People have been using AmigaOS since the late 1980's. OS 4 is only used by developers/testers, since it's not done. But there are developers actually writing code for it, which is more than can be said for some of the other vaporware products.
AmigaOS4 is still vaporware, and as such it has nothing.
Well, some vaporware is actually released. Windows 95 was released wasn't it? Let's look in the Jargon File:
vaporware
jargon/vay'pr-weir/ Products announced far in advance of
any release (which may or may not actually take place). The
term came from Atari users and was later applied by
Infoworld to Microsoft's continuous lying about Microsoft
Windows.
If you run a brute-force search on it, you'll see that it is really part of a paper I wrote last year. I demand that they pay for the copyright violation.
If you use another key, you'll see that it also includes SCO's source code.
Are there laws that dictate ownership of property once it leaves the planet and is in orbit?
I haven't searched for it, but this is the state of affairs: If you launched it, it's yours. If it was allready in space you can't claim it or own it. (Because of an agreement.)
Today's software development processes put out systems with a high level of badness and ugliness. (I would also suspect there to stupidness and obtuseness.)
Microsoft has to sharpen up on security. They, and the rest of the IT industry, will sharpen up by innovating less. (Gawd. Is that, like, negative innovation?)
Companies don't think enough about the common good.
Hawaiians would be wise to spend the 7. of December 2008 off line.
To be secure, we should hire 3rd world labor to read our keystrokes, or maybe logging keystrokes to a searchable database where hackers can read our passwords.
Maybe, but keep in mind: "Nobody I know voted for Nixon." --Pauline Kael Although you haven't seen many women there, other stores may have more of them as customers.
Then again, maybe the statistics come from:
Women pay for men's buys.
Women get worse deals.
etc.
The message here is that you sell electronics to the entire family.
Good general sales/presentation rule: Play to your entire audience. If you make a joke about the old man with the funny shirt, he might be the only decision maker in the crowd. Ditto for talking over the wife. She might hold the purse strings. And the whip.
Take a look at the size of these funds. For most funds, the SCO investment won't be a big deal when it goes to $0. Yeah. Most likely they have millions in IBM shares, so they have bought a little SCO to "hedge" against the American legal system being bonkers. If the government steals $3bn from IBM and gives it to SCO, their IBM shares will fall while the SCO lottery tickets rise in value.
Tampering by a macro or script would change the file, thereby making it incompatible with the hash, no?
Not necessarlity. If you have a macro that re-writes the document, the hash would change, and the tampering would be caught.
But: If you make a macro that doesn't change the contents of the file, but rather a macro that changes just the view, the hash would be the same.For example: You write a document that contains both correct and false information. Before a certain time, the correct information is shown. If you open the document after a specified date, the macro changes what is shown to the reader.
For this wanishing ink to work - it must be possible to write such a macro. - the reader must trust all macros. - the reader must not be savvy enough to examine the raw word file.
Recently. spammers have been trying to train spam traps with random words. It's alsmost like seing the words put into a mad libs exercise. Will this confuse filters like spamassassin?
P.S. One of the more interresting ones I got follows. What is an appellant hazelnut? And can diseases be exorcised?
I watched a documentary about this, and the Pepsi Challenge was actually one of the better campaigns Pepsi did. Even among people working at Coca Cola Company, the majority liked Pepsi better than Coke.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - assman Darl McBride was found dead in his Salt Lake City home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to lawsuit production. Truly an American icon.
The offending link is in the sig. He's changed his sig now, so it really IS a screenshot. Nasty tactic for trolling and getting the moderations marked as "unfair".
DISCLAIMER: I haven's actually seen the offending link. When I tried it, it was a screenshot. This does not mean that I was looking for gay porn. It means that I was studying pop-up technology. Honest.
FONO is the closest thing to the RIAA, an organisation for record companies, but not all companies are members of it. Companies owned by foreigners, like Warner Music or Sony, are not members of FONO.
GRAMO collects royalties for artists/actors and producers of broadcasted or performed works.
