Taking it even further, the fans could also splice the 'deleted scenes' from the tail end of the DVD into the spaces that they belong in the film.
Or even further, the films could be released with the intention that the viewer can pick and chose what views they want to see - so if the plot goes off in two directions, following different characters, you can watch one, or the other, or both, whatever
Now, that kind of movie experience would be something i'd pay a lot for.
this report will get ignored in the aftermath of the war. Blair isn't Mr popular now anyway, and you have to remember that lobbying groups in Parliament are 10 a penny.
Maybe the Open Source Community should have one too.
"natural" decaf coffee - or I should say, decaf coffee that has not gone through the decaf cycle (which to many, ruins the taste).
De-caffeinated coffee ruins the point of drinking coffee, anyone who wants de-caff (or no alcohol beer, or nicotine free cigarettes) should just go and drink orange juice and leave those of us with a serious addiction to it.
I'm more worried about it cross-polinating with real caffeine plants and diluting my Coding Coffee
Can nmap (or midnight commander, etc.) really remove SCO support? What are they going to do, add some code which detects SCO and dump core?
Removing the default library paths from the Makefile just doesn't sound all that scary...
It might not sound like much, but what it means is that if a problem occurs in use with SCO product... no one will even attempt to fix it.
Given the nature of open source, that is all that can be done, but it is enough, IMHO
I'm posting this from a WinXP machine. Let me assure you that while it can read FAT32, the OS as default will not FAT32 format any drive over (I belive) 2Gb.
FAT32 Formatting in Setup is an option, but is known to frequently fail or have significant errors.
FAT 32 Formatting once you are in the OS requires 3rd Party wares.
Yeah, but I bet you it'll be like Windows XP's theoretical ability to use FAT 32 - it can read it, but it won't actually let you format in FAT32 when doing an installation.
And guess what? Its a proprietry file system that other OS's won't read *coughlinuxcough*
So.... that'll be yet another proprietry lock-in technique from M$ then. Anyone surprised? A show of hands please....
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Nah, it'd be waaay too hard a difficulty curve, and the power ups would always be buggy:P
It is certainly the kind of problem I often end up facing at work, far too many people know just enough to majorly fuck things up nowadays.
Personally, I would prefer not to have to use M$ware at all, but all too often legacy systems in the workplace are a lock in, so I expect to see things like this continue to be published and be popular for a good while.
More to the point, as noted in the OSI position paper on the lawsuit (about half way down - search for SMP and you will eventually find the correct segment), Linux had working SMP before UNIX did, so this is a null claim.
I'm getting bored now, and $3Billion? Who are they kidding. Anyway, so far as I can tell, the arguement goes 'IBM wrote some code and put it into both UNIX and Linux'. So far as I can tell, there is no legal bar on them from doing so. Sure, they can't later take any modifications done to the Linux Kernel and put it into Unix, but as the originator of the code that is in Unix, they can do what the hell they like with it (and later putting it into Linux does NOT GPL the version of Unix, it just prevents them from later copying Linux changes back over)
A drive that size would not matter in a small office environment either, where all data (in theory) would be held on a server, not on the machine itself. These machines run OpenOffice and would do well enough for a SOHO environment, which is where Linux needs to move into the Office market.
The SOHO market typically has tighter profit/loss margins, so it will make sense to move towards an Open Source solution (as most SOHO's allready employ outside Tech support) as the most cost effective.
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This thing of 'the dates in the comments have been removed' sounds to me like a bad attempt at a cover up. AFAIK, every developer worth his salt dates everything. besides this is the fact that the corresponding code is merely similar - by what virtue can SCO claim that comments, which are not part of the actual operating code, form a more significant part of the source than the actual code?
You cannot have an infinite spiral up of consumption. Trying to ever increase an economy up-up-up eventually leads to a point of no return, where consumption abruptly halts and reverses.
This is called a boom and bust cycle, and it generally results in events like stock market crashes and thereby leads to null investment. This results in insecurities in the Job market, so people no longer spend as highly, resulting in less jobs, which creates a vicious circle.
The proper function of government should be to regulate the economy to prevent a boom-bust cycle from occuring. The problem is that the US has ignored this, choosing to deploy it policies in favour of short term gain over long term sustainability. This will ultimately result in the ruin of the US economy. If the rest of us are lucky it will slow our economies, but not destroy them.
I'd prefer to see all of the options used, in a correct and balanced way. I don't have any problem with Income Tax per se, only when it gets misapplied.
But I'm in the UK, we have a more enlightened view of Taxes and we aren't as suspicious of our government over here.
The trouble is, if you just tax income you are only limiting yourself and your government to a stance of anti-production, by taxing the only form of economic creation. VAT is essential because it taxes consumption of goods and services - the difference is important because of the way it alters the dynamic flow of wealth within the economy.
