Most of Israel's help is military, and it's not in the form of money, it's more in the form of free tickets for more fighters and whatnot from Boeing, Grumman, etc. So it's basically subsidizing American defense industries. Ever see Israel using American money for say, French Mirage fighters?
yeah, and where will it put it's billion+ population? Forget it. India might become a tech powerhouse, but not a superpower. Perhaps some kind of Asia superpower: India as the superpower in tech, China the superpower in sheer factories and manpower?
Like I needed an ipod with 8GB of capacity or something. I'm fully capable of just copying songs over whenever I feel a change of music style. 800 songs is still a lot, and this makes it a lot more affordable for me. If this is real, I'm buying one as soon as it hits the retailors.
At least with lottery there's a chance you'll get something back. Even if it's a 0.000001% chance, that's still a chance. Scams are, by definition, 0% payout. Last time I checked, 0*anything equals 0.
This is why we need a comprehensive satellite array around Mars before we start firing probes down. What we should do, IMHO, is create a ring of support satellites around Mars with everything imaginable, cameras of every kind, return to Earth containers, etc. That way, when we crash probes onto Mars, we can intensively photograph and document everything. What have we learned from this failure? Absolutely nothing. If the probe really is intact, why aren't we receiving anything? We haven't learned anything because we can't go back, look at the actual probe, and do tests, etc. At least if we had a satellite ring, we could do more documentation. And when the probes land successfully, we can save space and power on the probes by just having enough power to send signals to the satellites, which then boost the signal and fire back to Earth.
Well, if we can assume that the lander did hit the Martian surface and didn't burn up, skip off the atmosphere, etc, then it has to be somewhere on Mars. One bright pixel might be enough to show an impact point, because there's not going to be a debris trail if the probe didn't open up, it's just going to slag itself into the ground and mostly contain itself. Two bright pixels just might be enough if the lander opens itself more than the resolution of the camera. Who knows? Perhaps there's something they're not telling us. (Start crazy conspiracy theories)
Definitely laptop. Get one of those new Dell 15 in. models, very nice, and discounted heavily for the Christmas season. The screen's plenty big, and it has quite enough in all other departments. With a tuner card and Internet radio, you can turn the laptop into an improvised entertainment center.
Fascinating stuff. But the problem is that Darl sees GPL code as equivalent to public domain, which is what this lawsuit is over. Perhaps the IBM lawyers can hit SCO with those words in court in January...
I hear part of Halo 2 is set on Earth, after a Covenant laser bombardment... I'm going to be interested in seeing that. Starcraft Ghost is a nice upcoming one too. And as the Pokemon freak I am, Pokemon Colosseum is coming up in March, I believe.
Why don't we just EMP the whole of Nigeria, so we can flood the media with stories saying Nigeria has been EMPed, so computers in Nigeria don't work, so those email scams are fake?
Wow, three SCO articles in one day! I'm always up for more SCO stupidity (being the owner of SCO Report and SCO Countdown), but don't the editors think they can stretch out the SCO news, so there's one article every day? Certainly would make me pay up for a subscription...
Anyway, yes, I RTFA'ed Linus's response before the/. story came online, and I have to say, the IBM lawyers are going to have a field day kicking SCO's butt. However, I just _know_ tomorrow, I'll wake up and there's going to be a slashdot story about SCO rolling back their comments, saying "Well, those are just examples to justify our DMCA notices; we have more examples for the court" or something along the lines of what happened in the slideshow incident, with SCO saying the example code was just a sample, it wasn't representative of their whole case.
Besides, think about it. SCO has been saying for months that they're not going to release what the infringing code is in public. I find it hard to believe that SCO is, with one fell swoop, slicing off the head of it's own case.
In this case, I think I'll reach into the history books. To quote Winston Churchill:
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Young, who serves as a Red Hat board member and is no longer involved in the company's day-to-day operations, believes that McBride's recent statements amount to an attack on Young's new business, an on-line custom publishing venture called Lulu Inc., that Young founded in the spring of 2002.
Is this guy going to file a lawsuit against SCO too?
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is an excellent book. Couldn't put it down.
..except for one fact. I've already got my heart set on a mini ipod. Can anyone compare the pro/cons of the iPod and the iRiver players?
Most of Israel's help is military, and it's not in the form of money, it's more in the form of free tickets for more fighters and whatnot from Boeing, Grumman, etc. So it's basically subsidizing American defense industries. Ever see Israel using American money for say, French Mirage fighters?
yeah, and where will it put it's billion+ population? Forget it. India might become a tech powerhouse, but not a superpower. Perhaps some kind of Asia superpower: India as the superpower in tech, China the superpower in sheer factories and manpower?
Depends on how you define quality. Based on recent movies (gigli, anyone?) I'd say almost any movie would be better...
