That one of the government agencies that are running Linux and receive a 'pay up or else' notice from SCO is the IRS, or FBI. Talk about putting your head up a lions mouth (or maybe his ass).
Thats a fairly OLD version of the kernel, and IIRC a VERY buggy version at that, one that will cause file corruption. If that's the ONLY version of the 2.4 kernel they are still listing, maybe they are trying to tell us something......
He almost has it there. Maybe more like the system that Lloyd's of London has where the members of Lloyds are responsible for the loses of the company is more like it.
As long as there are segments of the ham bands where morse code (actually the International Radio Telegraph Code, Morse refers to the older 'land line' telegraph code and is NOT the same) or CW is the only permitted modulation allowed (IE: no phone) cw is STILL a requirement! The lower portions of the 80, 40 , 20, 15 and 10 meter bands are still CW only and this isn't likely to change anytime soon. In addition sub-segments of the 80,20,15 and 10 meter CW bands are reserved for Extra Class licenses (in the USA) only, even though the code requirement for the extra class license was reduced from 20wpm to 5wpm. (The theory part of the exam is STILL a college level engineering test).
Same idea as a flying club where a group of pilots buy a plane and share it's use. The flying club can (and often is) a corporation with the members owning stock in the corporation. I'm sure there are boating clubs too.
I think Microsoft purchased a SCO license purely to feed the fire Thats one theory. Another (just as likely) is that MS simply wanted to cover their butts now that they are selling software to enable inter-operation between Windows and Unix. They have been advertising this stuff in some of the Linux magazines (even inclosed a free demo CD).
What we need to do is to write to our congressmen and demand protection. American companies moving American jobs overseas is not good for the US in the long run. It deprives the governement of tax dollars from both the IRS and the Social Security funds,lowers the standard of living here in the USA, and siphons technology out of this country. If enough people let their congressmen know, maybe they will do something. Tax laws could change so US companies that use foreign workers instead of Americans would have to pay into Social Security at a rate AS IF they had employed Americans at the expected salary. Other tax disensentives to outsourcing should also be put into place. If all good jobs are outsourced, then customers will have to be outsourced too!
Diskmakers has a similar gizmo in their catalog that is used for burning CD-R's. It picks up blank cd from an input stack, drops it into the open tray of the drive, then picks up the burned cd and drops it into the dot matrix printer to print the label on the disk (printable cd's) then picks the disk up out of the printer and drops it onto the output stack. Of course their gizmo isn't made of Wood. (http://www.discmakers.com/hardware/)
One reader of Linux magazine (not me) expressed the idea that the reason for SCO's recent stock rise was NOT that the market thinks they will win this lawsuit, but because someone has been quietly buying up their stock in advance of a hostile take over. That someone would be IBM, and McBride and his deatheaters will find themselves kicked out without a golden parachute. We can only hope!
I used to suscribe to Telocity DSL, which was bought out by DTV. I canceled my DSL with them and went with a local Bell when I moved. Since then I've been getting tons of phone calls from DTV trying to sell me their satelite service. My phone numbers are now on the don't call list and if they DO ever call me again, I'm gona sue THEM! I'd rather have cable then use their satelite TV service (or go with DISH network instead). DTV=SCO=M$=GWB
It was also in the world book encyclopedia. I remember a science project in there called an "ionic rocket engine". It had three metal rods with balls at one end and the other end was sharpened to a point. Each rod was enclosed in a plastic tube. All three rods were connected to a high voltage power source and were suspended from a support by the power feed wire. The power supply was pulsed which caused the 'rocket' to swing back and forth.
I have a compact version of the IBM model M, it's the same kb, but without the numeric keypad. It does generate the keypad key sequences via a shift mode with keys on the main keyboard. Otherwise it's the same heavy monster as the model M, only slightly smaller. Mine didn't survive a lightning hit to my house that 86'ed my motherboard, network card, and a few other pci interface cards. Thankfully, I was able to find a replacement on ebay, since I couldn't do without that fine keyboard. (I also rebuilt the computer, the cpu, ram and hard disks DID survive).
>We bet on the 16-bit PC. >Yeah, that's IBM's thing... Actually IBM started out the PC design with an 8085 processor left over from their datamaster project. It actually WAS BG's idea that they use the (then) new Intel 8088 cpu.
This case was about a large company using unfair tactics to sink a smaller company. They locked one companies product out of the market through deals they made with distrubitors to sell only their own products and infringed on the patents of the smaller company (sound familiar Mr. Bill?). The EULA violation was only the icing on the cake. Nothing wrong with this case, right decision.
