At Christmas I went through Target and checked out the Lego selection. It was pathetic. The legos I really wanted to see were Iraq legos, with Saddam in a Spider hole, Hummers, tanks, 4th Infantry Division Bradley Fighting vehicles, a prison and barracks, that would be cool. There were no space legos, no pirate legos, no medieval legos, no modern day legos (helicopter, ambulance, race car etc.). All they had were stupid NBA, Harry Potter, Star Wars and some useless NASA rockets and a bunch of crap. I didn't even see the bucket of plain legos which is my favorite. I have never, ever bought legos which were of a branded product (like Harry Potter or NBA), that isn't the point of Legos (Although the NBA arena they sell would make a very good deathmatch arena for wily humans vs. the alien robots or humans infected with dinasaur DNA). Legos are only useful when you can build an asteroid base with a small army of space pirates (who have a black flagged pirate space ship complete with sails) and they wage war with the Space Patrol and space miner Bill and his dump truck crew over a mining facility which always gets destroyed in a massive conflagration and has to be rebuilt in a new configuration. You can't do that with a Shaq lego set, all the imagination is cut off. They don't sell any of the right parts for a time machine anymore. And how am I supposed to build a fusion generator with my niece and nephew that overloads blowing up half the planet with the gimpy legos they sell now. No wonder they are losing cash.
Google isn't some little midget. They are a huge octopus, that can come up from the deep and drag most anything to its doom and their tentacles go everywhere. They are popular and well liked by many millions of people and have similar powers to a large media outlet, and as such they have the power to mount a very effective smear campaign of their own. If SCO attacks Google and Google calls them a bunch of punks and smacks them up side the head it will look very bad for SCO. Google calling SCO a thief will make the nightly news and maybe even get attention of the attorney generals and lawmakers. Any Wall Street firm that wants a part of the upcoming Google public offering will be severely pissed if SCO messes with the $billions they could make. If SCO wants to get eviscerated, they should pick on Google.
True, they last forever. Me niece and nephew got a ton of garage sale legos. They have a huge tub of them now, in addition to their new ones. I was a little bit jealous, I have to say, even though I am 30 years old, I still like to build. My occupation...architect. Legos helped me get me interested in building.
That is despicable, all the more so because the article makes it sound as if this is a technical issue, not a privacy issue for them, there are so many posts that they can't keep up with stripping out personal information.
I don't want to disparage Mormons, I am just saying they 'go to church' and therefore think they are good, and thus they conveniently overlook the 'bad' things they do because they are convinced that they are righteous and holy. I am not saying Mormonism is bad.
If you take a close look at Darl McBride you will understand why this makes sense to him. He is a Jackass. He always makes blustering, larger than life statements, he lives big and talks even bigger. Combine that with a devout Mormonis, where he is bound to believe that he is a good person and therefore all of his actions must also be for 'good'. In other words, he doesn't listen to other people, talks really loud and is unshakably convinced of his moral position. I imagine he is something of a tyrant too, the way everyone who stands up to him ends up leaving the company. All in all it leads to a situation where the pig headed leader brings the entire endeavor to ruin because of his shortcomings.
You are so far off, this is great. Many great inventions like minianture fuel cells, micro electronics, velcro and other stuff came out of the military-insdustrial complex. I suppose you would be against Darpanet too...the project that led to the Internet. Go to the DARPA web page some time. They are doing amazing things (except for the Department of Information Awareness). Here are a few of my favorites.
You ever wonder where the saying 'as stubborn as a mule' or 'jackass' came from. They were talking aobut stubborn mules refusing to move. That is why we should be using trained monkeys instead. They are nimble, friendly and helpful. Of course then, we have the planet of the apes scenario.
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It is more like they charge you a flat rate for 'typical residential' electrical usage. You then decide that since you have a flat rate, it would be a good idea to install a new aluminum smelter which uses obscene amounts of power. Naturally that would be unreasonable. A typical residential application does not need more than 5 or 10 gigabytes of downloads a month. Most people only use it for web surfing, video games, email, music streaming and downloading movie trailers. Anything more than 10 gigs has to be heavy duty P2P usage or a business of some kind.
The same thing happened to my brother. He looked into his policy. The way it was worded was vague. Basically what they are doing is going after the top 1 or 2% of the people who use something like 50% of the bandwidth. They are just trying to scare you to cut costs and it might be cheaper to them to dump you as they are not making money off of you. In my brothers case he had his cable bandwidth maxed out for months on end. He toned it down and they went away. They can and will cut you off though, they made that clear enough. Although I have never me anyone who has been cut off......
