As long as Steve Case was there, AOL was never going to cozy up to MS. Now that he's gone, you'll probably see a lot more of this now that AOL has to run themselves as a profit making concern.
This time around constitutes an exception. Everybody makes stupid mistakes once in a while, and I hope Hatch manages to pull a course correction on this issue pretty soon.
No, this time does not constitute an exception. Orrin was also the sponsor of another misguided piece of legislation that maybe you've heard of, the DMCA.
Orrin is one of the WORST congressmen this country has EVER had. Bought off like every other congressman but he apparently is not only paid off but stupid about the legislation that he introduces.
Now jensend, as a constituent I suggest that you get informed on these issues that your idiot congressman makes the rest of the country suffer for.
A few years ago, when people were less tech savvy, people were predicting the same thing when MS announced that they were getting into the ISP business. "Microsoft controls the OS, they'll force people to use their service" was a common opinion.
Well MSN still isn't the biggest service out there.
Comparing an MSN search engine to Google is apples and oranges...
Google is, comparatively speaking, an open standard at this point. It gets the results that you want, doesn't junk up your results and, comparatively speaking again, is pretty much unbiased.
When MS can at least match that, and there's no way in hell they can or will, they might be serious competition.
I hope they try though, it's always nice to see them waste millions of $$$ money on futile attempts to embrace and extend the internet.
SCO also won a license from Microsoft, which agreed to pay SCO to ensure that it would not violate intellectual property rights when developing software that works with Unix. But Microsoft's move was widely seen as an attempt to lend weight to SCO's attack on Linux, which Microsoft views as a threat to its Windows franchise.
If Microsoft wants to buy influence that will actually do something to Linux they might want to consider an alliance with a company who will not be experiencing a severe ripening of karma as SCO.
SCO is gonna be one hell of a stock to short once they start that downhill slide.
Tell your favorite message board.....
What patent infringment? Since Novell NEVER transferred the patents/copyrights which patent in particular are they referring to?
SCO is so fucked now..... All of you folks might want to head over to the message board of your choice and advise people to short SCO stock since they are not long for this world. You might even be able to help their speedy demise.
Turns out this guy has a lawsuit against priceline as well.
Odds are none of these companies getting these ridiculous patents thought that someone might beat them to the punch!
If someone is gonna benefit and make mucho $$$ might as well be that little guy.
I'm suprised that the big ass companies haven't flip-flopped, "Software patents are a bad idea".
Oh yeah now they are, sure.
Made for OSS..
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One reason is that DI offices cannot easily get funding for new software packages. The funding required for the development and testing of such tools--typically, tens of thousands of dollars per year--is small in comparison to the CIA's total budget. But it is enormous in the context of the discretionary funds that an individual office has--let alone an individual analyst.
Another reason for open source. I'm the lone OSS outpost in my military operation and when the budget cuts came, the OSS got rolled out!
Previously it was tough as hell but I am bringing in more and more OSS packages all the time that give some great functionality like Post-Nuke, phpESP, etc.
Now I can damn near get away with murder because I am still bringing some great functionality in with no additional cost.
This mantra has sold Linux more than anything else: "Services, not platforms".
In my own case I do it for two reasons...
1. To show my customer that I can bring them a wealth of functionality with no additional cost (which goes a LONG way towards explaining why we keep getting awarded our military contract year after year even though our expense is a little higher than our competition)
2. To level the playing field and to empower the little guy.
Here's a great example, travel agents are being put out of business slowly but surely by airlines and GDSs (SABRE, WorldSpan, etc) by the way of no commissions, etc.
Orbitz, a collusion between carriers to control the distribution channel for tickets, does things like sends ticket holders a notification if their flight is late and so on. Travel Agents have not had that ability until now. They CAN use such CRS solutions like Virtually There and so on but SABRE strips the customer data and will market to their customers behind their backs bypassing the payment of any commisions. This lack of commission is pretty huge. Imagine if your travel agency was turning 10 million dollars worth of revenue for the airlines to get nothing in return?
I created a Perl app called TripTiger that parses CRS terminal data and stores it on the travel agent's web server and stores it in a MySQL database.
The CRS cannot harvest their customers emails, I can have a Perl script running via a cron job to check flight information and send notifications but MOST importantly travel agencies can now control their customer data.
