IBM has a vested interest in Open Source development. It is not likely that they would take out a patent with the idea of hurting one of their benefactors. It is far more likely that in a climate where other companies seek to destroy open source (**Cough** SCO **Cough** Microsoft) they perceived a threat and are taking preemptive action.
so to be knighted now a days one only needs to build a huge monopolistic company using one's ruthless, take no quarter, screw-the-law, killer instinct.
Oh well. At least there have been a lot of people knighted when it still ment something.
Do you really believe that Microsoft would play unfair by hijacking XML. Use it's monopoly power in conjunction with a policy to embrace, extend and use patents to make it legally impossible for others to use their variation on an open standard that the entire world will be using due to Microsoft's HUGE market share?
I'm shocked that people might believe this! I know that Microsoft has in the past embraced and extended other people's works making it difficult to be inter operable due to the fact that they were not forthcoming in these extensions thus forcing others to reverse engineer their work. But that's in the past. Microsoft was found to be afoul of various laws and has an agreement to clean up their act.
And although XML's human readability would make patents one of the few viable options to prevent other's in the software community from having a level playing field I'm sure that Microsoft has learned from its past mistakes and is taking a higher road.
I know a guy that bought an old State Patrol car that was up for auction. It had all of the decals and special lights removed. Well except for the spotlight on the side. He took this car (read official looking equipment) and drove by the sight of a late night beer party that was out in the country real slow while shining the spotlight out into the trees. (read acting like the police.) And laughed at all of the minors running for it. He wasn't laughing when the real police showed up on his doorstep and arrested him for impersonating a police officer.
The RIAA has hired people to wear official looking police close, and act like police. I would bet that they have broken the law. Someone should be hauled in front of a Judge.
"-"We burned 80 billion barrels of oil this year but discovered less than 10 billion." When we run out of oil, we'll find an alternative. We, as humans, are very clever and creative. It may be a (very) troublesome and painful transition, but we'll make it."
I wasn't sure how this whole line related too the SCO fiasco but then I realized that we could squeeze a few thousand barrels of oil out of Darl's fat head and it all made sense.
I for one get very annoyed when I buy a CD and can't shift the content onto my family server. From the server I am able to pipe music to any room in the house that has a computer. (And in my home that's quite a few.)
Just recently I bought the new Listening Library's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" 23 CD set at the tune of $75.00. It play's fine in a CD player but if I try to create ogg files for my server many tracks make very annoying popping noise.
No where can I find any warnings that the CDs are copy protected.
I have tried every ripping program that I can find but have not yet been able to create good files. I paid for the CDs. I should be allowed to listen to the content in the manner that I choose!
"That means that if the Earth leaves out ONE SECOND of movement, it loses almost 20 miles."
20 miles is nothing when compaired to the distance in the Earth's orbit!
"Do two telescopes 20 miles apart have the same view of the heavens? No! They are more than a fifth of a degree off -- that's HUGE."
Your 1/5 of a degree number seems meaningless. It may be 1/5 of a degree from the Earths core to two points 20 miles apart on its surface but so what? We are trying to calculate the position the Earth is along its orbit.
To do that you need to look at the angle that two lines form. One line from the Sun to the Earth and the other from the Sun to some very distant object (some other star).
I assure you that 20 miles will not create a 1/5 degree variance. Do the math before YOU post.
I'm not saying that it can't be done. Obviously it can but I don't think that you or I are just going to whip out our slide rules and do that calculation.
But it would seem to me that any small shift of the telescope would cause a large error. What if the telescope's foundation settles?
I'm thinking that one cannot take much for granted when measuring the position of the Earth to within one second of time.
Our continents are drifting. One would think that plate tectonics wouldn't have much of an effect, but again we are measuring the position that the earth is suppose to be in within one second of time. Wow! That can't be easy.
"At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia. But he said they don't have a good explanation for why it's suddenly on schedule."
"Orbit around the sun" doesn't sound like they are talking about rotation to me.
"The movie industry, he said, has to ask itself what the music industry should have asked years ago: 'Why do they want to steal from us?' The answer, he said, is simple: 'Because you won't sell them what they want.'"
An interesting statement that is true for the music industry but doesn't seem to apply to the movie industry. In the case of the music industry, they sell albums with one or two good songs and force the consumer to buy eight or more songs that they wouldn't buy if they were not bundled with the songs they do want. So rather than paying three or four bucks for two songs that they want, they pay fifteen to twenty. Is it any wonder that a lot of consumers feel ripped off?
In the case of the movie industry nothing is bundled. The consumer pays for a single movie that he wants.
I guess maybe he's talking about consumers wanting to get content on-line. For small files that don't take hours to download this is true but again not so much for movies that can take hours because of the size of the download. This is especially true if we're talking about DVD quality downloads.
As the downloads become faster and the quality higher I believe that the movie industry will be facing the same problem. I don't believe that most of the downloads are motivated by noble reasons. Most people that I know want to pay for the content once and only once and they don't want to pay much either.
