"But perpetual protection of Mickey Mouse is ok,...
Not perpetual: "perpetual". Two lifetimes isn't really forever, it only appears that way to mortals. SCOTUS can't help it if you don't live for 300 years, excercise more.
I read it to say Yoper's distinction is being tuned to be as fast as reasonably possible. Only as a secondary feature does it provide an opportunity to inflate one's ego by pissing on Slashdot readers.
"Very few Win95 systems ever made it that long without a reboot..."
Damn, of all the things to contradict. We ran Win95 on machines running proprietary software which recorded audio in Real format, 24/7. The systems ran trouble-free season after season. After the 49.7 day patch of course.
Tube amps never went away. What's changed is access to the huge manufacturing output of the former Soviet Union and mainland China. That excess military capacity is being redirected west. On the DIY side, computers have taken the sting out of design with inexpensive (TubeCAD) or free (LTSPice) software and opened up a previously unattainable wealth of information (Google!) and mutual support (Audioasylum and audiodiy forums.) In a sense amps are being democratized.
The 'elitist' explanation may be personally satisfying. It's otherwise incorrect. My brother's been out of Nortel's audio design group for about a decade but up to that time no handsets surpassed the measured performance of the old carbons (think rotary dial.) Later sets were designed to optimize return on production costs, not intelligibility. Cell phones for the most part maintain those design goals.
Dead wrong. Both technologies can easily reproduce electrical signals with distortion far below the accepted measured thresholds of audibility. Look elsewhere.
"...could therefore qualify as a win-win situation."
For municipal governments and contractors anyway. More residents per square foot, higher tax yield. Smaller houses, more sale units per square foot of land development. I'm willing to bet municipal politicians and land developers won't be partaking in the joys of social responsibility in 800 sq.ft. housing.
Evidence isn't weighed by quantity, but if you want the counter-balance SCO's site provides plenty. Are you sure you're not asking for the equivalence of more balance about 'the faked moon landing' and abrading NASA for "long, incomprehensible, philosophical discussions"?
It's a reasonable position for a layman to take, I wonder though about Bois and his firm. He's not a stupid man and knows enough about the software world to beat Microsoft in federal court, though admitedly over business practices. Why does his firm continue to pursue what seems from the outside such an obviously frivolous suit? A suit as baseless as this appears means SCO's defeat can only reflect poorly on his firm, and SCO certainly doesn't have the money to offset the potential loss of future income from high profile clients who might see Bois and his firm as expensive ambulance chasers. Why haven't they walked away?
Great story, but one flaw. Your prof assumed it as an expression of IBM policy to ship (what sounded like seriously) flawed software instead of a decision made by one of the line managers to meet an internal deadline and score stock options at the expense of tech support. My favourite story of this type is from a buddy who spliced cable for Bell Canada for many years. Splicers are a different division than repair. When deadlines were tight it wasn't unusual for them to steal active customer copper without warning to hit an unrelated deadline and "leave it for repair to sort out."
My brother, who works in embedded, regaled me with stories of the IBM kind for years. He finally left Nortel.
Thinking like this is why so many Canadians consider Americans complete assholes. Personally I don't, I realize it's only true of a very large percentage.
"'an industry-wide copy control platform' built in to its next-generation Longhorn operating system... 'as a quid pro quo for adding effective [DRM] into the consumer experience'"
Everyone seems to forget that Bill Gates gave them nothing, the money was donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is not their personal bank account. The Foundation made $4 billion in investments and received $81 million in donations in 2003. It's net worth increased that year by $2.7 billion. The financial records are on the Foundation site.
What they're doing is beneficial, no doubt, but please quit implying this is "Bill's pile of money" which he doles to worthy causes the same way you or I donate to charities. This is an entirely different game:
I was a Gentoo user from the first release of 1.2 but after a long and arduous desktop install trashed by Reiserf and having no luck getting the latest release to see/dev/hda on my Nforce3 notebook, I looked around. FreeBSD won't boot due to a BIOS fault, Fedora works but it's still Fedora. Debian's Pure64 port has been a revelation. Fast (way faster than XP home on the alternate partition), stable and 14000+ packages in the Alioth Sid repository. I've always shied from Debian because of the incomprehensible install (for a Gentoo user!) but the lastest installer works great. I'm in no hurry to go back.
They don't care about e-mail or chat? Doesn't matter, I work with dozens of news people. This is very unlikely to be a conscious effort to package information into easily digestible form, the reporter almost certainly doesn't know the difference.
"... it isn't that easy to make money off the Internet as a lot of investors may have thought."
