These licenses permit the use of SCO's intellectual property that is apparently present in Linux distributions,
I wasn't aware of ANY S.C.O. code that was in Linux, either in source or binary form.
I recall some IBM developer who added code to Linux several months ago, but it was removed immediately after it was discovered that it had come from IBM.
There's one small detail that I haven't seen addressed yet, and that is the political instability in that region.
There have already been 3 major Pakistan v India conflicts in the last century. It also seems that Pakistan has "the Bomb", you know, the nucular one.
How many U.S. companies have considered the fallout (no pun intended) of an escalation in political tensions in the area?
It wouldn't take more than one nuke going off in LEO, and you could kiss every computer, router, phone switch, and cell-phone in India good-bye.
With only a handful of programmers left in the U.S. just think of the hourly billables!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why?....
There are more similarities than differences between the two. I get pretty windows that I can drag around, resize and even minimize and maximize!!!
I really don't notice much of a difference switching back and forth. I do feel for the single maintainer of Gnome though, that's gotta be a LOT of work. Maybe if they tore it down again and started over?....
It worked last time!
The only thing I might be concerned about a single solution would be if the licensing model changed (can you say XFree86???). And from what i saw a while back, Trolltech still owned Qt.?????
Besides, 5yy5ddjjjjjjjp:wq still works in vi on both of them......
Sorry sport,
You are wrong on at least one point. A cousin of Osama bin Laden "donated" DNA before his departure from the U.S.
A first, or even second, cousin is close enough to get a 98% match on DNA.
Thus, although Bush cited only British evidence that was determined to have been inconclusive, other intelligence files clearly contained other inconclusive evidence of the truth of the claim.
That is a quote from the article on your second link. Clearly, based on that article, ALL OF THE EVIDENCE was inconclusive.
The first link????
Well, it is HIGHLY suspect. First off, it states: "They detail the Iraqi regime's purchase of five kilograms of mustard gas" 5 kilos of mustard gas is approximately 2% of what a 500 bomb would carry. 5 kilos of mustard gas, in optimal weather conditions, might briefly contaminate a few acres. Mustard gas is not very stable in the atmosphere and tends to break down relatively quickly.
The other problem with that alleged purchase of mustard gas is that the U.S. SOLD them that technology during Reagan's administration. There are even pictures of Rumsfeld hugging Saddam about the time that deal was closed. Don't forget, at that time Saddam was our friend, fighting our common ally, Iran.
About the anthrax, from the information I have seen, this is probably also a bogus claim. Not that Iraq didn't posess anthrax, but that they purchased "5 vials". It is almost certain that Iraq had the anthrax spore as early as 1974. So why would they be purchasing "5 vials" in early 2000?. It just doesn't make sense.
Furthermore, the mere posession of anthrax is NOT as important as is "weaponising" it. Anthrax is not particularly toxic in the normal environment, unless it is inhaled. Therefore, to "weaponize" anthrax for military or terrorist use, Iraq would have needed the technology to dry the spore out, and to "package" it in an aerosol. It appears that Iraq was pursuing that issue in the early 1990's, and stopped that research in the middle 1990's.
The other problem I have with the first link you suggested was the "alleged" ties between Iraq and Al-Queda. There is no timeframe in the link you posted dated after 1993. A telling omission in and of itself. But more importantly, they did not provide the alleged original documents on that site, nor the translations.
I don't know if the documents exist or not, and am not an arabic linguist, but without those "documents" everything on that link you provided is unsubstantiated hearsay.
I was, alas, sadly under the wrong impression.
This administration is incredible. Much worse than Nixon and Reagan's combined.
Are you a ruby wiz by any chance?....new to the language and I have a few questions?...
Very informative,
Please disregard the portion of this grandparents post that in any way expressed or implied admiration for Colin Powell.
Having been informed of the details of his life before politics, he's as bad, if not worse, than the rest of this lying administration.
I apologize profoundly for expressing any admiration for Colin Powell. He is clearly not worthy.
