what if someone in the bush family, say, barbara (the younger), came out of the closet, denounced 41 and 43, and announced candidacy for the green party nomination? would you vote for her then because of her ideas, or would you still hate her because of her family?
I might not vote for her because of her ideas, but I'd be tempted to just because she's way hotter than any of the other people I have to look at while following the political news.
If it's something you spend any time doing work with, the company should fund that fairly it seems to me. The job market sucks now but asking you to pay for broadband service (or at least the portion you really do use for work) is akin to making you buy your workstation to bring in to work.
In the worst-case scenario at least you can deduct it from your taxes though. Your CEO sounds like a real turd for making a comment like that though.
without having read the article, this doesn't at all seem to be a patent on double-clicking. More like a system where double-clicking on an application icon does one thing, single clicking on it does another, and clicking and holding for awhile does something else. While I still think software patents are a dumb idea (although I don't have the balls to tell that to my boss, who has several filed and pending), this doesn't at all seem to fit the sky-is-falling title. I know I personally have never seen a system like the one described in the blurb.
I mean, after all....they have the best codec out there and would be on top of the world if Microsoft weren't holding them down. Right? Guys? Hellooooooo......
I don't think it's too hard to see the difference between bare facts and a useful collection of those facts. Saying that copyrighting a database amounts to copyrighting facts is like saying that copyrighting a book amounts to copyrighting words.
Actually I got the feeling this was a message from the client to his lawyer which was then minimally transcribed and put into the legal document. I had a lawyer for my divorce who did something almost identical - I sent him a long email detailing my arguments for one aspect of the case but couched it in language and a tone which I intended only for him (I never would have submitted that message to the court). I was quite surprised to find that most of that email made it in unchanged as the brief he filed with the court. It wasn't a huge deal and it's not like he charged me for 10 hours of work for doing it, but I had still thought he would take my point and mold it into a good legal document, but instead most of what he submitted was verbatim from my message. Go figure.
You do know that you can tell a cop you don't want him to search your person or property, right? If they had probable cause and the legal right to search you anyway, they wouldn't be asking. If they ask and you say no they can't touch you (unless they can see something on you or in your car which gives them probable cause - i.e if he'd seen that bud while standing outside the car he could search it without asking).
Also, if they try to say that your refusal to allow a search is probably cause and allows them to search without consent, it's horseshit. That question was specifically dealt with in the Supreme Court and simply denying a search is not grounds for searching you.
From the article: SCO insists Big Blue owes it billions for allegedly illegally contributing UNIX code to the Linux kernel--the core chunk of code underlying most distributions of the Linux operating system.
Boy...that's interesting. Anybody care to point me to a Linux distro whose underlying functionality comes from somewhere other than the Linux kernel?
By moving into e-mail -- the Web's most-used program -- Google would open up a huge new market...
Sigh...where to start? How do journalists charged with tech reporting at a major news publication not know the difference between a "program" and an application of a technology, not to mention the difference between the Web and the Internet?
Well, yes - I should have said what I meant more clearly. By "linux group" I intended to implicate RedHat, SuSe or whoever is developing distros intended for the general population to be able to use. You made my point better that I did but it was the same idea - beginning users with a new Windows box get one browser - IE. A fresh install of RedHat will give you various browsers...Galeon, Konqueror, Mozilla among others. A distro which intends relative newbies as its users needs to just pick one and get on with it - when users are advanced enough to recognize that they want another one they'll be able to go download it for themselves at that point.
It wouldn't necessarily be that hard - the thing that makes Windows and especially OS X "simpler" than Linux is just that Microsoft and Apple make most of the configuration choices for the user by default. If some Linux group could or would just make sensible configuration choices and hide 99% of configuration options from the casual user, people would all of a sudden think Linux was as easy to use as Windows or OS X. The underlying operating systems aren't very different in terms of complexity to begin with.
Even very effective spam filters today (SpamAssassin, et. al) still produce false positives sometimes. I don't want any and all electronic communication coming to me to be subject to some Internet Control Panel's idea of its usefulness to me - what happens when my boss sends me an email and it gets rejected by the control panel and I never see it? I do use SpamAssassin myself but still have to check the junk folders from time to time because it occasionally sticks stuff in there that I really did need or want to see.
