The weird thing to me is that if SCO had approached IBM quietly and said: "hey, it looks like we have some IP problems here - why don't you buy us out and resolve those problems" then there is a good chance IBM might have considered it. Shareholders happy, golden parachutes for everyone, IBM looks like a hero to the Linux world: the proverbial win-win compromise. But instead SCO took a confrontational approach knowing that IBM would counterattack. Wonder why.
In my view, the only likely answer is the Microsoft connection. From the beginning, many suspected such a thing. The 'unrelated' licensing of Unix code by MS rose an alarm on this issue, and it's worth noting that the amount of money transferred between the parties is 'undisclosed'. Could mean 'lots'.
I'm pretty confident SCO is being puppeteered by smarter (read: Redmond) guys, and that they'll be squashed like flies no matter the outcome of the whole mess.
Luckily, the defense looks strong. Just the Linus quote on the difficulty on getting any SCO code into the kernel speaks volumes...
Bhutan is a fundamentalist islamic country that doesn't even have any phones yet.
Whoa, a few facts for you: Bhutan is the only officially Tibetan buddhist country left on the planet (Tibet looses on knock-out). Mainly Kagyu lineage, Karmapa (the lineage head, equivalent to Dalai Lama) actually has Bhutanese passport.
Phones and Internet work (well, reasonably) in Bhutan, according to my friends.
Of course they're into undercutting Open Source, but they're making money off it:
Whatever they donate to qualified institutions, they can deduct in their corporate tax. Donate $1 billion 'worth' of software, and you have a handy way to reduce tax payments.
Whenever MS donates anything, they have a software component that creates a tax deduction much larger than the cash/equipment component of the 'charity'.
This means that fewer people will waste their time (and limited, that is) on the second-rate offerings from Disney. More power to the other entertainment companies.
I've been toying with this problem lately (not that my VHS collection is that great), and I found VCD to be my format of choice. It's cheap, easy to handle, easy to copy on any computer. Quality is good enough for VHS transfers. Sound quality is a bit metallic, but my DVD player doesn't do SVCD's.
To transfer, I use Terratec Cameo Convert (some $300) and Ulead DVD Movie factory ($50 online) to capture, encode and burn. For tune-up, if I want to remove silly black borders, I occasionally use TMPGEnc.
Only problem is that the Cameo Convert is quite sensitive to framedrops - when it happens, it's fairly ugly. I make sure to clean my VCR to minimize this.
They stopped running it, it was a couple weeks ago.
It was an Intel ad, in case you're interested - they're running this Centrino thing just about anywhere it's physically possible to place an ad. Copenhagen Airport had them all over the place, and an exhibit with sexy notebooks (some of which now have Kernel.org as homepage:)
I saw this first time on TheStreet.com, and immediately called over our webmaster to show him something to never, ever do on our own website.
The shock effect is so substantial I'm reminded of it everytime I visit this otherwise very classy site, and it probably reduced the number of times I visited it.
Text-based ads are it. Their seeming helpfulness makes them very workable. Readers don't need big Flash'y ads in order to come in - even the little link on our web named 'Support' works very well indeed. There are too many good points to text-only links to mention:)
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Another reason to ditch Windows (US product) and use Linux (Finnish product):)
Smile, this too will pass:)
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Racist rant:
Grow up Denmark. You are in the muslim sights. They are destroying your homeland.
This war has nothing to do with this subject, it's an altogether different story.
Actually starting this war makes it lots harder to face the atrocitices commited by Islam with any form of moral high ground. It's just Bad.
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Not being an US citizen (I'm Danish), I'm still ashamed to see my country mess into this dangerous war. Danger lies not in the war itself, but in the rage that Arabs and Muslims will feel afterwards, for many years (remember the Crusades? There's still anger from those, even).
France stood up with courage for peace, and saved face of many Europeanc countries (including Russia), made it clear that this is purely an Anglosaxian project (US, UK, Australia).
MoveOn.org has a Citizens Declaration (worldwide) for us all to sign and send to Whitehouse.c^Hgov:
Alternately, they could leave SA off alltogether, and just jam the GPS signal in the area that they are performing operations - the GPS signal is relatively weak and an ECM aircraft could easily block hundreds of miles of GPS reception while flying out of range of ground-based weaponry.
No way would they jam the signal, they want to use GPS themselves.
Recently, I've experimented with Ogg vs. MP3 for streaming voice (lectures, not music), and I find that at the low end of the bandwidth spectrum, Ogg is much better than MP3.
