Yes, HP's Unix may be closed, but seeing as how HP is developing this, they just might be able to get a hold of the source for their own operating system.
No one forces you to agree to a plea bargin. If you're innocent, go to trial and defend yourself. If you're guilty, it provides an oppertunity to save everyone some trouble, and show that you may be willing to reform yourself.
Fission plant: Waste can be nearly completely contained, and has no detremental effect. Accident could have major global effects.
I have a couple of bones to pick on that statement. Nuclear waste definitely has detrimiental affects. However, it can be contained. When accidents happen, even if the worst happens, it may affect things across the globe, but only temporarly and relatively midly, much unlike global warming, which whether or not you agree with it, is definitely global and permant.
If we lose our magnetic field, and start having much more solar wind hit the earth, the concern isn't so much for cancer as it is for our electronics. Solar storms will have a much bigger effect on our electrical system (electronics and primarly power distribution). The solar wind, during slight solar storms, could knock out our power, etc if we don't do something to shield it.
The URL in his sig is not a scam. I've seen it before, and was *very* skeptical. I did some research, and it's not a scam. In order to get your free ipod, you need to get a certain number of people to sign up for similar offers (they cost ~$20 each iirc). It's not a scam.
Um, but they've released it under the GPL, which iirc, says you won't sue people for any of your patents that you put into the GPL'd code. So patents are *not* a risk with mysql.
There are many things in *nix world that are insecure, sometimes by design. If you used your base install of RH6, you probably had telnet, rsh, and god-knows-what-else running (chances are you had your own irc server running too). Shut those down, and you would have eliminated the script kiddies attacking your box. You'd have a long way to go to stop a truly determined and skilled hacker, but those are not nearly as common as script kiddies.
You can easily make *nix secure, but you do have to take *some* steps to secure it.
WineX is a branch of a much older, BSD-licensed Wine. Wine was waiting for the changes from TransMetra to come back, and moved to a LGPL license when they realized the BSD license wasn't really what they wanted when the changes never came back.
You didn't write the java as cleanly as you could have; using a while loop for iterators is cleaner. And what difference does it make? You can do in one line what I can do in three, but who cares? It's not like you're going to run out of memory for your code, and since they do the same thing, one won't run faster than the other. The java should be more like:
Iterator i = collection.iterator(); while(i.hasNext()){
do_something( (SomeTime)i.next() ); }
It doesn't really make a difference, except to language zealots who think that being able to do everything in one line is a good thing.
My guess it the precipitous drop starts at about the time the judge walked out of the room.
You think it started when the judge walked out of the room? I'd say that some quick-thinkers decided to sell when the judge walked INTO the room, seeing as how SCO would actually have to prove a point.
The problem is, whose life? Many copyrights aren't held by people, they're held by corporations. Finding a legal definition as to 'who dies' might be difficult. And a corporation may never die, so what do you do then?
You can go to Cuba all you want. You just can't spend money there due to economic sanctions, unless you get a permit to exclude yourself from the sanctions.
If you don't like or accept the GPL, you can still use the software. However, you just can't modify or redistribute it.
To reiterate, you cannot use computer software without some license.
Think of it more as like a book. If you buy a book, you haven't signed any license, but you can still read it. GPL'd software is like that, except you don't have to pay. With a normal book (software without the GPL), you can't redistribute it. But if the book (software) is under the GPL, then you can correct errors in the book, copy the book, and give it to other people, as long as give it to them under the GPL. If they don't accept the GPL, they can still read it, but not make changes and redistribute it.
Sidelining UNIX becuase *nix programs will run on Windows? The fact is, several (many?) server-level programs DO run on windows. Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, the list goes on; they already run on Windows. So, if people really wanted to use Windows for these programs, they could. Obviously, there must be some reason they don't. Wonder why that could be....
If we hadn't bombed Japan, we would have invaded, and they would have fought to every last man, woman, and child. More than 2 cities would have been destroyed, and the death toll would have been much heigher. Dropping the bomb was a favor for the Japanese as well as us, and I've heard this opinion it on various NPR talk shows as well.