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Read the excerpt a little more closely...
The research and development costs of a word processor are simply too high to give it away.
This is not nearly the broad indictment of OSS business models you seem to have taken from it. It's simply stating that a word processor in specific doesn't fit the mold very well. Especially given the location of publication of this article, I'd say that's somewhat less damaging statement than you'd like.
And now for one of your quotes:
[...]but he fact is that not one in a hundred thousand of them has successfully started a major corporation that develops and sells open source software.
Pick any type of business. Look at how many of those businesses are started annually and how many of them turn into "major corporations". Basing a business on OSS doesn't change the fact that it's hard to start a successful, much less "major", company doing anything. Nobody has presented any evidence that it's any harder to start a successful or even major corporation based on an OSS product or service than on anything else.
I'd bet a few thousand km of high-strength cable under that kind of tension snapping and falling back to earth would be a rather unpleasant experience if you happened to be anywhere near it. Of course, the proposed sites I've seen so far have been out in the middle of the ocean too, so maybe there just wouldn't need to be people around most of the time.
You know, interestingly enough a single shot from a handgun would *not* be sufficient to cause explosive depressurization and bring down a plane. Most people don't know that.
Yep...I saw that too after I looked at that list. In any case, I don't see why the original poster would be worried about passengers being able to transport firearms in checked baggage.
Why exactly do you find it frightening that unloaded firearms can be carried in baggage? You can't transport ammunition or other explosive materials...an unloaded gun is just a hunk of metal. It isn't as though you're going to be able to tunnel down into the cargo bay to retrieve it during the flight.
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what if someone in the bush family, say, barbara (the younger), came out of the closet, denounced 41 and 43, and announced candidacy for the green party nomination? would you vote for her then because of her ideas, or would you still hate her because of her family?
I might not vote for her because of her ideas, but I'd be tempted to just because she's way hotter than any of the other people I have to look at while following the political news.
See Concord, July 25, 2000.
If it's something you spend any time doing work with, the company should fund that fairly it seems to me. The job market sucks now but asking you to pay for broadband service (or at least the portion you really do use for work) is akin to making you buy your workstation to bring in to work. In the worst-case scenario at least you can deduct it from your taxes though. Your CEO sounds like a real turd for making a comment like that though.
without having read the article, this doesn't at all seem to be a patent on double-clicking. More like a system where double-clicking on an application icon does one thing, single clicking on it does another, and clicking and holding for awhile does something else. While I still think software patents are a dumb idea (although I don't have the balls to tell that to my boss, who has several filed and pending), this doesn't at all seem to fit the sky-is-falling title. I know I personally have never seen a system like the one described in the blurb.
is this at all related to fart knocking? Because I spent a good deal of my time in jr. high school learning all about that....
boy...and I was just thinking - "hey, it's been awhile since I've seen a SCO story on /. - I wonder what's up". Guess it's time to reset the counter.
(and yes, I know I could ignore the stories if I wanted).
Or more likely, your boss is about to find out you're replicating work that's been done a million times before and fire you. :D
I mean, after all....they have the best codec out there and would be on top of the world if Microsoft weren't holding them down. Right? Guys? Hellooooooo......
Well...the saying is "put up or shut up". My money's on the latter.
I don't think it's too hard to see the difference between bare facts and a useful collection of those facts. Saying that copyrighting a database amounts to copyrighting facts is like saying that copyrighting a book amounts to copyrighting words.
Actually I got the feeling this was a message from the client to his lawyer which was then minimally transcribed and put into the legal document. I had a lawyer for my divorce who did something almost identical - I sent him a long email detailing my arguments for one aspect of the case but couched it in language and a tone which I intended only for him (I never would have submitted that message to the court). I was quite surprised to find that most of that email made it in unchanged as the brief he filed with the court. It wasn't a huge deal and it's not like he charged me for 10 hours of work for doing it, but I had still thought he would take my point and mold it into a good legal document, but instead most of what he submitted was verbatim from my message. Go figure.
Your boss could find out if you go drinking on the weekend, and so on.
