I don't know about how much he, Bois, knew. I do remember a report in the last few days that he is being investigated for unethical behavior, I think in Florida. Just because he was the lawyer in the Microsoft case does not necessarily mean anything...
Yes, but you would actually have to die first, and the DA for whatever city/state you are in would have to agree to press charges believing that they would win without a reasonable doubt.
Hey, I don't necessarily like it, that's just the way the system works.
As far as I'm aware, the US Government does not do copyright searches like they do patent searches. I sincerely doubt that the copyright office did a comparison between Novell's copyrighted material and SCO's and determined that SCO's was significantly different to award the claim. I believe they probably grant any copyright (practically, if you tried to copyright a Harry Potter book or some other well-known text then it would proably not go unnoticed) and let the copyright holders battle it out in court.
Just because they were granted a copyright does not mean that it is a valid copyright.
Given the time-frame for this case going to trial and being resolved, I'd say that 2.6 would already have been released. If there is any SCO IP in Linux, you'd likely see it removed in 3.0.
I believe, but do not know because IANAL, that non-criminal cases (i.e, arguments between companies as opposed to locking someone up for years) are given a much lower priority than criminal cases. This is because of due process and the right to a speedy trial. If someone accuses you of some criminal act even today, you will likely see trial before SCO and IBM do.
I'd be willing to bet that those routers that can't be upgraded without memory upgrades have been EOL'd. Kind of like trying to install Windows XP on a 386 with 16MB of RAM...
The 2500 series has been EOL'd. May want to check their web site and use it to justify new 2600XM's (the non-XM 2600's are also EOL'd, so I wouldn't recommend purchasing them).
That, itself, is a form of encryption. So, anyone who attempts to understand your post, with its spelling mistakes and all, is violating the DMCMACMACA... The methodology would be using your brain and common sense logic, so please report to the nearest brain-wiping center promptly.
1) What the US calls a shrimp, Australians call a prawn.
Um, no. Shrimp and prawns are two totally different things in the US, and throughout the world actually. However, in the US we do use both terms because some of us know the difference - talk to someone in New Orleans.
Or just check out Merriam-Webster. They say a prawn is "any of numerous widely distributed edible decapod crustaceans (as of the genera Pandalus and Peneus) that resemble shrimps and have large compressed abdomens" but a shrimp is "any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum." They are in the same family, but prawns are much larger than shrimp.
If you are an Aussie, you could always go here, which is the InfoZone at Museum Victoria. Apparently someone down under knows the difference! Here's an excerpt:
"Shrimp or Prawn? There is often confusion regarding the difference between a shrimp and a prawn. Physically they look very similar but there is one sure way to tell them apart. In shrimps or carideans the side plate of the second segment of the abdomen overlaps the segments in front and behind. Prawns, most of which belong to the family Penaeidae of the group Dendrobranchiata, have all the abdominal side plates overlapping tile-like from the front. A more fundamental difference but one impossible to appreciate in a single specimen is that female prawns do not brood eggs but shed them into the currents where they develop independently. It would therefore make sense to call all member s of the Penaeidae "prawns" and members of the Caridean "shrimps" and this is what most Australians do. King prawns and banana prawns are names understood in this continent for penaeids sold frozen at the markets. The tiny shrimps bought in cans or froz en are imported carideans. Confusion arises when we hear Americans refer to prawns as "shrimp"."
So, unfortunately, it would seem that even though Museum Victoria knows the difference, most Aussies don't, and incorrectly believe that Americans don't know what they are talking about. Even the last sentence from the InfoZone expresses this belief. This is most distressful for Americans to hear, because we are under the constant barrage of comments from Old Europe, and apparently also Australia, about how sophisticated they are, and how ignorant Americans are. I won't go on record to say that it's really the other way around, but comments like this, from a goverment source even, makes one wonder.
Not even Anti-Aircraft Missiles, the real deal, with the large bore barrels and the deafening sound. Take a few off of old warships and fill the sky with lead if any pilot would dare to get near a large city again.
Of course, we would have to devise some defense from all the falling artillery pieces for the buildings and residents of the city, but we can overcome that I'm sure!
Now, no disrespect to non native English speakers, but I almost went into convulsions just trying to read the blurb here on slashdot. I think there should be a warning for native speaking people, much like the warning you get on some recent games for people with epilepsy. Something like "clicking on this link has been shown to cause severe mental and physical reactions due to the subtle, unintentional, grammatical errors that act much like a 'logic bomb' in intelligent homo sapiens. Proceed at your own risk."
