From the article: Thousands may be able to witness your satellite returning from space in the form of a shooting star, a fireball that burns up in Earth's atmosphere!
Now you can have your satellite burn up just like all that money! How cute!
SCO isn't a company. Debian and Gentoo aren't companies. Is Mandrake? Is there any other companies out there rolling their own distro?
SCO is publicly traded under the symbol SCOX, of course it's a company. IDK about Debian, but have you ever heard of Gentoo Technologies, Inc? And of course Mandrake is a company, they recently filed bankruptcy, did they not?
From the article: To achieve that distinction, Painter is thinking in computing terms, trying to wrench into existence what he calls an "open source" car.
I just don't know how many geeks that read/. would be physically capable of building, then maintaining, their own custom car.
Think back to the days when Microsoft was starting with Win3.1. At the same time, Novell was after the same market share. Novell's marketing strategy was to meet with all of the CTOs and low-level IT guys and get them sold on Novell. This worked. Microsoft then had to come up with a way of getting those corporations to use Win3.1, instead. Microsoft, instead of talking to the IT guys, went straight to the CFOs and CEOs. Microsoft was able to sell them, and Win3.1 became the work force's de facto. People generally want to keep things simple with their computer, so obviously the people who knew nothing of computers would want Microsoft Windows on their home computers, too. Thus began the Microsoft Empire.
As I understand it from theDeacon's response to this article, there is quite a bit of slander contained within Seth's writings. I don't know if anyone is thinking the same thing that I am, but this much slander would qualify as defimation of character. The article's author has commited libel.
Personally, if I were the subject of the article, I would bring a civil liberties suit up. This kind of article is a violation of the subject's civil rights.
As I understand it from theDeacon's response to this article, there is quite a bit of slander contained within. I don't know if anyone is thinking the same thing that I am, but this much slander would qualify as defimation of character. The article's author has commited libel.
Personally, if I were the subject of the article, I would bring a civil liberties suit up. This kind of article is a violation of the subject's civil rights.
hahaha... By your logic, if I own a few shares in Microsoft, I should be able to use their company jets, cars, season tickets, etc.
Also by your logic (although twisted), because you're a tax payer, you should be able to be president for at LEAST a day, seeing as how you are the one who signs his checks.
Maybe it's the fact that I am reading this at 0330 (MST). However, I think a lot of the/.ers commenting on this article are reading into the potential just a little bit too far. People are talking about stuff anywhere from losing their jobs to nanotechnology all the way to robots taking over the world. This article is about a nano-scale being able to weigh ~122 atoms of gold. This article is not talking about a nano-scale that was able sense the weight, then reflect about it in its/. journal or develop a mastermind scheme on how it will take over the world.
And unless this ity-bity scale was merely crafted by engineers and never programmed (thus being able to program itself), then I think the human race has nothing to worry about. That's right,/.ers, save your conspiracy theories; they have no weight in comments about being able to measure gold.
don't we still need something reasonable sized to use it?
Not at all. I imagine that one day cellphones will merely be chips implanted into us. It's not that hard to concieve, though. (OTOH, maybe I have been playing to much Metal Gear Solid as of late.)
Matt Oppenheim: "If you are attempting to distribute recordings that you own the rights to and the RIAA is in any way preventing you from doing so, you should contact us immediately."
Matt Oppenheim: "Individuals are not permitted to make copies of their copyrighted recordings and distribute them to others without permission from the copyright owner. Whether or not you do it for free or for profit is irrelevant; the impact on the copyright owner is the same, they do not have the ability to sell their artistic work to others because they have received an unauthorized free copy."
Excuse me while I go distribute music that I own with Mr. RIAA's permission, then go get sued because of Mr. RIAA's decrees.
Except for, of course, declarations of martial law. Otherwise any faction of the military cannot participate in the funcitons of enforcing the law.
And to those who think that the National Guard is a part of the armed forces, you are/were wrong. Not until the whole homeland security overhaul has the National Guard been proposed to be part of the armed forces. Before the homeland security laws were passed (most of which are still not in effect), the National Guard was a branch of the Department of Transportation, believe it or not.
easy....
`tar -cjvf kernel.tar.bz2/usr/src/linux && cat kernel.tar.bz2 >/dev/dsp`
this is actually quite pleasant to listen to while working as it is soothing like classical music.
what does one call one hundred thousand frenchmen with their hands up? the french military.
why does america need the french for the war on terrorism? someone has to show them how to surrender.
i just hope the french dont think it's a DDoS attack and threaten to veto his internet resolution, should he make a proposal to the council and call for a vote...
er...
While I'm sure that someone with a clue could manage to run a WinXP computer just as securely and stable as any Linux, OSX,.
i wouldnt be suprised if you were one of the people who is trying to run windows at this firm:P. show my ONE statistical finding or HOW-TO on making windows run as stable/more stable than linux. i've gotta see this.
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From the article:
Thousands may be able to witness your satellite returning from space in the form of a shooting star, a fireball that burns up in Earth's atmosphere!
Now you can have your satellite burn up just like all that money! How cute!
It does, here.
