By the time a possible class action suit gets into the courtroom, IBM will have turned SCO into a smoking crater in Utah, and their won't be any assets left. Do you know of any class action attorneys that will work with no chance of recompense?
He declined IBMs motions for now because he's a professional and he knows how to craft an airtight decision that will be impossible to overturn on appeal. IBM will have further opportunity later, after discovery is complete.
Also, technically it is too early for summary judgment. That can't happen until after discovery is complete.
Note to Zonk: If you're going to be an editor, it would be nice if you actually read Slashdot. At least glance through the stories of the past week before you post submissions.
Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Note how GP didn't say we should defeat any Muslims who would commit terrorists acts to further such an agenda, but "that we put our boot on the throat of the Muslim world and ruthlessly slaughter every Muslim who thinks this way."
Well, guess what? When ccmay is done ruthlessly slaughtering people abroad that have thoughts that are in conflict with ccmay's beliefs, he just might get around to ruthlessly slaughtering his neighbors who thinks differently than he does.
About 6 million Jews were exterminated because of ignorant people like yourself who will believe generalizations of whole peoples.
Likewise millions have been killed, tortured, and imprisoned in the Soviet Union or Communist China under Mao for having thoughts and ideas counter to those in power.
I think it must be a comfort to Bush and his coconspirators that there will be people like ccmay to fill those jackboots and brownshirts, should he ever need to call on them.
There's still a few real Republicans around, but most have been effectively purged from the Party. It's highly ironic how we've followed the footsteps of the Russian communists when the Bolsheviks kicked out the Mensheviks.
I'm a registered republican. I voted for Reagan's second term. I voted for Bush Sr. I voted for Bob Dole, God bless his mean little heart. I would have voted for McCain, had he received the nomination.
I didn't vote for our current president in either election because he and his whole crew are complete scoundrels. The majority of my party are swept up in a dream of power, and by voting for George, they acted in neither their own self-interest nor in the interest of the nation. One former friend who I once thought intelligent believes Bush was hand picked by God. I kid you not! It's scary, as if I watched while a human being was turned into a zombie and there was nothing I could do to stop her.
When you're dealing with people that are for all intents and purposes brainwashed by propaganda you aren't dealing with an intelligent enlightened person. You're dealing with a fundy on an evangelical and messianic mission that is destroying this country.
I don't really think of what the Bushies are doing as capitalism and patriotism. It's cronyism and blind ideological/theological faith. Neither one of these "principles" should be guiding our nation.
Otherwise, I do like your formula. I don't think it's complete, but I like it.
That's pretty pathetic, not to mention cynical, that because you are a corrupt and miserable excuse for a human being that everyone else who claims to be a scientist must also be just as corrupt.
And your harkening back to the "good old days" of the 18th C. is equally pathetic.
My guess is that your career as a corporate prostitute began long before you ever got to college. My question is how do you deaden the pain you must have knowing what a waste of space you are?
Let me see if I'm following your argument. If your house is made of wood, it should float. If it floats, that means it weighs the same as a duck.
Therefore, if George Bush weighs the same as a duck, his administration isn't pressuring scientists to lie to promote the lumber businesses of that he and his friends own.
I think you've gone beyond Apple Zealot to become a MaCommunist. Look at the ideological tone of your statements!
Steve Jobs has again seen the correct path
in the long term I think it will be a boon to everyone to have a strong Apple Computer company
it makes sense that we support them by buying our portable music at iTunes rather than listening to radio. . . it benefits Apple in a way that mere words cannot
I hang my head in abject shame. I thought I was a great zealot, but you are orders of magnitude greater than I, comrade. You're obviously getting higher quality kool aid than I am. =)
Motely Fool has been pretty negative about aapl and Apple, even the pro-Apple guy there is pretty lukewarm. I don't think they've got some grudge or their whoring for page hits; they're generally pretty contrarian. Apple's performance has been beyond belief in recent years, and they think the other shoe will drop.
Yeah, a satellite radio accessory for the iPod makes absolutely no sense if you think about it for 30 seconds. It defeats the purpose of the iPod, and the iPod more or less defeats the purpose of the SR. The people that are interested in SR are just going to buy an SR.
If it was built in, it might be cool, but given the arguments above (and it's moof, not moo, btw), I can understand why Apple wasn't enthusiastic.
You know, that reminds me. I thought I saw Chuck Barris talking to Steve Jobs at MWSF. It must have been him. J.P. Morgan was on his arm, looking bored.
