I mean, a royalty-bearing, pseudo-open universal 3D format from Intel and Microsoft? Sorry, guys. That trick doesn't work anymore;)
Why not? Microsoft still has 95% of the browser market, if you think "that trick doesn't work anymore", you're a moron. They're still in a position to dictate standards, and they've shown that they have no qualms about doing so.
Of course, this is yet another area where there is simply nothing that is truly patentable, but I'm sure they can sucker the idiots at the patent office to give them a few, anyway.
Showing a graph of 3 months is worthless, since this whole thing has been going on for years now. If you look at the 2 year chart, you will see that they still have quite a bit to dip before they even hit the low point.
Yeah, but remember that they've been able to sucker investors- both real investors like Baystar and fake investors like Sun and Microsoft- into giving them $80M since the lowest point a couple of years ago. Right now, their market cap is sitting at almost exactly the cash on hand amount. That was probably the case two years ago, too, but with much less cash on hand.
Next time you are in the market for linux server, use IBM hardware. That's what my company has done. The IBM hardware is rock solid so you're doing yourself a favour at the same time.
Now if I could just buy that hardware at Autozone....
This is for all the mouthbreathers on here who have tried to come up with some assinine pseudo-legal reason as to why a breach of the GPL doesn't give way to copyright claims against the breacher. I have argued time and again on here that breaching the GPL simply opens somebody- like SCO- up to statutory damages for willful copyright infringement.
Well, you don't have to argue with me about it anymore, argue with IBM's lawyers:
Although IBM's contributions to Linux are copyrighted, they are permitted to be copied, modified and distributed by others under the terms of the GNU General Public License ("GPL") or the GNU Lesser General Public License ("LGPL") (collectively, the "GPL"). However, SCO has renounced, disclaimed and breached the GPL and therefore the GPL does not give SCO permission or a license to copy and distribute IBM's copyrighted works.
And I don't mean a suit by Apple - I mean the Fed and the RIAA.
What I can't beleive is that we have a company willfully admitting that they went out of their way to crack a DRM related schema, and that no arrests have been made.
Shouldn't Real Networks have its hardware seized?
Are you joking? They "cracked" Apple's DRM so that they could use it themselves. They're not trying to copy songs; they're trying to protect more.
I'm sure they'll be contacted by the RIAA..... so that they can meet at a bar, have some drinks and high fives all around...
The BND (the German CIA counterpart) stated they don't have evidence supporting this - they didn't have proof of non-existense of the alleged weapons either - but that's beside the point. Based on exactly THOSE issues, Germany did take its anti-war stance.
BULL FUCKING SHIT
Germany, like France and Russia, was sucking on the teat of lucrative backdoor deals with Saddam and didn't want the cash to stop flowing. The jig's up, buddy, we have the records in hand now. Stop pretending that you had some big moral reason for wanting the oppression of the Iraqi people to continue.
... thereby avoiding direct confrontation with the enemy. There is no difference. Wearing an armored vest doesn't make it unsportsmanlike to shoot you in the face. It just means your face is the obvious target to anyone without armor piercing rounds.
There's a huge difference to those of us in the civilized world. Warfare is waged between combatants on both sides. Non-combatants are granted special protection under the Geneva Convention articles.
Read some of the tripe coming out of either side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, for example. The Palestinians terrorist groups claim that since all Jewish Israelis perform military service at some point in their life, they're all combatants and therefore targets. Speaking for the other side, Alan Dershowitz is now claiming that there are no non-combatants in Palestine, just some people who are more combative than others.
In their own screwed up ways, each side recognizes that non-combatants should be afforded protection, but then come up with excuses as to why folks really are combatants.
You might give us a try here in the civilized world, it's way better than wherever you live....
Um, you might have missed it, but the criminals in Arpaio's tents volunteered, too. It's common knowledge what's going on there, and yet they commit crimes.
teach Al Quaeda to recruit caucasians with caucasian names.
Most of them already are. "Caucasians" include folks from India (Persians) through Europe, and from Northern Africa up. Arabs are technically caucasian, as are Persians. You probably meant to say "people of european decent with a european name".
You're believing what's on his web site. Watch the video.