What's the right way to measure browser usage? They said they picked X many (30,000?) sites and surveyed their browser usage. They didn't take into account the number of faked browser strings, I'll bet. And certain website will skew things drastically, such as Windows Update, well duh, it's going to be 100% IE. If you looked at sites like kernel.org, slashdot, etc, then that'd skew it in the opposite direction. I have a feeling that many of the sites they use ignore most of the geek population, which would probably add another percent or two to Mozilla.
Why do they need to cut a billion in expenses? Sure, they spend a lot of money, but they are making a profit, and I'll bet a billion out of their yearly profit is a drop in the bucket.
I know, I know, it's big business and stock price, but still, it's not like they're running out of money.
Well, the problem is, software patents can cover anything. And they are trival to come up with. Come on, 'hit this button and we automatically check you out' may be a new idea, but then again, it doens't involve much new. And patents last for ~17+ years, which is an eternity in the computer world. So you patent something, and no one else can use it until it's worthless, and a long time past then.
If the easiest or best known (or possibly the obvious) way of doing something is restricted, people and companies are motivated to come up with a new way of doing it
Well, software patents can cover the entire concept. The patents are written so broadly that they come to apply to things you'd never expect them to cover.
"could basically shut down Dell by not selling to them"
Microsoft COULD do that, but it'd be a blantant violation of their slap-on-the-wrist agreement with the DoJ. They probably couldn't get away with it, and would be forced to start selling to Dell again.
The rate of cancer that we found went up 64% between 1970 and 1997. That doens't necessarily mean there was 64% more cancer, it just means we know how to find cancer better. I'm not saying that cancer hasn't gone up any, but it's probably not that dramatic.
A school probably needs more than a T1; there may be hundreds of people trying to access the internet at the same time. If you had a 1.5mbps T1, and a hundred people using it, that's 15kbps, which is not a reasonable speed.
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Yes, HP's Unix may be closed, but seeing as how HP is developing this, they just might be able to get a hold of the source for their own operating system.
No one forces you to agree to a plea bargin. If you're innocent, go to trial and defend yourself. If you're guilty, it provides an oppertunity to save everyone some trouble, and show that you may be willing to reform yourself.
Fission plant: Waste can be nearly completely contained, and has no detremental effect. Accident could have major global effects.
I have a couple of bones to pick on that statement. Nuclear waste definitely has detrimiental affects. However, it can be contained. When accidents happen, even if the worst happens, it may affect things across the globe, but only temporarly and relatively midly, much unlike global warming, which whether or not you agree with it, is definitely global and permant.
If we lose our magnetic field, and start having much more solar wind hit the earth, the concern isn't so much for cancer as it is for our electronics. Solar storms will have a much bigger effect on our electrical system (electronics and primarly power distribution). The solar wind, during slight solar storms, could knock out our power, etc if we don't do something to shield it.
1980... I wonder if MS even existed in 1980...
The URL in his sig is not a scam. I've seen it before, and was *very* skeptical. I did some research, and it's not a scam. In order to get your free ipod, you need to get a certain number of people to sign up for similar offers (they cost ~$20 each iirc). It's not a scam.
Um, but they've released it under the GPL, which iirc, says you won't sue people for any of your patents that you put into the GPL'd code. So patents are *not* a risk with mysql.
There are many things in *nix world that are insecure, sometimes by design. If you used your base install of RH6, you probably had telnet, rsh, and god-knows-what-else running (chances are you had your own irc server running too). Shut those down, and you would have eliminated the script kiddies attacking your box. You'd have a long way to go to stop a truly determined and skilled hacker, but those are not nearly as common as script kiddies.
You can easily make *nix secure, but you do have to take *some* steps to secure it.
WineX is a branch of a much older, BSD-licensed Wine. Wine was waiting for the changes from TransMetra to come back, and moved to a LGPL license when they realized the BSD license wasn't really what they wanted when the changes never came back.
The electronic signature pads don't actually check anything; they just store it so it's easier to check if there is a question.
