How are they going to fight when they can't throw money at their problems, when they can't afford to take a loss in furtherance of their strangle hold?
Clippy code:
If letter.MSlovequotient < 50 then
If MS.cashonhand < $10000000 then
clippy.open(popup.annoyance.omegadominenceplan)
else
clippy.open(popup.annoyance.normalpropaganda)
endif
else
clippy.open(popup.reward.gooddrone)
endif
The whitespacing is missing cause it's a direct rip from source, not my inability to figure out how to add it in. Really.
That's a hardware limitation they hope to have fixed before too long.
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What about a system to redirect the downward force of the button pushing and send it to a flywheel in the device? Like some tiny levers attached to a winding mechanism (like the pull start on a lawn mower, just MUCH smaller)
Sure you'd have to make a gameboy advanced as big as the origional gameboy to fit it all in there, but you could add another, more effecient method of spinning the flywheel to the back of the device, so when the batteries do finally drain, you could charge it while it's off.
Think about the entire SCO vs Linux debacle. They aren't doing this to win the lawsuits, they know that's impossible because unlike the general public, lawyers and judges aren't as gullible as a 4 year old. They're doing this for publicity, bringing in another lawsuit to scare idiots into thinking "They're suing another big company, they HAVE to be right in this, no one would sue so many people when they knew they were going to lose." Dupe more people into buying licenses from them, watch stocks rise, claim a higher quarterly profit, make off like bandits by suiciding their own company.
*more cheezy footage of previous robots joining.Net to become 133tH4x0rZord. Blasts opponent with bribery and FUD attacks*
Officer: We must help them! Other officers: Right!
Officer1: Godzilla, digivolve to... *godzilla is engulfed in light* MechaGodzilla! Officer2: Mothra, digivolve to... *mothra is engulfed in light* Mozilla! Officer3: Barbara Striesand, digivolve to... *barbara striesand is engulfed in light* Mecha Barbara Striesand!
*chaotic battle that destroys most of tokyo ensues*
Blah blah blah video games cause all violence, blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah people are more likely to be violent after playing video games. I blah have blah evidence blah blah blah blah on this.
Blah can cause lung cancer, blah lots of people have died blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (blah, blah blah).
So you're saying video games cause all violence AND lung cancer? And lots of people have died because of them? We must ban all video games to save humanity!!! And yes, I would like a steak, thank you for offering.
Truly laughable. Makes you wonder about the enviroment in SCO that cooked this up.
Darl: Larry, you go mash on that keyboard and create us some "evidence" for the case. Curley, think up some big numbers to tell the press, the bigger the better. Moe, go tell our investors we're gonna make $5 billion off this thing, and we're not gonna stop there. 3 Stooges: Yes boss! Cue zany antics.
It's not the first $780 he's worried about, but the the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc/
That's the impression I get from this guy's request, he wants to save having to rebuy software every year or two.
I tried moving a customer's aging win NT sql server over to MySQL on red hat to save them some money, but as it turned out the people who wrote the billing software that used their SQL server refused to allow them to use anything but MS-SQL 2000 (claiming it MySQL didn't support the functions they used). Luckily they qualified as non-profit and were able to save a couple thousand by ordering from Techsoup, but what about when they decide to upgrade the program again and force people to get the next version of MS-SQL? Open source costs you in training your techs how to maintain it, closed source costs you in a repurchase every couple of years, plus the time required to upgrade everyone and everything (I had to shut down their billing for an entire day because SQL 2k refused to take the SQL 98 backup I made).
How much of their stated lost revenue would have been from people who bought the CD blindly and wouldn't have liked it?
How did they come up with such a number in the first place?
We both know they're going to use the highest possible number they can get away with, and if even their worst test doesn't give numbers they like, they'll fudge them even more. Fear of being laughed out of court is the only thing that's keeping them from claiming 100% of the traffic is copyrighted.
"First, there are no "Soviet officials" as the Soviet Union ceased to exist more than a decade ago."
You fool, don't you see the collapse of the soviet union was merely a trick to draw attention away from them?
In soviet russia, the officials trick you!
No, wait, that's not right. Uhm..
In soviet russia, uhm...
Soviet...
GAH, how do you people make it look so easy?!?
So would removing them be considered an Assectomy?
If so, does that mean the judges in all the SCO cases have to go to medical school before they can rule against SCO?
Yes a lot of people will blow it off, but when you're doing something illegal, the less publicity you get the better. If not for the SCO attack, this wouldn't have been anything more than a security advisory, fewer people would have protected themselves and the spammers would have that many more zombies to use.
I see it as a bank robber going on a bloody massacre to draw attention away from the fact he's got a big sack with a dollar sign slung over his shoulder. All it does is bring law enforcement down on you that much faster.
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How are they going to fight when they can't throw money at their problems, when they can't afford to take a loss in furtherance of their strangle hold?
