Have you noticed that SCO's business went completely down the tubes?
What business?
Seriously, I know of nobody who had a shred of respect left for SCO Unix BEFORE they started suing everything that walked.
I think this is a deal aimed squareley at the blue suits of this world in companies where the IT department just runs what's thrust at it, and has little or no say in the matter. It means that Novell can say to them "Are your tech staff making noises about wanting to run Linux? Does the thought of that make you nervous? Well, if you run SuSE Linux you don't need to worry".
However, if your main concern is disruption rather than maximum deaths, detonating explosives in a major airport (particularly at a bottleneck - say, at security when they start asking awkward questions like "What's in the bag?" - would do a fine job.
Paritularly in a country where there aren't very many international airports and the biggest and most obvious target is right on the junction of two major motorways. You won't damage the motorways, but you'll cause tailbacks and disruption that lasts for hours.
The key is intent... And it's up to a court to decide that, not police officers
While I accept this, it is counterproductive for the courts to be inundated in cases dealing with people who are likely to be innocent.
It is also extremely difficult to keep your job when you have to have someone ring in on your behalf and inform your employer you've been arrested on terrorist charges.
Furthermore, you're unlikely to get bail. Try explaining the year you've just spent in custody waiting to be found not guilty to a potential employer. They'd have you escorted out of the building as soon as the words "arrested for terrorist offences" had left your mouth.
That's quite a thought. If MS can get over their kneejerk reaction to any OS which isn't Windows, then a Linux distribution (maybe with some closed source software in userland to integrate tightly with Windows) would get some serious attention. The only problem is that a key driver for Linux is cost - not just of the server, but for things like CALs, which become very expensive (and very complicated) very quickly.
Really? My previous employer produced software for the mobile telco industry, and when I left were in the process of porting it to x86/Linux with IBM as a business partner. The reason for the porting was because apparently customers were clamouring for it.
Of course, it's rather easier to run a 24/7 server when the database that does all the real hard work can natively handle multi-master replication.
Every day, dozens of servers are deployed running Microsoft Exchange.
Sing it. Right now I'm managing an infrastructure entirely Linux based on the server side, but Noises are Afoot. Noises saying things like "We want Exchange!".
Now with Exchange, you need Active Directory. And if you're going to do that, you really ought to set it up as an AD domain and put your desktops on the domain or you lose one of the main benefits - the seamless integration with the desktop.
And because you'd be a fool to do otherwise, this implies at least two Windows servers to provide some redundancy for AD.
So this nice little idea for Exchange is suddenly a major project which involves huge upheaval for all the staff desktops (and will go down like a lead balloon with the people who want to use a mail client other than Outlook. Sure, you can use any mail client you like if you enable IMAP, but it will soon suck mightily as you are bombarded with things like emails with voting buttons, meeting requests and such.
I think the concern is not that it hurts Novell's customers, but that it may hurt everyone else's customers.
The logic being: Microsoft can now say "We have patents and will sue you if you use any distribution other than Novell".
Myself, I think it sounds like a cross-licensing deal in all but name. However, the devil's in the details, and realistically someone's got to take that question to court.
SCOs credibility was somwhere around zero in any case by that time.
However, if Microsoft start talking patents, and the suits start listening and hearing things like "liability.... sue..... millions of pounds (or dollars if you're american)", emails are more likely to be sent. Emails like "We don't have any of that Linux, do we? Get rid of it, quick!"
When I choose to move on I'm still putting "Java Developer" on my resume.
Right up until the time a future employer contacts your current one for a reference, and they write back to say "[NAME] was employed by us as an Information Design Specialist from [date] to [date]".
Meh. It's pretty common for Christian festivals to coincide with pagan festivals.
A witch I used to know reckons it's because whenever a missionary was trying to convert a bunch of people, the people would say "Well, we've got this festival at this time of year and it's all great fun" and the Church had set festival dates so the missionary would be able to reply with "We have something similar".
