And the funny thing is, the one guy is the other guy's biggest critic. And to shut him up, he started calling him a stalker. The critic got pissed because, well, he's not a stalker. So it's called libel. It's like if I were to call the newspaper and tell them you read kitty porn. It would be completely untrue (actually, that would be slander because I TOLD and didn't WRITE it) and against the law. And for people who ignorantly see this as a violation of free speech, slander and libel are certainly not protected by the constitution.
I have an idea:
Why don't we join Red Hat against SCO and file a class-action lawsuit? At the very least, we could file for some injunctions against SCO to keep them from suing linux users, and from bad-mouthing linux and the linux community.
ps when this strategy is successul, remember to give me a little credit.
I love to see that never-give-up-attitude mixed with electronics.
This is like "Rudy" for geeks.
Disclaimer:
Although this sounds like sarcasm, I really must congratulate these guys. This really is cool!
for anyone from the FSF to talk without mentioning how its really GNU/Linux and not just Linux. I know I know, they're right. They are right, its true. But to me, that's like saying "I run a AMD/ATI/Western Digital/Crucial computer system." ACCEPT IT PEOPLE!!!! GNU/Linux will be referred to as Linux. It's just a fact a life. Is it correct? no. It's just like Rollerblade and inline skates, and Kleenex and tissues. Does it suck for the FSF? Probably a little. But thtat's life.
If they want more people to write in cursive, they shouldn't make it so damn hard.
I use print letters because I have vienna sausages for fingers not because of email.
In corporate terminology, it's time for the Linux communinity to go proactive. Why doesn't Linus sue SCO for libel? Since Linus owns the copyright to Linux, and SCO is making false claims about his copyright, I'd sue the bastards. Additionally, by suing, Linus will probably get to see the code that SCO claims is stolen.
Personally, I would like to donkey-kick Ballmer squarely in the figs with a golf shoe. That aside, however, his selling of shares probably isn't some devious plot, he probably really is diversifying his portfolio, but not how you think of it. Since he's probably considering retirement soon, he's probably moving his money into fixed-income securities (bonds, etc). So maybe he's selling his shares of stock so that he can either better prepare himself for retirement, or maybe he's using the money to buy M$ debt.
A side note: Incidentally, by ratcheting up M$ debt level with bonds, M$ could actually improve their financial position by selling debt--their Return on Equity would increase, as would several other financial analysis ratios...
I have recently done the same thing. Here's what I found out when I went to see my lawyer (aka my uncle). At least where I live--WV--it doesn't matter if the place is zoned as residential as long as you don't have customers coming in and out of your house (which you probably won't unless your starting a software store) or dozens of employess. We have 2 full time. You can list your address as the address of the business and you can register with that address with the state and federal government, even if you are a corporation and not a sole proprietorship. This had worked in my situation. Just ask a local laywer you know, they probably know right off the top of their heads.
This story is from the Weekly World News. You know the reputable news magazine that sits beside the National Enquirer in supermarket isles. Don't get me wrong, I love the WWN, in fact, I have a subscription. However, I don't beleive everything I read.
PS. Their story on Pope John Paul II becoming an official member of the Harlem Globetrotters, that's actually true. I swear. Google it! You know you want to...just look it up.
As a small business owner, and son of accountants, I must agree that you need an accountant. In fact, I was discussing this the other with a few local businessmen the other day. Accounts are vital not only because they know where to put the zero's on your forms, but they also know things like the filing date (not April 15) for businesses. They also know how to approach write-offs and tax credits so that you can not only avoid paying excess taxes now, but in the future (you knew you could write off past tax losses right?). And if you find a good one, they won't charge you too much, especially if your form is as easy as you claim. Some tips (at least from my experience): 1.) don't get an accountant that has television or radio ads, they charge too much. 2.) Don't use H and R Block (they don't help you with write offs so that when you get your refund it looks bigger). 3.) If your taxes aren't a lot of work, find a small one or two person shop, make sure they've been licensed and around for a while. There are several good, cheap accountants in any city. Go to the Chamber of Commerce, look some up, ask them about their rates. If they quote an hourly figure for "consultation" they're probably too expensive. Finally, if you provide a valuable product or service, some small accountants are willing to barter. I know this sounds crazy, but I know several, good and experienced accountants that trade their services for things like computer repair and help, construction work, dental care, etc. So if you can help them, they can certainly help you.