I recently put this to the test. I took $2000 I was willing to lose and put it in the market right after the Worldcom crash. I then listened to the advice of all of the pundits and did pretty much the exact opposite. I assigned a 100% gain and 50% loss risk cap to stocks based on my own research, figuring a 100% gain would more than offset a 50% loss if half my stocks turned out the way I predicted. I picked out some of the biggest dogs of the year and bought them as investors began to panic yet again. I sold out the last ones at the end of 2003 with several bombs where my analysis was way off. The stocks where my analysis was on went way up. In the end I ended up about +75% with $3500, this isn't including and fees which were a lot because I traded my puny stocks a lot. I took the money and used it to fix my car, which was dumb because I could have made much more money.
My conclusion, people are stupid cattle and will follow in a big herd to the meat packing plant. If I were extremely rich, I would have made even more, being able to track stocks better and invest with less fees which would have made me filthy stinking rich. Stock price has nothing to do with the value of a company in a feeding frenzy type situation which SCO is in, everyone becomes irrational.
Dear Darl,
We are confused by the recent letter we received from your company. Both you and Novell are claiming ownership of this copyright. We intend to wait until you can clarify this matter. And by the way, that car out front of your house isn't because we took out a mob hit on you.
Best regards,
A. All copyrights and trademarks, except for the [...] copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell as of the date of the Agreement required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies. However, in no event shall Novell be liable to SCO for any claim brought by any third party pertaining to said copyrights and trademarks.
B. All Patents
SCO doesn't own Unix or anything at all found in Netware. Novell never gave up any patents. Novell owns all copyrights which SCO doesn't need to run its business. Boies should have read this earlier.
not Swedish. It is a different language, with different spelling of many words, vastly different dialectical differences, and different pronunciation in some cases.
Computer crime is a legitimate problem. However, groups like the RIAA are making legitimate activity, or activity that any reasonable person would think should be legitimate a crime. This leads me to believe that many minor computer crimes should be treated like a speeding or parking ticket, and serious computer crimes should face a "frothing, mad dog approach", things like fraud or child pornography.
where did all of this come from, the Isrealis reject Microsoft and somehow this becomes about the Isreali/Palestinian conflict. The two aren't linked except by the thinnest of threads.
"Write a long resignation letter explaining why you feel you MUST RESIGN"= BAD ADVICE
Never write a long resignation letter, especially to a company that is hyper sensitive to legal issues and dominated by pig headed lawyers. They will be sure to send you on your way with a highlighted copy of your contract restrictions. Instead, go to your boss, have a little chat about how you feel it is time to 'move on', 'find new challenges', 'change of pace'. Never be vocal about why you are leaving if it is for a negative reason or if it highlights your future employer, you are only inviting trouble. A good resignation letter should be one paragraph stating why you are leaving, the date you are leaving and how you will wrap up existing projects to your current employers satisfaction and thanking them for their help. You then need to go around and thank all the people who helped you, who worked beside you or who could help you in the future. This will allow you to leave with a warm fuzzy feeling on the part of your current managers. When they ask you about future prospects, tell them 'you haven't decided everything yet'. This allows you to leave without BURNING YOUR BRIDGES.
If you don't care about trouble, and like bad advice, just try the 'asshole' approach as exemplified in the top quote. But do it right and in a way that allows you to work as little as possible. The goal of the asshole approach is to get fired, not quit. Quitters don't get workmans comp., which is like free paid vacation. There are several techniques to getting fired, each with its own drawbacks:
1. complete stupidity and laziness topped with sarchasm
2. alchoholol/druggs....
3. display transexual nudie pictures
4. trip and fall, "my back! my back!, I'm permanently injured"
5. Accuse your manager of sexual harrasment for staring at your nudie pictures and making derogatory comments about your personal art work. This way you can sue them and get even more money without having to work at all.
6. et cetera, et cetera
Don't do what I did at my last job when I quit. The CEO asked me what I would be doing in the future. I told him I would be getting drunk under a bridge somewhere. That didn't get me anything except a sense of satisfaction I will feel the rest of my life.
Good point, they can't check my resume...I was head developer of the SCO CRAPP project to integrate FUD with GNU/Linux. They will never know how much I blew ass.
