Computers can be a communications device. In this case, a valid case can be drawn where there could be confusion, especially with a name like applecomm.
Windows was a common word used to describe a graphical user interface that had...well..windows. X-Windows, Mac, MSFT Windows all utilize windows. It's a generic term. On the other hand, Sun (I'm assuming you are refering to the same people that made Java) did not use a generic name in regards to the company. Unix didn't already run a version of Sunlight, Daylight, or Firey Star. There was nothing already to confuse it to. Two organizations can have very similar trademark as long as their respective uses do not overlap and it would be obvious to anyone (Patent/TM office excluded) that they are different products. Examples being Lexus (car) & Lexis (Law database), Apple (Computers) and Apple (Records) and Apple (Employment).
People sell copyrighted material all the time without the express permission of the authors. Magazines, books, videos, the list goes on. There isn't a license agreement sticker on the patterns are there?
That sounds like a great book to read if you suffer from insomnia.
Re:Why up in December of 2001?
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Nope. Caldera acquired SCO in May of 2001. That is the next highest peak before the December 2001 peak.
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You can check out the insider trading here. Darl owns about 8100 shares since 10/02. If you follow the above link, you will see the CFO has made a few sales worth a little over $30,000. There were also 175,000 shares purchased slightly before SCO announced their lawsuit against IBM last March.
I'll go put my tin hat on and go to bed in my padded room...
Re:Why up in December of 2001?
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The spike in late 2001 is probably due to India's largest insurance supplier ordering 6,000 SCO servers. The spike in late 2002 is OpenServer. It's also interesting to note that the little triangle in the graph was a 1:4 reverse stock split (aka contraction). At that point, the value still was falling drastically while it should have had a much higher value.
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They should have done that long ago then and not now. If anything they took a worthless stock and made it slightly more valuable for them to ditch. Looking at the value since inception, it's been all downhill. Yahoo makes it look like they were worth around $125/share. Last summer they were down to $.60 a share. It takes real management talent to make a company worth.5%..especially since the "own" Unix.
It's been interesting though to see how the overall reduction in customer service standards has given openings to some companies. Here in Chicago, a new cell service came into town trumpeting that they have award winning customer service.
Remember, just because you win awards for customer service, it doesn't mean you are good. Battlefield Earth won seven awards so technically it is an award-winning movie too.
Good god. Not only do you want the migraine from the click-clack and carpel tunnel from having to press hard on the keys...but now you want it split in an "ergonomic" style. You truly are a sadist. I suppose next you want it to support DVORK chording.
'My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.'"
I think that the best language is the one that he can maintain, understand, and use. Sure if it was written in pure assembly it would be faster, but it's a bitch to maintain. The clients work reasonably well. I've never had the official client crash on me. It works up to a fairly large scale with decent hardware and bandwidth.
You can't defend a trade secret. You can defend a breach of contract such as disclosing something in a NDA. Trade secrets are just that, a secret. If someone finds out about it without obtaining it illegally, you can't do anything about it.
Think of this example. Coca-Cola Inc. keeps the recipie for Coca-cola a secret. If Pepsi discovers through trial and error how to make a beverage taste just like Coke, they can and Coke is out of luck. Now if Coke patented the recipie, they can obtain exclusive rights to the taste, but only for a finite amount of time. That's the tradeoff.
Ever try to download an ISO just after it's released? Basically you can't because the servers are overloaded. Every available amount of upload bandwidth adds just that much more that the ftp servers don't have. Sure it would scale much better if the outgoing pipes were as large as the incoming pipes. But since they aren't, the downloading will just scale back to the point where the outgoing pipes can supply the files.
After seeing the moving on opening day, I went straight home to see if I could find it on BT. Started downloading it and completed it after a day or two. Started to watch the first 3 minutes and promptly deleted both VCDs. The movie was grainy like it was filmed on a 8mm video camera. It also had an annoying 4 degrees of tilt and the bightness was constantly fading up an down. The sound was good though, as long as you don't mind it fading from left to right to both to neither.
