I for one would rather see more co-operation because it would be better use of resources, and could be a launching platform for better world wide politics if more countries have a vested interest in the project. I doubt it would lead to more trust because that has to be learned. I don't want most of the Middle Eastern countries in space. They need to advance some more politically because most (not all) of them have governments that are stuct in the dark ages, and they have a hard time understanding the concept of a government ruled by the people for the people. Hell, most of my fellow Americans don't understand it.
I want non-commercialization for the next 100 years or more. Look at what the CEOs of most corporations do today. They take all kinds of short cuts "to get the product out". I for one don't want to ride a shuttle up into space where the company CEO decided to have the company pay for his next vacation, make his car payments, and buy his next house instead of keeping up the maintence or paying the maintence employees a decent pay.
If they could, they'd outsource the work till the found a cheap place--which might be a down and dirty bubblegum shop that really doesn't know what they are doing.
I also don't want the Chinese to have a colony in space because they plan on mining the moon. I don't want any country mining the moon. It's far too close to the earth. We could end up exploding the moon. Let's face it, most countries don't have a good environmental record--in fact all countries have a bad record. It's in our nature to use things without thinking of what happen.
I can see it in the future. We've mined the moon extensively, and scietists think it could break apart and start falling to Earth. The annalysis gets cuaght up in in Red tape worldwide, and then time runs out when the moon breaks apart.
I say we start to work on at least 4 stationary non Earth orbiting space stations the are just outside earth oribit positioned at four key areas around the sun. With at least one of these stations, we could study that region for the entire year. Then, we could perform experiments in space all year round, and work on artificial gravity (probably using some form of varrying electro magnatism). We could use these platforms as a launching pad for future missions--like missions to mine astriods in the Solar system.
And then, with his ID presumably in his pocket, the billionaire huddled with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to discuss tech policy.
This is the part that bothers me. I wonder what technology policies he will try to get passed. Maybe some old stuff Microsft said...like OSS is UnAmerican and Insecure?
You should probably give a little more detail. For those that don't know, IEEE floating point is basically a number expressed in a form similar to scientific notation (although there are serious differences in what must be done) expressed in powers of -2 (x**-(n**2)if I remember my FORTRAN right). An example of a number that cannot be expressed in IEEE floating point (if I remember correctly) is.1. You can approach the number, but you never really reach the number.
If you want to avoid the error, the best thing to do is to use interger math and convert to decimal at the last moment. Make sure you leave plenty of room in the number so as to avoid rounding errors. I rarely see the problem, but I usually only go out 2 decimal places (3 tops) because a lot of what I was workin with was financial numbers at my last job. After rounding, there usually wasn't a problem. A lot of the financial institutions use integer math in the software to avoid potential problems. If the program is mission critical, you're better off using interger math unless you don't need great precision.
As a side not, the last time I check mozilla's version of javascript uses floating point notation to store dates. Because of this, some platforms will experience date problems from time to time with java script. Unless, they have changed it to an integer type for storing the number representing the date and time, a date may be wrong from time to time. To test it whether or not mozilla has a problem you have to create a date object with a specific date and time that you know can't be represented in IEEE floating point notation. I don't have the patience to do that right now, but they may have changed it because I haven't looked at the code since before July 26, 2002 when I was laid off. It really is only a problem for certain instances in timeon certain dates, but I think the precision required to represent a date and time as a number really require it to be implemented with some variation of interger mathematics.
I was looking at the code for javascript because my last company was looking into it for scripting purposes for their product. I got laid off and the project died.
Not only a forum, but you could post the outline and/or notes from the class online. I am wondering if this class is solely online or simple in one room with everyone being online. I am not a fan of the online learning stuff.
>They are known to block all sorts of legit sites, so it's not as if you're really asking to look at pr0n.
Actually, it is not known. Some of the sites in despute by some people contain articles and information that children shouldn't really exposed to because of the harm it can cause them mentally.