I'd like to see the legalisation and taxation of Cannabis on the same scale as other legal recreational drugs like Alcohol and Nicotine - this would generate a vast increase in profit, plus it would undercut organised crime money generation/laundering techniques.
I know where it comes from (and yes, I am In favour of sanitary products and contraception being tax-free), but the fact remains that we either have this form of tax, or all the rest of the taxes go up. Or the funding for the Health Service, Schools and social care becomes worse, which i hope never happens, I do NOT want to see the lack of basic ammenities that the US is subjected to.
And this tax is a valid regulatory control, which is necessary for proper government.
But then again, I am in favour of higher income tax and differential taxation for the higher income bands, So my view is likly to get modded as troll by americans who think Sociataly responsible government is equivalent to communism, without understanding what Socialism and Communism actually are.
Economically, however, Sales Tax (or VAT as its called here in the UK) is a vital tool for regulation of the economy, as lower Income Tax and higher VAT encourages people to save (especially in conjuction with a higher base rate of interest on borrowing to discourage people to take loans out and encourage them to keep money in bank accounts)
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Allways should have done, legally speaking, and products allways do as well. To get around it you simply need to set up a stateside bank account and a remailer address with a friend. No Problem.
You answered your own question. It is because your country has a corrupt and entrenched mass of politicians who have no incentive for doing what is good for the electorate because they don't need to do so to remain in power.
Yeah, if that is precedent applicable to this case, then I would expect to see the fastest Kernel revision ever happen if SCO win.
Personally however I have been pointing out that SCO had this Linux integration program for a while now (ref: This Post) and moreover that SCO have been releasing this code under the terms of the GPL themselves by continuing shipping Caldera Linux.
To be quite honest, the only people who benefit from this are the Lawyers. Quick, someone check to make sure Darl hasn't invested in the Law companies:P
To burn a CD, yes, but they have development costs and (in theory) an ongoing debugging effort (ahem), and I belive they have previously quoted $100 as their 'break even' price due to these factors and support costs.
Selling at below cost to break your competitors is illegal in at least some places, im sure.
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Taking it even further, the fans could also splice the 'deleted scenes' from the tail end of the DVD into the spaces that they belong in the film.
Or even further, the films could be released with the intention that the viewer can pick and chose what views they want to see - so if the plot goes off in two directions, following different characters, you can watch one, or the other, or both, whatever
Now, that kind of movie experience would be something i'd pay a lot for.
this report will get ignored in the aftermath of the war. Blair isn't Mr popular now anyway, and you have to remember that lobbying groups in Parliament are 10 a penny.
Maybe the Open Source Community should have one too.
"natural" decaf coffee - or I should say, decaf coffee that has not gone through the decaf cycle (which to many, ruins the taste).
De-caffeinated coffee ruins the point of drinking coffee, anyone who wants de-caff (or no alcohol beer, or nicotine free cigarettes) should just go and drink orange juice and leave those of us with a serious addiction to it.
I'm more worried about it cross-polinating with real caffeine plants and diluting my Coding Coffee
Money is money, if more money can be raised for scientific research by sending rich idiot tourists up in space, then so be it.
And if you are that concerned, consider that the other option is more of your tax dollars going up in space.
And it probably isn't any more dangerous than having a small child strapped into the back seat of a car.
1) Oportunity
2) ???
3) Profit!
Ultimately, if it puts cash into the space program, im all for some rich idiots paying stupid ammounts of cash for it.
Can nmap (or midnight commander, etc.) really remove SCO support? What are they going to do, add some code which detects SCO and dump core? Removing the default library paths from the Makefile just doesn't sound all that scary...
It might not sound like much, but what it means is that if a problem occurs in use with SCO product... no one will even attempt to fix it.
Given the nature of open source, that is all that can be done, but it is enough, IMHO
I'm posting this from a WinXP machine. Let me assure you that while it can read FAT32, the OS as default will not FAT32 format any drive over (I belive) 2Gb.
FAT32 Formatting in Setup is an option, but is known to frequently fail or have significant errors.
FAT 32 Formatting once you are in the OS requires 3rd Party wares.
Yeah, but I bet you it'll be like Windows XP's theoretical ability to use FAT 32 - it can read it, but it won't actually let you format in FAT32 when doing an installation.
And guess what? Its a proprietry file system that other OS's won't read *coughlinuxcough*
So.... that'll be yet another proprietry lock-in technique from M$ then. Anyone surprised? A show of hands please....
Nah, it'd be waaay too hard a difficulty curve, and the power ups would always be buggy :P
I f I can get my emplotyer to buy this for me?
It is certainly the kind of problem I often end up facing at work, far too many people know just enough to majorly fuck things up nowadays.
Personally, I would prefer not to have to use M$ware at all, but all too often legacy systems in the workplace are a lock in, so I expect to see things like this continue to be published and be popular for a good while.
More to the point, as noted in the OSI position paper on the lawsuit (about half way down - search for SMP and you will eventually find the correct segment), Linux had working SMP before UNIX did, so this is a null claim.
