In the case of the red scares, though, the government actually was riddled with communists.
Indeed.
For example, Annie Lee Moss subsequently has been proven to have been a member of the Communist Party USA, and the Communist Party USA of that era has been proven to have been a Soviet-financed organization that took orders from Moscow. But we still get her interrogation put in movies like Good Night, and Good Luck without it being mentioned that, oh, by the way, this Army communications clerk was perjuring her ass off when she claimed she wasn't a Communist Party member.
No, SCO doesn't have DR-DOS. DR-DOS was spun off of Caldera (along with Embedix) back in 1997, in a company eventually named Lineo. Lineo was bought in 2002 by Metrowerks for Embedix, and all of Lineo's other divisions were spun off. DR-DOS became the property of a new company called DeviceLogics, which later was renamed DRDOS, Inc.
Well, the states did continue to exercise significant authority for a while after that. What finally killed federalism was the double-barrel shot from the 16th and 17th Amendments, which ensured that the Federal Government would have enough money to do whatever it wanted and stripped the states of their last procedural check on the Feds.
Which, since the amendments required first the approval of the state-appointed Senate and then ratification by the state legislatures, can be classed as a suicide.
Oh, certainly. As in cases like Kyllo, the court might hold that the technology is intrusive enough that it is a Fourth Amendment violation even if it otherwise seems to be more analogous to permitted methods than prohibited ones. But Kyllo involved the expectation of privacy much more directly, and was only decided in favor of Kyllo by a 5-4 ruling . . so it seems likely the Court will favor the state in this one.
Yeah, but the reason they can't put a camera on your lawn isn't the Fourth Amendment. They can put the camera on public property, or on a neighbor's property with their permission, to observe your property. While putting the GPS on your car might be illegal for other reasons, it isn't obvious that it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
On the one hand, you've got the theory that this is analogous to assigning an officer to watch and tail a suspect's car, which is perfectly legal without a warrant.
On the other hand, you have, for example, things like Kyllo v. United States, where using thermal imaging equipment was treated as a search even though ordinary visual observation from off the property is not.
I suspect a higher court would rule that GPS devices are more common in civilian use than thermal imaging, and that when driving your car in public you have no reasonable expectation that your movement will be unobserved, and so rule that this court got it right, there is no Fourth Amendment violation.
They're talking 922 grams, "7-inch LCD screen at 800 x 480 pixels, 128 MB of DDR2 RAM (expandable to 256 MB, a 1 GB solid-state disk drive (expandable to 4 GB)" and a "2-cell battery will last between two and four hours" for $250.
I can at this moment get a Vostro A90 for $250, 1070 grams, with 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 screen, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB hard drive, a four-cell battery with the same 2-to-4-hour battery life, running a full Linux distro.
That's a lot of capability to lose for less than a third of a pound in weight and no cost savings.
Only if you assume the internal combustion engine is integral to the definition of an automobile (done here by the slight-of-hand of the word "modern"). Trouvé's electric car beat Benz by four years.
And you still think it's worth it to spend effort on supporting Windows 9x, at the cost of fixing bugs and optimizing the software?
Nope. Instead, I think it's worth spending time and effort on keeping the current Win 2k and older service pack Win XP support at the cost of not doing things like Taskfox.
Indeed, I'd suggest that restoring support for Windows 9x and NT, for earlier versions of Mac OS than 10.4, and even trying to port Firefox to run directly on FreeDOS all make a whole lot more sense than overloading the address bar even further than the Awfulbar. (I mean, seriously. When does the search box get merged back in to the address bar? At least that has a relationship with web page addresses, unlike the Taskfox Use Cases.)
Not having to ensure compatibility with really old operating systems enables the developers to spend more time adding features and capabilities, for one.
Oh, wonderful. Running on fewer platforms gives the developers more time to invent things like the Awful Bar.
Can Congress pass some legislation ordering that they support back to Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Mac OS 8, and Linux 2.0?
Actually, that was a different tax credit, the synfuels tax credit passed in the 1970s, not the new mixed-fuels tax credit.
So, pick your scenario:
1) The Congressmen who passed this new credit were ignorant of how the similar synfuels credit was exploited earlier this decade, despite broad publicity of the abuse (in, for example Time. 2) The Congressmen who passed this new credit were aware of how it could be abused, but were too incompetent to put in safeguards against abuse. 3) The Congressmen who passed this new credit were aware of how it could be abused, and intended it to be so abused.
