The SCO battle must be taken to the front on all frontiers, future, present, and past! And don't you think we haven't noticed those unlicensed abacuses...
Sir, if you do not believe we intend to use the temporal rift theory, one of many such weapons in our powerful legal arsenal, you are not a well man.
That we've lost the leader of our legal team is conjecture and fallacy -- David Boies has been sent back to battle the first offender. The very first thief of SCO's mighty library of intellectual property. The next suit, and first in the new time line, will be filed against none other than Charles Babbage, your honour. Charles Babbage and his fabulous counting machines will fall like so many loose gears in the cuckoo clock that is the world of SCO IP.
I'm sorry my friend... I'm sorry, sir... but do you see Bill walking funny? It's time to lay off the funny, sir. It's time for serious grown-up things. Do you see Bill walking funny, and do you see me walking funny? We've taken the anal pledge, my friend. The anal pledge.
Bill and I are the best kind of business partners. When people ask me, "Is SCO in bed with Microsoft?" I give them my special executive Goatse.cx link. "Yes sir," I say proudly, "Yes sir, I am, and that man was no fudge-virgin, your honour. No sir, he was not. I tasted Stacker and Bungee on his person."
While ZDNet is speculating, I thought you might like to hear of the situation from the horse's mouth. Hi, I'm Darl McBride. You might know me from lawsuits such as "IBM is spying on our children" and "you bastards used the whole alphabet for ls options too!"
Now, we can all agree that XFS is based on our own filesystem, famous for the stability and reliability that give you excellent uptimes when fsck time is included in that uptime measure. You don't get that kind of techonolgy for free, and it doesn't simply <fingerquote> evoooollllve </fingerquote> on its own. That SGI stole and released this is not up for debate. But that piece of invaluable IP isn't the issue here, really.
Where SGI has really chuffed our muffins is in having the gall to steal our valuable "long-run" technology. By only executing on outdated hardware, we've been able to keep system procurement prices down while effortlessly sustaining the user's reading and coffee time. In an attempt to muscle in on our territory however, SGI have chosen to stay the course with MIPS CPUs and confusingly outdated IRIX. Now, I know that the R5000 was once state of the art and all that, but the damned things are shipping in Playstation 2s. This, while SGI have the gall to tell customers that these are usable for graphics workstations.
Be the judge and jury on this one, my friends. Why would SGI opt to use this kind of dated processor and leaden IRX OS unless they too were trying to implement our patented "long-run" technology? How long before SGI manages to extend itself into the Linux culture; to prevent system upgrades and encourage ass backward architectures there as well? Soon, our "long-run" technology will be in use by customers the world over, and they will not be paying SCO's investors one penny, your honour.
Your honour -- Not One Penny.
Join the good fight. The good fight is the right fight. God has given me a mission, and my investors call me to it. God talks to me nightly. We are talking about my second home here, and I'll be damned if SGI is going to take that away. We are talking about stockholder value, precariously balanced atop press releases, IP confusion, lottery players, and the belief each buyer shares that there will be one more fool beyond him. We are talking about SCO's God-given right to go where no man has gone before, your honour.
Sir, we are talking about Canadian computers only. Canadian computers only, sir. Communism, socialized medicine, one queen and many pretenders to the throne, sir. Sir, I do not believe in what you say, sir. There is no reason to make threats on the poster's life, sir, thinking or not. Sir, I have trouble seeing as you see, sir. Sir, I have trouble seeing as you see!
Sir, I would submit that it is not healthy to see everything through a furry lens. Sir, it is not healthy, sir.
What you need, Baloo, what you need, sir, is to broaden your horizons. I consider you a friend, sir. Sir, you are my friend. But you need to broaden your horizons, sir -- you need to broaden your horizons.
Perhaps explore Christian furrydom, or furry shamanism, sir. Sir, either would make you complete in my book, sir.
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If by "subset," you mean "a handful of functions and a cfront-like front to the J# compiler and JVM," then you are correct sir. It's dot Net in name alone.
I fail to see how this Mac hopes to compete with the beauty of a Windows machine.
Perhaps nobody told these people they could have a UnixWare license and half a year's support for the cost of that G5 machine. And UnixWare PC hardware is cheaper than Windows and Mac hardware both, since it only runs on older hardware.
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The incarnation of the +2 Darl McBride Troll, now brought to life by spouting garbage to gullible moderators, and now ready to SWALLOW you WHOLE, arr num num num!