It IS fair use to rip CD's for your own use, just as if you copied them to cassettes to play in your car cassette player (remember them?), just as we used to do with LP's. Cassettes, mp3's what ever. So long as you don't give the copies away, so long as they are for your own use, that's fair use. Remember the Betamax case?
What difference is there between using software to edit a dvd in real time for play at home and the networks doing the editing before showing a flick on broadcast tv? Oh, because the film is being underwrited by commericals it's ok to edit it for show on tv but someone who buys the film on dvd can't?
Ya know, the technology exists for putting 'tags' in the dvd itself so with extra firmware the dvd player could be configured to show a film that is rated R as PG or even G by skipping the tagged portions of the film. (Hey maybe I should patent that Idea! You are all my witnesses, I though of it first!).
Strange how in tring to make the GPL have so much freedom RMS had to make it restrictive enough to be less free. Guess you can't be everything to everybody.
Hey,if MS can come up with a search engine that works better, IE: faster and comes up with more on target hits (with no bias against anything that competes with MS) I'll use it. I switched from altavista to google for that reason.
Would be to develop technology to remotely fry the senator's brain the next time he answers his phone. Pehaps it might be possible to develop a computer virus based on neural networks that could infect a human brain (Senator Hatch's) leaving it with the IQ of a hamster. Guess that wouldn't make much of a difference in his case.
I will only use my credit card and if I get a 'broken' disk that the store won't take back, I won't pay for it. I'll demand my credit card to get my money back from the store.
Actually someday (maybe soon) such a system will be in place in the form of electronic highways that control the speed of all vehicles so that they can safely follow each other with only inches inbetween them to increase the capacity of the highways. You won't be driving you car anymore, the highway will drive it for you. You will program your off ramp and the car will wake you up when you get off the highway. (you did fall asleep while the car was driving didn't you?)
Get all the programmers and engineers together and demand the overtime (actually DOUBLE time) and tell them you will all walk out in mass if they don't agree. Also have them sign an agreement guaranteeing everyone at least a year's employment after the contract is over (anti revenge clause). If management doesn't agree they will doom the company by loosing the contract.
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That one of the government agencies that are running Linux and receive a 'pay up or else' notice from SCO is the IRS, or FBI. Talk about putting your head up a lions mouth (or maybe his ass).
Thats a fairly OLD version of the kernel, and IIRC a VERY buggy version at that, one that will cause file corruption. If that's the ONLY version of the 2.4 kernel they are still listing, maybe they are trying to tell us something......
some how I think that phone number is going to be
forever busy.....
I think SCO is the one guilty of conspiracy, not Red Hat!
He almost has it there. Maybe more like the system that Lloyd's of London has where the members of Lloyds are responsible for the loses of the company is more like it.
There's only ONE song on that list (by Queen) that I might have been interrested in downloading, and I already have it on a their 'greatest hits' CD.
Does that say anything about my taste in music, or my age?
As long as there are segments of the ham bands where morse code (actually the International Radio Telegraph Code, Morse refers to the older 'land line' telegraph code and is NOT the same) or CW is the only permitted modulation allowed (IE: no phone) cw is STILL a requirement! The lower portions of the 80, 40 , 20, 15 and 10 meter bands are still CW only and this isn't likely to change anytime soon. In addition sub-segments of the 80,20,15 and 10 meter CW bands are reserved for Extra Class licenses (in the USA) only, even though the code requirement for the extra class license was reduced from 20wpm to 5wpm. (The theory part of the exam is STILL a college level engineering test).
Same idea as a flying club where a group of pilots buy a plane and share it's use. The flying club can (and often is) a corporation with the members owning stock in the corporation. I'm sure there are boating clubs too.
I think Microsoft purchased a SCO license purely to feed the fire Thats one theory. Another (just as likely) is that MS simply wanted to cover their butts now that they are selling software to enable inter-operation between Windows and Unix. They have been advertising this stuff in some of the Linux magazines (even inclosed a free demo CD).
What we need to do is to write to our congressmen and demand protection. American companies moving American jobs overseas is not good for the US in the long run. It deprives the governement of tax dollars from both the IRS and the Social Security funds,lowers the standard of living here in the USA, and siphons technology out of this country. If enough people let their congressmen know, maybe they will do something. Tax laws could change so US companies that use foreign workers instead of Americans would have to pay into Social Security at a rate AS IF they had employed Americans at the expected salary. Other tax disensentives to outsourcing should also be put into place. If all good jobs are outsourced, then customers will have to be outsourced too!
