"If we wait to know for certain the first warning may be a mushroom cloud on Earth. Can we take that risk? We have to strike first!"
Mr. President, please refrain from posting on Slashdot until you find WMD in Iraq; your re-election campaign is now and you do not have excess time to waste.
Oh, and by the way, the term is "pre-emption," not "strike first" or "first strike." Thank you.:)
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"Guess what, we humans, as a race, own everything in the solar system. It is ours to do with as we see fit... other planets are being wasted until we make full use of them for humanity as a whole."
I think the Annunaki would have a problem with your logic. However, since they need to return all that gold they pilfered from Earth, I guess they cannot speak on such a subject with any moral authority.
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"Doesn't Europa lie in the Van Allen belts of Jupiter, so it is already getting large amounts of radiation?"
Van Allen belts? Puuuuuuuuuulease. That's like the scientists who feared people would instantly die if they travelled in automobiles that could surpass 35mph, that it would melt their faces off. After all, didn't our astronauts survive going through the Belts on their way to the Moon in the poorly shielded Apollo capsules? I don't think they returned looking like something you'd buy at KFC. Or did they?:)
"My understanding is that the Atari that's "back with us" (actually, rather one company bought it and renamed itself to its bought creation, rather like Caldera) is the software company. Which was it that was advertised in Bladerunner?"
No. Warner Communications (later Time Warner) sold off Atari Inc. by peacemeal in 1984:
The consumer division was sold to Jack Tramiel (75% stake, Warner with 25%) for $350 million in promissory notes (and that was equal to the amount of Atari 800XLs in the warehouse valued between $80 and $100 a piece). This became "Atari Corp."
The arcade division was sold to Namco of Japan. It was known as the "Atari Games Corp." Since Atari Corp. had the rights to the "Atari" brand for consumer markets, Atari Games created the "Tengen" brand to sell their titles on the NES and other systems. Both Ataris (at the prodding of Time Warner) teamed up and took on Nintendo in lawsuits for monopolizing the videogame industry, but lost for some unforeseen reason. Time Warner wound up reacquiring the company, merged it into Time Warner Interactive, and then later sold it off to WMS Industries (now known simply as "Midway").
Atari Corp. was responsible for the XE 8-bit Atari computer line, the ST, the TT, the ATW, the Atari Portfolio, the relaunching of the Atari 2600, 7800, XE Game System, the Atari Lynx, and the Atari Jaguar.
In 1996, Atari Corp. retracted from all of those markets and merged itself into JTS Industries, the failed hard drive manufacturer. It went bust up. Hasbro Interactive bought all the rights and IP of Atari Corp. for something like $10 million. About 3 years ago, Infogrames of France bought up Hasbro Interactive, and decided to rename itself "Atari." That's the Atari of today.
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"Man, I forgot about Riptide. But better still was the Misfits of Science... "Johnny B" the dude who could shoot bolts of lightning from his fists was soooo cool!"
What about "Whiz Kids" that aired on CBS for a short time? The redhead wound up on "ALF" after that...man, what those kids could do on early 80s 8-bit computers not saddled with the bloatware from Redmond!:0
So, what is NASA going to announce? They've made contact with the Annunaki? Are those alien charlatans going to return an equal amount of gold they pilfered from the Earth to supposedly fix their atmosphere? Are we getting reparations for the enslavement of humanity's ancestors? Sweet. Just in time for the election, the President announces he's secured the gold financing to pay off the national debt! How convenient! Did Halliburton secure the deal? That's it, we've traded Iraq's secretly hidden WMD for all of that...:)
ps. I vote to name the tenth planet "von Daniken" or "Kirk"...:)
"I think one real issue, that people are skirting, is who will be the ultimate guarantor of IP-related issues in a world that is governed by the GPL and GPL-like licenses. I could easily see IBM, HP, Sun, and many of the other large hardware players solving this problem tomorrow by settling the dispute with SCO and maybe even taking the entire code base and donating it into the public domain. I know this is what I originally thought would happen, at least the settlement part. I am not certain what people who paid tens of millions for licenses would say if what they paid for was now free, but that is a different issue."
