Well at least the profits from their hard, underpaid work will be coming right back to IBM's stockholders. I hear that Nike and Reebok have been extremely successful with this business model.
Wait a minute? It's no "lie" that the EU stopped the GE-Honeywell merger, and of course they had every right to! My point was that the EU already has exercised regulatory antitrust control over two "American" companies. I find it disturbing that you seem to think I'm railing against the EU antitrust folks when there's nothing in my post to that effect. The verbs "to screw" and "to meddle" fit the facts. GE got screwed, the EU meddled. I'm sorry if you have trouble seeing that.
What fact did I state that was incorrect? Nothing-- the EU did stop the Honeywell-GE merger. Did I imply the EU should not have regulatory control over American companies? No. Of course it should. So why don't you cool off, lose the hypocrisy, stop being a coward, and actually read what I wrote.
The EU's antitrust folks (Monti) have already screwed "American" companies, notably the acquisition of Honeywell by GE. The US antitrust folks approved, but the EU did not. They're quite happy to meddle, as no large company these days is solely American.
I switched from Verizon local to Verizon wireless in December without a problem. Sounds like Frontier is your problem.
Sic Eliot Spitzer, the NY Atty. General, on Frontier and see what they do. If the guy can strike fear into the heart of Wall Street, he ought to be able to shake up a phone company.
I switched my land-line telephone number to a cell phone and it all went extremely smoothly, especially in regards to Verizon ending my account. I never contacted them, and they never contacted me, my service was terminated, and I got half of a bill.
The cell phone could make calls immediately, and began receiving calls within 10 days, but my old line still worked over that period.
There are a lot of hard working, smart people in this field who don't want to work for the NECs or IBMs. Rather than compete, the large labs leverage bogus patents to use OUR inventions for free.
And that gets right to the point about why large companies agressively patent everything. If NEC were to even vaguely ponder licensing those patents to IBM, IBM would merely barter its 89 bazillion materials science patents-- 32 gagillion of which NEC and everyone else is infringing by breathing. NEC and IBM amicably settle the issue, paying their lawyers much less than a court battle would cost.
In other news today, Hell has frozen over. Satan responded to the sudden freeze by noting, "Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Russian Academy of Science collaborating on nuclear research? Who would've thought it possible?"
I thought the FTC complaint against Rambus would have set a great precident. Basically Rambus participated in standards development for DRAM technology and ensured that the standards would include technology infringing on Rambus patents without disclosing those patents. Rambus then withdrew and began suing every DRAM maker in sight.
SCO is doing just about the same thing as Rambus, but with much less success. Participate in Linux/UNIX standards groups, but later claim to own those standards and begin suing everyone.
What I really want is micropayments for what I actually listen to. I don't want to buy the music, I don't want it filling up my HD with obsolescent formats, and I don't want a montly subscription. I want to listen to at most three hours of music a day, and I want this to turn out to cost extremely little to me, but to allow the content providers and artists to profit. I also want this for cable TV, where only couch potatoes get their money's worth.
It is simply more convenient to get what you want ON DEMAND than to have to... maintain a personal library.
This is what I personally find really relevant. Yes, it may be nice to own a library, but to keep it up-to-date is a huge expense. I know my tastes in music are broad. If I bought everything I've listened to over streaming audio (yeah, crappy quality. I can deal, I don't have satellite radio either) I'd be poor.
Forget that it's worthwhile research that may save millions of lives. We've already killed promising stem cell research in this country with Bush's stupid executive order. In the future we may be buying our Parkinson's treatments from South Korea...
Loser pays. Hmm. This would make me feel better about ambulance chasers after a car accident, but would it really protect my interests as a plantiff? Wouldn't you be so afraid of investing in pursuing a valid lawsuit that you'd almost never sue anyone with deep pockets? You'd have to sell class-action lawsuit shares to defer potential costs. I'm sorry, you can only join this class action lawsuit if you're weathly and able to help us pay if we lose.
To what extent would Apache, Samba, and NMap explicitly preventing SCO from distributing those packages affect SCO customers? Could SCO customers still obtain those packages on their own?
Better to crap on the beer than the people drinking it. That's what's snotty. I think Bud is crap, but I won't assume you're trash just for drinking it. Or endorsing it and winning the Daytona 500... (Likewise, disliking NASCAR is just fine, but implying everyone who likes it is dumb-as-nails is snotty)
Where we have to worry is when a company starts mining all this data and does track it back to an individual person. When a credit card company or polititical/religious/charity organization can pick up the phone and find out what I watched for TV last night and what books I last bought or checked out at the library, that's when we need to be concerned.
