Where does that 85% number come from, and how does that relate to previous years? We have various sources of information. We do a regular analysis of where we stand with our employees. It's something I could say very objectively. That number is, frankly, about as high as it has ever been.
It is that time of year again - bonuses! If you are thinking of jumping ship like those judases Mark Lucovsky and Lee Kai-Fu, think again! We have successfully mired our own name so that nobody will hire a weasely scrotum like yourself!
Back to bonuses, we have hired Diebolds windows XP based poll machines to take a poll on how much you seminars on motivational dance at 6pm, with cognac in my office afterwards.
Yours truly^H^H^H^H friendly^H^H^H^H...
Get back to work!
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Hahahahah I am so scared. The problem is, a well configured firewall, and a mime filter on downloads and emails will solve all but the biggest problem.
Internal sabotage.
I hate how Symantec et al have gained enough money and power to fuel a self fulfilling prophecy of doom and gloom.
Why would I want the worry an security, and the act of stupidly waving my card over a petrol pump like an access card when I can just swipe it.
Card swipe... card... swipe the card... hurray.
The same result, no complex expensive worries about security. I can just hear their security chief now:
"The RFID cards will be secure, because we will use a *really* big number in the cards..."
"Bigger than... erm... one kajillion million fafillion bajillion?"
"Yes sir!"
"*evil laugh*"
"*evil laugh*"
I am expert! BTW this isn't a mvoe for technology, they will use RFID as a marketting bait to get more credit card customers, think about it, what other reason than to get people to sign up for the new 'wow' rfid card.. yeah, give us your debt.
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And 'uneducated' farmer 200 years ago was perhaps one of the more educated general folk, knowing much about the land. He used technology of his time.
Today modern farmers know more or less? They certainly know different things. The article is redundant because it doesnt define intelligence.
Certainly people are more free thinking today, and have been educated in how to learn things (I would hope, judging by teh intarwebnet masses this isn't so). So peoples intelligence (natural free thinking, ability to push their minds) is up, so is knowledge, such as random facts from wikipedia.
Why? 200 years ago there were only 112 music, documentary cultural and shopping channels available on cable, not there are more. You get it.
Information is flowing like quick silver (most of it is like shit, like engaydget blogs), we are at a time where for the FIRST TIME in history free, mass communication is available to all (potentially) unrestricted and secure, globalized and revolutionary.
First thing that happens? it all starts getting locked back down again... anyway... people don't truly appreciate the internet until their own mum buys something from china, without realising.
No, I don't mean made in china, I mean a chinese company, selling internationally.
Each day I speak to almost 30 nationalities, and I try and get something from each of them. Who did that 200 years ago?
The fact that there is a hetrogenous level of education now is great, and I see that when this moves globally, and EVERY child on earth gets a good, competative education, we will realise we are no longer breeding hatred into generations but understanding.
Or some crap.
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one problem with non-visual editors, you hands can fly quite fast and all of a sudden ^cg^s^x-o oops, was that ^c-s^s^g^x-o or something else?
whoops, where is half my document gone? what button did I push?
I know, why don't I royally arse my document up by using undo/redo snaking biting its own tail HACK of an undo system.
Unable to work out how to do a real undo, they hacked it 100% using basic hackery of adding and removing key codes to a stack.
This means that when you undo, you are ADDING to your history.
This is like a brokwn temporal back button, becuase it doesn't actually work like one and can quickly destroy any semblance of data it held.
Anyway, Emacs is an ok editor, it does the job, it can be improved, and those proponents who like simple keyboard only editors, and like to ^xo!!^xo^xbTtabenter^sremove^s^sescqremoveenteradd spacespacespace^xs^xo!!
that is fine - but there are even better ways.
So that is my rant, and I realise that flaming anything vi or emacs is dumb, so here is a bunos, M$ suck! yeah.
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So people want to save how much by reading one story?
I guess if they can afford this type of mobile phone, they can afford a connection on their mobile phone...
seriously the shift in society when every mobile phone has a dcent connection will be great - why EVER buy a newspaper? combine low cost roll out screens with a connection, and has the printing press finally met its match?
compare any newspaper with news.google.com and news.bbc.co.uk
specialist newspaper? they probably already give it away for free on their website.
data plans are too costly - what is the cheapest data plan around?
