"IBM stole the SCO code and copy-pasted it into Linux, that's what."
Sorry, but thats the other lawsuit. This one has nothing to do with IBM. It's between Novell and SCO Group. However the lawyer insisted on throwing Linux into the mix for publicity reasons <speculation type='strong'>required by contract with microsoft maybe?</speculation>
lol. i wonder if their system admins will notice a peculiarity in their log files of people trying to access http://www.sco.com/are/smoking/crack/ and get a decent laugh out of it.
said Mark Heise, partner, Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP. "We encourage the public and commercial Linux users to read the Asset Purchase Agreement from 1995 (including Attachment E found at www.sco.com/novell) and Amendment 2 so they can see for themselves that SCO owns the copyrights to UNIX and UnixWare."
What does a copyright violation case between Novell and SCO have to do with Linux?...Besides the fact that Novell just bought into the Linux sector with it's purchase of SuSE. This debate apparently stems from something well before Novells involvement with Linux.
Save it for the judge pall, I know we slashdotten have uber legal skills, but thank your lucky stars that it won't be up to us.
Seriously though, why point out Linux users specifically? Why not just leave it at "public" instead of "public and... "
SCO and lawyerfriends are now just perpetuating a flame war.
they might be around a while. which is why I plan on starting a company called SCOware, which will sell tupperware like containers with penguins embossed in their lids. I will market them as the best containers to hold vapor. Then when SCO comes by to sue me for copyright infringement or anything else, i'll countersue for making the public think I have something to do with SCO the "software company". surely it's libel, defamation of character, or something! I mean, sheesh, if the lawsuit brought upon me by SCO makes people think I ever did business with SCO, then I'd lose business.
SCOware Vaporware. "Fill 'er up with a Gallon o' Steam!"(tm)
Novell's false and misleading representations that it owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights has caused SCO irreparable harm to its copyrights, its business, and its reputation.
aaahahhahahahahaha. *breath* aahehehehahahehe
yeah sure, Novell was the cause of the irreparable harm! ahahahhahahahe!
If this sort of thing makes its way into scanners, my father will lose a great deal of income.
don't let a monkey peel a banana for you or you'll end up without a banana. i'm not sure what i mean by that, though i have some idea. but more than anything i just wanted to mention monkeys and bananas.
just like you wouldn't use an elephant to crack open your peanuts..
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Yeah, I can sure download it but it refuses to run my copy of Duke Nukem Forever. So what's the point?
Really? I thought it was an attempt to be lame. Just say "communities" and be done with it all at once. We'd understand that there might be one or more.
why not do something even more lame and say community{0,}. Make the paragraph even visually obscure and less readable.
I agree, and to add to that, relying on a piece of software that was developed to be the target of a marketing campaign is a sketchy at best. It's like believing the product labels for greasy potato chips that say "Less Fat!" then wondering why you have all this fat attached to your body all of the sudden, or you're grasping your heart in pain. Government regulations were made to clarify such labels. Which isn't to say everything needs government regulations, but i think the above was a good use for them.
As for email attachments, there is no sane reason why clicking on one should run it. the only thing an email program should allow a person to do with an attachment is save it, and make the user assign a program to open it up with (making the default action of "double clicking" to be "open with X program" instead of "try to run this program"). That way if you try to "double click" what you thought was a.gif but it's really an executable, your image viewer start up and will try to open an image and fail, instead of executing arbitrary code.
I can't forget about fact that a spreadsheet or word processing document can harm my system. It's redamndiculous. why would Joe User ever think that it could happen and be relied upon to make sure it doesn't? Software companies need to take so much more responsibility.
In November, the National Science Foundation granted three university researchers $750,000 to find the location and number of such weak links within the information infrastructure.
Sure, but if I did an independent study I'd be thrown in jail under the Patriot Act and no one would hear from me again.
and giving the bonus to a person in charge of layoffs isn't a conflict of interest.
"hey, i get $,$$$,$$$ if i lay off all these people! Let's do it!" -versus- "Joe Shmoe gets $,$$$,$$$ if we lay of all these people, lets think about it for a little while"
What irreversible health risks are there besides radiation from thinner atmosphere, and would the first generation of Mars born children adapt to not have these?
something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests
I may be wrong, but weren't darwin's theories used by the "upper class" as an excuse to why they are better than the "lower class". Something to the effect of "we have evolved and you have not, so we deserve all these riches and you deserve nothing." I wish i still had my history notes. In anycase, vieled references to Darwin such as this "Darwinian reference architectures" has since left me skeptical about the persons motives.
Why is it that Americans seem to think it "doesn't count" unless you spend time in prison. Is prison at all sucessful in rehabilitiation especially in the case of white collar crimes? No, so what you're suggesting is yet another waste of everyone else's money.
No, probably not effective. But say they lose this battle. Is letting them run a different company, based on the same morally flawed foundations any good for the economy?