First, the officer said he was "conducting an investigation", it's quite plain on the video. The officer had received a report of Hibbel hitting his daughter, so he came to investigate. Hibbel didn't cooperate, and was quite belligerent, and was arrested. The "id" part of it was incidental.
The officer *is* an idiot, too. He had reports of battery and he was far more interested in getting the alleged batterer to identify himself than to actually find out if the victim was indeed a victim and was okay.
Watch the video if it's still on his web site. Otherwise, I'll make it available to you if you email me. You'll have a very different opinion after watching what actually happened instead of believing the web site.
In fact, getting away with terrorism and living over and over again is the basis for what is called guerilla warfare.
"Guerilla warfare" is a term used to refer to unconventional warfare, generally waged by a weaker force against a strong force. The tactics are marked generally by avoiding a direct confrontation with the enemy.
Terrorism is the act of attacking innocent or non-militant people in an effort to effect a political change.
Some guerillas also become involved in terrorism, but terrorism and guerilla warfare are unrelated.
Seems to me that this is a nice end-run for SCO to allow them to claim that they have "sold" a whole bunch more of those Linux licenses (as part of a "package deal") in order to give that license some additional, but false, credibility.
You're right. Let's see, they've sold 3 Linux licenses so far, so adding in the 5 or 6 Unix sales this year should triple the number of Linux licenses.
If SCO truly found a smoking gun, I don't believe they'd be shooting their mouth off to SCOForum or any other source--they'd wait until they got before a judge or jury and then hit IBM with it,
What exactly are you basing this belief on? Surely not Darl's recent history...
This has nothing to do with Linux, although I'm sure SCO will try to make it sound as if it does.
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out, if it's anything, since my understanding is that during discovery you have to stick to what you're looking for. In other words, it's not a fishing expedition. This is definitely fishing.
But I'm not a lawyer, although I'd have little trouble standing up to SCO's lawyers in court...
There are many, many people out there who continue to use IE, even after knowing there are alternatives and that IE has many security holes. So what? Why doesn't anybody label those people as "MS zealots"?
Voter-held receipts are useless in the event of a recount -- how do you know that the receipt the voter brings in is actually the one he got on Election Day?
Pretty easy. You put a 2D barcode on the receipt which has your identification and who you voted for with a 1-way encryption scheme (like your unix password) and digitally signed with a key known only to the voting machine. You can go back, scan the barcode, show who you are and who you voted for, and that particular machine can say "yes" or "no". And yet nobody can determine who you voted for.
There are plenty of people smarter than me who have probably come up with even better schemes.
I pay twice as much for business phone service as residential, coming into the same house.
BellSouth tried to sell me "business" DSL for well over twice the residential price. This is no joke. They sent a thing to my wife offering DSL for $45/month, and two days later I get a telemarketing call on my business line offering the same speed DSL for $90. I asked her why I should pay that when BellSouth was also offering the same thing for $45.
First, she denied it. Finally she admitted it, but said that the business service was better. Why? Because if they had to send out repair, I'd get next day for business but it'd possibly take a few days for residential. Gee, is there possibly a better way to back yourself into a corner?
So the obvious question: Is your DSL service down so much that this would affect my buying decision? I love it, she had two choices: "yes, our service sucks" or "no, you'd be wasting your money."
She settled with "no" and ended the call.
Plenty of companies want to charge you more for services if you're running a business.
HP is trying to sell linux servers to existing IBM AIX customers, and IBM is alleged to bad mouth linux something fierce.
"IBM" is a company which consists of thousands of people, including the commissioned sales people who allegedly did what you said above. IBM's corporate policy is pushing Linux. If not, they wouldn't bother to defend it in court. Think about it, SCO would have went away easily had IBM wanted them to.
That some commissioned sales people aren't pushing Linux is no surprise, but it doesn't mean IBM as a whole doesn't get it. It's rough for them, I'm sure, but I think they'll make the transformation to a services business just fine. HP will still sell hardware. Microsoft, well, I have a couple of great mice from them.
Their long-term potential would suck were it not for the $50B or so in the bank...
