Haven't heard about any yet, definitely not before xmas. My guess would be xmas time next year, that'd fit in with how they've released things so far (more or less).
And I can hardly wait for a LOTR marathon, all three movies in succession! Seriously though, I've been looking forward to seeing the extra scenes, plus, you get Minas Thirit with the special extended DVD package!
Wouldn't that depend on the contract? If these companies acknowledge that it really is SCO's code, SCO might have a strong case. Then again, they might be able to sue SCO for misleading them and getting their money back in that way. IANAL, so I don't know what rights these companies have, but unless they can prove that SCO deliberately mislead them into the deal it's not sure they'll get their money back.
Purchasing a spot on the moon is a scam. It cannot be purchased because nobody has the right to sell it because nobody owns it. IIRC, this has been agreed upon by all countries in the UN (feel free to correct me on this).
As for SCO, they still claim that they own the rights to the code and that it shouldn't be open source, it was "stolen". That's why they claim license money and unfortunately some companies buy into it.
Nothing will stop them. If US companies want to listen to the US Open Source Consortium as you name it, then they will. If European companies want to listen more to another OSC, then they are free to to do so. Is this necessarily a bad thing? As long as there is some kind of control and legitimacy over these consortiums, this can be good. Establishing 15 different consortiums within one country just because some developers disagree would probably be overkill though.
It is a very simple solution costing only about $1,000, but it performs the same functions as the super-expensive robots issued by the military. Perhaps not that innovative, but sure as hell cheaper.
Nobody's sure what will happen next. There's a small chance the impactor will blow the 2-½-mile-long comet to smithereens, or simply bore through it like a bullet through a snowball. More likely, scientists say, it will blast open a crater the size of a football stadium. It all depends on what Tempel 1 is made of, and how sturdily it is composed.
Which is exactly what scientists hope to learn.
In essence it appears they don't know jack shit what it really contains.
I know, but I was talking only about spyware cookies. You're not safer on any other OS than Windows. The cookies don't care what privileges you have, it just registers your traffic. Deleting every cookie still requires you to log in to a forum (such as Slashdot) every time. Thus I enable cookies for Slashdot. If a site requires me to use cookies, I will look at what cookies it actually tries to set and perhaps allow it for this session. It comes down to a matter of preference how you like to handle cookies though.
A lot of the spyware you get is just cookies from servedby.com or something that registers what sites you visit etc. You're not safer from them on Linux than you are on Windows.As long as you accept cookies, they'll be there.
I just use Firefox's cookie handling. I disable cookies and choose to allow only certain sites to set cookies (such as gmail, online banking etc).
Since it'll probably end up being default start-up page in IE, lots.
Re:the whole thing makes me wonder market shares
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For most other ID software games (afair) they've just released a Linux executable. You still use the same CD that came with the Windows package. So I guess the market is easy to reach once the game is developed.
It is a problem for the retailers that go out of business. Everyone wants most things for free, that doesn't necessarily mean they should get everything for free. To me, CD's are overprized as hell, but I still buy them for bands I like. Unfortuately, most people I know who use P2P don't.
Then again, when RIAA backed "musicians" like Britney Spears can buy a diamon rings worth $10 000 000 while other great bands and musicians can hardly afford releasing their albums, the RIAA won't get any sympathy from me.
Well, here in Norway we've gotten milk with coffee taste (that's right, TASTE). It's horrible, and I really hope they stop mixing so many drinks.
Alchohol in coffee is a rather good mix imo.
They are far from bankrupt, and probably won't be for a while either. They've already played down their accusations, perhaps trying to have people forget them. Perhaps people will go about their business as they did before this thing started, personally, I hope IBM takes action and drags their sorry faces into the mud.
but for Free software projects. A free software project is one that you are effectively free to run, copy and modify, not just one that shows the sources.
No, free software means free as in beer. You can download and use the program but you cannot see the source or modify the source or redistribute it. For example, Ad-aware is free for personal use, but you cannot modify or distribute the source code.
