I find this a wonderful use of technology where once a child would be born blind and never know the light of day or the site of a loved one never see the sky or joy of reading or seeing happiness in other peoples faces
Thanks to these indian doctor's now he can see porn instead!
Makes my stomach twist too that someone putting up a site online that's not "correct" politically (government criticizing, for example) may be blocked by the only means possible; claiming it involves kiddieporn, and damn the consequences to the innocents running it.
No doubt this is a two way street. Depending on the popularity of a game, piracy is going to help or hinder.
Those games that have massive massive popularity, helped along by friends copying from friends, will still manage to make money. By becoming legendary, they guarantee enough sales to keep a company or lone developer going.
Unfortunately for those games which are less popular, piracy is just going to dig in HARD to the smaller income, and what happens to those developers? the ones making some headway into a business but still need a little more skill. They lose out completely, the gaming industry for them becomes nothing but something to suck their time and energy.
In the end all that happens is we're left with the huge gaming houses (Sony sponsored ones, for example) and the odd few developers who are lucky enough to get it right first time. The raw up and coming talent gets whacked down with a big pirated 2"x4" as soon as they make an effort. You could say that they don't deserve success without the effort and without the ability to overcome obstacles, but games aren't about making developers work hard. It's about letting the really good ideas come to fruition and work for us as players.
Talk on the boards is that the breaches are due to SCO not revealing the entire story regarding their claimed 'ownership' of UNIX SysV. Notice SCO now states that UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
In any case, looks like you live by the sword you die by the sword. It was after all Darl who stated "Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with". None of this using contracts to clarify just what each other's purposes are, and being a record of an agreement, they're to be used as weapons. SCO's breaches are what will come bite them on the ass, and nothing will save them with a contract that they can't hide way back in the muddying of time. $20million worth of redeemed stock is $20million SCO can't use against Linux, Customers, Ex Customers or whoever else has tried to be nice to them in the past.
It's only a few hour's drive to Lindon from here. I wonder if I should go watch the fireworks.
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I wonder sometimes how many projects start up, fail for some reason, and then the code is lost. Not lost because it's proprietary but lost because it just goes the way of crumbs under the table? How much good work is going down the drain.
I'm glad you managed to save the code, GPLd as it is it has the right to live or die according to popularity. Hope it works.
I must say I don't mind a price drop of this nature. As a consumer it's a good thing, at least short term where I lay out few clams and come up with a good product for the lower price.
However I'm sure nobody believes MS is anywhere near making a profit, indeed they're taking gigantic losses (not relative to their income of course, but in real numbers) to do so. Obviously Sony will be doing the same with the PS2 and whatever it's next box is, and Nintendo too if they release another.
Doesn't this just end up as a war of attrition, where the company who is most able to sustain gigantic losses comes out on top? Not only coming out on top but coming out as the ONLY contender. While it's not a monopoly situation now it seems clear to me it's heading that way.
I know nobody can prosecute a company on something they have not yet done, and there's perhaps no indication of who will win in the end out of the gigantic gaming manufacturers. Indeed, far be it for me to tell someone they CAN'T throw away their profits, but looking ahead it seems impossible to end up in any other way than someone with a massive monopoly. No new players, no competition between existing ones, and it won't end cleanly... because (forgive the cliche) in the end "there can be only one"
This is what good widespread systems need, and it's understandable that Novell is aiming for consistency.
In the whole world of UI/Desktop use, choice is a good thing. It means complete customisation control from one purpose such as industrial process control, to corporate desktop, to games system (humor me and look to the future when this is the case with Linux. It will happen eventually). However for Novell who will be supporting a system, and selling it as a solution for businesses, then there needs to be stability, if not from a support point of view then for a User point of view.
Users don't care, and shouldn't, about the technicalities of their tools, and that's what support is for. Only when they have a well constructed and supported toolset (their desktop in this case) can they perform with 100% concentration on their REAL job be it marketing, secretarial, analysis and so on
And at the rate the rollout is being dragged along your kids will be in highschool before anyone next hears of it. The entire world is able to change over to IPV6 within a short timespan as long as there's a concerted effort to do so. Humans don't ever expend effort, as a group, unless they're pushed to. Hopefully with a nation the size of China working towards it, it'll drag us and the rest of the world with them much quicker.
Then again we're still using Imperial measurements when the rest of the world is metric. Go figure that one
warezing is a crime in australia and many country's so this sounds supported there. The article says "Griffiths Australian lawyers are fighting the move, stating that he has never set foot in the United States and has committed no crime under Australian law" but to me thats lawyer defense standard sputtering as it IS illegal in australia.