All the movie titles from one of the spoof trailers: 2001-The Fellowship of the Ring 2002-The Two Towers 2003-The Third One 2004-Episode I - The Hobbit 2005-FotR Special Edition 2006-Book of Lost Tales 2007-Scribbles in Tolkien's Math Book 2008-Dude, Where's my Ring? 2009-What Hobbits Want 2010-Bilbo Brockovich 2011-All the Pretty Hobbits 2012-O, Bilbo, Where art Thou? 2013-Crouching Gollum, Hidden Balrog 2014-Orc by Orcwest
I laughed pretty hard. I shouldn't have to point this out (we're all programmers, right?), but = is assignment of variable, while == is test. So in the code segment:
$linuxcode is assigned to $scocode, and litigate() will always be called whether the two were equal or not. Also, the code above shows that SCO themselves distributed Linux.
So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor. (My emphasis.) AHA! So you ADMIT that US copyright law was dreamed up by commies in drug-induced stupors (a.k.a. Hollywood/MPAA).
Maybe speculators have been buying SCOX in expectation of a profitable settlement after the stock bombs Those people would have to share the scraps of SCO with IBM. No, I don't think it makes sense. Even the SCO management don't flee to a non-extradition country, the assets will be pretty small. Unless they thought they could implicate Boies Frivolous Law Office, Canopy and Microsoft. If speculators spend money on stock bets with that odds, they have money to burn.
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Yes, meta-moderators, it IS funny.
The reason it's funny is that Wired chose HIM, out of all the people who commented. (If there were more.)
He works for a company that sells semi-compatible Amiga "clones". Check out his homepage.
(The ACs have pointed this out allready, but who reads at below "1" anyway?)
MorphOS exists. People are using it.
/vay'pr-weir/ Products announced far in advance of
People have been using AmigaOS since the late 1980's.
OS 4 is only used by developers/testers, since it's not done. But there are developers actually writing code for it, which is more than can be said for some of the other vaporware products.
AmigaOS4 is still vaporware, and as such it has nothing.
Well, some vaporware is actually released. Windows 95 was released wasn't it? Let's look in the Jargon File:
vaporware
jargon
any release (which may or may not actually take place). The
term came from Atari users and was later applied by
Infoworld to Microsoft's continuous lying about Microsoft
Windows.
See also brochureware.
By the way: Slashdot knows who you are.
If you run a brute-force search on it, you'll see that it is really part of a paper I wrote last year.
I demand that they pay for the copyright violation.
If you use another key, you'll see that it also includes SCO's source code.
Well, some of the chemical and biological weapons are gasware. Some of them are vaporware.
Nuclear weapons are more, like, plasmaware.
Are there laws that dictate ownership of property once it leaves the planet and is in orbit?
I haven't searched for it, but this is the state of affairs:
If you launched it, it's yours.
If it was allready in space you can't claim it or own it. (Because of an agreement.)
Today's software development processes put out systems with a high level of badness and ugliness.
(I would also suspect there to stupidness and obtuseness.)
Microsoft has to sharpen up on security. They, and the rest of the IT industry, will sharpen up by innovating less. (Gawd. Is that, like, negative innovation?)
Companies don't think enough about the common good.
Hawaiians would be wise to spend the 7. of December 2008 off line.
To be secure, we should hire 3rd world labor to read our keystrokes, or maybe logging keystrokes to a searchable database where hackers can read our passwords.
Buy buzzwords. Hire TLA's. Sell Microsoft.
Maybe, but keep in mind:
"Nobody I know voted for Nixon." --Pauline Kael
Although you haven't seen many women there, other stores may have more of them as customers.
Then again, maybe the statistics come from:
The message here is that you sell electronics to the entire family.
Good general sales/presentation rule: Play to your entire audience. If you make a joke about the old man with the funny shirt, he might be the only decision maker in the crowd. Ditto for talking over the wife. She might hold the purse strings. And the whip.
Why doesn't this story have the Dromedary on it?
They shoud have written a bit about Perl.
Take a look at the size of these funds. For most funds, the SCO investment won't be a big deal when it goes to $0.