I know there are sometimes a few site that get blocked that probably shouldn't be, but it is not as much as people are making it out to be.
Every community, and society, has certain guides as to what is appropriate and inappropriate to post, or say, in that certain community. Slashdot itself has such guidelines. The same arguements that you use to disqualify internet filters can be used against slashdot too.
Just because the comments are peer moderated, it doesn't mean that it's better. Sometimes, things get moderated down that really should have been moderated up and vis-versa.
The real problem is the clashing of what different groups consider to be appropriate information for children to see. Would you want a child to have access to {insert a sick an perverted pedophile organizaion here} information sites? I will let you pick a site because I don't want them to have any type of publication, but I know I don't want any kids viewing this information and group because it is sick!
Until there is a better means by which society can filter the informaiton that impressionable children see, filter will be a common thing in community services. Children are very impressionable. What they see, and hear, as they are growing up effects who they are and what there likes and dislikes are going to be.
I note, BTW, that the article says: "The media barons insist that if consumers are going to listen to music and view movie clips and news headlines on any gadget with a screen, then the rights holders must be paid."
I am sure someone else must have pointed this out, but you know that cost will be passed along to us.
Let's say you go to the music store to by a CD. You take it up to on the the scanning terminals that scans the cd and plays clips of all the songs on the CD, or you go to a website to watch the latest trailer clip for the next cool movie coming out. Essentially, they want to be paid for us sampling the media to determine if we will like the media content before we spend hard earned money on it!?! Don't they know that this will only incourage more illegal file sharing of media
What's next movie theaters charging extra to watch the trailers before the movie? How commercials? Will we have to pay to watch what we really don't want to watch in the first place?
I realise that most of this will be hidden in price increases, but still, I don't want to pay to sample a cd before I buy. I can't afford to go and buy cds that I won't like. I buy VERY few CDs these days.
Instead of doing something productive and giving consumers what they want, they are digging their graves holes deeper. I guess the entertainment industry will never learn. Unfortunately, the US Government will just proping them up with hands outs when things eventually go wrong instead of actually letting them fall so the top people will learn a lesson. The government has got its hands in too much of the capitalist market. We need to move more towards a hands off approach. When a company fails, such as an airline company, because customer service has been hurt as a result of the top management refusing to take a pay cut and keeps laying people off instead, then maybe they'll learn.
In todays society, the government has taken away almost all of the learning experiences. Companies are no longer forced to learn from there mistakes. They are allowed to keep on making the same mistakes over and over again!
This would turn every paper and magazine into a debate forum. Factual information will get left in a maze of he/she said this or that.
At least in America we have something called the freedom of the press. While there are times that this freedom doesn't apply (such as national security when lives are at stake), a paper or magazine is free to publish what it wants. It doesn't have to print something it doesn't want.
At the same time, these papers and magazines are beholding to their readers and the law. By the law, I mean if a print media prints something about someone that is not true, then that person can bring them to court and seek damages.
While there are times when I enjoy a great debate, I don't want to perpetually sift through the he saids and she saids. I, like many other people, read certain newspapers and magazines and watch certain news shows and channels because we trust them. We don't always have the time to sift through millions of articles and responces to figure out what is true. We leave it up to the reporters to determine this. When a report doesn't do this properly, it will eventually come out because it always does, and at that the news media and the reporter will be hurt by the negative press and this could cost them their jobs.
How would you like it if you had to always read a responce when you read an article? How would like it if Microsoft submitted a responce article for every submission made about them? While you may have the time to consistently read articles and responces, the rest of the world doesn't. Just like database programmers use a where clause to make the database program filter out the unwanted information because they don't always have the time to check each entry individually to find the data, people choose certain news media outlets to filter out the junk they don't care about.
The basic point is that we don't have to be confronted with other points of views if we don't want to be confronted with them. If you want to be, then so be it. You can pick up both types of media (pro and con for you view point) or frequent media that gives you both.
