I think it is terrible the way you are satirizing Business School Product. Now get back to your engineering, young man, and let those who know how to use this kind of language get on with the business of mutual recursive backscratching.
No, Qi Gong is the stuff that makes the Chinese authorities pee in their pants when 100,000 Chinese show up doing it outside government buildings. Nothing scares a Chinese bureaucrat more than large groups of their fellow Chinese acting alike but very unlike a government sponsored activity.
Clearly, you have never developed user interfaces before. There is a lot of creative design in a good command line interface. A gui is several times more difficult to develop and get right. When it is right, it fits like a glove around the uses its intended audience puts it to. When it is done poorly, we get...errr....windoze.
Most of us use guis because we have better things to do than bang out indecipheral text commands invested with years of learning how to do something we normal people use maybe once, twice a year. If your investment in non-eye candy interfaces makes you proud of yourself, please, pleasure yourself with them to your hearts content.
Almost, the Novell case is unstayed, and Judge Kimball gets to figure out how much of Novell's money SCO stole by not turning over unix license revenue. But the bankruptcy judge will determine how much of that Novell should get. They won't get anything because SCO is busy burning through every last penny on some truly outstanding examples of lawyering into the wind, a relative of pissing into the wind.
Final act? I think not. There is still the Novell litigation, the IBM case, and the case in Europe. And as long as Gates and Ballmer are allowed to run free, it really cannot be over.
I agree Business School Product is generally retarded, mostly because they believe anything can be sold (including their grandmothers) and have no technical testicles to create anything new (Microsoft on a good day).
However, if big business ran the way you claimed, it would have collapsed on itself long ago. There are many, I would argue the majority of, companies that are run well and that are not in the news, don't have shareholder lawsuits, are intensely interested at being the best in their markets.
Humans work with what they know, and many times that is the fellow in a company adjacent to theirs with which they can make a deal. That is simply human nature. However, a company with a track record of bad decisions will eventually get ground into dust. It may not happen on the time scale you'd like, but is does happen with a certain inevitability.
There is a certain type of rogue company that is relatively quick on its feet "politically" and not technically. They leave a trail of ruined hopes, irritated customers, and partners with knives in their backs. That philosophy works until they run out of shlemozzels (sp?). A shlemiel is one who goes through life spilling soup, a shlemozzel is the fellow s/he spills it on.
Bingo, that's why I use Pine too. I could give a flying rat's ass about html mail, I don't appreciate flashy graphics unless someone tells me I need to see it. For that, I fire up OS X's mail. Funny, I cannot stand most of the other command line unix crap. I usually prefer gui so I don't have to remember useless cruft, but not for mail.
Groklaw is PJ's Blog, she sets the rules because it is hers. And PJ doesn't stamp out contrary opinion, she does stamp out vicious posts both for and against SCOX. The people who use Groklaw are free to their opinions, the prevalent attitude is that SCOX is bunch of slimy weasels. They arrived at that conclusion by following the court cases and observing SCOX's behavior.
The article conveniently ignored all the legal BS Boies-Schiller put the court and litigants through. The length of the case was merely driven by legal niceties the courts provide to make everything as fair as is reasonable. BS simply used this feature to string the case out in the vain hope IBM would simply pay them to go away. IBM thought differently.
A nice choice quote by the judge from early in the proceedings when SCOX put their evidence of IBM wrongdoing (actually, SCOX's dick) on the table: Is that all you have?
From a previous poster: "The biggest provider of oil to the US is Canada. Saudi Arabia is second with Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria finishing the top five providers of oil to the US"
Now where are those U.S. military bases in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria? Even SA has moved the U.S. bases out although it does continue to some air bases there.
That isn't the code IBM handed over. They handed over all the AIX builds going back to 5000 BC. They told the Court if SCOX wanted the Linux code, they could download it from SCOX's own servers since SCOX is a Linux provider.
Nope, M$ will simply make the same pitch to the new administration to explain to them the "perils" of busting up their tidy little monopoly. It will change nothing.
I think you place too much faith in a large company knowing what every little piece of it is doing now and before now and having calculated all the ramifications of current actions upon past behavior. It just might be possible that this scrawny little patent wasn't such a big deal in a company as large as IBM. Give them credit for fixing a problem that came to their attention. They changed a policy on patents into one that is clearly more sensible.
