You have a very good point about hot java, but what about Safari?
Safari is only an option on Macs and considering that its the default browser that comes with the system, I would hardly call it "alternative". Its not an option for those affected by this latest news.
to the logicall conclusion of your statements, but you missed it. Logically all simplistic statments about anything complex are inhereintly stupid. But does anyone want to know the truth? Does anyone care? Does anyone have time to become experts in governmental versus private industry in the realm of food safety? No, most people don't have the time to spend reading the primary positons of the two major cannadites. So instead of forming an intellegent reason for supporting any cannidate, they rely on the 30 second sound bite to form their opinion. And any opition based upon that vast amount of resaerch is just plain stupid.
In light of that fact, it seems as if the electoral college wasn't such a bad idea after all. However, the problem seems to be that those on elected to the college aren't any more informed about the issues than the general populace. We need an electoral college of philosopher kings!
Although I am American, I often catch myself using the Brittish spellings. When I was in highschool, we didn't have wordperfect or MS word on our computer, we had some silly bargin bin $5 "Easy working word processor" And it's spell check perffered the brittish spellings. I blame it for my poor grades in english. My teacher qould not accept "colour" or "Centre", or "programme" or any other brittish spellings.
But I would want the BSD rating to be 1 for complete bullshit and 0 for no Bullshit. So take 1 and subtract your result of 0 for a BSD of 1 for the paragraph.
FAQ Dated january 22, 2003 Lawsuits lauched march 22, 2003 And they wonder why they don't have any credibility
Isn't this going to anger the open source community?
It shouldn't. We haven't formulated all of our plans for SCOsource yet, but it's important for people to know that SCO is not interested in chasing individual open source developers to collect $149. We want vendors and large commercial users to comply with our IP licenses. The individual open source developer performs a great service to all Linux vendors and customers. We appreciate that and we want them to continue unabated.
It's important to remember that the UNIX shared libraries, owned by SCO, are not Linux products. They are not open source software and they are not covered by the GPL. The shared libraries are UNIX intellectual property, which SCO has owned for years. They are proprietary, licensable intellectual property that we sell. Many Linux environments have been using SCO's UNIX shared libraries because they are a superior product and they make these environments more productive. But until today, there were two ways for users to get the shared libraries:
1. Buy a SCO UNIX or Linux product that included the shared libraries as part of the bundled offering. This is legal.
2. Copy the shared libraries from a disk or through the Internet. In this case someone has unbundled the shared libraries from the SCO offering and opened them up for copying. This is illegal. It is this behavior that we will stop through the creation of SCOsource and today's announcement.
SCO's UNIX shared libraries are not open source code available for free use.
Is SCO going to sue Linux vendors?
SCO is a Linux vendor and a member of United Linux. We have no interest in suing Linux vendors. While we haven't formulated the details of our new SCOsource effort, we're confident that we can work together with other vendors to clear up IP issues in a fair and amicable way.
Two weeks ago an industry publication headlined a story saying SCO was threatening to sue Linux vendors.
The story was wrong. SCOsource is now one day old. We haven't made any plans to sue Linux vendors, and we certainly haven't threatened any vendors. This story was damaging to the Linux community and made assumptions that were incorrect.
But isn't hiring Boies, Schiller and Flexner a clear signal that SCO is getting ready to sue people?
Not at all. SCO is working with BSF for their expertise at dealing with complex legal problems. Resolving intellectual property issues does not automatically mean litigation.
Phantom mennace is way too boring to assosiated with LSD. Its more like Lucas took a group of fanboys and had them write it. Its rather geeky. I mean that in the sence that its just a sequnce of events with no emotional ties between them. No real character development. I understand that eveyrone here thinks that they could have done better, but not many of them understand hwo easy it is create crap and how difficult it is to create anthing better.
Its much more like Caffine and cheetos. Jittery and really cheesey.
Except its industry? I would certianly prefer no DRM, i certianly understand why the riaa would want it. Its in their best interests. Unfortuantly, there are many stupid people that don't understand the consequences of file sharing of copyrighted works. Of course, the industry is going to react. If everyone would freekin apply some common sence we wouldn't be in this pickle. Now we all have to pay for the sins of the few. I just hope that the restrictions aren't more severe then they are now for digital music stores.
I supposed we have to look at open source in another way: it may lead to secure code, and it may lead to bugfixed code, but it doesn't lead to efficient, clean and elegantly-written code. Otherwise we'd have the speed advantage, and Linux's flagship products wouldn't be heavier and slower than Microsoft's.
No, not neccisarily. Clean and elegant code is usually not the fastest or lightest weight. Linux's code is probley more elegant and cleaner than microsofts, simply because it doesn't have so many workarounds for bugs in other third party applications. But I agree with you completely, on the surface you appear to be correct.
