The thing, though, is that *if* the copyrights are not SCOs in any way, shape or form, they have no grounds for going after end users. My understanding is if a trade secret gets out the game's over. SCO can sue IBM for leaking the information, but they can't then go after users for using said code.
I suspect SCO will claim that code was lifted directly from their branch of SysV and therefor their licensing grab is valid. I can't wait until this goes to court and the Caldera/SCO employee who was a major kernel contributer (/. story from a week or so ago.. too lazy to look up) gets put onto the stand and asked *exactly* what he submitted, where he got it from, and who authorized him to do it.
Most Democrats I know are more than happy to call themselves liberal...which has nothing to do with the word "liberalism" that the parent was talking about. I'm glad those on the left are abandoning the word "liberal" for the word "progressive." Hopefully popular usage of the word will revert back to its original meaning. I associate liberal with Isaiah Berlin, not Ralph Nader.
Surely the band could deal with Apple themselves ?
Nope. Apple's already said they're going to deal with only distributers. Smart decision if you ask me, you don't want to have to become a record company and deal with all that hassle (A&R, contracts, etc), plus you want to remain "neutral" so as to not piss off the other record companies. Not to mention 2 living Beatles, one tone deaf asian widow and the reincarnated soul of George in the form of a goat would sue you faster than you could say "Apple Records".
We hate buymusic.com because its DRM is too oppressive, not to mention it's based on sub-par Microsoft technology that's already been cracked.
Huh??? Shouldn't that be a good thing? I mean, if you're going to pluck down dosh for some downloaded music and it has to be DRMed (because the RIAA folks ain't going to allow it any other way) wouldn't you want it cracked all to hell so you can actually burn it / transfer it / etc?
That's what their girlfriends are for. If they're not mercinary enough to be nailing a girl with some cashflow they should have their "rock star" badge confiscated.
Man, that's odd. I got the 100% libertarian and the sixtysomething Bush, but I don't remember Dean being up there as well. Granted I wasn't paying all that much attention to where I was compared to Dean...
It is simply wrong, indeed, dangerous, to name anything after a living personage, especially a politician. And double especially a President.
Yeah, I always thought there was a "you have to be dead 20 years before you get something named after you" rule, but apparently I am wrong.
The most egregious (after my spelling) has to be West Virginia. EVERYTHING is named after Sen. Byrd. (yet, funny enough, considering he's the pork king of congress and I'm a libertarian I still love the old coot)
Only a fraction of the the $100M - $120M a year would go into their pocket. Part of it is going to be taken by the ISPs, part to cover the content (game) providers, and of course there's bandwith / data warehouseing / employees / that high-end office space to pay for.
Granted, assume they split the monthly fee 50/50 with ISPs $50-$60M still seems an awful lot to break even with.
That actually makes more sense, but I still wonder how that gets leveraged into the Unix workspace. Interoperability assumes a two way street. Again, if.NET is a success (as they have thus far defined it) then MS still puts themselves into a position where the MS solution should'nt be the *only* solution. Interoperability implies fairly transparent standards, which means that competing implementations can be created (.GNU, Mono) that, if not 100% compatible, are "good enough." Either they clamp down on competing solutions and keep tight reins on the standards/implementation (their home grown solutions and carefully selected licensees) or they allow many different versions to grow in their "ecosystem" (god, I hate that term). If they do the former they're going to have a much harder time selling to anyone who wasn't already in the Windows camp. If they go the latter then they've lessened the appeal of their own OS.
Agreed about technology vs marketing hype, but there's something about.NET that has bothered the hell out of me. They technology (or at least the hype around it) is at odds with the business reality at MS.
MS claim that.NET will be open and cross platform, but the only way this can happen is if cross platform means "across *our* platforms."
Currently MS makes the bulk of their money from the OS and Office. If they truely made.NET cross platform (or let something like Mono take hold) then that starts to eat into both their server and desktop base. I mean, why would anyone pay MS $$$ for each desktop / server if you could choose between *BSD / Linux / VMS / Un*x / et al? For instance, if I had cycles to burn on an IBM mainframe it would make sense to host my.NET services on it, assuming it was truely cross platform.
So basically I fail to see how MS could inplement a businees plant such that.NET would generate more money than the potential loses from the hit they'd take on server / desktop licenses.
