Here is the short version. Novell contracted with SCO to manage the UNIX licensing, but did not transfer the ownership of the Copyrights. This is disputed by SCO. Part of that agreement, according to SCO, was that Novell would continue to sell it's existing line of OS products. This is not competing since they are handled by the license agreement and SCO would get a pittance for each copy sold by Novell. SCO says that Linux violates this because they don't get any money from Novell selling Linux because it's not part of the license agreement, therefore competing.
They also claim that parts of UNIX were misappropriated into Linux, therefore they should get ownership of those parts also, but that is a seperate part of the complaint
SCO's back in the news. I've missed my SCO fix lately. This manouver looks pretty much as dumb as the ones in the past. I give them 3 weeks before they backpedal on the new, new ammended claims.
I know I'm late and nitpicking, but the root and prefix are greek, not latin. Also, the most literal translation of the original "atheos" is "without god(s)"
What is a "proper sense"? Do you mean the literal translation of a word from it's original language to the language being spoken? The definition of a word is exactly that, what people define as the meaning of the word. Words can change meaning over time. The study of this is called etymology. By the way, since the prefix a- in greek actually has several meanings when translated, who gets to pick which one to use for your "proper sense"?
You are attempting to place a binary choice where there is none. It's along the lines of "either you're with us, or aginst us." No, we don't have to have a belief in god/s or a belief in no god/s. I have no belief in either of those positions. I do not know if they are correct, I do not believe either of your choices are correct, and I don't care if they are correct. There may be a god/s and there may not. Does that make me a theisic atheist, or an atheistic theist?
No. That is usually done with a caustic material like washing soda (sodium carbonate, not to be confused with sodium bicarbonate). The washing soda turns the fats into old fashoned soap, which is, ta da, a surficant. So you have a surficant in the detergent, and make a very small amount of other surficants with the washing soda in the detergent.
Hell, they codified this in a national pasttime. I believe the goal of Australian Rules Football is to drink a lot of beer, and then perpetrate as much mayhem as possible on the opposing team members, especially by whacking them in the head with their elbows. I saw more broken jaws when I used to follow that sport than anywhere else.
Well, not really just a water softener. It's usually mostly a surficant. It lowers the surface tension of the water which lets it get into even smaller crevices between the threads. This allows the dirt to be either disolved or simply washed away to be suspended in the water. A water softer is usually added because the minerals in hard water can keep the surficants from functioning well.
And if the carriers downstream from your ISP discriminate? Having an ISP that doesn't discriminate on their network won't matter much if the carriers and ISP on the route to server/peer side of your connection do.
Well, the image paradigm is closer than the DVD burner examples since the DVD examples have to work with another standard, the DVD standard. It doesn't matter how they go about the encoding and burning, when it's all over it has to read in a bog standard DVD player. The image encoding is better example. When it is all said and done, neither standard will be able to be read by a reader for the other standard. They will all be read by some programs because those apps will have readers for all of the standards. Both standards will do what the authors and readers want, and they don't care what happens under the hood to get to that point. Whether it is a.sxw or a microsoft derived open standard won't matter one bit to them.
As long as the standards are open to all to use, it doesn't matter if there are one or one hundred, anyone can make it so their application can handle them.
No. Competing standards is not a problem. There are a dozen ways to encode and compress images. GIF, TIFF, JPEG, bitmap, and many more. Having several standards that do the same thing isn't a problem, the problem is when players in the game decide to extend the standard without making those extensions part of the standard, and available to the other players, or just not follow the standards while claiming that they do.
Does that make the market inefficient? Yes. Because "the market", as you refer to the millions of individuals and institutions that trade, has no idea if they will be right in the future, they just hope fervently that they will be. How in the world do you think bubbles evolve? I assume there are no undervalued stocks where you live?