Jailed, maybe not. Fined heavily, as a person and not a corporation, maybe. Psyhcologically analyzed after this whole mess? I think so. They have probably lied so much that they don't know what is real anymore.
me too, but it's all about branding. you don't buy MS products because they're good, you buy them because they're well known
So how many people will probably see episode 3 even though 1 and 2 sucked? I probably will. How many will see 7, 8, and 9? i might, might not... I feel 6 wrapped things up enough that I wouldn't be needing to see 7, 8, or 9 to satiate my curiosity. but Star Wars is a popular brand, so a lot of people will see them.
"With the advent of NAT and the use of non-routable IP addresses to handle LANs, the need for every device to have a routable address becomes lessened."
Oh boy, here we go again.
"Case 5: Netscape 4.x vs Mozilla I have a 450 MHz AMD K6-II workstation with 512 MB RAM..."
I call B.S. I ran Mozilla on a Pentium 350MHz with 128MB RAM without a problem. Mind you, I was running Linux+GNOME. The article doesn't specify what platform the author was using.
"Case 6: HTML 4 vs XHTML + CSS + XML + XSL + XQuery + XPath + XLink +... why they didn't add more types to the INPUT form tags to express different types - for example, a DATE attribute, or INTEGER, DOUBLE, or whatever... This would get rid of so much of the headache involved with parsing out this stuff on the server side."
So you want to simplify HTML by adding a type system? Baahahaha. Ok, sorry. That laugh wasn't entirely called for. However, no one is saying that you have to use or know about XQuery, Xpath, XML, etc. Use what gets your job done. As far as CSS in HTML, it's not a big deal. You don't really have to even have anything special. so you learn a few style things like <span style="color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;">it's not a big deal.
"But the direction we're going in, the HTML books have just become thicker and thicker over the last few years. And still, all most people really want to do is browse the web..."
If all you want to do is browse the web, what are you doing with an HTML book? If you want to write a 1995 web page, you can still do it using only <p>,</p>,<br>,<a> and <img> tags if you want.
"Case 7: Windows 2000 vs Windows XP vs Server 2003"
All the other arguments might go somewhere, but arguing about this to MS will do nothing. They have a bottom line to maintain. Releasing new versions, claiming a rewrite will improve things is neccesary for them to make money.
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"IBM stole the SCO code and copy-pasted it into Linux, that's what."
Sorry, but thats the other lawsuit. This one has nothing to do with IBM. It's between Novell and SCO Group. However the lawyer insisted on throwing Linux into the mix for publicity reasons <speculation type='strong'>required by contract with microsoft maybe?</speculation>
lol. i wonder if their system admins will notice a peculiarity in their log files of people trying to access http://www.sco.com/are/smoking/crack/ and get a decent laugh out of it.
said Mark Heise, partner, Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP. "We encourage the public and commercial Linux users to read the Asset Purchase Agreement from 1995 (including Attachment E found at www.sco.com/novell) and Amendment 2 so they can see for themselves that SCO owns the copyrights to UNIX and UnixWare."
...Besides the fact that Novell just bought into the Linux sector with it's purchase of SuSE. This debate apparently stems from something well before Novells involvement with Linux.
What does a copyright violation case between Novell and SCO have to do with Linux?
Save it for the judge pall, I know we slashdotten have uber legal skills, but thank your lucky stars that it won't be up to us.
Seriously though, why point out Linux users specifically? Why not just leave it at "public" instead of "public and... "
SCO and lawyerfriends are now just perpetuating a flame war.
they might be around a while. which is why I plan on starting a company called SCOware, which will sell tupperware like containers with penguins embossed in their lids. I will market them as the best containers to hold vapor. Then when SCO comes by to sue me for copyright infringement or anything else, i'll countersue for making the public think I have something to do with SCO the "software company". surely it's libel, defamation of character, or something! I mean, sheesh, if the lawsuit brought upon me by SCO makes people think I ever did business with SCO, then I'd lose business.
SCOware Vaporware. "Fill 'er up with a Gallon o' Steam!"(tm)
sometime around last may, judging by the stock graphs
Novell's false and misleading representations that it owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights has caused SCO irreparable harm to its copyrights, its business, and its reputation.
aaahahhahahahahaha. *breath* aahehehehahahehe
yeah sure, Novell was the cause of the irreparable harm! ahahahhahahahe!
just in time for the State of the Union address tonight!
Even the rounds of applaus would trigger the glasses.
If this sort of thing makes its way into scanners, my father will lose a great deal of income.
don't let a monkey peel a banana for you or you'll end up without a banana. i'm not sure what i mean by that, though i have some idea. but more than anything i just wanted to mention monkeys and bananas.
just like you wouldn't use an elephant to crack open your peanuts..
Yeah, I can sure download it but it refuses to run my copy of Duke Nukem Forever. So what's the point?
fun is what gets people hooked. throughout history, you will see examples of where use was overshadowed and defeated by fun.
Really? I thought it was an attempt to be lame. Just say "communities" and be done with it all at once. We'd understand that there might be one or more.
