That really does suck especially when Amazon can patent 1-click stuff. This guy actually changed the face of entertainment, technology, and storage. Not a penny? That really does bite.
"The only winners for SCO are the execs that have cashed out. But the SEC is looking into that."
I am not doubting you on this but could you post a link or some backing to this statement. I want to see this with my own eyes. If SEC is getting involved, Darl and his goonies might actually get punished instead of just the engineers that SCO will eventually lay off.
Not only that, but the SCO legal team has been very messy in it's arguments. IBM has been calling them on it every time. And SCO lawyers still stumble over their own feet. From the article:
Quote:
"IBM seeks therefore to strike the declarations not only of Chris Sontag but that of Sandeep Gupta and portions of the declaration of John Harrop also, all of which consist, IBM asserts, "almost entirely of testimony not made on personal knowledge and improper opinion testimony. Indeed, SCO does not even attempt to show that these witnesses may properly offer opinion testimony..."
End quote.
One could argue that SCO lawyers didn't notice that all the evidence and testimony from SCO "experts" is unsupported and probably bogus. This isn't the first time that this happened. IBM lawyers have been pounding SCO with this and SCO lawyers just ignore it. I think that SCO lawyers already know that they lost the case and they are just going through the motions because SCO is still paying them. Obviously, IANAL.
Yeah, but you could still get a disease. Remember what they teach at McDonalds: Dirty hands spread disease. I remember an article on slashdot that mentioned that the average computer workstation has more germs than the public toilet. Ewww!!!
I've heard something that supports this. Language dictates the way we think and form rational thoughts . If a certain people have a highly structured language (Japanese, German, Chinese, possibly Hindi, though I know nothing of their language), they tend to have an easier time going from one logical point to the next. Not trying to start a flame here, and I am not of any of those nationalities, but they are just more used to thinking logically because their language dictates it and they have been brought up doing it that way. Though personally, I think culture has more to do with that.
I disagree. I, for one, don't use a camera often. It's cheaper for me to just use a disposable camera once in a while for $20 instead of purchasing a $200 equivalent. In addition to that, the technology behind digital cameras is upgraded almost on a weekly basis. When you purchase one of the top of the line cameras, you are outdated by the end of the 2 month period or so.
As far as the old-school metal quality cameras are concerned, do you happen to remember the price of those things? There was a reason for the high price tag - they were well constructed. While the overall quality was higher, it was fairly useless. Unless, like you say you want to bludgeon someone to death with it, it doesn't need to be used as a hammer. There are perfectly good hammers for that. If you treat you fragile electronics nicely, they will (usually) treat you nicely. Besides, how do you convice someone to buy a new camera every year or two, when you built them to last for life?:)
It's an interface similar to the old Palm III cradles. It's hidden behind a removable plastic tab on the side. For my hack, I used a piece of a Centronics cable connector attached to a USB cable. Google for "dakota camera hack" and you will find the details.
I have the first edition of these cameras (the ones without the LCD) and they are pretty good considering they are only 12 dollars. Picture quality is fairly good. Now that these new ones are 2MPixel, I can't wait for the hacks.
I don't think that the SCO lawyers will be able to twist anything. It seems that the SCO lawyers aren't nearly as capable as the IBM lawyers (or maybe they just have nothing to work with). Regardless, it seems that the IBM team really wants to fight this fight. And as we know, when the IBM legal team starts a fight (at least in the SCO case), they are ready to win.
This is a little off topic but I wish that they would make (battlebot type) autonomous robots competition. Like battlebots but not RC. That way, developers can make the AI simple enough (no monitoring of walking and so on) to just duke it out with each other. Remote control battlebots are just overpriced Radioshack toys (well, not the walking ones of course) and it would be more interesting to see AI's battle it out.
My best guess is that they will drop all charges and as a result the other companies will drop their charges.
I don't think that the other companies will drop charges against SCO just because SCO dropped all their charges. IANAL, but the other companies could probably find a plethora of issues to sue SCO over, especially if it becomes clear - in a court of law - that SCO was lying the whole time. IBM will leave just enough of SCO lying around for the other companies to pick the over the bones of Darl and his litigation machine.
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That really does suck especially when Amazon can patent 1-click stuff. This guy actually changed the face of entertainment, technology, and storage. Not a penny? That really does bite.
