Which is common practice when you have stock options in lieu of a part of your salary, you excercise the options and liquidate the stocks - if it's in your best financial interest to do so, and it is. It's not a sign of a scam, just good financial sense.
If I had SCO stock, I'd be selling it now. And if I could buy stock for pennies on the dollar, I would do so, and then sell it.
The stock scam angle, and the MSFT-puppet angle are just yammering conspiracy theories from linux zealots without the mental accumen to think outside the slashbot party line. I dont buy it.
There are a million and one other ways to boost their stock price, if all the execs were after was a quick buck. Ways that wouldnt attract the SEC. They could announce that they plan to resurrect project monteray, or some shit like that. They could announce a PC emu for the G5 mac.
This is more than a pump-and-dump scam, else they're about the most pathetically inept corporate criminals in history.
Of course, only "we're right, they're wrong" conspiracy theories are allowed here. Lets ignore the fact that there are countless politically motivated anti-corporate types in the linux "community", any one of which would not hesitate to dump corporate IP into the kernel. SCOs allegations are not as far fetched as/. would have you believe.
You can always pull new cable through the walls if you arent afraid of a little work. There are millions of tricks and tools and snakes and whatnot, electricians pull new wire all the time with minimal damage to the walls (minimal as in 5 secs with a putty knife to fix it).
Hell you should be able to tie the new cable to the old, and yank it through, removing the old as the new replaces it.
Unless you're going to be a dork and staple the Cat5 every few feet.
BTW, that 1000 foot roll wont go as far as you think it will.
The phrase "future proof" is kind of stupid. By the time your 4 cat5s per room are completely obsolete, your house will be in need of serious overhaul anyways, like new roofs, new floors, definately a paintjob.
So messing the joint up a tad with new cable wont be a big deal.
Bittorrent is overrated, the very fact that your download rate is proportional to your upload rate makes it garbage for most home broadband connections. Plus I've noticed that my upload rate is almost always higher than download.
I have 1500mbps down, but a mere 128 up at home, so its crap. Easier to find a fast mirror.
It's faster on the T1 at work, but then I spend the whole time doing about 80k down, with the upload maxed at 150k.
Programming is not as highly skilled a task as you seem to think it is. Anyone with the desire can learn to do it, and start accomplishing what they need quickly.
In the case of a scripting language, they probably want to automate sorting their mp3s for their iPod or other trivial tasks, not write a complete 3D imaging application - and even so, it's not programming skills that would help you, but your knowledge of 3D mathematics.
You are exactly the type of self-absorbed pompous asshat that makes me constantly regret ever getting into computers. You're not as important as you think, anyone could do your job.
Thats a long time to learn such a simplistic and useless language.
AppleScript is right up there with DOS batch files in terms of complexity.
Mod me down as a troll now. But wait! I love iPods! Oh the confusion! Mod an iPod lover down on Apple day? I bet this just turns your pathetic little world upside down, doesnt it you crackhead zealots?
If you need to use PC applications why did you buy a mac? Or, what can a mac do that a PC cant? All the aesthetics and battery life discussions aside, you leave me the impression that the laptop you have doesnt do something you need it to.
I'll get modded flamebait, but big deal. Its like buying a PS2 because you want to play Zelda the Wind Waker.
Two mac stories in a row, both crammed to the hilt with bullshit and lies.
I'm not surprised. The whole "friendly computing" image that apple has crafted over the years is just that, an image. Apple and Apple assosciated companies do the same stupid bullshit as anyone in the PC world.
And to those mentioning wine, remember that WINE is Not and Emulator, it runs x86 code natively on x86 machines, it wont work with a mac, unless you pump it through bochs or something of the such, by which time you're better off fetching a 386 from the trash.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd read that, unlike Earth, Mars does not spin on a fixed axis. So while we have stable seasons as we revolve around the sun on our slightly tilted axis, Mars flips and flops and tumbles all over the space.
Like the axis could be pointing right at the sun, leaving the bottom half in perpetual darkness, the next day it could be backwards. Well, not day to day, but the point is that its a koo koo nutty kind of a wibble wobbly rock.
Which means martian "seasons" are completely unpredictable, and makes the concept of setting up any sort of permanent settlement there less feasible, since you're on the equator one day and the dark pole the next.
Actually there was a big storm here last night that knocked the power out at my home from about 5PM till 2AM. So I had a great chance to crack out the telescope.
Great thing was it blew over quickly and the sky was relatively clear by 10 or so.
And all the same, mars is just a goofy red rock. It gets old fast. I want to see the CrAzY KoOkOoO NuTtY planets, like Venus or Jupiter or Saturn.
Venus seems much more like Earth, just a lot hotter. It's like Earth in a microwave. Thats some cool cosmological shit right there.
I'm not surprised considering it's the closest mars has been in 60,000 years.
Why all the mars fascination among astronomers? I find that theres much more interesting stuff in the solar system. And no, I'm not making a Uranus crack. (Uranus crack heh ok I guess I am).
