So, the main competitor to M$ for home-user computer Operating Systems allegdes that M$ is discounting windows XP when specifically targetting Lindows users?
Could be, certainly within the GatesBorgs resources and methodology. Equally however, this could be a cleverly designed ploy to increase the profile of Lindows.
I'll wait on some hard evidence.
Note: I'm not saying I like M$, but I'm certainly not about to go off on some raving Linux-fanboi rant without seeing some evidence first.
It would be hard to imagine a group of people online who are more vocal than slashdot:)
It's just that it isn't, as a whole, yet seen as a priority by the business community to put all that effort into Linux work - and after all, Linux users can do the works themselves, yes?
Well, according to the letters (the one talking about how he has transfered the domain to TUCOWS in Canada, probably a last ditch attempt to keep the courts from getting their hands on the domain) the domain has been siezed in response to debts of $50,000 US
Now, with all the bad press associated with petswarehouse.com, i very much doubt it will have any commercial value, except maybe as an animal-pr0n site.
I'd laugh heartily if that turned out to be the case though.
Oh yes, that is certainly a possibility - mind you, one would expect that the 'Independent analysts would have checked that - my point was that there is a route by which SCO themselves (through the agency of one of their programmers) could have added this code to the Linux source, for their own reasons.
If this turns out to be true, then SCO don't have a leg to stand on.
The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff - SCO has to show exactly hwere this code came from, who wrote it, when, why, and who for. Only if they can prove that lot AND can prove that there was no way it could of got into the Linux code except by the agency of IBM can IBM be found guilty.
Of course, all this requires an unbiased court with no FUD pushing from M$^H^H outside parties.
I'm still of the opinion that the most likely breach for this code to have come from would be SCO's own Linux/UNIX integration projects from a few years back.
Also to be considered: could the code in question have been ported from UNIX to Linux by one of SCO's own coders, during the period when SCO were still OK with Linux they had a big program of 'integrating' the code of Linux and UNIX to heighten the need for SCO servers.
I don't think we are ever going to see a situation where high street companies are delivering 'bare' machines to the customer - the average man in the street does not want to have to install an OS of any flavour onto a machine - he wants to plug it in, turn it on and for it to work.
The breakthrough will come when the big OEM manufacturers feel ready to deliver machines with a preinstalled Linux adaptation, which will not happen until;
1) The big OEM manufacturers have a large enough technical support base that can handle over the phone troubleshooting on Linux based systems.
2) A sufficiently user friendly front end is available for the average user to come to grips with easily.
Linux geekery aside, ease of use is of the highest importance to the customer, and it is that which will sell products on a mass scale.
There is a general disenchantment with technology spending. Companies âoehave not yet seen a tangible return on dotcom investments.â Add in the weak economy, and âoethere is less passion and enthusiasm for technology, and greater focus on doing more for less.â
In that environment, companies have turned to Linux and other open-source software programs, seeing them as cheap but adequate alternatives.
Now I find this statement very curious to say the least - less passion and enthusiasm for technology? I would have said that we were instead approaching an era when the general populace has more passion and enthusiasm for technology, and certainly has more knowledge of computing in all its forms, hence the reason that a large sector of the base consumer populace is prepared to at least consider Linux based alternatives to windows - the user base has learnt enough from using M$ wares to now doubt the validity of the companies products and product claims.
Yes and no. The idea behind the shuttle was to save on having to build an entirely new launch vehicle every time you wanted to put a payload into orbit.
Unfortuanately, the shuttle program was based on some incorrect assumptions. First, it was assumed that their cost predictions for the shuttle would be accurate (they weren't, it costs far more per launch than predicted) and secondly, the increase in payloads wanting taking to orbit wasn't predicted (there was a massive increase, IIRC)
In theory, reusables are cheaper, but in the short term the throw away option works better.
What would make throw away rockets even cheaper is a dual use philosophy of design, allowing the entire rocket (or a lot of it at least) to reach orbit, where it could be reused to form parts for orbiting storage or some such (after all, these are generally allready presurized tanks, so they will be airtight in orbit)
With the current problems in the US space program, it may be that the newly fixed Arianne launch system can claim a significant share of the market.
It is important to remember that Arianne is also somewhat cheaper than the Shuttle for any given weight of payload - the shuttles main advantage is that its live crew (which is the reason for the higher cost) can perform and regulate scientific tests.
I await the next Arianne launch with baited breath.
Heh, we all wish - unfortuanately, because e-mail is exactly the same accross borders, most e-mail spam could be sent from outside your country and would not have to comply
What I would like to know is if it is possible to have your snail-mail address put on a no bulk mail list. I have enough coasters already thank you AOL.
was the results of the poll linked from the left hand side of the page. These indicate that the vast majority of people want either Hard copy of music only, or freebies only - indicating very little interest in Pay-per-Play and other forms of chargeable online music.