So basically, what you're saying is that if a rapist and murder has something published about him, or her, in the a daily paper, then he, or she, is intitled to have there side printed if they have been misrepresented and/or named in the article.
Can you see what this would do to papers? Paper A publishes story Z about person 1 saying the person has been arrested and charge with murder. Person one thinks, or knows, he, or she, is innocent, so they demand that they be allowed to print a responce. This is basically the rights being granted. This could get WAY out of hand, and this would remove court cases from the court room into the court of public opinion--even more so than they are today.
I know of people who would cancel subscriptions, or stop buying, magazines or newspapers that printed the responce because they are not interested in a responce.
Most media newspapers and magazines serve a certain community. The community that buys the newspapers or magazines is rarely interested in a responce from the person critised because it will only be viewed as lies or blowing off the original subject.
Most newspapers and magazines are debate grounds. Responces to criticisms so be place in a magazine or newspaper that would support their point of view. If the whole premise of the magazine or newspaper to to debate subjects than fine, but otherwise the responce is just stirring pot.
Why should a newspaper or magazine have to print a responce? If what was said was untrue, then the person can bring a lawsuit against the paper or magazine. Otherwise, the point of view is generally not welcome.
Interesting. So, if a Conservative Christian magazine writes a pro-life article, then an abortionist can write back defending their position? I think that sucks. People read certain magazines, newspapers, or websites becuase they like the point of view of the news source (or in some cases to keep in touch with what the competition likes). They don't want their territory invaded.
I have been an unemployed Softwa Engineer/Programmer for a year, in my area (Southern NH and Nothern Mass) there is a lot of people out of work like me. Given that information, NEVER walk out on a job. Even if you have another job, you never know when burning the current bridge can come back to hurt you. You may need references, or another employer may call the company you walked out on and find out that you walked out on them. You may not get a chance to explain why, so it doesn't really matter. You should always give them 2 weeks notice minimum. If you do decide to walk, don't do it without another job lined up--especially in todays job market. There are a lot of great people that got laid off, and sometimes it was the cream of the crop that got laid off because they cost the most to keep!
From what I have seen of it. i would suggest teaching them ruby. It seems to be a decent language, and has lots of built in types. They used to advertise it as bringing the fun back into programming.
You are also pointing out a reason why CD sales are going down. The cost of CDs is ridiculous. When CDs came out they were about $10, and the should have gone down. They haven't gone down instead the cost went up and the quality has gone down. I think they just need to keep paying the billionare CEOs that sit on top of the Record Companies.
Apperently RIAA has determined the best new revenue stream is racketering because that's what it is they are currently doing. We put mobster in jail for doing this, but it's perfectly legal for companies to do it. Go figure.
Have you considered that one must have access to the code to copy it? Who has access to SCO proprietary code? SCO does, but does anybody else? If not, then it must have been SCO themselves who put the code in their--especially if the code is so identical that the comments are the same. Someone must have had access to the SCO code, and I bet it was someone from SCO itself.
That assumes that the code was copied to Linux. Whose to say the code wasn't copied from Linux so SCO could use a new renue stream?
That fact is that until SCO makes these code lines public, we can't know. I think they are hiding something. I think they may have put the code their themselves to generate a new revenue stream and/or take control of major Linux companies in some way. We can only determine who put the lines in the code when we know the lines, but I don't think we will ever find out because SCO HAS SOMETHING to hide!
This would be a good time for someone with a lot of money and a love of Linux to step in and counter sue SCO to possible GPL infringement, or racketering (sp?).
The other possibility is that SCO copied the code from linux to their stuff. This would harder to find out because we'd have to have access to SCO proprietary history files.
SCO has a lot of things to prove now!!! We are waiting SCO. Put-up or shut up!!! Make the so-called proprietary copied code public, and prove that you didn't copy it to your code, and you didn't put the code in their yourself!
You are the first person I have seen that has said anything useful. You should be moderated at 5 informative (or 10 if their was such a thing). You actually talk about it, and you don't get into a Bush bashing rant. Good job!
