They did it with current CPU's too. It's just, eventually you get tired of sand jokes.
"Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those? Oh wait, it's called....a BEACH!"
Perhaps, but it's a bit more complicated than that. You see, when you send that e-message, it has to go through your network again...so you owe an additional 9% of that. And then you owe an additional 9% of THAT payment, too.
If you take the limit as N goes to inifinity, you have to "pay" 9.890109890% of all of your network traffic;)
The tax will be applied to sales of network cables, routers, network cards, etc. They will no more audit you for having a network than they currently enforce alcohol taxes by auditing you for what you drank last night.
Ummmm....my Athlon 750 system peaks at 150 Watts or so, and that includes the monitor, 2 hard drives, a dvd drive, and a cd burner. Without the monitor, it uses about 80 watts.
The reason Athlon and P4 system require a 300 watt supply is for when they are starting up.
Get two scanners, and put tags on both of them, as well. Keep the second in a drawer, and only use it for finding the first. Once you do, put one of them back in the drawer immediatly.:D
I think there was an anime about just that. They hooked an elderly man up to some sort of life support robot, and he went on a rampage through the city.
The easiest way would be to send its serial # to the server, along with the details of the machine it is running on. If they see more than one machine with the same serial number, then it has been copied. And if you can then sell the information, as well as their contact list, all the better;)
You can get $50K CND (~$35K USD) working helpdesk for the Canadian government. All you need is 2 years of post-secondary education, plus experience providing support for Windows systems in a corporate environment. And judging by some of the people in those jobs, compatence ISN'T a requirement:D
"Sure, we just upgrade to XP, all of your settings and data will be the same. *FORMAT* Oh I meant your desktop settings and all the data on your network drive, not anything on your computer. Sorry"
I'd post links to the Notices of Competition, but apparently jobs.gc.ca is down:(
Don't worry, they had an analog backup. Plus, it was already offline since they discovered that something had eaten through the entire containment vessel, and it was a few weeks at most from catastrophic failure, resulting in radioactive steam for hundreds of miles:D
But a judge has already ruled that since running a program copies it from the hard drive to RAM, then running software is making a copy of it. Therefore, using it is the same as copying it. That is why EULA's exist. Because if you don't agree with them, it is illegal to run the software, period.
So, becauase of that boneheaded ruling, if you do not agree to the GPL, you cannot run the software, either. At least, not according to US law.
A better example would be, everybody buys a popular DVD, and SCO says "There is a scene in that movie stolen from our IP! But we can't tell you what it is, or it would invalidate our trade secrets! So everybody who owns it, please pay us $125 per DVD player in your household, or else we will sue you!"
It's simply because of herd mentality. If something is perceived as popular, people will like it, because admiting that they don't like it would be admiting that they are different from the majority.
There was an experament some people conducted in a New York resturaunt. They were selling "Luxury Bottled Water for Europe" for $7 per bottle, and people were buying, and saying how GREAT it was, and no wonder it is #1 in all of Italy, and how can I get it reguarly. It was just chilled NYC municipal tap water in a fancy bottle.
You are your silly little "facts" and "quotes" are not welcome here on/.! Now make a sweeping statement full of popular misconceptions and broad generalizations!
They don't read them. Your pay is determined by how good a patent clerk you are. And how good a patent clerk is determined by how many applications you process. You can't process a rejected application.
But SCO doesn't own ALL Of the code in the kernel, so they cannot licence it all. By agreeing to the SCO licence, the GPL no longer holds. So Linus and all of the other people who have non SCO-claimed code in the kernel can sue. In addition, IBM has patented code that was licenced for free to the kernel team, but NOT to SCO.
Of course, it is really SCO that should be sued over these violations, since THEY are the ones selling it. But that didn't stop SCO from threatening all of the companies who USE Linux.
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Odds are, you already have a glass CPU. After all, glass is silicon, and CPU's are made of doped silicon crystals.
They did it with current CPU's too. It's just, eventually you get tired of sand jokes.
"Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those? Oh wait, it's called....a BEACH!"
Perhaps, but it's a bit more complicated than that. You see, when you send that e-message, it has to go through your network again...so you owe an additional 9% of that. And then you owe an additional 9% of THAT payment, too.