Now if I recall correctly, Caldera had planned on putting Unix completely under the GPL but could not because of so many different companies code being in the product. Perhaps IBM should sit down with Novell after the lawsuit is over with (and IBM owns whatever IP SCO actually "owns" of Unix) and get all the Unix licensees (well, Microsoft will be difficult) to sign off on any rights to Unix code and then move it over to the GPL, a BSD type license, or public domain. At the very least, a new license that would spell out exactly-and-to-the-point that any code a licensee creates for their own deriviative version of Unix would be their own IP and they could do whatever they wanted with it. That would solve any future attempts at an SCO-type of lawsuit against "creeping features" of Unix making its way into Linux or BSD (and when I say BSD, I mean OS X, tee hee)...:)
Like the author of this pondering, I would prefer to see Apple make a media-centric Mac with the same footprint as most component consumer electronics items like DVD players and tuners. It would be awesome. Stack it and place it in your components cabinet (hopefully an open aired one for good ventilation). The machine would hook up to your plasma or HDTV. That's the problem with Windows Media Center PC's. They do not complement an audio/videophile's components. By using the plasma and/or the HDTV screen, the Media Mac would take charge of all the other devices yet it would still retain the media-ness of the whole system. To have iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD along with timeshifting in your living room with the help of a wireless mouse, keyboard, and friendly remote control would simply rock.
While it is a pet peeve of the SEC in terms of splitting the responsibilities of the chairman and CEO positions following the Enron debacle, this has been something CalPERS has been pressuring many companies they hold interests in. This is one of the reasons why CalPERS withheld its support for Michael Eisner and right afterward, Disney announced it would be splitting the responsibilities. Dell probably saw the writing on the wall, even though there's not a lot to complain about if you are a Dell stockholder, as compared with Disney...
"Actually a teen version of dark shadows would be pretty cool. As might a new Lost in Space. But I think there is also room on that network to keep Angel. Now whether they have the money to keep Angel is another question."
Yes, but Zed, the point is that the WB would have the money for Angel if they'd cut out funding sure-fire losers such as these two planned remakes. NBC spent a small fortunein the early 90s revamping Dark Shadows and it was good yet it failed. Even without inflation adjusting the budgets, the WB would be pressed to match the figures. As for Lost in Space, the remake film by New Line (a sister company) failed despite a talented cast and a script that lifted heavily from the unproduced Doctor Who film at Amblin. The WB produced Birds of Prey, Black Sash, and Tarzan, all with the intent of replacing Angel with any of them. They all tanked. Angel has improved its ratings this season over last's by an average of 22% and all with a reduced budget and going head-to-head with UPN's sci-fi offerings. What does that tell you?
I'm placing this in here because most FireFly fans are probably also fans of Whedon's other program, Angel. As you know, the WB Network made the announcement that they will not be renewing Angel for the sixth season, despite its majorly improved ratings over last year and that its the #2 show on their network for the major 18-34 aged advertising demographic.
If you wish to help with the efforts to save the show, there are several websites coordinating fan activities, and I will list them here:
Petition Online: Here's the petition protesting the cancellation of the program. Please sign it and join the 72,000 + other fans who already have... http://www.petitiononline.com/ai5d0162/pe tition.ht ml
http://www.savingangel.org/ Saving Angel is placing ads in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. You can find them here:
http://www.supportangel.org/ Support Angel has been coordinating a lot of the fan base postcard campaigns. They are a great source of information.
Some of the other information you'll find on the pages include the fact that Tribune Broadcasting itself (a 20% + shareholder in The WB Network) is encouraging fans to protest the cancellation. The WB wants to replace Angel either with a teen version of "Dark Shadows" or another revamp of "Lost in Space." It is reported that UPN has passed on picking up the show because they'd rather try to run their own version of "Teen Wolf" and borrowing heavily from the Buffy (Whedon) format to make it a success.
If you've been holding off on purchasing any of the Angel Season Sets on DVD, now is the time to purchase them; the networks ARE watching the sales figures. Remember, Fox decided to relaunch "Family Guy" after witnessing their sales success. And while UPN might have passed on picking up Angel for Season Six, we still have TNT, FX Network (fitting since Angel is a Twentieth-Century Fox production), SciFi, or even Tribune Broadcasting syndication to fall back upon!
"Now SCO is going to provoke the wrath of the automotive industry and enthusiasts; an entire new group of people to learn to hate SCO."
