SCO is making much of their new Service oriented Arcitechture (SOA). Someone posted the following AC to the Groklaw page on this:
SOA = STD in Dutch
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 27 2006 @ 10:31 AM EST
SOA = Sexueel Overdraagbare Aandoening, translated: Sexually Transferable
Disease..
Something you definitively do not want, hehe..
>Is it possible for scientists to publish their findings WITHOUT stooping to the level of mockery?
Scientists don't publish their work in Discover. It is a news magazine with a science focus and a somewhat sensationalist editorial style. Don't confuse the hyperbole of journalists with the scientists writings. The scientists working on these things tend to publish in obscure journals like Virus Research. For more information on these things including some cool photos (these things are larger than some cells) see GiantVirus.org.
> No, no, no - the correct answer to "Hey, Granpa" is "I never married."
Couldn't for the life of me remember Shepherd Book's comeback when I typed that. It's not that I'm old, mind you, it's the drugs. Oh, wait, that doesn't sound good either.
>Why would this guy take this stuff to the media instead of the appropriate government authorities?
Which authorities should he take it to? The ones who already knew about the cockup and would look bad/stupid when it came out? The ones who made the deal with Diebold? The ones who will have to do all that work all over again when this comes out? Look how hard it is to get elections officials to do something about flaws that everybody knows about. They're not going to be real happy about evidence that an election should be invalidated because illegal voting machines were used. The Tribune actually published the story rather than burying it under a new concrete floor in the third under-basement of the courthouse.
I hate to break this to you, but for most of the history of "movies" it's all been pretty low-res. I watched those shots form the moon live in 1969, and it didn't look any better than what I just called called up on my extremely hi-res monitor. The main difference being that in 1969 my college student budget extended to a black and white tube set from the Salvation Army Trift Store. We're talking about an analog video squirt from the moon at a time when I was doing college physics and chemistry with a slide rule and calculus with a pencil.
These images are extremely important, and having them freely available is priceless. Rading about history is not the same as seeing the people involved. Seeing Churchill give a speech is far better than reading it. Seeing Nixon's Checkers speech is priceless.
A couple of years ago, I spouted off here about why I was happy with dialup at home even though DSL was available. The reasons I gave were
T3 access at work for those.iso downloads
Don't do much online gaming
Better control of the kid's access
Cost
Things have changed. Although I was happy with my local ISP, SBC DSL is now cheaper (I live in a rural area where a lot of those $10 deals aren't available). Only child still at home is now in college, and she needs better access. We both do some online gaming. I switched to DSL without any regret except the loss of a locally maintained Usenet spool.
Now that I have a nice wireless network set up at home, I have found an added fringe benefit; backup network access through my neighbors who don't share my ideas about security.
I've got it figured out now. My new corporation will be named Vaporware SA and chartered in Tahiti (got to have your annual meeting in the chartering state/country.) Our fourth gen gaming console will revolutionize the industry with its holographic projection display. We will also release a series of adventure and FPS games. Our first $50 million in capitalization will be spent as follows:
40% Executive salaries and benefits
20% Consulting contracts (My SO needs to have her own income)
10% Advertising (Jetsetting venture capitalists and some industry media types around to create buzz, also lavish presence at trade shows
10% Proactive legal defense and accountancy
10% Development costs
10% Creating amiable climate for CEO in Tahitian regulatory, banking, and legal circles
Seriously, if people will invest huge chunks of cash in things named Phantom and DNF (as in Did Not Finish), this has got to be a sure thing.
How about Kong vs. one of the Nazgul's winged beasts? I know the Nazgul all flew into Mount Doom at the end, but they must have had a hatchery somewhere.
Please tell me that file formats are compatible accross all these versions, and please, please tell me that the Access file format hasn't changed yet fucking again.
>Oh, and the whole "I'm getting out of video game movies" thing is pretty cool, too.
"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." -- Richard Nixon speaking to reporters after losing the 1962 California Governor's race to Pat Brown. This is often considered to be the first lie of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.
Fuck is a verb, and here you are using it as an ADJECTIVE. And besides which, how could the noun "noun" fuck anything except maybe the odd adverb. We need to take a page from the French and get some well-armed language police in here to kick ass and hand out some jail time.
>those disks eventually developed bad sectors (despite the weatherstripping!)
In these days of cheap 100GB drives do people even remember 20MB drives with a label on them identifying the bad sectors when they were new out of the box? You wanted to open the boxes, so you could pick and choose (at retail). In IT, you got to open all of the units and put the best drives in your machine.
>sounded like an airplane engine and required three controllers: the servo/logic board, an MFM-to-SASI adapter board, and a SASI/SCSI-to-host-bus board.
And of course IBM had their own proprietary hard disk controller cards, a business model that lasted well into the (unlamented) PS/2 era.
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· Score: 3, Interesting
First hard drive my emplopyer paid for was 5MB. First one I paid for with muy owm money was 40MB, and that was a trade-off for a whopping 4MB of RAM. If I'd gone with 1MB of RAM, I could have had a 110MB drive at the same price. At that time, RAM cost way more than drivespace, and that RAM let me multitask Quattro Pro and Paradox under DR DOS (I think you could actually do it with 2MB). Life was good!
A lot of folks out there, particularly in the United States, believe that:
Genetic engineering is evil.
Scientists, and especially biologists, are atheistic minions of Satan out to destroy True Christianity (tm)
The End Times (tm) are upon us, and God will unleash all manner of Bad Stuff, including plagues, to usher in the Apocalypse
So, I can't help but wonder what these folks will do when the fecal material hits the air circulating device. Will they stand by their principles, or will they rationalize their way into the vaccination line?