Something to remember, the consumer never actually pays the tax, the vendor does. They increase the price, and show you how much tax is involved in the price so that both you don't think they're too expensive, and to explain differences between the price advertised and the price charged, however the vendor is the one paying the tax (which is required by law).
That sounds like a shell game to me. Watch real quick, who is paying the tax! It's also the most convoluted excuse that I've ever heard. Of course the consumers are paying the tax. Indirectly, but they are. The vendors are not being taxed on how much profit they make, they are being taxed on the price that the consumer pays, right? Well, you are just shifting who you collect the tax from, not who ultimately pays it. It was probably structured that way for two reasons. One to fake out the consumer and get the taxes passed, and two because it would be unreasonable to attempt to collect this tax from individual consumers and instead make the much fewer businesses collect it for you. Just like a sales tax.
Coordinated by strangers? Does that count? I can see if you have a bunch of rich executives, or just plain old rich people, that scheme to coordinate massive trades to influence the stock price. However, I can't see how if a bunch of people that don't know each other and would likely trade in small amounts, it would be illegal to talk about the common-sense end-game that SCO isn't going to survive this and it might be a good idea to short them. Two totally different things, I think. But IANAL - BIPOOSD
Wow, that's unbelievably doom and gloom. Everyone is taking it easy in the Linux community because of two things, I believe:
1) SCO is suing IBM. IBM already invested billions of dollars in Linux and isn't about to let this one go.
2) Precisely because of the history of the BSD case. If there is offending code all we have to do is take it out. SCO can't ban Linux entirely, just Linux that contains copyrighted code, if that is the case.
Last time I checked, copyright didn't protect the idea itself, just the expression of the idea. So if the code was written to do the same task there shouldn't be an issue, as long it is not a verbatim copy.
Because a lot of people don't believe that the current copyright laws are what the founding fathers envisioned. They were extreamly vauge in the constitution, and let it up to the legislature to make the exact terms. However, although I'm sure they realized that some politicians could be bought off, I don't think they expected the wholesale sell-out of the congress. I mean, what is it now? Like 75 years after you die and all your relatives, and your favorite pet? Copyright and patents are supposed to give a short term monopoly on ideas and expressions to further scientific progress and society. The laws we have now are a bastardization of that.
Would it be worse if the songs traded were all recent hits instead of old classics? Heck yea. Would it be less of an offense if the songs traded were old classics, like the Beatles? Most people would say so. Heck half the guys are dead already, and the rest are definately living comfortably.
But those are just my thoughts. I haven't purchased a CD in years, but I don't copy MP3's or any other format of digital music. I just have too many CD's that I bought to need any more music.
It could be that the movies on your list are just not popular movies. You may just like unpopular stuff, as compared to what other Netflix customers like, so you always get what you want. Ever think of that?
Companies would not be allowed to do this obviously. There are pretty strick SEC reporting requirements as it is right now. If we were to implement a patent tax, then there obviously would be language in the law that required product-specific reporting in financial statements.
Solaris refers to the complete "Operating Environment" which includes SunOS (5.9 at it's latest version). What he is suggesting would be more akin to Sun replacing SunOS with Linux, not Solaris. In fact, there is no reason that I know this could not be done.
I think it is quite clear to anyone who knows both Windows and Linux history that when he says Windows he means the GUI front end, non-kernel space programs, and DOS refers to the kernel. Similarly, Linux means just Linux, the kernel.
So would that be plausible then? Replace the Windows NT/XP kernel with the Linux kernel? THey would have to do some things, like take the GUI display driver out of the kernel and make it a user process. Then users could load up either a XDM process to launch X 11, or a Microsoft process to launch "Windows."
I believe there would also be some process and thread control issues, but then there's no reason they can't run everything in user-space or contribute (gasp!) to the Linux kernel. Could you imagine Linus having to approve any Microsoft patches to the kernel? That would be hillarious.
The game was designed to be the most accurate computer game that follows the D&D 3rd edition rules. If you already know D&D and have all the books and know the rules, it comes pretty damn close, and gets closer with every patch release. To say that it was dull just simply means that you think D&D is dull, which is fine but does not reflect the opinion of NWN's target audience.
