what you think of the judicial system and judges/politicians only thinking about money and what not, who do you think they would side with? IBM or sco?
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smelly, long haired man wearing taped glasses and a T-shirt with the DECSS code on it, attacks executive with railgun he made in his garage. Violent video games were blamed for the incident. Also found on his person were caffeine pills, a computer edited picture of natalie portman with what looks like grits poured all over her, and something witnesses can only describe as slimy hollow tube of squishy rubber....
you completely missed the references to snow crash i think... go read it if you havent, great book. and to the parent, damn, I thought I was the only one who it reminded of snow crash... heh
It reminded me of the metaverse in snow crash, somewhat. Like how hiro and da5id had complete control etc over their areas, inside the common "proprietary" metaverse...
try more like 6-8 hundred.... Its definately cool, but man... too bad it costs as much as some laptops...
it would have been interesting if they went after MS for documents relating to sco/canopy... lol, wouldnt that have stirred up a hornets nest...
omg. give it up. You might not be able to go to dell, but there are plenty of smaller firms that you can order "personal dual cpu computers" from, esp over the internet. Said firms usually let you pick and choose what parts you want, build it, and ship it to you...
It certainly is a "personal computer" In fact, I consider a "PC" any machine that a "single consumer" would buy, rather than a corporation would buy, such as a major "workstation"
And yes, there are PLENTY of dual cpu motherboards that aren't designed as "server boards" and so on... just look around. they are all over the place.
The grocklaw article hit it right on the head. Novell now owns SuSE. SCO cant sue novell due to it's UNIX IP.
So, any major company who feels threatened by sco, only has to move over to suse linux, and they no longer need to worry... SCO then of course dies a slow, painfull death. woot.
But what can they use besides linux? what else clusters on x86 hardware? I honestly dont see how any judge would do shit to some company that sco sues, without any "proof" or judgement saying that linux IS infringing on sco's IP...
Either way, the legal fees for said company would easily be cheaper than it would be to up and change out their clusters away from linux...
True, but its a long trip to the moon.... :)
Forget about energy, resources, or research.
You know everyone just wants to be able to get laid in zero G!
hell, maybe we should have mentioned this back when clinton was still president....
well, valve had their source stolen.... I dont think anyone has heard any reports that valves source tree that they have was modified to insert a back door....
although I am sure they are spending a good amount of time auditing their code, just in case.
well... that or they know they will have one hell of an advantage, considering they of course would not have to pay sco royalties if they win....
Where's my tinfoil hat when I need it... *looks around*
Yeah, well, the german daimler-benz bought out our american chrysler, so its kinda tit for tat in a way. Obviously insanely different corporate scales, but you get my meaning I'm sure...
I'm not a fan of novell really, but maybe this will change... It will be interesting to see how they handle liscensing, how proprietary they keep their software, so on and so forth.
... I dont think anyone thinks its a good idea that people can vote from anywhere other than a standard voting center, like schools and fire stations like you do now....
dyslexic chads maybe....
no, but it *is* a valid step in the right direction.
And I mean, come on, seriously. Its not like the code can be all that complicated... I bet a first year cs 101 student could write a decent electronic voting system, outside of the drivers needed for the interfaces. its not exactly a hard concept. It could even be replaced with a simple shell script.
there shouldnt be any question that we should need a paper trail.
Well, sure, I absolutely bet that the average person they "polled" at the election on whether they thought the new touch screen method was a good one, thought it was.
Its the crap we hear afterwards, the contemplation and realisation that there is no Paper trail, and the info found in those diebold memos, the articles about the -16000 gore votes, and all the other scary crap is when people start to question.
I dont trust the current electronic voting system what so ever. I *do* think that they could make a very effective and trustworthy touch screen. there is a reason that the cnn story quoted that most computer scientists they talked to thought the system sucked.... And I think its quite sad that they didnt go into the diebold memos portion of the story, and the other doubts.
probably voter privacy issues. But its not like that problem cant be solved ffs.
david bowie's love child.
;)
jusstttt kidding man. feel free to kick whoevers ass it was that put that picture up though. he/she deserves it
true. Double standard? yes. Still slightly disturbing that he was a childrens tv star? slightly.
Still amusing regardless after the fact? absolutely.
true, but the whole movie lost major points for the sole reason of having peewee "fap fap fap" herman in it...
all else is crap otherwise... well, except maybe for alias, westwing, and there are some mad hotties on that new las vegas show... ;/
;(
oh, and no more buffy either...
and yes, I am an avid gamer, and tend to either tivo, or download episodes of the net at my leisure.
... Guys, don't forget that we are talking about IBM here... No one can honestly call them the "little guy"
IBM will surely have first class lawyers, and no matter what you think of the judicial system and judges/politicians only thinking about money and what not, who do you think they would side with? IBM or sco?
I'm betting on IBM.
so this explains why carmack and most of his team all have platinum colored hair now....
I dont know about that, but gentoo is working on a version of its portage... http://www.gentoo.org/news/20030620-metapkg.xml
that, and there is always fink for osx... which Im pretty sure uses apt-get anyways...
http://fink.sourceforge.net/