Meijer stores, a self-described grocery and general merchandise retailer
For those who have never had the pleasure to go to a Meijer, it's like a large, clean Wal-Mart Supercenter. The smallest Meijer store that I've been in is still larger than my hometown. I believe that Wal-Mart's supercenters are possibly patterned after the large Meijer stores.
I mean when this doesnt go SCOs way and they hit the cap all Darl has to say is 'We would have won if we had more time and money' then he keeps the shadow over linux serving his Micky$oft masters.
Hence IBM's countersuit. SCO can drop their own lawsuit when they run out of money, but it's not like IBM is going to let up on them.
While I sympathize with the cries of "Off with their heads", I don't think jail time is really appropriate in this case. I think we need to save our prisons for people who have done something Really Bad, not something Really Annoying.
Please read the article. Not only did they spam, they also ran a fraudulent business on top of the spamming. The cited case was a fraudulent "business opportunity" that they sold for $40. They sold 10,000 of them, which simple math says is $400,000.
If someone hit up a bank to the tune of $400,000, you wouldn't think twice about them going to jail, right? Fraud is no different aside from the safety aspects (i.e. they weren't using a gun).
The NYT might be widely read, but the WSJ would be a better choice to reach the people who really need the message, i.e. upper management. They're the folks that Microsoft has been targeting for years, and it worked well...
An architecture is far more than just an instruction set. There are two major differences between X86 and most other modern CPUs:
1. Poverty of registers. This affects performance greatly. Now, yeah, a C programmer or users wouldn't notice right off, but the performance difference at a given clock speed between X86 and, say, G5, is staggering. Register poverty is one of the main reasons. I believe this is fixed in the X86-64 architecture. Under 32-bit, the problem is caused by the legacy architecture that had registers A-D, and the four segment/address registers. In contrast, most modern CPUs have 32, 64, or 128 registers. Even the VAX had 13 general purpose registers in 1978.
2. Bus contention. Again, fixed by AMD recently, but (briefly) PCI and memory access generally require the same bus, slowing the system down. This is not an issue for most other architectures, leading to great IO performance deficit in X86.
I haven't done assembly-level programming in a few years, but those are the things that stick out for me. You're right that at a high-level, it's capable of doing everything that a Sparc or whatever can do, but, then again, so can a Turing machine.
I'm against what's happening here, and I doubt they have a legal leg to stand on, but consider what's happening around the web.
It's likely that Nintendo pays these lawyers to look around for their trademark being used to promote pornographic sites. Consider the case of John Zuccarini, who was using domain name typos (like 15 variations of "cartoonnetwork.com) to lure children to porn sites. He got a commission for each "click", although the clicks were cauased by pop-up hell. He brought in around $1,000,000 in his last year of business.
It doesn't take more than a couple of minutes on Google to find someone using Nintendo's trademark to get search engine hits to their porn site. I often hit such sites while searching for information on other famous trademarks. Here's a site which uses "linux" as one of the search keywords, and it has nothing to do with Linux.
Anyway, overzealous lawyers, yes, but they do have a legitimate job.
Oddly, I agree that Saddam had nothing to do with al Qaeda or international terrorism. He had literally the only secular government from the Atlantic Ocean (going on the south & east sides of the Mediterranean) to India, and he was well-known for putting down radical Islam, both literally and figuratively. We backed him in the war against Iran specifically because he was fighting radical Islam.
So, yes, in the grandparent post I wasn't talking about Afghanistan, I was talking about Iraq. I don't confuse the two, sorry if it came across as that.
Regardless, it's ludicrous to think that the Axis of Weasels had anything other than their pocketbooks in mind when they opposed the Iraq war.
I personally thought the timing of the Iraq war was bad; we should have finished in Afghanistan. But, we also should have removed Saddam 12 years ago. He was able to kill 300,000+ people in those years, and it could have been avoided.
Kerry has never said we should attempt to negotiate or reach a diplomatic accord with Al-Qaeda. What he has said is that we should negotiate and use diplomacy with the rest of the civilized world to coordinate the most effective response to Al-Qaeda.
Right. And that makes no sense. The rest of the civilized world was with us, with the notable exceptions of France, Germany, and Russia. In case you missed it, Saddam had backdoor deals with each of them.
You cannot imagine how badly I wish the world were as simple as you people make it.
In recent times the USA has not endeared itself to the Muslim parts of the world, but this will only be solved by diplomacy and constructive actions, not war and war-like "them and us" sentiments.
I see this a lot, and I can only guess that you've never actually spent some time reading what bin Laden and the rest of them have to say.