There are server-vault only servers, so you can't give yourself unlimited XP, gold, weapons, or anything else. If you have enough self-control to stay on those servers then that would seem to fit your requirements.
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I don't know about how much he, Bois, knew. I do remember a report in the last few days that he is being investigated for unethical behavior, I think in Florida. Just because he was the lawyer in the Microsoft case does not necessarily mean anything...
Yes, but you would actually have to die first, and the DA for whatever city/state you are in would have to agree to press charges believing that they would win without a reasonable doubt.
Hey, I don't necessarily like it, that's just the way the system works.
As far as I'm aware, the US Government does not do copyright searches like they do patent searches. I sincerely doubt that the copyright office did a comparison between Novell's copyrighted material and SCO's and determined that SCO's was significantly different to award the claim. I believe they probably grant any copyright (practically, if you tried to copyright a Harry Potter book or some other well-known text then it would proably not go unnoticed) and let the copyright holders battle it out in court.
Just because they were granted a copyright does not mean that it is a valid copyright.
Given the time-frame for this case going to trial and being resolved, I'd say that 2.6 would already have been released. If there is any SCO IP in Linux, you'd likely see it removed in 3.0.
I believe, but do not know because IANAL, that non-criminal cases (i.e, arguments between companies as opposed to locking someone up for years) are given a much lower priority than criminal cases. This is because of due process and the right to a speedy trial. If someone accuses you of some criminal act even today, you will likely see trial before SCO and IBM do.
I'd be willing to bet that those routers that can't be upgraded without memory upgrades have been EOL'd. Kind of like trying to install Windows XP on a 386 with 16MB of RAM...
The 2500 series has been EOL'd. May want to check their web site and use it to justify new 2600XM's (the non-XM 2600's are also EOL'd, so I wouldn't recommend purchasing them).
That, itself, is a form of encryption. So, anyone who attempts to understand your post, with its spelling mistakes and all, is violating the DMCMACMACA... The methodology would be using your brain and common sense logic, so please report to the nearest brain-wiping center promptly.
It's my understanding that at one point there WAS Solaris for the RS6K. I don't believe it was ever made available to customers, but it was developed.
1) What the US calls a shrimp, Australians call a prawn.
Um, no. Shrimp and prawns are two totally different things in the US, and throughout the world actually. However, in the US we do use both terms because some of us know the difference - talk to someone in New Orleans.
Or just check out Merriam-Webster. They say a prawn is "any of numerous widely distributed edible decapod crustaceans (as of the genera Pandalus and Peneus) that resemble shrimps and have large compressed abdomens" but a shrimp is "any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum." They are in the same family, but prawns are much larger than shrimp.
If you are an Aussie, you could always go here, which is the InfoZone at Museum Victoria. Apparently someone down under knows the difference! Here's an excerpt:
"Shrimp or Prawn?
There is often confusion regarding the difference between a shrimp and a prawn. Physically they look very similar but there is one sure way to tell them apart. In shrimps or carideans the side plate of the second segment of the abdomen overlaps the segments in front and behind. Prawns, most of which belong to the family Penaeidae of the group Dendrobranchiata, have all the abdominal side plates overlapping tile-like from the front. A more fundamental difference but one impossible to appreciate in a single specimen is that female prawns do not brood eggs but shed them into the currents where they develop independently. It would therefore make sense to call all member s of the Penaeidae "prawns" and members of the Caridean "shrimps" and this is what most Australians do. King prawns and banana prawns are names understood in this continent for penaeids sold frozen at the markets. The tiny shrimps bought in cans or froz en are imported carideans. Confusion arises when we hear Americans refer to prawns as "shrimp"."
So, unfortunately, it would seem that even though Museum Victoria knows the difference, most Aussies don't, and incorrectly believe that Americans don't know what they are talking about. Even the last sentence from the InfoZone expresses this belief. This is most distressful for Americans to hear, because we are under the constant barrage of comments from Old Europe, and apparently also Australia, about how sophisticated they are, and how ignorant Americans are. I won't go on record to say that it's really the other way around, but comments like this, from a goverment source even, makes one wonder.
Not even Anti-Aircraft Missiles, the real deal, with the large bore barrels and the deafening sound. Take a few off of old warships and fill the sky with lead if any pilot would dare to get near a large city again.