How ironic...this is precisely the kind of thing Henry Ford did to his workers at the beginning of the century.
SCO never sold licenses in Germany because of an injunction? Have they sold any licenses anywhere? Didn't think so....
You do know that you can tell a cop you don't want him to search your person or property, right? If they had probable cause and the legal right to search you anyway, they wouldn't be asking. If they ask and you say no they can't touch you (unless they can see something on you or in your car which gives them probable cause - i.e if he'd seen that bud while standing outside the car he could search it without asking).
Also, if they try to say that your refusal to allow a search is probably cause and allows them to search without consent, it's horseshit. That question was specifically dealt with in the Supreme Court and simply denying a search is not grounds for searching you.
...that you got fired for looking at goatse at work
From the article:
SCO insists Big Blue owes it billions for allegedly illegally contributing UNIX code to the Linux kernel--the core chunk of code underlying most distributions of the Linux operating system.
Boy...that's interesting. Anybody care to point me to a Linux distro whose underlying functionality comes from somewhere other than the Linux kernel?
According to the article:
By moving into e-mail -- the Web's most-used program -- Google would open up a huge new market...
Sigh...where to start? How do journalists charged with tech reporting at a major news publication not know the difference between a "program" and an application of a technology, not to mention the difference between the Web and the Internet?
Well, yes - I should have said what I meant more clearly. By "linux group" I intended to implicate RedHat, SuSe or whoever is developing distros intended for the general population to be able to use. You made my point better that I did but it was the same idea - beginning users with a new Windows box get one browser - IE. A fresh install of RedHat will give you various browsers...Galeon, Konqueror, Mozilla among others. A distro which intends relative newbies as its users needs to just pick one and get on with it - when users are advanced enough to recognize that they want another one they'll be able to go download it for themselves at that point.
It wouldn't necessarily be that hard - the thing that makes Windows and especially OS X "simpler" than Linux is just that Microsoft and Apple make most of the configuration choices for the user by default. If some Linux group could or would just make sensible configuration choices and hide 99% of configuration options from the casual user, people would all of a sudden think Linux was as easy to use as Windows or OS X. The underlying operating systems aren't very different in terms of complexity to begin with.
Even very effective spam filters today (SpamAssassin, et. al) still produce false positives sometimes. I don't want any and all electronic communication coming to me to be subject to some Internet Control Panel's idea of its usefulness to me - what happens when my boss sends me an email and it gets rejected by the control panel and I never see it? I do use SpamAssassin myself but still have to check the junk folders from time to time because it occasionally sticks stuff in there that I really did need or want to see.
Read the excerpt a little more closely...
The research and development costs of a word processor are simply too high to give it away.
This is not nearly the broad indictment of OSS business models you seem to have taken from it. It's simply stating that a word processor in specific doesn't fit the mold very well. Especially given the location of publication of this article, I'd say that's somewhat less damaging statement than you'd like.
And now for one of your quotes:
[...]but he fact is that not one in a hundred thousand of them has successfully started a major corporation that develops and sells open source software.
Pick any type of business. Look at how many of those businesses are started annually and how many of them turn into "major corporations". Basing a business on OSS doesn't change the fact that it's hard to start a successful, much less "major", company doing anything. Nobody has presented any evidence that it's any harder to start a successful or even major corporation based on an OSS product or service than on anything else.
I'd bet a few thousand km of high-strength cable under that kind of tension snapping and falling back to earth would be a rather unpleasant experience if you happened to be anywhere near it. Of course, the proposed sites I've seen so far have been out in the middle of the ocean too, so maybe there just wouldn't need to be people around most of the time.
You know, interestingly enough a single shot from a handgun would *not* be sufficient to cause explosive depressurization and bring down a plane. Most people don't know that.
Yep...I saw that too after I looked at that list. In any case, I don't see why the original poster would be worried about passengers being able to transport firearms in checked baggage.
Why exactly do you find it frightening that unloaded firearms can be carried in baggage? You can't transport ammunition or other explosive materials...an unloaded gun is just a hunk of metal. It isn't as though you're going to be able to tunnel down into the cargo bay to retrieve it during the flight.