Let's go down the short list of things that bin Laden doesn't care about:
Israel - the Palestinians don't matter to him, otherwise he'd help them
Christianity - It's quite rare that this is brought up, and you'll soon understand why (if you don't already know)
bin Laden has made it perfectly clear that he hates America because it is overtly "godless" and evil. He's saying this from a Muslim point of view. Imagine if you knew America only through the movies and other trash that we export, you might feel differently, too.
On top of that, he has a gripe that the soldiers of this "godless" nation are hanging out in his holy land, Saudi Arabia, along with a bunch of other foreigners working in the oil industry. He doesn't think that non-Muslims should be there.
There is no amount of "dialog" that will change that. On the other hand, capturing and killing their commanders has had a positive influence.
On a side note: I honestly can't believe people are still dumb enough to advance these arguments about how we need diplomacy. Seriously. Ask the Spanish. They capitulated after the 3/11 attacks, and yet last week they arrested a terrorist cell that was planning on blowing up their supreme court. You're not dealing with rational people.
I agree that the US has done some really dumb stuff, and it would help our position immensely on the "Arab street" if we were to deal fairly in the Israel/Palestine situation. I also have a problem with the fact that democracy is only to be forced on the victims of our enemies, but doesn't seem to be a priority for the people of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, etc.
This is a particularly interesting statement. The story is about a law that Kerry would work on if he became president. Yet, as a member of the Senate, now is the time that he can introduce legislation and help fix bad laws. As president, he can only veto stuff he doesn't like.
I have three machines here with their cards, and have yet to have a single problem under Linux. I don't need to read the forums, although I'm sorry if someone else is having trouble.
Seriously. nVidia already has kick-ass hardware and the best drivers available under Linux, plus one of the best, if not the best, installer for Linux that I've ever used. It would probably take less effort to convince them to open up completely than to create a new card.
Well, I would disagree that this (and some of the other items which IBM has "opened") don't have a benefit to competitors.
But, I have no problem with their approach. I wish every company that had software laying around that they can no longer profit from would just open it up like this.
More open source software is always better, as long as it's not Microsoft Bob.
Not even close. Anything available there can be bought elsewhere, and their pricing is quite low. They continually beat up their suppliers in order to give the lowest prices to their customers. Contrast with a true monopoly, like Microsoft, which rapes customers up and down. Wal-mart makes lower profits than Microsoft on revenues that are 4 times Microsoft's. Do the math.
You might hate Wal-Mart (which I frankly don't understand), but them beating up the record labels over pricing is a good thing, period. It should have been done long ago, particularly given how they've famously beat up all their other suppliers, many of whom already had reasonable pricing.
the planet operated fine before without us pumping out such ammounts of CO2
Are you joking? Seriously. 100,000 years ago my home in Indiana was under a two-mile-thick sheet of ice. What's your idea of "fine"?
You fruitcakes need to realize that the global climate, and localized climates, have been fluctuating since the beginning of the planet. While we *might* be impacting that, there's no way to tell.
The "other side" tends to be people like me - informed scientists who recognize that the surface temperature of the planet, and the patterns of those temperatures, have naturally fluxuated since the beginning of time, long before human involvement. While human-created CO2 may well be causing global warming (if there is a warming trend), it might also be the natural warming trend that started at the end of the last ice age.
We need to understand that climates change, always have and always will. We like our current climates, but they won't be here forever, even if we reduce the atmospheric CO2 levels.
I can imagine you fruitcakes at the end of the ice age: "The glaciers will be *gone* if we don't act now!!!!"
I haven't read this article, but if you read a few other articles on the situation, it clearly states that the "anti-spyware" program is in fact spyware itself. i.e. It only makes the problem worse instead of better.
Heh. You're right. So he's working both sides of this from what I can gather. What a slimeball.
If you're selling spyware as anti-spyware, that's fraud, genius.
I don't think you understand what he's doing. He's infecting people with spyware that advertises his anti-spyware package. In other words, if you pay him, he'll fix the problem he created.
Reminds me of a story in the Chicago Tribune about 10 years back detailing the arrest of some men who were caught walking around in an industrial area shooting out windows with slingshots. They worked for a glass company.
Anyway, Wallace is always good for a quote. If you could bottle the whine coming out of his fat face, you'd put Napa valley out of business.
Another way to cash IRS checks that I've heard is to "fix" the "I" into an "M" with 3 more lines and then write a woman's name after it. "United States Treasury" is a much safer bet.
Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.
You can't buy junk gas in the US. The EPA dictates that certains "engine cleaners" are added to all gasoline regardless of the octane rating (which is *not* a quality rating any more than shoe size is a quality rating).
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I for one welcome the day when this stupid "overlords" joke is not modded Funny.
So, this is the new "overlords" post that'll get modded up to 5 everytime.
