Many of the building blocks of these applications are there for developers to take advantage of. The DLLs get large because Microsoft dictates that they must remain backwards compatible, so that an application coded for dllhell.dll version 1 will still work for dllhell.dll version 6 without recompiling.
Are you serious? Ever been through the vbrun or msvcrt hell?
This is one thing Windows does have that Linux doesn't.
WTF? At least you can have MULTIPLE versions of one library on linux or any other unix/bsd variant with shared libraries. In windows that is impossible. The don't call it dll hell for nothing?
Why can't we have define fines as a proportion of the defendant's wealth or income or something, so that they hurt everybody just as much regardless of how rich they are?
The EU can fine for an amount of 10% of the earnings within eu countries. Nintendo was once fined $600M for uncompetitive behaviour. How much do you think they can fine microsoft?
SCO hasn't put out a viable product in years, and frankly neither had Caldera. To me this just seems like SCO is using the legal system as it's new business model. Can't make a profit the ol' fashioned way? Now you can sue yourself to a profit. What a bunch of ass clowns.
Indeed. Looking at all they are trying to do you can conclude they do not care about what happens to linux, unix or bsd. They only care about filling their own pockets with someone elses money. If they did care they would not try to destroy it.
The EULA on the current MS Platform SDK certainly prohibits using the said SDK to develop software that runs on non-Microsoft operating systems; I don't know whether that covers APIs...
But what does the EULA for the DDK (=driver development kit) say? The DDK is used for driver development, not the SDK.
I feel compelled to point out that there's nothing in the article SAYING the bios would prevent other OSes from being installed. Nor, from the description, there is no reason it would have to happen, unless it was deliberately implemented.
And one important thing: neither phoenix nor microsoft produces mainboard. Most mainboard makers come from Asia and those countries have repeatedly shown not to trust microsoft. Lets see if they want to put such a bios on their mainboards.
But then they seemed to take naps that lasted for years while AMD and Intel kept improving chip speed and performance
They didn't take naps. They just shifted focus to the embedded and telecom market instead of the consumer market.
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Except for the fact that due to all the memory leaks and other programming issues in Windows, you'll still need to do your daily hard reboot. This will just make it slightly faster.
Indeed. I used hibernation for a while in winxp, but after a few days/weeks I still had to reboot because it gets extremely slow because it runs out of memory. And if your system crashed you want that memory to be erased to get to a clean state.
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I don't know what version of Windows they're using (95?), but for the past 4 or 5 years the "ritualized shut-down procedure" is automated by simply touching an on/off button.
And holding it for four seconds for the hardware poweroff to kick in;)
And why is there no mention of their linux license program in the open letter? very strange... Just another attempt to raise the stock price and its seems to have worked (again?)
Sadly, most on here will totally dismiss it with the predictable BSOD 'gags'
Sadly they are correct. I've been playing with such a smartphone and they are very unstable. Things like disconnects while calling and random crashes is not acceptable for a telephone.
Orange (I think it was them) was supplying them here in the netherlands. They had to give some users back their money because some services were barely useable.
I contacted SCO Germany and tried to get an offer for a desktop licence. On the phone a SCO employee said I should stop "babbling" (yes, she used that word). I should sent an email instead. Others have tried that weeks ago and got no reaction up to now.
That's probably because they cannot legaly sell licenses if it is not proven that they own the stuff. At least that's what european legislation tells you.
In fact, that is really a pity. How beatiful would it be when large blocks would be assigned to countries, and encompassing blocks to areas, continents, etc. It would ease the administration of connectivity policies a lot. And also often would make routing easier.
Dividing the adresses in such a static way sure makes routing easier. But the big problem with that is: how do you divide the adresses. How can you determine how many ip adresses a country or continent needs in the future. If you have divided it wrong there is no easy way to redivide it.
I'm not worried about the labels' "business model". What about the artists' business model? How are they any less susceptible to piracy in exactly the same way? They might see DRM as the only alternative to getting ripped off -- unless offered better alternatives.
With or without DRM, the artists will be ripped off either way (by the record labels)
Where I live (The Netherlands) trademarks that are words of a natural language are not protected in any way. Everybody can use windows, word, office, money the way they like. If it is listed in a dictionary it can be freely used. Almost all microsoft product use plain english words and are not protected.