Methinks it likely that there will be an option to "Enable Classic UI" or somesuch which will wind up enabled on 70%+ of installations.
While OO.o isn't a serious competitor to Microsoft - yet - don't think they haven't noticed the few high-profile migrations to Sun's StarOffice. This is not the time to alienate your core customer base.
like, Nikon's essentially miraculous, built-in remote strobe control stuff
What's that when it's at home? I've used a film SLR a fair bit, and I'm looking to migrate to digital. Haven't decided if I'll go the Nikon or Canon route yet, so I'd like to know what features one may have that the other lacks.
Most of the people who pirated XP would never have paid for it, so it is not a lost sale.
That argument is repeated over and over, yet there's no way to test it.
Let's assume a theoretical universe where it is absolutely, positively, categorically impossible to pirate XP. Not "difficult". Impossible.
Let us further assume that, just like in this universe, XP has 90%+ market share.
What's more likely:
1. Something else will take market share. 2. Sales of PCs without operating systems are almost entirely unheard of. (Not just unusual, as they are right now).
How will you be navigating that large flying contraption? By the time it gets to where you were aiming it, the object you were aiming it has moved. You need some means of keeping track of where your target is now and where you expect it to be when you actually get there - which is inevitably going to be time based.
Reading between the lines of the summary, I'd say the ground system communicates to the onboard system "on this date at this time, head in this direction". The problem is, past the new year, "on this date" won't make any sense.
Why they couldn't write the ground navigation systems to just start from day 1 and work upwards, however, I don't know.
That is 200,000 people that they are not allowing to shop on their website.
Out of a population of 300 million, that is less than 0.1% of the market.
Now, will rebuilding their entire site to accomodate that 0.1% of the market cost more than it is expected to bring in? Probably. You could argue that the market will solve that problem by someone else showing up to accomodate the disabled, but chances are they'll be more expensive to cover the extra costs involved to hire web designers rather than chimps with a copy of "HTML for Dummies". Which means the disabled either need to receive higher benefits or get higher paying jobs. Neither of which is a particularly ideal solution. By legislating accessibility, the cost is spread around everyone rather than just society's most vulnerable.
(and it's usually not all that expensive if you plan on doing it from the beginning)
Heh. Come over to the UK. Our equivalent of ADA (called the Disability Discrimination Act) became law some time ago, yet building regulations weren't updated until a while later (I imagine they have been now, however...).
Therefore there was an overlap where it was possible for you to hire an architect and a builder, who would design and build you a building, which would be illegal the day they handed it over to you - and their work would have been all OK so unless you specified compliance with DDA in the contract it would be your problem.
I know an architect who made a fortune out of working to retro-fit DDA compliance to existing buildings, and he found himself working on recently completed buildings surprisingly often. AFAIK, he now spends his weekends on his yacht.
Flash can actually be sensibly used and have full support for screenreaders, magnifiers and other aids for people with disabilities. Think of it as a full-blown object oriented programming language for graphically heavy applications.
It's just that 99 times out of 100 it's used for pointless little animations or as a substitute for actually trying to write some proper f'ing HTML which renders sensibly. It's a case of the many giving the few a bad name.
And if he develops a reputation for publicising such breaches rather than "working to fix them" (ie. cover up), that too will dictate how his consulting business will grow.
They probably never thought of that. By the time the security neanderthal has decided s/h/it doesn't like you using the strain gauge, you'll have long gone.
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Have you noticed that SCO's business went completely down the tubes?
What business?
Seriously, I know of nobody who had a shred of respect left for SCO Unix BEFORE they started suing everything that walked.
I think this is a deal aimed squareley at the blue suits of this world in companies where the IT department just runs what's thrust at it, and has little or no say in the matter. It means that Novell can say to them "Are your tech staff making noises about wanting to run Linux? Does the thought of that make you nervous? Well, if you run SuSE Linux you don't need to worry".
