I'd comment on what he says, but it's just A) too funny and B) just meant to distract from the fact that they face a real risk of going bankrupt due to their law suit with Novell.
I'll just say that everything he says is completely unsupported by any sort of empirical evidence, right down to the comment about "free" being the most searched for term on the Internet.
The US only entered WWI because of the Zimmerman telegraph unearthed by British Intelligence (do you even learn about that in school?)...
To answer your question, yes, I at least learned about the Zimmerman telegraph when in school (I am American). However, I had trouble recalling exactly what it was before looking it up on Wikipedia. What I did recall was the German unrestricted submarine warfare policy. This leads me to say that my teacher(s) and books probably focused on this reason more than the Zimmerman telegraph. However, I could be completely wrong. I was never a great history scholar. I was more interested in the science courses. Also, I should probably note that I was a private school kid. I don't know how things were taught in the public schools.
Needless to say, most people I talk to don't even really know how World War I started. In fact, they only know there was a World War I because there was a World War II. Call it the Great War sometime and you get a bunch of blank stares. But, in my opinion, that's just the result of a poor education system overall and not some vast conspiracy to skew history.
I am also a type 1 diabetic. If you inject insulin directly into the bloodstream (rather than subcutaneously, as we diabetics do) it will act rather rapidly. Subcutaenously, as I stated before, has a definite absorption rate depending on the type of insulin injected. For instance, Humalog is absorbed into the bloodstream over a period of 2-3 hours, and NPH over a time period of about 8 hours.
Also, "insulin shock treatment," as it was called, was used for early schizophrenia treatment (reference).
I worked on the Webb telescope project for a short period of time (back when it was Next Generation Space Telescope) and, believe me, they had a hard enough time scrounging up the money to create what they have now. Making the mirror "a little bigger" or increasing the size of the infrared array would require much more effort than you might think.
Don't know exactly, but my first suspicion would be the buyback program. Choice quote (click link for source):
"'Some critics believe the buyback frenzy was nothing more than executives seeking to maximize their own wealth. 'They boost the price in the short term and then sell their shares,' says Kathleen M. Kahle..."
Definetely check that Groklaw link for more information. I'm just a programmer, so really, I don't know what I'm talking about. But the buyback program seems like a good place to start.
From my own observations, it seems people have an even harder time making diagrams of their software than they do just writing the software. Why, I have a very talented programmer right across the hall from me who struggles to even make a flowchart. Despite that fact, his programs are very well designed.
'Course, that's just one perspective. Maybe visual programming is easier for some or whatnot.
You think REXX is old? You should meet the CLIST I just wrote. Mostly it hobbles around TSO, complaining about these darned REXX kiddies (no respect, you know?), and makes outrageous claims -like it invented the ampersand.
Or maybe it just concatenates my CLIST dataset into my SYSPROC DD.
Anyway, its old. And yes, I do work for the government. REXX is bleeding edge technology here, baby!
To me it seems that the most suspicious piece of evidence is that SCO fell victim to a SYN attack. Based off information I've read, most systems (operating systems, routers, firewalls, etc.) should be protected from this type of attack by now.
Now, I'm no security expert. So my question is this - is it true that most systems should not be vulnerable to this type of attack? Or is that, in some manner, misinformation?
Seems like this is a risk - a calculated risk - that everyone incharge of some IT decision takes and has taken for years now. We see it happen with certain standards all the time. A few solutions rise to meet a certain problem. Some succeed, some don't. That's why careful evaluation of adopting anything is necessary. You don't want to go one way while everyone else is going another.
Basically, I don't see how this "forking" is really something exclusive to open source. Society, as a whole, forks all the time. Which forks will be successful isn't without some level of predictability, however.
Industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft
November 26, 2003
Summary A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes.
By Maureen O'Gara Page 1 of 1 A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes.
Last week SCO threatened to make an example of a big-time Linux user that hadn't paid SCO the license fees it's demanding and take it to court for copyright infringement.
SCO has not disclosed the identity of its mark and SCO CEO Darl McBride claimed Tuesday that a decision on what company to target wasn't final yet. He said SCO and its lawyers were working with "a short list" of "seven or eight" names.
McBride declined to say whether Google's name was on it, but another knowledgeable source said it was.