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Ideas on furnishings and setup are all well and good, but I think you cross a line when taking the 'ultimate setup' and ask what software should be used!!!11
"We can land a man on the moon but we can't [insert trivial, or expected course of action that we cannot seem to achieve]"
We can land men on the moon, and prepare for $100 billion plans to go back there. But we cannot send help to US disaster victims, on US soil, within 2 weeks.
God, bless America?
I think the timeing is a little poor don't you.
How does that $100 billion ($336 per person) compare to aid given to those in life threatening situations.
hrm.
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What happened to the lugging a BoomBox on my shoulder generation? Or the walkman generation? or the discman generation? Or the 5 years of digital music players pre-dating the ipod?
NOW we are worried about going deaf? now we can carry huge volumes of music around with us?
Oh the irony of my word for the day:
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IIRC their favourite person to bitch about is some woman with a degree that cost her $60, who says chlorophyll is magic because it is the suns energy that goes inside you.
This column is actually a good read, in fact RSS is a good thing here - an RSS feed of "http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/" would be wonderful. Since they pick at other newspapers and their own when necessary, it makes you trust their science reporting a little more, because of the air of honesty.
What about science in the classroom: My science teacher says 'all enegry on earth comes from the sun'
Which it doesn't!
Lunar/tidal gravitational energy (plus solar/tidal - but that is the sun) plus geo-physical energy from the earths core. Plus all assorted bits and pieces of rock/ice from space that decide to pay homage to this quaint wet rock in space all add a bit to the mass / energy of the planet.
I wonder how much heavier the earth is every year from rocks and stuff, and how much lighter it is from any escaping objects such as our orbiting space junk.
Having read the article, it is a weekly, and I have to love this quip:
Every Christmas and Easter, regular as clockwork, you can read that chocolate is good for you (www.badscience.net/?p=67), just like red wine is, and with the same monotonous regularity, in breathless, greedy tones you will you hear how it's scientifically possible to eat as much fat and carbohydrate as you like, for some complicated reason, but only if you do it at "the right time of day". These stories serve one purpose: they promote the reassuring idea that sensible health advice is outmoded and moralising, and that research on it is paradoxical and unreliable.
How many times do you hear second hand from someone that xyz is healthy for you because 'they' said so! Imagine, food companies writing press releases,;-).
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Every time they get told to do something, it ends u being better for them - offer mulitple windows versions, oooh that sounds markettable. Seems out governments legal funds are basically brainstorming sessions...
In this case, many people want MSN opened up, and now they are doing it to take a piece out of google if they can.
The dumb stupid ass microsoft thing is, it would have been beneficial for them to do it ANYWAY.
some perspective please. Not all bugs/flaws/vunerabilities are the same.
If Microsoft says on monday there is a flaw, or it is reported, and the 'fix' is to disable said component, then they usually point that out.
Of course, I have no idea how many LOC this took o fix, if it was trivial or not, or how it was exploitable, so maybe I shoudl shut up, then again, since when has knowing the facts been a prerequisite for slashdotting.... um tee...
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They realised that by offering extra versions, they can sway the sales of units, by giving competitors the chance to sell 'ultimate edition' windows for cut prices etc. Seems that this version play will come back and bite some people in the ass.
Also, this is a bit of a 'hey EU, we are suing you but, look, you can't get us on not offering enough versions now, lol'.
BTW, I don't get it, Microsoft is suing the EU, that means they are reaching into the pockets of every tax paying EU citizen, and taking money, you know, EU lawyers and teams are not free to deal with this crap.
I say, you cannot have corporations bullying europe like this, no a flame, but honestly, US is PWNED by microsoft, things are going swimmingly for them, but with patents and their flagrant disregard for the laws and judgements of europe, I think people should wake up soon and jump ship.
Oh well, it wouldn't suprise me if Microsoft bashing has become a moderat..able offense, see you in -1 land, any second now.
Something about masturbation with the hand, running linux on it, and some frist ps0t macro perhaps.
Oh, and libraries of congress and old korean people.
Did I leave any out? Sorry, gotta drink some coffee!:-)
Oh some starwars or startrek quotes perhaps! Speaking of authors, I retract my previous hatred towards Dan Brown and welcome him like a junkie welcomes a hit of heroine - I just read the first 2 pages of angels and daemons, and I can't put it down, even though it doesn't cover any of the daemons I was interested in.
