The entire letter was "acceptable" until his closing paragraph where he told them to stop wasting his time and their time... If you want to sound professional you do not tell someone to stop wasting your time in a letter. Find another way to put it.
I disagree. Having read SCO's vaguely worded letter I agree that it was a waste of time.
I personally feel that ignoring them is a far better approach.
NASA posted an image gallery? The battle is set now The might of a slashdotting vs the awsome power of NASA's servers who will win? compulsively refresh their page to find out.
NASA posted an image gallery? The battle is set now The might of a slashdotting vs the awsome power of NASA's servers who will win? compulsively refresh their page to find out
Putting telescopes on mountaintops solves a quarter to a third of that problem, since a good hunk of the atmosphere is below you . Adaptive Optics solves another big hunk of the problem. And until we can fabricate the space telescope in space it will be possible to build earth based telescopes much larger for much less money.
I've done shell scripts for over two decades now. Did a one liner two days ago that checks on my bus and uses Mac OS X text to speech to tell my whether the bus is on time. It's amazing sometimes what you can do piping stuff through grep, awk, sed and so on.
But these days as soon as I need a conditional or a loop I start thinking about doing the task in Perl or Python. These languages are so much easier to read and let you fork a process if you need to dip down into the shell.
Part of their study has been on how Linux has been able to maintain a high level of consistency in the kernel while groups around it maintain maximum flexibility
This is actually good programming technique. Keep your core simple and consistent so the outer layers can be flexible.
This email talks about how easy faking fingerprints is. Key paragraph:
The time it takes to make a perfect duplicate is about 15 minutes (with
special material it can be reduced to less than 10 minutes). To make a
duplicate of a lifted fingerprint took me several days in 1992 and I
had to do a lot of experiments to find the right
process/technique. Now it takes me half an hour and the material costs
are $20 (also sufficient for about 20 duplicates), the only equipment
you need is a digital camera and an UV lamp. Not only do I now make
the duplicates in a fraction of the time, but also the quality is better.
From your comments I assume that you only know about the NATO and UN operations
I shouldn't repond to an AC troll, but I will.
I know about all of those operations, and the European nations had to be dragged kicking and screaming into all of them. The US (Clinton adminstration) wanted to stop the murders in 1993, but France, Germany, etc. didn't give a fuck, and the American public wouldn't go in if NATO wouldn't go in.
It wasn't America's problem - why didn't Europe do something? And why are you an Anonymous Coward? Are you unwilling to defend Europe's actions?
Then I switched over to OSX and I've never looked back. I use OSX exclusively now and love it. I suggest you give it a try. It may be just what you're looking for..
Amen, bro.
I'm an oldtimer, *nix since 1975, Mac since 1985, OS X is the best of both worlds. And if you want to hear this from someone with *nix cred, Bill Joy says this about OS X in this interview:
Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed.
Think back to when Chiang Kai-Shek took over China: before that no one worked, everyone was poor, morale was nonexistent. Under the benevolent dictator, a term used to describe Linus Torvalds, Kai-Shek ensured that everyone worked, and everyone had a purpose.
You don't know Chinese history.
Chiang Kai-Shek did not make China a world power. His rule was so bad that Mao and his buddies started a revolt and Japan waltzed into China almost unopposed. Eventually Mao won.
Judging by the complete lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I see no reason why Europe couldn't of taken on Saddam if they wanted to.
I suppose I shouldn't repond to an Anonymous Coward troll, but I will.
The EU military powers have very little logistical support and would have a lot of trouble even getting to Iraq. They have fewer tanks than Iraq had, no precision weapons and their soldiers get little realistic training.
You must not believe your posting - otherwise why are you an AC?
Sigh. I'm a US citizen who hated the Iraq war - we did it because we could, not because it was right.
But the EU couldn't have done it even if they had to. For their own internal social/political reasons EU countries spend much less on their military budgets than the US. While I respect their reasons, this leaves them militarily impotent. The EU didn't go into the former Yugoslavia until the US went in - and this was in the EU's neighborhood.
