"WTF? I thought Linux was open source? Maybe the article meant to say AIX code."
Yes it did, I think that SCO were asking for any code which is connected to AIX in any way. This really isn't about Linux at all it's about SCO accusing IBM of breaking it's Unix SYS V licence by incorporating code which may be in some way derivitive from SYS V code into something else. It just so happens the something else is Linux.
I think the judge has ordered this extra discovery largely to shut up SCO's whining that valuable information is being withheld from them, it doesn't do IBM any harm at all except delaying the whole thing a bit more.
Even if SCO find any of this code which may have been derived from Unix and then has somehow inspired code that is in Linux they are still going to have a lot of trouble proving that IBM isn't allowed to do that in the first place.
My Dad just bought a wireless kit for his Windows PC and laptop and a few days ago he noticed that even though he had turned off the base station a laptop he was repairing for someone was still somehow accessing the Internet.
It turns out one of our neighbours is running a totally unsecured wireless system, we can access their wireless router setup page and because they haven't bothered changing the password can muck about with it as much as we like.
Whilst I personally love the idea of being able to live forever I think the medical hurdles are only the beginning of a huge raft of problems we would need to solve.
First of all there is obviously not enough room on Earth for everyone to live forever and carry on having children who would also live for ever, there are a number of solutions to that problem.
1) Conquer new worlds and increase the habitable space available to us. 2) Allow our children a limited ( maybe even a natural ) lifespan, do not allow them to reproduce themselves and then kill them. 3) Restrict the technology to a chosen few and force everyone else to carry on as normal.
Number 1 is fairly unlikely in the short term, number 2 would be hard to police and basically evil and number 3 would be horribly unfair but fit in well with the way the world is generally run anyway.
Presumably the cost of the treatment would initally be fairly expensive but after a while it would probably become cheap and widely available which means at some point something is going crack. Who is going to want to spend 1000 years working in a factory ?
I agree, what you actually want in a politician is someone who will take an unbiased view of the country and work to make long term improvements to it guided by the opinions of the electorate. I think we need less ideology in politics and more practicality.
What in fact you get in most politicians is a creature who's sole purpose for being in politics is to get elected, get into a nice prominent position in the party and then get a lot of nice lucrative consultancy positions to ease their retirement. The extent of long term planning seems to be around 3 or 4 years into the future and it's not really planning so much as making changes for the sake of looking like something is being done.
Hunters and target shooters don't use their guns for killing people but they wouldn't deny that the development of the gun driven by the need for a more effective way of killing people than was provided by muskets or swords.
It's true a lot of guns are designed now to suit the particular needs of target shooters and hunters but the prime reason for designing guns in the first place was as weapons.
Other than that I think we agree, I don't like people applying double standards because they happen to agree with one application and not another.
I have always thought that elected representatives for a country should be forced to live in the same conditions as the poorest people in their area of representation for something like 4 years before they can be elected and then during their term.
I actually agree that it's silly trying to hold gun makers responsible for people using their product to kill people unlawfully but it's also just as silly to hold the makers of a software product liable for the actions of the people who buy it.
Guns are in fact designed to kill people ( which can be illegal ) but people also use them for sporting purposes and hunting whereas P2P programs are designed simply to share files which is not illegal but people use them to share copyrighted files which can be illegal.
In both cases the effort needs to be put in to policing the actual offenders and not the makers of tools which criminals may happen to use for their criminal activities.
Yes I agree that crime rates in the UK do seem to be increasing, part of the reason for that though is that there has been a big drive to get people to actually report more crime to the police.
Gun crime in the UK is also on the rise especially drug and gang related gun crime.
However another way of looking at those figures is to say that the UK is generally a more criminal society but less people end up being killed thanks to the restrictions we have on firearms.
The thing is though just because we don't remember all the crap that was quite probably being produced in the name of art 300 years ago doesn't mean exactly the same thing wasn't happening.
The stuff we tend to remember from the past is remembered because it stands on it's merits even today when perhaps it's cultural womb is long forgotten.
I'm not so sure about these kind of theories, for example is there any evidence which proves that it was in fact men doing the hunting and women doing the homely stuff ? A lot of modern day primative societies work with the entire group taking an equal responsibility in both hunting and looking after kids etc.
Also I'm not too sure how hunting requires an lesser ability to work together than looking after children does, I would think that hunting would work most efficiently with good communication and planning amongst the hunters.