Heheh. There I go again. I can only plead that I did a lot of drugs in those days, so to me it might have seemed like a motorcycle.
Except that would be misleading. I never saw the episode in question, probably because I was too busy taking drugs. But other than that stupid fact making me look like almost as big a jerk as I am, I'm still correct on the definition. Jumping the Shark is the cheesy gimmick designed to draw viewers in, and marks the point of no return for a dying show.
Anyway, thanks for the correction. I'm going to go shave my legs, rub them with lemon juice, and have a good cry.
This is a semi-funny story (and by semi-funny, I mean pointless and totally boring). Matrix Revolutions had been out for about a month, and this guy in my crowd (that I never particularly cared for) burst into a conversation I was having with a couple of people.
He was all psyched because he had just seen Revolutions earlier that night, and it had been a revelation to him. Without asking if any of us had seen it, he started spoiling the movie, giving away all sorts of shit. "I was so blown away! There's this architect, hidden in the matrix, but is he the creator? And he tells Neo, ,,blahblhblah." I hadn't yet seen it of course. I wasn't impressed by Reloaded, so it wasn't something I had to see the minute it hit the theaters. I was planing on seeing it sometime in the next few weeks, though.
When Doofus noticed that I had plugged my ears with my fingers, he stopped and asked me why I was doing that. I told him that I hadn't seen it yet, and that he was ruining it for me. He said something like, "Oh, sorry," then "But you've got to see it! It's totally amazing, Neo has this fight with all the. . blah blah blah."
I fucking went off on him. I actually made him cry, I was so mean to him, and I made other people hate me because I really harshed everyone's buzz. Of course, other people were laughing, especially my two companions, so I guess it evens out.
So, I don't go to see Revolutions, since he ruined it for me, but I do my best to completely ignore all information about it, so that when I finally do see it, I'll hopefully have forgotten anything that Numbnuts told me.
When it came out on DVD I rented it and took it to a friend's house. The friend has a huge screen home theater set up. I watched it.
And it was the worst movie I had ever seen in my life. Worst. Movie. Evar. I am so glad that I didn't pay full ticket price to see that piece of shit. The only positive thing I can say about the movie is that I became grateful that Idjit had caused me to wait for the DVD.
The postscript is that I apologized to him, but he only vaguely remembered the event, so he forgave me. He had other things on his mind; his girlfriend had just dumped him. As penance I fed him beer after beer while he told me the whole sad tale. Having been through my share of breakups, I probably could have interrupted him with spoilers, but I didn't. It was excruciating, especially since I don't drink alcohol. I gave him a ride home, then went home myself, emotionally exhausted by Dickhead's story.
(Names have been changed to protect the idiotic. A few facts were fudged to aggrandize my self-image and prop up my puny ego.)
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He obviously has to have some intelligence to get hired at Google in the first place, but he also seems incredibly foolish and naive. I think Doc Ruby said recently, "Every geek knows that Intelligence and Wisdom are separate rolls."
So, he might have committed an ethical lapse. He's not good with boundaries, he has passive-aggressive tendencies* hidden under a thin social veneer. He doesn't seem to accept personal responsibility. Sounds like management material to me!
*I know that some people really cringe when they hear pop psychology phrases like "passive-aggressive". That's why I like to use such phrases. I guess that makes me passive aggressive.
And yes, you are seriously behind the the times. The oldest copy of the Jargon File I have is from the early '90s and that contains the word boxen
Well, maybe he's so behind the actually he's ahead. I don't know anyone but lamer kiddies and old farts trying desperately to be hip that really use the phrase anymore. It's almost as if it's become a marketing buzz word, and if you know anyone who uses it frequently to refer to computers is probably reaching out for acceptance or hoping that you'll think they're clever. Over reaching.
When I hear someone use the word boxen, my first thought is "wannabee".
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By the time a possible class action suit gets into the courtroom, IBM will have turned SCO into a smoking crater in Utah, and their won't be any assets left. Do you know of any class action attorneys that will work with no chance of recompense?
He declined IBMs motions for now because he's a professional and he knows how to craft an airtight decision that will be impossible to overturn on appeal. IBM will have further opportunity later, after discovery is complete.
Also, technically it is too early for summary judgment. That can't happen until after discovery is complete.
Read this analysis by Marbux over at Groklaw.
Note to Zonk: If you're going to be an editor, it would be nice if you actually read Slashdot. At least glance through the stories of the past week before you post submissions.
