I just watched the featurette, the trailed and looked through the web site. While the 3 laws of robotics are mentioned plenty of times and of course the movie is named after an Asimov story nowhere do they give credit to Isaac Asimov.
The man may be dead but I'm dissappointed for him.
This could be a number of things. Ill informed people, people like you mentioned buying it to make it look better.
I find it likely that there are alot of people shorting SCOX. That means that a third party loans a shorter the stock which they have to pay back at a latter date. For this service the third party charges a small fee. The shorter then sells the stock immediately (ussually all this is taken care of by your stock broker) leaving them owing the third party the stock they have barrowed. Eventually they have to BUY that stock to return it to the person they barrowed it from. If the stock goes down it costs less to pay back and they make money. But if the stock goes up they lose money because they have to pay it back. With too many people shorting a stock the price can go higher because everyone finds themselves having to buy the stock back to cover their short positions.
This may be why SCOX doesn't go down as fast as it could go down.
Sure I realize that microsoft develops lots of software for the mac, but this tie in is much more interesting. I also found it interesting that they would be getting top of the line dual G5s at the time. I also wonder if we will see G5s that are not from apple for the purpose of developing XBox2 games. I don't think MS would want to help finance Apple too much.
That is a very interesting point about Virtual PC.
This may be why all those new G5s where being rolled into the microsoft offices some months ago. The guy who took photo's of it and posted it on his web site got fired for taking the photo's because of what microsoft management called "security concerns". I can't seem to find the original story.
You would have been better of with some other stock that actually has a reason to go up like TASR. . If you had gotten in on that in March 2003 you would have seen a more than 30 time increase in your stocks value, which is better than SCOX and your money would not have needed to feel dirty.
Yea, I found that interesting as well. I find it likely that the virus writter's name is not Andy and they put that message in there for kicks or misdirection. If the message was not for misdirection then the guy was most likely hired by a spammer to write the virus for him and that was his employer rather than some company that we would know about.
If it gets slashdotted and you are really wondering if you have missed something don't worry about it.
Somebody put a small video camera in front of a TV showing some video of the film development from about 4-8 feet away. I wonder if they where worried someone would come in and catch them doing it.
There definitely doesn't seem to be any spoilage. Everything that could be given away in this (very poor quality) video clip is given away buy the description of this story!
Thanks for that! That's the first I comment from a RH person I have seen on the subject. If they continue to do what they have been doing and don't go the way Suse has (with Yast being proprietary software) then RH will stay in a good place with me.
349 dollars does NOT get you support. You have to pay for the subscription to RH Enterprise Server to use the binaries and to get updates. This is within RH's rights. What you don't have an option to do is to use their binaries without a subscription.
What you do have an option of doing is to download the source code like the white box linux guy is doing. I think you may need a subscription to access the source RPM's for the distribution. I know you need a subscription to access the source RPM's for the updates.
So knowledge in this case doesn't get you anything. Again, this is within RH's rights. What I find very unlikable about it is that they waited untill they where widely adopted and then said effectively, now we have you, now you must pay or migrate, you have five or six months to do this.
I don't need their support beyond their patches. I was willing to pay for those patches, but not 349 dollars per server per year. 50 dollars per server per year was OK, but not 349. That makes it more expensive than windows, (So says the pointy hairs). So I have migrated off RedHat to debian. There are a few applications that still need RedHat or Solaris, and for those White box Linux may be the way to go.
This is Redhat ES recompiled with all the redhat copy righted logos and stuff removed. It's almost done (release candidate #2). And it's free.
I haven't found any interviews where Redhat comments on the possibility/inevibility of people doing this. I remember a reference made some time ago (that I can't seem to find now) by some RedHat officer about the UnitedLinux people being able to just download the sources to RedHat Linux and they would have their widely adopted Linux standard. So I suspect they must have anticipated something like this.
Even if SCO's case against IBM is dismissed, that would not dismiss IBM's counter claims against SCO. That counter case includes the fact that SCO has violated the GPL. So that case would move forward. Not to mention RedHat's case against SCO.