So if the EU backs down to the US on military matters such as Galileo it is the result their own decisions. The EU can do very little with the armed forces that they have, and they are unlikely for political reasons to change any time soon.
I hope they are careful about shielding their electonics. I knew a guy who was a high level quadriplegic who steered his electic wheel chair with his chin. One day he was in a subway station and as a train came up the strong electromagnetic fields caused his chair to go geserk. He was *very* frightened. Someone grabbed his chair and turned it off.
He also brilliantly lost game 2 by not noticing he had a pinned pawn. Gary has a history of making mistakes against computer opponents. Vladimir Kramnik didn't exactly do that well either. Vishwanathan Anand does better against machines.
A three year prison sentence for sharing a prerelease movie?
For comparison, the sentencing range in my state for first degree manslaughter (when a person recklessly causes the death of another person) is 31 to 41 months for a person with no previous criminal record.
This is true. The way to understand the YMMV factor has to start by understanding how integrated circuits (chips) are made. They are produced on wafers - flat, round thin slabs of (usually) silcon - typically 200 millimeters (mm) or in some cases 300 mm in diameter. The wires and transistors are created during dozens of steps that involve exposure to light, vapor deposition, chemical etching, and other processes. Many steps involve heating and cooling the wafer.
So why is there variation among chips? Because the process cannot be controlled perfectly, though the manufacturers try really hard. For example, chips on the edge of the wafer will cool off faster than chips in the middle. There are so many variables to control that some will be off. Twenty percent variation is very common, and designers often do simulations based on that amount of variation.
People design chips to a given clock rate, then test to see what they get. A simple example is the Power PC (PPC) that IBM makes and Apple markets as the G5. Apple sells systems that run at 1.6, 1.8, amd 2.0 GHz, but all PPCs come from the same design. The chip in a 1.6 GHz G5 may run at 1.79999999 GHz if given the chance, but it also might fail at 1.61 GHz. Some chips might test out at 2.2 GHz, but probably not enough to sell.
If poster had carefully read the report it is noted in the report that the comparison is to the print collection of the Library of Congress. If you add in their audio and film collections they have at least two orders of magnitude more data. Even the LOC doesn't seem to be sure how much their entire collection is.
Not necessarily. Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are among the most densely populated cities in the world, yet also among the most prosperous.
Tokyo property values have fallen 60-80% in the last 10-12 years. Their economy has been in recession much of that time. Many Japanese people don't feel very prosperous. Tokyo's still crowded.
Even though it is little recgonized, it's influence in chip design (but not marketing) will be felt for some time to come.
I totally agree. I used to work in the chip design world and remember one day when a university prof I knew was almost giddy showing me this circuit technique that was being used in the (then) new Alphas.
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Sorry, the "1984" ad was aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Duh.
Excuse me? Did Apple ever claim that Server was for home use? Not! So why complain?
I disagree. Having read SCO's vaguely worded letter I agree that it was a waste of time.
I personally feel that ignoring them is a far better approach.
I feel that not responding is unprofessional.
NASA won.
NASA won.
Putting telescopes on mountaintops solves a quarter to a third of that problem, since a good hunk of the atmosphere is below you . Adaptive Optics solves another big hunk of the problem. And until we can fabricate the space telescope in space it will be possible to build earth based telescopes much larger for much less money.
But these days as soon as I need a conditional or a loop I start thinking about doing the task in Perl or Python. These languages are so much easier to read and let you fork a process if you need to dip down into the shell.
This is actually good programming technique. Keep your core simple and consistent so the outer layers can be flexible.
If you read his message he compiled but he didn't test them.
The time it takes to make a perfect duplicate is about 15 minutes (with special material it can be reduced to less than 10 minutes). To make a duplicate of a lifted fingerprint took me several days in 1992 and I had to do a lot of experiments to find the right process/technique. Now it takes me half an hour and the material costs are $20 (also sufficient for about 20 duplicates), the only equipment you need is a digital camera and an UV lamp. Not only do I now make the duplicates in a fraction of the time, but also the quality is better.
I shouldn't repond to an AC troll, but I will.