I supposed you have no problems with the torturous test the Nazis performed on the Jews in WWII? What about the test the Japanesee performed in WWII? What about you? How about we start testing things on you, and then we can throw you away like a used napkin!
I will probably take a karma hit for offering proof, but so be it. It'll be worth it if even just one abortionist changes their views ( or one innocent unborn child is saved).
Here is proof of survivors. This woman is now 24, but when she was 19 she testified before congress about her situation. She is an abortion survivor. Her mother chose to abort her, but she survived!
You tell me how that is this humane? You liberal and feminist assholes keep talking like a baby is a clump of cells, but this woman is proof that they are not just a clump of cell.
Pro-choice vegans are no better (especially PETA). They cry fowl about the inhumane teatment of animals, but it perfectly fine to kill a baby that's being born (partial birth abortion). See this link (fox is slow today) for a VERY BASIC description of what partial birth abortion. The way the abortion bill is phrased is what happens when a doctor performs a partial birth abortion. How are these things humane? Tell me this, and don't answer with the "it's a womans right to choose" crap because that's an excuse (and avoids the REAL QUESTION)!!!!
Here are some more links (1 and 2) to read if you have the guts to read them! There is more is you care to look, and it is very hard to find a written story that confirms that the doctors (or nurses) will kill a baby after it's born if it survives the abortion attempt--usually by strangling. If you anything on it, it's form the point of view that it's a womans right.
I know I will takea karma hit for saying this, but so be it because what I have to say is true. It applies to all those who suuport this type of research. What's next? Testing chemicals and bio-warfare on mentally disabled people?
I bet that's what the Nazi's thought when they started to run all those tests on Jewish prisioners. You sound just like them. You want a cure at what cost? I have an aunt with Parkinsons who would love to be cured, and I have a man who was like a grandfather to me die of Alzheimers. I have seen what Alzheimers does and what Parkinsons does in it's later stages. I am sure that both of these people would not want a cure that was discovered/created by using body parts of dead babies sold and traded as commodities.
Did you know a whol industry has grown out of selling fetuses? Their are companies who one traffic in human body parts produced from abortions.
Did you know that if a baby manages to survive an abortion (like a saline abortion) that the doctor or a nurse will STRANGLE the living child till it is dead? Did you know there are times when the nurse, or doctor, oculdn't do this and they took the baby to be adopted? These are both true facts!
DO you know what happens in a partial birth abortion? The woman is induced to start labor, and before the baby's head comes out into the real world, the baby is killed.
Do you know that younger babies are just scrapped out of the womb? Did you know this could cause infertility becuase the woman might not be able to sustain a fetus.
You people who support/do this type of reseach are no better than the Nazi's when the experiment on the Jewish prisoners they had in the concentration camps. The Japanesee weren't much better to their prisoners.
This may not be tech or sci-fi, but it is a very good read. Try "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It's miltary history, but it talks about a part of history that got left out of the history books and the first time a new class of soldiers were used. I really enjoyed reading it.
What I want to know is who put the code in there in the first place? Can't we determine this from change logs or something? I also want to know why they just can't say it publically since they say code/Unix IP they own was placed in the Linux code (and the Linux code is Open Source)?
I think SCO is on more shakey ground than they realise in their claims. I personally would like to see Novell to actually still have the rights.
Actually, this is more likely, a re-revolution. Some trends in the computer industry tend to be cyclical. The basic idea behind these services that HP, SUN, et. al. are providing sounds a lot like the days when smaller schools and companies rented time on larger schools and companies mainframes.
It seems to me there is only a few main things that have changed. They changed the unit of measurement from time to this new computron (which will probably only confuse the some customers), and the hardware is different. Of course, we have Enterprise strategies and n-tier developement.