This is a strategic campaign to install fear in the hearts and minds of corporate CEO's who lack IT skills. Google could laugh the SCO case off and continue with their Linux tinkerings, but if SCO continues to sue companies lacking IT at their core, then this will create FUD amongst other corporations and perhaps SCO thinks they'll actually increase their customer base. Probably the exact opposite will happen, but it will be a bumpy ride for the meantime.
"Anyone out there setting up a legal defense fund so we can chip in to help these guys fight the good fight? If we don't help out SCO targets today, any of us could be next.
--G"
Well, the easiest way to help AutoZone would be to actively purchase your auto parts needs there. Photocopy your receipt and write a letter to their CEO stating that you are in support of them against the SCO and you exercise your dollars based upon your beliefs (and I don't mean religious). If everyone did that, and people signed that they gave permission to the CEO to use the letters as how he or she felt fit to, that would help them out. Or, someone could create an AutoZone share purchasing club online...bring media attention to the whole debate.
"According to Netcraft, Autozone.com runs on Solaris, using an IBM-modified version of Apache. I wonder if their "disloyalty" to SCO's Unix (in addition to using Linux) factored into their choice of which customer to sue. Or perhaps SCO hopes to take on Sun as well?"
Not likely. Sun is the major licensee of SCO's, followed by Microsoft. Sun has offered indemnification on any Java Desktop (i.e. Sun's packaging of SuSE's Linux distribution with Star Office) against SCO's claims. It is easy to conclude that Sun encouraged SCO's antics to create an attractive sales opportunity for Sun amongst companies that wanted to use Linux versus say Solaris itself...
I would expect SCO to saber rattle over BSD and Apple's OS X before going after Sun itself. That would also serve Microsoft's vested interest in FUD...
"Why were the immigrants "probably illegal"? Is it difficult for you to conceive of a legal immigrant? If so, go and have a look in the mirror. If you don't look like a Native American, then you yourself are an immigrant. Are you legal?"
"They want to invent the "Phantom Lawsuit" as well. I for one think SCO has already invented this, and will soon claim copyright to it. So Infinium Labs will lose their $25 million in capital paying off licesing fees. Darn, I was really looking forward to that amazing Phantom too......."
I think you mean SCO has patented that type of business model. Perhaps Amazon will sue them for violating their IP of "one click" frivolous lawsuits...
"It's just paragraph after paragraph of them saying things like that... it reads so very, very badly"
I've seen far worse. I witnessed a letter from an attorney sent to the very large agency in California that administers the health department (and others). The letter was a "fishing exercise" whereby the attorney was trying to goad the agency into proving his own case against them, which is a clear abuse of the legal concept of discovery. He was representing a couple of (probably illegal) immigrants who claimed they were discriminated against because some health clinic that participates in State funded programs did not provide an interpreter for their obscure languages. And I'm talking obscure like a language such as "Toltec." I mean really, there's probably more people on our planet that can speak "Klingon" (or "Esperanto") than "Toltec." But that didn't stop this toolboy. He (the attorney) did not even understand the statutes that governed the agency nor did he even know which departments and offices fell under the jurisdiction of the statutes (I guess he couldn't afford a WestLaw subscription). To me, that's a very compelling argument against law schools who are not accredited with the ABA or even ABA schools that are near the fourth-tier level. However, comparing that letter to the Infinium Labs legal staff, I'd have to say the Infinium Labs guy is a law lord compared to the previously mentioned example...
"We want more from Corel than just KPT and Painter. Office X 2004 looks nice, but the price and ethics aren't. Bring us WordPerfect."
The only problem with this logic is that if people do not buy Office on the Mac, then Microsoft will kill future development and then sheepish companies would totally write the Mac off. After all, that was the very reason why Jobs negotiated so hard with Microsoft so many years ago to ensure Microsoft continued Office development to buy enough time to bring the company back from the abyss.
With the antitrust case over here in the U.S. and with Linux gaining ground, Microsoft doesn't really need to continue developing for the Mac just so they can claim they really do have a viable operating system competitor. If it weren't advantagious for them, they would kill off their Mac development. However, working with OS X and the G5 is benefiting their Xbox 2 development project, and honing their *NIX skills will help them remain viable if Linux does the unthinkable and supplant Windows in international markets...
