Microsoft's policy with duping/copying is FUCKING INANE. I've switched PCI cards in my home PC only to have it flip out and require a repair install of XP on top of everything. It's just plain stupid. That poor Windows XP activation operator woman at midnight a few Saturdays ago...she got a piece of my mind.
As if they care? The ONLY way to address this with Microsoft is financially. If consumers gripe, but keep buying; what motivation is there to remove the function?
On the other hand, I will also state that if you continue to treat your customers like criminals, they will begin to act like criminals.
So, no one cares if a greyhound bus driver falls asleep and takes the entire bus off cliff?
For the most part, a pilot's job is a repetive series of steps done over and over. That's not to say they are unskilled, but the fact they have a union does not tell me they are a inherently creative position.
More importantly, the fact that they are a union indicates that skill is second place to seniority.
Novell
The company that is responsible for much
of Microsofts power. None too many can remember the early nineties when
Microsoft Office was not the lock-in it is today. In those days,
WordPerfect was THE wordprocessor.
Along comes Novell, replaces the marketing staff, and flushes that
leadership down the toilet.
This is the same company that flushed their unquestionable dominance in
the server market, too.
Too be honest, I am more concerned with Novell being an anchor to
drag SuSE to the bottom with them.
I question the future of Linux with SuSE's aquisition, Red Hat's
abandonment of the home user (reallistically), and the shaky ground of
Mandrake.
Second, state what source you used to determine if this is infringing.
In the case of the standard kernel, detailed change logs are kept in regard to what has changed in a source file and WHO made that change. The same goes for the major individual distributions.
By the way, the kernel maintainers and related groups have repeatedly asked for item one all along. These groups would police themselves quickly IF a true issue was brought before them.
The issue is that some of the contributors to the kernel DO work for companies that DO have access to SCO's source code. SGI and IBM are the top examples. In both cases, the legal departments of both companies HAVE been involved with most of the code that has been contributed. As SGI has already stated, a very small section of SYSV code HAD been inadvertantly added, and later removed.
Hmmm, I pressed "shift" and nothing happened. I then pressed "control", and again nothing happened. Hmmmm, "capslock" and "numlock" did not do anything, either. Ahhh, it must be "esc". Nope, nothing happened, either.
I think they need to be very specific by what they mean by "any", since "any" must not mean "any".
Hey, I don't disagree that the practice is somewhat deceiving. fter all, they report the RAM in BASE 2 derived values.
However, what about filesystem overhead. That is likely to take the same if not more of that space, too.
My two cents.
Sometimes when we touch
The amperage's too much
Then I have to close my eyes and convulse
I'm gonna hold you till I die
No one with a 2x4 to pry (us apart)
I'm gonna hold you til the charge in you subsides
That won't neccesarily be true. Remember that the core of OS X is Darwin (an open source kernel that is already running on x86).
Someone could simply install the latest Darwin at the time and move the OS X (x86 version) binaries across to run on a non Apple branded x86 system.
Then again, it would not be a SUPPORTED distribution of OS X.
My 2 cents.
Hmmm, since life forms are generaly based on geometric patterns, I would think fractal compression would be even conclusive in terms of detecting life.
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"We're from the goverment" and "We're here to help you".
cult: a small, unpopular religion. religion: a large, popular cult.
Correction: Q: What's the difference between a cult & a mainstream religion?
A: A cult is led by a living religious nut, a religion by a dead one.
Seems like yesterday this was Internet Explorer.
Microsoft's policy with duping/copying is FUCKING INANE. I've switched PCI cards in my home PC only to have it flip out and require a repair install of XP on top of everything. It's just plain stupid. That poor Windows XP activation operator woman at midnight a few Saturdays ago...she got a piece of my mind.
As if they care? The ONLY way to address this with Microsoft is financially. If consumers gripe, but keep buying; what motivation is there to remove the function?
On the other hand, I will also state that if you continue to treat your customers like criminals, they will begin to act like criminals.
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So, no one cares if a greyhound bus driver falls asleep and takes the entire bus off cliff?
For the most part, a pilot's job is a repetive series of steps done over and over. That's not to say they are unskilled, but the fact they have a union does not tell me they are a inherently creative position.
More importantly, the fact that they are a union indicates that skill is second place to seniority.
Actually, I like Toy Story 2 better than the original.