Can anyone recommend a good book on snmp daemons?
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I just read Robert Heinleins 'Tunnel in the Sky'. Heinlein wrote the now quote famous Starship Troopers.
This book is in the same vein. Using 'stargate' type technology (but without silly jelly effects) a simple door can be created between worlds, and pioneers are set out to try and reduce the strain on the worlds population growth.
---SPOILER WARNING---
Anyway, a supernova occurs [millions of light years away, but reaches them at that point] in a survival experiment at a school - and this knocks the focus of the gate, and after 5-10 days the kids are supposed to be picked up (those who survived). Yet they end up starting their own colony.
I knew I would get a response like this: Yes I know that MySql is GPL 'period'. Just the way they advertise this - and NO it wans't a rake at how they have a duel licensing, I understand this:
I am talking about there own definitions and marketting on their website, which seems to say (if you read it) that you need a commercial license if you copy the downloaded binary to a cd-rom, or if you give it to a colleague.
I understand it, I am just trying to see if their 10 point - do I need a 'license' (meaning a commercial, pay for license) is actually applicable, and if those 'restrictions' are allowed in the GPL.
You can charge for GPL you know. Free != free - sorry to be condecending but if you cannot read what I am saying, without jumping on it like an uninformed Free==free troll post then I might be forgiven for my bitter retort.
So once again - mysql had a list of 10 cases where you need a commercial license, and one was: if you download it as gpl, but give it to a colleague, you need a commercial license. Again, I have brought this up before, but now I cannot see it on their site, and I question it that is all.
Again, what the f.ck are you saying. Don't think you can win an argument (if there was one) with the condescending retort. You cannot win by saying 'Oh grow up' it doesn't work you see.
I am not saying he did or did not say anything, you reading ability might be measured in what rainbow book you are on (Blue 3?) I am not sure.
I merely said there must be prior art, so the PATENT is b.llshit, NOT the fact that he said it, and wether or not he said it:
I do not find it hard to believe that there is such a patent, and I did not discredit or imply that you were wrong.
So get a clue you moron, and stop trying to turn every f.cking quip into an argument.
I have never liked MySql's take on GPL on their site: I am not sure if it is up now, or modified, but their 'reasons you need to buy a license for MySql' included: writing to media, giving to a colleague, copying source.
MySql are trying to have their GPL cake and eat it I think... rather peculiar, and nobody else seems to make note of it...
MySql... and SCO... a lie to try and get a positive pro SCO headline in the news... or a way to discredit MySql?
Either way... my first gut reaction (and I am someone who puts no price on being able to move away from a database) is to drop MySql and go back to bending over for oracle.
I would rather be on a sturdy [politically] closed source platform, than an already quakey 'open source' (deliberate quotes, because I am very suspicious of MySql's 'open source' definitions, even if they are GPL....- just their marketting edge...
... yeah and I am always pissing on the fact that google news lists slashdot... it isn't a fucking news source.
News aggregators/link dumps/comment sites should link to news sources NOT OTHER NEWS AGGREGATORS. This multi-tiered linking causes games of chinese whispers, and this is serious:
3 out of 5 Slashdot article titles are completely misleading. And 3/4 statistics are just made up on the spot to prove a point.
Slashdot Mirror
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Where does that 85% number come from, and how does that relate to previous years?
We have various sources of information. We do a regular analysis of where we stand with our employees. It's something I could say very objectively. That number is, frankly, about as high as it has ever been.
Dear Hordes-Willing-to-do-my-bidding^H^H^H^H^H...^H
Dear Microsoft Employee,
It is that time of year again - bonuses! If you are thinking of jumping ship like those judases Mark Lucovsky and Lee Kai-Fu, think again! We have successfully mired our own name so that nobody will hire a weasely scrotum like yourself!
Back to bonuses, we have hired Diebolds windows XP based poll machines to take a poll on how much you seminars on motivational dance at 6pm, with cognac in my office afterwards.
Yours truly^H^H^H^H friendly^H^H^H^H...
Get back to work!
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With a board saying the "EOF is nigh!".
Hahahahah I am so scared. The problem is, a well configured firewall, and a mime filter on downloads and emails will solve all but the biggest problem.
