You are full of shit. There is no way Business School Product is going to understand the need for basic science. They don't have what it takes to get it. Business School Product only cares about what is going into the next quarter's financial report because that is how they get rewarded. Their only goal is to retire at 40 and become a bloodsucking parasite on the rest of society for the rest of their miserable lives.
Recall quantum theory? You might also recall it being associated with computer chips. Try getting funding out of a corporate drone for "I wish to investigate the fundamental properties of matter". The response will be, "Sure, just show us how we can incorporate it into our products for next year". And you say, "Uh, it could take several decades". Response, "Hahahahaha...get out of here, you joker!".
Recall DNA? Watson and Crick. "We wish to investigate the fundamental properties that make cells do what they do, it will take 30 years to be useful" Think you are going to get funding?
Transistors? Computable functions? "We wish to investigate what functions are computable in a formal sense?", "Errr...what can we do with them?", "We do not yet know but we expect within 20 years we'll be able to build machines that can compute them". "Why? Will it pay for my vacation home next year?".
Number theory? "We wish to investigate the fundamental properties of numbers.", "Not in this company you won't, we cannot use it for anything?"...maybe encryption means something to you?
Einstein? "I wish to investigate the fundamental forces of nature?" "What? On this company's dime?". Maybe you recall satellites use relativity to properly handle signals?
They won't last the year the way they are bleeding money...unless some Fairy Ballmer steps in and drops them some coin (like they've done in the past). The reason their stock is above $1 is because it is being painted by the people who hold it. It wouldn't surprise me to hear if Redmond is helping to keep the stock floating above $1 by selected "investments" to the painters. Most days, it is thinly traded. The institutions holding large amounts cannot dump them and they'd get nearly nothing for them anyhow. It makes more sense to them and hold out for SCOX's Ballmer-Scam to play out and see if IBM caves. IBM shows no indication of wanting anything less than a crater left of SCOX. The scum that is microsoft sullies everything it touches.
In a way, the parent is accurate. When SCO launched this expedition, they also launched it in the media. The media at the time was clearly piqued by the ramifications were SCO to succeed. IBM clammed up because they had a court case to fight. However, SCO used all the media hype to attempt to shake down other companies. Were it not for Groklaw poking public holes in SCO's stories, several companies likely would have paid up. Eventually, the court cases would have been lost by SCO and the gravy train would dry up. However, the precedent would not be good.
The beneficiary of this, and mostly likely the PuppetMaster after the initial benefits were realized, was Uncle Fester and Cousin It (a.k.a. Bill). They (and Sun) managed to funnel a few cool mil to SCO just to keep the game going longer. Groklaw ferreted that connection out in such a way that Uncle Fester and Cousin It probably won't touch SCO now with a ten foot pole.
In addition, Groklaw did some good work in ferreting out the details of the APA agreement and its tortured history into SCO hands. One could argue that Groklaw did more in freeing Linux from the stigma of "stolen" than IBM ever could do.
And Groklaw isn't going away any time soon. Uncle Fester and Cousin It will have Groklaw teasing out their malpractice with a fine tooth comb for a long, long time.
OF course the case has been going on too long. It is not the U.S. Justice Department though. They have no control over the courts which are in a separate branch of government (branches: legislative, judicial, and executive --- Justice Dept. in this last).
The reason for the delay, outside of shady lawyers, is that the justices involved are bending over backwards to prevent any successful appeal of their future rulings. A successful appeal would make them look bad and hand SCO a victory it ill-deserves.
The shady lawyers, in this case, first got in because of greed, i.e., the promise of shaking down IBM for billions. Now they are mainly attempting to save their collective asses from all sorts of perils including being sued by what's left of SCO for screwing up the case. So they are gaming the system about as far as any lawyers could. It will be interesting to see if the judges don't penalize them personally for this.
Not really, given any sufficiently powerful mathematics system, you can have true statements that are not provable. What people tend to forget is that similar reasoning will yield false statements that are not refutable. So, it is not the case that you can simply prove (or refute) all the properties you need to about any program.
Three, Pakistan is home of the most virulent Islamo-Fascists who wouldn't give a rat's ass if they (and a lot of Hindus) died knowing they defended Islam for some entity they've never met, never seen, cannot have any material influence (by their own theology), yet everything happens if it is his will. Yep, these are the rational people controling enough nukes to kill millions.
But borderline personality people generally do not have the social skills to be psychopath. They do share some traits (not sure about the lying) such as grandiosity, no empathy. I think the no empathy is simply a lack of empathy whereas a psychopath actually enjoys the pain of others and that requires no empathy as necessary condition.
They didn't do it right after the report, DARPA has been fucking up for the last 10 years. Only is it now getting reported. The advisory commission only hilighted what the problem has become.
Reading this fellows answers, he sounds like the lawyer who was squashed along with his wife by the RAF plane that erupted out of Dirk's house since Thor had turned it into an eagle.
The lawyer's sin was for setting up the deal that swapped an immortal soul (Odin's) for unbounded stays in a health care facility, "you know".
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Read Islamist literature sometime, they either want you to convert, die, or pay them taxes. Which one will you choose?
Gerry
You are full of shit. There is no way Business School Product is going to understand the need for basic science. They don't have what it takes to get it. Business School Product only cares about what is going into the next quarter's financial report because that is how they get rewarded. Their only goal is to retire at 40 and become a bloodsucking parasite on the rest of society for the rest of their miserable lives.
Recall quantum theory? You might also recall it being associated with computer chips. Try getting funding out of a corporate drone for "I wish to investigate the fundamental properties of matter". The response will be, "Sure, just show us how we can incorporate it into our products for next year". And you say, "Uh, it could take several decades". Response, "Hahahahaha...get out of here, you joker!".
