Once this ends, are there any hopes for SCO to redeem themselves? I mean, there's potential for them to actually contribute. Granted, there's now this factor of trust, and whether the Linux dev community will consider them indian givers.
It's not the time factor in and of itself, it's more that there's not really much worth watching on TV simply due to the fact that what is there is crap - or at least, there's not enough good stuff on HBO to warrant paying a cable bill once per month. If I'm going to watch something, I can probably get the rerun through my local video store or Netflix or something.
Well, on your first point, I'd say write somebody in, but what if you write in "Thomas Anderson"? I grew up with one, and considering how many Andersons there are in the white pages....
Yes, played exactly like the Seven Steps to Kevin Bacon game.
In theory, all celebrities are connected - however remotely - to Kevin Bacon. You can do this with any celebrity, it's just that the KB game is the more well known.
By extension, we will all ultimately be connected with a terrorist. Which will mean that we all get fired. Which will mean that we have to find osmeboyd. Which will mean that the CEOs and presidents who all fired us for being connected to terrorism need to hire us back because they, too, are connected to terrorism - and probably even closer than the mailroom guy.
So, yeah, this will fly over not unlike a lead baloon filled with iron filings over a downward-pulling magnetic field.
When you consider the widespread chaos that will ensue with suddenly erasing everyones' drives at Novell and reinstalling Linux on all the workstations, suddenly the fact that they are probably still running proprietary software in the wake of their corporate decision to move to FOSS seems like a really clever idea, doesn't it? I mean, yeah, for your own workstation, no problem - but in a corporate environment a sudden jump is just a spectacularly brain-dead idea.
Why is he a CEO? Well, because frankly, cenonce, anybody can start a company and be a CEO. He's his own boss, and it doesn't take a special qualification of character, or any particular set of skills, or knowledge of "managerization" dialect to do that. I start a business, and vavoom, I'm CEO.
Like I mentioned in the prior discussion on this, just because you have a.mail TLD won't stop spammers. TLDs are in DNS, and in the final analysis, it's all arbitrary, as you can use ANY word as a top level domain. That's why you have alternate roots like OpenNIC.
This page is my start page, and is pretty much generated by one of seven shell scripts depending on what day it is at 05:00 EST. Simple HTML to load a series of links and that's it, so I can go read my comics in peace.
Being that TLDs can be named pretty arbitrarily due to the flexibility of DNS, I fail to see how a.mail domain would filter spam. It's as if the article misses the point entirely. Think of it, I can have a TLD of "hoardsofdeadpankamikazebonsaikittenseatingspam", and if a spammer wants to spam it, he'll spam it.
In short, the only thing a TLD has to do with DNS is in a MX record - and even that's arbitrary.
Having had a UUCP connection until shortly before that date, I haven't seen it, but how could they patent emailing a database lookup URL? I mean, give me a break.
One solution to the problem is that one could just simply install Linux boxen on all the idiots. Sure, they'll miss their MS Outbreak, but the compatibility issues alone will cause these viruses and back doors to simply not run.
At least, that is, until they rebuild them for Linux.
A portable DVD player with non volatile storage capabilities and (maybe) plans for a camera.
George Carlin once said that if you nail any two items together that have never been nailed together before (say, a 2x4 and a toilet seat), somebody will actually buy it.
When I was in high school, the graphic arts teacher----
...what? The industrial arts at my high school were also half of a semester of math.
Anyway, what he would do is get various slides with various simple multiplication problems of the form xx * x, and show them for all of 1.5 seconds each before skipping the next one. (The x * x form was something learned early on.) The object was to be able to know the answer to said problem immediately on sight. EG, you see 12 * 5, and 60 theoretically registers immediately.
The fact remains that it has to be marketable with a gimmick. Windows does everything Linux can do (though Linux does it better), and you can play games on it reasonably well without it blowing up. So there's really no need for a gamer to go to Linux, since he can do everything else on his Windows box.
So what needs to be done if you want to win the gamer crowd over is to indicate Linux does something that Windows simply cannot do. I know, there's the infinite flexibility and infinite stability factors, but last I checked, a gamer isn't *really* concerned with that - the gaming box is a gaming box (oppose workstation and server), so you don't need to be up all the time, barring the occasional system explosion that they seem to not mind putting up with. (Note, this is perspective.)