OK smart guy, how exactly do you get an official copy of Redhat that has patches available for free after April next year? Fedora is not official Redhat. Its also not gaurenteed to be binary compatible and its not gaurenteed to be patched quickly or even to receive back ported patches which will effect stablity so its not a good choice for production servers.
I'm migrating 12 servers from red hat to debian. I just had to recompile the kernel for greater than 1 gig of ram and everything works great. And I don't have to pay any money for support I don't need.
Also apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; works in many cases better than up2date -f -u -p;
I think\hope that Redhat will notice that I am not the only person doing this sort of thing and may have to lower their prices. Its hard to go to the PHB with the costs comparisions of the "Free" OS costing more than Windows.
Looks like they will be sueing SGI according to this filing.
We recently received a notice from SCO Group stating its intention to terminate our fully paid license to certain UNIX-related code, under which we distribute our IRIX operating system, on the basis that we have breached the terms of such license. We believe that the SCO Group's allegations are without merit and that our fully paid license is nonterminable.
I think internet sales tax is a bad idea and will discourage on-line purchasing.
But I wonder if this could be good for Oregon if we decide not to do it. We don't have sales tax in Oregon. I don't know of any other state that doesn't have sales tax and whenever someone stops by to visit they are always surprised to get 1 cent back when they pay a dollar for something that costs 99 cents. Every time some politician tries to start up a sales tax it gets defeated. (so far). I don't know if we are one of the 45 states that require taxes on internet sales but hasn't been enforcing it that are mentioned in the article.
There are other things that could come of internet sales tax if its not enforced uniformly by all states. Encouraging on-line business to open up shops in their states could be done by lowering or removing state internet sales taxes for those companies.
Amazon is located in Washington State. However when someone orders a book from them its often shipped from Eugene Oregon. Does that mean they could avoid the internet sales tax through some loophole if Oregon doesn't start an internet sales tax?
First remember to be considerate of your fellow cube mates. If you are listening to some good tunes, don't withhold its enjoyment for your own personal pleasure, crank that stuff up! Let everyone enjoy! This creates appreciation for your fellow workers.
Second, in the interest of improving coordination and communication among all the people who you work nearby, make sure you hit the speaker phone button and turn the volume up, and don't forget to speak REALLY loud (remember those speaker phone microphones can't hear so well). This way everybody can hear your phone conversations since there are no pesky cube walls to block the sound. This will save you the time of having to explain the conversations that you just had will your coworkers that may be directly involved with what you do. Also, people who don't have anything to do with your job will get a chance to know how important and hard working you are.
Third, get some screen reading software. Use this all the time with the volume turned way up. This, like the previous advice will increase the likelihood of your coworkers getting valuable information from what you do, which they previously may not have been aware of.
Fourth, consider the savings of not having to call or email your co-workers! After all they are sitting just 40 feet away! There's no need to get up. Just yell out there names and have your conversation with them from your desk.
Fifth, you will be most comfortable and productive in this environment if you don't worry about hiding certain activities which where previously blocked from view. Go ahead and pick that annoying booger and whip it under the desk, feel free to scratch where it itches. We are all human anyway, and everybody was doing these things before, so to hell with it.
Sixth, buy a second monitor. Make it point the opposite direction of your monitor and mirror its content. Since your screen and the actives you are performing are already in the public view you might as well save the people the hassle of walking behind your monitor to peer over your shoulder. Note that this was not an option before the cube walls where taken down. And your nearby co-workers will appreciate the latest and greatest of your comments that you posted to slashdot. Note this step may not be necessary if followed the third piece of advice.
Hope this helps! Before I did all these things nobody ever noticed me in the office, and so I was often over looked. But now I'm the most talked about employee in my office!
I'll bet if they could they would buy that 5.7% back. And since its probably expensive to buy back, and Canopy and SCO likely don't want to sell its a pain and a source of fustration to TrollTech.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, thanks. Probably this brief comment in the synopsis page is appropriate for how little the movie will resemble the stories Asimov wrote.