That's just it. Most people don't take the time to see if they have all the security features. Your average bar tender works in a dimly lit smoke filled room. They just take the money and glance to see how much the bill is for, not if it's real. It just has to glancing look real (photorealistic ink jet) and feel real (bleached bill). They aren't going to look to see the microprinting, the security bar, or color changing ink.
Well, since US currency is basically linen, maybe this might work? They say it removes almost every stain using the air we breath!
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3 reasons.
First because it would give at least the appearance that SCO was right. Even if they were wrong, there will always be someone that says IBM did contribute code they were not suppose to. This reason is a PR/Marketing move for IBM.
Second, every little crappy company will then start suing IBM (and possibly other companies) in the attempt to inflate their price for a buyout or settlement. This is a Financial/Legal reason for IBM.
Third, they just want to stick it to IBM because of the principle of the whole thing. Unfortunatly, this could ultimately cost IBM more then what SCO is worth and also, if SCO comes out a winner some how, be a major blemish for IBM. I don't think this is why IBM is fighting this. #1 and #2 are much more likely.
Wouldn't recompiling their code in the same manner as when they originally released a program (same options and whatnot) produce identical code? Checksums/Hashs are not based off of compile times, only the actual bits of the program, right?
If you would have taken the 10 seconds to skim the article, you would have found:
The specifics of the FSF's beef with OpenTV have to do with the company's policies in sending source code to licensees of OpenTV software tools created under the GPL. According to the foundation, OpenTV has either refused to provide the code, or has attached improper conditions on providing it, to several programmers who have every right to it.
It sounds to me like people have tried to request it, but they have refused to give it. It is not a matter of not posting it online.
Two other bonuses are that you reduce the risk that one of the characters is involved in an accident and can no longer play the part. A shorter time frame for filming the three movies means less time for something to happen. A good example is Professor Dumbeldore in the first two Harry Potter movies. He died after the second film while I beleive he was suppose to be in the third and later movies.
Also, if the films are shot over a long period of time, characters can change in their appearance, especially young actors. Daniel Radcliffe had a noticeable change from his first Harry Potter from his second one. His voice also changed considerably.
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Computers can be a communications device. In this case, a valid case can be drawn where there could be confusion, especially with a name like applecomm.
Windows was a common word used to describe a graphical user interface that had...well..windows. X-Windows, Mac, MSFT Windows all utilize windows. It's a generic term. On the other hand, Sun (I'm assuming you are refering to the same people that made Java) did not use a generic name in regards to the company. Unix didn't already run a version of Sunlight, Daylight, or Firey Star. There was nothing already to confuse it to. Two organizations can have very similar trademark as long as their respective uses do not overlap and it would be obvious to anyone (Patent/TM office excluded) that they are different products. Examples being Lexus (car) & Lexis (Law database), Apple (Computers) and Apple (Records) and Apple (Employment).
People sell copyrighted material all the time without the express permission of the authors. Magazines, books, videos, the list goes on. There isn't a license agreement sticker on the patterns are there?
That sounds like a great book to read if you suffer from insomnia.
Nope. Caldera acquired SCO in May of 2001. That is the next highest peak before the December 2001 peak.
You can check out the insider trading here. Darl owns about 8100 shares since 10/02. If you follow the above link, you will see the CFO has made a few sales worth a little over $30,000. There were also 175,000 shares purchased slightly before SCO announced their lawsuit against IBM last March.
I'll go put my tin hat on and go to bed in my padded room...
The spike in late 2001 is probably due to India's largest insurance supplier ordering 6,000 SCO servers. The spike in late 2002 is OpenServer. It's also interesting to note that the little triangle in the graph was a 1:4 reverse stock split (aka contraction). At that point, the value still was falling drastically while it should have had a much higher value.
They should have done that long ago then and not now. If anything they took a worthless stock and made it slightly more valuable for them to ditch. Looking at the value since inception, it's been all downhill. Yahoo makes it look like they were worth around $125/share. Last summer they were down to $.60 a share. It takes real management talent to make a company worth .5%..especially since the "own" Unix.