TripTiger is FREE to all trave agencies and they don't have to host with my service at all. It's more important to keep them in business by demonstrating their value to the customer and this helps.
Open Source hasn't crashed the travel technology party and I am trying to help make that happen. Otherwise travel agencies aren't going to be in business much longer.
By the way, I have placed TripTiger on Sourceforge but am having some difficulty with file uploads if anyone can offer advice. I have the spirit just not a master at the mechanics yet.
my revenues were zero for all of last year, and the expenses were just about zero too.
Forgive me for saying so but if your expenses and revenues were zero, then how do you have a business?
I don't want to spend 100s of dollars going to a paid professional, just to have him put all zeroes in the form.
Then put zeros in yourself.
Advice? Get an actual business first, then come back and ask this question.
Now if you're wanting tips on how to scam the IRS........
because the Chinese communists don't care to have any entity in their country that can reach masses of people without their communist stamp of approval. Hell they can just chop off access to Google through the great Chinese Firewall.
This need to put the communist stamp of approval on everything exists everywhere. For instance Catholics in China cannot be loyal to the Pope, he qualifies as a foreign entity. Plus we have already seen the Chinese kidnap the Tibetan Panchen Lama with hopes of replacing him with one that will be sympathetic to the Communists.
Speaking of the Chinese and competition one must be skeptical since the government will always put those things that aren't officially sanctioned in a position of disadvantage (blocking it access for example)
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As long as Steve Case was there, AOL was never going to cozy up to MS. Now that he's gone, you'll probably see a lot more of this now that AOL has to run themselves as a profit making concern.
From the TV/Movies/Music Industry?
Naw I didn't think so. Every single time one of these stories comes up there is always a congressman taking a payoff.
This time around constitutes an exception. Everybody makes stupid mistakes once in a while, and I hope Hatch manages to pull a course correction on this issue pretty soon.
No, this time does not constitute an exception. Orrin was also the sponsor of another misguided piece of legislation that maybe you've heard of, the DMCA.
Orrin has taken over 175K so far just this year from the TV/Movies/Music lobby
Orrin is one of the WORST congressmen this country has EVER had. Bought off like every other congressman but he apparently is not only paid off but stupid about the legislation that he introduces.
Now jensend, as a constituent I suggest that you get informed on these issues that your idiot congressman makes the rest of the country suffer for.
A few years ago, when people were less tech savvy, people were predicting the same thing when MS announced that they were getting into the ISP business.
"Microsoft controls the OS, they'll force people to use their service" was a common opinion.
Well MSN still isn't the biggest service out there.
Comparing an MSN search engine to Google is apples and oranges...
Google is, comparatively speaking, an open standard at this point. It gets the results that you want, doesn't junk up your results and, comparatively speaking again, is pretty much unbiased.
When MS can at least match that, and there's no way in hell they can or will, they might be serious competition.
I hope they try though, it's always nice to see them waste millions of $$$ money on futile attempts to embrace and extend the internet.
You did not count on the Way Back machine Herr Doktor SCO?
Here's a working link..
Enjoy!
to those smart enough to short it when this whole scheme of theirs to bet the company comes crashing down.
from the TV/Movies/Music industry? I didn't think so......
First he brings us the DMCA and now this....
SCO also won a license from Microsoft, which agreed to pay SCO to ensure that it would not violate intellectual property rights when developing software that works with Unix. But Microsoft's move was widely seen as an attempt to lend weight to SCO's attack on Linux, which Microsoft views as a threat to its Windows franchise.
If Microsoft wants to buy influence that will actually do something to Linux they might want to consider an alliance with a company who will not be experiencing a severe ripening of karma as SCO.
SCO is gonna be one hell of a stock to short once they start that downhill slide. Tell your favorite message board.....
That alone is reason enough.....
Not unusual in West Virginia where the family tree is a telephone pole!
Here you go! Useful links to this story...
First the Google Cache of the Miss Vermont Story
Katy's site which ironically has a Free Speech reference.
What patent infringment? Since Novell NEVER transferred the patents/copyrights which patent in particular are they referring to?
SCO is so fucked now.....