I just watched the featurette, the trailed and looked through the web site. While the 3 laws of robotics are mentioned plenty of times and of course the movie is named after an Asimov story nowhere do they give credit to Isaac Asimov. The man may be dead but I'm dissappointed for him.
This could be a number of things. Ill informed people, people like you mentioned buying it to make it look better.
I find it likely that there are alot of people shorting SCOX. That means that a third party loans a shorter the stock which they have to pay back at a latter date. For this service the third party charges a small fee. The shorter then sells the stock immediately (ussually all this is taken care of by your stock broker) leaving them owing the third party the stock they have barrowed. Eventually they have to BUY that stock to return it to the person they barrowed it from. If the stock goes down it costs less to pay back and they make money. But if the stock goes up they lose money because they have to pay it back. With too many people shorting a stock the price can go higher because everyone finds themselves having to buy the stock back to cover their short positions.
This may be why SCOX doesn't go down as fast as it could go down.
Sure I realize that microsoft develops lots of software for the mac, but this tie in is much more interesting. I also found it interesting that they would be getting top of the line dual G5s at the time. I also wonder if we will see G5s that are not from apple for the purpose of developing XBox2 games. I don't think MS would want to help finance Apple too much. That is a very interesting point about Virtual PC.
This may be why all those new G5s where being rolled into the microsoft offices some months ago. The guy who took photo's of it and posted it on his web site got fired for taking the photo's because of what microsoft management called "security concerns". I can't seem to find the original story.
You want fries with that?
Thats not atomically safe. What if the program fails between line 2 and line 3?
You would have been better of with some other stock that actually has a reason to go up like TASR. . If you had gotten in on that in March 2003 you would have seen a more than 30 time increase in your stocks value, which is better than SCOX and your money would not have needed to feel dirty.
Yea, I found that interesting as well. I find it likely that the virus writter's name is not Andy and they put that message in there for kicks or misdirection. If the message was not for misdirection then the guy was most likely hired by a spammer to write the virus for him and that was his employer rather than some company that we would know about.
This is OT but Netcraft has an amusing article about what options SCO, the litigious bastards, are not using to avoid being DOSed by Mydoom tomarrow.
Either I should read my own posts before I submit them or it was a freudian slip.
If it gets slashdotted and you are really wondering if you have missed something don't worry about it.
Somebody put a small video camera in front of a TV showing some video of the film development from about 4-8 feet away. I wonder if they where worried someone would come in and catch them doing it.
There definitely doesn't seem to be any spoilage. Everything that could be given away in this (very poor quality) video clip is given away buy the description of this story!
Thanks for that! That's the first I comment from a RH person I have seen on the subject. If they continue to do what they have been doing and don't go the way Suse has (with Yast being proprietary software) then RH will stay in a good place with me.
What you do have an option of doing is to download the source code like the white box linux guy is doing. I think you may need a subscription to access the source RPM's for the distribution. I know you need a subscription to access the source RPM's for the updates.
So knowledge in this case doesn't get you anything. Again, this is within RH's rights. What I find very unlikable about it is that they waited untill they where widely adopted and then said effectively, now we have you, now you must pay or migrate, you have five or six months to do this.
I don't need their support beyond their patches. I was willing to pay for those patches, but not 349 dollars per server per year. 50 dollars per server per year was OK, but not 349. That makes it more expensive than windows, (So says the pointy hairs). So I have migrated off RedHat to debian. There are a few applications that still need RedHat or Solaris, and for those White box Linux may be the way to go.
But the software is GPL, so I would like to hear a RedHat person comment on this:
http://whiteboxlinux.org/
This is Redhat ES recompiled with all the redhat copy righted logos and stuff removed. It's almost done (release candidate #2). And it's free.
I haven't found any interviews where Redhat comments on the possibility/inevibility of people doing this. I remember a reference made some time ago (that I can't seem to find now) by some RedHat officer about the UnitedLinux people being able to just download the sources to RedHat Linux and they would have their widely adopted Linux standard. So I suspect they must have anticipated something like this.
