But few people know for sure what SCO is claiming as theirs. You can't just do a diff of the two codes. There is so much cross-breding between all the different UNIXes that there is going to be duplicate code in there. Just exactly what duplicate code there is in there is the $1 billion dollar question.
A quick wc -l of a test server (OpenLinux yet to boot!) shows that for kernel 2.2.14 has about 2.1 million lines. This is everything, scripts, docs, headers, different architectures, everything. I don't beleive it's been patched with anything, but take my numbers with a grain of salt. I'm too lazy to find out about a more recent kernel.
It wouldn't suprise me if the GNU library was several order of magnitudes larger.
I would imagine that the wear an tear of running an engine at an idle would be fairly negligable when compared to the million miles+ the engine will get over the lifetime. Keeping a battery charged and running the AC compressor isn't too much of a load. I would be more concerned about the fuel costs.
Now your CF 256mb has a rebate on it- they are 80$ a piece. And you can only get 256 images from a 3megapixel camera (and frankly anything lower will suck for image quality). So that is $.313 for each photo. For arguments sake, you get 10 buddies together and they all spend the 85$ to get the cards with rebates for 56$, thats now $0.21 per image.
You pay too much for your CF cards. You can find name brand cards retail for $60 out the door. Generic for even less. If you count rebates, they get even cheaper. 30.00 is the norm. Dell had a sale a month ago 6 256MB cards for $100 after rebate.
Also, not everyone needs to take 3megapixle images. What resolution he uses should depend on what he wants to do with them. If he is going to blow them up to 8x10s, then 3megapixels is good. If he is going to post them to a webpage, he better have a cheap webhost. If they are for 4x6 or just memories, a 1 or 2 megapixel will do with compression.
There is a difference between a documentries and a movie. National Geographic doesn't have to pay Harrison Ford's or Liam Neeson's salary. They don't have the promotional costs that Paramount has. They don't have to cover ILM's costs either.
I don't disagree that 50,000 can make a good successful movie. The Blair Witch project is a good example. There is a difference.
They work, but you could only have two in the network I beleive. I don't beleive that you can have multiple connections like you would with a powerline network. So you would have to have a homerun per outlet going back to a central location, with another modem for each line there...in essence a dslam there. If you only wanted 2 nodes, then what my parent said could work.
Of course you would have to have a DSLAM at one end of the phone wire and a DSL modem at the other end, which would probably be considerably more then just running cat5 to all the computers.
As of Jan 10th, 2002, IBM had over 37,000 patents after a record year in 2001. They had 3,400 new patents that year alone. My guess is they are well over 40,000 by now.
No, but you can catch it, run it through a rock crusher, added with a little cement and water. You then have a nice little cemetary vault or grave marker.
Caldera didn't officially change their name legally I believe. Many of their documents (such as new licenses and legal disclaimers still say Caldera d.b.a. The SCO Group.
Maybe where you are at. Where I am at, rural areas are still mainly on "telephone" poles. Urban areas are buried though. Either way, you still have the considerable cost of having to bury the cable. It's a lot of cable for a few customers. This is the same reason why cable companies often don't service a large rural area...it's cost prohibitive for a relatively few customers.
Economy of scale. A single CO can serve several thousands of customers. If they are all fairly closely packed, they can all share a common set of telephone poles, trunk lines, etc. With remote terminals and the likes, costs go down even further. In a remote setting, those same costs are there, but they service far fewer people. So the cost per customer is much higher compaired to the urban folks.
You have to live in the market areas in order to get that market's local station. If you live in a market that Dish doesn't carry the locals for yet, you can not get another market's locals. The exceptions to this is if you live in BFE and can't get locals (you can then choose NY or LA locals) or if you get a waver from your local stations (almost never happens). Dish has about 60 locals and are adding another 40 or so by year end. Donno about DirecTV.
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If they didn't price it so high, I wouldn't have to steal it. It's not stealing since I wound't have bought it anyways. They didn't loose any money off of me. It's only a backup copy... I'll delete it in 24 hours after my "legal" test period. I just traded it... Information wants to be free!!!! They just need to adapt to a modern digital business plan...not my fault if they are not current with technology
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SCO isn't going to come out and say "Oops. Our fault. It was really us that submitted the code." The backlash would be even more suicide then this nonsense. So SCO isn't going to be any help.
GNU/FSF/Linux Camp has no idea were the "infringing code" is at or what it is. SCO won't say unless you sign a NDA which no one really wants to sign. Once a trial gets into the discovery stage then it might come out. At that point, it should be fairly easy to track back through the kernel releases to find out where it came from.
Your right. Radio stations do pay lots of money for broadcast rights. That isn't why they filed the lawsuit. The suit says they violated the copyrights by space shifting the CDs to digital media. Many radio stations do this to set up play lists, instantly find that "requested" song, and so on. Space shifting has been upheld time and time again as fair use....as long as you old the original media. It is the very same thing as you recording a CD to a cassette to listen in your car. Morpheus never launched the service, so there was no copyright infringement.
Sue them on what grounds? The RIAA followed the law. They only did what the DMCA granted them the power to do. As much as this may trouble or disgust you, it's still legal. If you don't like it, do something about it. It happens all the time with other information. Phone records, bank statements, etc all the time get subpoenaed all the time. Remember, Verizon didn't fight this because they thought the law was unjust or wrong. They did it because it costs them extra money to respond to these requests. Mega-Corperations don't care about ethics and morality or privacy, they care about the bottom line...money.
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But few people know for sure what SCO is claiming as theirs. You can't just do a diff of the two codes. There is so much cross-breding between all the different UNIXes that there is going to be duplicate code in there. Just exactly what duplicate code there is in there is the $1 billion dollar question.
