Re:what MS funded "study" about Linux isn't FUD?
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If every organisation that contributed to the development of the Linux OS insisted on being credited we'd end up with a name something like X/MIT/CalTech/OpenGL/Sun/IBM/BSD/Apache/GNU/Linux. (My apologies to the many universities, organisations and companies I missed out in that little list.)
Indeed it's almost certainly the case that these days a minority of the Linux OS has a heritage in the GNU project.
And this is exactly why RMS didn't plug our install fest when he spoke locally. We call ourselves Linux users- he insisted we change the name of our group to include GNU. While I enjoyed the talk that I got to attend (missed the other one) and heard many interesting ideas, I find this akin to Henry Ford insisting that all cars be prefixed with Ford/ if you got anything from the Ford Auto Project.
So- here's what I hear you saying. Microsoft got caught with their collective hand in the cookie jar. They get busted for overcharging and have to make amends by offering rebates to bring the price into line where it should have been all along and to do so they have to raise the price? Because they are a business, it's only 'natural' for them to pass along the 'increased costs' which to me looks like a reduction of retail price. This sounds like circular logic to me and only bolsters the view that they are a monopoly and able to charge whatever they want since there is no alternative(and scream amongst yourselves regarding the % that it actually takes to be considered an alternative when most people don't even know what an Operating System(does that run on Windows?) is.) to Windows on the desktop.
Yea, you didn't get the special offer from Bill in the mail?
Oh man, I thought that was so everyone could get a new pair of jeans just for forwarding the email to all my friends. This I might have forwarded;)
Yeah- I'll bite. I migrated to Linux for my office. Windows is *only* there because of 2~3 web sites that don't get it. Some of the other software vendors are looking at porting. Until then, it's VMWare on top.
Oh, and we went with K12LTSP due to it being prepackaged vs LTSP.
After all if I'm looking for AXA insurance I will be inundated with AAAAAA AAdvaarck Insurance ads before I get to AXA's in the Yellow Pages under the insurance heading.
"This service may be discontinued or become unavailable without warning any day. [OK?]".
And regularly does. And the protocol continues to be changed on the server to lock out these different clients. Work arounds by the developers are inconsistent. The latest GAIM on Win32 dumps my entire buddy list. The GAIM developers blame that on me using two different protocols to connect to ICQ from two different machines, actually blaming my Linux box for my Win box dumping my buddy list. The explaination doesn't make sense to me, but goes back to the companies running the servers changing the protocol to lock out clients that aren't running all those damned ads.
Nearly all states share information with the IRS already. There is no 'real' data mining going on there except the state gets address and income information from the IRS. If you have an address on your federal return that is in any of the states you will get a letter eventually. The matching program normally takes 2 to 3 years.
Matching someone's car title to their income is flambouantly stupid which is one reason the IRS no longer does 'life style' audits. There is no way to know what they paid for the car just by looking at the title/registration. Cars can be bought at auction, been a gift, etc. The assumption that everyone paid full price doesn't take anything else into consideration.
Now- how can California send preprinted returns to people? The process that your W2 information takes to get to the state is quite long. Your employer has to report that information to the state, usually by the beginning of March. If you receive your W2 from your employer on Jan 2 (as many employers manage to do) the state doesn't have the information to send you this on a preprinted return. Unless they are completely tapped into everything you do- which then raises those privacy issues- there is really no way for them to be 100% accurate.
I don't give a damn what they make so long as they keep making ThinkPads and they keep the standards up. ThinkPads ThinkPads ThinkPads, you giant fucking ThinkPad!
If I didn't like the ThinkPad myself, I would have modded you down for the way you said that(not what you said)
Most car manufacturers we're talking to will have a card you keep in your wallet or embedded into your cell phone. You get in your car, push start, and the reader in the car will read the card in your phone to make sure you're the car's owner.
Best quote of the story. So not only will you get carjacked in the future but they will make you give them your wallet as well. Aside from that, no way do I trust the speed pass that they have at gas stations now... if you want my credit card information you better have my card, not just get close to me. Any and every mom and pop will be able(required) to get these 'air readers' and then it's just a matter of time before you get your id stolen by walking down the wrong street. I'm *more* worried about the theft aspect than the government knowing everything about me (although I would prefer they didn't know either)
You mean he is not this guy ? Oh and for those that can't find it on Google? Click here
From what I read there was a paperwork issue which caused their CPA license to be suspended and the firm to be placed on 'probation'. Sounds like he is the one twisting and distorting the facts. I was going to make a witty reference to Arthur Andersen but the only decent references to them are at Open Secrets
As I read it this is mostly for *other* agencies. The ability of a government agency to reuse code developed by another agency, to share development costs, finished code, etc. has to be the main goal of this project. They aren't trying to rewrite the rules of FOSS, they are coming up with a license that allows them to share code between agencies while preventing commercial exploitation of that code. This is a great move on the part of the participating agencies but I doubt any regular FOSS coder will be using any of this software.