SCO isn't a company. Debian and Gentoo aren't companies. Is Mandrake? Is there any other companies out there rolling their own distro? SCO is publicly traded under the symbol SCOX, of course it's a company. IDK about Debian, but have you ever heard of Gentoo Technologies, Inc? And of course Mandrake is a company, they recently filed bankruptcy, did they not?
From the article: To achieve that distinction, Painter is thinking in computing terms, trying to wrench into existence what he calls an "open source" car.
/. would be physically capable of building, then maintaining, their own custom car.
I just don't know how many geeks that read
Actually, it sounds like some super-drug to me. I just replaced PPC with PCP and viola, I have one hell of a trip.
Think back to the days when Microsoft was starting with Win3.1. At the same time, Novell was after the same market share. Novell's marketing strategy was to meet with all of the CTOs and low-level IT guys and get them sold on Novell. This worked. Microsoft then had to come up with a way of getting those corporations to use Win3.1, instead. Microsoft, instead of talking to the IT guys, went straight to the CFOs and CEOs. Microsoft was able to sell them, and Win3.1 became the work force's de facto. People generally want to keep things simple with their computer, so obviously the people who knew nothing of computers would want Microsoft Windows on their home computers, too. Thus began the Microsoft Empire.
I hope this helps your over-rated comments.
As I understand it from theDeacon's response to this article, there is quite a bit of slander contained within Seth's writings. I don't know if anyone is thinking the same thing that I am, but this much slander would qualify as defimation of character. The article's author has commited libel.
Personally, if I were the subject of the article, I would bring a civil liberties suit up. This kind of article is a violation of the subject's civil rights.
As I understand it from theDeacon's response to this article, there is quite a bit of slander contained within. I don't know if anyone is thinking the same thing that I am, but this much slander would qualify as defimation of character. The article's author has commited libel.
Personally, if I were the subject of the article, I would bring a civil liberties suit up. This kind of article is a violation of the subject's civil rights.
hahaha... By your logic, if I own a few shares in Microsoft, I should be able to use their company jets, cars, season tickets, etc. Also by your logic (although twisted), because you're a tax payer, you should be able to be president for at LEAST a day, seeing as how you are the one who signs his checks.
...steal with your hand and get your hand cut off. Hamurabi is now appending "steal with your computer and your computer will combust."
Maybe it's the fact that I am reading this at 0330 (MST). However, I think a lot of the /.ers commenting on this article are reading into the potential just a little bit too far. People are talking about stuff anywhere from losing their jobs to nanotechnology all the way to robots taking over the world. This article is about a nano-scale being able to weigh ~122 atoms of gold. This article is not talking about a nano-scale that was able sense the weight, then reflect about it in its /. journal or develop a mastermind scheme on how it will take over the world.
/.ers, save your conspiracy theories; they have no weight in comments about being able to measure gold.
And unless this ity-bity scale was merely crafted by engineers and never programmed (thus being able to program itself), then I think the human race has nothing to worry about. That's right,
don't we still need something reasonable sized to use it?
Not at all. I imagine that one day cellphones will merely be chips implanted into us. It's not that hard to concieve, though. (OTOH, maybe I have been playing to much Metal Gear Solid as of late.)
Matt Oppenheim:
"If you are attempting to distribute recordings that you own the rights to and the RIAA is in any way preventing you from doing so, you should contact us immediately."
Matt Oppenheim:
"Individuals are not permitted to make copies of their copyrighted recordings and distribute them to others without permission from the copyright owner. Whether or not you do it for free or for profit is irrelevant; the impact on the copyright owner is the same, they do not have the ability to sell their artistic work to others because they have received an unauthorized free copy."
Excuse me while I go distribute music that I own with Mr. RIAA's permission, then go get sued because of Mr. RIAA's decrees.
where can I download the source code? IIRC, the GPL mandates that the source be availible to everyone.
Except for, of course, declarations of martial law. Otherwise any faction of the military cannot participate in the funcitons of enforcing the law.
And to those who think that the National Guard is a part of the armed forces, you are/were wrong. Not until the whole homeland security overhaul has the National Guard been proposed to be part of the armed forces. Before the homeland security laws were passed (most of which are still not in effect), the National Guard was a branch of the Department of Transportation, believe it or not.
This was in fact the biggest technological diaster of all time. You must not be considering the entire family of Windows products.
easy.... `tar -cjvf kernel.tar.bz2 /usr/src/linux && cat kernel.tar.bz2 > /dev/dsp`
this is actually quite pleasant to listen to while working as it is soothing like classical music.
what does one call one hundred thousand frenchmen with their hands up? the french military. why does america need the french for the war on terrorism? someone has to show them how to surrender.
i just hope the french dont think it's a DDoS attack and threaten to veto his internet resolution, should he make a proposal to the council and call for a vote... er...
While I'm sure that someone with a clue could manage to run a WinXP computer just as securely and stable as any Linux, OSX, .
i wouldnt be suprised if you were one of the people who is trying to run windows at this firm :P. show my ONE statistical finding or HOW-TO on making windows run as stable/more stable than linux. i've gotta see this.