"While they claim that it will be one of the "top 1,000" companies, they apparently have yet to decide which company to actually sue. Perhaps they need more practice playing darts?"
Seems to me that SCO has been playing lawn darts for some time, and poor Daryl has been struck in the head numerous times because of it!
Is this the same Intel that claims we don't need 64-bit microprocessors, but on the other hand claims that chip clock cycles matter?
I for one like Bluetooth. It was a major reason why I went with Sony instead of Nokia for my last cell phone purchase. The T616 is a great phone, and Bluetooth only makes it better. Calendaring, downloading ringtones (that's MIDI to you and me!) and transferring photos snapped with the camera in my phone makes it extremely convenient. And the short range feature can be seen as a sort-of security enhancement because if anyone has figured out a backdoor to hack into my phone, they have to be really close to me to do it versus if it was an 802.11 signal.
This guy must work for SCO. Wait, he did vouch for them...
Since it took Apple to make this standard a STANDARD here in the States, I wish they could do a little more to make FireWire800 used more. It seems like Apple advances other people's technology (USB, SATA, Bluetooth) better than their own (FireWire) technologies...
"I wouldn't really say that Apple or Steve Jobs could be described as "selling Pepsi," unless you count...what....a few hours' worth of Objective-C to handle the code system Pepsi wanted in exchange for a $100,000,000 check"
Pepsi won't be paying a $100 million check to Apple unless all 100 million songs are redeemed. As it stands, Pepsi is betting that only 10% to 20% of them will. So it is in the best interest of Apple fans (or simply computer fans, or anti-Pepsi-ites) to make sure that every redeemable code is used. After all, would you rather Pepsi have that extra $100 million to make the next Crystal Pepsi or would you rather have Apple with the extra $100 million to develop the next iPod?
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"Yeah, you all laugh and tell your jokes - but in another context this stuff becomes the basis of your favorite episode of Star Trek."
Are you referencing the Xindi? I didn't think anyone on Slashdot would actually admit to viewing "Enterprise."
"If we wait to know for certain the first warning may be a mushroom cloud on Earth. Can we take that risk? We have to strike first!"
:)
Mr. President, please refrain from posting on Slashdot until you find WMD in Iraq; your re-election campaign is now and you do not have excess time to waste.
Oh, and by the way, the term is "pre-emption," not "strike first" or "first strike." Thank you.
"Guess what, we humans, as a race, own everything in the solar system. It is ours to do with as we see fit... other planets are being wasted until we make full use of them for humanity as a whole."
I think the Annunaki would have a problem with your logic. However, since they need to return all that gold they pilfered from Earth, I guess they cannot speak on such a subject with any moral authority.
"Doesn't Europa lie in the Van Allen belts of Jupiter, so it is already getting large amounts of radiation?"
:)
Van Allen belts? Puuuuuuuuuulease. That's like the scientists who feared people would instantly die if they travelled in automobiles that could surpass 35mph, that it would melt their faces off. After all, didn't our astronauts survive going through the Belts on their way to the Moon in the poorly shielded Apollo capsules? I don't think they returned looking like something you'd buy at KFC. Or did they?
"My understanding is that the Atari that's "back with us" (actually, rather one company bought it and renamed itself to its bought creation, rather like Caldera) is the software company. Which was it that was advertised in Bladerunner?"
No. Warner Communications (later Time Warner) sold off Atari Inc. by peacemeal in 1984:
The consumer division was sold to Jack Tramiel (75% stake, Warner with 25%) for $350 million in promissory notes (and that was equal to the amount of Atari 800XLs in the warehouse valued between $80 and $100 a piece). This became "Atari Corp."
The arcade division was sold to Namco of Japan. It was known as the "Atari Games Corp." Since Atari Corp. had the rights to the "Atari" brand for consumer markets, Atari Games created the "Tengen" brand to sell their titles on the NES and other systems. Both Ataris (at the prodding of Time Warner) teamed up and took on Nintendo in lawsuits for monopolizing the videogame industry, but lost for some unforeseen reason. Time Warner wound up reacquiring the company, merged it into Time Warner Interactive, and then later sold it off to WMS Industries (now known simply as "Midway").
Atari Corp. was responsible for the XE 8-bit Atari computer line, the ST, the TT, the ATW, the Atari Portfolio, the relaunching of the Atari 2600, 7800, XE Game System, the Atari Lynx, and the Atari Jaguar.