The suggestion was to use the MP3 as the 'sample'. Recording straight off the radio is going to sound like crap too... that's why you try before you buy with the MP3 singles or listen to the radio. If you decide the music is something you want more of, buy the CD(hopefully at a reduced price as the article suggests the lower prices per unit will increase unit sales)
Apparently there is a feature that causes your co-workers to go berzerk and pour gallons of water over you and your phenomenal report compiled with a tremendous amount of data while you are standing next to plugged in office equipment.
Purchasing stock from anyone other than the issuer does nothing to help the issuer. Do you really think companies get money on subsequent sales of their stock? No- only on the IPO. A decent stock price is only a measure of how many people want that particular stock, how confident they are that
a)they will receive dividends (make money by holding it b)someone else will buy it for more money c)they can have control or power over a company
d)all of the above
And 30 million jobs will be added by election time.
</sarcasm>
Ok, I'm going to burn some karma here: W is not concerned about jobs lost. In fact, if the country would just do like they are supposed to the women would all be taking care of the home and not stealing jobs from men who are supposed to be the real bread winners. We all refer to 'right' and 'left', politically speaking but you just know they know it's really 'right' and 'wrong'.
Actually, it's $400 gross profits from a business- not net. The Social Security Administration wants their take of FICA(collected through IRS) which kicks in at $400 net profit. He then would have to prove expenses against that gross income.
Just like SCO- they are a 'leader in the industry.' If you are an industry leader do you have to put that in your press release? To me, being a "leader", a "star", a "legend", etc. means you don't have to use those words to describe yourself...
The biggest problem is these zones are HUGE. It doesn't take as much CPU/RAM as storage space. This could become the most highly traded file on Kazaa...
This would be the SCO death knell: BulletProof also requests that the court declare that Navitaire lacks lawful ownership of OpenRes, because, through a chain of acquisitions, the product was developed by a variety of vendors before becoming part of Navitaire's portfolio.
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If every organisation that contributed to the development of the Linux OS insisted on being credited we'd end up with a name something like X/MIT/CalTech/OpenGL/Sun/IBM/BSD/Apache/GNU/Linux. (My apologies to the many universities, organisations and companies I missed out in that little list.)
Indeed it's almost certainly the case that these days a minority of the Linux OS has a heritage in the GNU project.
And this is exactly why RMS didn't plug our install fest when he spoke locally. We call ourselves Linux users- he insisted we change the name of our group to include GNU. While I enjoyed the talk that I got to attend (missed the other one) and heard many interesting ideas, I find this akin to Henry Ford insisting that all cars be prefixed with Ford/ if you got anything from the Ford Auto Project.
Actually, the shock from your drool hitting the contacts in the keyboard should do it. ;)
So- here's what I hear you saying. Microsoft got caught with their collective hand in the cookie jar. They get busted for overcharging and have to make amends by offering rebates to bring the price into line where it should have been all along and to do so they have to raise the price? Because they are a business, it's only 'natural' for them to pass along the 'increased costs' which to me looks like a reduction of retail price. This sounds like circular logic to me and only bolsters the view that they are a monopoly and able to charge whatever they want since there is no alternative(and scream amongst yourselves regarding the % that it actually takes to be considered an alternative when most people don't even know what an Operating System(does that run on Windows?) is.) to Windows on the desktop.
Yea, you didn't get the special offer from Bill in the mail? ;)
Oh man, I thought that was so everyone could get a new pair of jeans just for forwarding the email to all my friends. This I might have forwarded
Yeah- I'll bite. I migrated to Linux for my office. Windows is *only* there because of 2~3 web sites that don't get it. Some of the other software vendors are looking at porting. Until then, it's VMWare on top.
Oh, and we went with K12LTSP due to it being prepackaged vs LTSP.
After all if I'm looking for AXA insurance I will be inundated with AAAAAA AAdvaarck Insurance ads before I get to AXA's in the Yellow Pages under the insurance heading.
"This service may be discontinued or become unavailable without warning any day. [OK?]".
And regularly does. And the protocol continues to be changed on the server to lock out these different clients. Work arounds by the developers are inconsistent. The latest GAIM on Win32 dumps my entire buddy list. The GAIM developers blame that on me using two different protocols to connect to ICQ from two different machines, actually blaming my Linux box for my Win box dumping my buddy list. The explaination doesn't make sense to me, but goes back to the companies running the servers changing the protocol to lock out clients that aren't running all those damned ads.
