That's the funniest shit I've read in ages! I mean, the most serious shit! I mean, the most seriously funny! I mean, shit, I don't know what I mean. The code has already corrupted me. It is too big and fast to stop! It will take over Parliament, the U.S. Senate, there is nothing we can do. Soon everyone will be using Microsoft products!
When I see something like this, I am inevitably reminded of Star Trek. Their computers just work. They don't have problems unless they are acted upon by some outside force, generally resulting in physical damage. They are intuitive for the users.
Even the tech gurus on Star Trek can reprogram most computer problems in minutes, or at the outside, in a day or two. This would appear to be functional programming, as mentioned earlier in the article. I've never heard Jordi complain about referencing a null pointer anywhere.
In short, the answer is Star Trek. Sun, Microsoft, IBM, and the rest just needs to get off their asses and deliver whatever programming language was used on the Enterprise! Damn the bureaucrats, damn them all!
At the closing of trade today, volume was less than average and the stock lost.74% of its total value, which is nothing staggering. The news of the code leak, however, has a) not hit the mainstream press, and b) not even been confirmed by the thousands of geeks on/. looking at this.
If you are going to short the stock on news like this though, you're just asking to lose money. There is no telling, really, how Wall Street will react to vague technical news. Plus, the stock could dip and rebound so quickly that trading is frozen and you are stuck in at an arbitrary price with no idea where it will end up. Very stressful--I recommend against it.
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SCO is the owner of the UNIX(R) Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back to 1969, when the UNIX(R) System was created at Bell Laboratories.
Yes, I remember that great day, when Darl reached out of his crib, played with some punch cards, and voila!, a multi-user operating system was born. He was years ahead of Gates' measly DOS, and I know that Linus reveres him deeply as the grandfather of his own IP.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the hard work of his venerable company, SCO, who, since the 1830s has been an innovator in computer technology.
The rover-to-orbiter link uses UHF radio-the same basic technology used for broadcasting channels 14 and higher to television sets in the United States
Clearly, Mars Channel 25 caused the original Spirit communication breakdown by interrupting it with an episode of Days of our red, dreary lives.
I agree, surely the individual and his company needs to take responsibility. But the agency who released this data should have done more to assure that the data was secure. If they can't assure this when the work has been outsourced too many ways to track, they probably shouldn't be outsourcing in the first place...but they still hold, imo, the highest responsibility for the protection of sensitive data.
How does the government go about compensating for this type of potential threat? I mean, it was a violation of privacy but there was no immediate damage done to the families, in terms of material loss.
There is, however, a significant threat of emotional stress from knowing that your sensitive data is in strangers' hands, and the very real threat of this data being exploited in some way. I personally think the government should at least reward the families with money enough to relocate if they feel threated. What are y'all's thoughts on this?
..I would go ahead and make whatever changes you feel comfortable with. Chances are some anonymous HR person will be the only one looking at this stuff and won't look very closely at that.
If a question comes up, I think that your reasons behind the change are very good and if you present those reasons properly, the company should have no problem accepting them. I've changed contracts with companies I've worked for before, pointed out the changes to the hiring manager, and their response has always been, "Okay, sure, whatever, when can you start?"
...don't feel comfortable working outside of very rigid guidelines. For example, this patent will make my OSS development projects go much smoother, and increase my productivity in some ambiguous way. At least I'll know how to pay myself for my own work, it's pretty important I get all that money.
Hopefully soon, everything about software and computers will be patented, so I can curb my mind from its aweful tendency to stray outside of the box. Go IBM, Microsoft, et al.!
If Bush were really, really serious about this, he wouldn't be saying 15 years, or anything else along the same lines. We went to the moon over THIRTY years ago. Yes, we haven't kept up our equipment like we should. But with the leaps in technology since then, I don't see why we couldn't have manned missions to the moon within, say, 2-3 years, a moon base in 4-6 years, and a mission to mars shortly thereafter. There are a lot of bright people out there capable of pulling this off, but they would need funding and support. That I could get excited about, backed by real funding now. 2015 sounds like a huge stall.
...the lowered CD prices some of the labels came out with a few months back. But, this should shed some light on the issue of copyright protection and the nature of digitally transferred music. After all, if I'm only downloading 1's and 0's, this is pretty different from the original that was copied. Same goes for the labels in this case; doesn't seem right for them to have to pay royalties for different versions of the same content.