However, if your main concern is disruption rather than maximum deaths, detonating explosives in a major airport (particularly at a bottleneck - say, at security when they start asking awkward questions like "What's in the bag?" - would do a fine job.
Paritularly in a country where there aren't very many international airports and the biggest and most obvious target is right on the junction of two major motorways. You won't damage the motorways, but you'll cause tailbacks and disruption that lasts for hours.
The key is intent... And it's up to a court to decide that, not police officers
While I accept this, it is counterproductive for the courts to be inundated in cases dealing with people who are likely to be innocent.
It is also extremely difficult to keep your job when you have to have someone ring in on your behalf and inform your employer you've been arrested on terrorist charges.
Furthermore, you're unlikely to get bail. Try explaining the year you've just spent in custody waiting to be found not guilty to a potential employer. They'd have you escorted out of the building as soon as the words "arrested for terrorist offences" had left your mouth.
That's quite a thought. If MS can get over their kneejerk reaction to any OS which isn't Windows, then a Linux distribution (maybe with some closed source software in userland to integrate tightly with Windows) would get some serious attention. The only problem is that a key driver for Linux is cost - not just of the server, but for things like CALs, which become very expensive (and very complicated) very quickly.
You don't run 24/7 servers on intel hardware.
Really? My previous employer produced software for the mobile telco industry, and when I left were in the process of porting it to x86/Linux with IBM as a business partner. The reason for the porting was because apparently customers were clamouring for it.
Of course, it's rather easier to run a 24/7 server when the database that does all the real hard work can natively handle multi-master replication.
Every day, dozens of servers are deployed running Microsoft Exchange.
Sing it. Right now I'm managing an infrastructure entirely Linux based on the server side, but Noises are Afoot. Noises saying things like "We want Exchange!".
Now with Exchange, you need Active Directory. And if you're going to do that, you really ought to set it up as an AD domain and put your desktops on the domain or you lose one of the main benefits - the seamless integration with the desktop.
And because you'd be a fool to do otherwise, this implies at least two Windows servers to provide some redundancy for AD.
So this nice little idea for Exchange is suddenly a major project which involves huge upheaval for all the staff desktops (and will go down like a lead balloon with the people who want to use a mail client other than Outlook. Sure, you can use any mail client you like if you enable IMAP, but it will soon suck mightily as you are bombarded with things like emails with voting buttons, meeting requests and such.
I think the concern is not that it hurts Novell's customers, but that it may hurt everyone else's customers.
The logic being: Microsoft can now say "We have patents and will sue you if you use any distribution other than Novell".
Myself, I think it sounds like a cross-licensing deal in all but name. However, the devil's in the details, and realistically someone's got to take that question to court.
SCOs credibility was somwhere around zero in any case by that time.
However, if Microsoft start talking patents, and the suits start listening and hearing things like "liability.... sue..... millions of pounds (or dollars if you're american)", emails are more likely to be sent. Emails like "We don't have any of that Linux, do we? Get rid of it, quick!"
A games console and its accessories are only as good as the games that are released for it. Cf. DreamCast, Mega CD, Super Nintendoscope, Sega Menacer.
Because then they'll piss off their customers. And Sony's customers aren't you or me, they're WalMart, Best Buy et al.
The largest brain ever measured belonged to an imbecile.
Doesn't surprise me. Brains get their cognitive ability from the number and efficiency of inter-neural connections, not from size.
When I choose to move on I'm still putting "Java Developer" on my resume.
Right up until the time a future employer contacts your current one for a reference, and they write back to say "[NAME] was employed by us as an Information Design Specialist from [date] to [date]".
Unless you're very talented, that's just not an option for most /.'ers.
My cat has rather more artistic talent than I do.
Meh. It's pretty common for Christian festivals to coincide with pagan festivals.
