Going after corporate officers is so rare. I'll bet you a year's salary it won't happen here. That's a good bet for me because statistically the chances of a corporate officer paying out of their own pockets to shareholders left holding the bag is like million to one or better. You have a better chance of being hit by a lightning 50 days in a row.
Brilliant, those that are armed with knowledge are idiots and terrorists!.
You have learned your lessons from 1984 wisely my friend. I take back what I said about you being a republitard. You are clearly amongst the republican elite.
Too bad you are too cowardly to even reveal your nym.
Just for giggles though please say "The US never tortures anybody, anywhere". I need a laugh today.
You have it all wrong my man. SCOX is a scan to RIP OFF THE SHAREHOLDERS not to protect them. Look at the Vultus deal carefully. SCO buys vultus in order to transfer money from the SCO shareholders to the people who own vultus (which surprise! have lots of other dealings with people who own most of SCO stock). They then write off the deal as a loss and shareholder got reamed.
Of course in the US that's perfectly moral and legal. Capitalism YouGottaLoveIt (TM).
People who have been let go from gitmo have marks on them indicating torture. They have all said they were tortured.
Many people have died in the afghan torture chambers, the Military medical examiners themselved have ruled the deaths as murder. Some people have died because of broken bones they were beaten that bad.
People have testified before the courts and the canadian govt about being abducted by US secret service agents and shipped to syria to be tortured for months before being let go.
There is lots of evidence but of course being a republitard you are completely unaware of it. That's what happens when your sole source of news is fox news and rush limbaugh.
The same thing was said for orange, their set top boxes, the msn tv thingie, their version of tivo, MS money, etc.
Given their 0% batting rate for achieving domination in the last 5 years I would not bet on MS to dominate any new market let alone maintain their current monopolies.
They have had a long string of abject failures and me too products. Amongst the MS products that were supposed to "dominate" the market?
IIS, SQL server, Money, Microsoft at work (fax machines and copiers and such), xbox, three products tied to tv (all of them dead), orange, etc...
It's amazing to me that they haven't been able to leverage their windows and office monopoly to other products and gain new monopolies even though that's their primary business plan. A string of spectacular failures and a bunch of me too products is all they can muster.
Go linux, go open office, make the MS monopoly products less profitable and MS will go down hard.
Exactly!. Just like the US govt mandates MS software which surprisingly is made by only one company who happens to be an American company. Quite a coinky dink no?
"A pulbic company was one legal obligation, make money for the shareholders and do it legally. Anything else is fair game."
No wonder american capitalims is so fucked up. Apparently there are lots of people in america who believe that making money is the highest aspiration of mankind.
As for MSFT it would not surprise me if they were behind this flap, I don't think there is any ethical line they would not cross. I just don't think those people have any sense of morals or ethics beyond making money.
What amazes me is that O'Gara was literally stalking PJ and published personal information about her on the web and this bozo thinks open source people are dangerous.
You are talking about Delphi which is an IDE+Object Pascal+hundreds of VCLs. This is just a free pascal compiler.
What makes Delphi great are the IDE and the components, like VB except with a real object oriented language (with exceptions!!). For some unknowable reason languages like java, perl, python, etc never embraced the visual component you slap on a form and go. Finally the java folks are working on JNDC which will make some standard data aware components but it's probably too late for java on the desktop anyway.
As for why Delphi never sold well it probably has to do more with price then anything else. The pro editions (the first usable tier) were never cheap and the price kept going up every version.
I haven't tried this but I can't think of a reason why it would not work.
Unzip firefox to some network drive. Create shortcuts on desktops to f:\apps\firefox... That's it right? Firefox keeps profile information on the users profile so no problem there. When the time comes to upgrade just unzip the new firefox on top of the old one and you are done.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually I am a little disapointed. What I have on my home pages are the following.
Numerous links to web sites I visit often.
Weather from the three cities.
Time at four locations around the world.
For RSS feeds I use the firebird live bookmarks.
So Google doesn't really offer me anything I can't whip up in five minues with HTML.
remote desktop is based on VNC. You might have noticed the "let people connect with VNC" option in the settings for it.
Apple remote desktop is compatible with VNC. YOu can run put linux or windows on your legacy PCs and run VNC on them.
Going after corporate officers is so rare. I'll bet you a year's salary it won't happen here. That's a good bet for me because statistically the chances of a corporate officer paying out of their own pockets to shareholders left holding the bag is like million to one or better. You have a better chance of being hit by a lightning 50 days in a row.
ROFLMA. The idea that there will be anything left to recover once SCO folds their tents is hilarious.
