After the initial anouncement that the claims were bogus, the media will probably just forget about this and never mention SCO again.
Meanwhile SCOX will plumment and leave a lot of angry investors.
I doubt the SEC will get involve though, as this is looking less and less like a stock "pump and dump" scheme and more and more like an average case of sheer corporate idiocy.
Sundwall: "We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
So, there's still some hope. The code to GAIM is freely availeable for Microsoft to audit, so theres at least a small chance they will certify it as not being a "security risk".
I googled for some information and came up with this site.
Here are some relevant quotes:
Housing is a particularly severe problem. The quality built into a modern home is good, but cost and size are a different matter. With the rapid appreciation of land values in the 1980s in Japan, a four-bedroom, ranch-style, North American house on an acre of land and valued at maybe US$250,000 would have cost many millions in Tokyo. The most that people could hope for would be a 3DK (3 bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen plus, of course, a bath, bathroom and entryway) squeezed into, perhaps, 700 square feet. But the price was so high that banks were beginning to write 60-year '3-generation' mortgages which would be finally paid off by the grandson of the signer. With prices at such a level, inheritance was a problem. The tax on inheritances ran to 70% at the top end and, with many homes valued toward a million dollars, most salarymen were forced into deep debt or would have to sell the family home to pay the tax.
In the early 1970s, pollution was a problem, especially in large cities like Tokyo. Policemen were provided with oxygen if they had to direct traffic at a busy intersection and smog alerts rose from 16 a year in 1960 to 150 a year in 1970: school children and those with breathing problems were advised not to go outside on those days. To a large extent, air pollution has been solved and from time to time Tokyo's residents can even see Mt. Fuji once again.
What has not been solved is commuting. Even if the commuters' ribs are not broken, the time spent on public transport has increased from about 60 minutes in 1960 to and average of 90 minutes. The time spent is a serious degradation of the quality of life, even if the trains run exactly on time, are air conditioned, and have stock quotations and weather forecasts on LCD monitors at each door.
As the economy has grown, pressures have increased to deal with questions of living conditions and the quality of life. Pollution has been reduced and more households are connected to the sewer system in the cities, but there is pressure on local and national governments to invest more to improve living conditions. Local governments especially have been responsive, but the national government controls the bulk of public money and therefore long-term improvement depends on it.
What do they need want 5-year-old-analog robots for?
Don't get me wrong, I still love research for research's sake, but I think that Japan could better spend $50 billion on more advanced urban architecture and transportation.
Well so what if I have two Athlon 2500 systems @ 2312mhz, one of which is soon to be replaced by a P4 2.6ghz @ 3.25ghz?
That irrelevant.
My family used to play 3.11 DivX movies just fine on their K6-2 450mhz with an ATI rage pro, 32mb. Sure, by now I've upgraded them to an Athlon 2100 with an integrated Geforce 4 MX, but the point is old hardware plays DivX movies just fine near as I can tell.
Yeah, and its funny because first Moore came up with doubling every 1 year, then later he said 2 years, but he never said anything about 1 year and a half.
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Groupthink is nonsense. Think of it instead as the law of diminishing returns and the laws of thermodynamics all operating at once.
> Who walks away rich? Not just the SCO execs...but the lawyers
But see, the lawyers _ALLWAYS_ walk away rich.
Not more foolish than SCO, no. I was implying that even without the $ his post would have seemed foolish, but with the $ he looks even more foolish...
I agree, grandparent was overated...
Spelling $CO and Micro$oft only makes you look more the fool. M$ though I could understand as its a nice abbreviation...
As for comparing the prices of the two different companies, that is irrelevant.
I could just as easily say SCO and RedHat are up to something....
Thats funny, I don't see anyone new on my fans list... ;)
In seriousness, thats what happens when you hire an IT guy for 40 hours/week and only assign him 2 hours worth of work per day.
now shhh!
After the initial anouncement that the claims were bogus, the media will probably just forget about this and never mention SCO again.
Meanwhile SCOX will plumment and leave a lot of angry investors.
I doubt the SEC will get involve though, as this is looking less and less like a stock "pump and dump" scheme and more and more like an average case of sheer corporate idiocy.
> wipe out in decades.