Kazaa is 99% copyrighted material trading, don't kid yourself. It's for people that want to download mp3's and for people that want to download warez but our too stupid to understand newsgroups. So in this case removing the tool is a valid and sensible option. And in America, we do go after people that make the tools readily available.
So you say we must remove all tools that can distribute illegal material, so all software that in any way uses HTTP, FTP, IRC, MSN, ICQ or AOL protocols must be removed; all of them are/can be used to share copyrighted material.
As an American, the answers to your questions are yes and yes. Saddam is a terrible menace, and he must be dealt with in a forceful manner. I'm sick and tired of the UN's and Europe's complete lack of courage to stand up for democracy and human rights.
Spoken like a true brainwashed american. Do you believe everything the government tells you?
What ever happenned tot he Processor Serial Number (PSN) that Intel put in the P3?
Because of privacy concerns a lot of countries told intel to disable the PSN otherwise the PIII would be banned/boycotted. Intel complied to that. Push hard enough and any company will back down.
Is it in the P4? Is it in any AMD chips?
Don't know for the P4, but the AMD Thunderbird does not contain it.
but i would rather have the ISP's bear the costs, instead of taxes. Because the taxes collected will be wasted in committees and only eventually spent to make this a reality.
the ISP's will raise the price a bit, set up what they need in an efficient manner.
Seems you aren't familiar with high bandwidth prices here in europe.
The backbone providers must increase their prices to the ISPs and the ISPs themself face a double price increase to be charged to the users, which the users won't pay. All smaller ISPs will go out of business.
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Many of the building blocks of these applications are there for developers to take advantage of. The DLLs get large because Microsoft dictates that they must remain backwards compatible, so that an application coded for dllhell.dll version 1 will still work for dllhell.dll version 6 without recompiling.
Are you serious? Ever been through the vbrun or msvcrt hell?
This is one thing Windows does have that Linux doesn't.
WTF? At least you can have MULTIPLE versions of one library on linux or any other unix/bsd variant with shared libraries. In windows that is impossible. The don't call it dll hell for nothing?
If I am to believe this screensaver, then yes. Euros look a little like fancy monopoly money IMO. :-)
;-)
Indeed they do. Look at this site for the images, maybe you can print them too.
The site is in dutch, but that should not matter for images.
Why can't we have define fines as a proportion of the defendant's wealth or income or something, so that they hurt everybody just as much regardless of how rich they are?
The EU can fine for an amount of 10% of the earnings within eu countries. Nintendo was once fined $600M for uncompetitive behaviour. How much do you think they can fine microsoft?
SCO: OK guys, this US gig isn't going to get us anywhere. Let's go to Europe!
Yes, let's try that again
Besides these are city busess they won't be going to fast to start off with
;)
Are you sure? Ever been in a dutch city bus?
SCO hasn't put out a viable product in years, and frankly neither had Caldera. To me this just seems like SCO is using the legal system as it's new business model. Can't make a profit the ol' fashioned way? Now you can sue yourself to a profit. What a bunch of ass clowns.
Indeed. Looking at all they are trying to do you can conclude they do not care about what happens to linux, unix or bsd. They only care about filling their own pockets with someone elses money. If they did care they would not try to destroy it.
The EULA on the current MS Platform SDK certainly prohibits using the said SDK to develop software that runs on non-Microsoft operating systems; I don't know whether that covers APIs...
But what does the EULA for the DDK (=driver development kit) say? The DDK is used for driver development, not the SDK.
I feel compelled to point out that there's nothing in the article SAYING the bios would prevent other OSes from being installed. Nor, from the description, there is no reason it would have to happen, unless it was deliberately implemented.
And one important thing: neither phoenix nor microsoft produces mainboard. Most mainboard makers come from Asia and those countries have repeatedly shown not to trust microsoft. Lets see if they want to put such a bios on their mainboards.
But then they seemed to take naps that lasted for years while AMD and Intel kept improving chip speed and performance
They didn't take naps. They just shifted focus to the embedded and telecom market instead of the consumer market.
Except for the fact that due to all the memory leaks and other programming issues in Windows, you'll still need to do your daily hard reboot. This will just make it slightly faster.
Indeed. I used hibernation for a while in winxp, but after a few days/weeks I still had to reboot because it gets extremely slow because it runs out of memory. And if your system crashed you want that memory to be erased to get to a clean state.