What if someone (group) bought the whole database and put each case up on the web? Granted, it would take forever, but the cases are copyright protected--they can't be, they're not original works. So everyone interested could chip in some time and/or money and you're set.
Let's assume for a moment that this is a true internal memo. If it is, then it actually points to a good thing. I would rather have a company take a hard look at it's own problems than pretend they don't exist.
Glad to see that some place other than wvu.edu has forced Ada classes. But there is a wonderful side to all this exposure to Ada--you can't know programming nirvana without first knowing hell.
Acting against a monopoly is not trying to shut down MS [or severely disrupt it], but rather, to keep them from using their OS muscle to push around developers of other products.
Imagine that you're Real Audio a couple of years ago. You've come up with a great product. However, Microsoft not only tries to make your product irrelevant (i.e. building Windows Media Player into Windows), but also uses their OS to crash your product (demonstrated during initial trial).
Actions against monopolies are to protect against one company using dominance in one area to corner other markets. I for one, as a CS undergrad, am for court action against MS. Why? 'cause what happens if 5~10 years from now I create a great app for windows. MS decides that they want to sell my app, so they build a clone. Not only that, after the latest "Service Pack," my app crashes constantly and their's becomes more stable. Protection against that scenario is the good that will come out of a ruling against MS. A fair ruling would protect developers and developers that want to build on top of Windows.
By the way, I was born and raised in West-By-God-Virginia
I'm from West Virginia and I'm proud our state has held out so far. Maybe we'll decide to go after them some more. Wouldn't it be great to have big ol' M$ get the shaft from West Virginia? I think it would be great!
Adelphia members can opt out of them even touching your computer. At least I did. When they came to install it, I just said that I didn't want any computer support from them. I signed a little release thing saying that I would release them from any computer support. Of course, there was a small downside, one time the cable modem just fried, but it took me two weeks to convince them it wasn't my computer.
What do you see as the future for Beowolf? What sort of applications? (Finance, Engineering, Simulation, Imagery, etc) Or do you see Beowolf entering in all of those sectors?
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And the funny thing is, the one guy is the other guy's biggest critic. And to shut him up, he started calling him a stalker. The critic got pissed because, well, he's not a stalker. So it's called libel. It's like if I were to call the newspaper and tell them you read kitty porn. It would be completely untrue (actually, that would be slander because I TOLD and didn't WRITE it) and against the law. And for people who ignorantly see this as a violation of free speech, slander and libel are certainly not protected by the constitution.
I have an idea: Why don't we join Red Hat against SCO and file a class-action lawsuit? At the very least, we could file for some injunctions against SCO to keep them from suing linux users, and from bad-mouthing linux and the linux community. ps when this strategy is successul, remember to give me a little credit.
my Ernie Ball strings sounded so so sweet.
I love to see that never-give-up-attitude mixed with electronics. This is like "Rudy" for geeks. Disclaimer: Although this sounds like sarcasm, I really must congratulate these guys. This really is cool!
"...its like Kleenex and tissues." and like thtat's and that's. They're the same thing. I am definately making fun of my own spelling mistakes.
for anyone from the FSF to talk without mentioning how its really GNU/Linux and not just Linux. I know I know, they're right. They are right, its true. But to me, that's like saying "I run a AMD/ATI/Western Digital/Crucial computer system." ACCEPT IT PEOPLE!!!! GNU/Linux will be referred to as Linux. It's just a fact a life. Is it correct? no. It's just like Rollerblade and inline skates, and Kleenex and tissues. Does it suck for the FSF? Probably a little. But thtat's life.
If they want more people to write in cursive, they shouldn't make it so damn hard. I use print letters because I have vienna sausages for fingers not because of email.
According to Yahoo! news the resignation was explicitly caused by AOL's treatment of WASTE.
In corporate terminology, it's time for the Linux communinity to go proactive. Why doesn't Linus sue SCO for libel? Since Linus owns the copyright to Linux, and SCO is making false claims about his copyright, I'd sue the bastards. Additionally, by suing, Linus will probably get to see the code that SCO claims is stolen.
Personally, I would like to donkey-kick Ballmer squarely in the figs with a golf shoe. That aside, however, his selling of shares probably isn't some devious plot, he probably really is diversifying his portfolio, but not how you think of it. Since he's probably considering retirement soon, he's probably moving his money into fixed-income securities (bonds, etc). So maybe he's selling his shares of stock so that he can either better prepare himself for retirement, or maybe he's using the money to buy M$ debt. A side note: Incidentally, by ratcheting up M$ debt level with bonds, M$ could actually improve their financial position by selling debt--their Return on Equity would increase, as would several other financial analysis ratios...
