In between the absurdity and jokes, we have forgotten how serious and profound this whole fiasco is. It's pretty sad when a collection of companies can't defeat a community-developed operating system, so they must resort to dramtic and exotic legal tactics. All of those billions of dollars, all of those employees, and they can't beat an operating system that is largely developed by volunteers.
What's really sad is that they are allowed to get away with it. In Germany, SCO has already been prevented from spreading lies and making baseless allegations in public. I enjoy and respect the liberty that is "freedom of speech", but I wouldn't categorize what SCO, Microsoft, and Sun are doing as merely "freely speaking".
Have you ever found yourself witnessing a series of events, and thinking to yourself "wow, that really felt like a transitional series of panels in a comic book"? I was delivering my elephantine mungo-member to my girlfriend when a UPS truck passed by outside my apartment. I watched it through a slit in my blinds as it passed, a bird fluttering past an old dogwood tree weaving in the afternoon wind, and my neighbor walking his dog. My rythmic up-and-down, back-and-forth motion caused the series of events to appear to transpire in tiny snapshots of time.
I wheezed silently and released, collasping onto the floor, laughing at this fascinating realization.
You're putting gravity too much into the equation. Since we are dealing with the small, you have to focus more on electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.
So, I would be more worried about someone dropping it, which might release the strong nuclear force, and well, we get another Hiroshima.
I took a broken GameCube, gutted it, and put in some SFF components. The controller ports made great PS2 ports, and I carved out slots where the memory cards went for USB. The only problem was the power supply, which is sticking a bit out of the rear of the 'Cube. I keep it next to my working GameCube just to throw people off.
Picture you have a big HP 8500 laser printer in your office. You have been using third party toner cartridges. One day an error message pops up on the display. The secretary calls your dealer (the company you purchased the printer from), who tells you that the error means your rotary assembly (the mechanism that houses the color toner cartridges and controls their rotation and toner dispensement) is defective. You call HP and they send out a service tech. He tells you your warranty is void, or in the least, he can't repair your rotary assembly under warranty because the third party cartridges could have caused a number of problems with the unit's image processor (the logic board that send signals to the rotary assembly and tells it how to dispense the toner), or even electrical issues with the DC controller (which is where those electric signals orginate), all of whoms correct operation is dependant upon the exact specifications of not only the cartridge, but what is in its ROM chip. In other words, they just justified the fact that your third party cartridges could have caused the damage, and that is all that they need to do.
If you don't like that answer, you have to seek a knowledgable second opinion that carries weight. This will be hard, since you can't buy a service manual (which contains the circuit diagrams and other information that you require in trying to prove your case). You then have to fight the decision legally. All HP had to do was show that the third party cartridges could have caused a problem.
Isn't it cheaper to just pay the $500 to have the rotary assembly fixed, and stop using third party cartridges?
That consumer-protecting law is nice, and I'm glad it's around, but it is easily defeated by the printer manufacturers.
People think that the price of laser printers are kept low because manufacturers sell toner at inflated prices. This is true for SOHO ink/bubble jet printers, but certainly isn't true when it comes to laser printers (I worked for a major manufacturer for years). Bundled/hidden with the price of the printer is potential service costs, the costs of marketing, what it took to train the service partners and uphold the contracts, etc. Printer manufacturers, when it comes to the corporate world, attempt to make as much of a profit as possible from both the sale of printers and the sale of toner/fusers/consumables.
What the inclusion of third party cartridge resellers into the market place does is cause competition in the sale of a specific consumable (toner), and nothing more. Sure, it is going to cut into profits, but printer manufacturers have a very easy way of fighting back: if you use third party consumables, you void your warranty. And this is a perfectly reasonable tactic, because you can't expect a printer manufacturer to insure a product that is using components who's quality they have no way of controlling. And trust me, when it costs $450 dollars just to have a printer tech take a look at your machine, no one is going to willingly void their warranty.
These rampant fires may be wreaking havoc upon insurance companies, but just remember, it is all part of nature. This catastrophe serves to remind us humans we are part of nature, not above it.
Despite how horrific they appear to be, they serve some beneficial role in the grand scheme of things.
AOL probably realizes that the average customer is going to blame pop-ups on either AOL software, or blame AOL for being unable to prevent them. With competitors like Mindspring offering free software that does block the messenger flaw, people are leaving AOL.
2003-2004 America Online Inc. Microsoft Security Analyst
- Remotely corrected flaws in the Microsoft Windows operating system
- Reason for leaving: Incarceration by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2004-2006
I have intimate knowledge of the networks of two large corporations, 3 medium sized businesses, one educational institution, and 2 small businesses. In each, Linux is only used for web servers, traffic filtering, firewalls, and small database servers (at one location).
I'm sure that my observations mirror those of many, many others. Linux is making significant penetration into many new markets, true. But the desktop and small-business-server aren't two of those markets.
That's the strength of open source development: every little component has the potential of being made more efficient at any given time by any given party of developers.
The current init system is actually fine in my opinion, but if someone comes up with better system that can boot my Linux system as fast as my XP system boots, I'm game.