I'm getting bored now, and $3Billion? Who are they kidding. Anyway, so far as I can tell, the arguement goes 'IBM wrote some code and put it into both UNIX and Linux'. So far as I can tell, there is no legal bar on them from doing so. Sure, they can't later take any modifications done to the Linux Kernel and put it into Unix, but as the originator of the code that is in Unix, they can do what the hell they like with it (and later putting it into Linux does NOT GPL the version of Unix, it just prevents them from later copying Linux changes back over)
Hmmm
A drive that size would not matter in a small office environment either, where all data (in theory) would be held on a server, not on the machine itself. These machines run OpenOffice and would do well enough for a SOHO environment, which is where Linux needs to move into the Office market.
The SOHO market typically has tighter profit/loss margins, so it will make sense to move towards an Open Source solution (as most SOHO's allready employ outside Tech support) as the most cost effective.
This thing of 'the dates in the comments have been removed' sounds to me like a bad attempt at a cover up. AFAIK, every developer worth his salt dates everything. besides this is the fact that the corresponding code is merely similar - by what virtue can SCO claim that comments, which are not part of the actual operating code, form a more significant part of the source than the actual code?
You could try Here for a slightly more indepth review, or Here for a selection of screenshots.
Or, perish the thought, you could try Here
Could you post (or link) the text of that agreement?
You cannot have an infinite spiral up of consumption. Trying to ever increase an economy up-up-up eventually leads to a point of no return, where consumption abruptly halts and reverses.
This is called a boom and bust cycle, and it generally results in events like stock market crashes and thereby leads to null investment. This results in insecurities in the Job market, so people no longer spend as highly, resulting in less jobs, which creates a vicious circle.
The proper function of government should be to regulate the economy to prevent a boom-bust cycle from occuring. The problem is that the US has ignored this, choosing to deploy it policies in favour of short term gain over long term sustainability. This will ultimately result in the ruin of the US economy. If the rest of us are lucky it will slow our economies, but not destroy them.
I'd prefer to see all of the options used, in a correct and balanced way. I don't have any problem with Income Tax per se, only when it gets misapplied.
But I'm in the UK, we have a more enlightened view of Taxes and we aren't as suspicious of our government over here.
The trouble is, if you just tax income you are only limiting yourself and your government to a stance of anti-production, by taxing the only form of economic creation. VAT is essential because it taxes consumption of goods and services - the difference is important because of the way it alters the dynamic flow of wealth within the economy.
I'd like to see the legalisation and taxation of Cannabis on the same scale as other legal recreational drugs like Alcohol and Nicotine - this would generate a vast increase in profit, plus it would undercut organised crime money generation/laundering techniques.
I know where it comes from (and yes, I am In favour of sanitary products and contraception being tax-free), but the fact remains that we either have this form of tax, or all the rest of the taxes go up. Or the funding for the Health Service, Schools and social care becomes worse, which i hope never happens, I do NOT want to see the lack of basic ammenities that the US is subjected to.
And this tax is a valid regulatory control, which is necessary for proper government.
But then again, I am in favour of higher income tax and differential taxation for the higher income bands, So my view is likly to get modded as troll by americans who think Sociataly responsible government is equivalent to communism, without understanding what Socialism and Communism actually are.
Economically, however, Sales Tax (or VAT as its called here in the UK) is a vital tool for regulation of the economy, as lower Income Tax and higher VAT encourages people to save (especially in conjuction with a higher base rate of interest on borrowing to discourage people to take loans out and encourage them to keep money in bank accounts)
Mr. or Ms. EU Citizen, your website subscription now costs 15% to 25% more, starting July 1. Hope you like this added value.
Allways should have done, legally speaking, and products allways do as well. To get around it you simply need to set up a stateside bank account and a remailer address with a friend. No Problem.
Why aren't we (the United States)?
You answered your own question. It is because your country has a corrupt and entrenched mass of politicians who have no incentive for doing what is good for the electorate because they don't need to do so to remain in power.
read their claims on GPL copyrights (they say there aren't any)
So is that why SCO thought they could just copy the code from Linux into their LPK?
Bad call MoFo
Yeah, if that is precedent applicable to this case, then I would expect to see the fastest Kernel revision ever happen if SCO win.
:P
Personally however I have been pointing out that SCO had this Linux integration program for a while now (ref: This Post) and moreover that SCO have been releasing this code under the terms of the GPL themselves by continuing shipping Caldera Linux.
To be quite honest, the only people who benefit from this are the Lawyers. Quick, someone check to make sure Darl hasn't invested in the Law companies
To burn a CD, yes, but they have development costs and (in theory) an ongoing debugging effort (ahem), and I belive they have previously quoted $100 as their 'break even' price due to these factors and support costs.
Selling at below cost to break your competitors is illegal in at least some places, im sure.