And if SCO wins in court or AutoZone settles, does anyone think the press will note the distinction?
The press probably will not note the distinction. However, a court of law would. The future ruling/settlement would have nothing to do with the IBM, Novell or Red Hat cases.
I wonder how much the list would change if you put it in today's dollars instead of what it grossed at the time of it's release.
For example, how much is 260 Million (what Jaws grossed in 1975, number 25) worth in today's dollars? It would not top out the list, but I am sure it would at least move up the list.
It's getting near sixty years since Lord of the Rings was written,
I believe it was published in the mid-1930's, which would make it close to 70 yeats old. Tolkien started writing the book in the late teens if I remember correctly.
For $100, you could well afford a teddy. I'm talking teddy as in lingerie, not as in bear. It's a win-win situation: He gets to take off the lingerie and you get to keep it (for future use, of course). Better yet, you can keep it at his house.
Just 30 posts so far, hours after an article on MS is put up on Slashdot. Guess it implies that study reports (funded, sponsored, sexed-up, or otherwise) carry little weightage with IT consumers, these days.
naaaa! For once, everyone on slashdot decided to "Read The F&%$#@ Article" (RTFA) before posting.
A few years ago, the consulting company I was working for had me traveling. A big chemical company was upgrading their servers and workstations.
All went well until we arrived to one of their plants in North Carolina. The plant itself was fine. It was the Chicken processing plant next to the chemical plant that was the problem. Image the smell of chicken fat fermenting in an open vat... for a day or two.
Occasionally, we would see a semi-truck with a trailer. You know: the trailer has four sides, an open top and it typically used to haul coal or dirt. Now, instead of hauling coal or dirt, it hauls a slimy chicken goo which is in some sort of liquid form. And to top it all off, the driver likes to take corners a little too fast so that the chicken goo splashes over the edge and splatters on the ground. (We kept our windows rolled up whenever we drove in/out of this place... just to be safe).
On the plus side, it was December when I was there. The chicken goo had to ferment several days in order to get that throat-gagging smell. Imagine being there on a hot, steamy and overly sunny July or August day.
Here's a thought: How do they backup a database that is 94.3 TB? I deal with servers that have only a puny 100-150 GB. One or two LTO tapes backup these servers. What tapes to they use to backup this database?
I, too, agree that the new Battlestar was great. Since we are being nick-picky, here are my thoughts:
Boomer: Make him a woman? Fine with me. I think they did a good job with the character, except for one thing. At they end of the show, we find out that she is one of the Cylon humaniods. WTF?? I thought that was stupid. And she doesn't know that she is a cylon? Based upon one of #6's converstations with Baltar, that is what we are led to believe. I find that a little hard to believe.
Watch for D'ohl and co to explain that they had to replace their Linux server with UnixWare 'coz "Linux couldn't take the heat".
Either that or they couldn't afford to pay themselves the $699 Linux license fee. (Or is it $1,400 now?). They probably received a letter in the mail from themselves explaining that they were in violation. So, really, they didn't have a choice but to change the OS.
SCO is now waiting for the SuSE acquisition to be completed before it engages in any legal action, McBride said. "Once the deal is done, the non-compete can be invoked at that point."
IANAL, doesn't it seem rather odd that you have to wait for the "crime" to happen before doing something legal about it? In other words, everything is written down on paper (somewhere). It's going to happen. Why wait for the acquisition to happen? Couldn't they just "remind" Novell in court that they can't do this? Or at the very least bring up the non-compete question before the deal is done?
oh wait. My fault! I forgot that SCO would not be able to make any money if they did that. SCO should change their mission statement to Sue first, Ask question later!
Gates is optimistic about meeting the challenge of the new security threats, he told reporters. "We have to. We invented personal computing....
uhhh.... correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't IBM invent personal computing? MS may have enhanced it a bit or brought it to the masses (even that is debatable), but without IBM, there would not be a Microsoft.
What about grep? I know that grep is inherent to a Unix or Linux environment. But, I have seen free DOS tools on the net that offer grep. So, as an example:
If you know the name of the file you wish to look at, or at least know what it starts with, then you could:
dir | grep jenna
...and bingo, all of your Jenna lesbian porn listed for you.
Microsoft has announced GSP agreements with Russia, NATO and the United Kingdom
hmmm. Last I checked, the UK was part of NATO. Unless, of course, they are talking about two separate organizations. IE, the NATO offices and the government offices of the UK.
"Red Hat's real motive for filing suit against SCO was to somehow vindicate the entire Linux industry," according to the SCO motion.