I beg to disagree,
Exhibit "A" was the forged documents purporting that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium from Niger.
It took the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency all of TWO HOURS to prove those documents were forgeries.
The sophisticated tool that they used??????
Google
Seems a signatory on that forged document HAD BEEN DEAD for a number of years.
Didn't stop Bush & Co, (or even, sadly, Colin Powell) from ranting and raving about "mushroom clouds"....
This is absolutely ridiculous. Microsoft will be getting a new revenue stream from broken software.
What is the next logical step for MS?, intentionally introduce more bugs to get more customers to sign up for the premium service?
Or needlessly delay the release of patches for the same reason?
This is almost a strong-armed shakedown.
MS is basically saying "..Yo buddy, we knows you gotch yer license, but see it's like this, Billie boy says youse gotta cough up a little more dough, or things just ain't gonna work out the way you planned..."
C'mon M$, if your customer's already have a license for your product, and your product is broken, then it is YOUR (Microsoft's) responsibility to FIX it........
Hmmm,
I Don't think you have ever used an X-terminal (in the true meaning of the word)...
They have Keyboard, monitor, mouse and ethernet ports. And sometimes parallel ports as well. Just plug in an ethernet, configure the X-term to point to a boot & font server, and you are up and running.....
Hmmm, dispose of nuclear waste by dumping it into the sun???...
How exactly to you propose getting it there?...
What about loss of of the carrying rocket at anything below the L7 altitude?...
Fusion is the way to go....
PS: the website also states: "This in turn implies that a core melt scenario is not possible and can be ruled out."...I would much rather have proof than a mere "implication" of safety....
Yes, but only if both parties agree to changes to the original contract, or if the subscriber is offered an opportunity to terminate the original contract.
Otherwise the initial contract is binding.
In this case, I do not believe that the contract specifically states any limitations as to the time/place/(means and or media) that the content offered by the "provider" must be "consumed" by the subscriber.
Just my $.02 worth, I am sure a real lawyer would charge a lot more!....
Seems to me that he has a contract with XM Radio to "consume" their product. How and when he "consumes" their product is his business. XM-Radio is the service provider, this guy is the consumer.
Pretty much standard consumer/UCC law. What he does with the product after the fact is entirely his business. IANAL....though maybe I should have been.....
why do I keep hitting the hjkl(s) key all the time in this editor?......
Hmmm, let's see, VAX/VMS, circa 1980:
"set proc/priv=all" (become system's administrator)
or
"set proc/priv=oper" (join the operator priv group)
This is twenty years prior to the filing of M$'s patent. And if I recall, Sun/Solaris, HP/UX, IBM/AIX, DEC/Ultrix, and yes, even SCO, all had the concept of "privileged" groups/users dating well back into the '80's......
There is literally TONS of prior work out there that should invalidate this patent. It's more a question of who is going to fight it?.....
Try ruby, it has a very clean syntax, feels a lot like that other OOP (java?) without the bloat. Oh yeah, it is most widely accepted, and undergoing most of it's development in Japan.
Feels like the same philosophy as the '80's Honda Civic. Clean design, very functional, not completely sexy, incredibly fuel efficient..... With plenty of pep, very reliable, and excellent handling.
Hmmm, I sincerely beg to disagree. I have studied this problem extensively the last several months. There are some pretty simple processes that can be put into place that gaurentee anonymity, verifiable ballots, and a means of ensuring that votes have been accurately tabulated. Not trivial, but not very difficult either.
It's a 3.9 Billion dollar contract....that much money floating around is sure to cause some to seek ways of manipulating it...
This link where the President of Diebold promises to "get Bush the vote"...
i quote:
In addition, the company and its chief executive, Walden O'Dell, have come under fire for partisan donations and remarks. Diebold donated at least $195,000 to the Republican Party between 2000 and 2002, and O'Dell once pledged to "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes for President Bush.
Yes, they were polled using E-voting machines, but the gov't and the black box vendors don't want individuals to know what the rest of the public is thinking.