Again, MS makes (prints???) money by selling OSs and Office (everything else is just a rounding error). You can be damn sure they're not going to do anything to threaten that cash cow. The interesting thing will be how MS ties.NET to its own OSs. The big draw about web services is that they're supposed to facilitate easier communication / data sharing between disparate systems.
Of course, if you make Gator illegal then you would basically make any pop-up blocking software illegal as well (since they also modify a page by deleting certain content).
Stupidity is no defense. If you download/install software and don't understand that there may be spyware / adware installed you have no-one to blame but yourself.
An MIO board (or BlackBox) is a good choice too. The MIO has 256K or 1 Meg of ram (powered seperatly from the main computer) for ramdisk / printer spooler use, an old HD interface (I want to say for RLL type hard drives, but I could be wrong about that) and serial and parallel ports. The BlackBox I belive was somewhat similar but had a SCSI interface. Check eBay.
Well, we tried giving money away to make friends (Europe after world war two, Egypt, etc.) That didn't work very well either, considering most of them hate us too...
So, in a choice between my tax dollars going to Pierre or Mustapha so they can piss it away and still hate us, or spend it on nice, shiny galvanized canisters of whoop-ass (which employs a bunch of smart folk in this country to design and build) I know which way I'm going to vote.
They're going to hate us no matter what we do. The key is to make 'em realize if they act on their hate there's a nice, smoldering crater where their country used to be in their immediate future.
I happened to get my 5500 from the HSN deal a few months ago. At less than $200 I could justify it (and the extra $60 for the wireless card). Basically, its my ultra portable web browser/e-mail/ssh client for when I head to a coffee shop. I don't use it for PIM functions (nor did I really use my Palm III when I had it). In fact, the closest thing I have to a PDA is my iPod, which I find perfect for storing my contacts and notes.
The Z5500 is nice, but only at the sub $200 price I paid for it.
well MSN is partnering with quite a few broadband providers and cell phone providers to distribute MSN as the default software.
I honestly wonder how well that will actually work out. I suspect quite a few DSLers are actually hanging LinkSys routers off of the DSL modem, thus their (last time I used it quite shitty) PPPoE drivers and system modifications (i.e. new home page) never hit my system.
I've sorta snarkily thought all of these deals have been the equivalent of payola to the Telcos. MS throws them some cash and they can claim that they've got xxx more subscribers. I suspect I'm even counted as an MSN subscriber simply due to my Verizon DSL line.
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Well, this is the Guardian, which means itâ(TM)s your average cultural snob, elitist leftie whinging and whining about how modern life is sooooooooooo bad because we, the unwashed, unsophisticated masses spend too much time with our crass, petty little toys and not enough time brooding over the existential meaning of âoewhat it all means.â
Translation: theyâ(TM)re a bunch of fucking twats.
Let Stuart Jeffries climb a pole and ponder his bloody navel, Iâ(TM)ve got cars to steal in GTA:VC.
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So you are saying that you can't understand math if you use a calculator?
Nope. I say that the learning process is better if you learn how to do it first without a calculator.
I would say that it would be easier to learn, or at least grade math when calculators are used.
And I'd say (snarkily) that you've never taught math.
Think about it; if what you are really after is getting your students to understand the concepts, then why dissallow calculators that prevent them from getting incorrect answers from arithmatic errors ('oops, forgot to carry the 2' or some shit).
The point of learning something is to master it. In the grand scheme of things learning the fundamentals of math and futzing up an answer here or there due to an arithmetic error is exponentially better than *not* knowing fundaments and relying on your calculator for everything. Teaching math also means teaching how to think logically, how to understand the underlying principals so you can apply them to other situations than the ones presented in your homework.
For instance I also taught calculus. Whole chapters were devoted to graphing equations using maxima, minima and inflection points. Now, some kids wanted to use their graphing calculator to come up with the answers (and undoubtedly did when they did their homework), but they screwed themselves in the long run. Why? Because the point of graphing 40 equations wasn't to make pretty pictures, it was to drill the student in taking first and second derivatives, finding local maxima and minima, etc. Those who took the easy way out using their calculators were royally fucked when in the next section you had to apply those newly taught skills to solve minimization problems.
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Are there any purists out their who don't allow calculators in math anymore? Last I checked almost all students use graphing calculators (wimps!)
I didn't when I was teaching college algebra at my Uni. The only time calculators were allowed were when we got to the section on logs. I figured it was a nice comprimise from having to look values up from log tables.