I always find it amazing what leaps of inference they will make with what they can find out. Here in Vermont, we don't have voter registration, but I keep getting mailings from the GOP. Why? Because I subscribe to US News and World Report and that's supposedly more conservative than Time or Newsweek. Also prone to this assumption are Veterans groups-- thanks for all the return address labels, guys!
Incidentally, Piggly-Wiggly was the first grocer to come up with the astounding idea of self-service grocery stores, rather than letting the clerk collect and package your purchases. Clarence Saunders even patented the idea.
Piggly-Wiggly's success led to a number of copycat chains, quite a few of which decided to also copy the astoundingly dumb naming convention in addition to the whole self-serve thing.
Seriously, though, I found it amusing that neither the submittor or the editor found it necessary to mention that they were talking about Linux. Just "2.6 Kernel" as if there can be only one.
Yeah, I know what they're talking about, yeah, there's the penguin and the topic, but still.
Speaking of, can anyone help me upgrade from "Operating System 2000" to "Operating System XP?"
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Well at least the profits from their hard, underpaid work will be coming right back to IBM's stockholders. I hear that Nike and Reebok have been extremely successful with this business model.
I thought for sure that you were being facetious until I realized you didn't post anonymously.
Mainframes? Linux servers?
Wait a minute? It's no "lie" that the EU stopped the GE-Honeywell merger, and of course they had every right to! My point was that the EU already has exercised regulatory antitrust control over two "American" companies. I find it disturbing that you seem to think I'm railing against the EU antitrust folks when there's nothing in my post to that effect. The verbs "to screw" and "to meddle" fit the facts. GE got screwed, the EU meddled. I'm sorry if you have trouble seeing that.
The EU's antitrust folks (Monti) have already screwed "American" companies, notably the acquisition of Honeywell by GE. The US antitrust folks approved, but the EU did not. They're quite happy to meddle, as no large company these days is solely American.
Black coffee, I've been told, also has zero calories. Skip the cream and sugar and it's a healthy diet drink.
Sic Eliot Spitzer, the NY Atty. General, on Frontier and see what they do. If the guy can strike fear into the heart of Wall Street, he ought to be able to shake up a phone company.
The cell phone could make calls immediately, and began receiving calls within 10 days, but my old line still worked over that period.
On the subject of defensive IP, I've always wondered why Rambus never sued IBM...
In other news today, Hell has frozen over. Satan responded to the sudden freeze by noting, "Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Russian Academy of Science collaborating on nuclear research? Who would've thought it possible?"
SCO is doing just about the same thing as Rambus, but with much less success. Participate in Linux/UNIX standards groups, but later claim to own those standards and begin suing everyone.
What I really want is micropayments for what I actually listen to. I don't want to buy the music, I don't want it filling up my HD with obsolescent formats, and I don't want a montly subscription. I want to listen to at most three hours of music a day, and I want this to turn out to cost extremely little to me, but to allow the content providers and artists to profit. I also want this for cable TV, where only couch potatoes get their money's worth.
I forsee that I'll be about as interested in owning music as I am in owning an encyclopedia. Welcome to the on demand world.
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College juniors (birthdate: ~1983) have been raised with spell checkers and calculators. Screw learning spelling and long division-- waste of time.
Forget that it's worthwhile research that may save millions of lives. We've already killed promising stem cell research in this country with Bush's stupid executive order. In the future we may be buying our Parkinson's treatments from South Korea...
Loser pays. Hmm. This would make me feel better about ambulance chasers after a car accident, but would it really protect my interests as a plantiff? Wouldn't you be so afraid of investing in pursuing a valid lawsuit that you'd almost never sue anyone with deep pockets? You'd have to sell class-action lawsuit shares to defer potential costs. I'm sorry, you can only join this class action lawsuit if you're weathly and able to help us pay if we lose.
To what extent would Apache, Samba, and NMap explicitly preventing SCO from distributing those packages affect SCO customers? Could SCO customers still obtain those packages on their own?
Better to crap on the beer than the people drinking it. That's what's snotty. I think Bud is crap, but I won't assume you're trash just for drinking it. Or endorsing it and winning the Daytona 500... (Likewise, disliking NASCAR is just fine, but implying everyone who likes it is dumb-as-nails is snotty)
Piggly-Wiggly's success led to a number of copycat chains, quite a few of which decided to also copy the astoundingly dumb naming convention in addition to the whole self-serve thing.
Yeah, I know what they're talking about, yeah, there's the penguin and the topic, but still.
Speaking of, can anyone help me upgrade from "Operating System 2000" to "Operating System XP?"