Like I needed an ipod with 8GB of capacity or something. I'm fully capable of just copying songs over whenever I feel a change of music style. 800 songs is still a lot, and this makes it a lot more affordable for me. If this is real, I'm buying one as soon as it hits the retailors.
At least with lottery there's a chance you'll get something back. Even if it's a 0.000001% chance, that's still a chance. Scams are, by definition, 0% payout. Last time I checked, 0*anything equals 0.
Try building it across an ocean...
For those of you who suck at history, here's a link. Notice the part about 'Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.'
Oh dear, I just contributed to Global Warming (breathe) oops, again (breathe) oops, I did it again (pun not intended (stupid Britney Spears song...))
This is why we need a comprehensive satellite array around Mars before we start firing probes down. What we should do, IMHO, is create a ring of support satellites around Mars with everything imaginable, cameras of every kind, return to Earth containers, etc. That way, when we crash probes onto Mars, we can intensively photograph and document everything. What have we learned from this failure? Absolutely nothing. If the probe really is intact, why aren't we receiving anything? We haven't learned anything because we can't go back, look at the actual probe, and do tests, etc. At least if we had a satellite ring, we could do more documentation.
And when the probes land successfully, we can save space and power on the probes by just having enough power to send signals to the satellites, which then boost the signal and fire back to Earth.
Well, if we can assume that the lander did hit the Martian surface and didn't burn up, skip off the atmosphere, etc, then it has to be somewhere on Mars. One bright pixel might be enough to show an impact point, because there's not going to be a debris trail if the probe didn't open up, it's just going to slag itself into the ground and mostly contain itself. Two bright pixels just might be enough if the lander opens itself more than the resolution of the camera. Who knows? Perhaps there's something they're not telling us. (Start crazy conspiracy theories)
Definitely laptop. Get one of those new Dell 15 in. models, very nice, and discounted heavily for the Christmas season. The screen's plenty big, and it has quite enough in all other departments. With a tuner card and Internet radio, you can turn the laptop into an improvised entertainment center.
With your nose? Or perhaps it's some kind of bionic weapon, bullets shoot from the tips of your fingers and such?
Fascinating stuff. But the problem is that Darl sees GPL code as equivalent to public domain, which is what this lawsuit is over. Perhaps the IBM lawyers can hit SCO with those words in court in January...
Terrific. The iPod could really use this stuff it the new mini ipods.
At least Solaris was issued for download for free for x86 architectures... Slashdot discussion, courtesy of Google, because the /. search page is taking an eternity to load.
I hear part of Halo 2 is set on Earth, after a Covenant laser bombardment... I'm going to be interested in seeing that. Starcraft Ghost is a nice upcoming one too. And as the Pokemon freak I am, Pokemon Colosseum is coming up in March, I believe.
Why don't we just EMP the whole of Nigeria, so we can flood the media with stories saying Nigeria has been EMPed, so computers in Nigeria don't work, so those email scams are fake?
Wow, three SCO articles in one day! I'm always up for more SCO stupidity (being the owner of SCO Report and SCO Countdown), but don't the editors think they can stretch out the SCO news, so there's one article every day? Certainly would make me pay up for a subscription...
/. story came online, and I have to say, the IBM lawyers are going to have a field day kicking SCO's butt. However, I just _know_ tomorrow, I'll wake up and there's going to be a slashdot story about SCO rolling back their comments, saying "Well, those are just examples to justify our DMCA notices; we have more examples for the court" or something along the lines of what happened in the slideshow incident, with SCO saying the example code was just a sample, it wasn't representative of their whole case.
Anyway, yes, I RTFA'ed Linus's response before the
Besides, think about it. SCO has been saying for months that they're not going to release what the infringing code is in public. I find it hard to believe that SCO is, with one fell swoop, slicing off the head of it's own case.
In this case, I think I'll reach into the history books. To quote Winston Churchill:
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Remember to visit my sites for more SCO stupidity...
Yes
Wow, two SCO stories in one day. It might be better just to dedicate a brand new /. section on sco (sco.slashdot.org or caldera.slashdot.org, etc).
Yes, SCO is definitely going down. Anyone have new ideas on what I should put up on SCO Report or SCO Countdown?
Seemed kinda slow... So I mirrored it. Go ahead and /. it as much as you want. Fortunately, I managed to grab it before you bastards killed their server.... Now I have to RTFA.
Open Letter To SCO, From The Guy Who Owns scoreport.com:
Dear Darl,
You Suck
Signed,
herrvinny
Young, who serves as a Red Hat board member and is no longer involved in the company's day-to-day operations, believes that McBride's recent statements amount to an attack on Young's new business, an on-line custom publishing venture called Lulu Inc., that Young founded in the spring of 2002.
Is this guy going to file a lawsuit against SCO too?
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