A witch I used to know reckons it's because whenever a missionary was trying to convert a bunch of people, the people would say "Well, we've got this festival at this time of year and it's all great fun" and the Church had set festival dates so the missionary would be able to reply with "We have something similar".
Methinks it likely that there will be an option to "Enable Classic UI" or somesuch which will wind up enabled on 70%+ of installations.
While OO.o isn't a serious competitor to Microsoft - yet - don't think they haven't noticed the few high-profile migrations to Sun's StarOffice. This is not the time to alienate your core customer base.
like, Nikon's essentially miraculous, built-in remote strobe control stuff
What's that when it's at home? I've used a film SLR a fair bit, and I'm looking to migrate to digital. Haven't decided if I'll go the Nikon or Canon route yet, so I'd like to know what features one may have that the other lacks.
Except that as far as Microsoft is concerned, an OEM license may only be used on the bit of tin that it was shipped preinstalled on.
No idea if this has been accepted in a court of law yet, though.
Most of the people who pirated XP would never have paid for it, so it is not a lost sale.
That argument is repeated over and over, yet there's no way to test it.
Let's assume a theoretical universe where it is absolutely, positively, categorically impossible to pirate XP. Not "difficult". Impossible.
Let us further assume that, just like in this universe, XP has 90%+ market share.
What's more likely:
1. Something else will take market share.
2. Sales of PCs without operating systems are almost entirely unheard of. (Not just unusual, as they are right now).
Newspeak ungood, comrade.
miniluv make writer unperson plusquick.
(This would have the effect of not only killing the person, but erasing any evidence that they ever existed from history).
How will you be navigating that large flying contraption? By the time it gets to where you were aiming it, the object you were aiming it has moved. You need some means of keeping track of where your target is now and where you expect it to be when you actually get there - which is inevitably going to be time based.
Reading between the lines of the summary, I'd say the ground system communicates to the onboard system "on this date at this time, head in this direction". The problem is, past the new year, "on this date" won't make any sense.
Why they couldn't write the ground navigation systems to just start from day 1 and work upwards, however, I don't know.
That is 200,000 people that they are not allowing to shop on their website.
Out of a population of 300 million, that is less than 0.1% of the market.
Now, will rebuilding their entire site to accomodate that 0.1% of the market cost more than it is expected to bring in? Probably. You could argue that the market will solve that problem by someone else showing up to accomodate the disabled, but chances are they'll be more expensive to cover the extra costs involved to hire web designers rather than chimps with a copy of "HTML for Dummies". Which means the disabled either need to receive higher benefits or get higher paying jobs. Neither of which is a particularly ideal solution. By legislating accessibility, the cost is spread around everyone rather than just society's most vulnerable.
(and it's usually not all that expensive if you plan on doing it from the beginning)
Heh. Come over to the UK. Our equivalent of ADA (called the Disability Discrimination Act) became law some time ago, yet building regulations weren't updated until a while later (I imagine they have been now, however...).
Therefore there was an overlap where it was possible for you to hire an architect and a builder, who would design and build you a building, which would be illegal the day they handed it over to you - and their work would have been all OK so unless you specified compliance with DDA in the contract it would be your problem.
I know an architect who made a fortune out of working to retro-fit DDA compliance to existing buildings, and he found himself working on recently completed buildings surprisingly often. AFAIK, he now spends his weekends on his yacht.
Flash can actually be sensibly used and have full support for screenreaders, magnifiers and other aids for people with disabilities. Think of it as a full-blown object oriented programming language for graphically heavy applications.
It's just that 99 times out of 100 it's used for pointless little animations or as a substitute for actually trying to write some proper f'ing HTML which renders sensibly. It's a case of the many giving the few a bad name.
And if he develops a reputation for publicising such breaches rather than "working to fix them" (ie. cover up), that too will dictate how his consulting business will grow.
They probably never thought of that. By the time the security neanderthal has decided s/h/it doesn't like you using the strain gauge, you'll have long gone.