15% of $89 Billion is a huge software business. You can't say they aren't in the software business, and back it up with those figures. Presumably Oracle and SAP aren't in the software business either?
Not to mention, no dork I've ever met didn't like IBM.
I disagree. Way back in the early 80's when I was graduating from college, IBM was thought of by the "smart" tech crowd in VERY much the same way as Microsoft is thought of today. If there were a slashdot crowd in 1981, they would have bashed IBM left and right for monopolistic behaviors.
The geeks were enthusiastic about Dec, HP, and later Sun.
I remember my college interview with IBM. Our college had a bidding system to land the coveted job interviews with the campus recruiters. MANY Seniors bid ALL their points for the year to get an interview with IBM. (I wouldn't necessarily call these people the "smart" crowd.)
I scooped up an interview slot for no bid-points when there was an interview candidate who didn't show. Even though I had deep-seated negative feelings toward Big Blue, I knew it could be a great job out of school. Toward the beginning of the interview, I asked the guy about the position he was interviewing for. "Oh, there's no position available. We just do these interviews for the P.R." I ended the interview, politely telling him what I thought of that! No sense in wasting my time. The 25 students that wasted all their interview bid points were furious when I walked out and told them!
Of course, I got a "ding letter" a couple weeks later.
OK, here's my attempt at a Pro-SCO comment. I'll post it non-anonymously (so you know it's not a troll), even though I'll probably get modded down to negative infinity.
The responsibility of SCO's management is to maximize long-term share value for their shareholders.
I'm sure they got approached years ago (when times were not going all that well) to pursue this legal angle, and with it came a huge investment (well documented elsewhere) to fight the legal battle.
No matter whether you think the lawsuit is ethical or unethical, they received the cash, and it's up to them to carry out the dirty work and live up to their end of the bargain. This strategy had a hugely positive impact on thir stock price initially, but it was a move in desperation. They didn't know at the time of the suit whether it would prove to have merit or not, but their objective was (as documented elsewhere) to apparently protect WINDOWS sales by casting doubt over Linux. It was a hedge against their main business - accept money from the Windows guys, in exchange for casting FUD on Linux, with a small probablility of a huge payoff if the legal action wins.
If I were a shareholder, I would be glad that they took some action, as they would have likely been out of business by now (or certainly worthless from a stock perspective), had they stayed the course that they were on.
I've heard it stated that the porn industry drives a lot of technology and facilitates standards - GIFs and 900 numbers back in the 90's, Internet, file sharing, broadband (no pun intended), etc.
The first thing I thought of when reading the article (I know.. I'm not supposed to read it before commenting...) was to imagine the chat-room housewife who doesn't realize that her camera is capturing her GPS coordinates as she does a strip show for the boys in a chatroom. Next thing you know, 100 local geeks converge on her house - "Is that your GPS in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Or the pervert who captures kiddie porn has inadvertantly given his location when he posts it on the web.
It's a cool idea, and obviously could be spoofed to avoid such problems. I just don't look forward to the pop-ups on my camera telling me "Warning, your camera may be broadcasting your GPS coordinates".
Imagine 3% of U.S. farmlands with windmills on them. All of the sudden, the wind is slowed down because it has to turn numerous giant windmills. This could cause global weather changes that we cannot even predict. All of the sudden, the East Coast of the US has no wind, and smog and heat becomes unbearable.
Of course, I am making this up, but I contend that there are sides of this issue that will appear later that we cannot imagine. Yes, worthy of further exploration, but possibly a panacea...
> sarcastic comment about Bruce getting +funny.
um, it wasn't sarcastic, and Bruce didn't get +funny, when I wrote it. He was modded +1 Informative. I never saw a "first post" moronic post marked informative before! I was impressed.
I don't understand what your problem is. Yes, first of all, being Bruce is big. And you are not him.
No problem here... where's the problem?
Sorry. I don't buy that "being Bruce is big", and therefore every word he says is "interesting". I personally don't feel that every comment spoken by "important" people are, by default, interesting (or funny!) Frankly, if the leader of the Free World was on Slashdot crying "first post!??" I wouldn't want to read it. Others may mark it up, to show how immature even a huge leader can be. And I figure that's why Bruce got modded up. (It's "interesting" to see someone like Bruce Perens act like a moron! And the bigger they are, the more interesting it is.)