Also the PPC 970 (G5) is based on the POWER4 cpu.
have you ever seen a picture of the POWER5? It's slightly smaller than a Mac mini.
Dammit, you nearly made me spit!
Hey, GWB isn't a Republican. And neither are most Republicans these days, unfortunately.
How about Applelitist?
Macublican sounds funnier, though.
Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Note how GP didn't say we should defeat any Muslims who would commit terrorists acts to further such an agenda, but "that we put our boot on the throat of the Muslim world and ruthlessly slaughter every Muslim who thinks this way."
Well, guess what? When ccmay is done ruthlessly slaughtering people abroad that have thoughts that are in conflict with ccmay's beliefs, he just might get around to ruthlessly slaughtering his neighbors who thinks differently than he does.
About 6 million Jews were exterminated because of ignorant people like yourself who will believe generalizations of whole peoples.
Likewise millions have been killed, tortured, and imprisoned in the Soviet Union or Communist China under Mao for having thoughts and ideas counter to those in power.
I think it must be a comfort to Bush and his coconspirators that there will be people like ccmay to fill those jackboots and brownshirts, should he ever need to call on them.
If they were intelligent
How about, if they were honest? Maybe that's asking for too much.
There's still a few real Republicans around, but most have been effectively purged from the Party. It's highly ironic how we've followed the footsteps of the Russian communists when the Bolsheviks kicked out the Mensheviks.
Sometimes I think we're living out Radio Free Albemuth
Please don't call them Neocons. They're not conservative in any way shape or form. They're power hungry mad men, opportunists, and criminals.
How's this for your stereotype:
I'm a registered republican. I voted for Reagan's second term. I voted for Bush Sr. I voted for Bob Dole, God bless his mean little heart. I would have voted for McCain, had he received the nomination.
I didn't vote for our current president in either election because he and his whole crew are complete scoundrels. The majority of my party are swept up in a dream of power, and by voting for George, they acted in neither their own self-interest nor in the interest of the nation. One former friend who I once thought intelligent believes Bush was hand picked by God. I kid you not! It's scary, as if I watched while a human being was turned into a zombie and there was nothing I could do to stop her.
When you're dealing with people that are for all intents and purposes brainwashed by propaganda you aren't dealing with an intelligent enlightened person. You're dealing with a fundy on an evangelical and messianic mission that is destroying this country.
I don't really think of what the Bushies are doing as capitalism and patriotism. It's cronyism and blind ideological/theological faith. Neither one of these "principles" should be guiding our nation.
Otherwise, I do like your formula. I don't think it's complete, but I like it.
Don't forget, Kansas is also a major beach head of creationism. They want to stay uneducated. They embrace ignorance.
That's pretty pathetic, not to mention cynical, that because you are a corrupt and miserable excuse for a human being that everyone else who claims to be a scientist must also be just as corrupt.
And your harkening back to the "good old days" of the 18th C. is equally pathetic.
My guess is that your career as a corporate prostitute began long before you ever got to college. My question is how do you deaden the pain you must have knowing what a waste of space you are?
Let me see if I'm following your argument. If your house is made of wood, it should float. If it floats, that means it weighs the same as a duck.
Therefore, if George Bush weighs the same as a duck, his administration isn't pressuring scientists to lie to promote the lumber businesses of that he and his friends own.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Yeah, we meet everyday at 1 o'clock at my slashdot journal.
But remember, we aren't spamming for iPods, so we can still hold our heads up high.
I think you've gone beyond Apple Zealot to become a MaCommunist. Look at the ideological tone of your statements!
Steve Jobs has again seen the correct path
in the long term I think it will be a boon to everyone to have a strong Apple Computer company
it makes sense that we support them by buying our portable music at iTunes rather than listening to radio. . . it benefits Apple in a way that mere words cannot
I hang my head in abject shame. I thought I was a great zealot, but you are orders of magnitude greater than I, comrade. You're obviously getting higher quality kool aid than I am. =)
Motely Fool has been pretty negative about aapl and Apple, even the pro-Apple guy there is pretty lukewarm. I don't think they've got some grudge or their whoring for page hits; they're generally pretty contrarian. Apple's performance has been beyond belief in recent years, and they think the other shoe will drop.
What format are the songs cached in, and can the device be connected to a personal computer? I'm just curious, although I'm also doubtful.
Yeah, a satellite radio accessory for the iPod makes absolutely no sense if you think about it for 30 seconds. It defeats the purpose of the iPod, and the iPod more or less defeats the purpose of the SR. The people that are interested in SR are just going to buy an SR.