Slashdot Mirror
I for one would rather see more co-operation because it would be better use of resources, and could be a launching platform for better world wide politics if more countries have a vested interest in the project. I doubt it would lead to more trust because that has to be learned. I don't want most of the Middle Eastern countries in space. They need to advance some more politically because most (not all) of them have governments that are stuct in the dark ages, and they have a hard time understanding the concept of a government ruled by the people for the people. Hell, most of my fellow Americans don't understand it.
I want non-commercialization for the next 100 years or more. Look at what the CEOs of most corporations do today. They take all kinds of short cuts "to get the product out". I for one don't want to ride a shuttle up into space where the company CEO decided to have the company pay for his next vacation, make his car payments, and buy his next house instead of keeping up the maintence or paying the maintence employees a decent pay.
If they could, they'd outsource the work till the found a cheap place--which might be a down and dirty bubblegum shop that really doesn't know what they are doing.
I also don't want the Chinese to have a colony in space because they plan on mining the moon. I don't want any country mining the moon. It's far too close to the earth. We could end up exploding the moon. Let's face it, most countries don't have a good environmental record--in fact all countries have a bad record. It's in our nature to use things without thinking of what happen.
I can see it in the future. We've mined the moon extensively, and scietists think it could break apart and start falling to Earth. The annalysis gets cuaght up in in Red tape worldwide, and then time runs out when the moon breaks apart.
I say we start to work on at least 4 stationary non Earth orbiting space stations the are just outside earth oribit positioned at four key areas around the sun. With at least one of these stations, we could study that region for the entire year. Then, we could perform experiments in space all year round, and work on artificial gravity (probably using some form of varrying electro magnatism). We could use these platforms as a launching pad for future missions--like missions to mine astriods in the Solar system.
And then, with his ID presumably in his pocket, the billionaire huddled with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to discuss tech policy.
This is the part that bothers me. I wonder what technology policies he will try to get passed. Maybe some old stuff Microsft said...like OSS is UnAmerican and Insecure?
I made a mistake that should be 2**-(n**2) (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc.). That's what I get for not stopping to double check my math.
You should probably give a little more detail. For those that don't know, IEEE floating point is basically a number expressed in a form similar to scientific notation (although there are serious differences in what must be done) expressed in powers of -2 (x**-(n**2)if I remember my FORTRAN right). An example of a number that cannot be expressed in IEEE floating point (if I remember correctly) is .1. You can approach the number, but you never really reach the number.
If you want to avoid the error, the best thing to do is to use interger math and convert to decimal at the last moment. Make sure you leave plenty of room in the number so as to avoid rounding errors. I rarely see the problem, but I usually only go out 2 decimal places (3 tops) because a lot of what I was workin with was financial numbers at my last job. After rounding, there usually wasn't a problem. A lot of the financial institutions use integer math in the software to avoid potential problems. If the program is mission critical, you're better off using interger math unless you don't need great precision.
As a side not, the last time I check mozilla's version of javascript uses floating point notation to store dates. Because of this, some platforms will experience date problems from time to time with java script. Unless, they have changed it to an integer type for storing the number representing the date and time, a date may be wrong from time to time. To test it whether or not mozilla has a problem you have to create a date object with a specific date and time that you know can't be represented in IEEE floating point notation. I don't have the patience to do that right now, but they may have changed it because I haven't looked at the code since before July 26, 2002 when I was laid off. It really is only a problem for certain instances in timeon certain dates, but I think the precision required to represent a date and time as a number really require it to be implemented with some variation of interger mathematics.
I was looking at the code for javascript because my last company was looking into it for scripting purposes for their product. I got laid off and the project died.
Not only a forum, but you could post the outline and/or notes from the class online. I am wondering if this class is solely online or simple in one room with everyone being online. I am not a fan of the online learning stuff.
>They are known to block all sorts of legit sites, so it's not as if you're really asking to look at pr0n.
Actually, it is not known. Some of the sites in despute by some people contain articles and information that children shouldn't really exposed to because of the harm it can cause them mentally.
I know there are sometimes a few site that get blocked that probably shouldn't be, but it is not as much as people are making it out to be.
