While I hate to reply to myself, I spelled "lightbulbs" wrong. I should try nailing the spelling of simple words before trying to outwit the genius posters on Slashdot.:\
How many SCO executivess does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Five 1 to claim ownship of the IP 1 to file suit against bulb manufacturers 1 to threaten bulb endusers 1 to send off asking how to use a bulb...and 1 to fumble and drop it.</pathetic attempt at Funny rating>
Step 3: Google takes over browser market with their own branded Firefox
Step 4: Tomorrow - the world!
Mozilla staff are looking to get into talks with Google for them to release their own branded distribution of Firefox, which would hopefully get some great leverage in the browser market.
They're not simply going to reinvent the GPL, they need something different. The GPL doesn't cater to their needs well enough, so they had to write their own. Nothing strange about that.
Admittedly I can see there is a relation, but a relation can really be drawn between any two very different things. Personally by looking at the star, I think more of space or something, even though the star shape is nothing like that of a real star.
A star could mean lots of things. And after a brief search over the Mandrake the magician website I could find no star or other image even vaguely similar to the Mandrakesoft star. If you can find one I'll gladly stand corrected, but as I see it there's really no relation..
The Ferrari logo is a specific image related to Ferrari itself. It should also be noted that Ferrari is not a dictionary word. In the case you just mentioned, Ferrari was used to relate to the Ferrari company. In this case, however, Mandrakesoft is not using the likeness of Mandrake the magician, nor a Mandrake the magician logo, to sell.
This being such a Linux-loving community, I'm surprised that a link to Mandrake the magician wasn't placed in the news story itself to give it a good hard slashdoting.
I don't see why they would have to change their name if "Mandrake the magician" owns the trademark. They are in completely different fields - Manradeksoft being software, Mandrake the magician being..(?). I could see this happening if Mandrakesoft was in the same area as this Mandrake the magician thing, but they are entirely different. This is similar to the fact that there is a movie Firefox but Mozilla can still use the name Firefox because they are in different fields of operation.
Well you can run mail through a system like that first, pulling out the mail that is definitely not spam and shuffling it away to the Inbox. Then run it through a different kind of spam system, such as a system like SpamBayes, and you cut it down even more.
On its own it doesn't sound like it works well, but you can couple it with already-existing systems to boost accuracy.
... that set stricter rules on their licenses? So far we've seen Mozilla's Firefox adopt a stance that does not allow unofficial people to use their artwork at all. Unofficial Firefox builds still must use Firebird artowork and they cannot call themselves Firefox. XFree86 has just adopted their new policy.. and now Apache. Well, this ought to be fun.
I also might add that you get the standard feel of an FPS while playing as marines, but you get a refreshing change when you play as aliens, which are very different.
Natural Selection is quite good. It's a Half-Life mod that has an excellent player community - very few nubs, and almost zero hackers. Relatively complicated gameplay, but once you learn it, it is very fun.
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I also spelled executives wrong. I don't know how I sleep at night knowing that.
While I hate to reply to myself, I spelled "lightbulbs" wrong. I should try nailing the spelling of simple words before trying to outwit the genius posters on Slashdot. :\
How many SCO executivess does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
...and 1 to fumble and drop it.</pathetic attempt at Funny rating>
Five
1 to claim ownship of the IP
1 to file suit against bulb manufacturers
1 to threaten bulb endusers
1 to send off asking how to use a bulb
Step 3: Google takes over browser market with their own branded Firefox Step 4: Tomorrow - the world! Mozilla staff are looking to get into talks with Google for them to release their own branded distribution of Firefox, which would hopefully get some great leverage in the browser market.
They're not simply going to reinvent the GPL, they need something different. The GPL doesn't cater to their needs well enough, so they had to write their own. Nothing strange about that.
Ahh.. well then since they apparently were basing it off of the Mandrake strip, any sympathy I had for them is gone.
Admittedly I can see there is a relation, but a relation can really be drawn between any two very different things. Personally by looking at the star, I think more of space or something, even though the star shape is nothing like that of a real star.
A star could mean lots of things. And after a brief search over the Mandrake the magician website I could find no star or other image even vaguely similar to the Mandrakesoft star. If you can find one I'll gladly stand corrected, but as I see it there's really no relation..
The Ferrari logo is a specific image related to Ferrari itself. It should also be noted that Ferrari is not a dictionary word. In the case you just mentioned, Ferrari was used to relate to the Ferrari company. In this case, however, Mandrakesoft is not using the likeness of Mandrake the magician, nor a Mandrake the magician logo, to sell.
This being such a Linux-loving community, I'm surprised that a link to Mandrake the magician wasn't placed in the news story itself to give it a good hard slashdoting.
I don't see why they would have to change their name if "Mandrake the magician" owns the trademark. They are in completely different fields - Manradeksoft being software, Mandrake the magician being..(?). I could see this happening if Mandrakesoft was in the same area as this Mandrake the magician thing, but they are entirely different. This is similar to the fact that there is a movie Firefox but Mozilla can still use the name Firefox because they are in different fields of operation.
Well you can run mail through a system like that first, pulling out the mail that is definitely not spam and shuffling it away to the Inbox. Then run it through a different kind of spam system, such as a system like SpamBayes, and you cut it down even more.
On its own it doesn't sound like it works well, but you can couple it with already-existing systems to boost accuracy.
Unfortunately, the RIAA is running Windows.
... that set stricter rules on their licenses? So far we've seen Mozilla's Firefox adopt a stance that does not allow unofficial people to use their artwork at all. Unofficial Firefox builds still must use Firebird artowork and they cannot call themselves Firefox. XFree86 has just adopted their new policy.. and now Apache. Well, this ought to be fun.
Looks like it didn't matter - alreadly scored (5, funny). ;)
Well no, Microsoft isn't next, Microsoft was before this. ;)
So will we finally find out exactly what kind of information that IE is keeping on us?
This would still be very nice. I can't see a light generating enough heat to warrant anything more than a heatsink. Bye bye noisy CPU fan...
I love it when people open up the IE icon and refer to it as opening the Internet. :\
Anyone can make the Internet a better place to live, work and raise up kids. It takes a real blockhead with a will of iron to make it worse.
So Bill Gates is a blockhead with a will of iron now?
I also might add that you get the standard feel of an FPS while playing as marines, but you get a refreshing change when you play as aliens, which are very different.
Natural Selection is quite good. It's a Half-Life mod that has an excellent player community - very few nubs, and almost zero hackers. Relatively complicated gameplay, but once you learn it, it is very fun.
Nah, the hosted the image locally on their own server for some reason. You'd think they'd actually try for real revenge and leech it.
Yeah, it'll be nice when they make another alt page against Slashdot.. and then it makes Slashdot news again. =)
:D! Linux commercials during the superbowl. That ought to be good for publicity. :)