I certainly don't think Bruce is big. Quite frankly I have no opinion on the man - he's done nothing noteworthy from my perspective. So it shouldn't be surprising that I would be impressed that he's modded up for imaturity.
I am quite happy being me; no need being jealous of not being Bruce Perrins - he means zero to me.
Second, it is modded funny...
no, it was modded "informative". We've been over this!
Now, a side-effect of it being funny is that Bruce's karma improved, and that makes you jealous?
No, once again, it was "informative".
...and that makes you jealous?
I believe the term I used was "impressed". If being impressed equates to jealousy, that's news to me.
finally, note that +1 funny doesn't actually improve your karma (see slashdot faq's for more).
Ref: also read slashdot faqs, and how they ask you to not fret too much about the "karma"..
I told you, it wasn't modded as "funny". Get your undies out of a bunch. Maybe if YOU realized how slashdot worked, you wouldn't get all worked up over me being impressed. Articles get posted. Losers write "First Post". Moderators mod them down so other readers don't need to look at "First Post" messages. Sometimes items get modded up as Interesting. Maybe by the time you look at it, it's ben changed to "Funny". Ever think that maybe YOU don't have this figured out? Because if you did, you wouldn't have gone wacko in your post!
What exactly is the definition of a moon? Is it a size thing or is the fact that it has it's own gravitational field?
Who the heck modded this as "+1 Interesting"? Wasn't "+1 Let's laugh at this guy's ignorance" available?
Seriously though, I saw a projectmentioned on Slashdot, where a guy demonstrates how any object has a gravitational pull.
I ^H^H My son did this experiment for his science fair, and it was way cool. Basically you attempt to neutralize the effects of the Earth's pull, and you can watch small objects move toward each other! We watched two 8 pound weights move at each other, and when I moved one, the other one chases it around.
I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself. And we (er, my son) got an "A".
The Constitution specifically spells out what powers the government has, and requirement of an ID (or passing such a law) is not one of them.
You have it backwards. You shouldn't be looking for the clause that provides your right to travel anonymously. You should be looking for the clause that permits Congress to pass a law that restricts your right to travel anonymously.
Congress also cannot pass a law that allows police to install cameras in my toilet, but the reason isn't because it's specifically mentioned in the Constitution "People have the right to shit privately" - it's the fact that specific responsibillities have been ALLOWED to Congress and the government. All others are prohibited.
Please read The Constitution, and also Federalist Papers which provide a lot of background information about the thinking of the framers of the Constitution.
One wonders why someone that can't afford food would have spent money on a computer on which to play these games.
Our society provides food stamps to help the hunger issue in the United States. Providing food stamps (for food) to the poor seems to be a reasonable way of helping - tax payers and administrators feel good (and approve) systems that buy food, but usually not ones that buy booze, PC's, or provide funds to the poor for discretionary spending. If the food stamps provide some relief, or eliminate food bills, then the poor have more money for computers, a nice Christmas, beer, and other items that generally contribute to better quality of life.
If you believe in helping the poor, and provide the help through food and food stamps, don't complain that they use the little bit of money that they DO have for items that you don't endorse - whether that is bus fare to the public library to access a computer, or a 6-pack of beer.
It seems to me the proper way to battle this patent nonsense is for a large entity favorable to OSS to step forward and begin funding 3000 patents a year.
Then when Microsoft (or SCO, or someone else) cries about OSS, there's another organization on the other side of the courtroom holding some cards.
How about it, EFF! Start a patent and licensing division! QUICK! (EFF, or one of the Open Source Groups... someone do it, pleeeeeeease!)
Slashdot Mirror
Keep your friends close.
Keep your enemies in a little jar on your desk.
Did you mean ".jar"?
Astronomical boost.. yeah, that's the ticket... that should get us into space!
I don't follow this logic. IBM's Revenue is $89 Billion. 15% is still huge!