If it was built in, it might be cool, but given the arguments above (and it's moof, not moo, btw), I can understand why Apple wasn't enthusiastic.
You know, that reminds me. I thought I saw Chuck Barris talking to Steve Jobs at MWSF. It must have been him. J.P. Morgan was on his arm, looking bored.
Heheh. There I go again. I can only plead that I did a lot of drugs in those days, so to me it might have seemed like a motorcycle.
Except that would be misleading. I never saw the episode in question, probably because I was too busy taking drugs. But other than that stupid fact making me look like almost as big a jerk as I am, I'm still correct on the definition. Jumping the Shark is the cheesy gimmick designed to draw viewers in, and marks the point of no return for a dying show.
Anyway, thanks for the correction. I'm going to go shave my legs, rub them with lemon juice, and have a good cry.
This is a semi-funny story (and by semi-funny, I mean pointless and totally boring). Matrix Revolutions had been out for about a month, and this guy in my crowd (that I never particularly cared for) burst into a conversation I was having with a couple of people.
,blahblhblah." I hadn't yet seen it of course. I wasn't impressed by Reloaded, so it wasn't something I had to see the minute it hit the theaters. I was planing on seeing it sometime in the next few weeks, though.
He was all psyched because he had just seen Revolutions earlier that night, and it had been a revelation to him. Without asking if any of us had seen it, he started spoiling the movie, giving away all sorts of shit. "I was so blown away! There's this architect, hidden in the matrix, but is he the creator? And he tells Neo, ,
When Doofus noticed that I had plugged my ears with my fingers, he stopped and asked me why I was doing that. I told him that I hadn't seen it yet, and that he was ruining it for me. He said something like, "Oh, sorry," then "But you've got to see it! It's totally amazing, Neo has this fight with all the. . blah blah blah."
I fucking went off on him. I actually made him cry, I was so mean to him, and I made other people hate me because I really harshed everyone's buzz. Of course, other people were laughing, especially my two companions, so I guess it evens out.
So, I don't go to see Revolutions, since he ruined it for me, but I do my best to completely ignore all information about it, so that when I finally do see it, I'll hopefully have forgotten anything that Numbnuts told me.
When it came out on DVD I rented it and took it to a friend's house. The friend has a huge screen home theater set up. I watched it.
And it was the worst movie I had ever seen in my life. Worst. Movie. Evar. I am so glad that I didn't pay full ticket price to see that piece of shit. The only positive thing I can say about the movie is that I became grateful that Idjit had caused me to wait for the DVD.
The postscript is that I apologized to him, but he only vaguely remembered the event, so he forgave me. He had other things on his mind; his girlfriend had just dumped him. As penance I fed him beer after beer while he told me the whole sad tale. Having been through my share of breakups, I probably could have interrupted him with spoilers, but I didn't. It was excruciating, especially since I don't drink alcohol. I gave him a ride home, then went home myself, emotionally exhausted by Dickhead's story.
(Names have been changed to protect the idiotic. A few facts were fudged to aggrandize my self-image and prop up my puny ego.)
He obviously has to have some intelligence to get hired at Google in the first place, but he also seems incredibly foolish and naive. I think Doc Ruby said recently, "Every geek knows that Intelligence and Wisdom are separate rolls."
So, he might have committed an ethical lapse. He's not good with boundaries, he has passive-aggressive tendencies* hidden under a thin social veneer. He doesn't seem to accept personal responsibility. Sounds like management material to me!
*I know that some people really cringe when they hear pop psychology phrases like "passive-aggressive". That's why I like to use such phrases. I guess that makes me passive aggressive.
And yes, you are seriously behind the the times. The oldest copy of the Jargon File I have is from the early '90s and that contains the word boxen
Well, maybe he's so behind the actually he's ahead. I don't know anyone but lamer kiddies and old farts trying desperately to be hip that really use the phrase anymore. It's almost as if it's become a marketing buzz word, and if you know anyone who uses it frequently to refer to computers is probably reaching out for acceptance or hoping that you'll think they're clever. Over reaching.
When I hear someone use the word boxen, my first thought is "wannabee".
Hey, at least it wasn't about under-aged robots. Hand me the fork when you're done with it.
Heh heh. Actually, I like Lt. Boomer a bit more if you want the truth. I'm not into blondes.
I bet that if RealDoll came out with a "6" model they'd have a best seller, though.