No, I'm in favour of Orbital industry (it makes no sense to put industry at the bottom of a gravity well, when most of where the results of that industry will be needed is in space anyway. Raw materials are also easier to come by in space (asteroids) and possibly in low G environments (Luna, moons of the gas giants)
The way, I see it, Terra (i prefer the Latin terminology) is our one and only food producing eco-system. While it may be possible to grow crops in orbital greenhouse environments, it would be a lot more difficult, expensive and dangerous, besides taking up a great deal of bio-system resources (atmospheric controls, bio-containment of organisms found in soils and hydroponics, etc). It will be much easier to use Terra for food production and space for Industry.
In addition to this advanced manufactuing techniques are already in development for zero-G industry, which are expected to lead to massive advances in materials science, pharmaceuticals and a number of other fields.
Ultimately, I see the best course for Terra to relax and become the cultural, agricultural and tourism centre of the Solar system, movng Industry to orbit to preserve what is our only food source that does not require mechanical modulation.
But hey, you can be in favour of polluting the planet and then starving to death or living on Soylent Green if you want.
Here is a bit of Higher perspective: The US government spends more than 10 times as much money on its military budget than on its science budget. This comet project could tell us important things about genetics, solar interference and mutation, and Evolution. This could lead to radical medical advances.
Maybe the US should do some demilitarisation, because at the moment the US has the largest armed forces proportional to its total population of any country. It is unnecessary.
is the main reason for this project. The "Dirty Snowball" theory of Biological beginnings could be given a comprehensive shot (in the arm or in the head), depending upon the results of this mission.
*sighs*
Only 11 years to wait for the data to come back, we could have been to Mars and back 3 times by then (and I hope we will have)
The sooner we get ourselves (and more importantly, all our heavy, polluting industry) off this planet, the better.
Strange, at the last party I was at gamers outnumbered non-gamers. We ended up having a big arguement/conversation about what makes a good MMPORPG, with people who had played everything from UO right up to one who is beta testing Star Wars Galaxies.
The non-gamers got exiled to the kitchen, and were talking about Big Brother:) stereotypes, huh?
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So, the main competitor to M$ for home-user computer Operating Systems allegdes that M$ is discounting windows XP when specifically targetting Lindows users?
Could be, certainly within the GatesBorgs resources and methodology. Equally however, this could be a cleverly designed ploy to increase the profile of Lindows.
I'll wait on some hard evidence.
Note: I'm not saying I like M$, but I'm certainly not about to go off on some raving Linux-fanboi rant without seeing some evidence first.
Even if it is not yet blocking against atmospheric pressures, it is a design that one would hope to see some development work done on.
If it can be used to block a 1 atmosphere pressure (or even above) it would solve a whole bucket load of problems.
It would be hard to imagine a group of people online who are more vocal than slashdot :)
It's just that it isn't, as a whole, yet seen as a priority by the business community to put all that effort into Linux work - and after all, Linux users can do the works themselves, yes?
Well, according to the letters (the one talking about how he has transfered the domain to TUCOWS in Canada, probably a last ditch attempt to keep the courts from getting their hands on the domain) the domain has been siezed in response to debts of $50,000 US
Now, with all the bad press associated with petswarehouse.com, i very much doubt it will have any commercial value, except maybe as an animal-pr0n site.
I'd laugh heartily if that turned out to be the case though.
My main interest in digitally signing electronic messages is to stop pr0n-spam instant messages.
Oh yes, that is certainly a possibility - mind you, one would expect that the 'Independent analysts would have checked that - my point was that there is a route by which SCO themselves (through the agency of one of their programmers) could have added this code to the Linux source, for their own reasons.
If this turns out to be true, then SCO don't have a leg to stand on.
The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff - SCO has to show exactly hwere this code came from, who wrote it, when, why, and who for. Only if they can prove that lot AND can prove that there was no way it could of got into the Linux code except by the agency of IBM can IBM be found guilty.
Of course, all this requires an unbiased court with no FUD pushing from M$^H^H outside parties.
I'm still of the opinion that the most likely breach for this code to have come from would be SCO's own Linux/UNIX integration projects from a few years back.
Also to be considered: could the code in question have been ported from UNIX to Linux by one of SCO's own coders, during the period when SCO were still OK with Linux they had a big program of 'integrating' the code of Linux and UNIX to heighten the need for SCO servers.
Free as in Speech, not Free as in beer.
I distinctly hope it doesn't end up in the AOL/TW camp, after the media deregulation in the states that effectively lets them control the news.
I don't think we are ever going to see a situation where high street companies are delivering 'bare' machines to the customer - the average man in the street does not want to have to install an OS of any flavour onto a machine - he wants to plug it in, turn it on and for it to work.
The breakthrough will come when the big OEM manufacturers feel ready to deliver machines with a preinstalled Linux adaptation, which will not happen until;
1) The big OEM manufacturers have a large enough technical support base that can handle over the phone troubleshooting on Linux based systems.
2) A sufficiently user friendly front end is available for the average user to come to grips with easily.
Linux geekery aside, ease of use is of the highest importance to the customer, and it is that which will sell products on a mass scale.
