Here here. It annoys me immensely the way Cisco trumpets their own solutions as "the way things are". Their bias is stunning. This results in a swarm of CCNA-folk who are the biggest PR machine you've ever seen.
Granted, what Cisco makes tends to become the standard (largely due to the marketing spin mentioned above), however their way of going about it reaks of Gates' "the road ahead" tripe...
Sure we do - our friends at SCO are quite the player in the retail sector! Surely since we've given them gimp-print, mysql, apache, samba & others they're willing to give back to the linux community... oh, wait...
... groklaw? I mean, how many other sites use that CSS / graphic? I know I'm dumb to admit this, but after I clicked the link I thought "PJ must be having a slow day..."
Several times the documents submitted show that SCO's "media machine" has been detrimental to them in court:
[Melaugh] tells the judge that he did a LexisNexis news search for the words IBM and SCO and got 2,845 results, starting with the month and year that SCO filed the lawsuit. Next, he narrowed it down by choosing as cutoff date the first Novell public statement, and he still got 317 articles. They present the judge with beginning chunks of the first 50 of each search, asking that he take judicial note of the huge media frenzy around SCO.
This is a public dispute, and it was SCO who made it so not only by suing IBM, but by sending the 1500 threatening letters and sounding off in the media. "SCO has done everything it can to stoke that firestorm." Additionally, it has started or is defending against "at least six lawsuits before five judges in four states and two countries."Under those circumstances, Novell has the legal right to speak without being threatened with litigation for doing so.
... I always wondered if this would bite them in the ass someday...
"The wall covering can be mass produced at relatively low cost. A square metre will cost about £500: peanuts to big business."
... great, now the same company that took away half my lighting when.COM crashed for financial reasons now has an excuse to make our cubes all smaller for security reasons (how many engineers can be fit into 1m^3 -- no, really, I doubt my employer can even afford this much real estate @ £500/m^2... )... (-;
As for making a headless "iMac," first, that wouldn't be an iMac, and second, that's not what Apple needs. They have a whole bunch of headless machines--what the heck do you think a PowerMac is??? And if I'm not mistaken, the PowerMacs come with iLife installed. So....he wants them to make a PowerMac. Yay! They're already doing that!
There *is* a market for a headless iMac - witness the prior iBox. The issue with power macs are processor overkill (vs. eMac / iMac), and size (not all mac users need dual-cpu options...).
This article isn't the only hue & cry for a headless iMac - manyothers have called for this prior...
You cannot argue that the mac price point is too high, and then provide the masses with 2 options - cpu overkill or integrated monitor... having said all this look how well the cube fared (-;
The issue with mplayer was not copyright ownership - it was largely with the non-GPL-ed codecs. The same issue faces the Helix player (codecs are not GPL - all that is released here is the framework).
Check out the following philosophy of A'rpi ( http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news-archive. html ) when faced with the concept of Debian packaging mplayer without the codecs (which is what I'm assuming Redhat & company will be doing with Helix):
I think that including an unusable build of an application is even worse than not packaging it at all. It is not only valueless for the users (they will have to remove it and compile the source of the original version), but it gives the application a bad reputation, i.e. advertising it as a useless player being incapable of even playing a simple small file, or an unencrypted DVD (with AC3 sound)... Unfortunately most users won't notice the small comments in distribution specific files (like README.SuSE, or README.Debian) and will tell their friends, magazines (which occasionally write distro reviews) and post on portals/forums that it is a very bad, broken, unusable application.
... it will be interesting to see what happens with Helix payer, now that you have Redhat & Real (two public companies) trumpeting this as the big thiong fro linux desktop - will they throw in the non-gpl codecs so that everything dances perfectly, or will they ship only the shell & support for things like OGG, dissapointing linux converts used to their OS supporting more flavours of multimedia... ?
... if you're employed & don't have time to do the door-to-door thing, headhunters can be nice. As long as they know what you go for, so they don't bug you everytime some restaurant calls them looking for a busboy.
If I was unemployed, I'd give monster & hunters a try, but would expect little out of them - your best bet by a mile is contacts.
Too too true - if anything, showing that you're willing to work for a few weeks on something shows you're aggressive at looking. And good at getting hired.
I'd rather hire someone who has a spotty employment record over the past year than someone that has none. People know it's tough - I took a new position in Nortel 2 weeks before they declared a hiring freeze & mass layoffs.
Unless the job dictates ESP as a requirement, getting laid off frequently isn't the worst thing. Honest.
... I mean, I loathe SCO as much as anyone, but cmon. This is a small step above pie charts done in crayon.
I'm proud of them finding this, and I'm glad its been brought to SCO's attention, but geez. And publicly announcing this to the world instead of dealing with it in a professional manner - what is is with Utah companies? They're like the morons I work with that reply-all on company-wide emails.
Can someone explain why SCO sends people like Weiss & Dal's little brother to the plate when they're clinging to life? These people are wet farts. I would rather be defended by my grandmother in court, and she thinks she's a horse. Really. They just gave Boies millions & a stake in the company - where the uckfa is he?