Internal sabotage.
I hate how Symantec et al have gained enough money and power to fuel a self fulfilling prophecy of doom and gloom.
Why would I want the worry an security, and the act of stupidly waving my card over a petrol pump like an access card when I can just swipe it.
Card swipe... card... swipe the card... hurray.
The same result, no complex expensive worries about security. I can just hear their security chief now:
"The RFID cards will be secure, because we will use a *really* big number in the cards..."
"Bigger than... erm... one kajillion million fafillion bajillion?"
"Yes sir!"
"*evil laugh*"
"*evil laugh*"
I am expert! BTW this isn't a mvoe for technology, they will use RFID as a marketting bait to get more credit card customers, think about it, what other reason than to get people to sign up for the new 'wow' rfid card.. yeah, give us your debt.
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And 'uneducated' farmer 200 years ago was perhaps one of the more educated general folk, knowing much about the land. He used technology of his time.
Today modern farmers know more or less? They certainly know different things. The article is redundant because it doesnt define intelligence.
Certainly people are more free thinking today, and have been educated in how to learn things (I would hope, judging by teh intarwebnet masses this isn't so). So peoples intelligence (natural free thinking, ability to push their minds) is up, so is knowledge, such as random facts from wikipedia.
Why? 200 years ago there were only 112 music, documentary cultural and shopping channels available on cable, not there are more. You get it.
Information is flowing like quick silver (most of it is like shit, like engaydget blogs), we are at a time where for the FIRST TIME in history free, mass communication is available to all (potentially) unrestricted and secure, globalized and revolutionary.
First thing that happens? it all starts getting locked back down again... anyway... people don't truly appreciate the internet until their own mum buys something from china, without realising.
No, I don't mean made in china, I mean a chinese company, selling internationally.
Each day I speak to almost 30 nationalities, and I try and get something from each of them. Who did that 200 years ago?
The fact that there is a hetrogenous level of education now is great, and I see that when this moves globally, and EVERY child on earth gets a good, competative education, we will realise we are no longer breeding hatred into generations but understanding.
Or some crap.
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one problem with non-visual editors, you hands can fly quite fast and all of a sudden ^cg^s^x-o oops, was that ^c-s^s^g^x-o or something else?
d spacespacespace^xs^xo!!
whoops, where is half my document gone? what button did I push?
I know, why don't I royally arse my document up by using undo/redo snaking biting its own tail HACK of an undo system.
Unable to work out how to do a real undo, they hacked it 100% using basic hackery of adding and removing key codes to a stack.
This means that when you undo, you are ADDING to your history.
This is like a brokwn temporal back button, becuase it doesn't actually work like one and can quickly destroy any semblance of data it held.
Anyway, Emacs is an ok editor, it does the job, it can be improved, and those proponents who like simple keyboard only editors, and like to ^xo!!^xo^xbTtabenter^sremove^s^sescqremoveenterad
that is fine - but there are even better ways.
So that is my rant, and I realise that flaming anything vi or emacs is dumb, so here is a bunos, M$ suck! yeah.
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So people want to save how much by reading one story?
I guess if they can afford this type of mobile phone, they can afford a connection on their mobile phone...
seriously the shift in society when every mobile phone has a dcent connection will be great - why EVER buy a newspaper? combine low cost roll out screens with a connection, and has the printing press finally met its match?
compare any newspaper with news.google.com and news.bbc.co.uk
specialist newspaper? they probably already give it away for free on their website.
data plans are too costly - what is the cheapest data plan around?
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Ideas on furnishings and setup are all well and good, but I think you cross a line when taking the 'ultimate setup' and ask what software should be used!!!11
;-)
Flame on!
"We can land a man on the moon but we can't [insert trivial, or expected course of action that we cannot seem to achieve]"
We can land men on the moon, and prepare for $100 billion plans to go back there. But we cannot send help to US disaster victims, on US soil, within 2 weeks.
God, bless America?
I think the timeing is a little poor don't you.
How does that $100 billion ($336 per person) compare to aid given to those in life threatening situations.
hrm.
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What happened to the lugging a BoomBox on my shoulder generation? Or the walkman generation? or the discman generation? Or the 5 years of digital music players pre-dating the ipod?