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I mean, a royalty-bearing, pseudo-open universal 3D format from Intel and Microsoft? Sorry, guys. That trick doesn't work anymore ;)
Why not? Microsoft still has 95% of the browser market, if you think "that trick doesn't work anymore", you're a moron. They're still in a position to dictate standards, and they've shown that they have no qualms about doing so.
Of course, this is yet another area where there is simply nothing that is truly patentable, but I'm sure they can sucker the idiots at the patent office to give them a few, anyway.
to Cyberdyne Systems.
Showing a graph of 3 months is worthless, since this whole thing has been going on for years now. If you look at the 2 year chart, you will see that they still have quite a bit to dip before they even hit the low point.
Yeah, but remember that they've been able to sucker investors- both real investors like Baystar and fake investors like Sun and Microsoft- into giving them $80M since the lowest point a couple of years ago. Right now, their market cap is sitting at almost exactly the cash on hand amount. That was probably the case two years ago, too, but with much less cash on hand.
Next time you are in the market for linux server, use IBM hardware. That's what my company has done. The IBM hardware is rock solid so you're doing yourself a favour at the same time.
Now if I could just buy that hardware at Autozone....
This is for all the mouthbreathers on here who have tried to come up with some assinine pseudo-legal reason as to why a breach of the GPL doesn't give way to copyright claims against the breacher. I have argued time and again on here that breaching the GPL simply opens somebody- like SCO- up to statutory damages for willful copyright infringement.
Well, you don't have to argue with me about it anymore, argue with IBM's lawyers:
Any questions?
And I don't mean a suit by Apple - I mean the Fed and the RIAA. What I can't beleive is that we have a company willfully admitting that they went out of their way to crack a DRM related schema, and that no arrests have been made. Shouldn't Real Networks have its hardware seized?
Are you joking? They "cracked" Apple's DRM so that they could use it themselves. They're not trying to copy songs; they're trying to protect more.
I'm sure they'll be contacted by the RIAA..... so that they can meet at a bar, have some drinks and high fives all around...
The BND (the German CIA counterpart) stated they don't have evidence supporting this - they didn't have proof of non-existense of the alleged weapons either - but that's beside the point. Based on exactly THOSE issues, Germany did take its anti-war stance.
BULL FUCKING SHITGermany, like France and Russia, was sucking on the teat of lucrative backdoor deals with Saddam and didn't want the cash to stop flowing. The jig's up, buddy, we have the records in hand now. Stop pretending that you had some big moral reason for wanting the oppression of the Iraqi people to continue.
Ironic question, given that they seem to have forgotten once again to mention Linux on their related web pages and owners manual yet again...
There's a huge difference to those of us in the civilized world. Warfare is waged between combatants on both sides. Non-combatants are granted special protection under the Geneva Convention articles.
Read some of the tripe coming out of either side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, for example. The Palestinians terrorist groups claim that since all Jewish Israelis perform military service at some point in their life, they're all combatants and therefore targets. Speaking for the other side, Alan Dershowitz is now claiming that there are no non-combatants in Palestine, just some people who are more combative than others.
In their own screwed up ways, each side recognizes that non-combatants should be afforded protection, but then come up with excuses as to why folks really are combatants.
You might give us a try here in the civilized world, it's way better than wherever you live....
Um, you might have missed it, but the criminals in Arpaio's tents volunteered, too. It's common knowledge what's going on there, and yet they commit crimes.
Keep trying....
teach Al Quaeda to recruit caucasians with caucasian names.
Most of them already are. "Caucasians" include folks from India (Persians) through Europe, and from Northern Africa up. Arabs are technically caucasian, as are Persians. You probably meant to say "people of european decent with a european name".
You're believing what's on his web site. Watch the video.
First, the officer said he was "conducting an investigation", it's quite plain on the video. The officer had received a report of Hibbel hitting his daughter, so he came to investigate. Hibbel didn't cooperate, and was quite belligerent, and was arrested. The "id" part of it was incidental.
The officer *is* an idiot, too. He had reports of battery and he was far more interested in getting the alleged batterer to identify himself than to actually find out if the victim was indeed a victim and was okay.
Watch the video if it's still on his web site. Otherwise, I'll make it available to you if you email me. You'll have a very different opinion after watching what actually happened instead of believing the web site.
In fact, getting away with terrorism and living over and over again is the basis for what is called guerilla warfare.