If you really want to capture their imaginations, keep it light. Show a little bit of simple source code. Make it basic if you like. But intersperse that with presentations of what software can do. Mention video games and show video if you're able. Explain just a brief smidgen of code, such as a string copy operation, then tell how that can be used to find files, how those files can be combined to tell a computer how to draw and save drawings to a file, then how those files can be put together to make a movie - boom! You know all about a piece of what made (fill in a hot computer animated movie) possible!
From there, explain that it's all building blocks. Hundreds, thousands, millions of tiny little pieces like that which all work together. Your presentation can be mostly handwaving and neat video clips or pictures. Just understanding that there are little details which add up to wonderful things is enough to capture their imaginations.
And of course, if they ask how they can do it too, mention the wonderful learning opportunities that can begin with learning Linux^W UnixWare, only $1399 a seat. Compiler extra.
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The Software Development Times ran an article which mentioned many of the perceived advantages of.NET, and Kuro5hin ran a story which did just the opposite.:)
Dot Net doesn't look like a developer panacea just yet. If Sun keeps the enhancements coming and works to bring the development environment up to Visual Studio's standards (Yes, VS has its problems, but it has a lot of unique tools, like compile-and-continue, which save hours!), Java may well survive.
Dot Net is also anything but small. It's possible to create ROMmable Java applications in just a couple megs of flash memory. On the other hand, there's no such thing as embedded dot Net just yet. And if they continue with the execution model they've currently got, any piece of code is going to net a ROM many times larger than what's possible with Java. Either way, I'll want $699 for my fp, beeyotch.
If this interests you, also check out CincyStreet.com. They have an index with dozens and dozens of cameras from many different US cities.
I discovered this a short while ago myself, and was surprised to find one within just half a mile of my own home, just off a street on my regular commute. I come within a hair's breadth of appearing on camera every morning, and I never knew it.
I keep a couple locations on shortcuts, and sometimes I check out the sunrise in other states over my morning coffee.
In all seriousness, ask around in the community and find a good shop. Any good biker can do most everything on his own, but some things are just easier with the right tools.
No matter how well you think you know the engine, you'll always learn a few things by working with someone else as well. There's a real hacking quality to tuning a bike, and the benefits you get crom community are no different there either.
I mostly agree with you. I think that the hate crime category is mostly a tool to raise the awareness of the problem, and it has a lot of value there. I'm not sure I've heard of anyone actually being prosecuted more harshly for the crime falling in the hate crime category, but it's good that it's at least brought into the court discussion at a time where the perpetrator is receptive to discussions about his future.
Still, I wish I could leverage this to turn that $3 billion into $5 billion. Do you think IBM might be flaunting our license merely because we're mormons?
The biggest advantage, partly addressed in the article, is that you can send non-living cargo up with a much, much, much hotter burn. The shuttle could accelerate many times faster than it does if the G force for the humans inside weren't an issue.
Experiments have been done with animals, accelerating them more quickly by suspending them in liquids and otherwise distributing the G forces, but the advances in this area of research have been slow and often times erratic. Monkeys have seemed fine after the research, only to show internal damage months or even years later.
That the idea of pre-shipping cargo is being taken seriously is a very, very exciting thing!
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God knows we've got enough of these UnixWare CDs still sitting around. I wonder if they'll work...
And I call you on my patent for generally unfunny posting. A stalemate, sir -- a stalemate.
You are a scholar and a gentleman, and I appreciate your openness. Thumbs up in my book, and I wish others were half as brave with their convictions.
This is the secret to saving up points for later trolling at +2, my friend. This is the secret, my friend.
The SCO battle must be taken to the front on all frontiers, future, present, and past! And don't you think we haven't noticed those unlicensed abacuses...
Sir, I will have you leave my mother out of this!
That we've lost the leader of our legal team is conjecture and fallacy -- David Boies has been sent back to battle the first offender. The very first thief of SCO's mighty library of intellectual property. The next suit, and first in the new time line, will be filed against none other than Charles Babbage, your honour. Charles Babbage and his fabulous counting machines will fall like so many loose gears in the cuckoo clock that is the world of SCO IP.
Bill and I are the best kind of business partners. When people ask me, "Is SCO in bed with Microsoft?" I give them my special executive Goatse.cx link. "Yes sir," I say proudly, "Yes sir, I am, and that man was no fudge-virgin, your honour. No sir, he was not. I tasted Stacker and Bungee on his person."
Hi, I'm Darl McBride. You might know me from lawsuits such as, "I'm the real father of Tove's children," and "McBride sues his own pants off."
Now, we can all agree that XFS is based on our own filesystem, famous for the stability and reliability that give you excellent uptimes when fsck time is included in that uptime measure. You don't get that kind of techonolgy for free, and it doesn't simply <fingerquote> evoooollllve </fingerquote> on its own. That SGI stole and released this is not up for debate. But that piece of invaluable IP isn't the issue here, really.