I have no problem with caluculators per se, but they shouldn't be used when teaching fundamental mathematics. Learn it the hard way first, so you actually understand what's going on, then use a calculator for actual applied work.
What information are you basing this on? If MS bought a license, and they are less clear than Sun, what makes you think that buying a license has anything at all to do with being clear?
An interview with Sontag at Byte. He claimed that the license MS signed wasn't for the "crown jewels" but an application layer. i.e. he wouldn't confirm that MS was "in the clear."
Its a lawsuit. You bide your time, keep your head down, do your homework, and let everything that needs to come out come out in court.
Frankly, that's why I have my doubts about SCO's claims: they're going WAY public WAY early. If they had a solid case they wouldn't have to say crap, they'd just file their lawsuit and followup as needsbe. As it stands right now their story keeps changing. Looking at my unofficial scorecard thusfar we have:
* There may be some SCO IP in some userland apps * IBM violated a contract between SCO and IBM * IBM misappropriated code into Linux Kernel in a few places * IBM misappropriated code into Linux Kernel in a a lot of places * IBM misappropriated code into Linux Kernel in a few hundred thousand places... and as of today
* SCO owns anything associated with UNIX since they claim the orig. AT&T licenses says that AT&T (and now SCO) own everything that the Licensees add to their own version of Unix (JFS: Developed by IBM, owned by SCO; NUMA: Developed by SGI (AFAIK), owned by SCO, etc). Sontag even hinted that SCO somehow has some ownership rights to Windows (and that the recent MS/SCO licensing agreement doesn't cover it).
2 great samplers of Verve Jazz are "A Night Out With Verve" and "A Night In With Verve". Both box sets are 4 CDs chocked with great stuff from the Verve vaults and they're pretty cheap as well (around $20 if I remember). You really can't go wrong.
As for a single album: "Mystery Lady" by Etta James. James is more well known for her Blues work, but this album of Billy Holiday tunes is spectacular.
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The thing, though, is that *if* the copyrights are not SCOs in any way, shape or form, they have no grounds for going after end users. My understanding is if a trade secret gets out the game's over. SCO can sue IBM for leaking the information, but they can't then go after users for using said code.
I suspect SCO will claim that code was lifted directly from their branch of SysV and therefor their licensing grab is valid. I can't wait until this goes to court and the Caldera/SCO employee who was a major kernel contributer (/. story from a week or so ago.. too lazy to look up) gets put onto the stand and asked *exactly* what he submitted, where he got it from, and who authorized him to do it.
Most Democrats I know are more than happy to call themselves liberal. ..which has nothing to do with the word "liberalism" that the parent was talking about. I'm glad those on the left are abandoning the word "liberal" for the word "progressive." Hopefully popular usage of the word will revert back to its original meaning. I associate liberal with Isaiah Berlin, not Ralph Nader.
Surely the band could deal with Apple themselves ?
Nope. Apple's already said they're going to deal with only distributers. Smart decision if you ask me, you don't want to have to become a record company and deal with all that hassle (A&R, contracts, etc), plus you want to remain "neutral" so as to not piss off the other record companies. Not to mention 2 living Beatles, one tone deaf asian widow and the reincarnated soul of George in the form of a goat would sue you faster than you could say "Apple Records".
We hate buymusic.com because its DRM is too oppressive, not to mention it's based on sub-par Microsoft technology that's already been cracked.
Huh??? Shouldn't that be a good thing? I mean, if you're going to pluck down dosh for some downloaded music and it has to be DRMed (because the RIAA folks ain't going to allow it any other way) wouldn't you want it cracked all to hell so you can actually burn it / transfer it / etc?
Most muscians I've known have no money:)
That's what their girlfriends are for. If they're not mercinary enough to be nailing a girl with some cashflow they should have their "rock star" badge confiscated.
I assume the 91% is of the "distributer" cut of the iTunes pie (which, if memory serves, is around 30c)
Man, that's odd. I got the 100% libertarian and the sixtysomething Bush, but I don't remember Dean being up there as well. Granted I wasn't paying all that much attention to where I was compared to Dean...
That would be on in the same.
To Byrd's credit he got out young and he's repentant. He's never (to my knowledge) tried to hide it or play it down.
It is simply wrong, indeed, dangerous, to name anything after a living personage, especially a politician. And double especially a President.
Yeah, I always thought there was a "you have to be dead 20 years before you get something named after you" rule, but apparently I am wrong.