1. MS did offer IE for free AND bundled with the OS, so it's by far a more aggressive way. 2. Open standards and Open source software are two different things. Proprietary software may still support open standards like HTML and XML, I fail to see your point. 3. Sun also supports the Netbeans project, which is OSS. Their Sun Studio is a more advanced version, but they do offer an open source solution to it as well
The same CPU also gives AV software the same increase in speed etc. So it's just business as usual for AV, the war between the virus makes and the Anti-virus makes continues no matter what architecture the underlying structure has.
It's pretty fucked up yes, but I do understand one reason for it. If you sit there during the exam and you bump into a part of the code that won't compile properly, you do risk sitting there trying to debug that code for a long time when in fact the amount points deducted from your overall score is smaller than the points you loose by spending too much time on it.
I never said I couldn't do anything useful in two hours, my point was that having a 2 hours PAPER exam in programming is pretty useless, which you yourself stated. So it's not a separate problem, it was my point. If we would be able to use a computer on the exams it would be rather different, but it's not like I have a choice to do programming exams in a computer lab, I HAVE to do them on paper if my college says so..
I don't agree with 20% being max, cheaters will find their way, even on exams. I just feel I get more out of assignments than exams, but that is perhaps just me.
A very good post, I agree totally. The grandparents idea appears to be just as much work as doing a proper paper in the first place. What I fail to understand is why do they create such elaborate plans to avoid doing the work, when it's quite clear they a) do not learn anything on the subject and b) is almost just as much work. Cheating doesn't pay off in the long run, if you don't know what you're talking about, the chances are an employer will find out pretty fast.
I agree to a certain extend, BUT.. For classes such as programming classes, I feel I can't show just how good of a programmer I am by writing something on paper in 2 hours. A 2 hour written exam is just memorizing a shitload of stuff, but do you really LEARN what you're memorizing? I know people who's read a book the night before an exam and done pretty well, but they haven't learned jack shit..
I prefer to have assignments during the year to see for myself what I know and what I need to lear as well as proving that my programming is up to par. I've never cheated, not on an assignment and not on an exam, cheaters will get exposed sooner or later.
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Haven't heard about any yet, definitely not before xmas. My guess would be xmas time next year, that'd fit in with how they've released things so far (more or less).
And I can hardly wait for a LOTR marathon, all three movies in succession!
Seriously though, I've been looking forward to seeing the extra scenes, plus, you get Minas Thirit with the special extended DVD package!
Wouldn't that depend on the contract? If these companies acknowledge that it really is SCO's code, SCO might have a strong case. Then again, they might be able to sue SCO for misleading them and getting their money back in that way. IANAL, so I don't know what rights these companies have, but unless they can prove that SCO deliberately mislead them into the deal it's not sure they'll get their money back.
Purchasing a spot on the moon is a scam. It cannot be purchased because nobody has the right to sell it because nobody owns it. IIRC, this has been agreed upon by all countries in the UN (feel free to correct me on this).
As for SCO, they still claim that they own the rights to the code and that it shouldn't be open source, it was "stolen". That's why they claim license money and unfortunately some companies buy into it.
Nothing will stop them. If US companies want to listen to the US Open Source Consortium as you name it, then they will. If European companies want to listen more to another OSC, then they are free to to do so. Is this necessarily a bad thing? As long as there is some kind of control and legitimacy over these consortiums, this can be good. Establishing 15 different consortiums within one country just because some developers disagree would probably be overkill though.
It is a very simple solution costing only about $1,000, but it performs the same functions as the super-expensive robots issued by the military.
Perhaps not that innovative, but sure as hell cheaper.
Nobody's sure what will happen next. There's a small chance the impactor will blow the 2-½-mile-long comet to smithereens, or simply bore through it like a bullet through a snowball. More likely, scientists say, it will blast open a crater the size of a football stadium. It all depends on what Tempel 1 is made of, and how sturdily it is composed. Which is exactly what scientists hope to learn.
In essence it appears they don't know jack shit what it really contains.
I know, but I was talking only about spyware cookies. You're not safer on any other OS than Windows. The cookies don't care what privileges you have, it just registers your traffic. Deleting every cookie still requires you to log in to a forum (such as Slashdot) every time. Thus I enable cookies for Slashdot. If a site requires me to use cookies, I will look at what cookies it actually tries to set and perhaps allow it for this session. It comes down to a matter of preference how you like to handle cookies though.