Clippy code:
If letter.MSlovequotient < 50 then
If MS.cashonhand < $10000000 then
clippy.open(popup.annoyance.omegadominenceplan)
else
clippy.open(popup.annoyance.normalpropaganda)
endif
else
clippy.open(popup.reward.gooddrone)
endif
The whitespacing is missing cause it's a direct rip from source, not my inability to figure out how to add it in. Really.
There's no way in hell I'm letting a Protoss medic give ME a spongebath... *shudder*
That's a hardware limitation they hope to have fixed before too long.
What about a system to redirect the downward force of the button pushing and send it to a flywheel in the device? Like some tiny levers attached to a winding mechanism (like the pull start on a lawn mower, just MUCH smaller)
Sure you'd have to make a gameboy advanced as big as the origional gameboy to fit it all in there, but you could add another, more effecient method of spinning the flywheel to the back of the device, so when the batteries do finally drain, you could charge it while it's off.
Think about the entire SCO vs Linux debacle.
They aren't doing this to win the lawsuits, they know that's impossible because unlike the general public, lawyers and judges aren't as gullible as a 4 year old. They're doing this for publicity, bringing in another lawsuit to scare idiots into thinking "They're suing another big company, they HAVE to be right in this, no one would sue so many people when they knew they were going to lose."
Dupe more people into buying licenses from them, watch stocks rise, claim a higher quarterly profit, make off like bandits by suiciding their own company.
Never trust a hat made by someone else, they could slip a tinfoil bypass chip into it!
Learn to make your own, just try an origami hat design and use your favorite brand of Cranial Protection Material instead of paper.
a beowulf cluster of obligatory beowulf cluster comments.
Isn't that the definition of Slashdot?
*more cheezy footage of previous robots joining .Net to become 133tH4x0rZord. Blasts opponent with bribery and FUD attacks*
Officer: We must help them!
Other officers: Right!
Officer1: Godzilla, digivolve to... *godzilla is engulfed in light* MechaGodzilla!
Officer2: Mothra, digivolve to... *mothra is engulfed in light* Mozilla!
Officer3: Barbara Striesand, digivolve to... *barbara striesand is engulfed in light* Mecha Barbara Striesand!
*chaotic battle that destroys most of tokyo ensues*
Blah blah blah video games cause all violence, blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah people are more likely to be violent after playing video games. I blah have blah evidence blah blah blah blah on this.
Blah can cause lung cancer, blah lots of people have died blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (blah, blah blah).
So you're saying video games cause all violence AND lung cancer? And lots of people have died because of them? We must ban all video games to save humanity!!!
And yes, I would like a steak, thank you for offering.
Truly laughable. Makes you wonder about the enviroment in SCO that cooked this up.
Darl: Larry, you go mash on that keyboard and create us some "evidence" for the case. Curley, think up some big numbers to tell the press, the bigger the better. Moe, go tell our investors we're gonna make $5 billion off this thing, and we're not gonna stop there.
3 Stooges: Yes boss!
Cue zany antics.
It's not the first $780 he's worried about, but the the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc/
That's the impression I get from this guy's request, he wants to save having to rebuy software every year or two.
I tried moving a customer's aging win NT sql server over to MySQL on red hat to save them some money, but as it turned out the people who wrote the billing software that used their SQL server refused to allow them to use anything but MS-SQL 2000 (claiming it MySQL didn't support the functions they used).
Luckily they qualified as non-profit and were able to save a couple thousand by ordering from Techsoup, but what about when they decide to upgrade the program again and force people to get the next version of MS-SQL?
Open source costs you in training your techs how to maintain it, closed source costs you in a repurchase every couple of years, plus the time required to upgrade everyone and everything (I had to shut down their billing for an entire day because SQL 2k refused to take the SQL 98 backup I made).
How much of their stated lost revenue would have been from people who bought the CD blindly and wouldn't have liked it?
How did they come up with such a number in the first place?
We both know they're going to use the highest possible number they can get away with, and if even their worst test doesn't give numbers they like, they'll fudge them even more.
Fear of being laughed out of court is the only thing that's keeping them from claiming 100% of the traffic is copyrighted.
"First, there are no "Soviet officials" as the Soviet Union ceased to exist more than a decade ago." You fool, don't you see the collapse of the soviet union was merely a trick to draw attention away from them? In soviet russia, the officials trick you! No, wait, that's not right. Uhm.. In soviet russia, uhm... Soviet... GAH, how do you people make it look so easy?!?
So would removing them be considered an Assectomy? If so, does that mean the judges in all the SCO cases have to go to medical school before they can rule against SCO?
Yes a lot of people will blow it off, but when you're doing something illegal, the less publicity you get the better. If not for the SCO attack, this wouldn't have been anything more than a security advisory, fewer people would have protected themselves and the spammers would have that many more zombies to use. I see it as a bank robber going on a bloody massacre to draw attention away from the fact he's got a big sack with a dollar sign slung over his shoulder. All it does is bring law enforcement down on you that much faster.