In 1996, Atari Corp. retracted from all of those markets and merged itself into JTS Industries, the failed hard drive manufacturer. It went bust up. Hasbro Interactive bought all the rights and IP of Atari Corp. for something like $10 million. About 3 years ago, Infogrames of France bought up Hasbro Interactive, and decided to rename itself "Atari." That's the Atari of today.
"Man, I forgot about Riptide. But better still was the Misfits of Science ... "Johnny B" the dude who could shoot bolts of lightning from his fists was soooo cool!"
:0
What about "Whiz Kids" that aired on CBS for a short time? The redhead wound up on "ALF" after that...man, what those kids could do on early 80s 8-bit computers not saddled with the bloatware from Redmond!
So, what is NASA going to announce? They've made contact with the Annunaki? Are those alien charlatans going to return an equal amount of gold they pilfered from the Earth to supposedly fix their atmosphere? Are we getting reparations for the enslavement of humanity's ancestors? Sweet. Just in time for the election, the President announces he's secured the gold financing to pay off the national debt! How convenient! Did Halliburton secure the deal? That's it, we've traded Iraq's secretly hidden WMD for all of that... :)
:)
ps. I vote to name the tenth planet "von Daniken" or "Kirk"...
"I think one real issue, that people are skirting, is who will be the ultimate guarantor of IP-related issues in a world that is governed by the GPL and GPL-like licenses. I could easily see IBM, HP, Sun, and many of the other large hardware players solving this problem tomorrow by settling the dispute with SCO and maybe even taking the entire code base and donating it into the public domain. I know this is what I originally thought would happen, at least the settlement part. I am not certain what people who paid tens of millions for licenses would say if what they paid for was now free, but that is a different issue."
:)
Now if I recall correctly, Caldera had planned on putting Unix completely under the GPL but could not because of so many different companies code being in the product. Perhaps IBM should sit down with Novell after the lawsuit is over with (and IBM owns whatever IP SCO actually "owns" of Unix) and get all the Unix licensees (well, Microsoft will be difficult) to sign off on any rights to Unix code and then move it over to the GPL, a BSD type license, or public domain. At the very least, a new license that would spell out exactly-and-to-the-point that any code a licensee creates for their own deriviative version of Unix would be their own IP and they could do whatever they wanted with it. That would solve any future attempts at an SCO-type of lawsuit against "creeping features" of Unix making its way into Linux or BSD (and when I say BSD, I mean OS X, tee hee)...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=17 38&ncid=1738&e=9&u=/zd/20040305/tc_zd/1209 74
Like the author of this pondering, I would prefer to see Apple make a media-centric Mac with the same footprint as most component consumer electronics items like DVD players and tuners. It would be awesome. Stack it and place it in your components cabinet (hopefully an open aired one for good ventilation). The machine would hook up to your plasma or HDTV. That's the problem with Windows Media Center PC's. They do not complement an audio/videophile's components. By using the plasma and/or the HDTV screen, the Media Mac would take charge of all the other devices yet it would still retain the media-ness of the whole system. To have iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD along with timeshifting in your living room with the help of a wireless mouse, keyboard, and friendly remote control would simply rock.
While it is a pet peeve of the SEC in terms of splitting the responsibilities of the chairman and CEO positions following the Enron debacle, this has been something CalPERS has been pressuring many companies they hold interests in. This is one of the reasons why CalPERS withheld its support for Michael Eisner and right afterward, Disney announced it would be splitting the responsibilities. Dell probably saw the writing on the wall, even though there's not a lot to complain about if you are a Dell stockholder, as compared with Disney...
"Actually a teen version of dark shadows would be pretty cool. As might a new Lost in Space. But I think there is also room on that network to keep Angel. Now whether they have the money to keep Angel is another question."
Yes, but Zed, the point is that the WB would have the money for Angel if they'd cut out funding sure-fire losers such as these two planned remakes. NBC spent a small fortunein the early 90s revamping Dark Shadows and it was good yet it failed. Even without inflation adjusting the budgets, the WB would be pressed to match the figures. As for Lost in Space, the remake film by New Line (a sister company) failed despite a talented cast and a script that lifted heavily from the unproduced Doctor Who film at Amblin. The WB produced Birds of Prey, Black Sash, and Tarzan, all with the intent of replacing Angel with any of them. They all tanked. Angel has improved its ratings this season over last's by an average of 22% and all with a reduced budget and going head-to-head with UPN's sci-fi offerings. What does that tell you?
