It's only the NEW GPL that applies. Novell is just fine under the OLD GPL. Under COMMON LAW interpretation of the GPL, Microsoft KNOWS what it's getting into on this deal and really got FSCKED because they tacitly agreed to the terms of Novells CURRENT GPL terms. Without reading the contract, I'm SURE that Novell was smart enough to restrict the agreement to the current GPL. Either way, MS pays Novell $348 million. FOr those parts pof the world where common law applies....well MS gets ROYALLY EFFED because anything they pass to Novell passes to 'the community' under common law.
IMO this whole mess is a ruse to see how smart the FSF lawyers are... Intel for a later FSCKING!!! MS is liek the effing middle east. One day you're all blown up. Up in heaven you learn that 47 generations back you had an imbecilic cousin who fscked someones goat producing a chimeric offspring(hey it worked back then) and you were just suicide bomb owned by descendants of the goats family.
Microsoft agrees not to sue Novell knowing full well the existing license terms that apply to Linux.
Hey Buzz, You know me, every time I get my hands on some reefer, I share it with the...like the whole 2nd shift. Sure Elmo and now you know that from henceforth and on, anytime you want a smoke, you're free to access my stash.
What's the difference between the whole 2nd shift smoking up my stash or smoking up the stash that MS shares with Novell?
Stop prostitution by jailing clients Stop drugs by jailing users Stop botnets by jailing bot owners
If the stigma associated with having a botfly crawl out of ones skull would attach to botnet infected computers, the problem would go away in a matter of hours.
damn pennies always messing with the man wearing a hole in the pocket of his grey flannel suit tasting funny in his mouth too small to cover his dead eye's won't buy penny candy for the undertaker's kid to small to keep up with marching time poor pennies... damn nickels
Which makes sense. When there are two competitive players whose product features and performance keep passing each other, why not give the customer a choice and at the same time exploit that competition to improve ones own position...
Every on line social forum has users who offer up stuff they found on the net that's ONLY available as flash. Try converting ANY of the forum members to linux once they learn that they will be left out of a substantial number of discussions because they can't run the flash player.
This business of holding back linux release for half a year or more is extremely detrimental to linux on the average joe's desktop. I would not be surprised if many converts went back to windows in order to remain relevant in their social groups.
take it seriously. Rush Limbaugh is FUNNY! Neal Boortz is FUNNY! Neither one of these guys is engaged in politics. They are entertainers as are the rest of the talk show doods.
These guys offer up OPINION. It's like the editorial section of the newspaper or most of TeeVee "news". It's not about facts, it's about who gets the most mod points...
fairness gives us a fascist media with content driven by political revenue limited ownership gives us a media with no designs on content beyond maximizing profits through advertising and/or subscription
As for silly. $2.99 Harbor Freight multimeter label warns, "Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles during use." Also cautions, "screw removal by qualified persons only".
I visited the Lenovo web site this AM looking for a machine for my daughter to use in grad school. Parts availability and the 3-year warranty add a lot of value. Where'd the warranty go?
I called the Fujitsu repair center in Memphis. They have the part. They will do the repair. I don't mind spending $30 for a $1 part that I can install in 20 minutes. I'll NOT spend $233 plus shipping for someone else to do it. Fujitsu does not allowed authorized purchasers to sell parts. Period. No exceptions. I ended up fixing it myself with epoxy and a bit of soldering. No more Fujitsu for me. I love the P7000 but $2,000+ for something that's gonna cost me at least a couple of hundred bucks anytime something breaks after the warranty expires...I should be insulted that they'd even think I might purchase one...
AFAIK ALL the manufacturers sell direct. With 'Fujitsu Store' rebates, this P2120 was only higher because of no 3rd party memory and some toss in stuff like points and carrying case from the discount dealer. Dell sells direct. HP sells direct. IBM sold direct, I haven't checked Lenovo.
There was a lot of talk recently about 'osama makes sense'. Well here's some recent sense made of osama.