;)
why not do something even more lame and say community{0,}. Make the paragraph even visually obscure and less readable.
dumb BSD zealots
I agree, and to add to that, relying on a piece of software that was developed to be the target of a marketing campaign is a sketchy at best. It's like believing the product labels for greasy potato chips that say "Less Fat!" then wondering why you have all this fat attached to your body all of the sudden, or you're grasping your heart in pain. Government regulations were made to clarify such labels. Which isn't to say everything needs government regulations, but i think the above was a good use for them.
.gif but it's really an executable, your image viewer start up and will try to open an image and fail, instead of executing arbitrary code.
As for email attachments, there is no sane reason why clicking on one should run it. the only thing an email program should allow a person to do with an attachment is save it, and make the user assign a program to open it up with (making the default action of "double clicking" to be "open with X program" instead of "try to run this program"). That way if you try to "double click" what you thought was a
I can't forget about fact that a spreadsheet or word processing document can harm my system. It's redamndiculous. why would Joe User ever think that it could happen and be relied upon to make sure it doesn't? Software companies need to take so much more responsibility.
In November, the National Science Foundation granted three university researchers $750,000 to find the location and number of such weak links within the information infrastructure.
Sure, but if I did an independent study I'd be thrown in jail under the Patriot Act and no one would hear from me again.
and giving the bonus to a person in charge of layoffs isn't a conflict of interest.
"hey, i get $,$$$,$$$ if i lay off all these people! Let's do it!"
-versus-
"Joe Shmoe gets $,$$$,$$$ if we lay of all these people, lets think about it for a little while"
What irreversible health risks are there besides radiation from thinner atmosphere, and would the first generation of Mars born children adapt to not have these?
something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests
I may be wrong, but weren't darwin's theories used by the "upper class" as an excuse to why they are better than the "lower class". Something to the effect of "we have evolved and you have not, so we deserve all these riches and you deserve nothing." I wish i still had my history notes. In anycase, vieled references to Darwin such as this "Darwinian reference architectures" has since left me skeptical about the persons motives.
Why is it that Americans seem to think it "doesn't count" unless you spend time in prison. Is prison at all sucessful in rehabilitiation especially in the case of white collar crimes? No, so what you're suggesting is yet another waste of everyone else's money.
No, probably not effective. But say they lose this battle. Is letting them run a different company, based on the same morally flawed foundations any good for the economy?
Jailed, maybe not. Fined heavily, as a person and not a corporation, maybe. Psyhcologically analyzed after this whole mess? I think so. They have probably lied so much that they don't know what is real anymore.
"Oh, and the chocolate rations have been increased to 5 units."
<homer>5 Units? Woohoo!</homer>
me too, but it's all about branding. you don't buy MS products because they're good, you buy them because they're well known
So how many people will probably see episode 3 even though 1 and 2 sucked? I probably will. How many will see 7, 8, and 9? i might, might not... I feel 6 wrapped things up enough that I wouldn't be needing to see 7, 8, or 9 to satiate my curiosity. but Star Wars is a popular brand, so a lot of people will see them.
My wife, the architect,
since you mentioned The Matrix... wasn't The Architect a male?
Who is this tool?
;)
I don't know, but the tool needs a rewrite!
(just kidding mr. author of the article. take no offense! just a joke!)
"With the advent of NAT and the use of non-routable IP addresses to handle LANs, the need for every device to have a routable address becomes lessened."
... why they didn't add more types to the INPUT form tags to express different types - for example, a DATE attribute, or INTEGER, DOUBLE, or whatever ... This would get rid of so much of the headache involved with parsing out this stuff on the server side."
Oh boy, here we go again.
"Case 5: Netscape 4.x vs Mozilla
I have a 450 MHz AMD K6-II workstation with 512 MB RAM..."
I call B.S. I ran Mozilla on a Pentium 350MHz with 128MB RAM without a problem. Mind you, I was running Linux+GNOME. The article doesn't specify what platform the author was using.
"Case 6: HTML 4 vs XHTML + CSS + XML + XSL + XQuery + XPath + XLink +
So you want to simplify HTML by adding a type system? Baahahaha. Ok, sorry. That laugh wasn't entirely called for. However, no one is saying that you have to use or know about XQuery, Xpath, XML, etc. Use what gets your job done. As far as CSS in HTML, it's not a big deal. You don't really have to even have anything special. so you learn a few style things like <span style="color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;">it's not a big deal.
"But the direction we're going in, the HTML books have just become thicker and thicker over the last few years. And still, all most people really want to do is browse the web..."
If all you want to do is browse the web, what are you doing with an HTML book? If you want to write a 1995 web page, you can still do it using only <p>,</p>,<br>,<a> and <img> tags if you want.
"Case 7: Windows 2000 vs Windows XP vs Server 2003"
All the other arguments might go somewhere, but arguing about this to MS will do nothing. They have a bottom line to maintain. Releasing new versions, claiming a rewrite will improve things is neccesary for them to make money.
you guys really have to see the website http://www.bushin30seconds.org/ ads campain to increase the awarness of the mass... enjoy!
If that doesn't sound like a pr0n site... You won't trick me this time AC!!
Slashdot... Stuff that Matters ;)
(kidding!)
i always assumed curvature in pics like these (i didn't look at these pics though) was from the lense of the camera.