Every community, and society, has certain guides as to what is appropriate and inappropriate to post, or say, in that certain community. Slashdot itself has such guidelines. The same arguements that you use to disqualify internet filters can be used against slashdot too.
Just because the comments are peer moderated, it doesn't mean that it's better. Sometimes, things get moderated down that really should have been moderated up and vis-versa.
The real problem is the clashing of what different groups consider to be appropriate information for children to see. Would you want a child to have access to {insert a sick an perverted pedophile organizaion here} information sites? I will let you pick a site because I don't want them to have any type of publication, but I know I don't want any kids viewing this information and group because it is sick!
Until there is a better means by which society can filter the informaiton that impressionable children see, filter will be a common thing in community services. Children are very impressionable. What they see, and hear, as they are growing up effects who they are and what there likes and dislikes are going to be.
I note, BTW, that the article says: "The media barons insist that if consumers are going to listen to music and view movie clips and news headlines on any gadget with a screen, then the rights holders must be paid."
I am sure someone else must have pointed this out, but you know that cost will be passed along to us.
Let's say you go to the music store to by a CD. You take it up to on the the scanning terminals that scans the cd and plays clips of all the songs on the CD, or you go to a website to watch the latest trailer clip for the next cool movie coming out. Essentially, they want to be paid for us sampling the media to determine if we will like the media content before we spend hard earned money on it!?! Don't they know that this will only incourage more illegal file sharing of media
What's next movie theaters charging extra to watch the trailers before the movie? How commercials? Will we have to pay to watch what we really don't want to watch in the first place?
I realise that most of this will be hidden in price increases, but still, I don't want to pay to sample a cd before I buy. I can't afford to go and buy cds that I won't like. I buy VERY few CDs these days.
Instead of doing something productive and giving consumers what they want, they are digging their graves holes deeper. I guess the entertainment industry will never learn. Unfortunately, the US Government will just proping them up with hands outs when things eventually go wrong instead of actually letting them fall so the top people will learn a lesson. The government has got its hands in too much of the capitalist market. We need to move more towards a hands off approach. When a company fails, such as an airline company, because customer service has been hurt as a result of the top management refusing to take a pay cut and keeps laying people off instead, then maybe they'll learn.
In todays society, the government has taken away almost all of the learning experiences. Companies are no longer forced to learn from there mistakes. They are allowed to keep on making the same mistakes over and over again!
This would turn every paper and magazine into a debate forum. Factual information will get left in a maze of he/she said this or that.
At least in America we have something called the freedom of the press. While there are times that this freedom doesn't apply (such as national security when lives are at stake), a paper or magazine is free to publish what it wants. It doesn't have to print something it doesn't want.
At the same time, these papers and magazines are beholding to their readers and the law. By the law, I mean if a print media prints something about someone that is not true, then that person can bring them to court and seek damages.
While there are times when I enjoy a great debate, I don't want to perpetually sift through the he saids and she saids. I, like many other people, read certain newspapers and magazines and watch certain news shows and channels because we trust them. We don't always have the time to sift through millions of articles and responces to figure out what is true. We leave it up to the reporters to determine this. When a report doesn't do this properly, it will eventually come out because it always does, and at that the news media and the reporter will be hurt by the negative press and this could cost them their jobs.
How would you like it if you had to always read a responce when you read an article? How would like it if Microsoft submitted a responce article for every submission made about them? While you may have the time to consistently read articles and responces, the rest of the world doesn't. Just like database programmers use a where clause to make the database program filter out the unwanted information because they don't always have the time to check each entry individually to find the data, people choose certain news media outlets to filter out the junk they don't care about.
The basic point is that we don't have to be confronted with other points of views if we don't want to be confronted with them. If you want to be, then so be it. You can pick up both types of media (pro and con for you view point) or frequent media that gives you both.