Well DUH!! Isn't SCO attacking the entire Linux Industry?!? Someone has to stand up for the Linux community (in a court of law in this case).
I don't get it. SCO is allowed to spread FUD throughout any media organization that will listen, but the minute someone legally challenges SCO's accusations, SCO cries unfair?
Problem with Windows is not 95%, but IE and Outlook are made as centerpart of the system, thus allowed to any action no matter how stupid it is.
More to the point, Windows is targeted not because it has a 95% market share, but because it is an easy target to hit. Plain and simple.
I was at a Groupwise seminar a little while back. The presenter stated that Exchange has 75 Million users while Groupwise has around 30-35 million. So it only makes sense that Exchange has all the virus' written for that application because it is used twice as much. One problem... Lotus Notes has approximately 80 million users but virus' are rarely written for Lotus Notes (or Groupwise for that matter). So the problem is not that Exchange is not used more often than any other email system, it's just an easier target.
Why, oh why, don't they seek an injunction against SCO contacting organizations and demanding royalties while this is pending? This is a no-brainer. They have alot more than they need!
This is an easy one to answer: To allow SCO to continue to spew out the mouth and further damn themselves in a court of law. Granted, they have enough to go on now, but why squash a bug with a fly-swatter when you can use a sledge hammer?
The USA is not in a state of war; no war has been declared by Congress since WWII, so we haven't been in a state of war for nearly 60 years.
Well... yes and no. Officially, you are correct. The last *official* war in which the US was involved was WWII. Technically speaking, the US has been at war on and off since WWII (Korean WAR, Vietnam WAR, Gulf WAR I, Golf WAR II). Congress only OFFICIALLY tells us that we are at war. Then they can mandate that factory X will start making bombs (for example) instead of squirt guns (like they did in WWII).
In times of war, in times of danger, that is when we MOST need our civil liberties defended. These are the times when a free and open government is most essential to our very survival. Freedom is not a luxury that we cast aside when times get tough, it is the very thing that allows our country to live at all.
I agree with you, but we need to clearly define what these liberties are. For example, during WWII coastal cities like Miami (for example) did not like the idea of a black out. And at the beginning of the war, they did not turn off their lights. However, the city lights perfectly silhouetted the merchant ships for the U-Boats. Easy pickings. I believe that congress had to mandate that the coastal cities go to a total blackout. My point behind this? Some people may declare that being FORCED to turn off their lights was a violation of their civil liberties!
I agree, only Sun has an obligation to promote Java. However, I thought that Microsoft signed a deal with Sun a while back to include JAVA with windows.
Over the years, it went something like this:
1 - MS and Sun sign a deal to include Java in Windows.
2 - MS kinda created their own version of Java (or polluted Sun's version with MS-only type calls).
3 - Sun sued MS to pull the MS version of Java
4 -then they sued to have the original Java (or latest version of Sun's Java) to be put back into windows.
5 - Now, so it seems, MS is legally able to backout on the original deal
Is there any reason for anyone to consider using it...
Here are a few reasons:
With ZenWorks, you can lock down a users' W2K or XP workstation, deploy/install applications and printers without leaving your desk and remote control their PC if they are having a problem (technical support).
With groupwise, you have all the functionality of any other Enterprise level Email system. With the security of GroupWise, you have less worries with some of the Virus' that can plague many of the MS Email systems.
The Directory Services of Novell is far superiour of any other company's, mostly because it is more mature (going on what... 9, 10 years now?). Novell's eDirectory can handle about a billion objects in the Tree. Maybe more now, I am not sure
Of course, Novell NetWare runs pure IP or a mixed IPX/IP environment if you want. Since 5.0, NetWare has had IP natively.
To back up this new push to promote a more customer-friendly Microsoft, Ballmer promised that the company would âoeincrease our advertising budget significantly for all our audiences."
Huh?
Since when do expensive advertising campaigns make a more customer-friendly company?
In short, they don't. However, the campaigns keeps MS's face and name out there to the general public. It is a proven fact that companies that advertise during a bear market will be on top when the economy improves. (At the very least, they will be better off than before the bear market). MS just wants to make sure they are top. It's a smart move.
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And if SCO wins in court or AutoZone settles, does anyone think the press will note the distinction?
The press probably will not note the distinction. However, a court of law would. The future ruling/settlement would have nothing to do with the IBM, Novell or Red Hat cases.
I wonder how much the list would change if you put it in today's dollars instead of what it grossed at the time of it's release.
For example, how much is 260 Million (what Jaws grossed in 1975, number 25) worth in today's dollars? It would not top out the list, but I am sure it would at least move up the list.