NOW we are worried about going deaf? now we can carry huge volumes of music around with us?
Oh the irony of my word for the day:
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IIRC their favourite person to bitch about is some woman with a degree that cost her $60, who says chlorophyll is magic because it is the suns energy that goes inside you.
;-).
This column is actually a good read, in fact RSS is a good thing here - an RSS feed of "http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/" would be wonderful. Since they pick at other newspapers and their own when necessary, it makes you trust their science reporting a little more, because of the air of honesty.
What about science in the classroom: My science teacher says 'all enegry on earth comes from the sun'
Which it doesn't!
Lunar/tidal gravitational energy (plus solar/tidal - but that is the sun) plus geo-physical energy from the earths core. Plus all assorted bits and pieces of rock/ice from space that decide to pay homage to this quaint wet rock in space all add a bit to the mass / energy of the planet.
I wonder how much heavier the earth is every year from rocks and stuff, and how much lighter it is from any escaping objects such as our orbiting space junk.
Having read the article, it is a weekly, and I have to love this quip:
Every Christmas and Easter, regular as clockwork, you can read that chocolate is good for you (www.badscience.net/?p=67), just like red wine is, and with the same monotonous regularity, in breathless, greedy tones you will you hear how it's scientifically possible to eat as much fat and carbohydrate as you like, for some complicated reason, but only if you do it at "the right time of day". These stories serve one purpose: they promote the reassuring idea that sensible health advice is outmoded and moralising, and that research on it is paradoxical and unreliable.
How many times do you hear second hand from someone that xyz is healthy for you because 'they' said so! Imagine, food companies writing press releases,
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Every time they get told to do something, it ends u being better for them - offer mulitple windows versions, oooh that sounds markettable. Seems out governments legal funds are basically brainstorming sessions...
In this case, many people want MSN opened up, and now they are doing it to take a piece out of google if they can.
The dumb stupid ass microsoft thing is, it would have been beneficial for them to do it ANYWAY.
asshats.
That is true, except for the komoni dragon, which I do not know when it was named, and can't be fecked to 'pedia it, where did dragons come from?
Perhaps the whole idea is based more on fact.
How soon before bringing back dinosaurs from DNS for films is cheaper and more trilling for audiences than CGI?
hrm.
PETA (nazis) will need to expand some.
some perspective please. Not all bugs/flaws/vunerabilities are the same.
If Microsoft says on monday there is a flaw, or it is reported, and the 'fix' is to disable said component, then they usually point that out.
Of course, I have no idea how many LOC this took o fix, if it was trivial or not, or how it was exploitable, so maybe I shoudl shut up, then again, since when has knowing the facts been a prerequisite for slashdotting.... um tee...
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They realised that by offering extra versions, they can sway the sales of units, by giving competitors the chance to sell 'ultimate edition' windows for cut prices etc. Seems that this version play will come back and bite some people in the ass.
Also, this is a bit of a 'hey EU, we are suing you but, look, you can't get us on not offering enough versions now, lol'.
BTW, I don't get it, Microsoft is suing the EU, that means they are reaching into the pockets of every tax paying EU citizen, and taking money, you know, EU lawyers and teams are not free to deal with this crap.
I say, you cannot have corporations bullying europe like this, no a flame, but honestly, US is PWNED by microsoft, things are going swimmingly for them, but with patents and their flagrant disregard for the laws and judgements of europe, I think people should wake up soon and jump ship.
Oh well, it wouldn't suprise me if Microsoft bashing has become a moderat..able offense, see you in -1 land, any second now.
Something about masturbation with the hand, running linux on it, and some frist ps0t macro perhaps.
:-)
Oh, and libraries of congress and old korean people.
Did I leave any out? Sorry, gotta drink some coffee!
Oh some starwars or startrek quotes perhaps! Speaking of authors, I retract my previous hatred towards Dan Brown and welcome him like a junkie welcomes a hit of heroine - I just read the first 2 pages of angels and daemons, and I can't put it down, even though it doesn't cover any of the daemons I was interested in.
Can anyone recommend a good book on snmp daemons?
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Shit, I had better wake up all my customers...
We run Java on desktop apps for banks and retail outlets on close to 100,000 desktops.