"The only winners for SCO are the execs that have cashed out. But the SEC is looking into that." I am not doubting you on this but could you post a link or some backing to this statement. I want to see this with my own eyes. If SEC is getting involved, Darl and his goonies might actually get punished instead of just the engineers that SCO will eventually lay off.
Not only that, but the SCO legal team has been very messy in it's arguments. IBM has been calling them on it every time. And SCO lawyers still stumble over their own feet. From the article: Quote: "IBM seeks therefore to strike the declarations not only of Chris Sontag but that of Sandeep Gupta and portions of the declaration of John Harrop also, all of which consist, IBM asserts, "almost entirely of testimony not made on personal knowledge and improper opinion testimony. Indeed, SCO does not even attempt to show that these witnesses may properly offer opinion testimony..." End quote. One could argue that SCO lawyers didn't notice that all the evidence and testimony from SCO "experts" is unsupported and probably bogus. This isn't the first time that this happened. IBM lawyers have been pounding SCO with this and SCO lawyers just ignore it. I think that SCO lawyers already know that they lost the case and they are just going through the motions because SCO is still paying them. Obviously, IANAL.
Three dimensions, how cute. On the moon we have 5... thousand. Your puny little minds can't comprehend that.
Yeah, but you could still get a disease. Remember what they teach at McDonalds: Dirty hands spread disease. I remember an article on slashdot that mentioned that the average computer workstation has more germs than the public toilet. Ewww!!!
I am sure she/it puts out but I think we all know who gets stuck cleaning the phone afterwards.
I've heard something that supports this. Language dictates the way we think and form rational thoughts . If a certain people have a highly structured language (Japanese, German, Chinese, possibly Hindi, though I know nothing of their language), they tend to have an easier time going from one logical point to the next. Not trying to start a flame here, and I am not of any of those nationalities, but they are just more used to thinking logically because their language dictates it and they have been brought up doing it that way. Though personally, I think culture has more to do with that.
I disagree. I, for one, don't use a camera often. It's cheaper for me to just use a disposable camera once in a while for $20 instead of purchasing a $200 equivalent. In addition to that, the technology behind digital cameras is upgraded almost on a weekly basis. When you purchase one of the top of the line cameras, you are outdated by the end of the 2 month period or so. As far as the old-school metal quality cameras are concerned, do you happen to remember the price of those things? There was a reason for the high price tag - they were well constructed. While the overall quality was higher, it was fairly useless. Unless, like you say you want to bludgeon someone to death with it, it doesn't need to be used as a hammer. There are perfectly good hammers for that. If you treat you fragile electronics nicely, they will (usually) treat you nicely. Besides, how do you convice someone to buy a new camera every year or two, when you built them to last for life? :)
It's an interface similar to the old Palm III cradles. It's hidden behind a removable plastic tab on the side. For my hack, I used a piece of a Centronics cable connector attached to a USB cable. Google for "dakota camera hack" and you will find the details.
I have the first edition of these cameras (the ones without the LCD) and they are pretty good considering they are only 12 dollars. Picture quality is fairly good. Now that these new ones are 2MPixel, I can't wait for the hacks.
I don't think that the SCO lawyers will be able to twist anything. It seems that the SCO lawyers aren't nearly as capable as the IBM lawyers (or maybe they just have nothing to work with). Regardless, it seems that the IBM team really wants to fight this fight. And as we know, when the IBM legal team starts a fight (at least in the SCO case), they are ready to win.
This is a little off topic but I wish that they would make (battlebot type) autonomous robots competition. Like battlebots but not RC. That way, developers can make the AI simple enough (no monitoring of walking and so on) to just duke it out with each other. Remote control battlebots are just overpriced Radioshack toys (well, not the walking ones of course) and it would be more interesting to see AI's battle it out.
My best guess is that they will drop all charges and as a result the other companies will drop their charges.
I don't think that the other companies will drop charges against SCO just because SCO dropped all their charges. IANAL, but the other companies could probably find a plethora of issues to sue SCO over, especially if it becomes clear - in a court of law - that SCO was lying the whole time. IBM will leave just enough of SCO lying around for the other companies to pick the over the bones of Darl and his litigation machine.