I think both men and women are equally capable of fulfilling any role in modern society and doing effectively, in the end it's the differences in personality which come from the general differences in people as individuals which are much more important than any gender related bias. I don't have any evidence that's the case mind you so I could be wrong !
I think it is in fact a good thing that women and men are capable of using their brains in slightly different ways, it gives us a race more scope and potential than if both sexes worked identically.
I think that there are definitely differences in the structure of male and female brains but I think the effect this has on the individual is probably fairly subtle and easily drowned out by environmental pressures. Also as you say individuals in general regardless of sex display a pretty large differentiation in abilities and behaviour anyway which is probably why this debate is still on-going and not resolved yet.
Not even remotely the same thing, it is a fact that male and female brains do differ from one another in various ways. I believe there is a lot of evidence to suggest that boys brought up as girls are generally not very happy and vice a versa.
I don't see anything wrong with acknowledging differences between the sexes, where things start to go wrong is when people are abusing the fact there are differences, e.g. men are generally bigger and stronger and can easily abuse that by beating up women fairly easily ( women are better at nagging and can abuse that power ) or misrepresenting the general differences in specific instances to damage people.
I was wondering that as well, we were supposed to be able see the Northen lights from the Midlands in the UK last night - I didn't see a thing mind you.
I think in the long term it's all about the economy. The US is so powerful today because of it's economy and the UK built it's empire primarily through it's strong economy. It has been said that the UK was able to manufacture anything, ship it anywhere in the world and still undercut the local producers by 50% and that was the key to it's success.
Most of the UK's military actions during it's empire period were to protect it's economy and the US uses it's military to protect it's economy in the same way today.
China obviously has great potential with a good mix of well educated scientists and business people, a lot of resources and a large cheap workforce. As soon as that gears up properly they will make a lot of money and become more powerful than we can possibly imagine.
There's a good chance they do, there were some articles a few years ago about how drug cartels were using all kinds of technology from mainframes down to networked pda's to help run their business.
There's a big difference between climbing Mt Everest and queuing up to watch a movie. In a way you seem to be trying to demean the experience of all those people who actually have taken the challenge of attempting to climb Mt Everest.
Just because people think this guy is a cretinous fool for wasting his time sat on a settee outside a cinema doesn't mean they don't have a life or a lack of originality. How can you possibly judge people you have never met based on one of their opinions ? What a small and narrow minded individual you must be.
"So I heared today that it was going to snow. If that happens i was thinking about making a snow man. If that is the case what kind of snow man would you guys like to see post it up!"
He has also posted a letter written by one of his mates which says he is the second coming but that entry posted above is the most interesting one in his blog so far.
Maybe he has better glasses than a lot of us here ? I find it hard to see any evidence of any other kind of vision in that blog.
"I don't really care how people label me," Tweiten says. "If they are so narrow-minded and can only see that one aspect of me, I kind of pity them."
If that is not a good indication of arrogant predjudice then I don't know what is - "Anyone who doesn't agree that what I am doing is great is obviously a stupid person."
Or alternatively "I really don't care how people label me, but if anyone does dare to label me I will immediately ignore anything they may have to say because obviously I am right and they are wrong."
"Is anyone really fit to judge anyone elses dreams?"
Yes of course they are, I am free to judge absolutely anything I like. It may well be that he is living his dream by doing this but in my opinion that is a pointless and worthless dream.
Obviously you think differently but I suspect that the majority of people would agree with me that this is a pointless waste of the mans time.
I think she is basing her comments not on the fact that this guy might like a movie which he hasn't seen yet but on the fact that he is wasting 139 days of his life queuing up to see it.
If the extent of his dreams and desires are to queue up for 139 days in order to see a movie then he is in my opinion seriously crippled in the dreams and desires department.
Whether he is the worlds best dad or the worlds worst lover or whatever I am sure if he really tried he could think of something better to do with his time than waste it like this.
Anyone who loves Star Wars this much is obviously a cretinous fool.
I will up that to £5 for anyone who staples him to his damn sofa and sets both him and the sofa alight. I will require both photographic and audio evidence. I want to hear this moron scream.
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"WTF? I thought Linux was open source? Maybe the article meant to say AIX code."
Yes it did, I think that SCO were asking for any code which is connected to AIX in any way. This really isn't about Linux at all it's about SCO accusing IBM of breaking it's Unix SYS V licence by incorporating code which may be in some way derivitive from SYS V code into something else. It just so happens the something else is Linux.