Where SGI has really chuffed our muffins is in having the gall to steal our valuable "long-run" technology. By only executing on outdated hardware, we've been able to keep system procurement prices down while effortlessly sustaining the user's reading and coffee time. In an attempt to muscle in on our territory however, SGI have chosen to stay the course with MIPS CPUs and confusingly outdated IRIX. Now, I know that the R5000 was once state of the art and all that, but the damned things are shipping in Playstation 2s. This, while SGI have the gall to tell customers that these are usable for graphics workstations.
Be the judge and jury on this one, my friends. Why would SGI opt to use this kind of dated processor and leaden IRX OS unless they too were trying to implement our patented "long-run" technology? How long before SGI manages to extend itself into the Linux culture; to prevent system upgrades and encourage ass backward architectures there as well? Soon, our "long-run" technology will be in use by customers the world over, and they will not be paying SCO's investors one penny, your honour.
Your honour -- Not One Penny.
Join the good fight. The good fight is the right fight. God has given me a mission, and my investors call me to it. God talks to me nightly. We are talking about my second home here, and I'll be damned if SGI is going to take that away. We are talking about stockholder value, precariously balanced atop press releases, IP confusion, lottery players, and the belief each buyer shares that there will be one more fool beyond him. We are talking about SCO's God-given right to go where no man has gone before, your honour.
One to beam up, Scotty.
Sir, we are talking about Canadian computers only. Canadian computers only, sir. Communism, socialized medicine, one queen and many pretenders to the throne, sir. Sir, I do not believe in what you say, sir. There is no reason to make threats on the poster's life, sir, thinking or not. Sir, I have trouble seeing as you see, sir. Sir, I have trouble seeing as you see!
What you need, Baloo, what you need, sir, is to broaden your horizons. I consider you a friend, sir. Sir, you are my friend. But you need to broaden your horizons, sir -- you need to broaden your horizons.
Perhaps explore Christian furrydom, or furry shamanism, sir. Sir, either would make you complete in my book, sir.
If by "subset," you mean "a handful of functions and a cfront-like front to the J# compiler and JVM," then you are correct sir. It's dot Net in name alone.
Perhaps nobody told these people they could have a UnixWare license and half a year's support for the cost of that G5 machine. And UnixWare PC hardware is cheaper than Windows and Mac hardware both, since it only runs on older hardware.
I live!@!!1! You're right! .NET is great!!!
Do not fret. Girls will not always fear you, and many are too fat to run.
Please call our salespeople so they can tell you they don't yet know how to sell a troll license.
From there, explain that it's all building blocks. Hundreds, thousands, millions of tiny little pieces like that which all work together. Your presentation can be mostly handwaving and neat video clips or pictures. Just understanding that there are little details which add up to wonderful things is enough to capture their imaginations.
And of course, if they ask how they can do it too, mention the wonderful learning opportunities that can begin with learning Linux^W UnixWare, only $1399 a seat. Compiler extra.
Dot Net doesn't look like a developer panacea just yet. If Sun keeps the enhancements coming and works to bring the development environment up to Visual Studio's standards (Yes, VS has its problems, but it has a lot of unique tools, like compile-and-continue, which save hours!), Java may well survive.
Dot Net is also anything but small. It's possible to create ROMmable Java applications in just a couple megs of flash memory. On the other hand, there's no such thing as embedded dot Net just yet. And if they continue with the execution model they've currently got, any piece of code is going to net a ROM many times larger than what's possible with Java. Either way, I'll want $699 for my fp, beeyotch.
I discovered this a short while ago myself, and was surprised to find one within just half a mile of my own home, just off a street on my regular commute. I come within a hair's breadth of appearing on camera every morning, and I never knew it.
I keep a couple locations on shortcuts, and sometimes I check out the sunrise in other states over my morning coffee.
p.s. You owe me $699, you thieving bastard. I'm invoicing Slashdot on your behalf.
No matter how well you think you know the engine, you'll always learn a few things by working with someone else as well. There's a real hacking quality to tuning a bike, and the benefits you get crom community are no different there either.
Still, I wish I could leverage this to turn that $3 billion into $5 billion. Do you think IBM might be flaunting our license merely because we're mormons?
Silly old bear.
Experiments have been done with animals, accelerating them more quickly by suspending them in liquids and otherwise distributing the G forces, but the advances in this area of research have been slow and often times erratic. Monkeys have seemed fine after the research, only to show internal damage months or even years later.
That the idea of pre-shipping cargo is being taken seriously is a very, very exciting thing!