An MP3 file at 32 kbit/second sounds muffled - high frequencies largely removed - while an Ogg at 23 kbit/second (16 kbit nominal) has a much better tonal balance. The Ogg stream is not pristine quality, but much better than the MP3.
If you're interested in packing many hours of low bitrate material, Ogg is the way to go.
> How do they tell between a pileup and no traffic?
They have sensors in the road itself, and probably counts the number of cars on the road rather the number of cars passing.
In any case the system works really well, with the reporters being able to see even tendencies to congestion. They'll report 'Slight congestion at Vallensbæk' and similar.
Since the site is hopelessly/.'ed, figure I'd better ask here. Was looking for the client elsewhere, and came up with V 1.0.517, but it seems to be doing only RSA-576 factoring.
Which version number should I look for in order to stab a little at the XBox?
> This week, are we at war with Eurasia or Eastasia? I can't seem to remember...
OK, a brief round-up:
This week we have rest-of-arms after Euroasia won the battle regarding Turkey into EU - the European people had their way over the Bush administration.
Next months follows the mandatory war against lower Euroasia (AKA Iraq), unless those damned efficient East Asians with their nuclear power plants force the wars to be rescheduled.
After the well-planned victory strategies follows the 'No exit strategy' problem, and then the Islamists will strike back, hard.
"Don't worry, it's business as usual."
"This exactly is what makes me worry. Pass the Valium, please."
This is hopefully the most uninformed parent posting since April 1st.
The article says (I've read it, am Danish myself) that StarOffice will be made available to the Danish education system at a symbolic cost, and that many public institutions are researching alternatives to the M$ lock-in. It's nothing close to a massive Win->Linux switch - remember, StarOffice works under Windows as well.
MeThinks Hemos should apologise for such a goof. It's wildly misleading, and lots of followups takes the article at face value.
> No what this shows is that Sony is using Linux as a poster child in an anti-Microsoft marketing campaign. They could give a shit about Linux, they just want to fuel the fire.
While this might be indeed be the case, I'm sure the techies at Sony (who BTW I have much respect for) are very happy with the development.
But the real catch comes in a couple of years when they find Linux to be doing such a good job they'll never consider anything else. Even if they initially truely set out for 'Anything but Microsoft'.
> I was under the impression that Microsoft Office 11 was promoting their own??? version of XML.
They're using Standard XML, to be able to tag it Open standard and XML, then use it to wrap a propriotary body that's not only undocumented, but even patent-protected this time around. Meaning if anyone creates a compatible reader/writer they can get sued for patent violations.
A real solution would be that all public organisations (government, universities and all) decide to use only document formats that are completely documented and have no patent issues. They're public institutions after all - if no such format exists, they could create one and make it free to use for all.
This would allow MS to compete on the merits of their applications rather than on existing marketshare. They would not be locked out in any way, it's just good ol' competition.
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In my view, the only likely answer is the Microsoft connection. From the beginning, many suspected such a thing. The 'unrelated' licensing of Unix code by MS rose an alarm on this issue, and it's worth noting that the amount of money transferred between the parties is 'undisclosed'. Could mean 'lots'.
I'm pretty confident SCO is being puppeteered by smarter (read: Redmond) guys, and that they'll be squashed like flies no matter the outcome of the whole mess.
Luckily, the defense looks strong. Just the Linus quote on the difficulty on getting any SCO code into the kernel speaks volumes...
Whoa, a few facts for you: Bhutan is the only officially Tibetan buddhist country left on the planet (Tibet looses on knock-out). Mainly Kagyu lineage, Karmapa (the lineage head, equivalent to Dalai Lama) actually has Bhutanese passport.
Phones and Internet work (well, reasonably) in Bhutan, according to my friends.
Whatever they donate to qualified institutions, they can deduct in their corporate tax. Donate $1 billion 'worth' of software, and you have a handy way to reduce tax payments.
Whenever MS donates anything, they have a software component that creates a tax deduction much larger than the cash/equipment component of the 'charity'.
Those accountants know their stuff...
This means that fewer people will waste their time (and limited, that is) on the second-rate offerings from Disney. More power to the other entertainment companies.
Works for me.
Possibly the most recent release had some bugs fixed, I never meet trouble here.
To transfer, I use Terratec Cameo Convert (some $300) and Ulead DVD Movie factory ($50 online) to capture, encode and burn. For tune-up, if I want to remove silly black borders, I occasionally use TMPGEnc.