True, but it's because they keep thinking of the Internet as a product in itself instead of as an enhancement or adjunct to more traditional businesses. It makes as much sense of Forbes to say the phone system is dying because companies, other than telcos, haven't found a way to make money from it.
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Record dupe. :)
Not perpetual: "perpetual". Two lifetimes isn't really forever, it only appears that way to mortals. SCOTUS can't help it if you don't live for 300 years, excercise more.
Yea, those crazy MUSIC fans. Who can possible make sense of the things they do?
Take a look at the GPL program Peerguardian. It's a software firewall with a blocklist tailored to exclude the MPAA, RIAA, etc.
I read it to say Yoper's distinction is being tuned to be as fast as reasonably possible. Only as a secondary feature does it provide an opportunity to inflate one's ego by pissing on Slashdot readers.
Damn, of all the things to contradict. We ran Win95 on machines running proprietary software which recorded audio in Real format, 24/7. The systems ran trouble-free season after season. After the 49.7 day patch of course.
Tube amps never went away. What's changed is access to the huge manufacturing output of the former Soviet Union and mainland China. That excess military capacity is being redirected west. On the DIY side, computers have taken the sting out of design with inexpensive (TubeCAD) or free (LTSPice) software and opened up a previously unattainable wealth of information (Google!) and mutual support (Audioasylum and audiodiy forums.) In a sense amps are being democratized.
The 'elitist' explanation may be personally satisfying. It's otherwise incorrect. My brother's been out of Nortel's audio design group for about a decade but up to that time no handsets surpassed the measured performance of the old carbons (think rotary dial.) Later sets were designed to optimize return on production costs, not intelligibility. Cell phones for the most part maintain those design goals.
Dead wrong. Both technologies can easily reproduce electrical signals with distortion far below the accepted measured thresholds of audibility. Look elsewhere.
For municipal governments and contractors anyway. More residents per square foot, higher tax yield. Smaller houses, more sale units per square foot of land development. I'm willing to bet municipal politicians and land developers won't be partaking in the joys of social responsibility in 800 sq.ft. housing.
The same way the current admistration is good for Haliburton? Not a good idea.
Evidence isn't weighed by quantity, but if you want the counter-balance SCO's site provides plenty. Are you sure you're not asking for the equivalence of more balance about 'the faked moon landing' and abrading NASA for "long, incomprehensible, philosophical discussions"?
As others have suggested above, this could be exactly the battle those who fund them care about.
It's a reasonable position for a layman to take, I wonder though about Bois and his firm. He's not a stupid man and knows enough about the software world to beat Microsoft in federal court, though admitedly over business practices. Why does his firm continue to pursue what seems from the outside such an obviously frivolous suit? A suit as baseless as this appears means SCO's defeat can only reflect poorly on his firm, and SCO certainly doesn't have the money to offset the potential loss of future income from high profile clients who might see Bois and his firm as expensive ambulance chasers. Why haven't they walked away?
My brother, who works in embedded, regaled me with stories of the IBM kind for years. He finally left Nortel.
Thinking like this is why so many Canadians consider Americans complete assholes. Personally I don't, I realize it's only true of a very large percentage.
Wonderful, now we get arithmetic FUD.
http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsAr ticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh72812_2004-09-04_02-22-58_sp9 6863_newsml
I was a Gentoo user from the first release of 1.2 but after a long and arduous desktop install trashed by Reiserf and having no luck getting the latest release to see /dev/hda on my Nforce3 notebook, I looked around. FreeBSD won't boot due to a BIOS fault, Fedora works but it's still Fedora. Debian's Pure64 port has been a revelation. Fast (way faster than XP home on the alternate partition), stable and 14000+ packages in the Alioth Sid repository. I've always shied from Debian because of the incomprehensible install (for a Gentoo user!) but the lastest installer works great. I'm in no hurry to go back.
They don't have need to rely on trust, they can see the code. LGPL, remember?
We like to call it the legal system.
It might be a rare example where it's justiied. SCO contends AutoZone carried over proprietary code in migrating from OpenServer to Linux.
"...when AutoZone's corporate network migrated from SCO's OpenServer technology to Linux, some of the OpenServer code went into the switch."
Not even SCO's perfect, they can be right sometimes.
They don't care about e-mail or chat? Doesn't matter, I work with dozens of news people. This is very unlikely to be a conscious effort to package information into easily digestible form, the reporter almost certainly doesn't know the difference.
True, but it's because they keep thinking of the Internet as a product in itself instead of as an enhancement or adjunct to more traditional businesses. It makes as much sense of Forbes to say the phone system is dying because companies, other than telcos, haven't found a way to make money from it.
I was going to suggest "pot" and "kettle".