But Venus, Jupiter, near earth asteroids, all this stuff seems so much more interesting than some dumb old red rock.
Venus is close, and I bet that place is super crazy insane. Would it even be feasible to send probes to Venus, or is it just too hot?
I believe that lower frequency light (reds) refract at a greater degree than high frequencies(blues), so it may be true that most combinations of gases wind up throwing the red away and keeping the blue.
The whole concept of AND/OR/NAND is a Boolean construct. The gates define the 16 functions that can be expressed by two boolean variables. Ternary or quarternary logic would more basic functions, and different ones, but it would be easy to implement boolean logic as well (like your quarternary example).
It wont happen all at once, its a different paradigm and a definate learning curve, like the difference between imperative, functional and object oriented programming. But it has definate advantages, beyond the Moores law tripe.
Well, then you're a masochist. I surely dont miss makefiles, gdb, etc.. I like clicking and dragging to build forms, etc. I love being able to step through and over code in debug and setting watchpoints.
You can still compile from a makefile on the command line with a million and one/switches, if you really want to.
IMO, Visual Studio's MSFT's best product by far. I'd love to see something equivalent come out for OSS, it'd draw in a ton of developers like me who have a desire to contribute and love to code, but just dont see why they should spend their spare time being annoyed with trivial shit.
If your choices are "use J++ for the Java courses" or double tuition for Comp Sci students, I say go with J++.
I remember my elementary school had a bank of about 15 Apple IIs, and only one Commodore 64. Why was that? Because Apple was superior? Or cheaper? No, it was neither. They were donated. The 64 was actually the librarians personal property, I was to find out later.
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Which is common practice when you have stock options in lieu of a part of your salary, you excercise the options and liquidate the stocks - if it's in your best financial interest to do so, and it is. It's not a sign of a scam, just good financial sense.
If I had SCO stock, I'd be selling it now. And if I could buy stock for pennies on the dollar, I would do so, and then sell it.
The stock scam angle, and the MSFT-puppet angle are just yammering conspiracy theories from linux zealots without the mental accumen to think outside the slashbot party line. I dont buy it.
/. would have you believe.
There are a million and one other ways to boost their stock price, if all the execs were after was a quick buck. Ways that wouldnt attract the SEC. They could announce that they plan to resurrect project monteray, or some shit like that. They could announce a PC emu for the G5 mac.
This is more than a pump-and-dump scam, else they're about the most pathetically inept corporate criminals in history.
Of course, only "we're right, they're wrong" conspiracy theories are allowed here. Lets ignore the fact that there are countless politically motivated anti-corporate types in the linux "community", any one of which would not hesitate to dump corporate IP into the kernel. SCOs allegations are not as far fetched as
And you'd be fired for pissing away company dollars, since noone likes corporate cash being spent on pseudo-political motives.
If HP comes in with the best bid, buyers go with them.
all of you
now
JESUS CHRIST
bunch of whining lunix teabaggers
You can always pull new cable through the walls if you arent afraid of a little work. There are millions of tricks and tools and snakes and whatnot, electricians pull new wire all the time with minimal damage to the walls (minimal as in 5 secs with a putty knife to fix it).
Hell you should be able to tie the new cable to the old, and yank it through, removing the old as the new replaces it.
Unless you're going to be a dork and staple the Cat5 every few feet.
BTW, that 1000 foot roll wont go as far as you think it will.
The phrase "future proof" is kind of stupid. By the time your 4 cat5s per room are completely obsolete, your house will be in need of serious overhaul anyways, like new roofs, new floors, definately a paintjob.
So messing the joint up a tad with new cable wont be a big deal.
Big deal, slashbots drag out the old "64k is all you'll ever need" quote from Bill Gates, though he never said it.
I find it funny that it's since been upgraded to "640k is all you'll ever need".
The big difference is that this misquote is modded "insightful".
Bittorrent is overrated, the very fact that your download rate is proportional to your upload rate makes it garbage for most home broadband connections. Plus I've noticed that my upload rate is almost always higher than download.
I have 1500mbps down, but a mere 128 up at home, so its crap. Easier to find a fast mirror.
It's faster on the T1 at work, but then I spend the whole time doing about 80k down, with the upload maxed at 150k.
Bill Gates took a shit!?!?!?!?!?
When, where, how! Did it have peanuts in it?
ha ha-ha
ha ha ha-ha ha
But, the question we have to ask, is a RC really newsworthy, or is the advertisement for budgetlinuxcds.com the real news here?
Programming is not as highly skilled a task as you seem to think it is. Anyone with the desire can learn to do it, and start accomplishing what they need quickly.
In the case of a scripting language, they probably want to automate sorting their mp3s for their iPod or other trivial tasks, not write a complete 3D imaging application - and even so, it's not programming skills that would help you, but your knowledge of 3D mathematics.
You are exactly the type of self-absorbed pompous asshat that makes me constantly regret ever getting into computers. You're not as important as you think, anyone could do your job.
Thats a long time to learn such a simplistic and useless language.
AppleScript is right up there with DOS batch files in terms of complexity.