Their lawyers are using simple SCO tactics like "our IP is in their product" they can say it but it does not make it true.
I don't think it's up for any debate as to whether he committed no crime in his home country, as he has committed crimes in MANY countries simply by distributing warezes to whoever anywhere. It just that the US is the one where he is currently to been processed.
If he isn't extrudited to the USA then he' able to be charged in Australia anyway, to me, or the UK or spain or france or germany as nauseum
Some F/OSS projects just aim to get a job done, do it, and leave it up to someone else (perhaps less qualified?) to complete things, to produce a complete package that does the job well
Han-wen & Jan have done one of the latter, this is a supreme polished job that's only getting better. Kudos
First we have SCO suing customers (and another company did too last year) and now crap like this being pulled with companies using customers as pawns in their power games between each other.
Maybe companies are forgetting one thing and one essential thing. No matter how much money they have or how many years theyve been around and on top they got where they are by being a service to their customers
It sounds like neither of these companies are doing that any more. It's the death throes of business when distraction overcomes service.
I think you are right, his own big mouth and attacks upon him will come the same way if at all. A gun won't protect him from the eternal smear campaign that will be waged even after this is all over, or from any other kind of electronic 'warfare' that an IT underground would want to inflict. He has annoyed millions and it would only take 10 people to make a real mess. One to break his electronic identiy, one to control his debt one to interfere with records of his property ownership, his mail and any electronic statis as a law abiding citizen or not.
Would it be likely he will wakes up one day and find his credit cards maxed out and his home in someone elses name and suddenly in debt to the tunes of millions of dollars and on a wanted list six states away? I think his attacks on his person wont be the type of thing a gun will stop if any come
Darl's just a bit confused. He's the head of SCO, and he thought "Shootup Crack Operation" referred to bullets and it won't be long until he finds the hypodermic, then he'll be the old Darl we know and love.
allrecipes.com has a great section for vegetarian dishes too. With such a phenonemal number of pages on helping out with improving your own recipes and also new things you may never have tried there's no excuse not to go vegetarian today!
Try it. Your health will thank you you'll be building up good karma and trust me, you won't smell bad:-)
No such thing as too many cooks spoil the broth, I think. A wiki would be the perfect solution for this, as long as the interest is there.
I'm thankful I learned how to cook and cook well when I was younger, but there is ALWAYS something to learn from someone else. It's not some exact science or mysterious voodoo, just something anyone with a little creativity and some basic knowledge can build on.
PS. Experiment most when you're single:-). it's easier that way when you screw up, and is a whole lot easier than when you're partnered later!.
The advantage I see with email is you get a response and know it's working. You communicate. That's the essence of contacting the ISP about a copyright issue, you contact them to resolve the problem, not only to send a takedown notice to them and then hope they comply with no further followup, only hoping that the fact it was registered mail means you can sue them later.
If it were my work being distributed illegally, I'd have emailed, telephoned, sent registered mail and kept at them until something was done
Granted as this didn't happen, Ellison had recourse by suing AOL, but I'd rather it didn't lead to that if I were in his shoes and would do all I could to avoid it. Then again, monetary damages against AOL may provide Ellison with far more benefit than regaining control of his copyrighted works being posted on AOLs servers.
Phone them, email them, and contact them by registered mail. If your copyrighted works are online then you are losing income, and losing control over what you have the right to copy.
Granted, this can be abused easily if frivolous cases are constantly being brought to hand by a vexatious copyright holder (in the SCO mold who may not even own copyright). If you find your copyrighted work is being distributed illegally then it's your job to report it and get something done about it, sitting around after firing off an email and getting no response back indicates to me that you've been ignored or something's wrong with the system.
That being said, the fact that AOL has an email address registered with the copyright office and it's the wrong one does mean they're not making it easy via that one avenue of complaint. It doesn't affect the others, and picking up the phone makes sure you KNOW your complaint has been heard
On christmas day in my suburb there is almost no activity and usually cars are all taken inside. I don't know that it gets so quiet that I would freak and want to leave but it does have an especially eerie quality about it. Especially when in a formarly busy street I hear just the wind in the trees and maybe birds.
The disparaty between what I see and what I hear & feel is an experience. I've stood in the middle of the road times like this and just looked around at the world. I'd like to visit Pripyat too
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I find this a wonderful use of technology where once a child would be born blind and never know the light of day or the site of a loved one never see the sky or joy of reading or seeing happiness in other peoples faces
Thanks to these indian doctor's now he can see porn instead!
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Makes my stomach twist too that someone putting up a site online that's not "correct" politically (government criticizing, for example) may be blocked by the only means possible; claiming it involves kiddieporn, and damn the consequences to the innocents running it.
