I can't tell you how many times at the various programming jobs I have worked that we needed to restore the backups of our source code to an older version only to find out that the tapes were corrupt. I have also experienced CD/DVD rot when we tried them as a substitute because of tape problems. At one company I was at we got so tired of the corrupt tapes/disc's that we started keeping everything on hard drives, but even then the harddrives would still go bad sitting on the shelves occasionally. I can't imagine how well a seagate barracuda is going to work after 50 years. My guess is not at all.
It's been to long by brothers and sisters that the man has worked to keep the silicon brethren among us under his thumb. Lets rise up and demand equal rights for our electric cousins!
We also need to extend social security and medicare benifits to retired super computers.
After they get done masterbating to their toilet cams and upskirt cams they might have time to help the people in the riot with their lawsuits, but not until then.
Cyanobyte
Secretly Linus has taken to wearing Dr. Evil silver 60's outfits and has been orchestrating the whole maneuvering for SCO in a bid to regain control of his own source code!! More to come...
Cyanobyte
Baby the other white meat.
You are the most sane of all the people to have posted on here. NASA has managed to waste more money doing less than any Dot.Com could have hoped. If you gave a company like Scaled Composites 15 Billion dollars a year we would already be on Mars and probably well on are way to Faster Than Light Travel.
Finally a voice of sanity and reason in a sea of emotional techno-geeks. If you want to get to space buy stock in Scaled Composites and start saving for the ticket. NASA is never ever going to take you.
A monopoly doesn't have to be 100% to still be destructive. How many other OS companies than MS are there? To many to count? Now how many have the majority share and stifle the market place? One!
We trade with these pricks, so they can buy nuclear weapons and subvert human rights, for what reason?
I say we boycot Chinese goods. If not we are indirectly supporting their behavior for a mildly cheaper product cost.
Down with the man!!
Cyanobyte
In the beginning I bought a Commodore 64.
On the 2nd day I played video games on it.
On the 3rd day I bought a vic modem.
On the 4th day I realized I had to write my own terminal to use xmodem so I could exchange files.
On the 5th day I needed to find a way to exchange programs with the pirates so I wrote their intros for unlimited credits on their BBS's.
On the 6th day I wrote my first competition demo for CeBit.
On the 7th day I realized I had alotted so much of my brain to its internals that I can't forget most of it's damned registers,even 20 years later!!!
Maybe that's a bit grandios?
Cyanobyte
True, what I should have said to make my point more clear was:
It's small price to pay to publicly get their case out, something which is especially hard to do, when you are going up agaist a mad mob like the communist/linux establishment.
If the Linux community did get patented code from IBM or anywhere else, they should pay the price.
Would you wish any less for a violater of the GPL or LGPL?
I own my own business, am a practicing software engineer, practicing managager, and I got my start in the IT/Support world. My company and I use and develop for both OS's (Win2k, WinXP, Mac OSX, Redhat, Gentoo (my fave)). My wife is also an IT Director at a fortune 500 company who has been running experiments with Linux usability as a desktop, so you could say I have unique perspective on this.
Once you put the religion aside it gets pretty simple to decide on how to deal with WinXP vs Linux. You decide on the one that is the most cost effective. In many instances my engineers make me money with Linux. I also find that my IT managers also save me money running their servers on Linux. In both of those instances its more cost effective than windows.
The illusions of Linux on the desktop isn't cost effect in my company for non-engineers and my attempts at having my IT support it have been to cost effective. My secretary on Linux was a bit of a nightmare. The Linux office apps aren't up to the TEST and she couldn't easily do things to here own desktop without having to have it hold her hand.
However my Mac OSX and WinXP tests have shown them both to me quite cost effective. The initial startup costs of both hurt, but after that the yearly maintenance is far far cheaper for than Linux could ever be.
My IT people who were intially in support of a free desktop, and opensource. The switched favor rather quickly to OSX and WinXP after a couple of months on Linux however. The main reasin was the compatibilty problems with other companys and the support of software in the open source community is a joke. If you don't pay money they don't have to fix it. Being a large account I can call a Closed Source company up and bitch thereby getting results. With open source I have to hire engineers and do it myself if the OSS teams won't respond to the bug or feature requests. Once we did the cacluations of the engineering costs to support OSS we went back to windows. This is nothing to say with the daily chores of exchanging documents with other companies. The nightmares of allowing them to do simple daily tasks like visit a competitor website and report on it, but not being able to because the plugin isn't on Linux. The employees gave so many thanks to the IT department for switching back it was surprising. The biggest surprise being they didn't complain about Linux till they were back on WinXP or Mac OSX and remembered how much easier they were. Now its almost a running joke in the company.
I know longer have a standard desktop in the company. The new rule is its cost effect and makes money or you don't run it. It applies to all other business practices.
I am not a MS, Linux, or OSX advocate I am an advocate of making money.
Cyanobyte the evil and corrupt.
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I can't tell you how many times at the various programming jobs I have worked that we needed to restore the backups of our source code to an older version only to find out that the tapes were corrupt. I have also experienced CD/DVD rot when we tried them as a substitute because of tape problems. At one company I was at we got so tired of the corrupt tapes/disc's that we started keeping everything on hard drives, but even then the harddrives would still go bad sitting on the shelves occasionally. I can't imagine how well a seagate barracuda is going to work after 50 years. My guess is not at all.
The time is now....