If you make them rent, you still have the same monopoly. What you have to do is let other companies lay lines. For that, you've got to basically blast the local governments out of the way, because it's way too easy for incumbents to bribe them into setting up barriers--see Philadelphia's resistance to cable competition.
How many volunteer developers and rival companies are put off by Sun's project management enough not to contribute, but not enough to put the effort in to start a fork? How many volunteer developers and rival companies currently don't bother with the projects because Sun's progress is good enough for them, but would see a reason to help if the Sun contribution went down?
Okay, yes, I don't know the answer, either. I could speculate, but it amounts to "insofar as the projects really are important to people, Microsoft couldn't kill them; insofar as they aren't, Microsoft could."
My point really wasn't about Solaris. Red Hat would wind up with Sun's businesses, and have to run those businesses with Sun's people since they don't have anybody of their own in those businesses. The resulting company would be Sun, with a little Red Hat bolted on the side that didn't have enough weight to wrench Sun from its decline.
(Yeah, maybe Red Hat management could pull a Steve Jobs. I wouldn't bet much on it myself.)
IBM can buy Sun, and the resulting company would be IBM. IBM is used to running multiple business units, and it's already got people who manage units that do Java, storage, databases, Unix, RISC boxes, and all the rest. But even if IBM screwed up with Sun, IBM's big enough an organization that the collapse of the Sun division wouldn't kill IBM.
Space, at Jupiter's distance, is cold. Out there, under direct sunlight, ice does not sublimate in the vacuum, meaning it's colder than inside your household freezer.
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In the case of the red scares, though, the government actually was riddled with communists.
Indeed.
For example, Annie Lee Moss subsequently has been proven to have been a member of the Communist Party USA, and the Communist Party USA of that era has been proven to have been a Soviet-financed organization that took orders from Moscow. But we still get her interrogation put in movies like Good Night, and Good Luck without it being mentioned that, oh, by the way, this Army communications clerk was perjuring her ass off when she claimed she wasn't a Communist Party member.
No, SCO doesn't have DR-DOS. DR-DOS was spun off of Caldera (along with Embedix) back in 1997, in a company eventually named Lineo. Lineo was bought in 2002 by Metrowerks for Embedix, and all of Lineo's other divisions were spun off. DR-DOS became the property of a new company called DeviceLogics, which later was renamed DRDOS, Inc.
Sun's hardware is hardly Oracle's biggest-selling product.
And, remember, Ellison explained the purchase of Sun entirely in terms of Sun's software (Java and Solaris), making no reference to its hardware.
Well, the states did continue to exercise significant authority for a while after that. What finally killed federalism was the double-barrel shot from the 16th and 17th Amendments, which ensured that the Federal Government would have enough money to do whatever it wanted and stripped the states of their last procedural check on the Feds.
Which, since the amendments required first the approval of the state-appointed Senate and then ratification by the state legislatures, can be classed as a suicide.
Oh, certainly. As in cases like Kyllo, the court might hold that the technology is intrusive enough that it is a Fourth Amendment violation even if it otherwise seems to be more analogous to permitted methods than prohibited ones. But Kyllo involved the expectation of privacy much more directly, and was only decided in favor of Kyllo by a 5-4 ruling . . so it seems likely the Court will favor the state in this one.
Yeah, but the reason they can't put a camera on your lawn isn't the Fourth Amendment. They can put the camera on public property, or on a neighbor's property with their permission, to observe your property. While putting the GPS on your car might be illegal for other reasons, it isn't obvious that it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
On the one hand, you've got the theory that this is analogous to assigning an officer to watch and tail a suspect's car, which is perfectly legal without a warrant.
On the other hand, you have, for example, things like Kyllo v. United States, where using thermal imaging equipment was treated as a search even though ordinary visual observation from off the property is not.
I suspect a higher court would rule that GPS devices are more common in civilian use than thermal imaging, and that when driving your car in public you have no reasonable expectation that your movement will be unobserved, and so rule that this court got it right, there is no Fourth Amendment violation.