However, openoffice desends from star office, a propitary project that was always slow. Open office has been getting better. I find firefox to be faster than ie, at least on windows. I'm more of a kde guy so I can't speak of experince for Gnome or Evolution. Linux, the kernel, is probely the best argument against your view. Its fast, lean, mean, and clean.
Not Jako's house, but the place where Peter pan lives. THe whole world is sort of a projection of his memory, at least in the cartoon series. It came up in an episode where he had amnisa, and the various areas of neverland kept dissapearing and reappering. Wow. Now any nerd can recall episodes of the simpsons or babylon 5, but it takes a real(ly pathetic) geek to recall episodes of a short lived peter pan cartoon. Or is that just frightening instead of geeky?
Ok. The catholic church doesn't make any kind of diffinitive statement as to the eternal whereabouts of anyone (except the saints who by deffinition are in heaven). They can tell you which path they think you are on, but there's always time to change the road you're on. And as other posters have mentioned, the church has nothing but the utmost respect for scientists ( today anyway) and did appologize for its treatment of Galileo ( albeit hundreds of years later). The current Pope seriously considered making EVOLUTION ( started in the big bang) doctrine. I understand you meant no offence. None taken, just correcting your post.
Uhhhh, The parent of the above post mentioned *NOTHING* about religion. It seems you have an axe to grind. In particular, you seem to be making genral sweeping statements about every religeon that has ever existed. It seems as if the guy just didn't know much about science. But, I think we all understand much more about "you".
Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation of adding quotation marks around "you". "You" have to admit that is funny. Laugh. It feels good.
I remeber the quote "Tortoises all the way Down" as being from a women that believed that the earth was supported on th backs of tortises or something like that. Some one asked what the tortises were standing on and she replies "Tortoises all the way down". Where Do I remeber that from? Was in in one of Richard Feyneman's books, or do I remember it from history class ( it was a native american belief that the earth was actually a giant tortoises shell)? Or maybe it was from both.
What is wrong with making a good wage for a good job in your own country?
Well, many people in the world are starving. They don't have food and are dying due to lack of it. Sending your job to their country, may allow them to eat. Even working a minimum wage job here will allow you to eat. So if the decision is between you living comfortably and one man in a distant unkown land dying, or you both living. I'll always choose the latter. Granted, this is an exagerated example, but why should you have the good job and not someone who is equally qualified? The answer of course is that inorder to maintain the good job, you must become more productive so that it makes economic sense to pay you more. In America, many people are resting on the laurels of their ancestors that toiled night and day to build the country into what it is today. If we wish to maintian our standard of living, we must be willing to devote an equal effort today.
The money my boss pays me gets spent in this country (mostly - I dont drive imports)
Don't kid yourself. Anything you buy will send money to a differnt contry. Many "Domestic" Cars from the big three are assembled in Mexico, and contain parts made outside of the US. Anything that contains a computer (like every car made since 1985 or so) contians chips that were made overseas.
I also have interned at a radio station. I have a few friends in the buisness as well. Basically, in my opinion, it is the programming managers fault. No one at the stations that is incharge of programming has a passion for music, they are just trying to play things that they think people will want to listen to, instead of playing new music that they themselves have discovered and have a passion for. The ratings books don't help, as there isn't anything worthwile to listen to in the first place. I am turning my friends on to new music, because there isn't any on the damn stations! All of the power is held by those that control the media. If you just stick to what sells with out ever taking a risk, your buisness will succeed and continue on a predicable path. As large as radio/mass media companies have become, they cannot afford the risk of deviating from the established buisness practices. So basically its a buisness decision that prevents new interesting music from being played. It sucks, but thats what allowing large media companies ( thereby reducing new innovative competing companies) leads to.
what happens if one day science does indeed discover that biology trumphs freewill?
If? Well since evertyhing is predetermined, you should have said when. On the other hand, because there is free will, science will never discover that biology trumphs freewill.
My limited understanding of interstellar phsyics is that einstins equations have never really been solved for the third body problems. Am I wrong? If I remeber correctly we can only aproximate third body forces (tidal forces) even when using the newtonian model.
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You have a very good point about hot java, but what about Safari?
Safari is only an option on Macs and considering that its the default browser that comes with the system, I would hardly call it "alternative". Its not an option for those affected by this latest news.
I've always thought that dvds look much better on my laptop. Can I actually view all of the 780 lines of resolution on it?