I know I have.
Even if SCO's case against IBM is dismissed, that would not dismiss IBM's counter claims against SCO. That counter case includes the fact that SCO has violated the GPL. So that case would move forward. Not to mention RedHat's case against SCO.
See http://www.debian.org/social_contract
OK smart guy, how exactly do you get an official copy of Redhat that has patches available for free after April next year? Fedora is not official Redhat. Its also not gaurenteed to be binary compatible and its not gaurenteed to be patched quickly or even to receive back ported patches which will effect stablity so its not a good choice for production servers.
Also apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; works in many cases better than up2date -f -u -p;
I think\hope that Redhat will notice that I am not the only person doing this sort of thing and may have to lower their prices. Its hard to go to the PHB with the costs comparisions of the "Free" OS costing more than Windows.
I found this off groklaw
Looks like they will be sueing SGI according to this filing.
I think internet sales tax is a bad idea and will discourage on-line purchasing.
But I wonder if this could be good for Oregon if we decide not to do it. We don't have sales tax in Oregon. I don't know of any other state that doesn't have sales tax and whenever someone stops by to visit they are always surprised to get 1 cent back when they pay a dollar for something that costs 99 cents. Every time some politician tries to start up a sales tax it gets defeated. (so far). I don't know if we are one of the 45 states that require taxes on internet sales but hasn't been enforcing it that are mentioned in the article.
There are other things that could come of internet sales tax if its not enforced uniformly by all states. Encouraging on-line business to open up shops in their states could be done by lowering or removing state internet sales taxes for those companies.
Amazon is located in Washington State. However when someone orders a book from them its often shipped from Eugene Oregon. Does that mean they could avoid the internet sales tax through some loophole if Oregon doesn't start an internet sales tax?
Scoll down to the bottom to get to the newest pictures. Hope the server doesn't get hammered.
Oh, god! What a great idea. I must put in my software request as soon as possible!
Second, in the interest of improving coordination and communication among all the people who you work nearby, make sure you hit the speaker phone button and turn the volume up, and don't forget to speak REALLY loud (remember those speaker phone microphones can't hear so well). This way everybody can hear your phone conversations since there are no pesky cube walls to block the sound. This will save you the time of having to explain the conversations that you just had will your coworkers that may be directly involved with what you do. Also, people who don't have anything to do with your job will get a chance to know how important and hard working you are.
Third, get some screen reading software. Use this all the time with the volume turned way up. This, like the previous advice will increase the likelihood of your coworkers getting valuable information from what you do, which they previously may not have been aware of.
Fourth, consider the savings of not having to call or email your co-workers! After all they are sitting just 40 feet away! There's no need to get up. Just yell out there names and have your conversation with them from your desk.
Fifth, you will be most comfortable and productive in this environment if you don't worry about hiding certain activities which where previously blocked from view. Go ahead and pick that annoying booger and whip it under the desk, feel free to scratch where it itches. We are all human anyway, and everybody was doing these things before, so to hell with it.
Sixth, buy a second monitor. Make it point the opposite direction of your monitor and mirror its content. Since your screen and the actives you are performing are already in the public view you might as well save the people the hassle of walking behind your monitor to peer over your shoulder. Note that this was not an option before the cube walls where taken down. And your nearby co-workers will appreciate the latest and greatest of your comments that you posted to slashdot. Note this step may not be necessary if followed the third piece of advice.
Hope this helps! Before I did all these things nobody ever noticed me in the office, and so I was often over looked. But now I'm the most talked about employee in my office!
How about if they buy back the 4.1% of their stock from the Canopy group and the 1.6% of their stock from the SCO group so I don't have to feel dirty about using thier products. I know its a small percentage, and I do like QT, but still, it's unpleasant seeing their logo here.
I'll bet if they could they would buy that 5.7% back. And since its probably expensive to buy back, and Canopy and SCO likely don't want to sell its a pain and a source of fustration to TrollTech.