...will be available once the game is released. They will release these things for the mod community. So, people will be able to combine the illegally obtained source code with the legally released models, textures, maps, and config files.
I feel sorry for Valve if this turns out to be the real deal.
Who cares. So some nerds in Idaho with nothing better to do will be wall hacking on the "SNIPER RIFLES ONLY --- NO NEWBS@! Xx-- CLAN 17th L33T --xX" server.
I look at the development of such games as just another form of training, a supplement if you will. It allows the Army to reach a greater variety of potential recruits. Nothing wrong with that.
Lamo commited crimes. He broke the law and cost businesses considerable damages. In that light, I have no problem if a journalist turns over his or her personal notes to the FBI if it will help them in their prosecution.
I tire of the "FREE KEVIN" attitude towards computer hackers prevelant on Slashdot. You do the crime, you do the time. I can't wait to read the coming stories about how Lamo is assaulted and brutalized in prison. That should teach him to keep his nose clean.
I pay $50/month for Cable in Hampton Roads, Virginia. If they drop my monthly fee to $35 I would gladly go along with the caps. But for $50, I better be able to download Linux ISOs in an acceptable time frame.
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What's really sad is that they are allowed to get away with it. In Germany, SCO has already been prevented from spreading lies and making baseless allegations in public. I enjoy and respect the liberty that is "freedom of speech", but I wouldn't categorize what SCO, Microsoft, and Sun are doing as merely "freely speaking".
I wheezed silently and released, collasping onto the floor, laughing at this fascinating realization.
Ninth post.
So, I would be more worried about someone dropping it, which might release the strong nuclear force, and well, we get another Hiroshima.
I took a broken GameCube, gutted it, and put in some SFF components. The controller ports made great PS2 ports, and I carved out slots where the memory cards went for USB. The only problem was the power supply, which is sticking a bit out of the rear of the 'Cube. I keep it next to my working GameCube just to throw people off.
If you don't like that answer, you have to seek a knowledgable second opinion that carries weight. This will be hard, since you can't buy a service manual (which contains the circuit diagrams and other information that you require in trying to prove your case). You then have to fight the decision legally. All HP had to do was show that the third party cartridges could have caused a problem.
Isn't it cheaper to just pay the $500 to have the rotary assembly fixed, and stop using third party cartridges?
That consumer-protecting law is nice, and I'm glad it's around, but it is easily defeated by the printer manufacturers.
What the inclusion of third party cartridge resellers into the market place does is cause competition in the sale of a specific consumable (toner), and nothing more. Sure, it is going to cut into profits, but printer manufacturers have a very easy way of fighting back: if you use third party consumables, you void your warranty. And this is a perfectly reasonable tactic, because you can't expect a printer manufacturer to insure a product that is using components who's quality they have no way of controlling. And trust me, when it costs $450 dollars just to have a printer tech take a look at your machine, no one is going to willingly void their warranty.
These rampant fires may be wreaking havoc upon insurance companies, but just remember, it is all part of nature. This catastrophe serves to remind us humans we are part of nature, not above it.
Despite how horrific they appear to be, they serve some beneficial role in the grand scheme of things.
Bla bla bla
Hell, I volunteer for this. You could be a super hero cyborg or something, like Cable, only without the gayness.
I suprised that they don't just fire a missle at the poor hapless bastards and call them Indians.
AOL is just protecting their business.
Microsoft Security Analyst
- Remotely corrected flaws in the Microsoft Windows operating system
- Reason for leaving: Incarceration by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2004-2006
Compared to conventional means, I suppose this is an easier method of removing game cartridges from your N-Gage.
Intuit drops DRM feature from Turbo Tax
So I have them
I'm suprised that SCO's McBride isn't on this list somewhere, for his spectacular achievement in Chemistry: Turning bullshit into gold.
I'm sure that my observations mirror those of many, many others. Linux is making significant penetration into many new markets, true. But the desktop and small-business-server aren't two of those markets.
The current init system is actually fine in my opinion, but if someone comes up with better system that can boot my Linux system as fast as my XP system boots, I'm game.
I feel sorry for Valve if this turns out to be the real deal.
Who cares. So some nerds in Idaho with nothing better to do will be wall hacking on the "SNIPER RIFLES ONLY --- NO NEWBS@! Xx-- CLAN 17th L33T --xX" server.
I am so sick of hearing about Gentoo everytime I read Slashdot. If Gentoo were a living person I would kick him in the ghoulies.
I look at the development of such games as just another form of training, a supplement if you will. It allows the Army to reach a greater variety of potential recruits. Nothing wrong with that.
I tire of the "FREE KEVIN" attitude towards computer hackers prevelant on Slashdot. You do the crime, you do the time. I can't wait to read the coming stories about how Lamo is assaulted and brutalized in prison. That should teach him to keep his nose clean.
Couldn't Adobe have purchased traditional advertisement space?
Star Wars Galaxies sucks
I pay $50/month for Cable in Hampton Roads, Virginia. If they drop my monthly fee to $35 I would gladly go along with the caps. But for $50, I better be able to download Linux ISOs in an acceptable time frame.