IBM Software: $13.4 Billion (based on your guess)
Oracle's entire company: $10 Billion
SAP's entire company: $8.8 Billion
Microsoft: $36.8 Billion
15% of $89 Billion is a huge software business. You can't say they aren't in the software business, and back it up with those figures. Presumably Oracle and SAP aren't in the software business either?
I disagree. Way back in the early 80's when I was graduating from college, IBM was thought of by the "smart" tech crowd in VERY much the same way as Microsoft is thought of today. If there were a slashdot crowd in 1981, they would have bashed IBM left and right for monopolistic behaviors.
The geeks were enthusiastic about Dec, HP, and later Sun.
I remember my college interview with IBM. Our college had a bidding system to land the coveted job interviews with the campus recruiters. MANY Seniors bid ALL their points for the year to get an interview with IBM. (I wouldn't necessarily call these people the "smart" crowd.)
I scooped up an interview slot for no bid-points when there was an interview candidate who didn't show. Even though I had deep-seated negative feelings toward Big Blue, I knew it could be a great job out of school. Toward the beginning of the interview, I asked the guy about the position he was interviewing for. "Oh, there's no position available. We just do these interviews for the P.R." I ended the interview, politely telling him what I thought of that! No sense in wasting my time. The 25 students that wasted all their interview bid points were furious when I walked out and told them!
Of course, I got a "ding letter" a couple weeks later.
The responsibility of SCO's management is to maximize long-term share value for their shareholders.
I'm sure they got approached years ago (when times were not going all that well) to pursue this legal angle, and with it came a huge investment (well documented elsewhere) to fight the legal battle.
No matter whether you think the lawsuit is ethical or unethical, they received the cash, and it's up to them to carry out the dirty work and live up to their end of the bargain. This strategy had a hugely positive impact on thir stock price initially, but it was a move in desperation. They didn't know at the time of the suit whether it would prove to have merit or not, but their objective was (as documented elsewhere) to apparently protect WINDOWS sales by casting doubt over Linux. It was a hedge against their main business - accept money from the Windows guys, in exchange for casting FUD on Linux, with a small probablility of a huge payoff if the legal action wins.
If I were a shareholder, I would be glad that they took some action, as they would have likely been out of business by now (or certainly worthless from a stock perspective), had they stayed the course that they were on.
The first thing I thought of when reading the article (I know.. I'm not supposed to read it before commenting...) was to imagine the chat-room housewife who doesn't realize that her camera is capturing her GPS coordinates as she does a strip show for the boys in a chatroom. Next thing you know, 100 local geeks converge on her house - "Is that your GPS in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Or the pervert who captures kiddie porn has inadvertantly given his location when he posts it on the web.
It's a cool idea, and obviously could be spoofed to avoid such problems. I just don't look forward to the pop-ups on my camera telling me "Warning, your camera may be broadcasting your GPS coordinates".
I never did.
Webster says you're right. 80,200 Google-found pages say it the way I said it (vs. 677,000 a way you said it.)
Learn something new every day. Thanks.
Imagine 3% of U.S. farmlands with windmills on them. All of the sudden, the wind is slowed down because it has to turn numerous giant windmills. This could cause global weather changes that we cannot even predict. All of the sudden, the East Coast of the US has no wind, and smog and heat becomes unbearable.
Of course, I am making this up, but I contend that there are sides of this issue that will appear later that we cannot imagine. Yes, worthy of further exploration, but possibly a panacea...
Since no one else is stupid enough to use that pad, it's a one time pad.
Another milestone in encryption technology - One time Pad CRACKED!
Emergency patch: Now they use the Pad "000000000...."
> sarcastic comment about Bruce getting +funny.
um, it wasn't sarcastic, and Bruce didn't get +funny, when I wrote it. He was modded +1 Informative. I never saw a "first post" moronic post marked informative before! I was impressed.
I don't understand what your problem is. Yes, first of all, being Bruce is big. And you are not him.
No problem here... where's the problem?
Sorry. I don't buy that "being Bruce is big", and therefore every word he says is "interesting". I personally don't feel that every comment spoken by "important" people are, by default, interesting (or funny!) Frankly, if the leader of the Free World was on Slashdot crying "first post!??" I wouldn't want to read it. Others may mark it up, to show how immature even a huge leader can be. And I figure that's why Bruce got modded up. (It's "interesting" to see someone like Bruce Perens act like a moron! And the bigger they are, the more interesting it is.)