I think the judge has ordered this extra discovery largely to shut up SCO's whining that valuable information is being withheld from them, it doesn't do IBM any harm at all except delaying the whole thing a bit more.
Even if SCO find any of this code which may have been derived from Unix and then has somehow inspired code that is in Linux they are still going to have a lot of trouble proving that IBM isn't allowed to do that in the first place.
My Dad just bought a wireless kit for his Windows PC and laptop and a few days ago he noticed that even though he had turned off the base station a laptop he was repairing for someone was still somehow accessing the Internet.
It turns out one of our neighbours is running a totally unsecured wireless system, we can access their wireless router setup page and because they haven't bothered changing the password can muck about with it as much as we like.
I think a "loser pays" system can be lot fairer with the caveat that it also allows the judge to decide who pays what if he thinks it's appropriate.
Whilst I personally love the idea of being able to live forever I think the medical hurdles are only the beginning of a huge raft of problems we would need to solve.
First of all there is obviously not enough room on Earth for everyone to live forever and carry on having children who would also live for ever, there are a number of solutions to that problem.
1) Conquer new worlds and increase the habitable space available to us.
2) Allow our children a limited ( maybe even a natural ) lifespan, do not allow them to reproduce themselves and then kill them.
3) Restrict the technology to a chosen few and force everyone else to carry on as normal.
Number 1 is fairly unlikely in the short term, number 2 would be hard to police and basically evil and number 3 would be horribly unfair but fit in well with the way the world is generally run anyway.
Presumably the cost of the treatment would initally be fairly expensive but after a while it would probably become cheap and widely available which means at some point something is going crack. Who is going to want to spend 1000 years working in a factory ?
I agree, what you actually want in a politician is someone who will take an unbiased view of the country and work to make long term improvements to it guided by the opinions of the electorate. I think we need less ideology in politics and more practicality.
What in fact you get in most politicians is a creature who's sole purpose for being in politics is to get elected, get into a nice prominent position in the party and then get a lot of nice lucrative consultancy positions to ease their retirement. The extent of long term planning seems to be around 3 or 4 years into the future and it's not really planning so much as making changes for the sake of looking like something is being done.
Hunters and target shooters don't use their guns for killing people but they wouldn't deny that the development of the gun driven by the need for a more effective way of killing people than was provided by muskets or swords.
It's true a lot of guns are designed now to suit the particular needs of target shooters and hunters but the prime reason for designing guns in the first place was as weapons.
Other than that I think we agree, I don't like people applying double standards because they happen to agree with one application and not another.
I think the current trend is to hire Jamaican hitmen to whack your rivals so a lot of drug workers do seem to end up dead.
I have always thought that elected representatives for a country should be forced to live in the same conditions as the poorest people in their area of representation for something like 4 years before they can be elected and then during their term.
I actually agree that it's silly trying to hold gun makers responsible for people using their product to kill people unlawfully but it's also just as silly to hold the makers of a software product liable for the actions of the people who buy it.
Guns are in fact designed to kill people ( which can be illegal ) but people also use them for sporting purposes and hunting whereas P2P programs are designed simply to share files which is not illegal but people use them to share copyrighted files which can be illegal.
In both cases the effort needs to be put in to policing the actual offenders and not the makers of tools which criminals may happen to use for their criminal activities.
Yes I agree that crime rates in the UK do seem to be increasing, part of the reason for that though is that there has been a big drive to get people to actually report more crime to the police.
Gun crime in the UK is also on the rise especially drug and gang related gun crime.
However another way of looking at those figures is to say that the UK is generally a more criminal society but less people end up being killed thanks to the restrictions we have on firearms.
The thing is though just because we don't remember all the crap that was quite probably being produced in the name of art 300 years ago doesn't mean exactly the same thing wasn't happening.
The stuff we tend to remember from the past is remembered because it stands on it's merits even today when perhaps it's cultural womb is long forgotten.
I'm not so sure about these kind of theories, for example is there any evidence which proves that it was in fact men doing the hunting and women doing the homely stuff ? A lot of modern day primative societies work with the entire group taking an equal responsibility in both hunting and looking after kids etc.
Also I'm not too sure how hunting requires an lesser ability to work together than looking after children does, I would think that hunting would work most efficiently with good communication and planning amongst the hunters.
