Do not forget that on the other side we have IBM who has as much, or more, lobbying power than MS.
We don't really have to have DOJ win a case against MS, dragging the case through the courts could cause the same damage to MS as SCO did to Linux.
From the article CA couldn't disassociate itself from the rumors that identified it as that licensee because of an NDA that the Canopy side had insisted on hedging in the $40 million settlement with, Barrenechea and Greenblatt said.
Barrenechea said that SCO now regards that NDA as being off because of the legal discovery that's been going on in SCO's $5 billion suit against IBM. If CA is now doing this, this will be the first time a company has stood up without worrying about money, breking an NDA for the sake of moral correctness (You know you should not trust SCO when the say that NDA is invalid).
Otherwise goodluck to the guy who put it on the blog.
I'm just waiting for the markets to open.
Yesterday the shares had begun to fall after ESR leaked the mail, before all the news sites started up with headlines saying SCO licenses have been bought.
Today is perfect, markets have not opened, CA has not bought a license and it is clear that SCO is a front for M$ from which no profits for shareholders are to be had. Moreover, there is the muzzle on SCO by the court.
I hope thatwe don't get an unnatural price rise due to this being a friday and everyone trying to cover their short positions before the week ends !!
Right, the problem with this 'argument' is: 95% of the computer is made in Taiwan or China, the MS sofware is outsourced in India, the Coke is bottled right in India, the AC units are probably made in Japan, etc.
Well then the question is, what are you complaining about? All these products are made outside US, but America still makes money off them, which should be a good thing for US, right? Or are you saying that only american products should be used around the world, and that China , India and Taiwan should not trade between them or produce anything?
But there is a difference here.
Japanese electronics were better than american stuff, and probably cheaper too. That was not outsourcing, it was competition. Japan generally seems like a gadget crazy place, probably something about culture. (Miniaturisation, which lead to the japanese electronic boom, probably is related to the space crunch in japan and hence a general liking for all things small). I have read Akio Morita's "Made in Japan" and nowhere did it mention outsourcing.
Textiles - OK probably lot of outsourcing here, and most of it not good for either the east nor for US.
Auto Industry decline - This was mainly because of Americans designing cars solely for the US. I am from India and those old american cars cannot even take a turn on some of our roads - they are so big. Not to mention fuel guzzlers. Then along came suzuki, with a small car that can turn on a dime and run forever on a litre of petrol, and they have some 60 percent of the market. We do have Chevrolet in India, but they rebrand the Daewoo nexia as the Chevrolet Optra in India !! American cars are just not designed for the rest of the world.
And about steel. Iron ore is fairly evenly distributed around the world. It is also difficult to transport since it is heavy. So it is natural that, as the technology matures around the world, they start producing more of higher grade steel, reducing the dependance on US. And it has some old-world-defence importance too. This certainly is not a case of outsourcing, just a case where the world is catching up with US. BTW, Japan seems to be doing well. They buy ore/low quality steel from rest of Asia and sell higher grade steel. Wonder why US can't do this? Shipping?
This is really funny. FBI could not scan the computers at the ISPs site so they confiscated everything. Whats next ? FBI confiscating apartment blocks and transferring them to their labs because they need some blood samples ?
What about compensation ? Or what about letting them have enough time to move to a back-up? I think that in this case FBI was just abusing their powers. Probably the ISP were not nice to them and they decided to shut them down to teach them a lesson (also probably an example to other ISPs)
I wonder what they do about lighting? On a scanner there is a nice powerful backlight which runs around the bottom of the page to let the scanner read properly. On a pen I suppose there is not much ambient light blocked. But on a cellphone, you are going to obstruct almost all the light if you hold it close to the camera.
Maybe you have to hold the paper against the sunlight and then put the phone on the otherside
And also I hope none of those guys who go around photocopying their asses get hold of these thingies. The effects would be...umm... messaging horrors
Google works approximately by modding up the sites that get linked to the most. All the contributing links have an equal weightage it seems. This allows scamming by forming webrings and similar circular linking schemes
Another approach I heard being discussed is to give more popular sites a higher weightage. ie If a site has a lot of pages linking to it, the sites linked from this site must also be good. Apparently if done right, you can do a few iterations and get to a better algo.
Or probably assign a number to (karma if you will ) to each site. Then divide this karma by the number of sites it links to and add this to all the linked sites. Eliminate the cycles in the graphs and iterate.
No he was not making up the term. Here is an article about womens chess.
BTW, Atleast in India, we still have english anachronisms from british times well preserved. A head-mistress of a school is the woman in charge of the school and not somebody who walks around with a whip. and webster seems to think so too.