Brilliant, those that are armed with knowledge are idiots and terrorists!.
You have learned your lessons from 1984 wisely my friend. I take back what I said about you being a republitard. You are clearly amongst the republican elite.
Too bad you are too cowardly to even reveal your nym.
Just for giggles though please say "The US never tortures anybody, anywhere". I need a laugh today.
You have it all wrong my man. SCOX is a scan to RIP OFF THE SHAREHOLDERS not to protect them. Look at the Vultus deal carefully. SCO buys vultus in order to transfer money from the SCO shareholders to the people who own vultus (which surprise! have lots of other dealings with people who own most of SCO stock). They then write off the deal as a loss and shareholder got reamed.
Of course in the US that's perfectly moral and legal. Capitalism YouGottaLoveIt (TM).
People who have been let go from gitmo have marks on them indicating torture. They have all said they were tortured.
Many people have died in the afghan torture chambers, the Military medical examiners themselved have ruled the deaths as murder. Some people have died because of broken bones they were beaten that bad.
People have testified before the courts and the canadian govt about being abducted by US secret service agents and shipped to syria to be tortured for months before being let go.
There is lots of evidence but of course being a republitard you are completely unaware of it. That's what happens when your sole source of news is fox news and rush limbaugh.
"Maybe in another 4-5 years, Xbox will be ahead."
Or maybe it won't.
The same thing was said for orange, their set top boxes, the msn tv thingie, their version of tivo, MS money, etc.
Given their 0% batting rate for achieving domination in the last 5 years I would not bet on MS to dominate any new market let alone maintain their current monopolies.
There are torture and rape chambers run by the US all over the world. Afghanistan, quatar, pakistan, yemen, and yes even in cuba.
What is your point? Are you seriously suggesting US does not rape or torture people?
They have had a long string of abject failures and me too products. Amongst the MS products that were supposed to "dominate" the market?
IIS, SQL server, Money, Microsoft at work (fax machines and copiers and such), xbox, three products tied to tv (all of them dead), orange, etc...
It's amazing to me that they haven't been able to leverage their windows and office monopoly to other products and gain new monopolies even though that's their primary business plan. A string of spectacular failures and a bunch of me too products is all they can muster.
Go linux, go open office, make the MS monopoly products less profitable and MS will go down hard.
Exactly!. Just like the US govt mandates MS software which surprisingly is made by only one company who happens to be an American company. Quite a coinky dink no?
"What's funny is that from a class perspective, China's policy is more likely to help the little guy than the US's policy"
Maybe not so funny, maybe it's because they are a communist state. Something to think about.
Actually I don't see how what the chinese govt is doing is any different then the US govt mandating Microsoft software.
Isn't sampling legal? It seems to me he is talking about sharing samples which might be legal.
You are the lawyer so what say you?
"A pulbic company was one legal obligation, make money for the shareholders and do it legally. Anything else is fair game."
No wonder american capitalims is so fucked up. Apparently there are lots of people in america who believe that making money is the highest aspiration of mankind.
O'Gara was stalking, it's a crime in most states.
As for MSFT it would not surprise me if they were behind this flap, I don't think there is any ethical line they would not cross. I just don't think those people have any sense of morals or ethics beyond making money.
What amazes me is that O'Gara was literally stalking PJ and published personal information about her on the web and this bozo thinks open source people are dangerous.
To MS innovation with IE is integrating it with the OS.
FInd as you type, gestures, skins, live bookmarks (my favorite)
You are talking about Delphi which is an IDE+Object Pascal+hundreds of VCLs. This is just a free pascal compiler.
What makes Delphi great are the IDE and the components, like VB except with a real object oriented language (with exceptions!!). For some unknowable reason languages like java, perl, python, etc never embraced the visual component you slap on a form and go. Finally the java folks are working on JNDC which will make some standard data aware components but it's probably too late for java on the desktop anyway.
As for why Delphi never sold well it probably has to do more with price then anything else. The pro editions (the first usable tier) were never cheap and the price kept going up every version.
And who pray tell puts a gun to your head and forces you to use GPLed code?
Wow, you let computers be down for a week because you were installing a new OS? Now that's what I call crappy change management.
Er um when you use BSD code aren't you saying "I have a right to YOUR source code"?
I haven't tried this but I can't think of a reason why it would not work.
...
Unzip firefox to some network drive.
Create shortcuts on desktops to f:\apps\firefox
That's it right? Firefox keeps profile information on the users profile so no problem there. When the time comes to upgrade just unzip the new firefox on top of the old one and you are done.
Can anybody think of why this would not work?