The Koran does handicap Muslim financiers. However, I think that a bigger problem in Arab countries (which Islam promotes via looking down on interest) is that there is a very "piece of the rock" attitude. By that, I mean that land gets handed down generation to generation. This has the effect of making the entire economy of those countries very sclerotic. Europe is working itself into this kind of situation given their entrenched interests and it has the same economic effect there. Anyhow, once an Arab family gets moved off its land, a blood feud sometimes occurs because of all the history attached to that benighted parcel. When an entire social group gets moved, it's a war. This underlies the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Arabs consider the Israelies to be all Ashkenazie (sp?) who are interlopers from Europe and somehow have even convinced themselves it was a European plot. The Ashkenazie came to Israel despite Europe governments (to the extent the European government could even pay attention after WWII). The Iraqi displacement will create yet one more blood feud between Shi'ites and Sunnies that will be going on centuries from now (not entirely because of land, but that will be a big part of it).
"scientific history is littered with the corpses of those who objected to the theories of their times only to be vindicated later."
And do please remember that is it science that found its error and corrected it. You seem to be arguing that science should not do its best to weed out errant theories as they arise for fear it might make a mistake, hence all should be given equal weight. Maybe if we wait long enough, aether's day in the sun will come 'round for it.
Name one religion that ever admitted a mistake. I don't know, maybe the Pope apologizing for the Inquisition comes close, but that was hardly a central tenet of Christianity. Formalized religion does not admit recidivism. Operationally, people always modify it to suit their needs. And their needs sometimes involve justifying their behavior.
Science, on the other hand, is constantly reviewing itself. People may attempt to use it to justify their pet theories, but eventually, science corrects these because there is an independent objective yardstick against which to measure. Religion has no measure. Religion admits no measure. Religion claims to be the measure. It is the perfect Totalitarian philosophy.
His soul wouldn't technically have to leave his body for him to work there. It might simply have a lien on it and he gets to use it for awhile...probably while it hasn't completely blackened and shriveled.
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I think it is terrible the way you are satirizing Business School Product. Now get back to your engineering, young man, and let those who know how to use this kind of language get on with the business of mutual recursive backscratching.
Gerry
No, Qi Gong is the stuff that makes the Chinese authorities pee in their pants when 100,000 Chinese show up doing it outside government buildings. Nothing scares a Chinese bureaucrat more than large groups of their fellow Chinese acting alike but very unlike a government sponsored activity.
Gerry
"I don't consider eye candy to be innovation."
Clearly, you have never developed user interfaces before. There is a lot of creative design in a good command line interface. A gui is several times more difficult to develop and get right. When it is right, it fits like a glove around the uses its intended audience puts it to. When it is done poorly, we get...errr....windoze.
Most of us use guis because we have better things to do than bang out indecipheral text commands invested with years of learning how to do something we normal people use maybe once, twice a year. If your investment in non-eye candy interfaces makes you proud of yourself, please, pleasure yourself with them to your hearts content.
Gerry
Almost, the Novell case is unstayed, and Judge Kimball gets to figure out how much of Novell's money SCO stole by not turning over unix license revenue. But the bankruptcy judge will determine how much of that Novell should get. They won't get anything because SCO is busy burning through every last penny on some truly outstanding examples of lawyering into the wind, a relative of pissing into the wind.
Gerry
Final act? I think not. There is still the Novell litigation, the IBM case, and the case in Europe. And as long as Gates and Ballmer are allowed to run free, it really cannot be over.
Gerry
I agree Business School Product is generally retarded, mostly because they believe anything can be sold (including their grandmothers) and have no technical testicles to create anything new (Microsoft on a good day).
However, if big business ran the way you claimed, it would have collapsed on itself long ago. There are many, I would argue the majority of, companies that are run well and that are not in the news, don't have shareholder lawsuits, are intensely interested at being the best in their markets.
Humans work with what they know, and many times that is the fellow in a company adjacent to theirs with which they can make a deal. That is simply human nature. However, a company with a track record of bad decisions will eventually get ground into dust. It may not happen on the time scale you'd like, but is does happen with a certain inevitability.
There is a certain type of rogue company that is relatively quick on its feet "politically" and not technically. They leave a trail of ruined hopes, irritated customers, and partners with knives in their backs. That philosophy works until they run out of shlemozzels (sp?). A shlemiel is one who goes through life spilling soup, a shlemozzel is the fellow s/he spills it on.
Gerry
Bingo, that's why I use Pine too. I could give a flying rat's ass about html mail, I don't appreciate flashy graphics unless someone tells me I need to see it. For that, I fire up OS X's mail. Funny, I cannot stand most of the other command line unix crap. I usually prefer gui so I don't have to remember useless cruft, but not for mail.