I don't know what version of Windows they're using (95?), but for the past 4 or 5 years the "ritualized shut-down procedure" is automated by simply touching an on/off button.
;)
And holding it for four seconds for the hardware poweroff to kick in
And why is there no mention of their linux license program in the open letter? very strange...
Just another attempt to raise the stock price and its seems to have worked (again?)
If there is any evindence then show it.
Filtering based upon mail content won't stop one of the biggest issues with spam - the bandwidth cost.
Indeed. The pro spam retards claim bandwidth is cheap. That is not the case everywhere in the world.
For isps spam costs a lot of money.
Sadly, most on here will totally dismiss it with the predictable BSOD 'gags'
Sadly they are correct. I've been playing with such a smartphone and they are very unstable. Things like disconnects while calling and random crashes is not acceptable for a telephone.
Orange (I think it was them) was supplying them here in the netherlands. They had to give some users back their money because some services were barely useable.
I contacted SCO Germany and tried to get an offer for a desktop licence. On the phone a SCO employee said I should stop "babbling" (yes, she used that word). I should sent an email instead. Others have tried that weeks ago and got no reaction up to now.
That's probably because they cannot legaly sell licenses if it is not proven that they own the stuff. At least that's what european legislation tells you.
In fact, that is really a pity.
How beatiful would it be when large blocks would be assigned to countries, and encompassing blocks to areas, continents, etc.
It would ease the administration of connectivity policies a lot. And also often would make routing easier.
Dividing the adresses in such a static way sure makes routing easier. But the big problem with that is: how do you divide the adresses. How can you determine how many ip adresses a country or continent needs in the future. If you have divided it wrong there is no easy way to redivide it.
I'm not worried about the labels' "business model". What about the artists' business model? How are they any less susceptible to piracy in exactly the same way? They might see DRM as the only alternative to getting ripped off -- unless offered better alternatives.
With or without DRM, the artists will be ripped off either way (by the record labels)
Besides, depending on how he got signed onto all those mailing lists, he might be able to claim that whoever did it was impersonating him illegally.
99,9% of all spam has a faked sender address. How about impersonating someone illegally?
Where I live (The Netherlands) trademarks that are words of a natural language are not protected in any way. Everybody can use windows, word, office, money the way they like. If it is listed in a dictionary it can be freely used. Almost all microsoft product use plain english words and are not protected.
Kazaa is 99% copyrighted material trading, don't kid yourself. It's for people that want to download mp3's and for people that want to download warez but our too stupid to understand newsgroups. So in this case removing the tool is a valid and sensible option. And in America, we do go after people that make the tools readily available.
So you say we must remove all tools that can distribute illegal material, so all software that in any way uses HTTP, FTP, IRC, MSN, ICQ or AOL protocols must be removed; all of them are/can be used to share copyrighted material.
A lot of good that does from keeping someone from typing 'rm -rf *'. :)
;)
Shouldn't we put it in the keyboard instead of the mouse to prevent this?
As an American, the answers to your questions are yes and yes. Saddam is a terrible menace, and he must be dealt with in a forceful manner. I'm sick and tired of the UN's and Europe's complete lack of courage to stand up for democracy and human rights.
Spoken like a true brainwashed american. Do you believe everything the government tells you?
By "disabled" do you mean, "turned off by software" (that is, potentially hackable) or "not on the processor, anywhere" (that is, there is no PSN)?
It was turned off by hardwafre, but not removed, so it can be enabled by software.
What ever happenned tot he Processor Serial Number (PSN) that Intel put in the P3?
Because of privacy concerns a lot of countries told intel to disable the PSN otherwise the PIII would be banned/boycotted. Intel complied to that.
Push hard enough and any company will back down.
Is it in the P4? Is it in any AMD chips?
Don't know for the P4, but the AMD Thunderbird does not contain it.
but i would rather have the ISP's bear the costs, instead of taxes. Because the taxes collected will be wasted in committees and only eventually spent to make this a reality.
the ISP's will raise the price a bit, set up what they need in an efficient manner.
Seems you aren't familiar with high bandwidth prices here in europe.
The backbone providers must increase their prices to the ISPs and the ISPs themself face a double price increase to be charged to the users, which the users won't pay. All smaller ISPs will go out of business.