So they just skewed it a little bit to keep all the sheep happy.
I mean isn't that what gov't is for?....Scare them senseless, then take away the fear....Until their minds are mush and they stop thinking for themselves, and just bask in the hellish blue glare of FoxNews/CNN/MSNBC and
Slashdot Mirror
and watch the RIAA and MPAA literally EXPLODE!!!!
I wasn't aware of ANY S.C.O. code that was in Linux, either in source or binary form.
I recall some IBM developer who added code to Linux several months ago, but it was removed immediately after it was discovered that it had come from IBM.
After all, you have to get their permission to sue them!
There's one small detail that I haven't seen addressed yet, and that is the political instability in that region. There have already been 3 major Pakistan v India conflicts in the last century. It also seems that Pakistan has "the Bomb", you know, the nucular one. How many U.S. companies have considered the fallout (no pun intended) of an escalation in political tensions in the area? It wouldn't take more than one nuke going off in LEO, and you could kiss every computer, router, phone switch, and cell-phone in India good-bye. With only a handful of programmers left in the U.S. just think of the hourly billables!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why?.... There are more similarities than differences between the two. I get pretty windows that I can drag around, resize and even minimize and maximize!!! I really don't notice much of a difference switching back and forth. I do feel for the single maintainer of Gnome though, that's gotta be a LOT of work. Maybe if they tore it down again and started over?.... It worked last time! The only thing I might be concerned about a single solution would be if the licensing model changed (can you say XFree86???). And from what i saw a while back, Trolltech still owned Qt.????? Besides, 5yy5ddjjjjjjjp:wq still works in vi on both of them......
Why not Ruby?????? It's fast, clean, and pure O-O.
Sorry sport, You are wrong on at least one point. A cousin of Osama bin Laden "donated" DNA before his departure from the U.S. A first, or even second, cousin is close enough to get a 98% match on DNA.
That is a quote from the article on your second link. Clearly, based on that article, ALL OF THE EVIDENCE was inconclusive.
The first link????
Well, it is HIGHLY suspect. First off, it states: "They detail the Iraqi regime's purchase of five kilograms of mustard gas" 5 kilos of mustard gas is approximately 2% of what a 500 bomb would carry. 5 kilos of mustard gas, in optimal weather conditions, might briefly contaminate a few acres. Mustard gas is not very stable in the atmosphere and tends to break down relatively quickly.
The other problem with that alleged purchase of mustard gas is that the U.S. SOLD them that technology during Reagan's administration. There are even pictures of Rumsfeld hugging Saddam about the time that deal was closed. Don't forget, at that time Saddam was our friend, fighting our common ally, Iran.
About the anthrax, from the information I have seen, this is probably also a bogus claim. Not that Iraq didn't posess anthrax, but that they purchased "5 vials". It is almost certain that Iraq had the anthrax spore as early as 1974. So why would they be purchasing "5 vials" in early 2000?. It just doesn't make sense.
Furthermore, the mere posession of anthrax is NOT as important as is "weaponising" it. Anthrax is not particularly toxic in the normal environment, unless it is inhaled. Therefore, to "weaponize" anthrax for military or terrorist use, Iraq would have needed the technology to dry the spore out, and to "package" it in an aerosol. It appears that Iraq was pursuing that issue in the early 1990's, and stopped that research in the middle 1990's.
The other problem I have with the first link you suggested was the "alleged" ties between Iraq and Al-Queda. There is no timeframe in the link you posted dated after 1993. A telling omission in and of itself. But more importantly, they did not provide the alleged original documents on that site, nor the translations.
I don't know if the documents exist or not, and am not an arabic linguist, but without those "documents" everything on that link you provided is unsubstantiated hearsay.
I was, alas, sadly under the wrong impression. This administration is incredible. Much worse than Nixon and Reagan's combined. Are you a ruby wiz by any chance?....new to the language and I have a few questions?...