All of you folks might want to head over to the message board of your choice and advise people to short SCO stock since they are not long for this world. You might even be able to help their speedy demise.
Turns out this guy has a lawsuit against priceline as well.
Odds are none of these companies getting these ridiculous patents thought that someone might beat them to the punch!
If someone is gonna benefit and make mucho $$$ might as well be that little guy.
I'm suprised that the big ass companies haven't flip-flopped, "Software patents are a bad idea".
Oh yeah now they are, sure.
One reason is that DI offices cannot easily get funding for new software packages. The funding required for the development and testing of such tools--typically, tens of thousands of dollars per year--is small in comparison to the CIA's total budget. But it is enormous in the context of the discretionary funds that an individual office has--let alone an individual analyst.
Another reason for open source. I'm the lone OSS outpost in my military operation and when the budget cuts came, the OSS got rolled out!
Previously it was tough as hell but I am bringing in more and more OSS packages all the time that give some great functionality like Post-Nuke, phpESP, etc.
Now I can damn near get away with murder because I am still bringing some great functionality in with no additional cost.
This mantra has sold Linux more than anything else: "Services, not platforms".
Repeat
It was primarily NASDAQ.
Now back to my java project....
:-)
Doing something with coffee too?!!!!!!!!
Dude you are the ubergeek!
The Iraqi Information Minister.
He now works for SCO.
In my own case I do it for two reasons...
1. To show my customer that I can bring them a wealth of functionality with no additional cost (which goes a LONG way towards explaining why we keep getting awarded our military contract year after year even though our expense is a little higher than our competition)
2. To level the playing field and to empower the little guy. Here's a great example, travel agents are being put out of business slowly but surely by airlines and GDSs (SABRE, WorldSpan, etc) by the way of no commissions, etc.
Orbitz, a collusion between carriers to control the distribution channel for tickets, does things like sends ticket holders a notification if their flight is late and so on. Travel Agents have not had that ability until now. They CAN use such CRS solutions like Virtually There and so on but SABRE strips the customer data and will market to their customers behind their backs bypassing the payment of any commisions. This lack of commission is pretty huge. Imagine if your travel agency was turning 10 million dollars worth of revenue for the airlines to get nothing in return?
I created a Perl app called TripTiger that parses CRS terminal data and stores it on the travel agent's web server and stores it in a MySQL database.
The CRS cannot harvest their customers emails, I can have a Perl script running via a cron job to check flight information and send notifications but MOST importantly travel agencies can now control their customer data.
TripTiger is FREE to all trave agencies and they don't have to host with my service at all. It's more important to keep them in business by demonstrating their value to the customer and this helps.
Open Source hasn't crashed the travel technology party and I am trying to help make that happen. Otherwise travel agencies aren't going to be in business much longer.
By the way, I have placed TripTiger on Sourceforge but am having some difficulty with file uploads if anyone can offer advice. I have the spirit just not a master at the mechanics yet.
I am psychic. I remember when I first found out I had these magical powers... It was next Tuesday.....
Tiny Bubbles.
Buy now with the Story of Ping
my revenues were zero for all of last year, and the expenses were just about zero too.
Forgive me for saying so but if your expenses and revenues were zero, then how do you have a business?
I don't want to spend 100s of dollars going to a paid professional, just to have him put all zeroes in the form.
Then put zeros in yourself.
Advice? Get an actual business first, then come back and ask this question.
Now if you're wanting tips on how to scam the IRS........
because the Chinese communists don't care to have any entity in their country that can reach masses of people without their communist stamp of approval. Hell they can just chop off access to Google through the great Chinese Firewall.
This need to put the communist stamp of approval on everything exists everywhere. For instance Catholics in China cannot be loyal to the Pope, he qualifies as a foreign entity. Plus we have already seen the Chinese kidnap the Tibetan Panchen Lama with hopes of replacing him with one that will be sympathetic to the Communists.
Speaking of the Chinese and competition one must be skeptical since the government will always put those things that aren't officially sanctioned in a position of disadvantage (blocking it access for example)
Google isn't competition for Microsoft. Google is a quality product that actually works. Totally different than anything Microsoft puts out.
Ann Margaret's body back in 1989.
Then there was Time darkening O.J. mugshot
Certainly nothing new.....
Jini?