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Do not forget that on the other side we have IBM who has as much, or more, lobbying power than MS.
We don't really have to have DOJ win a case against MS, dragging the case through the courts could cause the same damage to MS as SCO did to Linux.
From the article .
CA couldn't disassociate itself from the rumors that identified it as that licensee because of an NDA that the Canopy side had insisted on hedging in the $40 million settlement with, Barrenechea and Greenblatt said.
Barrenechea said that SCO now regards that NDA as being off because of the legal discovery that's been going on in SCO's $5 billion suit against IBM.
If CA is now doing this, this will be the first time a company has stood up without worrying about money, breking an NDA for the sake of moral correctness (You know you should not trust SCO when the say that NDA is invalid)
Otherwise goodluck to the guy who put it on the blog.
I'm just waiting for the markets to open.
Yesterday the shares had begun to fall after ESR leaked the mail, before all the news sites started up with headlines saying SCO licenses have been bought.
Today is perfect, markets have not opened, CA has not bought a license and it is clear that SCO is a front for M$ from which no profits for shareholders are to be had. Moreover, there is the muzzle on SCO by the court.
I hope thatwe don't get an unnatural price rise due to this being a friday and everyone trying to cover their short positions before the week ends !!
Right, the problem with this 'argument' is: 95% of the computer is made in Taiwan or China, the MS sofware is outsourced in India, the Coke is bottled right in India, the AC units are probably made in Japan, etc.
Well then the question is, what are you complaining about? All these products are made outside US, but America still makes money off them, which should be a good thing for US, right? Or are you saying that only american products should be used around the world, and that China , India and Taiwan should not trade between them or produce anything?
But there is a difference here.
Japanese electronics were better than american stuff, and probably cheaper too. That was not outsourcing, it was competition. Japan generally seems like a gadget crazy place, probably something about culture. (Miniaturisation, which lead to the japanese electronic boom, probably is related to the space crunch in japan and hence a general liking for all things small). I have read Akio Morita's "Made in Japan" and nowhere did it mention outsourcing.
Textiles - OK probably lot of outsourcing here, and most of it not good for either the east nor for US.
Auto Industry decline - This was mainly because of Americans designing cars solely for the US. I am from India and those old american cars cannot even take a turn on some of our roads - they are so big. Not to mention fuel guzzlers. Then along came suzuki, with a small car that can turn on a dime and run forever on a litre of petrol, and they have some 60 percent of the market. We do have Chevrolet in India, but they rebrand the Daewoo nexia as the Chevrolet Optra in India !! American cars are just not designed for the rest of the world.
And about steel. Iron ore is fairly evenly distributed around the world. It is also difficult to transport since it is heavy. So it is natural that, as the technology matures around the world, they start producing more of higher grade steel, reducing the dependance on US. And it has some old-world-defence importance too. This certainly is not a case of outsourcing, just a case where the world is catching up with US. BTW, Japan seems to be doing well. They buy ore/low quality steel from rest of Asia and sell higher grade steel. Wonder why US can't do this? Shipping?
This is really funny. FBI could not scan the computers at the ISPs site so they confiscated everything. Whats next ? FBI confiscating apartment blocks and transferring them to their labs because they need some blood samples ?
What about compensation ? Or what about letting them have enough time to move to a back-up? I think that in this case FBI was just abusing their powers. Probably the ISP were not nice to them and they decided to shut them down to teach them a lesson (also probably an example to other ISPs)
I wonder what they do about lighting?
...umm... messaging horrors
On a scanner there is a nice powerful backlight which runs around the bottom of the page to let the scanner read properly. On a pen I suppose there is not much ambient light blocked. But on a cellphone, you are going to obstruct almost all the light if you hold it close to the camera.
Maybe you have to hold the paper against the sunlight and then put the phone on the otherside
And also I hope none of those guys who go around photocopying their asses get hold of these thingies. The effects would be
Mainly because they were not my ideas to begin with :) I just read/heard about them
Google works approximately by modding up the sites that get linked to the most. All the contributing links have an equal weightage it seems. This allows scamming by forming webrings and similar circular linking schemes
Another approach I heard being discussed is to give more popular sites a higher weightage. ie If a site has a lot of pages linking to it, the sites linked from this site must also be good. Apparently if done right, you can do a few iterations and get to a better algo.
Or probably assign a number to (karma if you will ) to each site. Then divide this karma by the number of sites it links to and add this to all the linked sites. Eliminate the cycles in the graphs and iterate.
No he was not making up the term. Here is an article about womens chess.
BTW, Atleast in India, we still have english anachronisms from british times well preserved. A head-mistress of a school is the woman in charge of the school and not somebody who walks around with a whip. and webster seems to think so too.