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At Christmas I went through Target and checked out the Lego selection. It was pathetic. The legos I really wanted to see were Iraq legos, with Saddam in a Spider hole, Hummers, tanks, 4th Infantry Division Bradley Fighting vehicles, a prison and barracks, that would be cool. There were no space legos, no pirate legos, no medieval legos, no modern day legos (helicopter, ambulance, race car etc.). All they had were stupid NBA, Harry Potter, Star Wars and some useless NASA rockets and a bunch of crap. I didn't even see the bucket of plain legos which is my favorite. I have never, ever bought legos which were of a branded product (like Harry Potter or NBA), that isn't the point of Legos (Although the NBA arena they sell would make a very good deathmatch arena for wily humans vs. the alien robots or humans infected with dinasaur DNA). Legos are only useful when you can build an asteroid base with a small army of space pirates (who have a black flagged pirate space ship complete with sails) and they wage war with the Space Patrol and space miner Bill and his dump truck crew over a mining facility which always gets destroyed in a massive conflagration and has to be rebuilt in a new configuration. You can't do that with a Shaq lego set, all the imagination is cut off. They don't sell any of the right parts for a time machine anymore. And how am I supposed to build a fusion generator with my niece and nephew that overloads blowing up half the planet with the gimpy legos they sell now. No wonder they are losing cash.
Google isn't some little midget. They are a huge octopus, that can come up from the deep and drag most anything to its doom and their tentacles go everywhere. They are popular and well liked by many millions of people and have similar powers to a large media outlet, and as such they have the power to mount a very effective smear campaign of their own. If SCO attacks Google and Google calls them a bunch of punks and smacks them up side the head it will look very bad for SCO. Google calling SCO a thief will make the nightly news and maybe even get attention of the attorney generals and lawmakers. Any Wall Street firm that wants a part of the upcoming Google public offering will be severely pissed if SCO messes with the $billions they could make. If SCO wants to get eviscerated, they should pick on Google.
True, they last forever. Me niece and nephew got a ton of garage sale legos. They have a huge tub of them now, in addition to their new ones. I was a little bit jealous, I have to say, even though I am 30 years old, I still like to build. My occupation...architect. Legos helped me get me interested in building.
That is despicable, all the more so because the article makes it sound as if this is a technical issue, not a privacy issue for them, there are so many posts that they can't keep up with stripping out personal information.
I don't want to disparage Mormons, I am just saying they 'go to church' and therefore think they are good, and thus they conveniently overlook the 'bad' things they do because they are convinced that they are righteous and holy. I am not saying Mormonism is bad.
If you take a close look at Darl McBride you will understand why this makes sense to him. He is a Jackass. He always makes blustering, larger than life statements, he lives big and talks even bigger. Combine that with a devout Mormonis, where he is bound to believe that he is a good person and therefore all of his actions must also be for 'good'. In other words, he doesn't listen to other people, talks really loud and is unshakably convinced of his moral position. I imagine he is something of a tyrant too, the way everyone who stands up to him ends up leaving the company. All in all it leads to a situation where the pig headed leader brings the entire endeavor to ruin because of his shortcomings.
For a real Disney ending you would need a talking dog and a mom and pop Linux shop to triumph over SCO.
You are so far off, this is great. Many great inventions like minianture fuel cells, micro electronics, velcro and other stuff came out of the military-insdustrial complex. I suppose you would be against Darpanet too...the project that led to the Internet. Go to the DARPA web page some time. They are doing amazing things (except for the Department of Information Awareness). Here are a few of my favorites.
bio signals
combat exoskeleton
neuro helmet(Anyone ever play battletech?)
laser guns
You ever wonder where the saying 'as stubborn as a mule' or 'jackass' came from. They were talking aobut stubborn mules refusing to move. That is why we should be using trained monkeys instead. They are nimble, friendly and helpful. Of course then, we have the planet of the apes scenario.
This is a real story from a real speakeasy customer, not a paid actor, YOU TOO can be one of the happy people who use our service, only $44.95 a month.
No wonder Kaaza usage is down in all the RIAA reports. There is a new kid on the block, he is way bigger and faster.
It is more like they charge you a flat rate for 'typical residential' electrical usage. You then decide that since you have a flat rate, it would be a good idea to install a new aluminum smelter which uses obscene amounts of power. Naturally that would be unreasonable. A typical residential application does not need more than 5 or 10 gigabytes of downloads a month. Most people only use it for web surfing, video games, email, music streaming and downloading movie trailers. Anything more than 10 gigs has to be heavy duty P2P usage or a business of some kind.
The same thing happened to my brother. He looked into his policy. The way it was worded was vague. Basically what they are doing is going after the top 1 or 2% of the people who use something like 50% of the bandwidth. They are just trying to scare you to cut costs and it might be cheaper to them to dump you as they are not making money off of you. In my brothers case he had his cable bandwidth maxed out for months on end. He toned it down and they went away. They can and will cut you off though, they made that clear enough. Although I have never me anyone who has been cut off......
Good point
Don't feed the trolls.
Investors are not stupid?