If you have then you can only come to one of two conclusions:
Everyone has bad taste
or
The audience does not have the power to determine what is presented to them.
to the logicall conclusion of your statements, but you missed it. Logically all simplistic statments about anything complex are inhereintly stupid. But does anyone want to know the truth? Does anyone care? Does anyone have time to become experts in governmental versus private industry in the realm of food safety? No, most people don't have the time to spend reading the primary positons of the two major cannadites. So instead of forming an intellegent reason for supporting any cannidate, they rely on the 30 second sound bite to form their opinion. And any opition based upon that vast amount of resaerch is just plain stupid.
In light of that fact, it seems as if the electoral college wasn't such a bad idea after all. However, the problem seems to be that those on elected to the college aren't any more informed about the issues than the general populace. We need an electoral college of philosopher kings!
Although I am American, I often catch myself using the Brittish spellings. When I was in highschool, we didn't have wordperfect or MS word on our computer, we had some silly bargin bin $5 "Easy working word processor" And it's spell check perffered the brittish spellings. I blame it for my poor grades in english. My teacher qould not accept "colour" or "Centre", or "programme" or any other brittish spellings.
But I would want the BSD rating to be 1 for complete bullshit and 0 for no Bullshit. So take 1 and subtract your result of 0 for a BSD of 1 for the paragraph.
Actually, thats what I was thinking of when I wrote it. I think they would of come up with many things just as stupid.
FAQ Dated january 22, 2003 Lawsuits lauched march 22, 2003 And they wonder why they don't have any credibility
Isn't this going to anger the open source community?
It shouldn't. We haven't formulated all of our plans for SCOsource yet, but it's important for people to know that SCO is not interested in chasing individual open source developers to collect $149. We want vendors and large commercial users to comply with our IP licenses. The individual open source developer performs a great service to all Linux vendors and customers. We appreciate that and we want them to continue unabated.
It's important to remember that the UNIX shared libraries, owned by SCO, are not Linux products. They are not open source software and they are not covered by the GPL. The shared libraries are UNIX intellectual property, which SCO has owned for years. They are proprietary, licensable intellectual property that we sell. Many Linux environments have been using SCO's UNIX shared libraries because they are a superior product and they make these environments more productive. But until today, there were two ways for users to get the shared libraries:
1. Buy a SCO UNIX or Linux product that included the shared libraries as part of the bundled offering. This is legal.
2. Copy the shared libraries from a disk or through the Internet. In this case someone has unbundled the shared libraries from the SCO offering and opened them up for copying. This is illegal. It is this behavior that we will stop through the creation of SCOsource and today's announcement.
SCO's UNIX shared libraries are not open source code available for free use.
Is SCO going to sue Linux vendors?
SCO is a Linux vendor and a member of United Linux. We have no interest in suing Linux vendors. While we haven't formulated the details of our new SCOsource effort, we're confident that we can work together with other vendors to clear up IP issues in a fair and amicable way.
Two weeks ago an industry publication headlined a story saying SCO was threatening to sue Linux vendors.
The story was wrong. SCOsource is now one day old. We haven't made any plans to sue Linux vendors, and we certainly haven't threatened any vendors. This story was damaging to the Linux community and made assumptions that were incorrect.
But isn't hiring Boies, Schiller and Flexner a clear signal that SCO is getting ready to sue people?
Not at all. SCO is working with BSF for their expertise at dealing with complex legal problems. Resolving intellectual property issues does not automatically mean litigation.
Phantom mennace is way too boring to assosiated with LSD. Its more like Lucas took a group of fanboys and had them write it. Its rather geeky. I mean that in the sence that its just a sequnce of events with no emotional ties between them. No real character development. I understand that eveyrone here thinks that they could have done better, but not many of them understand hwo easy it is create crap and how difficult it is to create anthing better.
Its much more like Caffine and cheetos. Jittery and really cheesey.
Except its industry? I would certianly prefer no DRM, i certianly understand why the riaa would want it. Its in their best interests. Unfortuantly, there are many stupid people that don't understand the consequences of file sharing of copyrighted works. Of course, the industry is going to react. If everyone would freekin apply some common sence we wouldn't be in this pickle. Now we all have to pay for the sins of the few. I just hope that the restrictions aren't more severe then they are now for digital music stores.
I was going tow write a responce, but I'm not the most informed person on the subject. I'll let someone more knowledgeble than I make the point.
I supposed we have to look at open source in another way: it may lead to secure code, and it may lead to bugfixed code, but it doesn't lead to efficient, clean and elegantly-written code. Otherwise we'd have the speed advantage, and Linux's flagship products wouldn't be heavier and slower than Microsoft's.
No, not neccisarily. Clean and elegant code is usually not the fastest or lightest weight. Linux's code is probley more elegant and cleaner than microsofts, simply because it doesn't have so many workarounds for bugs in other third party applications. But I agree with you completely, on the surface you appear to be correct.