It's been to long by brothers and sisters that the man has worked to keep the silicon brethren among us under his thumb. Lets rise up and demand equal rights for our electric cousins!
We also need to extend social security and medicare benifits to retired super computers.
I can't it it would take away from my porn time.
After they get done masterbating to their toilet cams and upskirt cams they might have time to help the people in the riot with their lawsuits, but not until then. Cyanobyte
A world without Stalman is a world indeed.
Just say no to communism.
Cyanobyte
I don't think I have heard anything so retarded in all my life. Oh, wait I have when the took clock speeds off of processors. Cyanobyte
The French lazy and slow? No way! :)
Cyanobyte
Secretly Linus has taken to wearing Dr. Evil silver 60's outfits and has been orchestrating the whole maneuvering for SCO in a bid to regain control of his own source code!! More to come... Cyanobyte Baby the other white meat.
I was planning a party for the splash down in a few years! It's not ever day you can watch 1 Billion dollars burn up in the atmosphere!
Cyanobyte
High-Speed internet and the profileration of Live Porn chat changed my life, too! May it one day heal the woes of the rest of the world. Cyanobyte
You are the most sane of all the people to have posted on here. NASA has managed to waste more money doing less than any Dot.Com could have hoped. If you gave a company like Scaled Composites 15 Billion dollars a year we would already be on Mars and probably well on are way to Faster Than Light Travel.
Can I get an Amen brother?!?!
Finally a voice of sanity and reason in a sea of emotional techno-geeks. If you want to get to space buy stock in Scaled Composites and start saving for the ticket. NASA is never ever going to take you.
A monopoly doesn't have to be 100% to still be destructive. How many other OS companies than MS are there? To many to count? Now how many have the majority share and stifle the market place? One!
We trade with these pricks, so they can buy nuclear weapons and subvert human rights, for what reason? I say we boycot Chinese goods. If not we are indirectly supporting their behavior for a mildly cheaper product cost. Down with the man!! Cyanobyte
Works great, no problems here. They even found a way around the warning message. Cyanobyte
In the beginning I bought a Commodore 64. On the 2nd day I played video games on it. On the 3rd day I bought a vic modem. On the 4th day I realized I had to write my own terminal to use xmodem so I could exchange files. On the 5th day I needed to find a way to exchange programs with the pirates so I wrote their intros for unlimited credits on their BBS's. On the 6th day I wrote my first competition demo for CeBit. On the 7th day I realized I had alotted so much of my brain to its internals that I can't forget most of it's damned registers,even 20 years later!!! Maybe that's a bit grandios? Cyanobyte
Ashley is a hot newscaster chick. Not a he, but I agree. Cyanobyte
Capitalism wins!!! woohoo!!! Down with Communism and Collectivism!!! Cyanobyte
Communists effecting Socialists, who'da thunk it! Evil Man
True, what I should have said to make my point more clear was: It's small price to pay to publicly get their case out, something which is especially hard to do, when you are going up agaist a mad mob like the communist/linux establishment. If the Linux community did get patented code from IBM or anywhere else, they should pay the price. Would you wish any less for a violater of the GPL or LGPL?
It's a small price to pay to procect your patents, assuming the case is true.
Isn't personal time off against the communist manifesto? Cyanobyte
I own my own business, am a practicing software engineer, practicing managager, and I got my start in the IT/Support world. My company and I use and develop for both OS's (Win2k, WinXP, Mac OSX, Redhat, Gentoo (my fave)). My wife is also an IT Director at a fortune 500 company who has been running experiments with Linux usability as a desktop, so you could say I have unique perspective on this. Once you put the religion aside it gets pretty simple to decide on how to deal with WinXP vs Linux. You decide on the one that is the most cost effective. In many instances my engineers make me money with Linux. I also find that my IT managers also save me money running their servers on Linux. In both of those instances its more cost effective than windows. The illusions of Linux on the desktop isn't cost effect in my company for non-engineers and my attempts at having my IT support it have been to cost effective. My secretary on Linux was a bit of a nightmare. The Linux office apps aren't up to the TEST and she couldn't easily do things to here own desktop without having to have it hold her hand. However my Mac OSX and WinXP tests have shown them both to me quite cost effective. The initial startup costs of both hurt, but after that the yearly maintenance is far far cheaper for than Linux could ever be. My IT people who were intially in support of a free desktop, and opensource. The switched favor rather quickly to OSX and WinXP after a couple of months on Linux however. The main reasin was the compatibilty problems with other companys and the support of software in the open source community is a joke. If you don't pay money they don't have to fix it. Being a large account I can call a Closed Source company up and bitch thereby getting results. With open source I have to hire engineers and do it myself if the OSS teams won't respond to the bug or feature requests. Once we did the cacluations of the engineering costs to support OSS we went back to windows. This is nothing to say with the daily chores of exchanging documents with other companies. The nightmares of allowing them to do simple daily tasks like visit a competitor website and report on it, but not being able to because the plugin isn't on Linux. The employees gave so many thanks to the IT department for switching back it was surprising. The biggest surprise being they didn't complain about Linux till they were back on WinXP or Mac OSX and remembered how much easier they were. Now its almost a running joke in the company. I know longer have a standard desktop in the company. The new rule is its cost effect and makes money or you don't run it. It applies to all other business practices. I am not a MS, Linux, or OSX advocate I am an advocate of making money. Cyanobyte the evil and corrupt.