Some great lego kits for girls you may not know about:
-The lego bakery. Must supply own natural gas and ignition. Warning, set will melt upon first use. -The lego dressing room, where yes, all the blocks make you look fat. -The lego barbie set. Actually this one is for boys--instead of just undressing barbie and ken you can stick them together in new and creative ways
What other color would it be? Green? To my understanding the pictures have been color-enhanced to bring up the contrast a bit, but that's about all. If you look at the Maestro images which have supposedly been untampered, Mars still looks awfully red, sky and all. If I understand from reading such pseudo-scientific works as Red Mars, this is the normal state of the planet and the pictures are pretty representative of reality.
Unlike the blue-collar scenario, none of the current scenario is really employees' faults on a large scale. Really the cause does lay in greed, vis.:
-IT was generally a well-paying, repsected, and educated field for 25-30 years.
-Then a lot of companies decided they could do anything that contained a few IT buzzwords and be successful
-VCs and other investors agreed. Companies could hire workers at extravagant salaries, spend tons of money on worthless crap, and never produce a thing.
-The whole bubble bursts, IT has a questionable reputation at most companies, a lot of people are in positions they never should have been hired into in the first place, and nobody wants to confront the whole mess--it's just too painful.
So, we conveniently ship it oversees and out of site, and save a few bucks in the bargain. Someone else will manage that lot of better-educated, low-salaried IT workers. Everyone wins except a lot of US employees and the US economy, but who cares when you're just in it for yourself?
I would happen to agree. Business is business. New Technology or new markets open up, if only on a small scale, all the time. The dot-coms, Commodores, etc., of the world have all made mistakes along the same general lines. They overestimated or underestimated the market, their own expenditures, etc.
That being said, companies have only been around for about 200 years. Before that there were independent employers who would sometimes hire journeymen or join guilds. The American Corporation will someday fail (not an unwelcomed occurrence, IMHO). I'm more interested to see what takes its place in terms of financial structure and employment.
IIRC, qt is only pseudo-gpl'd for free, completely non-competitive use. This creates a potential divide between the home and work installation if we are to see a real *nix desktop emerge...unless you want to pay a lot of money to use qt for more-or-less business purposes.
On the other hand I feel that KDE is a more sophisticated GUI than Gnome in that gnome. At least, I like it better. I think what is more important than how the GUI looks is, what are the underlying support libraries, and how will these allow you to run/develop applications in a somewhat more uniform environment.
I don't think that many people care all that much how their desktop looks, or which group worked on developing it. Just include the libraries that will make both parties happy and I don't see a problem.
It is natural for criminals to group together. Why? Because they've committed so many heinous acts that they only feel comforted by others who are just as bad. The other side of this is, criminals figure that because they're crooks, the rest of the world must be, too.
So when SCO's servers start acting up, their first reaction, being such criminals as they are, is to assume that someone else is doing exactly what they do--launch an attack, attempting to destroy or deface the competition. And thus, it must be someone in the evil Open Source community who is doing it, or maybe just maybe IBM.
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Even the tech gurus on Star Trek can reprogram most computer problems in minutes, or at the outside, in a day or two. This would appear to be functional programming, as mentioned earlier in the article. I've never heard Jordi complain about referencing a null pointer anywhere.
In short, the answer is Star Trek. Sun, Microsoft, IBM, and the rest just needs to get off their asses and deliver whatever programming language was used on the Enterprise! Damn the bureaucrats, damn them all!
If you are going to short the stock on news like this though, you're just asking to lose money. There is no telling, really, how Wall Street will react to vague technical news. Plus, the stock could dip and rebound so quickly that trading is frozen and you are stuck in at an arbitrary price with no idea where it will end up. Very stressful--I recommend against it.
SCO is the owner of the UNIX(R) Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back to 1969, when the UNIX(R) System was created at Bell Laboratories.
Yes, I remember that great day, when Darl reached out of his crib, played with some punch cards, and voila!, a multi-user operating system was born. He was years ahead of Gates' measly DOS, and I know that Linus reveres him deeply as the grandfather of his own IP.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the hard work of his venerable company, SCO, who, since the 1830s has been an innovator in computer technology.
Clearly, Mars Channel 25 caused the original Spirit communication breakdown by interrupting it with an episode of Days of our red, dreary lives.
I agree, surely the individual and his company needs to take responsibility. But the agency who released this data should have done more to assure that the data was secure. If they can't assure this when the work has been outsourced too many ways to track, they probably shouldn't be outsourcing in the first place...but they still hold, imo, the highest responsibility for the protection of sensitive data.