They're talking 922 grams, "7-inch LCD screen at 800 x 480 pixels, 128 MB of DDR2 RAM (expandable to 256 MB, a 1 GB solid-state disk drive (expandable to 4 GB)" and a "2-cell battery will last between two and four hours" for $250.
I can at this moment get a Vostro A90 for $250, 1070 grams, with 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 screen, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB hard drive, a four-cell battery with the same 2-to-4-hour battery life, running a full Linux distro.
That's a lot of capability to lose for less than a third of a pound in weight and no cost savings.
Installed it to its own partition, used the OS/2 boot manager to start it. First thing I did with it, of course, was use vi to configure Xfree86.
Yeah, yeah.
Only if you assume the internal combustion engine is integral to the definition of an automobile (done here by the slight-of-hand of the word "modern"). Trouvé's electric car beat Benz by four years.
You'll notice he didn't name Sparc as a reason to buy Sun.
And you still think it's worth it to spend effort on supporting Windows 9x, at the cost of fixing bugs and optimizing the software?
Nope. Instead, I think it's worth spending time and effort on keeping the current Win 2k and older service pack Win XP support at the cost of not doing things like Taskfox.
Indeed, I'd suggest that restoring support for Windows 9x and NT, for earlier versions of Mac OS than 10.4, and even trying to port Firefox to run directly on FreeDOS all make a whole lot more sense than overloading the address bar even further than the Awfulbar. (I mean, seriously. When does the search box get merged back in to the address bar? At least that has a relationship with web page addresses, unlike the Taskfox Use Cases.)
Not having to ensure compatibility with really old operating systems enables the developers to spend more time adding features and capabilities, for one.
Oh, wonderful. Running on fewer platforms gives the developers more time to invent things like the Awful Bar.
Can Congress pass some legislation ordering that they support back to Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Mac OS 8, and Linux 2.0?
How can you reasonably expect any software developer to keep supporting Windows 9x in such conditions?
Nowadays? VirtualPC.
Actually, that was a different tax credit, the synfuels tax credit passed in the 1970s, not the new mixed-fuels tax credit.
So, pick your scenario:
1) The Congressmen who passed this new credit were ignorant of how the similar synfuels credit was exploited earlier this decade, despite broad publicity of the abuse (in, for example Time .
2) The Congressmen who passed this new credit were aware of how it could be abused, but were too incompetent to put in safeguards against abuse.
3) The Congressmen who passed this new credit were aware of how it could be abused, and intended it to be so abused.
If you make them rent, you still have the same monopoly. What you have to do is let other companies lay lines. For that, you've got to basically blast the local governments out of the way, because it's way too easy for incumbents to bribe them into setting up barriers--see Philadelphia's resistance to cable competition.
How many volunteer developers and rival companies are put off by Sun's project management enough not to contribute, but not enough to put the effort in to start a fork? How many volunteer developers and rival companies currently don't bother with the projects because Sun's progress is good enough for them, but would see a reason to help if the Sun contribution went down?
Okay, yes, I don't know the answer, either. I could speculate, but it amounts to "insofar as the projects really are important to people, Microsoft couldn't kill them; insofar as they aren't, Microsoft could."
My point really wasn't about Solaris. Red Hat would wind up with Sun's businesses, and have to run those businesses with Sun's people since they don't have anybody of their own in those businesses. The resulting company would be Sun, with a little Red Hat bolted on the side that didn't have enough weight to wrench Sun from its decline.
(Yeah, maybe Red Hat management could pull a Steve Jobs. I wouldn't bet much on it myself.)
IBM can buy Sun, and the resulting company would be IBM. IBM is used to running multiple business units, and it's already got people who manage units that do Java, storage, databases, Unix, RISC boxes, and all the rest. But even if IBM screwed up with Sun, IBM's big enough an organization that the collapse of the Sun division wouldn't kill IBM.
What does Sun have that wouldn't fork if Microsoft bought them?
Red Hat buying Sun would be the exact same mistake as Caldera buying SCO.
Space, at Jupiter's distance, is cold. Out there, under direct sunlight, ice does not sublimate in the vacuum, meaning it's colder than inside your household freezer.
Given it's the Guardian, it's entirely predictable they'd be asking for economic socialism.
And how do they do that? By having a FAT partition that the crapware resides on.
UDF works fine for read-only purposes. So you put the driver on a small UDF partition, and format the rest of the drive in ext2.