Bullshit. I arrived at work as per my employment agreement. I am NOT tresspassing. If they request me to leave, I leave. No problem. I will inform the HR person of the personal items that I have on their property and wait for my escort out. Still not tresspassing. After I leave I contact the HR department concerning when and where I can regain possesion of my personal belongings. At that point, either they are professional and agree to meet me at some place and return my property, or they get a lawsuit even if it costs several times the value of the items. Still no tresspass. Go figure. If they ask you to leave, by law they have to give you a reasonable chance to leave before it is tresspass. Naturally, a judge gets to decide what was reasonable.
Absolutly correct. The supplier can always manipulate the price by causing an artificial shortage of the product.
If my friend Tony buys a song from a new band at $.25 and three months later I decide to go buy it, but the price has risen to $1.98 because it's popular, I will call up Tony and get a copy from him. For FREE. Simple economics.;)
Actually, I would simply not get a copy from any source. But regardless the "record company" won't get a penny from me. If I go to iTunes, or Rhapsody, or any other online music distributor and the price is too high for a song I want, I won't purchase it. If I get annoyed by the prices more than a few times, I will simply go elsewhere, or do without.
You have a constitutional right to say them. Even with the obscenities. No one, not Marquette University, or Slashdot, or your corner bar are constitutionaly obligated to give you a forum in which to express that speech. That is not censorship, or retaliation, it's their first amendment right to express their opinion that they don't like what you said.
Well, they hype Black Friday to death, and it is usually the third or fourth biggest sales day of the year by dollar value. Historically, the Saturday before Christmas is the largest sales day with the Sunday before, and the second Saturday before being larger than Black Friday.
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Maybe the judge has an appreciation for clowns, and wants to keep these around since they are so entertaining.
Here is the short version. Novell contracted with SCO to manage the UNIX licensing, but did not transfer the ownership of the Copyrights. This is disputed by SCO. Part of that agreement, according to SCO, was that Novell would continue to sell it's existing line of OS products. This is not competing since they are handled by the license agreement and SCO would get a pittance for each copy sold by Novell. SCO says that Linux violates this because they don't get any money from Novell selling Linux because it's not part of the license agreement, therefore competing.
They also claim that parts of UNIX were misappropriated into Linux, therefore they should get ownership of those parts also, but that is a seperate part of the complaint
SCO's back in the news. I've missed my SCO fix lately. This manouver looks pretty much as dumb as the ones in the past. I give them 3 weeks before they backpedal on the new, new ammended claims.
I know I'm late and nitpicking, but the root and prefix are greek, not latin. Also, the most literal translation of the original "atheos" is "without god(s)"
What is a "proper sense"? Do you mean the literal translation of a word from it's original language to the language being spoken? The definition of a word is exactly that, what people define as the meaning of the word. Words can change meaning over time. The study of this is called etymology. By the way, since the prefix a- in greek actually has several meanings when translated, who gets to pick which one to use for your "proper sense"?
You are attempting to place a binary choice where there is none. It's along the lines of "either you're with us, or aginst us." No, we don't have to have a belief in god/s or a belief in no god/s. I have no belief in either of those positions. I do not know if they are correct, I do not believe either of your choices are correct, and I don't care if they are correct. There may be a god/s and there may not. Does that make me a theisic atheist, or an atheistic theist?
Well, according to some of the canibals, humans are delicious also.
Because it make him feel special. All warm and tingly.
No. That is usually done with a caustic material like washing soda (sodium carbonate, not to be confused with sodium bicarbonate). The washing soda turns the fats into old fashoned soap, which is, ta da, a surficant. So you have a surficant in the detergent, and make a very small amount of other surficants with the washing soda in the detergent.
Hell, they codified this in a national pasttime. I believe the goal of Australian Rules Football is to drink a lot of beer, and then perpetrate as much mayhem as possible on the opposing team members, especially by whacking them in the head with their elbows. I saw more broken jaws when I used to follow that sport than anywhere else.