"Guerilla warfare" is a term used to refer to unconventional warfare, generally waged by a weaker force against a strong force. The tactics are marked generally by avoiding a direct confrontation with the enemy.
Terrorism is the act of attacking innocent or non-militant people in an effort to effect a political change.
Some guerillas also become involved in terrorism, but terrorism and guerilla warfare are unrelated.
She followed some woman's directions and came to my bathroom, thinking it's a public bathroom...
I don't want to be a jerk, but did you fall for that line? I'd imagine she had planned a shopping trip until you showed up.
He had a damned good point about the tents, too. They're the same ones our soldiers are staying in in Iraq.
If it's not cruel for a soldier to stay in one, how is it cruel for a criminal to stay in one?
Seems to me that this is a nice end-run for SCO to allow them to claim that they have "sold" a whole bunch more of those Linux licenses (as part of a "package deal") in order to give that license some additional, but false, credibility.
You're right. Let's see, they've sold 3 Linux licenses so far, so adding in the 5 or 6 Unix sales this year should triple the number of Linux licenses.
It's going to be a banner year, indeed...
If SCO truly found a smoking gun, I don't believe they'd be shooting their mouth off to SCOForum or any other source--they'd wait until they got before a judge or jury and then hit IBM with it,
What exactly are you basing this belief on? Surely not Darl's recent history...
This has nothing to do with Linux, although I'm sure SCO will try to make it sound as if it does.
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out, if it's anything, since my understanding is that during discovery you have to stick to what you're looking for. In other words, it's not a fishing expedition. This is definitely fishing.
But I'm not a lawyer, although I'd have little trouble standing up to SCO's lawyers in court...
Hmm, I smell karma-grab by the age old make-fun-of-the-guy-doing-the-stereotypical-slashd ot-thing technique :-)
There are many, many people out there who continue to use IE, even after knowing there are alternatives and that IE has many security holes. So what? Why doesn't anybody label those people as "MS zealots"?
They do. You apparently missed the memo...
Oddly, I agree with you. But if someone's going to do a receipt, this is a possibility.
Voter-held receipts are useless in the event of a recount -- how do you know that the receipt the voter brings in is actually the one he got on Election Day?
Pretty easy. You put a 2D barcode on the receipt which has your identification and who you voted for with a 1-way encryption scheme (like your unix password) and digitally signed with a key known only to the voting machine. You can go back, scan the barcode, show who you are and who you voted for, and that particular machine can say "yes" or "no". And yet nobody can determine who you voted for.
There are plenty of people smarter than me who have probably come up with even better schemes.
I pay twice as much for business phone service as residential, coming into the same house.
BellSouth tried to sell me "business" DSL for well over twice the residential price. This is no joke. They sent a thing to my wife offering DSL for $45/month, and two days later I get a telemarketing call on my business line offering the same speed DSL for $90. I asked her why I should pay that when BellSouth was also offering the same thing for $45.
First, she denied it. Finally she admitted it, but said that the business service was better. Why? Because if they had to send out repair, I'd get next day for business but it'd possibly take a few days for residential. Gee, is there possibly a better way to back yourself into a corner?
So the obvious question: Is your DSL service down so much that this would affect my buying decision? I love it, she had two choices: "yes, our service sucks" or "no, you'd be wasting your money."
She settled with "no" and ended the call.
Plenty of companies want to charge you more for services if you're running a business.
Funny? How many other people learned this when taking piano lessons 30 years ago?
HP is trying to sell linux servers to existing IBM AIX customers, and IBM is alleged to bad mouth linux something fierce.
"IBM" is a company which consists of thousands of people, including the commissioned sales people who allegedly did what you said above. IBM's corporate policy is pushing Linux. If not, they wouldn't bother to defend it in court. Think about it, SCO would have went away easily had IBM wanted them to.
That some commissioned sales people aren't pushing Linux is no surprise, but it doesn't mean IBM as a whole doesn't get it. It's rough for them, I'm sure, but I think they'll make the transformation to a services business just fine. HP will still sell hardware. Microsoft, well, I have a couple of great mice from them.
Their long-term potential would suck were it not for the $50B or so in the bank...