A quick wc -l of a test server (OpenLinux yet to boot!) shows that for kernel 2.2.14 has about 2.1 million lines. This is everything, scripts, docs, headers, different architectures, everything. I don't beleive it's been patched with anything, but take my numbers with a grain of salt. I'm too lazy to find out about a more recent kernel.
It wouldn't suprise me if the GNU library was several order of magnitudes larger.
I would imagine that the wear an tear of running an engine at an idle would be fairly negligable when compared to the million miles+ the engine will get over the lifetime. Keeping a battery charged and running the AC compressor isn't too much of a load. I would be more concerned about the fuel costs.
You pay too much for your CF cards. You can find name brand cards retail for $60 out the door. Generic for even less. If you count rebates, they get even cheaper. 30.00 is the norm. Dell had a sale a month ago 6 256MB cards for $100 after rebate.
Also, not everyone needs to take 3megapixle images. What resolution he uses should depend on what he wants to do with them. If he is going to blow them up to 8x10s, then 3megapixels is good. If he is going to post them to a webpage, he better have a cheap webhost. If they are for 4x6 or just memories, a 1 or 2 megapixel will do with compression.
There is a difference between a documentries and a movie. National Geographic doesn't have to pay Harrison Ford's or Liam Neeson's salary. They don't have the promotional costs that Paramount has. They don't have to cover ILM's costs either.
I don't disagree that 50,000 can make a good successful movie. The Blair Witch project is a good example. There is a difference.
They work, but you could only have two in the network I beleive. I don't beleive that you can have multiple connections like you would with a powerline network. So you would have to have a homerun per outlet going back to a central location, with another modem for each line there...in essence a dslam there. If you only wanted 2 nodes, then what my parent said could work.
Of course you would have to have a DSLAM at one end of the phone wire and a DSL modem at the other end, which would probably be considerably more then just running cat5 to all the computers.
It's actually probably closer to 40,000. They had 37,000 as of the begining of 2002 and were adding over 3,000 a year.
As of Jan 10th, 2002, IBM had over 37,000 patents after a record year in 2001. They had 3,400 new patents that year alone. My guess is they are well over 40,000 by now.
You are correct. They have offically change their name...or at least have changed their name enough to use SCO Group on their SEC filings.
No, but you can catch it, run it through a rock crusher, added with a little cement and water. You then have a nice little cemetary vault or grave marker.
Caldera didn't officially change their name legally I believe. Many of their documents (such as new licenses and legal disclaimers still say Caldera d.b.a. The SCO Group.
Maybe where you are at. Where I am at, rural areas are still mainly on "telephone" poles. Urban areas are buried though. Either way, you still have the considerable cost of having to bury the cable. It's a lot of cable for a few customers. This is the same reason why cable companies often don't service a large rural area...it's cost prohibitive for a relatively few customers.
Telephone poles are not cheap. Manpower is not cheap when the poles are knocked down, ice stormes, etc need to be repaired.
In the city, the cost per customer is probably still cheaper even with the newer technology.
Economy of scale. A single CO can serve several thousands of customers. If they are all fairly closely packed, they can all share a common set of telephone poles, trunk lines, etc. With remote terminals and the likes, costs go down even further. In a remote setting, those same costs are there, but they service far fewer people. So the cost per customer is much higher compaired to the urban folks.
You can steal ideas, intellectual property, data, etc. It's still stealing even if tangible property is not involved.
RVs and Truckers have available options for satellite service. It's a portable dish.
You have to live in the market areas in order to get that market's local station. If you live in a market that Dish doesn't carry the locals for yet, you can not get another market's locals. The exceptions to this is if you live in BFE and can't get locals (you can then choose NY or LA locals) or if you get a waver from your local stations (almost never happens). Dish has about 60 locals and are adding another 40 or so by year end. Donno about DirecTV.
Your cable bill is padded, not my Dish Network bill...even including local stations when they are available later this year.
insert standard response about how that's not stealing
If they didn't price it so high, I wouldn't have to steal it.
It's not stealing since I wound't have bought it anyways. They didn't loose any money off of me.
It's only a backup copy...
I'll delete it in 24 hours after my "legal" test period.
I just traded it...
Information wants to be free!!!!
They just need to adapt to a modern digital business plan...not my fault if they are not current with technology
Oops. Wrong window. I thought this was the latest MPAA/RIAA rant page. Did I miss any?
SCO isn't going to come out and say "Oops. Our fault. It was really us that submitted the code." The backlash would be even more suicide then this nonsense. So SCO isn't going to be any help.
GNU/FSF/Linux Camp has no idea were the "infringing code" is at or what it is. SCO won't say unless you sign a NDA which no one really wants to sign. Once a trial gets into the discovery stage then it might come out. At that point, it should be fairly easy to track back through the kernel releases to find out where it came from.
Your right. Radio stations do pay lots of money for broadcast rights. That isn't why they filed the lawsuit. The suit says they violated the copyrights by space shifting the CDs to digital media. Many radio stations do this to set up play lists, instantly find that "requested" song, and so on. Space shifting has been upheld time and time again as fair use....as long as you old the original media. It is the very same thing as you recording a CD to a cassette to listen in your car. Morpheus never launched the service, so there was no copyright infringement.
Sue them on what grounds? The RIAA followed the law. They only did what the DMCA granted them the power to do. As much as this may trouble or disgust you, it's still legal. If you don't like it, do something about it. It happens all the time with other information. Phone records, bank statements, etc all the time get subpoenaed all the time. Remember, Verizon didn't fight this because they thought the law was unjust or wrong. They did it because it costs them extra money to respond to these requests. Mega-Corperations don't care about ethics and morality or privacy, they care about the bottom line...money.
Are you on Lithium or Ritalin or anything?
Hm...if everyone gets to "preview" it, I guess it really isn't a preview then.