Anything from signature retrieval, and complex comfortable drag and drop, fluid document management suites in Java, to advanced sales systems.
The only real issue with Java on desktop was installation, and webstart kinda kicked that one in the nut.
If you webstart something, it is so nice to install it.
google square heads demo, click web start, then some back and apologise.
yip.
This is awesome, they say it will be released with duke nukem forever, a subscription to phantom online gaming,
Now I am going to read other comments, and find out this really is a dell laptop which has been photoshopped, on a troll website.
Intuitive little fella ain't you!
I just wonder which realm you rdrew such a descriptive vision from - you were describing your own squalor were you?
I think he was folks. Why do you hate God anyway?
Robert Heinlein's 'Tunnel in the Sky'.
must have more typo/mental errors too. wow. slashdot editors suck don't they... I mean, no link... just a 'oooh weird title, lets use it'. Laaazy.
I just read Robert Heinleins 'Tunnel in the Sky'. Heinlein wrote the now quote famous Starship Troopers.
This book is in the same vein. Using 'stargate' type technology (but without silly jelly effects) a simple door can be created between worlds, and pioneers are set out to try and reduce the strain on the worlds population growth.
---SPOILER WARNING---
Anyway, a supernova occurs [millions of light years away, but reaches them at that point] in a survival experiment at a school - and this knocks the focus of the gate, and after 5-10 days the kids are supposed to be picked up (those who survived). Yet they end up starting their own colony.
OK
So read some Heinlein books.
I knew I would get a response like this: Yes I know that MySql is GPL 'period'. Just the way they advertise this - and NO it wans't a rake at how they have a duel licensing, I understand this:
/.
I am talking about there own definitions and marketting on their website, which seems to say (if you read it) that you need a commercial license if you copy the downloaded binary to a cd-rom, or if you give it to a colleague.
I understand it, I am just trying to see if their
10 point - do I need a 'license' (meaning a commercial, pay for license) is actually applicable, and if those 'restrictions' are allowed in the GPL.
You can charge for GPL you know. Free != free - sorry to be condecending but if you cannot read what I am saying, without jumping on it like an uninformed Free==free troll post then I might be forgiven for my bitter retort.
So once again - mysql had a list of 10 cases where you need a commercial license, and one was: if you download it as gpl, but give it to a colleague, you need a commercial license. Again, I have brought this up before, but now I cannot see it on their site, and I question it that is all.
Sick of jumped up people on
Again, what the f.ck are you saying. Don't think you can win an argument (if there was one) with the condescending retort. You cannot win by saying 'Oh grow up' it doesn't work you see.
I am not saying he did or did not say anything, you reading ability might be measured in what rainbow book you are on (Blue 3?) I am not sure.
I merely said there must be prior art, so the PATENT is b.llshit, NOT the fact that he said it, and wether or not he said it:
I do not find it hard to believe that there is such a patent, and I did not discredit or imply that you were wrong.
So get a clue you moron, and stop trying to turn every f.cking quip into an argument.
And my spelling apppaarreently. kthxzbi!!11OMG
I have never liked MySql's take on GPL on their site: I am not sure if it is up now, or modified, but their 'reasons you need to buy a license for MySql' included: writing to media, giving to a colleague, copying source.
... for how long?
MySql are trying to have their GPL cake and eat it I think... rather peculiar, and nobody else seems to make note of it...
MySql... and SCO... a lie to try and get a positive pro SCO headline in the news... or a way to discredit MySql?
Either way... my first gut reaction (and I am someone who puts no price on being able to move away from a database) is to drop MySql and go back to bending over for oracle.
I would rather be on a sturdy [politically] closed source platform, than an already quakey 'open source' (deliberate quotes, because I am very suspicious of MySql's 'open source' definitions, even if they are GPL....- just their marketting edge...
MySql have an indemnification page
Sounds like a money making shake out... I thought SCO was dead already.
... yeah and I am always pissing on the fact that google news lists slashdot... it isn't a fucking news source.
News aggregators/link dumps/comment sites should link to news sources NOT OTHER NEWS AGGREGATORS. This multi-tiered linking causes games of chinese whispers, and this is serious:
3 out of 5 Slashdot article titles are completely misleading. And 3/4 statistics are just made up on the spot to prove a point.
cogito...cogitio...ergo sum...cogito.