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SCO is making much of their new Service oriented Arcitechture (SOA). Someone posted the following AC to the Groklaw page on this:
SOA = STD in Dutch
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 27 2006 @ 10:31 AM EST
SOA = Sexueel Overdraagbare Aandoening, translated: Sexually Transferable Disease..
Something you definitively do not want, hehe..
>Is it possible for scientists to publish their findings WITHOUT stooping to the level of mockery?
Scientists don't publish their work in Discover. It is a news magazine with a science focus and a somewhat sensationalist editorial style. Don't confuse the hyperbole of journalists with the scientists writings. The scientists working on these things tend to publish in obscure journals like Virus Research. For more information on these things including some cool photos (these things are larger than some cells) see GiantVirus.org.
> No, no, no - the correct answer to "Hey, Granpa" is "I never married."
Couldn't for the life of me remember Shepherd Book's comeback when I typed that. It's not that I'm old, mind you, it's the drugs. Oh, wait, that doesn't sound good either.
This is Alameda County, California. You want to send something like this to the Oakland police Dept? With your real name attached?
>Why would this guy take this stuff to the media instead of the appropriate government authorities?
Which authorities should he take it to? The ones who already knew about the cockup and would look bad/stupid when it came out? The ones who made the deal with Diebold? The ones who will have to do all that work all over again when this comes out? Look how hard it is to get elections officials to do something about flaws that everybody knows about. They're not going to be real happy about evidence that an election should be invalidated because illegal voting machines were used. The Tribune actually published the story rather than burying it under a new concrete floor in the third under-basement of the courthouse.
I had it then. Why would I want to give it up now? And I'm not. A grandfather, that is.
I hate to break this to you, but for most of the history of "movies" it's all been pretty low-res. I watched those shots form the moon live in 1969, and it didn't look any better than what I just called called up on my extremely hi-res monitor. The main difference being that in 1969 my college student budget extended to a black and white tube set from the Salvation Army Trift Store. We're talking about an analog video squirt from the moon at a time when I was doing college physics and chemistry with a slide rule and calculus with a pencil.
These images are extremely important, and having them freely available is priceless. Rading about history is not the same as seeing the people involved. Seeing Churchill give a speech is far better than reading it. Seeing Nixon's Checkers speech is priceless.
Things have changed. Although I was happy with my local ISP, SBC DSL is now cheaper (I live in a rural area where a lot of those $10 deals aren't available). Only child still at home is now in college, and she needs better access. We both do some online gaming. I switched to DSL without any regret except the loss of a locally maintained Usenet spool.
Now that I have a nice wireless network set up at home, I have found an added fringe benefit; backup network access through my neighbors who don't share my ideas about security.
Seriously, if people will invest huge chunks of cash in things named Phantom and DNF (as in Did Not Finish), this has got to be a sure thing.
>I just can't take a remake of King Kong Lives!.
Agreed. Stupifyingly bad. Worse than Lady Caroline Lamb.
>Mind you, King Kong vs Godzilla I could stand.
How about Kong vs. one of the Nazgul's winged beasts? I know the Nazgul all flew into Mount Doom at the end, but they must have had a hatchery somewhere.
But wouldn't that be m1111\/m rather than m34m?
Supplica me, servus!
>Manchester-fucking-United
I almost didn't recognize this spelling without the -are-wank suffix.
I want to be the Rasputin.
A whole bunch of people mucking about with my data.
Please tell me that file formats are compatible accross all these versions, and please, please tell me that the Access file format hasn't changed yet fucking again.
>Oh, and the whole "I'm getting out of video game movies" thing is pretty cool, too.
"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." -- Richard Nixon speaking to reporters after losing the 1962 California Governor's race to Pat Brown. This is often considered to be the first lie of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.OK, now I have to clean the coffee off my monitor.
>Gift is a fucking NOUN.
Fuck is a verb, and here you are using it as an ADJECTIVE. And besides which, how could the noun "noun" fuck anything except maybe the odd adverb. We need to take a page from the French and get some well-armed language police in here to kick ass and hand out some jail time.
[Slaps head!] How many ways can I say: DOH!
Worse yet, now that I think about it, relative costs are still about the same. Still, at the time, the trade-off for RAM seemed like a bargain.
>those disks eventually developed bad sectors (despite the weatherstripping!)
In these days of cheap 100GB drives do people even remember 20MB drives with a label on them identifying the bad sectors when they were new out of the box? You wanted to open the boxes, so you could pick and choose (at retail). In IT, you got to open all of the units and put the best drives in your machine.
>sounded like an airplane engine and required three controllers: the servo/logic board, an MFM-to-SASI adapter board, and a SASI/SCSI-to-host-bus board.
And of course IBM had their own proprietary hard disk controller cards, a business model that lasted well into the (unlamented) PS/2 era.
First hard drive my emplopyer paid for was 5MB. First one I paid for with muy owm money was 40MB, and that was a trade-off for a whopping 4MB of RAM. If I'd gone with 1MB of RAM, I could have had a 110MB drive at the same price. At that time, RAM cost way more than drivespace, and that RAM let me multitask Quattro Pro and Paradox under DR DOS (I think you could actually do it with 2MB). Life was good!
I mean, have you ever been around any big stars, movie or rock? They're mostly huge assholes. Imagine two of them trying to have a relationship.
Oh, wait...
A lot of folks out there, particularly in the United States, believe that:
So, I can't help but wonder what these folks will do when the fecal material hits the air circulating device. Will they stand by their principles, or will they rationalize their way into the vaccination line?
>Please name one, single, US citizen who has been so treated. I've heard of residents and immigrants being treated this way, but no actual citizens.
Jose Padilla