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Once this ends, are there any hopes for SCO to redeem themselves? I mean, there's potential for them to actually contribute. Granted, there's now this factor of trust, and whether the Linux dev community will consider them indian givers.
Glad to see that these guys are still going to be around for some time. Now if they can just deal with that infernal copyright problem....
It's not the time factor in and of itself, it's more that there's not really much worth watching on TV simply due to the fact that what is there is crap - or at least, there's not enough good stuff on HBO to warrant paying a cable bill once per month. If I'm going to watch something, I can probably get the rerun through my local video store or Netflix or something.
Professor: About... 300 years.
Kid: ...so we have a little time.
I just dared them to sue me. I wonder if that was wise....
Well, on your first point, I'd say write somebody in, but what if you write in "Thomas Anderson"? I grew up with one, and considering how many Andersons there are in the white pages....
Frank can't benefit from it, but he left a legacy. It's up to his estate - Gail, specifically - to deal with that legacy in how she sees fit.
May she not abuse it.
In theory, all celebrities are connected - however remotely - to Kevin Bacon. You can do this with any celebrity, it's just that the KB game is the more well known.
By extension, we will all ultimately be connected with a terrorist. Which will mean that we all get fired. Which will mean that we have to find osmeboyd. Which will mean that the CEOs and presidents who all fired us for being connected to terrorism need to hire us back because they, too, are connected to terrorism - and probably even closer than the mailroom guy.
So, yeah, this will fly over not unlike a lead baloon filled with iron filings over a downward-pulling magnetic field.
That's why.
When you consider the widespread chaos that will ensue with suddenly erasing everyones' drives at Novell and reinstalling Linux on all the workstations, suddenly the fact that they are probably still running proprietary software in the wake of their corporate decision to move to FOSS seems like a really clever idea, doesn't it? I mean, yeah, for your own workstation, no problem - but in a corporate environment a sudden jump is just a spectacularly brain-dead idea.
Why is he a CEO? Well, because frankly, cenonce, anybody can start a company and be a CEO. He's his own boss, and it doesn't take a special qualification of character, or any particular set of skills, or knowledge of "managerization" dialect to do that. I start a business, and vavoom, I'm CEO.
But if the business he's losing is amongst the normal attrition rate he can predict, is he really losing business?
Is that really a downside?
Like I mentioned in the prior discussion on this, just because you have a .mail TLD won't stop spammers. TLDs are in DNS, and in the final analysis, it's all arbitrary, as you can use ANY word as a top level domain. That's why you have alternate roots like OpenNIC.
This page is my start page, and is pretty much generated by one of seven shell scripts depending on what day it is at 05:00 EST. Simple HTML to load a series of links and that's it, so I can go read my comics in peace.
In short, the only thing a TLD has to do with DNS is in a MX record - and even that's arbitrary.
It won't cost $1trillion. It'll cost $999,999,999,999.
Yes, but this is the Federal Government here we're talking about. All they have to do is come at them with the big guns.
Seriously. They stop because of a lack of innovation, and what is left after said innovation stops is what diehards will continue. OS/2, anybody?
Then again, somebody did try and trademark Linux.
At least, that is, until they rebuild them for Linux.
George Carlin once said that if you nail any two items together that have never been nailed together before (say, a 2x4 and a toilet seat), somebody will actually buy it.
Anyway, what he would do is get various slides with various simple multiplication problems of the form xx * x, and show them for all of 1.5 seconds each before skipping the next one. (The x * x form was something learned early on.) The object was to be able to know the answer to said problem immediately on sight. EG, you see 12 * 5, and 60 theoretically registers immediately.
Expand from there. Who knows, it might work.
So what needs to be done if you want to win the gamer crowd over is to indicate Linux does something that Windows simply cannot do. I know, there's the infinite flexibility and infinite stability factors, but last I checked, a gamer isn't *really* concerned with that - the gaming box is a gaming box (oppose workstation and server), so you don't need to be up all the time, barring the occasional system explosion that they seem to not mind putting up with. (Note, this is perspective.)
Musubi. Breakfast of champions. =^_^=