So basically, what you're saying is that if a rapist and murder has something published about him, or her, in the a daily paper, then he, or she, is intitled to have there side printed if they have been misrepresented and/or named in the article.
Can you see what this would do to papers? Paper A publishes story Z about person 1 saying the person has been arrested and charge with murder. Person one thinks, or knows, he, or she, is innocent, so they demand that they be allowed to print a responce. This is basically the rights being granted. This could get WAY out of hand, and this would remove court cases from the court room into the court of public opinion--even more so than they are today.
I know of people who would cancel subscriptions, or stop buying, magazines or newspapers that printed the responce because they are not interested in a responce.
Most media newspapers and magazines serve a certain community. The community that buys the newspapers or magazines is rarely interested in a responce from the person critised because it will only be viewed as lies or blowing off the original subject.
Most newspapers and magazines are debate grounds. Responces to criticisms so be place in a magazine or newspaper that would support their point of view. If the whole premise of the magazine or newspaper to to debate subjects than fine, but otherwise the responce is just stirring pot.
Why should a newspaper or magazine have to print a responce? If what was said was untrue, then the person can bring a lawsuit against the paper or magazine. Otherwise, the point of view is generally not welcome.
Interesting. So, if a Conservative Christian magazine writes a pro-life article, then an abortionist can write back defending their position? I think that sucks. People read certain magazines, newspapers, or websites becuase they like the point of view of the news source (or in some cases to keep in touch with what the competition likes). They don't want their territory invaded.
I have been an unemployed Softwa Engineer/Programmer for a year, in my area (Southern NH and Nothern Mass) there is a lot of people out of work like me. Given that information, NEVER walk out on a job. Even if you have another job, you never know when burning the current bridge can come back to hurt you. You may need references, or another employer may call the company you walked out on and find out that you walked out on them. You may not get a chance to explain why, so it doesn't really matter. You should always give them 2 weeks notice minimum. If you do decide to walk, don't do it without another job lined up--especially in todays job market. There are a lot of great people that got laid off, and sometimes it was the cream of the crop that got laid off because they cost the most to keep!
From what I have seen of it. i would suggest teaching them ruby. It seems to be a decent language, and has lots of built in types. They used to advertise it as bringing the fun back into programming.
You are also pointing out a reason why CD sales are going down. The cost of CDs is ridiculous. When CDs came out they were about $10, and the should have gone down. They haven't gone down instead the cost went up and the quality has gone down. I think they just need to keep paying the billionare CEOs that sit on top of the Record Companies.
Apperently RIAA has determined the best new revenue stream is racketering because that's what it is they are currently doing. We put mobster in jail for doing this, but it's perfectly legal for companies to do it. Go figure.
Have you considered that one must have access to the code to copy it? Who has access to SCO proprietary code? SCO does, but does anybody else? If not, then it must have been SCO themselves who put the code in their--especially if the code is so identical that the comments are the same. Someone must have had access to the SCO code, and I bet it was someone from SCO itself.
That assumes that the code was copied to Linux. Whose to say the code wasn't copied from Linux so SCO could use a new renue stream?
That fact is that until SCO makes these code lines public, we can't know. I think they are hiding something. I think they may have put the code their themselves to generate a new revenue stream and/or take control of major Linux companies in some way. We can only determine who put the lines in the code when we know the lines, but I don't think we will ever find out because SCO HAS SOMETHING to hide!
This would be a good time for someone with a lot of money and a love of Linux to step in and counter sue SCO to possible GPL infringement, or racketering (sp?).
The other possibility is that SCO copied the code from linux to their stuff. This would harder to find out because we'd have to have access to SCO proprietary history files.
SCO has a lot of things to prove now!!! We are waiting SCO. Put-up or shut up!!! Make the so-called proprietary copied code public, and prove that you didn't copy it to your code, and you didn't put the code in their yourself!
You are the first person I have seen that has said anything useful. You should be moderated at 5 informative (or 10 if their was such a thing). You actually talk about it, and you don't get into a Bush bashing rant. Good job!