Very informative, Please disregard the portion of this grandparents post that in any way expressed or implied admiration for Colin Powell. Having been informed of the details of his life before politics, he's as bad, if not worse, than the rest of this lying administration. I apologize profoundly for expressing any admiration for Colin Powell. He is clearly not worthy.
I beg to disagree, Exhibit "A" was the forged documents purporting that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium from Niger. It took the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency all of TWO HOURS to prove those documents were forgeries. The sophisticated tool that they used?????? Google Seems a signatory on that forged document HAD BEEN DEAD for a number of years. Didn't stop Bush & Co, (or even, sadly, Colin Powell) from ranting and raving about "mushroom clouds"....
What is the next logical step for MS?, intentionally introduce more bugs to get more customers to sign up for the premium service?
Or needlessly delay the release of patches for the same reason?
This is almost a strong-armed shakedown.
MS is basically saying "..Yo buddy, we knows you gotch yer license, but see it's like this, Billie boy says youse gotta cough up a little more dough, or things just ain't gonna work out the way you planned..."
C'mon M$, if your customer's already have a license for your product, and your product is broken, then it is YOUR (Microsoft's) responsibility to FIX it........
Hmmm, I Don't think you have ever used an X-terminal (in the true meaning of the word)... They have Keyboard, monitor, mouse and ethernet ports. And sometimes parallel ports as well. Just plug in an ethernet, configure the X-term to point to a boot & font server, and you are up and running.....
.....Totally scalable, native support out of the box.
Centralized management, file sharing, and security.
Off the shelf hardware... Can't beat that for lower TCO....
How exactly to you propose getting it there?...
What about loss of of the carrying rocket at anything below the L7 altitude?...
Fusion is the way to go.... PS: the website also states: "This in turn implies that a core melt scenario is not possible and can be ruled out."...I would much rather have proof than a mere "implication" of safety....
Otherwise the initial contract is binding.
In this case, I do not believe that the contract specifically states any limitations as to the time/place/(means and or media) that the content offered by the "provider" must be "consumed" by the subscriber.
Just my $.02 worth, I am sure a real lawyer would charge a lot more!....
why do I keep hitting the hjkl(s) key all the time in this editor?......
Hmmm, let's see, VAX/VMS, circa 1980: "set proc/priv=all" (become system's administrator) or "set proc/priv=oper" (join the operator priv group) This is twenty years prior to the filing of M$'s patent. And if I recall, Sun/Solaris, HP/UX, IBM/AIX, DEC/Ultrix, and yes, even SCO, all had the concept of "privileged" groups/users dating well back into the '80's...... There is literally TONS of prior work out there that should invalidate this patent. It's more a question of who is going to fight it?.....
Feels like the same philosophy as the '80's Honda Civic. Clean design, very functional, not completely sexy, incredibly fuel efficient..... With plenty of pep, very reliable, and excellent handling.
Hmmm, I sincerely beg to disagree. I have studied this problem extensively the last several months. There are some pretty simple processes that can be put into place that gaurentee anonymity, verifiable ballots, and a means of ensuring that votes have been accurately tabulated. Not trivial, but not very difficult either.
Windows, mostly the software vendors are using XP-Pro as precinct servers, and get this, Windows-CE as clients.....BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHA......
This link where the President of Diebold promises to "get Bush the vote"... i quote:
In addition, the company and its chief executive, Walden O'Dell, have come under fire for partisan donations and remarks. Diebold donated at least $195,000 to the Republican Party between 2000 and 2002, and O'Dell once pledged to "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes for President Bush.
Yeah, but at least you can see a chad. Kinda hard to take apart a DRAM and peek inside.....
hmmm....nevermind....diregard previous post
I TRUST OUR GOV"T COMPLETELY!!!!!!!!!
So they just skewed it a little bit to keep all the sheep happy.
I mean isn't that what gov't is for?....Scare them senseless, then take away the fear....Until their minds are mush and they stop thinking for themselves, and just bask in the hellish blue glare of FoxNews/CNN/MSNBC and