In its lawsuit, Navitaire initially alleged copying of its source and binary code, but backed off this claim after it became evident during the discovery phase that this wasn't true, BulletProof says in Tuesday's complaint.
For a consolidated source of documentation for Gnome development, you might also check out Devhelp. It is "an API documentation browser for GNOME 2". You can get source, RPM, or SRPM on their site, and Gentoo has it in Portage.
Sun gets quite a bit of revenue from their support contracts. IIRC, in my last job, the company paid something on the order of a quarter million dollars for platinum level support on the primary cluster and lesser levels of support on the various other machines. That's a quarter million per year on a few million dollars worth of hardware.
Licensing fees among big, and even moderately big, companies are always negotiable. The company I used to work for did lots of negotiating under the old pricing scheme with Sun and Oracle. As long as Sun needs the business, they will probably negotiate under this or the old scheme. That company had about 2000 employees at the time.
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Maybe it's a difference between the way young children learn language versus the way adults learn it.
I believe he says that everyone always called him Havoc, rather than Robert. It wasn't a conscious choice on his part. He also says it has no special meaning and no cool story; it just shows that his parents are weird.
That's interesting. One or more of the people who spoke on TechTV's Music Wars show said the same thing -- that it wasn't about getting it for free; it was about getting everything he wanted in one place conveniently. I was a little doubtful myself because that wasn't the way I've used music downloads in my very limited experience. The record industry guys were, not surprisingly, even more doubtful.
After you've downloaded an album you like, do you ever buy the CD when you happen to be in a store? What about an online CD club where you can just select a few CDs you want after listening to the samples or after downloading the full tracks elsewhere and have them delivered to you?
"I hate the RIAA more than ever.. I mean yea I have about 12000mp3's on my hd and only 30-40 divx's"
I'd love to see the RIAA destroy itself too, but you sound like one of the people they claim are destroying their business. That's a hell of a lot of material that I'm assuming you never paid for. The only times I've downloaded music, it was so that I could decide whether or not to buy the CD or go to the concert. I don't think I should have to spend a pile of money to find out whether or not the material is worth buying, but if it's worthwhile, I pay for it.
Out of curiosity, did you previously tape other people's CDs, tapes, records, or whatever, before you started downloading music? I'm just wondering if the people who download thousands of songs would have just swiped them using some other means without the easy availability on the net, or if you would have bought some of it.
That seems to be the core of the RIAA's complaint -- that people download as a replacement for purchasing. I wonder how true that is, and how much of that music would have been stolen by other means.
What, exactly, does it say? As has been pointed out many times on slashdot, the movie industry tried to kill the VCR for the same reason the RIAA is trying to kill file sharing.
That's one of the things that has bugged me about the hype over hybrids. I remember nearly 20 years ago the Honda CRX HF was rated for 54MPG on the sticker. After 20 years of progress, we've achieved a slightly larger car, for 3 times the cost, which has about the same mileage.
"What most slashdotters forget in their rabid anti-Microsoft raving, is the ancient quote "Know thine enemy". I'd much rather know how to use all the "evil" M$ products, so I can clearly make cases for and against them when the opportunity arises, than to just chant "They're EVIL!" and hope they go away."
That's true. The problem is where they will learn about the alternatives. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of MS products is a good thing, whether you like them or hate them. If students are exposed to nothing but MS, the MS way is the only way they will know. Having MS and non-MS side-by-side for unbiased comparison would be great, but it seems that some of those contracts are replacing other platforms, rather than augmenting them. When a school allows MS to become the offical end-to-end platform of that school, they are whoring themselves, to the detriment of their students' education.
Other companies have bought their way in before with limited success. Apple did it before and so did Sun. Sun isn't the dominant commercial UNIX vendor because their machines and OS are better than all the others. They achieved that by practically giving away equipment to universities, and by being better at sales and marketing. Unfortunately, MS is at least an order of magnitude better at sales and marketing than Sun or anyone else, so their influence is likely to be much greater. The other difference is that most of what you learn on a Sun is applicable to Tru64, HP-UX, Linux, or any of their other competitors, while MFC and other MS tech is applicable mostly on that one platform.