A lot of the spyware you get is just cookies from servedby.com or something that registers what sites you visit etc. You're not safer from them on Linux than you are on Windows.As long as you accept cookies, they'll be there.
I just use Firefox's cookie handling. I disable cookies and choose to allow only certain sites to set cookies (such as gmail, online banking etc).
Since it'll probably end up being default start-up page in IE, lots.
For most other ID software games (afair) they've just released a Linux executable. You still use the same CD that came with the Windows package. So I guess the market is easy to reach once the game is developed.
It is a problem for the retailers that go out of business. Everyone wants most things for free, that doesn't necessarily mean they should get everything for free. To me, CD's are overprized as hell, but I still buy them for bands I like. Unfortuately, most people I know who use P2P don't.
Then again, when RIAA backed "musicians" like Britney Spears can buy a diamon rings worth $10 000 000 while other great bands and musicians can hardly afford releasing their albums, the RIAA won't get any sympathy from me.
Well, here in Norway we've gotten milk with coffee taste (that's right, TASTE). It's horrible, and I really hope they stop mixing so many drinks. Alchohol in coffee is a rather good mix imo.
They are far from bankrupt, and probably won't be for a while either. They've already played down their accusations, perhaps trying to have people forget them. Perhaps people will go about their business as they did before this thing started, personally, I hope IBM takes action and drags their sorry faces into the mud.
but for Free software projects. A free software project is one that you are effectively free to run, copy and modify, not just one that shows the sources.
No, free software means free as in beer. You can download and use the program but you cannot see the source or modify the source or redistribute it. For example, Ad-aware is free for personal use, but you cannot modify or distribute the source code.
1. MS did offer IE for free AND bundled with the OS, so it's by far a more aggressive way.
2. Open standards and Open source software are two different things. Proprietary software may still support open standards like HTML and XML, I fail to see your point.
3. Sun also supports the Netbeans project, which is OSS. Their Sun Studio is a more advanced version, but they do offer an open source solution to it as well
They did win an open source award for it. I agree it's arguable, but it is recognized as oss.
Yes, they even won an award for that one.
The same CPU also gives AV software the same increase in speed etc. So it's just business as usual for AV, the war between the virus makes and the Anti-virus makes continues no matter what architecture the underlying structure has.
It's pretty fucked up yes, but I do understand one reason for it. If you sit there during the exam and you bump into a part of the code that won't compile properly, you do risk sitting there trying to debug that code for a long time when in fact the amount points deducted from your overall score is smaller than the points you loose by spending too much time on it.
It is in general pretty lame though....
I never said I couldn't do anything useful in two hours, my point was that having a 2 hours PAPER exam in programming is pretty useless, which you yourself stated. So it's not a separate problem, it was my point. If we would be able to use a computer on the exams it would be rather different, but it's not like I have a choice to do programming exams in a computer lab, I HAVE to do them on paper if my college says so..
I don't agree with 20% being max, cheaters will find their way, even on exams. I just feel I get more out of assignments than exams, but that is perhaps just me.
and when he gives you a two day deadline for a 14 day assignment... aimbot would be in order!
A very good post, I agree totally. The grandparents idea appears to be just as much work as doing a proper paper in the first place. What I fail to understand is why do they create such elaborate plans to avoid doing the work, when it's quite clear they a) do not learn anything on the subject and b) is almost just as much work.
Cheating doesn't pay off in the long run, if you don't know what you're talking about, the chances are an employer will find out pretty fast.
I agree to a certain extend, BUT.. For classes such as programming classes, I feel I can't show just how good of a programmer I am by writing something on paper in 2 hours. A 2 hour written exam is just memorizing a shitload of stuff, but do you really LEARN what you're memorizing? I know people who's read a book the night before an exam and done pretty well, but they haven't learned jack shit..
I prefer to have assignments during the year to see for myself what I know and what I need to lear as well as proving that my programming is up to par. I've never cheated, not on an assignment and not on an exam, cheaters will get exposed sooner or later.
It certainly is a patent issue
The term prior art is mainly used in the patent field.