They're pressing the cd's, not burning them, like all commercial cd's are. It won't make a difference in the cost of the cd.
You didn't write the java as cleanly as you could have; using a while loop for iterators is cleaner. And what difference does it make? You can do in one line what I can do in three, but who cares? It's not like you're going to run out of memory for your code, and since they do the same thing, one won't run faster than the other. The java should be more like:
Iterator i = collection.iterator();
while(i.hasNext()){
do_something( (SomeTime)i.next() );
}
It doesn't really make a difference, except to language zealots who think that being able to do everything in one line is a good thing.
My guess it the precipitous drop starts at about the time the judge walked out of the room.
You think it started when the judge walked out of the room? I'd say that some quick-thinkers decided to sell when the judge walked INTO the room, seeing as how SCO would actually have to prove a point.
The problem is, whose life? Many copyrights aren't held by people, they're held by corporations. Finding a legal definition as to 'who dies' might be difficult. And a corporation may never die, so what do you do then?
You can go to Cuba all you want. You just can't spend money there due to economic sanctions, unless you get a permit to exclude yourself from the sanctions.
If you don't like or accept the GPL, you can still use the software. However, you just can't modify or redistribute it.
To reiterate, you cannot use computer software without some license.Think of it more as like a book. If you buy a book, you haven't signed any license, but you can still read it. GPL'd software is like that, except you don't have to pay. With a normal book (software without the GPL), you can't redistribute it. But if the book (software) is under the GPL, then you can correct errors in the book, copy the book, and give it to other people, as long as give it to them under the GPL. If they don't accept the GPL, they can still read it, but not make changes and redistribute it.
Sidelining UNIX becuase *nix programs will run on Windows? The fact is, several (many?) server-level programs DO run on windows. Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, the list goes on; they already run on Windows. So, if people really wanted to use Windows for these programs, they could. Obviously, there must be some reason they don't. Wonder why that could be....
If we hadn't bombed Japan, we would have invaded, and they would have fought to every last man, woman, and child. More than 2 cities would have been destroyed, and the death toll would have been much heigher. Dropping the bomb was a favor for the Japanese as well as us, and I've heard this opinion it on various NPR talk shows as well.
What's the right way to measure browser usage? They said they picked X many (30,000?) sites and surveyed their browser usage. They didn't take into account the number of faked browser strings, I'll bet. And certain website will skew things drastically, such as Windows Update, well duh, it's going to be 100% IE. If you looked at sites like kernel.org, slashdot, etc, then that'd skew it in the opposite direction. I have a feeling that many of the sites they use ignore most of the geek population, which would probably add another percent or two to Mozilla.
Why do they need to cut a billion in expenses? Sure, they spend a lot of money, but they are making a profit, and I'll bet a billion out of their yearly profit is a drop in the bucket.
I know, I know, it's big business and stock price, but still, it's not like they're running out of money.
Well, the problem is, software patents can cover anything. And they are trival to come up with. Come on, 'hit this button and we automatically check you out' may be a new idea, but then again, it doens't involve much new. And patents last for ~17+ years, which is an eternity in the computer world. So you patent something, and no one else can use it until it's worthless, and a long time past then.
If the easiest or best known (or possibly the obvious) way of doing something is restricted, people and companies are motivated to come up with a new way of doing it
Well, software patents can cover the entire concept. The patents are written so broadly that they come to apply to things you'd never expect them to cover.
"could basically shut down Dell by not selling to them"
Microsoft COULD do that, but it'd be a blantant violation of their slap-on-the-wrist agreement with the DoJ. They probably couldn't get away with it, and would be forced to start selling to Dell again.
The rate of cancer that we found went up 64% between 1970 and 1997. That doens't necessarily mean there was 64% more cancer, it just means we know how to find cancer better. I'm not saying that cancer hasn't gone up any, but it's probably not that dramatic.
Do they then warchalk their boats to remember where the hotspot was?
A school probably needs more than a T1; there may be hundreds of people trying to access the internet at the same time. If you had a 1.5mbps T1, and a hundred people using it, that's 15kbps, which is not a reasonable speed.