That was my first thought as well. This may all depend on the court determining that SCO has no right to the material anyway, as has been suggested by Novell and others.
...noncommercial software such as Linux and OpenOffice is seen as...'good enough'...
Ironic, seeing as how Microsoft seems to strive to keep Windows and Office "just good enough" to keep customers using it compared to better solutions...
As for the FSB, the PC has a faster CPU anyway, so the FSB isn't going to catch the Mac up.
Well, the fattest FSB pipe in the world won't make the CPU any faster...but having a smaller FSB will certainly constrain performance. So while it is arguable how much faster one chip or the other is, having a skinnier bus and slower HD, not to mention far slower I/O architecture, will more than likely make the PC slower, numbers be damned.
A SAN is immensely more complex than this, and Xsan does virtualized volumes for data sharing, file-level locking, and several other things that an out-of-the-box setup will not. Read carefully...I'm not sure of all the details on this product yet, but it's not just mountpoints.
No, Microsoft will be the ones to build Sky.NET, their crappy coders rushing to market without the checks needed to ensure Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
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And if most everyone in the world bought Windows licenses, Microsoft wouldn't need to charge as much for them.....oh wait....everyone DOES buy them, and MS wants to MAKE MONEY.
I bought 50 sticks of 128meg PC-133 for about $16.00 a stick in '02. Can't buy it for that now.
Even if that were true, it would be because PC133 isn't as common as it used to be. All new systems are using DDR (for the most part) nowadays, so manufacturers are not making as much PC133. Low supply == Higher Cost.
That being said, shuttle yourself over to Pricewatch to find yourself 128MB PC133 sticks for $15.
Every company may have knowledgeable techies and programmers, but what's the chance that the upper management would listen to them about corporate legal battles/justification? Not necessarily high.
Meanwhile, at a company whose lawyers are prepped for tech-related lawsuits every day, there is a higher probability of a knee-jerk countersuit.
That being said, you may be right that there COULD be clued-in people at all levels...but a company whose executives need to know a) business and b) car parts is not going to also assume they know c) Operating Systems.
Autozone's typical lawyers are probably not to familiar with the workings of the tech sphere, and may not seek a countersuit as rapidly as someone....say.....IBM....might. SCO already sued IBM and got a fist right back to the face....now they are just looking to settle a few of these to get precedent on their side.
But hey, whadda I know? IANL (I ain't no lawyer...)
Which is probably true of many of the Windows installations out there as well. Many people use Windows because they are forced to. And this leads to buying a Windows machine at home "to stay compatible with work" (despite the other options).
So what's the point? Hopefully if people are "forced" to use Linux at work, and find they can maintain compatibility with their Windows PC at home, they might start to realize they could maintain compatibility with their Linux machine with a Mac, too (even more so in some ways).
I find it sad that the Mac's marketshare is represented so low, but I find OS X and Linux users on the same side of the bigger war, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. w00t!:)
Why wonder? Everyone and their mother uses Google...a small fraction of the world uses Opera. I'm all about rooting for the little guy (Opera) vs the giant (Microsoft), but there are so many other alternatives out there for various platforms (such as Firefox, Galeon, Safari, OmniWeb, etc) that I can't see a company based around a browser succeeding in going public.
Well, one of the arguments for Xbox Linux that the Xbox was a really cheap PC (essentially) so running Linux on it was a good way to get a solid machine for not much money. I can see this as much of the same thing--GameCube is cheaper still. So that's one reason you might want to run Linux on a brand-new machine--it'll be cheaper than a lot of PCs out there for what it will be used for.
Accourse, I could be wrong....but this whole thing seems extraneous.
By the time this is finished enough to be "useful" the next generation of hardware will be out or imminent....why not think of this stuff when the hardware is new? Xbox Linux crew did...
But now the Xbox 2, PS3, and GameCube successor (name?) are looming, so....how about waiting til then, and starting on those immediately?
AIM isn't very formal either....I wouldn't dream of IMing someone regarding a job interview, or a professional deal, etc...but I agree for informal communication, for the most part. Email's paper trail also has niceness about it though, but I suppose if MS has its way, Emails will be DRMed too.:)
I don't care if they are old-fashioned, MagLev, or what. Just like busses, trains are having issues because no one wants to use them. Both Greyhound and Amtrak are unpopular forms of transportation now--no coincidence.
The only trains that survive are local trains (like the BART) and subways really...but for those purposes there is no reason to have a MagLev system--it is too costly to implement for such a small project. magLev would be great long distance, but again, planes are still more popular and don't take up real estate on the ground.
Trains, planes, and automobiles...the first of the bunch is just dropping out of the equation here in America.
Oh relax. It's not like he talked about the little stumpy-legged Lego people burning in the plastic building, or throwing themselves off it and liquidating/melting on the pavement below...THAT would be distasteful.
Oh, whoops.:-\
Seriously people, lighten up. Sure, 9/11 was awful for everyone, and we do need to have respect for those that died and those that lost those they loved. But I and everyone *I* know is pretty tired of the whole world going stoic and stony-eyed anytime someone so much as mentions the events or the WTC. We need to be able to recognize events, learn from them, laugh at them (respectfully, of course) when applicable, and move on. This is a case where it is slightly amusing--I was most amused by the concept of little Lego Angels and Devils on the shoulders.