I have recently done the same thing. Here's what I found out when I went to see my lawyer (aka my uncle). At least where I live--WV--it doesn't matter if the place is zoned as residential as long as you don't have customers coming in and out of your house (which you probably won't unless your starting a software store) or dozens of employess. We have 2 full time. You can list your address as the address of the business and you can register with that address with the state and federal government, even if you are a corporation and not a sole proprietorship. This had worked in my situation. Just ask a local laywer you know, they probably know right off the top of their heads.
This story is from the Weekly World News. You know the reputable news magazine that sits beside the National Enquirer in supermarket isles. Don't get me wrong, I love the WWN, in fact, I have a subscription. However, I don't beleive everything I read.
PS. Their story on Pope John Paul II becoming an official member of the Harlem Globetrotters, that's actually true. I swear. Google it! You know you want to...just look it up.
As a small business owner, and son of accountants, I must agree that you need an accountant. In fact, I was discussing this the other with a few local businessmen the other day. Accounts are vital not only because they know where to put the zero's on your forms, but they also know things like the filing date (not April 15) for businesses. They also know how to approach write-offs and tax credits so that you can not only avoid paying excess taxes now, but in the future (you knew you could write off past tax losses right?). And if you find a good one, they won't charge you too much, especially if your form is as easy as you claim. Some tips (at least from my experience): 1.) don't get an accountant that has television or radio ads, they charge too much. 2.) Don't use H and R Block (they don't help you with write offs so that when you get your refund it looks bigger). 3.) If your taxes aren't a lot of work, find a small one or two person shop, make sure they've been licensed and around for a while. There are several good, cheap accountants in any city. Go to the Chamber of Commerce, look some up, ask them about their rates. If they quote an hourly figure for "consultation" they're probably too expensive. Finally, if you provide a valuable product or service, some small accountants are willing to barter. I know this sounds crazy, but I know several, good and experienced accountants that trade their services for things like computer repair and help, construction work, dental care, etc. So if you can help them, they can certainly help you.
there'll be a murder and this madness will stop.
That burning sensation all around my ass sphincter tells me I've seen this somewhere before.
What if someone (group) bought the whole database and put each case up on the web? Granted, it would take forever, but the cases are copyright protected--they can't be, they're not original works. So everyone interested could chip in some time and/or money and you're set.
Let's assume for a moment that this is a true internal memo. If it is, then it actually points to a good thing. I would rather have a company take a hard look at it's own problems than pretend they don't exist.
Glad to see that some place other than wvu.edu has forced Ada classes. But there is a wonderful side to all this exposure to Ada--you can't know programming nirvana without first knowing hell.
Of course, realizing MS is based in WA not WV, your comments are irrelevant.
Imagine that you're Real Audio a couple of years ago. You've come up with a great product. However, Microsoft not only tries to make your product irrelevant (i.e. building Windows Media Player into Windows), but also uses their OS to crash your product (demonstrated during initial trial).
Actions against monopolies are to protect against one company using dominance in one area to corner other markets. I for one, as a CS undergrad, am for court action against MS. Why? 'cause what happens if 5~10 years from now I create a great app for windows. MS decides that they want to sell my app, so they build a clone. Not only that, after the latest "Service Pack," my app crashes constantly and their's becomes more stable. Protection against that scenario is the good that will come out of a ruling against MS. A fair ruling would protect developers and developers that want to build on top of Windows.
By the way, I was born and raised in West-By-God-Virginia
I'm from West Virginia and I'm proud our state has held out so far. Maybe we'll decide to go after them some more. Wouldn't it be great to have big ol' M$ get the shaft from West Virginia? I think it would be great!
Adelphia members can opt out of them even touching your computer. At least I did. When they came to install it, I just said that I didn't want any computer support from them. I signed a little release thing saying that I would release them from any computer support. Of course, there was a small downside, one time the cable modem just fried, but it took me two weeks to convince them it wasn't my computer.
What do you see as the future for Beowolf? What sort of applications? (Finance, Engineering, Simulation, Imagery, etc) Or do you see Beowolf entering in all of those sectors?
I can't wait 'til I'm lying on the doctor's table when I hear "You've Got Mail!'
Then of course, I would have to kill myself honorably.
Don't blame this on the free market, blame it on the laws that are put there by politicians and their supports ($$$) not on the free market system.