Now to combine our 2 favorite /. poll answers:
CowboyNeal is fat you insensitive clod...
I supposed you have no problems with the torturous test the Nazis performed on the Jews in WWII? What about the test the Japanesee performed in WWII? What about you? How about we start testing things on you, and then we can throw you away like a used napkin!
I will probably take a karma hit for offering proof, but so be it. It'll be worth it if even just one abortionist changes their views ( or one innocent unborn child is saved).
Here is proof of survivors. This woman is now 24, but when she was 19 she testified before congress about her situation. She is an abortion survivor. Her mother chose to abort her, but she survived!
You tell me how that is this humane? You liberal and feminist assholes keep talking like a baby is a clump of cells, but this woman is proof that they are not just a clump of cell.
Pro-choice vegans are no better (especially PETA). They cry fowl about the inhumane teatment of animals, but it perfectly fine to kill a baby that's being born (partial birth abortion). See this link (fox is slow today) for a VERY BASIC description of what partial birth abortion. The way the abortion bill is phrased is what happens when a doctor performs a partial birth abortion. How are these things humane? Tell me this, and don't answer with the "it's a womans right to choose" crap because that's an excuse (and avoids the REAL QUESTION)!!!!
Here are some more links (1 and 2) to read if you have the guts to read them! There is more is you care to look, and it is very hard to find a written story that confirms that the doctors (or nurses) will kill a baby after it's born if it survives the abortion attempt--usually by strangling. If you anything on it, it's form the point of view that it's a womans right.
I know I will takea karma hit for saying this, but so be it because what I have to say is true. It applies to all those who suuport this type of research. What's next? Testing chemicals and bio-warfare on mentally disabled people?
I bet that's what the Nazi's thought when they started to run all those tests on Jewish prisioners. You sound just like them. You want a cure at what cost? I have an aunt with Parkinsons who would love to be cured, and I have a man who was like a grandfather to me die of Alzheimers. I have seen what Alzheimers does and what Parkinsons does in it's later stages. I am sure that both of these people would not want a cure that was discovered/created by using body parts of dead babies sold and traded as commodities.
Did you know a whol industry has grown out of selling fetuses? Their are companies who one traffic in human body parts produced from abortions.
Did you know that if a baby manages to survive an abortion (like a saline abortion) that the doctor or a nurse will STRANGLE the living child till it is dead? Did you know there are times when the nurse, or doctor, oculdn't do this and they took the baby to be adopted? These are both true facts!
DO you know what happens in a partial birth abortion? The woman is induced to start labor, and before the baby's head comes out into the real world, the baby is killed.
Do you know that younger babies are just scrapped out of the womb? Did you know this could cause infertility becuase the woman might not be able to sustain a fetus.
You people who support/do this type of reseach are no better than the Nazi's when the experiment on the Jewish prisoners they had in the concentration camps. The Japanesee weren't much better to their prisoners.
This may not be tech or sci-fi, but it is a very good read. Try "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It's miltary history, but it talks about a part of history that got left out of the history books and the first time a new class of soldiers were used. I really enjoyed reading it.
What I want to know is who put the code in there in the first place? Can't we determine this from change logs or something? I also want to know why they just can't say it publically since they say code/Unix IP they own was placed in the Linux code (and the Linux code is Open Source)?
I think SCO is on more shakey ground than they realise in their claims. I personally would like to see Novell to actually still have the rights.
Actually, this is more likely, a re-revolution. Some trends in the computer industry tend to be cyclical. The basic idea behind these services that HP, SUN, et. al. are providing sounds a lot like the days when smaller schools and companies rented time on larger schools and companies mainframes.
It seems to me there is only a few main things that have changed. They changed the unit of measurement from time to this new computron (which will probably only confuse the some customers), and the hardware is different. Of course, we have Enterprise strategies and n-tier developement.
I read Hyperion Cantos ( a compilation of the Hyperion series), and I think that part was left out.