I'm placing this in here because most FireFly fans are probably also fans of Whedon's other program, Angel. As you know, the WB Network made the announcement that they will not be renewing Angel for the sixth season, despite its majorly improved ratings over last year and that its the #2 show on their network for the major 18-34 aged advertising demographic.
e tition.ht ml
If you wish to help with the efforts to save the show, there are several websites coordinating fan activities, and I will list them here:
Petition Online:
Here's the petition protesting the cancellation of the program. Please sign it and join the 72,000 + other fans who already have...
http://www.petitiononline.com/ai5d0162/p
http://www.savingangel.org/
Saving Angel is placing ads in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. You can find them here:
http://www.supportangel.org/
Support Angel has been coordinating a lot of the fan base postcard campaigns. They are a great source of information.
Some of the other information you'll find on the pages include the fact that Tribune Broadcasting itself (a 20% + shareholder in The WB Network) is encouraging fans to protest the cancellation. The WB wants to replace Angel either with a teen version of "Dark Shadows" or another revamp of "Lost in Space." It is reported that UPN has passed on picking up the show because they'd rather try to run their own version of "Teen Wolf" and borrowing heavily from the Buffy (Whedon) format to make it a success.
If you've been holding off on purchasing any of the Angel Season Sets on DVD, now is the time to purchase them; the networks ARE watching the sales figures. Remember, Fox decided to relaunch "Family Guy" after witnessing their sales success. And while UPN might have passed on picking up Angel for Season Six, we still have TNT, FX Network (fitting since Angel is a Twentieth-Century Fox production), SciFi, or even Tribune Broadcasting syndication to fall back upon!
"Now SCO is going to provoke the wrath of the automotive industry and enthusiasts; an entire new group of people to learn to hate SCO."
This is a strategic campaign to install fear in the hearts and minds of corporate CEO's who lack IT skills. Google could laugh the SCO case off and continue with their Linux tinkerings, but if SCO continues to sue companies lacking IT at their core, then this will create FUD amongst other corporations and perhaps SCO thinks they'll actually increase their customer base. Probably the exact opposite will happen, but it will be a bumpy ride for the meantime.
"Anyone out there setting up a legal defense fund so we can chip in to help these guys fight the good fight? If we don't help out SCO targets today, any of us could be next.
--G"
Well, the easiest way to help AutoZone would be to actively purchase your auto parts needs there. Photocopy your receipt and write a letter to their CEO stating that you are in support of them against the SCO and you exercise your dollars based upon your beliefs (and I don't mean religious). If everyone did that, and people signed that they gave permission to the CEO to use the letters as how he or she felt fit to, that would help them out. Or, someone could create an AutoZone share purchasing club online...bring media attention to the whole debate.
"According to Netcraft, Autozone.com runs on Solaris, using an IBM-modified version of Apache. I wonder if their "disloyalty" to SCO's Unix (in addition to using Linux) factored into their choice of which customer to sue. Or perhaps SCO hopes to take on Sun as well?"
Not likely. Sun is the major licensee of SCO's, followed by Microsoft. Sun has offered indemnification on any Java Desktop (i.e. Sun's packaging of SuSE's Linux distribution with Star Office) against SCO's claims. It is easy to conclude that Sun encouraged SCO's antics to create an attractive sales opportunity for Sun amongst companies that wanted to use Linux versus say Solaris itself...
I would expect SCO to saber rattle over BSD and Apple's OS X before going after Sun itself. That would also serve Microsoft's vested interest in FUD...
"Why were the immigrants "probably illegal"? Is it difficult for you to conceive of a legal immigrant? If so, go and have a look in the mirror. If you don't look like a Native American, then you yourself are an immigrant. Are you legal?"
I am part Native American. But thanks for asking.
"They want to invent the "Phantom Lawsuit" as well. I for one think SCO has already invented this, and will soon claim copyright to it. So Infinium Labs will lose their $25 million in capital paying off licesing fees. Darn, I was really looking forward to that amazing Phantom too......."
