Due to the amount of money owed Novell vs the amount of money SCO has, it's possible that the stock price is going up due to speculators looking for Novell to acquire SCO in the near future....thereby getting Novell stock. Just a guess.
Depends on if they have to pick up SCO's liabilities as well. I don't think even Novell is stupid enough to want to take the liabilties along with what's left of any questionable assets. Hell, better to wait til the sheriff comes and auctions everything off, that way you get clean title to it.
For those of us with with suspicious minds, it also has the feel of poetic justice in that the money Microsoft and Sun spent to kill Linux winds up going to a Linux distributor (Novell owns SUSE) to defend a major Linux contributor (IBM).
Which Microsoft will get back over the years as part of the Novell/Microsoft agreement in which Microsoft fronted Novell a pile of cash and gets a chunk back every year. This whole SCO/IBM/Novell/Microsoft/Sun thing is almost as confusing as watching the Three Stooges in Esperanto.
If they were really interested in finding and contacting us, they would have done so by now
Some people say they already have! Though why they only ever contact toothless rednecks in pickups in Arkansas at nighttime on lonely roads is perhaps a mystery for another day.
'Talent' scouts for the intergalactic version of Springer?
If you are right-wing Christian, doesn't that involve _following_ your religion? The one that supposedly had a man called Jesus who talked about doing good, being good to everyone etc?
In the church, we call those types of people who are confusing you "hypocrites".
Which ones? The ones actively following the principles of their religion, or the right wing neocon nutjobs masquarading as Christians?
My question is, will the files outputted be compatible with older versions of MS Office? And for how long? Microsoft's been in the habit of changing file formats just to justify selling newer versions of the same old tired software.
But then, most of the servers in my care consist of a pile of RAID5'ed SCSI drives that range 36-140GB in size... and I doubt that most of them will get much bigger before it's time to replace the servers themselves. Just because you can get monster capacity on a single drive, doesn't mean that you need to or even want to.
But think of the pr0n! Won't SOMEBODY think of the pr0n????
The company is going into the ground like a lawn dart. I'm glad I moved my office manager to OpenOffice last year.
Don't worry... OpenOffice.org will clone this interface within 6 months.
Gawd, I hope not. What this all is looking like to me is, a concerted push to get everybody on Vista and make the cash register ring. Update your 2 year old hardware, your OS, your office suite, too bad about your 'killer app' that you NEED to run for your business... *KA-CHING*
Office 2000 meets both of those requirements. I would think any company considering the switch to Office 2007 already has a site license for Office 2000 (or 2K3), so the added cost is zero. Training shouldn't be an issue either.
Considering that Office is one of their 'bread & butter' offerings, you think they're gonna hand it out for free??? And what of the offices that use a Linux backend for their servers?
Now how this applies to the article under discussion is something else, but in principal I'm not in favor of granting the government additional power that may be abused, unless there are some enormous benefits that outweigh the potential danger of that abuse.
I'm leary of granting the government any additional power on the grounds that it will be abused. Case in point? The USA PATRIOT Act, whose sole purpose at this time seems to be to chase down government corruption in Las Vegas. Imagine that, an 'anti-terrorist' law with effects far outside its stated scope.
Doesn't matter if you're a fan of the current 'regime' or not (and 2/3rds of the people in the US seem not), the laws and technology will be abused, if not now, then sometime in the future. George Orwell is alive and living large in 2007...
I'll just wait for the Linux version to come out, if you don't mind. The thought of getting a virus in my car's computer by downloading music/email/whatever while I drive is a bit scary to me.
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As in, 'wonder how much cash those damned trekkies gonna fork over for this trainwreck so we can make the payments on our Beamers'?
At gunpoint. Unless you can convince the Regime that if we stick with Imperial, the terrrrists win..
Which begs the question of why somebody hasn't done this yet. Surely can't be the entertainment value of watching SCO twist gently in the wind...
What can I say? Shat happens.
Depends on if they have to pick up SCO's liabilities as well. I don't think even Novell is stupid enough to want to take the liabilties along with what's left of any questionable assets. Hell, better to wait til the sheriff comes and auctions everything off, that way you get clean title to it.
Which Microsoft will get back over the years as part of the Novell/Microsoft agreement in which Microsoft fronted Novell a pile of cash and gets a chunk back every year. This whole SCO/IBM/Novell/Microsoft/Sun thing is almost as confusing as watching the Three Stooges in Esperanto.
I sure would do it to the whore in the front office.
That's an awful lot of l*wy*rs researching more ways to stir the pot...
Musta spent a year in Cleveland one weekend...
'Talent' scouts for the intergalactic version of Springer?
Wonder if they go good with lemon & butter...
Which ones? The ones actively following the principles of their religion, or the right wing neocon nutjobs masquarading as Christians?
My question is, will the files outputted be compatible with older versions of MS Office? And for how long? Microsoft's been in the habit of changing file formats just to justify selling newer versions of the same old tired software.
That too. Loose the stones, yer SCREWED.
Yup. 20 million Mormons can't be wrong.
Screw that, just rewire it
But think of the pr0n! Won't SOMEBODY think of the pr0n????
Nonononono.
First, the heavy metal band.
THEN their parents
THEN themselves.
If you're gonna paraphrase Denis Leary, at least try to get it close.
Oh my, the sky is falling. We better invade them RIGHT NOW before their heathen commie biologics compromise the purity of our bodily fluids.
Naw. No oil in North Korea. Our regularly scheduled jihad against Iran is still on...
Gawd, I hope not. What this all is looking like to me is, a concerted push to get everybody on Vista and make the cash register ring. Update your 2 year old hardware, your OS, your office suite, too bad about your 'killer app' that you NEED to run for your business... *KA-CHING*
Considering that Office is one of their 'bread & butter' offerings, you think they're gonna hand it out for free??? And what of the offices that use a Linux backend for their servers?
No 64 bit version yet. Bummer.
I'm leary of granting the government any additional power on the grounds that it will be abused. Case in point? The USA PATRIOT Act, whose sole purpose at this time seems to be to chase down government corruption in Las Vegas. Imagine that, an 'anti-terrorist' law with effects far outside its stated scope.
Doesn't matter if you're a fan of the current 'regime' or not (and 2/3rds of the people in the US seem not), the laws and technology will be abused, if not now, then sometime in the future. George Orwell is alive and living large in 2007...
I'll just wait for the Linux version to come out, if you don't mind. The thought of getting a virus in my car's computer by downloading music/email/whatever while I drive is a bit scary to me.
So how you intend to power up the Stargate to get back to the Pegasus Galaxy???