I know about all of those operations, and the European nations had to be dragged kicking and screaming into all of them. The US (Clinton adminstration) wanted to stop the murders in 1993, but France, Germany, etc. didn't give a fuck, and the American public wouldn't go in if NATO wouldn't go in.
It wasn't America's problem - why didn't Europe do something? And why are you an Anonymous Coward? Are you unwilling to defend Europe's actions?
Why should this cause any more dilution of branding than the crashing copies of released product has?
Amen, bro.
I'm an oldtimer, *nix since 1975, Mac since 1985, OS X is the best of both worlds. And if you want to hear this from someone with *nix cred, Bill Joy says this about OS X in this interview:
You don't know Chinese history.
Chiang Kai-Shek did not make China a world power. His rule was so bad that Mao and his buddies started a revolt and Japan waltzed into China almost unopposed. Eventually Mao won.
I suppose I shouldn't repond to an Anonymous Coward troll, but I will.
The EU military powers have very little logistical support and would have a lot of trouble even getting to Iraq. They have fewer tanks than Iraq had, no precision weapons and their soldiers get little realistic training.
You must not believe your posting - otherwise why are you an AC?
But the EU couldn't have done it even if they had to. For their own internal social/political reasons EU countries spend much less on their military budgets than the US. While I respect their reasons, this leaves them militarily impotent. The EU didn't go into the former Yugoslavia until the US went in - and this was in the EU's neighborhood.
So if the EU backs down to the US on military matters such as Galileo it is the result their own decisions. The EU can do very little with the armed forces that they have, and they are unlikely for political reasons to change any time soon.
So Sony is raising the price of PlayStation 2 in China and lowering the price of the games.
I'll restate this for the reasoning impaired: They're taking their money upfront on the console, rather than later on the games.
I hope they are careful about shielding their electonics. I knew a guy who was a high level quadriplegic who steered his electic wheel chair with his chin. One day he was in a subway station and as a train came up the strong electromagnetic fields caused his chair to go geserk. He was *very* frightened. Someone grabbed his chair and turned it off.
If it weren't for Apple, who would Microsoft steal user interface ideas from?
He also brilliantly lost game 2 by not noticing he had a pinned pawn. Gary has a history of making mistakes against computer opponents. Vladimir Kramnik didn't exactly do that well either. Vishwanathan Anand does better against machines.
For comparison, the sentencing range in my state for first degree manslaughter (when a person recklessly causes the death of another person) is 31 to 41 months for a person with no previous criminal record.
This is true. The way to understand the YMMV factor has to start by understanding how integrated circuits (chips) are made. They are produced on wafers - flat, round thin slabs of (usually) silcon - typically 200 millimeters (mm) or in some cases 300 mm in diameter. The wires and transistors are created during dozens of steps that involve exposure to light, vapor deposition, chemical etching, and other processes. Many steps involve heating and cooling the wafer.
So why is there variation among chips? Because the process cannot be controlled perfectly, though the manufacturers try really hard. For example, chips on the edge of the wafer will cool off faster than chips in the middle. There are so many variables to control that some will be off. Twenty percent variation is very common, and designers often do simulations based on that amount of variation.
People design chips to a given clock rate, then test to see what they get. A simple example is the Power PC (PPC) that IBM makes and Apple markets as the G5. Apple sells systems that run at 1.6, 1.8, amd 2.0 GHz, but all PPCs come from the same design. The chip in a 1.6 GHz G5 may run at 1.79999999 GHz if given the chance, but it also might fail at 1.61 GHz. Some chips might test out at 2.2 GHz, but probably not enough to sell.
If poster had carefully read the report it is noted in the report that the comparison is to the print collection of the Library of Congress. If you add in their audio and film collections they have at least two orders of magnitude more data. Even the LOC doesn't seem to be sure how much their entire collection is.
Tokyo property values have fallen 60-80% in the last 10-12 years. Their economy has been in recession much of that time. Many Japanese people don't feel very prosperous. Tokyo's still crowded.
I totally agree. I used to work in the chip design world and remember one day when a university prof I knew was almost giddy showing me this circuit technique that was being used in the (then) new Alphas.