The New York Post reports on 2nd pass translations of the recently discussed on/. Osama Bin Laden 'terror tape'. It seems that when Osama spoke of states, he was not refering to nation states, but rather those of the USA that would cast electoral votes for Bush. I'm waiting to hear from Kerry on this. It seems he has run a poll.
How do people who were planning to vote for Kerry feel about these threats? I mean if your state doesn't carry, it's not your fault. Yet, you're still a member of the threatened group, namely voters in that state.
This tech isn't limited to circuits. one could print other chemistry (battery, sensor, display, etc) right on the board. I can see ultra thin $3 wristwatches where the watch and battery are integrated into the band.
I can see this working very will for hybrid integrated circuit manufacturing.
First the circuit is printed. Next the conductive cement is printed. Finally a component transfer drum 'prints' the components on to the board.
The drum could made of a plastic on a rapid prototype machine and mounted in a loader (drum rotates and components are dropped into pockets) for small runs. For large runs the drum would serve as a pattern for something that woudl hold up longer.
The result is a very rapid transition from CAD/modeling stage to large scale production.
Refinements for projects you know from the get go are going to be big would include printed resistors and capacitors. A series of printers with multiple heads for the various 'ink' flavors would work best for this. Resistance with a few ink mixes and pattern/width for values within ranges. In this scenario you only need to 'print' active devices and larger inductors and capacitors. All else is done with the ink.
I bet this technology will be up and running before then end of 2005 and cranking out helmet electronics for military, wrist watch cell phones, and some really cool Cracker Jack(tm) toys.
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Damn. Finally something funny an my mod points have expired.
It's only the NEW GPL that applies. Novell is just fine under the OLD GPL.
Under COMMON LAW interpretation of the GPL, Microsoft KNOWS what it's getting into on this deal and really got FSCKED because they tacitly agreed to the terms of Novells CURRENT GPL terms. Without reading the contract, I'm SURE that Novell was smart enough to restrict the agreement to the current GPL. Either way, MS pays Novell $348 million. FOr those parts pof the world where common law applies....well MS gets ROYALLY EFFED because anything they pass to Novell passes to 'the community' under common law.
IMO this whole mess is a ruse to see how smart the FSF lawyers are... Intel for a later FSCKING!!! MS is liek the effing middle east. One day you're all blown up. Up in heaven you learn that 47 generations back you had an imbecilic cousin who fscked someones goat producing a chimeric offspring(hey it worked back then) and you were just suicide bomb owned by descendants of the goats family.
Microsoft agrees not to sue Novell knowing full well the existing license terms that apply to Linux.
Hey Buzz, You know me, every time I get my hands on some reefer, I share it with the...like the whole 2nd shift.
Sure Elmo and now you know that from henceforth and on, anytime you want a smoke, you're free to access my stash.
What's the difference between the whole 2nd shift smoking up my stash or smoking up the stash that MS shares with Novell?
2.6.8-1.521smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 16 09:25:06 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
01:24:48 up 466 days, 16:08, 42 users, load average: 0.56, 0.58, 0.49
would be much longer but tech at ISP occasionaly confuses with another machine and mashes the reset button.
Stop prostitution by jailing clients
Stop drugs by jailing users
Stop botnets by jailing bot owners
If the stigma associated with having a botfly crawl out of ones skull would attach to botnet infected computers, the problem would go away in a matter of hours.
damn pennies ...
always messing with the man
wearing a hole in the pocket of his grey flannel suit
tasting funny in his mouth
too small to cover his dead eye's
won't buy penny candy for the undertaker's kid
to small to keep up with marching time
poor pennies
damn nickels
Now I won't have to deal with homeland security cutting open my 5lb bag of grits anymore when I leave The South for work.
you already own a gadget made with DLCs.
Which makes sense. When there are two competitive players whose product features and performance keep passing each other, why not give the customer a choice and at the same time exploit that competition to improve ones own position...
magnetic radiation?
the only differece here is the scanning mechanism.
Tha flying spot scanner and Farnsworth's image dissector are both 'single pixel' devices.
Every on line social forum has users who offer up stuff they found on the net that's ONLY available as flash.