It will happen.
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Good motives here, but are there controls in place to ensure ONLY kiddieporn is banned by this method?
My fear if this came here is that it would be used to block all manner of 'improper' political sites.
Slippery slope.
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No doubt this is a two way street. Depending on the popularity of a game, piracy is going to help or hinder.
Those games that have massive massive popularity, helped along by friends copying from friends, will still manage to make money. By becoming legendary, they guarantee enough sales to keep a company or lone developer going.
Unfortunately for those games which are less popular, piracy is just going to dig in HARD to the smaller income, and what happens to those developers? the ones making some headway into a business but still need a little more skill. They lose out completely, the gaming industry for them becomes nothing but something to suck their time and energy.
In the end all that happens is we're left with the huge gaming houses (Sony sponsored ones, for example) and the odd few developers who are lucky enough to get it right first time. The raw up and coming talent gets whacked down with a big pirated 2"x4" as soon as they make an effort. You could say that they don't deserve success without the effort and without the ability to overcome obstacles, but games aren't about making developers work hard. It's about letting the really good ideas come to fruition and work for us as players.
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Talk on the boards is that the breaches are due to SCO not revealing the entire story regarding their claimed 'ownership' of UNIX SysV. Notice SCO now states that UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
In any case, looks like you live by the sword you die by the sword. It was after all Darl who stated "Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with". None of this using contracts to clarify just what each other's purposes are, and being a record of an agreement, they're to be used as weapons. SCO's breaches are what will come bite them on the ass, and nothing will save them with a contract that they can't hide way back in the muddying of time. $20million worth of redeemed stock is $20million SCO can't use against Linux, Customers, Ex Customers or whoever else has tried to be nice to them in the past.
It's only a few hour's drive to Lindon from here. I wonder if I should go watch the fireworks.
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I wonder sometimes how many projects start up, fail for some reason, and then the code is lost. Not lost because it's proprietary but lost because it just goes the way of crumbs under the table? How much good work is going down the drain.
I'm glad you managed to save the code, GPLd as it is it has the right to live or die according to popularity. Hope it works.
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I must say I don't mind a price drop of this nature. As a consumer it's a good thing, at least short term where I lay out few clams and come up with a good product for the lower price.
However I'm sure nobody believes MS is anywhere near making a profit, indeed they're taking gigantic losses (not relative to their income of course, but in real numbers) to do so. Obviously Sony will be doing the same with the PS2 and whatever it's next box is, and Nintendo too if they release another.
Doesn't this just end up as a war of attrition, where the company who is most able to sustain gigantic losses comes out on top? Not only coming out on top but coming out as the ONLY contender. While it's not a monopoly situation now it seems clear to me it's heading that way.
I know nobody can prosecute a company on something they have not yet done, and there's perhaps no indication of who will win in the end out of the gigantic gaming manufacturers. Indeed, far be it for me to tell someone they CAN'T throw away their profits, but looking ahead it seems impossible to end up in any other way than someone with a massive monopoly. No new players, no competition between existing ones, and it won't end cleanly... because (forgive the cliche) in the end "there can be only one"
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This is what good widespread systems need, and it's understandable that Novell is aiming for consistency.
In the whole world of UI/Desktop use, choice is a good thing. It means complete customisation control from one purpose such as industrial process control, to corporate desktop, to games system (humor me and look to the future when this is the case with Linux. It will happen eventually). However for Novell who will be supporting a system, and selling it as a solution for businesses, then there needs to be stability, if not from a support point of view then for a User point of view.
Users don't care, and shouldn't, about the technicalities of their tools, and that's what support is for. Only when they have a well constructed and supported toolset (their desktop in this case) can they perform with 100% concentration on their REAL job be it marketing, secretarial, analysis and so on
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And at the rate the rollout is being dragged along your kids will be in highschool before anyone next hears of it. The entire world is able to change over to IPV6 within a short timespan as long as there's a concerted effort to do so. Humans don't ever expend effort, as a group, unless they're pushed to. Hopefully with a nation the size of China working towards it, it'll drag us and the rest of the world with them much quicker.
Then again we're still using Imperial measurements when the rest of the world is metric. Go figure that one
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warezing is a crime in australia and many country's so this sounds supported there. The article says "Griffiths Australian lawyers are fighting the move, stating that he has never set foot in the United States and has committed no crime under Australian law" but to me thats lawyer defense standard sputtering as it IS illegal in australia.
Their lawyers are using simple SCO tactics like "our IP is in their product" they can say it but it does not make it true.