For those who have never had the pleasure to go to a Meijer, it's like a large, clean Wal-Mart Supercenter. The smallest Meijer store that I've been in is still larger than my hometown. I believe that Wal-Mart's supercenters are possibly patterned after the large Meijer stores.
Check out their web site.
I mean when this doesnt go SCOs way and they hit the cap all Darl has to say is 'We would have won if we had more time and money' then he keeps the shadow over linux serving his Micky$oft masters.
Hence IBM's countersuit. SCO can drop their own lawsuit when they run out of money, but it's not like IBM is going to let up on them.
While I sympathize with the cries of "Off with their heads", I don't think jail time is really appropriate in this case. I think we need to save our prisons for people who have done something Really Bad, not something Really Annoying.
Please read the article. Not only did they spam, they also ran a fraudulent business on top of the spamming. The cited case was a fraudulent "business opportunity" that they sold for $40. They sold 10,000 of them, which simple math says is $400,000.
If someone hit up a bank to the tune of $400,000, you wouldn't think twice about them going to jail, right? Fraud is no different aside from the safety aspects (i.e. they weren't using a gun).
The NYT might be widely read, but the WSJ would be a better choice to reach the people who really need the message, i.e. upper management. They're the folks that Microsoft has been targeting for years, and it worked well...
An architecture is far more than just an instruction set. There are two major differences between X86 and most other modern CPUs:
1. Poverty of registers. This affects performance greatly. Now, yeah, a C programmer or users wouldn't notice right off, but the performance difference at a given clock speed between X86 and, say, G5, is staggering. Register poverty is one of the main reasons. I believe this is fixed in the X86-64 architecture. Under 32-bit, the problem is caused by the legacy architecture that had registers A-D, and the four segment/address registers. In contrast, most modern CPUs have 32, 64, or 128 registers. Even the VAX had 13 general purpose registers in 1978.
2. Bus contention. Again, fixed by AMD recently, but (briefly) PCI and memory access generally require the same bus, slowing the system down. This is not an issue for most other architectures, leading to great IO performance deficit in X86.
I haven't done assembly-level programming in a few years, but those are the things that stick out for me. You're right that at a high-level, it's capable of doing everything that a Sparc or whatever can do, but, then again, so can a Turing machine.
I'm against what's happening here, and I doubt they have a legal leg to stand on, but consider what's happening around the web.
It's likely that Nintendo pays these lawyers to look around for their trademark being used to promote pornographic sites. Consider the case of John Zuccarini, who was using domain name typos (like 15 variations of "cartoonnetwork.com) to lure children to porn sites. He got a commission for each "click", although the clicks were cauased by pop-up hell. He brought in around $1,000,000 in his last year of business.
It doesn't take more than a couple of minutes on Google to find someone using Nintendo's trademark to get search engine hits to their porn site. I often hit such sites while searching for information on other famous trademarks. Here's a site which uses "linux" as one of the search keywords, and it has nothing to do with Linux.
Anyway, overzealous lawyers, yes, but they do have a legitimate job.
Oddly, I agree that Saddam had nothing to do with al Qaeda or international terrorism. He had literally the only secular government from the Atlantic Ocean (going on the south & east sides of the Mediterranean) to India, and he was well-known for putting down radical Islam, both literally and figuratively. We backed him in the war against Iran specifically because he was fighting radical Islam.
So, yes, in the grandparent post I wasn't talking about Afghanistan, I was talking about Iraq. I don't confuse the two, sorry if it came across as that.
Regardless, it's ludicrous to think that the Axis of Weasels had anything other than their pocketbooks in mind when they opposed the Iraq war.
I personally thought the timing of the Iraq war was bad; we should have finished in Afghanistan. But, we also should have removed Saddam 12 years ago. He was able to kill 300,000+ people in those years, and it could have been avoided.
Kerry has never said we should attempt to negotiate or reach a diplomatic accord with Al-Qaeda. What he has said is that we should negotiate and use diplomacy with the rest of the civilized world to coordinate the most effective response to Al-Qaeda.
Right. And that makes no sense. The rest of the civilized world was with us, with the notable exceptions of France, Germany, and Russia. In case you missed it, Saddam had backdoor deals with each of them.
You cannot imagine how badly I wish the world were as simple as you people make it.
In recent times the USA has not endeared itself to the Muslim parts of the world, but this will only be solved by diplomacy and constructive actions, not war and war-like "them and us" sentiments.
I see this a lot, and I can only guess that you've never actually spent some time reading what bin Laden and the rest of them have to say.
Let's go down the short list of things that bin Laden doesn't care about:
bin Laden has made it perfectly clear that he hates America because it is overtly "godless" and evil. He's saying this from a Muslim point of view. Imagine if you knew America only through the movies and other trash that we export, you might feel differently, too.