So please, chill. No one means anything disrespectful (not yet anyway).
Is it not? Thinking back to several semesters of Chemistry, combustion reactions all involve oxygen....so I don't know how explosives would blow up at all without it....
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That was my first thought as well. This may all depend on the court determining that SCO has no right to the material anyway, as has been suggested by Novell and others.
...noncommercial software such as Linux and OpenOffice is seen as...'good enough'...
Ironic, seeing as how Microsoft seems to strive to keep Windows and Office "just good enough" to keep customers using it compared to better solutions...
if there were two of each animal...what did the carnivores eat?
HA! I'm angry I didn't think of that specifically--though food crossed my mind more than once in discounting the story.
And here I ran out of Mod Points yesterday. Nuts.
As for the FSB, the PC has a faster CPU anyway, so the FSB isn't going to catch the Mac up.
Well, the fattest FSB pipe in the world won't make the CPU any faster...but having a smaller FSB will certainly constrain performance. So while it is arguable how much faster one chip or the other is, having a skinnier bus and slower HD, not to mention far slower I/O architecture, will more than likely make the PC slower, numbers be damned.
Apple also introduced Shake 3.5 for Mac OS X, Linux, and IRIX...
A SAN is immensely more complex than this, and Xsan does virtualized volumes for data sharing, file-level locking, and several other things that an out-of-the-box setup will not. Read carefully...I'm not sure of all the details on this product yet, but it's not just mountpoints.
No, Microsoft will be the ones to build Sky.NET, their crappy coders rushing to market without the checks needed to ensure Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
And if most everyone in the world bought Windows licenses, Microsoft wouldn't need to charge as much for them.....oh wait....everyone DOES buy them, and MS wants to MAKE MONEY.
Even if that were true, it would be because PC133 isn't as common as it used to be. All new systems are using DDR (for the most part) nowadays, so manufacturers are not making as much PC133. Low supply == Higher Cost.
That being said, shuttle yourself over to Pricewatch to find yourself 128MB PC133 sticks for $15.
Every company may have knowledgeable techies and programmers, but what's the chance that the upper management would listen to them about corporate legal battles/justification? Not necessarily high.
Meanwhile, at a company whose lawyers are prepped for tech-related lawsuits every day, there is a higher probability of a knee-jerk countersuit.
That being said, you may be right that there COULD be clued-in people at all levels...but a company whose executives need to know a) business and b) car parts is not going to also assume they know c) Operating Systems.
Autozone's typical lawyers are probably not to familiar with the workings of the tech sphere, and may not seek a countersuit as rapidly as someone....say.....IBM....might. SCO already sued IBM and got a fist right back to the face....now they are just looking to settle a few of these to get precedent on their side.
But hey, whadda I know? IANL (I ain't no lawyer...)
So what's the point? Hopefully if people are "forced" to use Linux at work, and find they can maintain compatibility with their Windows PC at home, they might start to realize they could maintain compatibility with their Linux machine with a Mac, too (even more so in some ways).
I find it sad that the Mac's marketshare is represented so low, but I find OS X and Linux users on the same side of the bigger war, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. w00t! :)
Frankly, I'll keep my money in safer places....
Frankly, I think they can go screw themselves....I won't hunt down a way to get into "the clique" and may not even if a friend invites me.
Guess I have to live with my MX500 (no way to MX700).
So true....so true...
Accourse, I could be wrong....but this whole thing seems extraneous.
But now the Xbox 2, PS3, and GameCube successor (name?) are looming, so....how about waiting til then, and starting on those immediately?
AIM isn't very formal either....I wouldn't dream of IMing someone regarding a job interview, or a professional deal, etc...but I agree for informal communication, for the most part. Email's paper trail also has niceness about it though, but I suppose if MS has its way, Emails will be DRMed too. :)
The only trains that survive are local trains (like the BART) and subways really...but for those purposes there is no reason to have a MagLev system--it is too costly to implement for such a small project. magLev would be great long distance, but again, planes are still more popular and don't take up real estate on the ground.
Trains, planes, and automobiles...the first of the bunch is just dropping out of the equation here in America.
Oh, whoops. :-\
Seriously people, lighten up. Sure, 9/11 was awful for everyone, and we do need to have respect for those that died and those that lost those they loved. But I and everyone *I* know is pretty tired of the whole world going stoic and stony-eyed anytime someone so much as mentions the events or the WTC. We need to be able to recognize events, learn from them, laugh at them (respectfully, of course) when applicable, and move on. This is a case where it is slightly amusing--I was most amused by the concept of little Lego Angels and Devils on the shoulders.
So please, chill. No one means anything disrespectful (not yet anyway).
Is it not? Thinking back to several semesters of Chemistry, combustion reactions all involve oxygen....so I don't know how explosives would blow up at all without it....
Now all I need is an anti-patent patent and we can end all the stupid patent nightmares once and for all!
...that Steve Ballmer hasn't just been eating a heck of a lot of Mexican food this week?