If you take the limit as N goes to inifinity, you have to "pay" 9.890109890% of all of your network traffic ;)
The tax will be applied to sales of network cables, routers, network cards, etc. They will no more audit you for having a network than they currently enforce alcohol taxes by auditing you for what you drank last night.
Because it wasn't taxed yet
Ummmm....my Athlon 750 system peaks at 150 Watts or so, and that includes the monitor, 2 hard drives, a dvd drive, and a cd burner. Without the monitor, it uses about 80 watts.
The reason Athlon and P4 system require a 300 watt supply is for when they are starting up.
The Honda Overlord? Is that their newest SUV?
Get two scanners, and put tags on both of them, as well. Keep the second in a drawer, and only use it for finding the first. Once you do, put one of them back in the drawer immediatly. :D
I think there was an anime about just that. They hooked an elderly man up to some sort of life support robot, and he went on a rampage through the city.
The easiest way would be to send its serial # to the server, along with the details of the machine it is running on. If they see more than one machine with the same serial number, then it has been copied. And if you can then sell the information, as well as their contact list, all the better ;)
You can get $50K CND (~$35K USD) working helpdesk for the Canadian government. All you need is 2 years of post-secondary education, plus experience providing support for Windows systems in a corporate environment. And judging by some of the people in those jobs, compatence ISN'T a requirement :D
"Sure, we just upgrade to XP, all of your settings and data will be the same. *FORMAT* Oh I meant your desktop settings and all the data on your network drive, not anything on your computer. Sorry"
I'd post links to the Notices of Competition, but apparently jobs.gc.ca is down :(
Don't worry, they had an analog backup. Plus, it was already offline since they discovered that something had eaten through the entire containment vessel, and it was a few weeks at most from catastrophic failure, resulting in radioactive steam for hundreds of miles :D
Yes, read the guidelines. If it isn't true, it is a troll. If it IS true, but people don't like it, flamebait :P
Because a fault-tolerant, real-time system is EXPENSIVE. Plus, they wanted clippy.
"It looks like you are trying to prevent a meltdown!"
Didn't you see the FOX special?
"We leave it up to the viewer to decide, based on the evidence...however, there is NO WAY it was real."
But a judge has already ruled that since running a program copies it from the hard drive to RAM, then running software is making a copy of it. Therefore, using it is the same as copying it. That is why EULA's exist. Because if you don't agree with them, it is illegal to run the software, period.
So, becauase of that boneheaded ruling, if you do not agree to the GPL, you cannot run the software, either. At least, not according to US law.
A better example would be, everybody buys a popular DVD, and SCO says "There is a scene in that movie stolen from our IP! But we can't tell you what it is, or it would invalidate our trade secrets! So everybody who owns it, please pay us $125 per DVD player in your household, or else we will sue you!"
It's simply because of herd mentality. If something is perceived as popular, people will like it, because admiting that they don't like it would be admiting that they are different from the majority.
There was an experament some people conducted in a New York resturaunt. They were selling "Luxury Bottled Water for Europe" for $7 per bottle, and people were buying, and saying how GREAT it was, and no wonder it is #1 in all of Italy, and how can I get it reguarly. It was just chilled NYC municipal tap water in a fancy bottle.
He had MGM's permission. When you assume you make an ass out of Ume. And Ume hates that.
How about Flanders and Swann?
"One of the conditions is that you can't show it to people. Especially bank tellers"
You are your silly little "facts" and "quotes" are not welcome here on /.! Now make a sweeping statement full of popular misconceptions and broad generalizations!
They don't read them. Your pay is determined by how good a patent clerk you are. And how good a patent clerk is determined by how many applications you process. You can't process a rejected application.
But SCO doesn't own ALL Of the code in the kernel, so they cannot licence it all. By agreeing to the SCO licence, the GPL no longer holds. So Linus and all of the other people who have non SCO-claimed code in the kernel can sue. In addition, IBM has patented code that was licenced for free to the kernel team, but NOT to SCO.
Of course, it is really SCO that should be sued over these violations, since THEY are the ones selling it. But that didn't stop SCO from threatening all of the companies who USE Linux.
Yes, my bad. Raid1. The keys are right next to each other