Just how long do you think a Strategic Nuclear ICBM's coundown is?
It had to have been one of those odd EE/Biomechanical double majors. I allways was worried about them...
You are right, but it sure seems like a hell of a lot longer than 5 years since we first got that system...
But its pretty obvious that anyone who doesn't upgrade their computer for 5 years, and still expects to view the latest media, is a fool.
And we all know how Microsoft combats viruses. ;)
> Does that mean mozilla isn't a normal browser?
;)
Yes, thats what it means. Mozilla is a superior browser
And I'll be happy to cover your licensing fees for MSN Messenger 6.0 as well!
I'd estimate the grand total will come to about, say, $0 ?
Perhaps. I am not being naive though, I just pointed out there was a "small chance."
Sundwall: "We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
So, there's still some hope. The code to GAIM is freely availeable for Microsoft to audit, so theres at least a small chance they will certify it as not being a "security risk".
> Though lets start with a REAL space station first.
Actually, lets start with a more dependable heavy payload launch vehicle.
Aww, its just a doll.
I googled for some information and came up with this site.
Here are some relevant quotes:
Housing is a particularly severe problem. The quality built into a modern home is good, but cost and size are a different matter. With the rapid appreciation of land values in the 1980s in Japan, a four-bedroom, ranch-style, North American house on an acre of land and valued at maybe US$250,000 would have cost many millions in Tokyo. The most that people could hope for would be a 3DK (3 bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen plus, of course, a bath, bathroom and entryway) squeezed into, perhaps, 700 square feet. But the price was so high that banks were beginning to write 60-year '3-generation' mortgages which would be finally paid off by the grandson of the signer. With prices at such a level, inheritance was a problem. The tax on inheritances ran to 70% at the top end and, with many homes valued toward a million dollars, most salarymen were forced into deep debt or would have to sell the family home to pay the tax.
In the early 1970s, pollution was a problem, especially in large cities like Tokyo. Policemen were provided with oxygen if they had to direct traffic at a busy intersection and smog alerts rose from 16 a year in 1960 to 150 a year in 1970: school children and those with breathing problems were advised not to go outside on those days. To a large extent, air pollution has been solved and from time to time Tokyo's residents can even see Mt. Fuji once again.
What has not been solved is commuting. Even if the commuters' ribs are not broken, the time spent on public transport has increased from about 60 minutes in 1960 to and average of 90 minutes. The time spent is a serious degradation of the quality of life, even if the trains run exactly on time, are air conditioned, and have stock quotations and weather forecasts on LCD monitors at each door.
As the economy has grown, pressures have increased to deal with questions of living conditions and the quality of life. Pollution has been reduced and more households are connected to the sewer system in the cities, but there is pressure on local and national governments to invest more to improve living conditions. Local governments especially have been responsive, but the national government controls the bulk of public money and therefore long-term improvement depends on it.
> We already have this. It's called "Mike Tyson".
Yes but where can I get one?
Last I checked Japan was very overcrowded.
What do they need want 5-year-old-analog robots for?
Don't get me wrong, I still love research for research's sake, but I think that Japan could better spend $50 billion on more advanced urban architecture and transportation.
Well so what if I have two Athlon 2500 systems @ 2312mhz, one of which is soon to be replaced by a P4 2.6ghz @ 3.25ghz?
That irrelevant.
My family used to play 3.11 DivX movies just fine on their K6-2 450mhz with an ATI rage pro, 32mb. Sure, by now I've upgraded them to an Athlon 2100 with an integrated Geforce 4 MX, but the point is old hardware plays DivX movies just fine near as I can tell.
Just look at the DivX System Requirements
Now if you have a processor thats 450 mhz I suppose you are out of luck, but those things are almost 10 years old.
Yeah, and its funny because first Moore came up with doubling every 1 year, then later he said 2 years, but he never said anything about 1 year and a half.
> The Bush Method: all you have to do is take the thing about reality you want to distort, and state that it has changed, whether or not it hasn't
Why do you give Bush the credit? This shit is Marketing 101 and Politics 102.
You aren't being forced to do anything... you simply choose to do it to keep up with the times. Many consider this "progress".
Hardly indicative. The point is to be able to send a message that the story sucks.