BTW, UNIX vendors are still struggling to achieve the level of clustering DEC had in VAX/VMS. They've told me so in vendor meetings.:) I never tried writing code for them, and I aliased VMS commands to more familiar UNIX commands, so I can't comment much on that.
I've already done exactly that. It's very Starry Nightish. Despite its small size, it scales quite well to my 1600x1200 Gnome desktop. They seem to use some good interpolation routines.
You can be more selective on which unstable packages to install. For one thing, you can pass the ACCEPT_KEYWORD= environment variable when you issue the emerge command. The environment variable takes precedence over the config file. I've done this to install a few packages that were still marked as unstable, such as MythTV v.0.10.
I believe you can also configure it to specifically use unstable versions of some packages in the config files, but I don't recall how. I'm pretty new to Gentoo myself, and I haven't had enough need to bother learning that trick.
BTW, even though I am far from a Gentoo optimization guru, I have been amazed at the speed difference between my Gentoo Stage 1 install versus my previous RedHat 7, 8 and 9 installs on the same machine. It took me a while to figure out why my first kernel build (after installation) failed after only a few minutes. It didn't. It was just finished. It made the previous 24 hours I'd spent doing the Stage 1 install worth it, I think.
While your point is good and valid, you do have to pay for that ease with a lack of choice and an inflated price tag. One of the main reasons I've always stuck with the PC platform is that I have the flexibility to tinker with different hardware, and I'm willing to suffer the consequences.
Like most people here, I would prefer for nVidia to release the source of their drivers, but I can't complain about the quality of the ones they provide. I've never had a problem with them. As long as they have good support for Linux, I'll stick with nVidia. Have you actually had problems with their Linux, or for that matter, Windows drivers? My experience has been with RedHat 6 - 9 and now Gentoo, and Win98, and I've never had a problem. Maybe it's because my card is so old -- GeForce2 GTS.
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Yes, because if the big one is going to hit, there are a lot of virgins here who need to get laid before everyone dies.
The second part of their article is here.
For a consolidated source of documentation for Gnome development, you might also check out Devhelp. It is "an API documentation browser for GNOME 2". You can get source, RPM, or SRPM on their site, and Gentoo has it in Portage.
Sun gets quite a bit of revenue from their support contracts. IIRC, in my last job, the company paid something on the order of a quarter million dollars for platinum level support on the primary cluster and lesser levels of support on the various other machines. That's a quarter million per year on a few million dollars worth of hardware.
Licensing fees among big, and even moderately big, companies are always negotiable. The company I used to work for did lots of negotiating under the old pricing scheme with Sun and Oracle. As long as Sun needs the business, they will probably negotiate under this or the old scheme. That company had about 2000 employees at the time.
Maybe it's a difference between the way young children learn language versus the way adults learn it.
I believe he says that everyone always called him Havoc, rather than Robert. It wasn't a conscious choice on his part. He also says it has no special meaning and no cool story; it just shows that his parents are weird.
After you've downloaded an album you like, do you ever buy the CD when you happen to be in a store? What about an online CD club where you can just select a few CDs you want after listening to the samples or after downloading the full tracks elsewhere and have them delivered to you?
I'd love to see the RIAA destroy itself too, but you sound like one of the people they claim are destroying their business. That's a hell of a lot of material that I'm assuming you never paid for. The only times I've downloaded music, it was so that I could decide whether or not to buy the CD or go to the concert. I don't think I should have to spend a pile of money to find out whether or not the material is worth buying, but if it's worthwhile, I pay for it.
Out of curiosity, did you previously tape other people's CDs, tapes, records, or whatever, before you started downloading music? I'm just wondering if the people who download thousands of songs would have just swiped them using some other means without the easy availability on the net, or if you would have bought some of it.