The most egregious (after my spelling) has to be West Virginia. EVERYTHING is named after Sen. Byrd. (yet, funny enough, considering he's the pork king of congress and I'm a libertarian I still love the old coot)
Only a fraction of the the $100M - $120M a year would go into their pocket. Part of it is going to be taken by the ISPs, part to cover the content (game) providers, and of course there's bandwith / data warehouseing / employees / that high-end office space to pay for.
Granted, assume they split the monthly fee 50/50 with ISPs $50-$60M still seems an awful lot to break even with.
That actually makes more sense, but I still wonder how that gets leveraged into the Unix workspace. Interoperability assumes a two way street. Again, if .NET is a success (as they have thus far defined it) then MS still puts themselves into a position where the MS solution should'nt be the *only* solution. Interoperability implies fairly transparent standards, which means that competing implementations can be created (.GNU, Mono) that, if not 100% compatible, are "good enough." Either they clamp down on competing solutions and keep tight reins on the standards/implementation (their home grown solutions and carefully selected licensees) or they allow many different versions to grow in their "ecosystem" (god, I hate that term). If they do the former they're going to have a much harder time selling to anyone who wasn't already in the Windows camp. If they go the latter then they've lessened the appeal of their own OS.
(Apologies for the crap spelling)
Agreed about technology vs marketing hype, but there's something about .NET that has bothered the hell out of me. They technology (or at least the hype around it) is at odds with the business reality at MS.
.NET will be open and cross platform, but the only way this can happen is if cross platform means "across *our* platforms."
.NET cross platform (or let something like Mono take hold) then that starts to eat into both their server and desktop base. I mean, why would anyone pay MS $$$ for each desktop / server if you could choose between *BSD / Linux / VMS / Un*x / et al? For instance, if I had cycles to burn on an IBM mainframe it would make sense to host my .NET services on it, assuming it was truely cross platform.
.NET would generate more money than the potential loses from the hit they'd take on server / desktop licenses.
.NET to its own OSs. The big draw about web services is that they're supposed to facilitate easier communication / data sharing between disparate systems.
MS claim that
Currently MS makes the bulk of their money from the OS and Office. If they truely made
So basically I fail to see how MS could inplement a businees plant such that
Again, MS makes (prints???) money by selling OSs and Office (everything else is just a rounding error). You can be damn sure they're not going to do anything to threaten that cash cow. The interesting thing will be how MS ties
Of course, if you make Gator illegal then you would basically make any pop-up blocking software illegal as well (since they also modify a page by deleting certain content).
Stupidity is no defense. If you download/install software and don't understand that there may be spyware / adware installed you have no-one to blame but yourself.
An MIO board (or BlackBox) is a good choice too. The MIO has 256K or 1 Meg of ram (powered seperatly from the main computer) for ramdisk / printer spooler use, an old HD interface (I want to say for RLL type hard drives, but I could be wrong about that) and serial and parallel ports. The BlackBox I belive was somewhat similar but had a SCSI interface. Check eBay.
Well, we tried giving money away to make friends (Europe after world war two, Egypt, etc.) That didn't work very well either, considering most of them hate us too...
So, in a choice between my tax dollars going to Pierre or Mustapha so they can piss it away and still hate us, or spend it on nice, shiny galvanized canisters of whoop-ass (which employs a bunch of smart folk in this country to design and build) I know which way I'm going to vote.
They're going to hate us no matter what we do. The key is to make 'em realize if they act on their hate there's a nice, smoldering crater where their country used to be in their immediate future.
I happened to get my 5500 from the HSN deal a few months ago. At less than $200 I could justify it (and the extra $60 for the wireless card). Basically, its my ultra portable web browser/e-mail/ssh client for when I head to a coffee shop. I don't use it for PIM functions (nor did I really use my Palm III when I had it). In fact, the closest thing I have to a PDA is my iPod, which I find perfect for storing my contacts and notes.
The Z5500 is nice, but only at the sub $200 price I paid for it.
Damn, I'm surprised it took that long. I saw this on TotalFark about 6 hours ago (and I figure it got quite a few hits from that).
He's also into porno...
Click on this and then click on "MyUtahSearch.com" on the right hand side.
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well MSN is partnering with quite a few broadband providers and cell phone providers to distribute MSN as the default software.