I recently put this to the test. I took $2000 I was willing to lose and put it in the market right after the Worldcom crash. I then listened to the advice of all of the pundits and did pretty much the exact opposite. I assigned a 100% gain and 50% loss risk cap to stocks based on my own research, figuring a 100% gain would more than offset a 50% loss if half my stocks turned out the way I predicted. I picked out some of the biggest dogs of the year and bought them as investors began to panic yet again. I sold out the last ones at the end of 2003 with several bombs where my analysis was way off. The stocks where my analysis was on went way up. In the end I ended up about +75% with $3500, this isn't including and fees which were a lot because I traded my puny stocks a lot. I took the money and used it to fix my car, which was dumb because I could have made much more money.
My conclusion, people are stupid cattle and will follow in a big herd to the meat packing plant. If I were extremely rich, I would have made even more, being able to track stocks better and invest with less fees which would have made me filthy stinking rich. Stock price has nothing to do with the value of a company in a feeding frenzy type situation which SCO is in, everyone becomes irrational.
The response goes like this:
Dear Darl,
We are confused by the recent letter we received from your company. Both you and Novell are claiming ownership of this copyright. We intend to wait until you can clarify this matter. And by the way, that car out front of your house isn't because we took out a mob hit on you.
Best regards,
Dr. Doom.
CEO DOOM Inc.
sco/novell Unix contract excluded assets, Schedule 1.1(b) Excluded Assets (Page 2 of 2)
a couple of assets which SCO does not own:
A. All copyrights and trademarks, except for the [...] copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell as of the date of the Agreement required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies. However, in no event shall Novell be liable to SCO for any claim brought by any third party pertaining to said copyrights and trademarks.
B. All Patents
SCO doesn't own Unix or anything at all found in Netware. Novell never gave up any patents. Novell owns all copyrights which SCO doesn't need to run its business. Boies should have read this earlier.
story
This dude is a bit nuts.
...DVD protection is against the constitution. It works for SCO...sort of.
not Swedish. It is a different language, with different spelling of many words, vastly different dialectical differences, and different pronunciation in some cases.
Computer crime is a legitimate problem. However, groups like the RIAA are making legitimate activity, or activity that any reasonable person would think should be legitimate a crime. This leads me to believe that many minor computer crimes should be treated like a speeding or parking ticket, and serious computer crimes should face a "frothing, mad dog approach", things like fraud or child pornography.
Working at a distance is always a disadvantage because we still have monkey brains, we are social animals.
where did all of this come from, the Isrealis reject Microsoft and somehow this becomes about the Isreali/Palestinian conflict. The two aren't linked except by the thinnest of threads.
"Write a long resignation letter explaining why you feel you MUST RESIGN" = BAD ADVICE
Never write a long resignation letter, especially to a company that is hyper sensitive to legal issues and dominated by pig headed lawyers. They will be sure to send you on your way with a highlighted copy of your contract restrictions. Instead, go to your boss, have a little chat about how you feel it is time to 'move on', 'find new challenges', 'change of pace'. Never be vocal about why you are leaving if it is for a negative reason or if it highlights your future employer, you are only inviting trouble. A good resignation letter should be one paragraph stating why you are leaving, the date you are leaving and how you will wrap up existing projects to your current employers satisfaction and thanking them for their help. You then need to go around and thank all the people who helped you, who worked beside you or who could help you in the future. This will allow you to leave with a warm fuzzy feeling on the part of your current managers. When they ask you about future prospects, tell them 'you haven't decided everything yet'. This allows you to leave without BURNING YOUR BRIDGES.
If you don't care about trouble, and like bad advice, just try the 'asshole' approach as exemplified in the top quote. But do it right and in a way that allows you to work as little as possible. The goal of the asshole approach is to get fired, not quit. Quitters don't get workmans comp., which is like free paid vacation. There are several techniques to getting fired, each with its own drawbacks:
1. complete stupidity and laziness topped with sarchasm
2. alchoholol/druggs....
3. display transexual nudie pictures
4. trip and fall, "my back! my back!, I'm permanently injured"
5. Accuse your manager of sexual harrasment for staring at your nudie pictures and making derogatory comments about your personal art work. This way you can sue them and get even more money without having to work at all.
6. et cetera, et cetera
Don't do what I did at my last job when I quit. The CEO asked me what I would be doing in the future. I told him I would be getting drunk under a bridge somewhere. That didn't get me anything except a sense of satisfaction I will feel the rest of my life.
Good point, they can't check my resume...I was head developer of the SCO CRAPP project to integrate FUD with GNU/Linux. They will never know how much I blew ass.
For whom the bell trolls...it trolls for you!