Try converting ANY of the forum members to linux once they learn that they will be left out of a substantial number
of discussions because they can't run the flash player.
This business of holding back linux release for half a year or more is extremely detrimental to linux on the average joe's desktop.
I would not be surprised if many converts went back to windows in order to remain relevant in their social groups.
take it seriously. Rush Limbaugh is FUNNY! Neal Boortz is FUNNY!
Neither one of these guys is engaged in politics. They are entertainers as are the rest of the talk show doods.
These guys offer up OPINION. It's like the editorial section of the newspaper or most of TeeVee "news". It's not about facts, it's about who gets the most mod points...
fairness gives us a fascist media with content driven by political revenue
limited ownership gives us a media with no designs on content beyond maximizing profits through advertising and/or subscription
is my favorite serious warning.
As for silly. $2.99 Harbor Freight multimeter label warns, "Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles during use."
Also cautions, "screw removal by qualified persons only".
A service contract is not a warranty!
Totally different animals.
No 3 year warranty = no Lenovo for me.
I visited the Lenovo web site this AM looking for a machine for my daughter to use in grad school. Parts availability and the 3-year warranty add a lot of value. Where'd the warranty go?
A new isle at the fish market!
Perhaps you'd find benefit from a /. review of your proposal as a supplement to the /. sponsor map. RPCV(Fiji '76)
I called the Fujitsu repair center in Memphis. They have the part. They will do the repair. I don't mind spending $30 for a $1 part that I can install in 20 minutes. I'll NOT spend $233 plus shipping for someone else to do it.
Fujitsu does not allowed authorized purchasers to sell parts. Period. No exceptions. I ended up fixing it myself with epoxy and a bit of soldering. No more Fujitsu for me. I love the P7000 but $2,000+ for something that's gonna cost me at least a couple of hundred bucks anytime something breaks after the warranty expires...I should be insulted that they'd even think I might purchase one...
AFAIK ALL the manufacturers sell direct. With 'Fujitsu Store' rebates, this P2120 was only higher because of no 3rd party memory and some toss in stuff like points and carrying case from the discount dealer. Dell sells direct. HP sells direct. IBM sold direct, I haven't checked Lenovo.
There was a lot of talk recently about 'osama makes sense'. Well here's some recent sense made of osama.
/. Osama Bin Laden 'terror tape'. It seems that when Osama spoke of states, he was not refering to nation states, but rather those of the USA that would cast electoral votes for Bush. I'm waiting to hear from Kerry on this. It seems he has run a poll.
The New York Post reports on 2nd pass translations of the recently discussed on
How do people who were planning to vote for Kerry feel about these threats? I mean if your state doesn't carry, it's not your fault. Yet, you're still a member of the threatened group, namely voters in that state.
This tech isn't limited to circuits.
one could print other chemistry (battery, sensor, display, etc) right on the board. I can see ultra thin $3 wristwatches where the watch and battery are integrated into the band.
I can see this working very will for hybrid integrated circuit manufacturing.
First the circuit is printed.
Next the conductive cement is printed.
Finally a component transfer drum 'prints' the components on to the board.
The drum could made of a plastic on a rapid prototype machine and mounted in a loader (drum rotates and components are dropped into pockets)
for small runs. For large runs the drum would serve as a pattern for something that woudl hold up longer.
The result is a very rapid transition from CAD/modeling stage to large scale production.
Refinements for projects you know from the get go are going to be big would include printed resistors and capacitors. A series of printers with multiple heads for the various 'ink' flavors would work best for this. Resistance with a few ink mixes and pattern/width for values within ranges. In this scenario you only need to 'print' active devices and larger inductors and capacitors. All else is done with the ink.
I bet this technology will be up and running before then end of 2005 and cranking out helmet electronics for military, wrist watch cell phones, and some really cool Cracker Jack(tm) toys.
I'm gonna foward this /. discussion to buddy in IBM Linux marketing and ask, "what's up". Will add answer (if i get one ;-)
unless you want to wait forever for fsck