Yeah. Most likely they have millions in IBM shares, so they have bought a little SCO to "hedge" against the American legal system being bonkers. If the government steals $3bn from IBM and gives it to SCO, their IBM shares will fall while the SCO lottery tickets rise in value.
Correct. It's covered by the "examine the raw word file" criterium.
Tampering by a macro or script would change the file, thereby making it incompatible with the hash, no?
Not necessarlity. If you have a macro that re-writes the document, the hash would change, and the tampering would be caught.
But: If you make a macro that doesn't change the contents of the file, but rather a macro that changes just the view, the hash would be the same.For example: You write a document that contains both correct and false information. Before a certain time, the correct information is shown. If you open the document after a specified date, the macro changes what is shown to the reader.
For this wanishing ink to work
- it must be possible to write such a macro.
- the reader must trust all macros.
- the reader must not be savvy enough to examine the raw word file.
Recently. spammers have been trying to train spam traps with random words. It's alsmost like seing the words put into a mad libs exercise.
Will this confuse filters like spamassassin?
P.S. One of the more interresting ones I got follows. What is an appellant hazelnut? And can diseases be exorcised?
insinuate guilty overture aegean mcelroy
emery niggardly bobbin briggs pushout creed quizzes return accomplish
explanatory cofactor frances melissa
biharmonic his milieu alphabet groom septate appellant hazelnut diphtheria exorcise
I watched a documentary about this, and the Pepsi Challenge was actually one of the better campaigns Pepsi did. Even among people working at Coca Cola Company, the majority liked Pepsi better than Coke.
Darl McBride, executive, dead at 55
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - assman Darl McBride was found dead in his Salt Lake City home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to lawsuit production. Truly an American icon.
The offending link is in the sig.
He's changed his sig now, so it really IS a screenshot.
Nasty tactic for trolling and getting the moderations marked as "unfair".
DISCLAIMER: I haven's actually seen the offending link. When I tried it, it was a screenshot. This does not mean that I was looking for gay porn. It means that I was studying pop-up technology. Honest.
All the movie titles from one of the spoof trailers:
2001-The Fellowship of the Ring
2002-The Two Towers
2003-The Third One
2004-Episode I - The Hobbit
2005-FotR Special Edition
2006-Book of Lost Tales
2007-Scribbles in Tolkien's Math Book
2008-Dude, Where's my Ring?
2009-What Hobbits Want
2010-Bilbo Brockovich
2011-All the Pretty Hobbits
2012-O, Bilbo, Where art Thou?
2013-Crouching Gollum, Hidden Balrog
2014-Orc by Orcwest
(Lost by my brain, but found again here.)
No. That could only happen in three ways:
You can do as all those actors who threatened to do it, and say "Nah. I didn't really mean it."
Origo is a latin word, dumbass.
Yes, but it's used in Swedish, dumbass.
However he certainly doesn't have the corporate image to upkeep like Gates, Ballmer, McBride, whoever.
You're being sarcastic, right?
Some corporate image.
But you're right that those guys are very "corporate". Their antics are for money. Linus is making the world a little better.
How appropriate of them to have a gull as the state bird.
Is it Utah that has a state ban on whaling, or was that Arizona?
I shouldn't have to point this out (we're all programmers, right?), but = is assignment of variable, while == is test.
So in the code segment:$linuxcode is assigned to $scocode, and litigate() will always be called whether the two were equal or not. Also, the code above shows that SCO themselves distributed Linux.
So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor. (My emphasis.)
AHA! So you ADMIT that US copyright law was dreamed up by commies in drug-induced stupors (a.k.a. Hollywood/MPAA).
Maybe speculators have been buying SCOX in expectation of a profitable settlement after the stock bombs
Those people would have to share the scraps of SCO with IBM.
No, I don't think it makes sense. Even the SCO management don't flee to a non-extradition country, the assets will be pretty small. Unless they thought they could implicate Boies Frivolous Law Office, Canopy and Microsoft. If speculators spend money on stock bets with that odds, they have money to burn.