SCO said last week that it would sue within 90 days. The Linux community thinks SCO's bluffing and won't make its self-imposed February 17 deadline. McBride said he'd like to play that number in Vegas.
The idea behind the suit is obviously to make all major Linux users tractable and make them reach for their checkbooks.
If it turns out to be Google, it's a provocative choice.
It's a household name.
It's said to have a Linux server farm of some 10,000 of servers, worth, oh, $7 million to SCO as long as SCO's current cut-rate license fees maintain.
It's reportedly putting together a positively glorious IPO that could supposedly be worth $15 billion-$25 billion, a feat unmatched in the last two decades despite Tulipmania.
And Microsoft, which has been accused of conniving with SCO in its march against Linux, is slated to enter the search market and compete against Google. The widgetry, which is supposed to retrieve all kinds of file types, both structured and unstructured, and all kinds of storage systems, beginning with the user's own drive, will be integrated into its operating systems like the anticipated Longhorn.
Meanwhile, industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft.
Here are some links to other projects that have similar goals - examining expansion of the universe, faraway objects, etc. They also have sophisticated infrared imaging capabilities. The James Webb Space Telescope (formerly Next Generation Space Telescope) is the successor to Hubble, and Supernova/Acceleration Probe which, from what I remember, locates potential supernovae by examining data taken at fixed ground locations then points an orbiting camera at the calculated location to collect radiation data. Really interesting stuff!
Space is not cold enough to cool down the elements surrounding the camera so that they are essentially "invisible" to it. If you need evidence, take a look at what happened when the cooling on Hubble's IR cam (NICMOS) ran out prematurely. NICMOS was completely useless until it was serviced rather recently, because it was constantly saturated by the infrared light emitted from the surrounding instrumentation.
I'm no physicist, so I may not have the terms right in my explanation, but you definetely need cooling for IR cams in space. NICMOS will prove it to you.
...tracking and rating contributors' social habits and determining "people who the system has shown to have value."
What about the people who don't have value?! Are people who haven't ever posted to a newsgroup without value?!
"You have no value to the collective. You will not be assimilated. You will be melted down and used for gear oil."
I'm going to go join some newsgroups....
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I'd comment on what he says, but it's just A) too funny and B) just meant to distract from the fact that they face a real risk of going bankrupt due to their law suit with Novell. I'll just say that everything he says is completely unsupported by any sort of empirical evidence, right down to the comment about "free" being the most searched for term on the Internet.
The US only entered WWI because of the Zimmerman telegraph unearthed by British Intelligence (do you even learn about that in school?)...
To answer your question, yes, I at least learned about the Zimmerman telegraph when in school (I am American). However, I had trouble recalling exactly what it was before looking it up on Wikipedia. What I did recall was the German unrestricted submarine warfare policy. This leads me to say that my teacher(s) and books probably focused on this reason more than the Zimmerman telegraph. However, I could be completely wrong. I was never a great history scholar. I was more interested in the science courses. Also, I should probably note that I was a private school kid. I don't know how things were taught in the public schools.
Needless to say, most people I talk to don't even really know how World War I started. In fact, they only know there was a World War I because there was a World War II. Call it the Great War sometime and you get a bunch of blank stares. But, in my opinion, that's just the result of a poor education system overall and not some vast conspiracy to skew history.
I am also a type 1 diabetic. If you inject insulin directly into the bloodstream (rather than subcutaneously, as we diabetics do) it will act rather rapidly. Subcutaenously, as I stated before, has a definite absorption rate depending on the type of insulin injected. For instance, Humalog is absorbed into the bloodstream over a period of 2-3 hours, and NPH over a time period of about 8 hours.
Also, "insulin shock treatment," as it was called, was used for early schizophrenia treatment (reference).
I worked on the Webb telescope project for a short period of time (back when it was Next Generation Space Telescope) and, believe me, they had a hard enough time scrounging up the money to create what they have now. Making the mirror "a little bigger" or increasing the size of the infrared array would require much more effort than you might think.
But only slightly lesser known is, "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!" Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Don't know exactly, but my first suspicion would be the buyback program. Choice quote (click link for source):
"'Some critics believe the buyback frenzy was nothing more than executives seeking to maximize their own wealth. 'They boost the price in the short term and then sell their shares,' says Kathleen M. Kahle..."
Definetely check that Groklaw link for more information. I'm just a programmer, so really, I don't know what I'm talking about. But the buyback program seems like a good place to start.