There is, however, a significant threat of emotional stress from knowing that your sensitive data is in strangers' hands, and the very real threat of this data being exploited in some way. I personally think the government should at least reward the families with money enough to relocate if they feel threated. What are y'all's thoughts on this?
If a question comes up, I think that your reasons behind the change are very good and if you present those reasons properly, the company should have no problem accepting them. I've changed contracts with companies I've worked for before, pointed out the changes to the hiring manager, and their response has always been, "Okay, sure, whatever, when can you start?"
I've heard that UoB, University of Bangalore, offers excellent training, and good job placement;)
Hopefully soon, everything about software and computers will be patented, so I can curb my mind from its aweful tendency to stray outside of the box. Go IBM, Microsoft, et al.!
If Bush were really, really serious about this, he wouldn't be saying 15 years, or anything else along the same lines. We went to the moon over THIRTY years ago. Yes, we haven't kept up our equipment like we should. But with the leaps in technology since then, I don't see why we couldn't have manned missions to the moon within, say, 2-3 years, a moon base in 4-6 years, and a mission to mars shortly thereafter. There are a lot of bright people out there capable of pulling this off, but they would need funding and support. That I could get excited about, backed by real funding now. 2015 sounds like a huge stall.
Yeah, but what happens when someone hacks you?
...the lowered CD prices some of the labels came out with a few months back. But, this should shed some light on the issue of copyright protection and the nature of digitally transferred music. After all, if I'm only downloading 1's and 0's, this is pretty different from the original that was copied. Same goes for the labels in this case; doesn't seem right for them to have to pay royalties for different versions of the same content.
...We're all going to hell
Once they merge, we can finally see S-imian, the new user-friendly desktop monkey butler!
Some great lego kits for girls you may not know about:
-The lego bakery. Must supply own natural gas and ignition. Warning, set will melt upon first use.
-The lego dressing room, where yes, all the blocks make you look fat.
-The lego barbie set. Actually this one is for boys--instead of just undressing barbie and ken you can stick them together in new and creative ways
What other color would it be? Green? To my understanding the pictures have been color-enhanced to bring up the contrast a bit, but that's about all. If you look at the Maestro images which have supposedly been untampered, Mars still looks awfully red, sky and all. If I understand from reading such pseudo-scientific works as Red Mars, this is the normal state of the planet and the pictures are pretty representative of reality.
-IT was generally a well-paying, repsected, and educated field for 25-30 years.
-Then a lot of companies decided they could do anything that contained a few IT buzzwords and be successful
-VCs and other investors agreed. Companies could hire workers at extravagant salaries, spend tons of money on worthless crap, and never produce a thing.
-The whole bubble bursts, IT has a questionable reputation at most companies, a lot of people are in positions they never should have been hired into in the first place, and nobody wants to confront the whole mess--it's just too painful.
So, we conveniently ship it oversees and out of site, and save a few bucks in the bargain. Someone else will manage that lot of better-educated, low-salaried IT workers. Everyone wins except a lot of US employees and the US economy, but who cares when you're just in it for yourself?
But if we outlaw outsourcing, only outlaws will outsource.
The newer models should be capable of frying at least 2.4x10^15 ants/second, compared to Hubble's 1.8x10^13 ants.
I would happen to agree. Business is business. New Technology or new markets open up, if only on a small scale, all the time. The dot-coms, Commodores, etc., of the world have all made mistakes along the same general lines. They overestimated or underestimated the market, their own expenditures, etc. That being said, companies have only been around for about 200 years. Before that there were independent employers who would sometimes hire journeymen or join guilds. The American Corporation will someday fail (not an unwelcomed occurrence, IMHO). I'm more interested to see what takes its place in terms of financial structure and employment.
On the other hand I feel that KDE is a more sophisticated GUI than Gnome in that gnome. At least, I like it better. I think what is more important than how the GUI looks is, what are the underlying support libraries, and how will these allow you to run/develop applications in a somewhat more uniform environment. I don't think that many people care all that much how their desktop looks, or which group worked on developing it. Just include the libraries that will make both parties happy and I don't see a problem.
It is natural for criminals to group together. Why? Because they've committed so many heinous acts that they only feel comforted by others who are just as bad. The other side of this is, criminals figure that because they're crooks, the rest of the world must be, too. So when SCO's servers start acting up, their first reaction, being such criminals as they are, is to assume that someone else is doing exactly what they do--launch an attack, attempting to destroy or deface the competition. And thus, it must be someone in the evil Open Source community who is doing it, or maybe just maybe IBM.
...guaranteed to give you 25% more republican votes or your money back