And yes, I now this is not 100% on-topic. However I think the disappearance of a key figure is noteworthy (I would argue more so that SCO claiming ownership of IBMs work, as they are here).
Is the R2D2 an actual movie prop, or did he make this? If the latter, it's absolutely fantastic (well, it's all good, however I'm most impressed by this...)
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Granted, what Cisco makes tends to become the standard (largely due to the marketing spin mentioned above), however their way of going about it reaks of Gates' "the road ahead" tripe ...
Another good one: Heroes starring Captain America & Daredevil ...
... groklaw? I mean, how many other sites use that CSS / graphic? I know I'm dumb to admit this, but after I clicked the link I thought "PJ must be having a slow day ..."
[Melaugh] tells the judge that he did a LexisNexis news search for the words IBM and SCO and got 2,845 results, starting with the month and year that SCO filed the lawsuit. Next, he narrowed it down by choosing as cutoff date the first Novell public statement, and he still got 317 articles. They present the judge with beginning chunks of the first 50 of each search, asking that he take judicial note of the huge media frenzy around SCO.
This is a public dispute, and it was SCO who made it so not only by suing IBM, but by sending the 1500 threatening letters and sounding off in the media. "SCO has done everything it can to stoke that firestorm." Additionally, it has started or is defending against "at least six lawsuits before five judges in four states and two countries."Under those circumstances, Novell has the legal right to speak without being threatened with litigation for doing so.
... it is going away (-;
Funny, I thought the only people with this mindset were the freaking TA's I had @ UWO ...
Those who can do, those who cannot teach, those that are scared of employment assist professors with their drudge work (-;
"The wall covering can be mass produced at relatively low cost. A square metre will cost about £500: peanuts to big business."
... great, now the same company that took away half my lighting when .COM crashed for financial reasons now has an excuse to make our cubes all smaller for security reasons (how many engineers can be fit into 1m^3 -- no, really, I doubt my employer can even afford this much real estate @ £500/m^2 ... ) ... (-;
... so if "dupe" means posted twice, would posting three times be "tripe" ... ?
There *is* a market for a headless iMac - witness the prior iBox. The issue with power macs are processor overkill (vs. eMac / iMac), and size (not all mac users need dual-cpu options ...).
This article isn't the only hue & cry for a headless iMac - many others have called for this prior ...
You cannot argue that the mac price point is too high, and then provide the masses with 2 options - cpu overkill or integrated monitor ... having said all this look how well the cube fared (-;
Agreed. The company I'm with cut broadband access for the 24 hour support staff just before they laid people off left, right & center.
Here's a better word: Morons (-; Apart from that, I agree with the sentiment...
Check out the following philosophy of A'rpi ( http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news-archive. html ) when faced with the concept of Debian packaging mplayer without the codecs (which is what I'm assuming Redhat & company will be doing with Helix):
I think that including an unusable build of an application is even worse than not packaging it at all. It is not only valueless for the users (they will have to remove it and compile the source of the original version), but it gives the application a bad reputation, i.e. advertising it as a useless player being incapable of even playing a simple small file, or an unencrypted DVD (with AC3 sound)... Unfortunately most users won't notice the small comments in distribution specific files (like README.SuSE, or README.Debian) and will tell their friends, magazines (which occasionally write distro reviews) and post on portals/forums that it is a very bad, broken, unusable application.
More importantly, (C) how soon before I see spam in my inbox for "mucle v!agara" ...
You tell him that (-;
Dear lord, what's next? A bad review of his beloved Ferrari Laptiop? SCO may loose in court?
My reality is crumbling ... dear god make this madness stop!
A swarm with a purpose! With great power comes great responsibility. Consider attending this your civic duty (-;
If I was unemployed, I'd give monster & hunters a try, but would expect little out of them - your best bet by a mile is contacts.
Hey - if we got KDE to work with this we could start the "free K-Y" project - tell me that wouldn't get intrest!
Well, duh, who wants the resume stain formerly know as SCO in their "where I've worked" section ... (-;
I'd rather hire someone who has a spotty employment record over the past year than someone that has none. People know it's tough - I took a new position in Nortel 2 weeks before they declared a hiring freeze & mass layoffs.
Unless the job dictates ESP as a requirement, getting laid off frequently isn't the worst thing. Honest.
I'm proud of them finding this, and I'm glad its been brought to SCO's attention, but geez. And publicly announcing this to the world instead of dealing with it in a professional manner - what is is with Utah companies? They're like the morons I work with that reply-all on company-wide emails.
Decorum, children, decorum...
Can someone explain why SCO sends people like Weiss & Dal's little brother to the plate when they're clinging to life? These people are wet farts. I would rather be defended by my grandmother in court, and she thinks she's a horse. Really. They just gave Boies millions & a stake in the company - where the uckfa is he?
And yes, I now this is not 100% on-topic. However I think the disappearance of a key figure is noteworthy (I would argue more so that SCO claiming ownership of IBMs work, as they are here).
Comedy is best when semi-factual.
Is the R2D2 an actual movie prop, or did he make this? If the latter, it's absolutely fantastic (well, it's all good, however I'm most impressed by this ...)