I think you mean SCO has patented that type of business model. Perhaps Amazon will sue them for violating their IP of "one click" frivolous lawsuits...
"Darl McBride: The Ouiji Board? OK, but we're keeping the Tarot Cards until Friday."
Mr. McBride is of the Mormon faith. He wouldn't be using an Ouiji Board or Tarot Cards. Or drink Coke for that matter...
"It's just paragraph after paragraph of them saying things like that... it reads so very, very badly"
I've seen far worse. I witnessed a letter from an attorney sent to the very large agency in California that administers the health department (and others). The letter was a "fishing exercise" whereby the attorney was trying to goad the agency into proving his own case against them, which is a clear abuse of the legal concept of discovery. He was representing a couple of (probably illegal) immigrants who claimed they were discriminated against because some health clinic that participates in State funded programs did not provide an interpreter for their obscure languages. And I'm talking obscure like a language such as "Toltec." I mean really, there's probably more people on our planet that can speak "Klingon" (or "Esperanto") than "Toltec." But that didn't stop this toolboy. He (the attorney) did not even understand the statutes that governed the agency nor did he even know which departments and offices fell under the jurisdiction of the statutes (I guess he couldn't afford a WestLaw subscription). To me, that's a very compelling argument against law schools who are not accredited with the ABA or even ABA schools that are near the fourth-tier level. However, comparing that letter to the Infinium Labs legal staff, I'd have to say the Infinium Labs guy is a law lord compared to the previously mentioned example...
"We want more from Corel than just KPT and Painter. Office X 2004 looks nice, but the price and ethics aren't. Bring us WordPerfect."
The only problem with this logic is that if people do not buy Office on the Mac, then Microsoft will kill future development and then sheepish companies would totally write the Mac off. After all, that was the very reason why Jobs negotiated so hard with Microsoft so many years ago to ensure Microsoft continued Office development to buy enough time to bring the company back from the abyss.
With the antitrust case over here in the U.S. and with Linux gaining ground, Microsoft doesn't really need to continue developing for the Mac just so they can claim they really do have a viable operating system competitor. If it weren't advantagious for them, they would kill off their Mac development. However, working with OS X and the G5 is benefiting their Xbox 2 development project, and honing their *NIX skills will help them remain viable if Linux does the unthinkable and supplant Windows in international markets...
"While they claim that it will be one of the "top 1,000" companies, they apparently have yet to decide which company to actually sue. Perhaps they need more practice playing darts?"
Seems to me that SCO has been playing lawn darts for some time, and poor Daryl has been struck in the head numerous times because of it!
Is this the same Intel that claims we don't need 64-bit microprocessors, but on the other hand claims that chip clock cycles matter?
I for one like Bluetooth. It was a major reason why I went with Sony instead of Nokia for my last cell phone purchase. The T616 is a great phone, and Bluetooth only makes it better. Calendaring, downloading ringtones (that's MIDI to you and me!) and transferring photos snapped with the camera in my phone makes it extremely convenient. And the short range feature can be seen as a sort-of security enhancement because if anyone has figured out a backdoor to hack into my phone, they have to be really close to me to do it versus if it was an 802.11 signal.
This guy must work for SCO. Wait, he did vouch for them...
Since it took Apple to make this standard a STANDARD here in the States, I wish they could do a little more to make FireWire800 used more. It seems like Apple advances other people's technology (USB, SATA, Bluetooth) better than their own (FireWire) technologies...
but what I want to know is if Greedo harvests the grapes FIRST?
Or maybe he will in the Special Editions...
"I wouldn't really say that Apple or Steve Jobs could be described as "selling Pepsi," unless you count...what....a few hours' worth of Objective-C to handle the code system Pepsi wanted in exchange for a $100,000,000 check"
Pepsi won't be paying a $100 million check to Apple unless all 100 million songs are redeemed. As it stands, Pepsi is betting that only 10% to 20% of them will. So it is in the best interest of Apple fans (or simply computer fans, or anti-Pepsi-ites) to make sure that every redeemable code is used. After all, would you rather Pepsi have that extra $100 million to make the next Crystal Pepsi or would you rather have Apple with the extra $100 million to develop the next iPod?
The Lynxpro
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That is, assuming those letters WERE sent through the USPS and not the more efficient forms of delivery such as UPS, FedEX, etc.