Gerry
Groklaw is PJ's Blog, she sets the rules because it is hers. And PJ doesn't stamp out contrary opinion, she does stamp out vicious posts both for and against SCOX. The people who use Groklaw are free to their opinions, the prevalent attitude is that SCOX is bunch of slimy weasels. They arrived at that conclusion by following the court cases and observing SCOX's behavior.
Gerry
Not in this Universe.
Gerry
The article conveniently ignored all the legal BS Boies-Schiller put the court and litigants through. The length of the case was merely driven by legal niceties the courts provide to make everything as fair as is reasonable. BS simply used this feature to string the case out in the vain hope IBM would simply pay them to go away. IBM thought differently.
A nice choice quote by the judge from early in the proceedings when SCOX put their evidence of IBM wrongdoing (actually, SCOX's dick) on the table: Is that all you have?
Gerry
From a previous poster: "The biggest provider of oil to the US is Canada. Saudi Arabia is second with Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria finishing the top five providers of oil to the US"
Now where are those U.S. military bases in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria? Even SA has moved the U.S. bases out although it does continue to some air bases there.
Gerry
That isn't the code IBM handed over. They handed over all the AIX builds going back to 5000 BC. They told the Court if SCOX wanted the Linux code, they could download it from SCOX's own servers since SCOX is a Linux provider.
Gerry
Your mother starched your shorts, didn't she.
Nope, M$ will simply make the same pitch to the new administration to explain to them the "perils" of busting up their tidy little monopoly. It will change nothing.
Gerry
The company filing the lawsuit has ex-MicroSofties on its payroll, and some were recent hires.
Gerry
I do not give him credit for keeping his stock going up, I give him blame. Blame is what you bestow on a criminal for being a good criminal.
Gerry
I think you place too much faith in a large company knowing what every little piece of it is doing now and before now and having calculated all the ramifications of current actions upon past behavior. It just might be possible that this scrawny little patent wasn't such a big deal in a company as large as IBM. Give them credit for fixing a problem that came to their attention. They changed a policy on patents into one that is clearly more sensible.
Gerry
You mean you are a young scientist. Most of us crustie oldies do know of him.
Gerry
The Koran does handicap Muslim financiers. However, I think that a bigger problem in Arab countries (which Islam promotes via looking down on interest) is that there is a very "piece of the rock" attitude. By that, I mean that land gets handed down generation to generation. This has the effect of making the entire economy of those countries very sclerotic. Europe is working itself into this kind of situation given their entrenched interests and it has the same economic effect there. Anyhow, once an Arab family gets moved off its land, a blood feud sometimes occurs because of all the history attached to that benighted parcel. When an entire social group gets moved, it's a war. This underlies the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Arabs consider the Israelies to be all Ashkenazie (sp?) who are interlopers from Europe and somehow have even convinced themselves it was a European plot. The Ashkenazie came to Israel despite Europe governments (to the extent the European government could even pay attention after WWII). The Iraqi displacement will create yet one more blood feud between Shi'ites and Sunnies that will be going on centuries from now (not entirely because of land, but that will be a big part of it).
Gerry
"scientific history is littered with the corpses of those who objected to the theories of their times only to be vindicated later."
And do please remember that is it science that found its error and corrected it. You seem to be arguing that science should not do its best to weed out errant theories as they arise for fear it might make a mistake, hence all should be given equal weight. Maybe if we wait long enough, aether's day in the sun will come 'round for it.
Name one religion that ever admitted a mistake. I don't know, maybe the Pope apologizing for the Inquisition comes close, but that was hardly a central tenet of Christianity. Formalized religion does not admit recidivism. Operationally, people always modify it to suit their needs. And their needs sometimes involve justifying their behavior.
Science, on the other hand, is constantly reviewing itself. People may attempt to use it to justify their pet theories, but eventually, science corrects these because there is an independent objective yardstick against which to measure. Religion has no measure. Religion admits no measure. Religion claims to be the measure. It is the perfect Totalitarian philosophy.
Gerry
Wow, can you predict me to win the lottery so it will thusly be so too?
Looked at another way, myspace has already been borged, Microsoft is merely corralling more sheep for branding.
Gerry
Are you nuts? It will be buy computer w/windows for $1000, buy computer wo/windows for $1050.
Gerry
You do realize that the Free in Free Software does not mean Free as in Free Beer, right?
Gerry
His soul wouldn't technically have to leave his body for him to work there. It might simply have a lien on it and he gets to use it for awhile...probably while it hasn't completely blackened and shriveled.
Gerry