I certainly don't think Bruce is big. Quite frankly I have no opinion on the man - he's done nothing noteworthy from my perspective. So it shouldn't be surprising that I would be impressed that he's modded up for imaturity.
I am quite happy being me; no need being jealous of not being Bruce Perrins - he means zero to me.
Second, it is modded funny...
no, it was modded "informative". We've been over this!
Now, a side-effect of it being funny is that Bruce's karma improved, and that makes you jealous?
No, once again, it was "informative".
I believe the term I used was "impressed". If being impressed equates to jealousy, that's news to me.
finally, note that +1 funny doesn't actually improve your karma (see slashdot faq's for more).
Ref: also read slashdot faqs, and how they ask you to not fret too much about the "karma"..
I told you, it wasn't modded as "funny". Get your undies out of a bunch. Maybe if YOU realized how slashdot worked, you wouldn't get all worked up over me being impressed. Articles get posted. Losers write "First Post". Moderators mod them down so other readers don't need to look at "First Post" messages. Sometimes items get modded up as Interesting. Maybe by the time you look at it, it's ben changed to "Funny". Ever think that maybe YOU don't have this figured out? Because if you did, you wouldn't have gone wacko in your post!
I am impressed.
not Bruce
Does the fact that we hadn't seen them before make them new? I'm going to visit that new continent called Europe next year...
Who the heck modded this as "+1 Interesting"? Wasn't "+1 Let's laugh at this guy's ignorance" available?
Seriously though, I saw a project mentioned on Slashdot, where a guy demonstrates how any object has a gravitational pull.
I ^H^H My son did this experiment for his science fair, and it was way cool. Basically you attempt to neutralize the effects of the Earth's pull, and you can watch small objects move toward each other! We watched two 8 pound weights move at each other, and when I moved one, the other one chases it around.
I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself. And we (er, my son) got an "A".
I remember typing it in a hurry, and I just didn't think it through. You see, at the time, I had to take a P.
P=NP
P/P=NP/P
1=N
Therefore, P=NP for all problems where N=1.
See, that clearly wasn't a NP problem!
I really like the back!
Notify them via a phone call, using the Relay phone system for the deaf.
Not exactly a good use of the service that we all pay for, but it's fairly anonymous, and you can be non-threatening.
Maybe these tribesmen are the ones that we see with "First Post" listed halfway down the page.
You have it backwards. You shouldn't be looking for the clause that provides your right to travel anonymously. You should be looking for the clause that permits Congress to pass a law that restricts your right to travel anonymously.
Congress also cannot pass a law that allows police to install cameras in my toilet, but the reason isn't because it's specifically mentioned in the Constitution "People have the right to shit privately" - it's the fact that specific responsibillities have been ALLOWED to Congress and the government. All others are prohibited.
Please read The Constitution, and also Federalist Papers which provide a lot of background information about the thinking of the framers of the Constitution.
Our society provides food stamps to help the hunger issue in the United States. Providing food stamps (for food) to the poor seems to be a reasonable way of helping - tax payers and administrators feel good (and approve) systems that buy food, but usually not ones that buy booze, PC's, or provide funds to the poor for discretionary spending. If the food stamps provide some relief, or eliminate food bills, then the poor have more money for computers, a nice Christmas, beer, and other items that generally contribute to better quality of life.
If you believe in helping the poor, and provide the help through food and food stamps, don't complain that they use the little bit of money that they DO have for items that you don't endorse - whether that is bus fare to the public library to access a computer, or a 6-pack of beer.
Want to see a legal version of windows? I can make a copy of mine, so you can see what it looks like.
Then when Microsoft (or SCO, or someone else) cries about OSS, there's another organization on the other side of the courtroom holding some cards.
How about it, EFF! Start a patent and licensing division! QUICK! (EFF, or one of the Open Source Groups... someone do it, pleeeeeeease!)
Next they'll try to return from Saturn with car parts.
Maybe they meant to mention this link to another product called Win-spy?