From my own observations, it seems people have an even harder time making diagrams of their software than they do just writing the software. Why, I have a very talented programmer right across the hall from me who struggles to even make a flowchart. Despite that fact, his programs are very well designed.
'Course, that's just one perspective. Maybe visual programming is easier for some or whatnot.
You think REXX is old? You should meet the CLIST I just wrote. Mostly it hobbles around TSO, complaining about these darned REXX kiddies (no respect, you know?), and makes outrageous claims -like it invented the ampersand.
Or maybe it just concatenates my CLIST dataset into my SYSPROC DD.
Anyway, its old. And yes, I do work for the government. REXX is bleeding edge technology here, baby!
To me it seems that the most suspicious piece of evidence is that SCO fell victim to a SYN attack. Based off information I've read, most systems (operating systems, routers, firewalls, etc.) should be protected from this type of attack by now.
Now, I'm no security expert. So my question is this - is it true that most systems should not be vulnerable to this type of attack? Or is that, in some manner, misinformation?
Seems like this is a risk - a calculated risk - that everyone incharge of some IT decision takes and has taken for years now. We see it happen with certain standards all the time. A few solutions rise to meet a certain problem. Some succeed, some don't. That's why careful evaluation of adopting anything is necessary. You don't want to go one way while everyone else is going another.
NIST does this sort of evaluation on standards all the time with its Application Portability Profile.
Basically, I don't see how this "forking" is really something exclusive to open source. Society, as a whole, forks all the time. Which forks will be successful isn't without some level of predictability, however.
Article text follows:
Source Claims SCO Will Sue Google
Industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft
November 26, 2003
Summary
A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes.
By Maureen O'Gara
Page 1 of 1
A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes.
Last week SCO threatened to make an example of a big-time Linux user that hadn't paid SCO the license fees it's demanding and take it to court for copyright infringement.
SCO has not disclosed the identity of its mark and SCO CEO Darl McBride claimed Tuesday that a decision on what company to target wasn't final yet. He said SCO and its lawyers were working with "a short list" of "seven or eight" names.
McBride declined to say whether Google's name was on it, but another knowledgeable source said it was.
SCO said last week that it would sue within 90 days. The Linux community thinks SCO's bluffing and won't make its self-imposed February 17 deadline. McBride said he'd like to play that number in Vegas.
The idea behind the suit is obviously to make all major Linux users tractable and make them reach for their checkbooks.
If it turns out to be Google, it's a provocative choice.
It's a household name.
It's said to have a Linux server farm of some 10,000 of servers, worth, oh, $7 million to SCO as long as SCO's current cut-rate license fees maintain.
It's reportedly putting together a positively glorious IPO that could supposedly be worth $15 billion-$25 billion, a feat unmatched in the last two decades despite Tulipmania.
And Microsoft, which has been accused of conniving with SCO in its march against Linux, is slated to enter the search market and compete against Google. The widgetry, which is supposed to retrieve all kinds of file types, both structured and unstructured, and all kinds of storage systems, beginning with the user's own drive, will be integrated into its operating systems like the anticipated Longhorn.
Meanwhile, industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft.
Here are some links to other projects that have similar goals - examining expansion of the universe, faraway objects, etc. They also have sophisticated infrared imaging capabilities. The James Webb Space Telescope (formerly Next Generation Space Telescope) is the successor to Hubble, and Supernova/Acceleration Probe which, from what I remember, locates potential supernovae by examining data taken at fixed ground locations then points an orbiting camera at the calculated location to collect radiation data. Really interesting stuff!
Space is not cold enough to cool down the elements surrounding the camera so that they are essentially "invisible" to it. If you need evidence, take a look at what happened when the cooling on Hubble's IR cam (NICMOS) ran out prematurely. NICMOS was completely useless until it was serviced rather recently, because it was constantly saturated by the infrared light emitted from the surrounding instrumentation.
I'm no physicist, so I may not have the terms right in my explanation, but you definetely need cooling for IR cams in space. NICMOS will prove it to you.
...tracking and rating contributors' social habits and determining "people who the system has shown to have value." What about the people who don't have value?! Are people who haven't ever posted to a newsgroup without value?! "You have no value to the collective. You will not be assimilated. You will be melted down and used for gear oil." I'm going to go join some newsgroups....