It's getting near sixty years since Lord of the Rings was written,
I believe it was published in the mid-1930's, which would make it close to 70 yeats old. Tolkien started writing the book in the late teens if I remember correctly.
For $100, you could well afford a teddy. I'm talking teddy as in lingerie, not as in bear. It's a win-win situation: He gets to take off the lingerie and you get to keep it (for future use, of course). Better yet, you can keep it at his house.
there's an old joke about the "perfect European" being a Belgian...
Or the old heaven/hell joke:
Heaven:
Mechanics - German
Chefs - French
Lovers - Italian
Police - English
and the Swiss organize everything
Hell
Mechanics - French
Chefs - English
Lovers - Swiss
Police - German
and the Italians organize everyting
Just 30 posts so far, hours after an article on MS is put up on Slashdot. Guess it implies that study reports (funded, sponsored, sexed-up, or otherwise) carry little weightage with IT consumers, these days.
naaaa! For once, everyone on slashdot decided to "Read The F&%$#@ Article" (RTFA) before posting.
A few years ago, the consulting company I was working for had me traveling. A big chemical company was upgrading their servers and workstations.
All went well until we arrived to one of their plants in North Carolina. The plant itself was fine. It was the Chicken processing plant next to the chemical plant that was the problem. Image the smell of chicken fat fermenting in an open vat... for a day or two.
Occasionally, we would see a semi-truck with a trailer. You know: the trailer has four sides, an open top and it typically used to haul coal or dirt. Now, instead of hauling coal or dirt, it hauls a slimy chicken goo which is in some sort of liquid form. And to top it all off, the driver likes to take corners a little too fast so that the chicken goo splashes over the edge and splatters on the ground. (We kept our windows rolled up whenever we drove in/out of this place... just to be safe).
On the plus side, it was December when I was there. The chicken goo had to ferment several days in order to get that throat-gagging smell. Imagine being there on a hot, steamy and overly sunny July or August day.
Here's a thought: How do they backup a database that is 94.3 TB? I deal with servers that have only a puny 100-150 GB. One or two LTO tapes backup these servers. What tapes to they use to backup this database?
I, too, agree that the new Battlestar was great. Since we are being nick-picky, here are my thoughts:
Boomer: Make him a woman? Fine with me. I think they did a good job with the character, except for one thing. At they end of the show, we find out that she is one of the Cylon humaniods. WTF?? I thought that was stupid. And she doesn't know that she is a cylon? Based upon one of #6's converstations with Baltar, that is what we are led to believe. I find that a little hard to believe.
Watch for D'ohl and co to explain that they had to replace their Linux server with UnixWare 'coz "Linux couldn't take the heat".
Either that or they couldn't afford to pay themselves the $699 Linux license fee. (Or is it $1,400 now?). They probably received a letter in the mail from themselves explaining that they were in violation. So, really, they didn't have a choice but to change the OS.
tomhudson writes "According to zdnet, emachines, the company geeks like to make fun of, finally has a toy we'd all like to get for Emacs
/. editors have a spell check?
There was a slight typo in the article description. I corrected it.
Don't the
How about:
Thee Linux Gazette
SCO is now waiting for the SuSE acquisition to be completed before it engages in any legal action, McBride said. "Once the deal is done, the non-compete can be invoked at that point."
IANAL, doesn't it seem rather odd that you have to wait for the "crime" to happen before doing something legal about it? In other words, everything is written down on paper (somewhere). It's going to happen. Why wait for the acquisition to happen? Couldn't they just "remind" Novell in court that they can't do this? Or at the very least bring up the non-compete question before the deal is done?
oh wait. My fault! I forgot that SCO would not be able to make any money if they did that. SCO should change their mission statement to Sue first, Ask question later!
Seriously though, why wait?...
So how will they profit? Microsoft doesn't have a history of raising prices after driving off competitors
You have not seen the prices for Office lately, have you?
Gates is optimistic about meeting the challenge of the new security threats, he told reporters. "We have to. We invented personal computing....
uhhh.... correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't IBM invent personal computing? MS may have enhanced it a bit or brought it to the masses (even that is debatable), but without IBM, there would not be a Microsoft.
What about grep? I know that grep is inherent to a Unix or Linux environment. But, I have seen free DOS tools on the net that offer grep. So, as an example:
...and bingo, all of your Jenna lesbian porn listed for you.
If you know the name of the file you wish to look at, or at least know what it starts with, then you could:
dir | grep jenna
Microsoft has announced GSP agreements with Russia, NATO and the United Kingdom
hmmm. Last I checked, the UK was part of NATO. Unless, of course, they are talking about two separate organizations. IE, the NATO offices and the government offices of the UK.