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I don't think it's up for any debate as to whether he committed no crime in his home country, as he has committed crimes in MANY countries simply by distributing warezes to whoever anywhere. It just that the US is the one where he is currently to been processed.
If he isn't extrudited to the USA then he' able to be charged in Australia anyway, to me, or the UK or spain or france or germany as nauseum
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Some F/OSS projects just aim to get a job done, do it, and leave it up to someone else (perhaps less qualified?) to complete things, to produce a complete package that does the job well
Han-wen & Jan have done one of the latter, this is a supreme polished job that's only getting better. Kudos
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Did anyone else read this interview and get the feeling that Anderer spoke a lot but didn't really say anything specific or all that relevant?
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That sounds like a easy way to fool cheating people. A large test for true adaptability that will quickly weed out the lesser entrants
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First we have SCO suing customers (and another company did too last year) and now crap like this being pulled with companies using customers as pawns in their power games between each other.
Maybe companies are forgetting one thing and one essential thing. No matter how much money they have or how many years theyve been around and on top they got where they are by being a service to their customers
It sounds like neither of these companies are doing that any more. It's the death throes of business when distraction overcomes service.
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> Darl is now a paranoid litigous bastard
And maybe he should! ESR has more and bigger guns!
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I think you are right, his own big mouth and attacks upon him will come the same way if at all. A gun won't protect him from the eternal smear campaign that will be waged even after this is all over, or from any other kind of electronic 'warfare' that an IT underground would want to inflict. He has annoyed millions and it would only take 10 people to make a real mess. One to break his electronic identiy, one to control his debt one to interfere with records of his property ownership, his mail and any electronic statis as a law abiding citizen or not.
Would it be likely he will wakes up one day and find his credit cards maxed out and his home in someone elses name and suddenly in debt to the tunes of millions of dollars and on a wanted list six states away? I think his attacks on his person wont be the type of thing a gun will stop if any come
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Darl's just a bit confused. He's the head of SCO, and he thought "Shootup Crack Operation" referred to bullets and it won't be long until he finds the hypodermic, then he'll be the old Darl we know and love.
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I don't know about `Cooking with the internet` as far as correct grammer but my first Athlon experience sure brought it close to reality! :-)
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allrecipes.com has a great section for vegetarian dishes too. With such a phenonemal number of pages on helping out with improving your own recipes and also new things you may never have tried there's no excuse not to go vegetarian today!
:-)
Try it. Your health will thank you you'll be building up good karma and trust me, you won't smell bad
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No such thing as too many cooks spoil the broth, I think. A wiki would be the perfect solution for this, as long as the interest is there.
:-). it's easier that way when you screw up, and is a whole lot easier than when you're partnered later!.
I'm thankful I learned how to cook and cook well when I was younger, but there is ALWAYS something to learn from someone else. It's not some exact science or mysterious voodoo, just something anyone with a little creativity and some basic knowledge can build on.
PS. Experiment most when you're single
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The advantage I see with email is you get a response and know it's working. You communicate. That's the essence of contacting the ISP about a copyright issue, you contact them to resolve the problem, not only to send a takedown notice to them and then hope they comply with no further followup, only hoping that the fact it was registered mail means you can sue them later.
If it were my work being distributed illegally, I'd have emailed, telephoned, sent registered mail and kept at them until something was done
Granted as this didn't happen, Ellison had recourse by suing AOL, but I'd rather it didn't lead to that if I were in his shoes and would do all I could to avoid it. Then again, monetary damages against AOL may provide Ellison with far more benefit than regaining control of his copyrighted works being posted on AOLs servers.
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Phone them, email them, and contact them by registered mail. If your copyrighted works are online then you are losing income, and losing control over what you have the right to copy.
Granted, this can be abused easily if frivolous cases are constantly being brought to hand by a vexatious copyright holder (in the SCO mold who may not even own copyright). If you find your copyrighted work is being distributed illegally then it's your job to report it and get something done about it, sitting around after firing off an email and getting no response back indicates to me that you've been ignored or something's wrong with the system.
That being said, the fact that AOL has an email address registered with the copyright office and it's the wrong one does mean they're not making it easy via that one avenue of complaint. It doesn't affect the others, and picking up the phone makes sure you KNOW your complaint has been heard
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On christmas day in my suburb there is almost no activity and usually cars are all taken inside. I don't know that it gets so quiet that I would freak and want to leave but it does have an especially eerie quality about it. Especially when in a formarly busy street I hear just the wind in the trees and maybe birds.
The disparaty between what I see and what I hear & feel is an experience. I've stood in the middle of the road times like this and just looked around at the world. I'd like to visit Pripyat too
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