Only problem is that the Cameo Convert is quite sensitive to framedrops - when it happens, it's fairly ugly. I make sure to clean my VCR to minimize this.
With the above combo, it's an assembly line job.
It was an Intel ad, in case you're interested - they're running this Centrino thing just about anywhere it's physically possible to place an ad. Copenhagen Airport had them all over the place, and an exhibit with sexy notebooks (some of which now have Kernel.org as homepage :)
Have fun!
The shock effect is so substantial I'm reminded of it everytime I visit this otherwise very classy site, and it probably reduced the number of times I visited it.
Text-based ads are it. Their seeming helpfulness makes them very workable. Readers don't need big Flash'y ads in order to come in - even the little link on our web named 'Support' works very well indeed. There are too many good points to text-only links to mention :)
Smile, this too will pass :)
Grow up Denmark. You are in the muslim sights. They are destroying your homeland.
This war has nothing to do with this subject, it's an altogether different story.
Actually starting this war makes it lots harder to face the atrocitices commited by Islam with any form of moral high ground. It's just Bad.
France stood up with courage for peace, and saved face of many Europeanc countries (including Russia), made it clear that this is purely an Anglosaxian project (US, UK, Australia).
MoveOn.org has a Citizens Declaration (worldwide) for us all to sign and send to Whitehouse.c^Hgov:
MoveOn.org
With friends like this, who needs enemies?
No way would they jam the signal, they want to use GPS themselves.
Isn't that supposed to be terrorism ? ;)
Not when you're the Good Guys (*Chough*) :)
An MP3 file at 32 kbit/second sounds muffled - high frequencies largely removed - while an Ogg at 23 kbit/second (16 kbit nominal) has a much better tonal balance. The Ogg stream is not pristine quality, but much better than the MP3.
If you're interested in packing many hours of low bitrate material, Ogg is the way to go.
Didn't Oracle dump Windows as a strategic platform back in '95? Linux is a completely natural development path for Oracle.
If only they could do the same thing (effectively) for e-mail...
They have sensors in the road itself, and probably counts the number of cars on the road rather the number of cars passing.
In any case the system works really well, with the reporters being able to see even tendencies to congestion. They'll report 'Slight congestion at Vallensbæk' and similar.
It's a guide for OSS people to be able to ask the right questions at the right time at the conference.
Then see MS people squirm...
The reporters can sit in their studios and follow the congestions real-time and will report it with regular intervals on the news. Works fine.
Aren't similar systems in use in lotsof other places?
Which version number should I look for in order to stab a little at the XBox?
OK, a brief round-up:
This week we have rest-of-arms after Euroasia won the battle regarding Turkey into EU - the European people had their way over the Bush administration.
Next months follows the mandatory war against lower Euroasia (AKA Iraq), unless those damned efficient East Asians with their nuclear power plants force the wars to be rescheduled.
After the well-planned victory strategies follows the 'No exit strategy' problem, and then the Islamists will strike back, hard.
"Don't worry, it's business as usual."
"This exactly is what makes me worry. Pass the Valium, please."
The article says (I've read it, am Danish myself) that StarOffice will be made available to the Danish education system at a symbolic cost, and that many public institutions are researching alternatives to the M$ lock-in. It's nothing close to a massive Win->Linux switch - remember, StarOffice works under Windows as well.
MeThinks Hemos should apologise for such a goof. It's wildly misleading, and lots of followups takes the article at face value.
If anyone makes a compatible word processor, they'll be sued. M$ in a nutshell...
While this might be indeed be the case, I'm sure the techies at Sony (who BTW I have much respect for) are very happy with the development.
But the real catch comes in a couple of years when they find Linux to be doing such a good job they'll never consider anything else. Even if they initially truely set out for 'Anything but Microsoft'.
You know why Linux is better than drugs?
With drugs, only the first round is free.
They're using Standard XML, to be able to tag it Open standard and XML, then use it to wrap a propriotary body that's not only undocumented, but even patent-protected this time around. Meaning if anyone creates a compatible reader/writer they can get sued for patent violations.
A real solution would be that all public organisations (government, universities and all) decide to use only document formats that are completely documented and have no patent issues. They're public institutions after all - if no such format exists, they could create one and make it free to use for all.
This would allow MS to compete on the merits of their applications rather than on existing marketshare. They would not be locked out in any way, it's just good ol' competition.
But of course they prefer to win in advance :)