I think both men and women are equally capable of fulfilling any role in modern society and doing effectively, in the end it's the differences in personality which come from the general differences in people as individuals which are much more important than any gender related bias. I don't have any evidence that's the case mind you so I could be wrong !
I think it is in fact a good thing that women and men are capable of using their brains in slightly different ways, it gives us a race more scope and potential than if both sexes worked identically.
I think that there are definitely differences in the structure of male and female brains but I think the effect this has on the individual is probably fairly subtle and easily drowned out by environmental pressures. Also as you say individuals in general regardless of sex display a pretty large differentiation in abilities and behaviour anyway which is probably why this debate is still on-going and not resolved yet.
Not even remotely the same thing, it is a fact that male and female brains do differ from one another in various ways. I believe there is a lot of evidence to suggest that boys brought up as girls are generally not very happy and vice a versa.
I don't see anything wrong with acknowledging differences between the sexes, where things start to go wrong is when people are abusing the fact there are differences, e.g. men are generally bigger and stronger and can easily abuse that by beating up women fairly easily ( women are better at nagging and can abuse that power ) or misrepresenting the general differences in specific instances to damage people.
I was wondering that as well, we were supposed to be able see the Northen lights from the Midlands in the UK last night - I didn't see a thing mind you.
Both the EU and the US do their best to support important industries such as the aerospace industry. It works both ways you know.
I think in the long term it's all about the economy. The US is so powerful today because of it's economy and the UK built it's empire primarily through it's strong economy. It has been said that the UK was able to manufacture anything, ship it anywhere in the world and still undercut the local producers by 50% and that was the key to it's success.
Most of the UK's military actions during it's empire period were to protect it's economy and the US uses it's military to protect it's economy in the same way today.
China obviously has great potential with a good mix of well educated scientists and business people, a lot of resources and a large cheap workforce. As soon as that gears up properly they will make a lot of money and become more powerful than we can possibly imagine.
There's a good chance they do, there were some articles a few years ago about how drug cartels were using all kinds of technology from mainframes down to networked pda's to help run their business.
There's a big difference between climbing Mt Everest and queuing up to watch a movie. In a way you seem to be trying to demean the experience of all those people who actually have taken the challenge of attempting to climb Mt Everest.
Just because people think this guy is a cretinous fool for wasting his time sat on a settee outside a cinema doesn't mean they don't have a life or a lack of originality. How can you possibly judge people you have never met based on one of their opinions ? What a small and narrow minded individual you must be.
Here is an example of his blog:
"So I heared today that it was going to snow. If that happens i was thinking about making a snow man. If that is the case what kind of snow man would you guys like to see post it up!"
He has also posted a letter written by one of his mates which says he is the second coming but that entry posted above is the most interesting one in his blog so far.
Maybe he has better glasses than a lot of us here ? I find it hard to see any evidence of any other kind of vision in that blog.
Not necessarily, I can be capricious. He is however lucky that I'm not Santa Claus since if I were he would not be getting any presents this year.
"I don't really care how people label me," Tweiten says. "If they are so narrow-minded and can only see that one aspect of me, I kind of pity them."
If that is not a good indication of arrogant predjudice then I don't know what is - "Anyone who doesn't agree that what I am doing is great is obviously a stupid person."
Or alternatively "I really don't care how people label me, but if anyone does dare to label me I will immediately ignore anything they may have to say because obviously I am right and they are wrong."
"Is anyone really fit to judge anyone elses dreams?"
Yes of course they are, I am free to judge absolutely anything I like. It may well be that he is living his dream by doing this but in my opinion that is a pointless and worthless dream.
Obviously you think differently but I suspect that the majority of people would agree with me that this is a pointless waste of the mans time.
Hoy-ploy ?
I think she is basing her comments not on the fact that this guy might like a movie which he hasn't seen yet but on the fact that he is wasting 139 days of his life queuing up to see it.
If the extent of his dreams and desires are to queue up for 139 days in order to see a movie then he is in my opinion seriously crippled in the dreams and desires department.
Whether he is the worlds best dad or the worlds worst lover or whatever I am sure if he really tried he could think of something better to do with his time than waste it like this.
Anyone who loves Star Wars this much is obviously a cretinous fool.
I will up that to £5 for anyone who staples him to his damn sofa and sets both him and the sofa alight. I will require both photographic and audio evidence. I want to hear this moron scream.