I honestly wonder how well that will actually work out. I suspect quite a few DSLers are actually hanging LinkSys routers off of the DSL modem, thus their (last time I used it quite shitty) PPPoE drivers and system modifications (i.e. new home page) never hit my system.
I've sorta snarkily thought all of these deals have been the equivalent of payola to the Telcos. MS throws them some cash and they can claim that they've got xxx more subscribers. I suspect I'm even counted as an MSN subscriber simply due to my Verizon DSL line.
Well, this is the Guardian, which means itâ(TM)s your average cultural snob, elitist leftie whinging and whining about how modern life is sooooooooooo bad because we, the unwashed, unsophisticated masses spend too much time with our crass, petty little toys and not enough time brooding over the existential meaning of âoewhat it all means.â
Translation: theyâ(TM)re a bunch of fucking twats.
Let Stuart Jeffries climb a pole and ponder his bloody navel, Iâ(TM)ve got cars to steal in GTA:VC.
So you are saying that you can't understand math if you use a calculator?
Nope. I say that the learning process is better if you learn how to do it first without a calculator.
I would say that it would be easier to learn, or at least grade math when calculators are used.
And I'd say (snarkily) that you've never taught math.
Think about it; if what you are really after is getting your students to understand the concepts, then why dissallow calculators that prevent them from getting incorrect answers from arithmatic errors ('oops, forgot to carry the 2' or some shit).
The point of learning something is to master it. In the grand scheme of things learning the fundamentals of math and futzing up an answer here or there due to an arithmetic error is exponentially better than *not* knowing fundaments and relying on your calculator for everything. Teaching math also means teaching how to think logically, how to understand the underlying principals so you can apply them to other situations than the ones presented in your homework.
For instance I also taught calculus. Whole chapters were devoted to graphing equations using maxima, minima and inflection points. Now, some kids wanted to use their graphing calculator to come up with the answers (and undoubtedly did when they did their homework), but they screwed themselves in the long run. Why? Because the point of graphing 40 equations wasn't to make pretty pictures, it was to drill the student in taking first and second derivatives, finding local maxima and minima, etc. Those who took the easy way out using their calculators were royally fucked when in the next section you had to apply those newly taught skills to solve minimization problems.
Are there any purists out their who don't allow calculators in math anymore? Last I checked almost all students use graphing calculators (wimps!)
I didn't when I was teaching college algebra at my Uni. The only time calculators were allowed were when we got to the section on logs. I figured it was a nice comprimise from having to look values up from log tables.
I have no problem with caluculators per se, but they shouldn't be used when teaching fundamental mathematics. Learn it the hard way first, so you actually understand what's going on, then use a calculator for actual applied work.
What information are you basing this on? If MS bought a license, and they are less clear than Sun, what makes you think that buying a license has anything at all to do with being clear?
An interview with Sontag at Byte. He claimed that the license MS signed wasn't for the "crown jewels" but an application layer. i.e. he wouldn't confirm that MS was "in the clear."
Its a lawsuit. You bide your time, keep your head down, do your homework, and let everything that needs to come out come out in court.
... and as of today
Frankly, that's why I have my doubts about SCO's claims: they're going WAY public WAY early. If they had a solid case they wouldn't have to say crap, they'd just file their lawsuit and followup as needsbe. As it stands right now their story keeps changing. Looking at my unofficial scorecard thusfar we have:
* There may be some SCO IP in some userland apps
* IBM violated a contract between SCO and IBM
* IBM misappropriated code into Linux Kernel in a few places
* IBM misappropriated code into Linux Kernel in a a lot of places
* IBM misappropriated code into Linux Kernel in a few hundred thousand places
* SCO owns anything associated with UNIX since they claim the orig. AT&T licenses says that AT&T (and now SCO) own everything that the Licensees add to their own version of Unix (JFS: Developed by IBM, owned by SCO; NUMA: Developed by SGI (AFAIK), owned by SCO, etc). Sontag even hinted that SCO somehow has some ownership rights to Windows (and that the recent MS/SCO licensing agreement doesn't cover it).
2 great samplers of Verve Jazz are "A Night Out With Verve" and "A Night In With Verve". Both box sets are 4 CDs chocked with great stuff from the Verve vaults and they're pretty cheap as well (around $20 if I remember). You really can't go wrong.
As for a single album: "Mystery Lady" by Etta James. James is more well known for her Blues work, but this album of Billy Holiday tunes is spectacular.