On top of that, he has a gripe that the soldiers of this "godless" nation are hanging out in his holy land, Saudi Arabia, along with a bunch of other foreigners working in the oil industry. He doesn't think that non-Muslims should be there.
There is no amount of "dialog" that will change that. On the other hand, capturing and killing their commanders has had a positive influence.
On a side note: I honestly can't believe people are still dumb enough to advance these arguments about how we need diplomacy. Seriously. Ask the Spanish. They capitulated after the 3/11 attacks, and yet last week they arrested a terrorist cell that was planning on blowing up their supreme court. You're not dealing with rational people.
I agree that the US has done some really dumb stuff, and it would help our position immensely on the "Arab street" if we were to deal fairly in the Israel/Palestine situation. I also have a problem with the fact that democracy is only to be forced on the victims of our enemies, but doesn't seem to be a priority for the people of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, etc.
Regardless, this isn't pushing al Qaeda.
They think presidents make laws
This is a particularly interesting statement. The story is about a law that Kerry would work on if he became president. Yet, as a member of the Senate, now is the time that he can introduce legislation and help fix bad laws. As president, he can only veto stuff he doesn't like.
Oh, the irony....
A lake of oil? Sounds like Capt. Hazelwood may have beat us there...
I have three machines here with their cards, and have yet to have a single problem under Linux. I don't need to read the forums, although I'm sorry if someone else is having trouble.
Seriously. nVidia already has kick-ass hardware and the best drivers available under Linux, plus one of the best, if not the best, installer for Linux that I've ever used. It would probably take less effort to convince them to open up completely than to create a new card.
Get a full page in in the Wall Street Journal instead.
Well, I would disagree that this (and some of the other items which IBM has "opened") don't have a benefit to competitors.
But, I have no problem with their approach. I wish every company that had software laying around that they can no longer profit from would just open it up like this.
More open source software is always better, as long as it's not Microsoft Bob.
Not even close. Anything available there can be bought elsewhere, and their pricing is quite low. They continually beat up their suppliers in order to give the lowest prices to their customers. Contrast with a true monopoly, like Microsoft, which rapes customers up and down. Wal-mart makes lower profits than Microsoft on revenues that are 4 times Microsoft's. Do the math.
You might hate Wal-Mart (which I frankly don't understand), but them beating up the record labels over pricing is a good thing, period. It should have been done long ago, particularly given how they've famously beat up all their other suppliers, many of whom already had reasonable pricing.
If you think I'm a conservative, you don't know me very well....
the planet operated fine before without us pumping out such ammounts of CO2
Are you joking? Seriously. 100,000 years ago my home in Indiana was under a two-mile-thick sheet of ice. What's your idea of "fine"?
You fruitcakes need to realize that the global climate, and localized climates, have been fluctuating since the beginning of the planet. While we *might* be impacting that, there's no way to tell.
The "other side" tends to be people like me - informed scientists who recognize that the surface temperature of the planet, and the patterns of those temperatures, have naturally fluxuated since the beginning of time, long before human involvement. While human-created CO2 may well be causing global warming (if there is a warming trend), it might also be the natural warming trend that started at the end of the last ice age.
We need to understand that climates change, always have and always will. We like our current climates, but they won't be here forever, even if we reduce the atmospheric CO2 levels.
I can imagine you fruitcakes at the end of the ice age: "The glaciers will be *gone* if we don't act now!!!!"
Well, they're gone.
I haven't read this article, but if you read a few other articles on the situation, it clearly states that the "anti-spyware" program is in fact spyware itself. i.e. It only makes the problem worse instead of better.
Heh. You're right. So he's working both sides of this from what I can gather. What a slimeball.
If you're selling spyware as anti-spyware, that's fraud, genius.
I don't think you understand what he's doing. He's infecting people with spyware that advertises his anti-spyware package. In other words, if you pay him, he'll fix the problem he created.
Reminds me of a story in the Chicago Tribune about 10 years back detailing the arrest of some men who were caught walking around in an industrial area shooting out windows with slingshots. They worked for a glass company.
Anyway, Wallace is always good for a quote. If you could bottle the whine coming out of his fat face, you'd put Napa valley out of business.
Another way to cash IRS checks that I've heard is to "fix" the "I" into an "M" with 3 more lines and then write a woman's name after it. "United States Treasury" is a much safer bet.
Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.
You can't buy junk gas in the US. The EPA dictates that certains "engine cleaners" are added to all gasoline regardless of the octane rating (which is *not* a quality rating any more than shoe size is a quality rating).
Don't believe me, believe the FTC:
The Low-Down on High Octane Gasoline
But what about .. uhm .. say Neutral .. ? or don't european cars have that?
Only in Switzerland...