I have several albums that I have paid for more than once. I don't know how many tapes have been eaten by my player before I got a CD player. Now that I do have a CD player I like to rip my music and store the content as ogg files on my family server. That way I can play my music from any computer in the house. It really pisses me off when I pay money for a CD and find it "copy protected." And with the DMCA I'm afraid to even ask for help in exercising my right to backup the music that I've paid for.
So to sum it up, if either industry wants to give me what I want then they need to figure out how to give me content that I can store on my home server so that I will NEVER lose it and so that I can EASILY play the content from multiple players through out my home.
and SCO is claiming copywrite over them, one can only assume that SCO is using Linus' code.
Could SCO, not the Linux community, be afoul of the copyright laws?
Code under the GPL is still covered by copyright law. In fact without the copyright, the owner of the code would not be able to license the code at all. If SCO is using Linus' code and not abiding by the license under which it was released then they are guilty of cival and possible criminal violations.
"Basically, your argument comes off as suggesting that anything naturally occuring is automatically better for you than that which is man made."
What man made substances are you talking about? I can't think of anything with the exception of medical drugs that I would recomend taking on a regular basis and even drugs should only be taken under the care of a doctor.
Not EVERY bit of bad news is FUD. Believe it or not, putting unnatural chemicals into our bodies everyday can lead to ill health. Why would you doubt this?
With the millions of people in the world I don't find it surprising that at least one of them (and that is all it takes) is pissed off enough over SCO's FUD to mount this kind of attack. And more than that I don't give a rip. Does that make me a bad person?
"Right when I am getting ready to start work in the entertaiment industry again (in a week) SCO has to pull this stunt. I sure hope this doesn't scare people into dropping linux on the desktop or the renderfarm, the industry has just really started embracing it."
I can't help but feel that this is the entire point. SCO is out to destroy Linux. Period. Why else would they pay people to run any other operating system except Linux.
Of course this lame tactic won't work and it makes me wonder why SCO put someone in charge that doesn't have 3 digits in his IQ.
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Frank Weyer. The reason that lawyer jokes hit too close to home...
SCO probably put out the virus itself and soon will be billing anyone running it.
IBM has a vested interest in Open Source development. It is not likely that they would take out a patent with the idea of hurting one of their benefactors. It is far more likely that in a climate where other companies seek to destroy open source (**Cough** SCO **Cough** Microsoft) they perceived a threat and are taking preemptive action.
so to be knighted now a days one only needs to build a huge monopolistic company using one's ruthless, take no quarter, screw-the-law, killer instinct.
Oh well. At least there have been a lot of people knighted when it still ment something.
Do you really believe that Microsoft would play unfair by hijacking XML. Use it's monopoly power in conjunction with a policy to embrace, extend and use patents to make it legally impossible for others to use their variation on an open standard that the entire world will be using due to Microsoft's HUGE market share?
I'm shocked that people might believe this! I know that Microsoft has in the past embraced and extended other people's works making it difficult to be inter operable due to the fact that they were not forthcoming in these extensions thus forcing others to reverse engineer their work. But that's in the past. Microsoft was found to be afoul of various laws and has an agreement to clean up their act.
And although XML's human readability would make patents one of the few viable options to prevent other's in the software community from having a level playing field I'm sure that Microsoft has learned from its past mistakes and is taking a higher road.
Excuse me. I have to go throw up now.
"Also in the news: Microsoft is donating a pile of software to the United Nations -- retail value, $1 billion . . ."
This really brings to mind a drug dealer trying to get someone hooked on smak.
"Come on kid, the first one is on me..."
the fact that by "offering a free patch" the doj will not nail Microsoft for violating the Court rulings.
How many people will know about the patch? How many people will download and install the patch even if they know about it?
Offering an optional patch that the average user will never install does not correct the problem. The DOJ should nail Microsoft.
Couldn't we just vote on the person who most pisses us off? You know who I'm talking about don't you Daryl?
that they accuse IBM of contributing code that violates some licensing agreement but they don't know what that code is??
It seems to me that this should go over about as well as a turd in the punch bowl.
The problem is of course, that by the time you do have "proof" it WILL be too late.
I know a guy that bought an old State Patrol car that was up for auction. It had all of the decals and special lights removed. Well except for the spotlight on the side. He took this car (read official looking equipment) and drove by the sight of a late night beer party that was out in the country real slow while shining the spotlight out into the trees. (read acting like the police.) And laughed at all of the minors running for it. He wasn't laughing when the real police showed up on his doorstep and arrested him for impersonating a police officer.
The RIAA has hired people to wear official looking police close, and act like police. I would bet that they have broken the law. Someone should be hauled in front of a Judge.
"-"We burned 80 billion barrels of oil this year but discovered less than 10 billion." When we run out of oil, we'll find an alternative. We, as humans, are very clever and creative. It may be a (very) troublesome and painful transition, but we'll make it."
I wasn't sure how this whole line related too the SCO fiasco but then I realized that we could squeeze a few thousand barrels of oil out of Darl's fat head and it all made sense.
I for one get very annoyed when I buy a CD and can't shift the content onto my family server. From the server I am able to pipe music to any room in the house that has a computer. (And in my home that's quite a few.)