If the DNC is running Apache on Linux, maybe they don't have any security patches required, unlike Windows 2000 / IIS
:-)
Novell
The company that is responsible for much of Microsofts power. None too many can remember the early nineties when Microsoft Office was not the lock-in it is today. In those days, WordPerfect was THE wordprocessor.
Along comes Novell, replaces the marketing staff, and flushes that leadership down the toilet.
This is the same company that flushed their unquestionable dominance in the server market, too.
Too be honest, I am more concerned with Novell being an anchor to drag SuSE to the bottom with them.
I question the future of Linux with SuSE's aquisition, Red Hat's abandonment of the home user (reallistically), and the shaky ground of Mandrake.
I would think this is fairly straight forward.
First, state what is infringing.
Second, state what source you used to determine if this is infringing.
In the case of the standard kernel, detailed change logs are kept in regard to what has changed in a source file and WHO made that change. The same goes for the major individual distributions.
By the way, the kernel maintainers and related groups have repeatedly asked for item one all along. These groups would police themselves quickly IF a true issue was brought before them.
Keep in mind that the Powerbook has a better graphics chip and higher resolution display.
That may not matter to many, but it matters to me.
The issue is that some of the contributors to the kernel DO work for companies that DO have access to SCO's source code. SGI and IBM are the top examples. In both cases, the legal departments of both companies HAVE been involved with most of the code that has been contributed. As SGI has already stated, a very small section of SYSV code HAD been inadvertantly added, and later removed.
Actually, some movies HAVE been shot at 60fps (or at least sections of them). "Brainstorm" was one such film.
In fact, Douglas Trumball as at one time a very vocal advocate of trying to get Hollywood to transition to 60fps.
Too bad it did not happen. There are PLENTY of advantages to doing so.
Hmmm, I pressed "shift" and nothing happened. I then pressed "control", and again nothing happened. Hmmmm, "capslock" and "numlock" did not do anything, either. Ahhh, it must be "esc". Nope, nothing happened, either.
I think they need to be very specific by what they mean by "any", since "any" must not mean "any".
:-)
Hey, I don't disagree that the practice is somewhat deceiving. fter all, they report the RAM in BASE 2 derived values. However, what about filesystem overhead. That is likely to take the same if not more of that space, too. My two cents.
Microsoft is famous for three words. We have now heard "embrace", so we will await "extend", and then "extinguish"
So, if there is a known defect in a garage door openers setup, someone breaks into my house, steals my gun, shoots someone, and I'm to blame?
The PRIMARY culprit is the person who broke in.
The only other culprit I would go after is the vendor of the lock.
I don't see a difference regarding virus'es in this particular case.
I won't argue the general point. Fiction is the art of "story telling".
So, what authors out there write good stories? (this is not limited to Science Fiction).There are plenty of authors out there that write good Science Fiction as well as Fantasy, Historical Fiction, etc.
Some of my favorites are as follows:
James P. Hogan
Orson Scott Card
Alan Dean Foster
C.S. Friedman
Larry Niven (actually has not submitted any remarkable work in some time)
There are others, but I think these are good examples.
Bait and Switch
Hmmm, several Sci-Fi authors have touched on this subject matter as well.
The most recent I can recall is James P. Hogans "Martian Knightlife"
I think one of the more indepth versions I heard of was in a Star Trek book (Price of the Phoenix).
Greg Bear got into similar subjects in Eon.(very good book, by the way)
Like you said, if you make a copy, is it really valid that only ONE can the real you? Does only one have a soul? Does neither? etc.
I would be more interested if they could up the available memory in the system. At least take it to 64meg. Preferably 128meg.
Sometimes when we touch
The amperage's too much
Then I have to close my eyes and convulse
I'm gonna hold you till I die
No one with a 2x4 to pry (us apart)
I'm gonna hold you til the charge in you subsides
That won't neccesarily be true. Remember that the core of OS X is Darwin (an open source kernel that is already running on x86). Someone could simply install the latest Darwin at the time and move the OS X (x86 version) binaries across to run on a non Apple branded x86 system. Then again, it would not be a SUPPORTED distribution of OS X. My 2 cents.
What?! No HDTV?
Anyway, if they would allow commericial skip or some kind of minimal editing on going to DVD, I could be tempted.
Hmmm, since life forms are generaly based on geometric patterns, I would think fractal compression would be even conclusive in terms of detecting life.