That seems to be the core of the RIAA's complaint -- that people download as a replacement for purchasing. I wonder how true that is, and how much of that music would have been stolen by other means.
What, exactly, does it say? As has been pointed out many times on slashdot, the movie industry tried to kill the VCR for the same reason the RIAA is trying to kill file sharing.
That's one of the things that has bugged me about the hype over hybrids. I remember nearly 20 years ago the Honda CRX HF was rated for 54MPG on the sticker. After 20 years of progress, we've achieved a slightly larger car, for 3 times the cost, which has about the same mileage.
That's true. The problem is where they will learn about the alternatives. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of MS products is a good thing, whether you like them or hate them. If students are exposed to nothing but MS, the MS way is the only way they will know. Having MS and non-MS side-by-side for unbiased comparison would be great, but it seems that some of those contracts are replacing other platforms, rather than augmenting them. When a school allows MS to become the offical end-to-end platform of that school, they are whoring themselves, to the detriment of their students' education.
Other companies have bought their way in before with limited success. Apple did it before and so did Sun. Sun isn't the dominant commercial UNIX vendor because their machines and OS are better than all the others. They achieved that by practically giving away equipment to universities, and by being better at sales and marketing. Unfortunately, MS is at least an order of magnitude better at sales and marketing than Sun or anyone else, so their influence is likely to be much greater. The other difference is that most of what you learn on a Sun is applicable to Tru64, HP-UX, Linux, or any of their other competitors, while MFC and other MS tech is applicable mostly on that one platform.
BTW, UNIX vendors are still struggling to achieve the level of clustering DEC had in VAX/VMS. They've told me so in vendor meetings. :) I never tried writing code for them, and I aliased VMS commands to more familiar UNIX commands, so I can't comment much on that.
I've already done exactly that. It's very Starry Nightish. Despite its small size, it scales quite well to my 1600x1200 Gnome desktop. They seem to use some good interpolation routines.
I believe you can also configure it to specifically use unstable versions of some packages in the config files, but I don't recall how. I'm pretty new to Gentoo myself, and I haven't had enough need to bother learning that trick.
BTW, even though I am far from a Gentoo optimization guru, I have been amazed at the speed difference between my Gentoo Stage 1 install versus my previous RedHat 7, 8 and 9 installs on the same machine. It took me a while to figure out why my first kernel build (after installation) failed after only a few minutes. It didn't. It was just finished. It made the previous 24 hours I'd spent doing the Stage 1 install worth it, I think.
You can't possibly be suggesting that Apple benchmarks should be looked at with suspicion. Steve would never mislead people.
I actually said that out loud in the theater, and heard people all around me laughing. I think someone even clapped.
Out of curiosity, what do you do at work?
It all worked for me last time I ran it under RedHat. Now I just emerge both packages under Gentoo with no hassles.
While your point is good and valid, you do have to pay for that ease with a lack of choice and an inflated price tag. One of the main reasons I've always stuck with the PC platform is that I have the flexibility to tinker with different hardware, and I'm willing to suffer the consequences.
Like most people here, I would prefer for nVidia to release the source of their drivers, but I can't complain about the quality of the ones they provide. I've never had a problem with them. As long as they have good support for Linux, I'll stick with nVidia. Have you actually had problems with their Linux, or for that matter, Windows drivers? My experience has been with RedHat 6 - 9 and now Gentoo, and Win98, and I've never had a problem. Maybe it's because my card is so old -- GeForce2 GTS.
Have you found any downside to the Audrey?
Those photographs were taken in front of a building which is owned or rented by a company which may or may not own, in whole or in part, various versions of the UNIX operating system, and are therefor derivative works. As such, they are the property of SCO. The photographer and the manufacturer of the camera are hereby ordered to cease and desist photographic activity and manufacture of equipment facilitating same, respectively, until such time as said criminals *Dr. Evil voice* pay SCO one million, dollars. Mwahahahahahah!!!
Nicely put. I think that is a factor in some cases.