There is a general disenchantment with technology spending. Companies âoehave not yet seen a tangible return on dotcom investments.â Add in the weak economy, and âoethere is less passion and enthusiasm for technology, and greater focus on doing more for less.â
In that environment, companies have turned to Linux and other open-source software programs, seeing them as cheap but adequate alternatives.
Now I find this statement very curious to say the least - less passion and enthusiasm for technology? I would have said that we were instead approaching an era when the general populace has more passion and enthusiasm for technology, and certainly has more knowledge of computing in all its forms, hence the reason that a large sector of the base consumer populace is prepared to at least consider Linux based alternatives to windows - the user base has learnt enough from using M$ wares to now doubt the validity of the companies products and product claims.
Information Technology, don't you just love it?
and Opera 6
Opera does all of that - well, okay, it doesn't do Instant messaging, but i don't use that anyway.
But it does have a download agent, a web browser, a mail client and a newsreader all in one.
And its only a 3.7Mb download.
IIRC the score is 2 shuttles to 1 arianne :/
Yes and no. The idea behind the shuttle was to save on having to build an entirely new launch vehicle every time you wanted to put a payload into orbit.
Unfortuanately, the shuttle program was based on some incorrect assumptions. First, it was assumed that their cost predictions for the shuttle would be accurate (they weren't, it costs far more per launch than predicted) and secondly, the increase in payloads wanting taking to orbit wasn't predicted (there was a massive increase, IIRC)
In theory, reusables are cheaper, but in the short term the throw away option works better.
What would make throw away rockets even cheaper is a dual use philosophy of design, allowing the entire rocket (or a lot of it at least) to reach orbit, where it could be reused to form parts for orbiting storage or some such (after all, these are generally allready presurized tanks, so they will be airtight in orbit)
With the current problems in the US space program, it may be that the newly fixed Arianne launch system can claim a significant share of the market.
It is important to remember that Arianne is also somewhat cheaper than the Shuttle for any given weight of payload - the shuttles main advantage is that its live crew (which is the reason for the higher cost) can perform and regulate scientific tests.
I await the next Arianne launch with baited breath.
Heh, we all wish - unfortuanately, because e-mail is exactly the same accross borders, most e-mail spam could be sent from outside your country and would not have to comply
What I would like to know is if it is possible to have your snail-mail address put on a no bulk mail list. I have enough coasters already thank you AOL.
was the results of the poll linked from the left hand side of the page. These indicate that the vast majority of people want either Hard copy of music only, or freebies only - indicating very little interest in Pay-per-Play and other forms of chargeable online music.
The results of the poll can be found here
Yeah, the GLA have a habit of blowing up Dams, as I recall.
:)
Still, it'll be alright as long as they have shitloads of gattling cannon and a few overlords
Beer looses all its taste when it gets too cold, which should tell you a lot about the stuff they sell in the states as beer.
Now, try a nice pint of Old Speckled Hen, Kimberly ale or A pint of ale from my local, Britains Oldest Pub! - which serves its own brew, made on site.
And as for guiness, the stuff you get in cans is not proper guiness
No, I'm in favour of Orbital industry (it makes no sense to put industry at the bottom of a gravity well, when most of where the results of that industry will be needed is in space anyway. Raw materials are also easier to come by in space (asteroids) and possibly in low G environments (Luna, moons of the gas giants)
The way, I see it, Terra (i prefer the Latin terminology) is our one and only food producing eco-system. While it may be possible to grow crops in orbital greenhouse environments, it would be a lot more difficult, expensive and dangerous, besides taking up a great deal of bio-system resources (atmospheric controls, bio-containment of organisms found in soils and hydroponics, etc). It will be much easier to use Terra for food production and space for Industry.
In addition to this advanced manufactuing techniques are already in development for zero-G industry, which are expected to lead to massive advances in materials science, pharmaceuticals and a number of other fields.
Ultimately, I see the best course for Terra to relax and become the cultural, agricultural and tourism centre of the Solar system, movng Industry to orbit to preserve what is our only food source that does not require mechanical modulation.
But hey, you can be in favour of polluting the planet and then starving to death or living on Soylent Green if you want.
Here is a bit of Higher perspective: The US government spends more than 10 times as much money on its military budget than on its science budget. This comet project could tell us important things about genetics, solar interference and mutation, and Evolution. This could lead to radical medical advances.
Maybe the US should do some demilitarisation, because at the moment the US has the largest armed forces proportional to its total population of any country. It is unnecessary.
is the main reason for this project. The "Dirty Snowball" theory of Biological beginnings could be given a comprehensive shot (in the arm or in the head), depending upon the results of this mission.
*sighs*
Only 11 years to wait for the data to come back, we could have been to Mars and back 3 times by then (and I hope we will have)
The sooner we get ourselves (and more importantly, all our heavy, polluting industry) off this planet, the better.
Strange, at the last party I was at gamers outnumbered non-gamers. We ended up having a big arguement/conversation about what makes a good MMPORPG, with people who had played everything from UO right up to one who is beta testing Star Wars Galaxies.
:) stereotypes, huh?
The non-gamers got exiled to the kitchen, and were talking about Big Brother