Well, not really just a water softener. It's usually mostly a surficant. It lowers the surface tension of the water which lets it get into even smaller crevices between the threads. This allows the dirt to be either disolved or simply washed away to be suspended in the water. A water softer is usually added because the minerals in hard water can keep the surficants from functioning well.
And if the carriers downstream from your ISP discriminate? Having an ISP that doesn't discriminate on their network won't matter much if the carriers and ISP on the route to server/peer side of your connection do.
Well, the image paradigm is closer than the DVD burner examples since the DVD examples have to work with another standard, the DVD standard. It doesn't matter how they go about the encoding and burning, when it's all over it has to read in a bog standard DVD player. The image encoding is better example. When it is all said and done, neither standard will be able to be read by a reader for the other standard. They will all be read by some programs because those apps will have readers for all of the standards. Both standards will do what the authors and readers want, and they don't care what happens under the hood to get to that point. Whether it is a .sxw or a microsoft derived open standard won't matter one bit to them.
As long as the standards are open to all to use, it doesn't matter if there are one or one hundred, anyone can make it so their application can handle them.
No. Competing standards is not a problem. There are a dozen ways to encode and compress images. GIF, TIFF, JPEG, bitmap, and many more. Having several standards that do the same thing isn't a problem, the problem is when players in the game decide to extend the standard without making those extensions part of the standard, and available to the other players, or just not follow the standards while claiming that they do.
You have no idea how stocks, mutual funds, holding comapanies, and other financial instruments work do you?
According to your logic GE, AT&T and Ford should all have ceased to exist many, many, years ago when their powerful founders died or left the board.
Does that make the market inefficient? Yes. Because "the market", as you refer to the millions of individuals and institutions that trade, has no idea if they will be right in the future, they just hope fervently that they will be. How in the world do you think bubbles evolve? I assume there are no undervalued stocks where you live?
Why will it crash when he goes? Are all of the underlying companies/stocks going to become valueless at his death?
You realize that explaining the joke is a mortal sin, do you not? Ju kill de funnay. See you in hell!
Use your indoor type case young man.
Bullshit. I arrived at work as per my employment agreement. I am NOT tresspassing. If they request me to leave, I leave. No problem. I will inform the HR person of the personal items that I have on their property and wait for my escort out. Still not tresspassing. After I leave I contact the HR department concerning when and where I can regain possesion of my personal belongings. At that point, either they are professional and agree to meet me at some place and return my property, or they get a lawsuit even if it costs several times the value of the items. Still no tresspass. Go figure. If they ask you to leave, by law they have to give you a reasonable chance to leave before it is tresspass. Naturally, a judge gets to decide what was reasonable.
Absolutly correct. The supplier can always manipulate the price by causing an artificial shortage of the product.
;)
If my friend Tony buys a song from a new band at $.25 and three months later I decide to go buy it, but the price has risen to $1.98 because it's popular, I will call up Tony and get a copy from him. For FREE. Simple economics.
Actually, I would simply not get a copy from any source. But regardless the "record company" won't get a penny from me. If I go to iTunes, or Rhapsody, or any other online music distributor and the price is too high for a song I want, I won't purchase it. If I get annoyed by the prices more than a few times, I will simply go elsewhere, or do without.
You have a constitutional right to say them. Even with the obscenities. No one, not Marquette University, or Slashdot, or your corner bar are constitutionaly obligated to give you a forum in which to express that speech. That is not censorship, or retaliation, it's their first amendment right to express their opinion that they don't like what you said.
Better get two monkeys. A well fed rabbit can make a LOT of ammo.
well, if the ,ummm, resturant(?!?!) in question is in the U.S., a cell jammer would be illegal unless the F.C.C has changed the rules recently.
Well, they hype Black Friday to death, and it is usually the third or fourth biggest sales day of the year by dollar value. Historically, the Saturday before Christmas is the largest sales day with the Sunday before, and the second Saturday before being larger than Black Friday.