Recall DNA? Watson and Crick. "We wish to investigate the fundamental properties that make cells do what they do, it will take 30 years to be useful" Think you are going to get funding?
Transistors? Computable functions? "We wish to investigate what functions are computable in a formal sense?", "Errr...what can we do with them?", "We do not yet know but we expect within 20 years we'll be able to build machines that can compute them". "Why? Will it pay for my vacation home next year?".
Number theory? "We wish to investigate the fundamental properties of numbers.", "Not in this company you won't, we cannot use it for anything?"...maybe encryption means something to you?
Einstein? "I wish to investigate the fundamental forces of nature?" "What? On this company's dime?". Maybe you recall satellites use relativity to properly handle signals?
Gerry
Hey fucktard, it stand for The Onion Router...get it?
Gerry
They won't last the year the way they are bleeding money...unless some Fairy Ballmer steps in and drops them some coin (like they've done in the past). The reason their stock is above $1 is because it is being painted by the people who hold it. It wouldn't surprise me to hear if Redmond is helping to keep the stock floating above $1 by selected "investments" to the painters. Most days, it is thinly traded. The institutions holding large amounts cannot dump them and they'd get nearly nothing for them anyhow. It makes more sense to them and hold out for SCOX's Ballmer-Scam to play out and see if IBM caves. IBM shows no indication of wanting anything less than a crater left of SCOX. The scum that is microsoft sullies everything it touches.
Gerry
In a way, the parent is accurate. When SCO launched this expedition, they also launched it in the media. The media at the time was clearly piqued by the ramifications were SCO to succeed. IBM clammed up because they had a court case to fight. However, SCO used all the media hype to attempt to shake down other companies. Were it not for Groklaw poking public holes in SCO's stories, several companies likely would have paid up. Eventually, the court cases would have been lost by SCO and the gravy train would dry up. However, the precedent would not be good.
The beneficiary of this, and mostly likely the PuppetMaster after the initial benefits were realized, was Uncle Fester and Cousin It (a.k.a. Bill). They (and Sun) managed to funnel a few cool mil to SCO just to keep the game going longer. Groklaw ferreted that connection out in such a way that Uncle Fester and Cousin It probably won't touch SCO now with a ten foot pole.
In addition, Groklaw did some good work in ferreting out the details of the APA agreement and its tortured history into SCO hands. One could argue that Groklaw did more in freeing Linux from the stigma of "stolen" than IBM ever could do.
And Groklaw isn't going away any time soon. Uncle Fester and Cousin It will have Groklaw teasing out their malpractice with a fine tooth comb for a long, long time.
Gerry
OF course the case has been going on too long. It is not the U.S. Justice Department though. They have no control over the courts which are in a separate branch of government (branches: legislative, judicial, and executive --- Justice Dept. in this last).
The reason for the delay, outside of shady lawyers, is that the justices involved are bending over backwards to prevent any successful appeal of their future rulings. A successful appeal would make them look bad and hand SCO a victory it ill-deserves.
The shady lawyers, in this case, first got in because of greed, i.e., the promise of shaking down IBM for billions. Now they are mainly attempting to save their collective asses from all sorts of perils including being sued by what's left of SCO for screwing up the case. So they are gaming the system about as far as any lawyers could. It will be interesting to see if the judges don't penalize them personally for this.
Gerry
In particular, reflection in Scheme is enough to break functionality.
Gerry
Not really, given any sufficiently powerful mathematics system, you can have true statements that are not provable. What people tend to forget is that similar reasoning will yield false statements that are not refutable. So, it is not the case that you can simply prove (or refute) all the properties you need to about any program.
Gerry
Not Bill, Uncle Fester. They didn't do the Novell deal because they cared nothing about Linux and its supporters.
Gerry
They sold their Apple stock long ago.
They started working on the weapons again in 1999.
In Soviet Russia, we'd pay them to shoot your stupid ass.
Gerry
Three, Pakistan is home of the most virulent Islamo-Fascists who wouldn't give a rat's ass if they (and a lot of Hindus) died knowing they defended Islam for some entity they've never met, never seen, cannot have any material influence (by their own theology), yet everything happens if it is his will. Yep, these are the rational people controling enough nukes to kill millions.
Wow, did you swallow Castro?
I think the point is the to the CEO, the fellow selling bagels for a living has no more worth than the bagel, hence it is okay to steal the bagel.
So, you subscribe to the Pie Theory of Economics, i.e., the Pie is fixed and after eaten, gone. Well, I guess we can all relax and wait for the end.
And you believe the Islamo-Fascists will be satisfied with only establishing their tyranny in their home countries, eh?
But borderline personality people generally do not have the social skills to be psychopath. They do share some traits (not sure about the lying) such as grandiosity, no empathy. I think the no empathy is simply a lack of empathy whereas a psychopath actually enjoys the pain of others and that requires no empathy as necessary condition.
You need a sense of perspective. It really matters how MUCH more radiation is reaching the earth and of what kind.
Yep, they are called Senators here in the U.S.
Wow, an Artificially Intelligent human, keep on posting, it's all your program will allow for you to do.
They didn't do it right after the report, DARPA has been fucking up for the last 10 years. Only is it now getting reported. The advisory commission only hilighted what the problem has become.
Don't write much mathematics do you? Maybe you should get out more.
Mac minis cost something like $500, what's your fucking problem?
Reading this fellows answers, he sounds like the lawyer who was squashed along with his wife by the RAF plane that erupted out of Dirk's house since Thor had turned it into an eagle.
The lawyer's sin was for setting up the deal that swapped an immortal soul (Odin's) for unbounded stays in a health care facility, "you know".
Gerry