Diskmakers has a similar gizmo in their catalog that is used for burning CD-R's. It picks up blank cd from an input stack, drops it into the open tray of the drive, then picks up the burned cd and drops it into the dot matrix printer to print the label on the disk (printable cd's) then picks the disk up out of the printer and drops it onto the output stack. Of course their gizmo isn't made of Wood. (http://www.discmakers.com/hardware/)
One reader of Linux magazine (not me) expressed the idea that the reason for SCO's recent stock rise was NOT that the market thinks they will win this lawsuit, but because someone has been quietly buying up their stock in advance of a hostile take over. That someone would be IBM, and McBride and his deatheaters will find themselves kicked out without a golden parachute. We can only hope!
I used to suscribe to Telocity DSL, which was bought out by DTV. I canceled my DSL with them and went with a local Bell when I moved. Since then I've been getting tons of phone calls from DTV trying to sell me their satelite service. My phone numbers are now on the don't call list and if they DO ever call me again, I'm gona sue THEM! I'd rather have cable then use their satelite TV service (or go with DISH network instead). DTV=SCO=M$=GWB
It was also in the world book encyclopedia. I remember a science project in there called an "ionic rocket engine". It had three metal rods with balls at one end and the other end was sharpened to a point. Each rod was enclosed in a plastic tube. All three rods were connected to a high voltage power source and were suspended from a support by the power feed wire. The power supply was pulsed which caused the 'rocket' to swing back and forth.
I have a compact version of the IBM model M, it's the same kb, but without the numeric keypad. It does generate the keypad key sequences via a shift mode with keys on the main keyboard. Otherwise it's the same heavy monster as the model M, only slightly smaller. Mine didn't survive a lightning hit to my house that 86'ed my motherboard, network card, and a few other pci interface cards. Thankfully, I was able to find a replacement on ebay, since I couldn't do without that fine keyboard. (I also rebuilt the computer, the cpu, ram and hard disks DID survive).
>We bet on the 16-bit PC.
>Yeah, that's IBM's thing...
Actually IBM started out the PC design with an 8085 processor left over from their datamaster project. It actually WAS BG's idea that they use the (then) new Intel 8088 cpu.
This case was about a large company using unfair tactics to sink a smaller company. They locked one companies product out of the market through deals they made with distrubitors to sell only their own products and infringed on the patents of the smaller company (sound familiar Mr. Bill?). The EULA violation was only the icing on the cake. Nothing wrong with this case, right decision.
It IS fair use to rip CD's for your own use, just as if you copied them to cassettes to play in your car cassette player (remember them?), just as we used to do with LP's. Cassettes, mp3's what ever. So long as you don't give the copies away, so long as they are for your own use, that's fair use. Remember the Betamax
case?
What difference is there between using software to edit a dvd in real time for play at home and the networks doing the editing before showing a flick on broadcast tv? Oh, because the film is being underwrited by commericals it's ok to edit it for show on tv but someone who buys the film on dvd can't?
Ya know, the technology exists for putting 'tags' in the dvd itself so with extra firmware the dvd player could be configured to show a film that is rated R as PG or even G by skipping the tagged portions of the film. (Hey maybe I should patent that Idea! You are all my witnesses, I though of it first!).
Strange how in tring to make the GPL have so much freedom RMS had to make it restrictive enough to be less free. Guess you can't be everything to everybody.
Hey,if MS can come up with a search engine that works better, IE: faster and comes up with more on target hits (with no bias against anything that competes with MS) I'll use it. I switched from altavista to google for that reason.
Would be to develop technology to remotely fry the senator's
brain the next time he answers his phone. Pehaps it might be possible to develop a computer virus based on neural networks that could infect a human brain (Senator Hatch's) leaving it with the IQ of a hamster. Guess that wouldn't make much of a difference in his case.
I will only use my credit card and if I get a 'broken' disk that the store won't take back, I won't pay for it. I'll demand my credit card to get my money back from the store.
Actually someday (maybe soon) such a system will be in place in the form of electronic highways that control the speed of all vehicles so that they can safely follow each other with only inches inbetween them to increase the capacity of the highways. You won't be driving you car anymore, the highway will drive it for you. You will program your off ramp and the car will wake you up when you get off the highway. (you did fall asleep while the car was driving didn't you?)
Get all the programmers and engineers together and
demand the overtime (actually DOUBLE time) and tell them you will all walk out in mass if they don't agree. Also have them sign an agreement guaranteeing everyone at least a year's employment after the contract is over (anti revenge clause).
If management doesn't agree they will doom the company by loosing the contract.