From the Article:
"Red Hat's real motive for filing suit against SCO was to somehow vindicate the entire Linux industry," according to the SCO motion.
Well DUH!! Isn't SCO attacking the entire Linux Industry?!? Someone has to stand up for the Linux community (in a court of law in this case).
I don't get it. SCO is allowed to spread FUD throughout any media organization that will listen, but the minute someone legally challenges SCO's accusations, SCO cries unfair?
Someone please tell SCO to grow up... oh wait!...
Problem with Windows is not 95%, but IE and Outlook are made as centerpart of the system, thus allowed to any action no matter how stupid it is.
More to the point, Windows is targeted not because it has a 95% market share, but because it is an easy target to hit. Plain and simple.
I was at a Groupwise seminar a little while back. The presenter stated that Exchange has 75 Million users while Groupwise has around 30-35 million. So it only makes sense that Exchange has all the virus' written for that application because it is used twice as much. One problem... Lotus Notes has approximately 80 million users but virus' are rarely written for Lotus Notes (or Groupwise for that matter). So the problem is not that Exchange is not used more often than any other email system, it's just an easier target.
Damn it I am going march arround our state capital now (london) and shout "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION".
Make sure you dress up as an Indian.
Why, oh why, don't they seek an injunction against SCO contacting organizations and demanding royalties while this is pending? This is a no-brainer. They have alot more than they need!
This is an easy one to answer: To allow SCO to continue to spew out the mouth and further damn themselves in a court of law. Granted, they have enough to go on now, but why squash a bug with a fly-swatter when you can use a sledge hammer?
The USA is not in a state of war; no war has been declared by Congress since WWII, so we haven't been in a state of war for nearly 60 years.
Well... yes and no. Officially, you are correct. The last *official* war in which the US was involved was WWII. Technically speaking, the US has been at war on and off since WWII (Korean WAR, Vietnam WAR, Gulf WAR I, Golf WAR II). Congress only OFFICIALLY tells us that we are at war. Then they can mandate that factory X will start making bombs (for example) instead of squirt guns (like they did in WWII).
In times of war, in times of danger, that is when we MOST need our civil liberties defended. These are the times when a free and open government is most essential to our very survival. Freedom is not a luxury that we cast aside when times get tough, it is the very thing that allows our country to live at all.
I agree with you, but we need to clearly define what these liberties are. For example, during WWII coastal cities like Miami (for example) did not like the idea of a black out. And at the beginning of the war, they did not turn off their lights. However, the city lights perfectly silhouetted the merchant ships for the U-Boats. Easy pickings. I believe that congress had to mandate that the coastal cities go to a total blackout. My point behind this? Some people may declare that being FORCED to turn off their lights was a violation of their civil liberties!
It isn't Microsoft's job to promote Java...
:
I agree, only Sun has an obligation to promote Java. However, I thought that Microsoft signed a deal with Sun a while back to include JAVA with windows.
Over the years, it went something like this
1 - MS and Sun sign a deal to include Java in Windows.
2 - MS kinda created their own version of Java (or polluted Sun's version with MS-only type calls).
3 - Sun sued MS to pull the MS version of Java
4 -then they sued to have the original Java (or latest version of Sun's Java) to be put back into windows.
5 - Now, so it seems, MS is legally able to backout on the original deal
does that sound about right (generally speaking)?
Is there any reason for anyone to consider using it...
Here are a few reasons:
With ZenWorks, you can lock down a users' W2K or XP workstation, deploy/install applications and printers without leaving your desk and remote control their PC if they are having a problem (technical support).
With groupwise, you have all the functionality of any other Enterprise level Email system. With the security of GroupWise, you have less worries with some of the Virus' that can plague many of the MS Email systems.
The Directory Services of Novell is far superiour of any other company's, mostly because it is more mature (going on what... 9, 10 years now?). Novell's eDirectory can handle about a billion objects in the Tree. Maybe more now, I am not sure
Of course, Novell NetWare runs pure IP or a mixed IPX/IP environment if you want. Since 5.0, NetWare has had IP natively.
To back up this new push to promote a more customer-friendly Microsoft, Ballmer promised that the company would âoeincrease our advertising budget significantly for all our audiences." Huh?
Since when do expensive advertising campaigns make a more customer-friendly company?
In short, they don't. However, the campaigns keeps MS's face and name out there to the general public. It is a proven fact that companies that advertise during a bear market will be on top when the economy improves. (At the very least, they will be better off than before the bear market). MS just wants to make sure they are top. It's a smart move.