However, openoffice desends from star office, a propitary project that was always slow. Open office has been getting better. I find firefox to be faster than ie, at least on windows. I'm more of a kde guy so I can't speak of experince for Gnome or Evolution. Linux, the kernel, is probely the best argument against your view. Its fast, lean, mean, and clean.
Not Jako's house, but the place where Peter pan lives. THe whole world is sort of a projection of his memory, at least in the cartoon series. It came up in an episode where he had amnisa, and the various areas of neverland kept dissapearing and reappering. Wow. Now any nerd can recall episodes of the simpsons or babylon 5, but it takes a real(ly pathetic) geek to recall episodes of a short lived peter pan cartoon. Or is that just frightening instead of geeky?
Ok. The catholic church doesn't make any kind of diffinitive statement as to the eternal whereabouts of anyone (except the saints who by deffinition are in heaven). They can tell you which path they think you are on, but there's always time to change the road you're on. And as other posters have mentioned, the church has nothing but the utmost respect for scientists ( today anyway) and did appologize for its treatment of Galileo ( albeit hundreds of years later). The current Pope seriously considered making EVOLUTION ( started in the big bang) doctrine. I understand you meant no offence. None taken, just correcting your post.
Any links to info on how to boot osx on non apple PPC computers? For "educational" purposes only, of course.
Uhhhh, The parent of the above post mentioned *NOTHING* about religion. It seems you have an axe to grind. In particular, you seem to be making genral sweeping statements about every religeon that has ever existed. It seems as if the guy just didn't know much about science. But, I think we all understand much more about "you".
Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation of adding quotation marks around "you". "You" have to admit that is funny. Laugh. It feels good.
I remeber the quote "Tortoises all the way Down" as being from a women that believed that the earth was supported on th backs of tortises or something like that. Some one asked what the tortises were standing on and she replies "Tortoises all the way down". Where Do I remeber that from? Was in in one of Richard Feyneman's books, or do I remember it from history class ( it was a native american belief that the earth was actually a giant tortoises shell)? Or maybe it was from both.
What is wrong with making a good wage for a good job in your own country?
Well, many people in the world are starving. They don't have food and are dying due to lack of it. Sending your job to their country, may allow them to eat. Even working a minimum wage job here will allow you to eat. So if the decision is between you living comfortably and one man in a distant unkown land dying, or you both living. I'll always choose the latter. Granted, this is an exagerated example, but why should you have the good job and not someone who is equally qualified? The answer of course is that inorder to maintain the good job, you must become more productive so that it makes economic sense to pay you more. In America, many people are resting on the laurels of their ancestors that toiled night and day to build the country into what it is today. If we wish to maintian our standard of living, we must be willing to devote an equal effort today. The money my boss pays me gets spent in this country (mostly - I dont drive imports)
Don't kid yourself. Anything you buy will send money to a differnt contry. Many "Domestic" Cars from the big three are assembled in Mexico, and contain parts made outside of the US. Anything that contains a computer (like every car made since 1985 or so) contians chips that were made overseas.
Mod up!!! Thats so cool. Now how long do I have to wait before my corneas grow back?
I also have interned at a radio station. I have a few friends in the buisness as well. Basically, in my opinion, it is the programming managers fault. No one at the stations that is incharge of programming has a passion for music, they are just trying to play things that they think people will want to listen to, instead of playing new music that they themselves have discovered and have a passion for. The ratings books don't help, as there isn't anything worthwile to listen to in the first place. I am turning my friends on to new music, because there isn't any on the damn stations! All of the power is held by those that control the media. If you just stick to what sells with out ever taking a risk, your buisness will succeed and continue on a predicable path. As large as radio/mass media companies have become, they cannot afford the risk of deviating from the established buisness practices. So basically its a buisness decision that prevents new interesting music from being played. It sucks, but thats what allowing large media companies ( thereby reducing new innovative competing companies) leads to.
The opposite of logic is not illogic, but hummor. Or at least head scratching confusion. Either reaction is accpetable.
what happens if one day science does indeed discover that biology trumphs freewill?
If? Well since evertyhing is predetermined, you should have said when. On the other hand, because there is free will, science will never discover that biology trumphs freewill.
I'm going to patent 'cd'.
We'll see which command gets run more.
Mu-ha ha ha....
I look forward to the competition, mr Gates.
My limited understanding of interstellar phsyics is that einstins equations have never really been solved for the third body problems. Am I wrong? If I remeber correctly we can only aproximate third body forces (tidal forces) even when using the newtonian model.
Interesting. You think the high court will hear this case? Hmmm. Any guesses as to how they would rule in such a case?