Good god. Not only do you want the migraine from the click-clack and carpel tunnel from having to press hard on the keys...but now you want it split in an "ergonomic" style. You truly are a sadist. I suppose next you want it to support DVORK chording.
"He already answered this to a large extent, in an essay on Advogato, How to Write Maintainable Code.
I think that the best language is the one that he can maintain, understand, and use. Sure if it was written in pure assembly it would be faster, but it's a bitch to maintain. The clients work reasonably well. I've never had the official client crash on me. It works up to a fairly large scale with decent hardware and bandwidth.
According to the CIA world factbook, China already gets 1% of it's power from nuclear plants.
Probably not. GM decided not to make them. There is only the concept car(s).
You are incorrect if you make more then $125,000 a year. The sticker price was going to be in the quarter million dollar range.
You can't defend a trade secret. You can defend a breach of contract such as disclosing something in a NDA. Trade secrets are just that, a secret. If someone finds out about it without obtaining it illegally, you can't do anything about it.
Think of this example. Coca-Cola Inc. keeps the recipie for Coca-cola a secret. If Pepsi discovers through trial and error how to make a beverage taste just like Coke, they can and Coke is out of luck. Now if Coke patented the recipie, they can obtain exclusive rights to the taste, but only for a finite amount of time. That's the tradeoff.
...and the wonderful grammar in its reader's posts.
Ever try to download an ISO just after it's released? Basically you can't because the servers are overloaded. Every available amount of upload bandwidth adds just that much more that the ftp servers don't have. Sure it would scale much better if the outgoing pipes were as large as the incoming pipes. But since they aren't, the downloading will just scale back to the point where the outgoing pipes can supply the files.
After seeing the moving on opening day, I went straight home to see if I could find it on BT. Started downloading it and completed it after a day or two. Started to watch the first 3 minutes and promptly deleted both VCDs. The movie was grainy like it was filmed on a 8mm video camera. It also had an annoying 4 degrees of tilt and the bightness was constantly fading up an down. The sound was good though, as long as you don't mind it fading from left to right to both to neither.
To a point, yes. However, if a tracker gets overloaded, everyone suffers.
That's just it. Most people don't take the time to see if they have all the security features. Your average bar tender works in a dimly lit smoke filled room. They just take the money and glance to see how much the bill is for, not if it's real. It just has to glancing look real (photorealistic ink jet) and feel real (bleached bill). They aren't going to look to see the microprinting, the security bar, or color changing ink.
Well, since US currency is basically linen, maybe this might work? They say it removes almost every stain using the air we breath!
3 reasons.
First because it would give at least the appearance that SCO was right. Even if they were wrong, there will always be someone that says IBM did contribute code they were not suppose to. This reason is a PR/Marketing move for IBM.
Second, every little crappy company will then start suing IBM (and possibly other companies) in the attempt to inflate their price for a buyout or settlement. This is a Financial/Legal reason for IBM.
Third, they just want to stick it to IBM because of the principle of the whole thing. Unfortunatly, this could ultimately cost IBM more then what SCO is worth and also, if SCO comes out a winner some how, be a major blemish for IBM. I don't think this is why IBM is fighting this. #1 and #2 are much more likely.
Wouldn't recompiling their code in the same manner as when they originally released a program (same options and whatnot) produce identical code? Checksums/Hashs are not based off of compile times, only the actual bits of the program, right?
It sounds to me like people have tried to request it, but they have refused to give it. It is not a matter of not posting it online.
Two other bonuses are that you reduce the risk that one of the characters is involved in an accident and can no longer play the part. A shorter time frame for filming the three movies means less time for something to happen. A good example is Professor Dumbeldore in the first two Harry Potter movies. He died after the second film while I beleive he was suppose to be in the third and later movies.
Also, if the films are shot over a long period of time, characters can change in their appearance, especially young actors. Daniel Radcliffe had a noticeable change from his first Harry Potter from his second one. His voice also changed considerably.