Of course, we would have to devise some defense from all the falling artillery pieces for the buildings and residents of the city, but we can overcome that I'm sure!
Now, no disrespect to non native English speakers, but I almost went into convulsions just trying to read the blurb here on slashdot. I think there should be a warning for native speaking people, much like the warning you get on some recent games for people with epilepsy. Something like "clicking on this link has been shown to cause severe mental and physical reactions due to the subtle, unintentional, grammatical errors that act much like a 'logic bomb' in intelligent homo sapiens. Proceed at your own risk."
Coordinated by strangers? Does that count? I can see if you have a bunch of rich executives, or just plain old rich people, that scheme to coordinate massive trades to influence the stock price. However, I can't see how if a bunch of people that don't know each other and would likely trade in small amounts, it would be illegal to talk about the common-sense end-game that SCO isn't going to survive this and it might be a good idea to short them. Two totally different things, I think. But IANAL - BIPOOSD
Wow, that's unbelievably doom and gloom. Everyone is taking it easy in the Linux community because of two things, I believe:
1) SCO is suing IBM. IBM already invested billions of dollars in Linux and isn't about to let this one go.
2) Precisely because of the history of the BSD case. If there is offending code all we have to do is take it out. SCO can't ban Linux entirely, just Linux that contains copyrighted code, if that is the case.
Hmm, All I know is that Munich was one of the cities in diplomacy for Germany. Or, at least I seem to remember so.
Last time I checked, copyright didn't protect the idea itself, just the expression of the idea. So if the code was written to do the same task there shouldn't be an issue, as long it is not a verbatim copy.
Because a lot of people don't believe that the current copyright laws are what the founding fathers envisioned. They were extreamly vauge in the constitution, and let it up to the legislature to make the exact terms. However, although I'm sure they realized that some politicians could be bought off, I don't think they expected the wholesale sell-out of the congress. I mean, what is it now? Like 75 years after you die and all your relatives, and your favorite pet? Copyright and patents are supposed to give a short term monopoly on ideas and expressions to further scientific progress and society. The laws we have now are a bastardization of that.
Would it be worse if the songs traded were all recent hits instead of old classics? Heck yea. Would it be less of an offense if the songs traded were old classics, like the Beatles? Most people would say so. Heck half the guys are dead already, and the rest are definately living comfortably.
But those are just my thoughts. I haven't purchased a CD in years, but I don't copy MP3's or any other format of digital music. I just have too many CD's that I bought to need any more music.
It sounds like they are so stupid they will try anyway.
Whoever signed that SPAM guy up for all the snail mail SPAM should do the same to this guy.
It could be that the movies on your list are just not popular movies. You may just like unpopular stuff, as compared to what other Netflix customers like, so you always get what you want. Ever think of that?
Companies would not be allowed to do this obviously. There are pretty strick SEC reporting requirements as it is right now. If we were to implement a patent tax, then there obviously would be language in the law that required product-specific reporting in financial statements.
Solaris refers to the complete "Operating Environment" which includes SunOS (5.9 at it's latest version). What he is suggesting would be more akin to Sun replacing SunOS with Linux, not Solaris. In fact, there is no reason that I know this could not be done.
I think it is quite clear to anyone who knows both Windows and Linux history that when he says Windows he means the GUI front end, non-kernel space programs, and DOS refers to the kernel. Similarly, Linux means just Linux, the kernel.
So would that be plausible then? Replace the Windows NT/XP kernel with the Linux kernel? THey would have to do some things, like take the GUI display driver out of the kernel and make it a user process. Then users could load up either a XDM process to launch X 11, or a Microsoft process to launch "Windows."
I believe there would also be some process and thread control issues, but then there's no reason they can't run everything in user-space or contribute (gasp!) to the Linux kernel. Could you imagine Linus having to approve any Microsoft patches to the kernel? That would be hillarious.
Troll.
The game was designed to be the most accurate computer game that follows the D&D 3rd edition rules. If you already know D&D and have all the books and know the rules, it comes pretty damn close, and gets closer with every patch release. To say that it was dull just simply means that you think D&D is dull, which is fine but does not reflect the opinion of NWN's target audience.
There are server-vault only servers, so you can't give yourself unlimited XP, gold, weapons, or anything else. If you have enough self-control to stay on those servers then that would seem to fit your requirements.