Just recently I bought the new Listening Library's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" 23 CD set at the tune of $75.00. It play's fine in a CD player but if I try to create ogg files for my server many tracks make very annoying popping noise.
No where can I find any warnings that the CDs are copy protected.
I have tried every ripping program that I can find but have not yet been able to create good files. I paid for the CDs. I should be allowed to listen to the content in the manner that I choose!
"That means that if the Earth leaves out ONE SECOND of movement, it loses almost 20 miles."
20 miles is nothing when compaired to the distance in the Earth's orbit!
"Do two telescopes 20 miles apart have the same view of the heavens? No! They are more than a fifth of a degree off -- that's HUGE."
Your 1/5 of a degree number seems meaningless. It may be 1/5 of a degree from the Earths core to two points 20 miles apart on its surface but so what? We are trying to calculate the position the Earth is along its orbit.
To do that you need to look at the angle that two lines form. One line from the Sun to the Earth and the other from the Sun to some very distant object (some other star).
I assure you that 20 miles will not create a 1/5 degree variance. Do the math before YOU post.
I'm not saying that it can't be done. Obviously it can but I don't think that you or I are just going to whip out our slide rules and do that calculation.
But it would seem to me that any small shift of the telescope would cause a large error.
What if the telescope's foundation settles?
I'm thinking that one cannot take much for granted when measuring the position of the Earth to within one second of time.
Our continents are drifting. One would think that plate tectonics wouldn't have much of an effect, but again we are measuring the position that the earth is suppose to be in within one second of time. Wow! That can't be easy.
"At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia. But he said they don't have a good explanation for why it's suddenly on schedule."
"Orbit around the sun" doesn't sound like they are talking about rotation to me.
And how do you determine that the telescope is pointed at exactly the correct angle?
"The movie industry, he said, has to ask itself what the music industry should have asked years ago: 'Why do they want to steal from us?' The answer, he said, is simple: 'Because you won't sell them what they want.'"
An interesting statement that is true for the music industry but doesn't seem to apply to the movie industry. In the case of the music industry, they sell albums with one or two good songs and force the consumer to buy eight or more songs that they wouldn't buy if they were not bundled with the songs they do want. So rather than paying three or four bucks for two songs that they want, they pay fifteen to twenty. Is it any wonder that a lot of consumers feel ripped off?
In the case of the movie industry nothing is bundled. The consumer pays for a single movie that he wants.
I guess maybe he's talking about consumers wanting to get content on-line. For small files that don't take hours to download this is true but again not so much for movies that can take hours because of the size of the download. This is especially true if we're talking about DVD quality downloads.
As the downloads become faster and the quality higher I believe that the movie industry will be facing the same problem. I don't believe that most of the downloads are motivated by noble reasons. Most people that I know want to pay for the content once and only once and they don't want to pay much either.
I have several albums that I have paid for more than once. I don't know how many tapes have been eaten by my player before I got a CD player. Now that I do have a CD player I like to rip my music and store the content as ogg files on my family server. That way I can play my music from any computer in the house. It really pisses me off when I pay money for a CD and find it "copy protected." And with the DMCA I'm afraid to even ask for help in exercising my right to backup the music that I've paid for.
So to sum it up, if either industry wants to give me what I want then they need to figure out how to give me content that I can store on my home server so that I will NEVER lose it and so that I can EASILY play the content from multiple players through out my home.
and SCO is claiming copywrite over them, one can only assume that SCO is using Linus' code.
Could SCO, not the Linux community, be afoul of the copyright laws?
Code under the GPL is still covered by copyright law. In fact without the copyright, the owner of the code would not be able to license the code at all. If SCO is using Linus' code and not abiding by the license under which it was released then they are guilty of cival and possible criminal violations.
"Basically, your argument comes off as suggesting that anything naturally occuring is
automatically better for you than that which is man made."
What man made substances are you talking about? I can't think of anything with the exception of medical drugs that I would recomend taking on a regular basis and even drugs should only be taken under the care of a doctor.
Not EVERY bit of bad news is FUD. Believe it or not, putting unnatural chemicals into our bodies everyday can lead to ill health. Why would you doubt this?
With the millions of people in the world I don't find it surprising that at least one of them (and that is all it takes) is pissed off enough over SCO's FUD to mount this kind of attack. And more than that I don't give a rip. Does that make me a bad person?
that SCO (Microsoft's Bitch) would target yet another company that competes in an area that Microsoft has decided to control.
Expect more "licensing payments" from Microsoft to SCO soon.
"Right when I am getting ready to start work in the entertaiment industry again (in a week) SCO has to pull this stunt. I sure hope this doesn't scare people into dropping linux on the desktop or the renderfarm, the industry has just really started embracing it."
I can't help but feel that this is the entire point. SCO is out to destroy Linux. Period. Why else would they pay people to run any other operating system except Linux.
Of course this lame tactic won't work and it makes me wonder why SCO put someone in charge that doesn't have 3 digits in his IQ.
SELECT * FROM SCO WHERE clue > 0
0 RECORDS RETURNED