Nearly all states share information with the IRS already. There is no 'real' data mining going on there except the state gets address and income information from the IRS. If you have an address on your federal return that is in any of the states you will get a letter eventually. The matching program normally takes 2 to 3 years.
Matching someone's car title to their income is flambouantly stupid which is one reason the IRS no longer does 'life style' audits. There is no way to know what they paid for the car just by looking at the title/registration. Cars can be bought at auction, been a gift, etc. The assumption that everyone paid full price doesn't take anything else into consideration.
Now- how can California send preprinted returns to people? The process that your W2 information takes to get to the state is quite long. Your employer has to report that information to the state, usually by the beginning of March. If you receive your W2 from your employer on Jan 2 (as many employers manage to do) the state doesn't have the information to send you this on a preprinted return. Unless they are completely tapped into everything you do- which then raises those privacy issues- there is really no way for them to be 100% accurate.
Except he said it was a government job. The only government jobs that get cut around here(generally speaking) are teachers.
I don't give a damn what they make so long as they keep making ThinkPads and they keep the standards up. ThinkPads ThinkPads ThinkPads, you giant fucking ThinkPad!
If I didn't like the ThinkPad myself, I would have modded you down for the way you said that(not what you said)
Most car manufacturers we're talking to will have a card you keep in your wallet or embedded into your cell phone. You get in your car, push start, and the reader in the car will read the card in your phone to make sure you're the car's owner. Best quote of the story. So not only will you get carjacked in the future but they will make you give them your wallet as well.
Aside from that, no way do I trust the speed pass that they have at gas stations now... if you want my credit card information you better have my card, not just get close to me. Any and every mom and pop will be able(required) to get these 'air readers' and then it's just a matter of time before you get your id stolen by walking down the wrong street. I'm *more* worried about the theft aspect than the government knowing everything about me (although I would prefer they didn't know either)
You mean he is not this guy ? Oh and for those that can't find it on Google? Click here From what I read there was a paperwork issue which caused their CPA license to be suspended and the firm to be placed on 'probation'. Sounds like he is the one twisting and distorting the facts. I was going to make a witty reference to Arthur Andersen but the only decent references to them are at Open Secrets
As I read it this is mostly for *other* agencies. The ability of a government agency to reuse code developed by another agency, to share development costs, finished code, etc. has to be the main goal of this project. They aren't trying to rewrite the rules of FOSS, they are coming up with a license that allows them to share code between agencies while preventing commercial exploitation of that code. This is a great move on the part of the participating agencies but I doubt any regular FOSS coder will be using any of this software.
The suggestion was to use the MP3 as the 'sample'. Recording straight off the radio is going to sound like crap too... that's why you try before you buy with the MP3 singles or listen to the radio. If you decide the music is something you want more of, buy the CD(hopefully at a reduced price as the article suggests the lower prices per unit will increase unit sales)
Apparently there is a feature that causes your co-workers to go berzerk and pour gallons of water over you and your phenomenal report compiled with a tremendous amount of data while you are standing next to plugged in office equipment.
Purchasing stock from anyone other than the issuer does nothing to help the issuer. Do you really think companies get money on subsequent sales of their stock? No- only on the IPO. A decent stock price is only a measure of how many people want that particular stock, how confident they are that
a)they will receive dividends (make money by holding it
b)someone else will buy it for more money
c)they can have control or power over a company
d)all of the above
And 30 million jobs will be added by election time.
</sarcasm>
Ok, I'm going to burn some karma here:
W is not concerned about jobs lost. In fact, if the country would just do like they are supposed to the women would all be taking care of the home and not stealing jobs from men who are supposed to be the real bread winners. We all refer to 'right' and 'left', politically speaking but you just know they know it's really 'right' and 'wrong'.
ping www.sco.com
/dev/null
ping -f www.sco.com
or how about a crontab entry?
* * * * * wget -r http://www.sco.com
Actually, it's $400 gross profits from a business- not net. The Social Security Administration wants their take of FICA(collected through IRS) which kicks in at $400 net profit. He then would have to prove expenses against that gross income.
I doubt there would be any duties or tarrifs for a US produced item *entering* the US.
... I might eat their seti@Fridge thinking that it was just leftovers that were up for grabs.
Just like SCO- they are a 'leader in the industry.' If you are an industry leader do you have to put that in your press release? To me, being a "leader", a "star", a "legend", etc. means you don't have to use those words to describe yourself...
Shoulda been modded funny since the Dell printers are Lexmark under the hood....
The biggest problem is these zones are HUGE. It doesn't take as much CPU/RAM as storage space. This could become the most highly traded file on Kazaa...
This would be the SCO death knell:
BulletProof also requests that the court declare that Navitaire lacks lawful ownership of OpenRes, because, through a chain of acquisitions, the product was developed by a variety of vendors before becoming part of Navitaire's portfolio.