Mod me down as a troll now. But wait! I love iPods! Oh the confusion! Mod an iPod lover down on Apple day? I bet this just turns your pathetic little world upside down, doesnt it you crackhead zealots?
P.S. Enough with the Mac pitches today.
Bochs register-by-register emulation is going to be faster than VirtualPCs dynarec core? And then adding WINE and X11 to the fray?
You think that's going to be faster?
Cheaper, sure. In the same way that dog turds are cheaper than chocolate bars.
They've announced G5 support will happen.
They have everything to gain. People buy another license of XP and Office for their mac, and MSFT doesnt have to waste money porting its stuff to OSX.
If you need to use PC applications why did you buy a mac? Or, what can a mac do that a PC cant? All the aesthetics and battery life discussions aside, you leave me the impression that the laptop you have doesnt do something you need it to.
I'll get modded flamebait, but big deal. Its like buying a PS2 because you want to play Zelda the Wind Waker.
Two mac stories in a row, both crammed to the hilt with bullshit and lies.
I'm not surprised. The whole "friendly computing" image that apple has crafted over the years is just that, an image. Apple and Apple assosciated companies do the same stupid bullshit as anyone in the PC world.
And to those mentioning wine, remember that WINE is Not and Emulator, it runs x86 code natively on x86 machines, it wont work with a mac, unless you pump it through bochs or something of the such, by which time you're better off fetching a 386 from the trash.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd read that, unlike Earth, Mars does not spin on a fixed axis. So while we have stable seasons as we revolve around the sun on our slightly tilted axis, Mars flips and flops and tumbles all over the space.
Like the axis could be pointing right at the sun, leaving the bottom half in perpetual darkness, the next day it could be backwards. Well, not day to day, but the point is that its a koo koo nutty kind of a wibble wobbly rock.
Which means martian "seasons" are completely unpredictable, and makes the concept of setting up any sort of permanent settlement there less feasible, since you're on the equator one day and the dark pole the next.
Anyone?
Actually there was a big storm here last night that knocked the power out at my home from about 5PM till 2AM. So I had a great chance to crack out the telescope.
Great thing was it blew over quickly and the sky was relatively clear by 10 or so.
And all the same, mars is just a goofy red rock. It gets old fast. I want to see the CrAzY KoOkOoO NuTtY planets, like Venus or Jupiter or Saturn.
Venus seems much more like Earth, just a lot hotter. It's like Earth in a microwave. Thats some cool cosmological shit right there.
I'm not surprised considering it's the closest mars has been in 60,000 years.
Why all the mars fascination among astronomers? I find that theres much more interesting stuff in the solar system. And no, I'm not making a Uranus crack. (Uranus crack heh ok I guess I am).
But Venus, Jupiter, near earth asteroids, all this stuff seems so much more interesting than some dumb old red rock.
Venus is close, and I bet that place is super crazy insane. Would it even be feasible to send probes to Venus, or is it just too hot?
I believe that lower frequency light (reds) refract at a greater degree than high frequencies(blues), so it may be true that most combinations of gases wind up throwing the red away and keeping the blue.
If you use roaming profiles (through samba) how can you have it not roam my documents, like in the case where my documents is a mapped share?
I'll forget and drop a 4 gig DVD image into my documents, then next thing ya know it takes 45 minutes to load my profile when I log on.
I know in a win2000 domain it's easy to control such things, but how could one do it with samba?
Babbage's analytical engine? (It did calculus using analog circuits and was as big as yo momma, before the days of the modern computer)
The whole concept of AND/OR/NAND is a Boolean construct. The gates define the 16 functions that can be expressed by two boolean variables. Ternary or quarternary logic would more basic functions, and different ones, but it would be easy to implement boolean logic as well (like your quarternary example).
Try reading this for a quick primer.
It wont happen all at once, its a different paradigm and a definate learning curve, like the difference between imperative, functional and object oriented programming. But it has definate advantages, beyond the Moores law tripe.
one third of the sun machines were then replaced with dells
The Sun machines all got there the same way, I can assure you.
The humanities/social studies depts probably have a few banks of macs. They didnt pay for them.
This is another case where everyone plays the exact same game, but cries foul on MSFT for winning.
Well, then you're a masochist. I surely dont miss makefiles, gdb, etc.. I like clicking and dragging to build forms, etc. I love being able to step through and over code in debug and setting watchpoints.
/switches, if you really want to.
You can still compile from a makefile on the command line with a million and one
IMO, Visual Studio's MSFT's best product by far. I'd love to see something equivalent come out for OSS, it'd draw in a ton of developers like me who have a desire to contribute and love to code, but just dont see why they should spend their spare time being annoyed with trivial shit.
If your choices are "use J++ for the Java courses" or double tuition for Comp Sci students, I say go with J++.
I remember my elementary school had a bank of about 15 Apple IIs, and only one Commodore 64. Why was that? Because Apple was superior? Or cheaper? No, it was neither. They were donated. The 64 was actually the librarians personal property, I was to find out later.