This is a bit more challenging than deciding on a common protocal and grabbing a client off of SourceForge. What would we use for a network? The current Jabber plan is to use an interenal corporate network. Is someone willing to open that up to the masses? Would the masses want that to be hosted in a single place, like that? How could something like this be distributed, and still be real time?
Obviously, this will need to involve a sort of "supernode" scheme, such is used for DNS. I haven't heard a whiff of something like this being in the works, though.
What the hell is a western and space fantasy doing on the same page?!
Of course, I'm a tool to respond to flamebait, but it should be pointed out that the entire idea behind the original Star Trek was "Wagontrail in space".
CDs do not make excellent coasters. They have no absorbant surface. As such, condensation pools on the the surface of the CD, and even drips off the side. I have actually watched a beer bottle placed on a CD slowly slide off.
They do, however, make excellent ceiling decorations. With proper lightiung, they can be quite shiney.
This kinda reminds me of some analysis on Chinese propaganda I once read called "The Big Lie". The idea is that if you say something often enough, and loud enough, and with enough apparent conviction, that people hearing it will begin doubting their own senses. They'll start thinking, "Gosh, it sure seems preposterous, but there must be something to it. No one would say something that counter-intuitive unless they could prove it. Where there's smoke, there must be fire!"
SCO is counting on the general populace (the press) buying into the Big Lie. If enough people fall for their bluff, they might be able to scrape a settlement out of the deal and never be forced to own up to it.
I think they already suspect that IBM has seen their cards, though. They'd prolly take it all back, now, if they could, but their only survival strategy is to keep up the show and hope for an act of god.
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This is a bit more challenging than deciding on a common protocal and grabbing a client off of SourceForge. What would we use for a network? The current Jabber plan is to use an interenal corporate network. Is someone willing to open that up to the masses? Would the masses want that to be hosted in a single place, like that? How could something like this be distributed, and still be real time? Obviously, this will need to involve a sort of "supernode" scheme, such is used for DNS. I haven't heard a whiff of something like this being in the works, though.
Of course, I'm a tool to respond to flamebait, but it should be pointed out that the entire idea behind the original Star Trek was "Wagontrail in space".
It did ok for a few years.
CDs do not make excellent coasters. They have no absorbant surface. As such, condensation pools on the the surface of the CD, and even drips off the side. I have actually watched a beer bottle placed on a CD slowly slide off.
They do, however, make excellent ceiling decorations. With proper lightiung, they can be quite shiney.
SCO is counting on the general populace (the press) buying into the Big Lie. If enough people fall for their bluff, they might be able to scrape a settlement out of the deal and never be forced to own up to it.
I think they already suspect that IBM has seen their cards, though. They'd prolly take it all back, now, if they could, but their only survival strategy is to keep up the show and hope for an act of god.
Do you think /. has ever been /.ed?