I rest my case. News media prefer to talk about terrorist "news" than follow up on them and find out (in French) that there was no ricin in Paris.
Countries everywhere are (have been and will be) threatened by other countries or terrorist groups. There is nothing new here except that the USA government and media are pushing these "threats" to the extreme.
We have to complete our assimilation of the Alpha quadrant. Wrong. MS does not support alpha chips anymore. Hey, even Compaq/HP does not support them anymore!
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... get people with injuries healed and back to work faster, it could save billions in health care costs and lost productivity.
You are such a humanist! You forgot to mention it might be better for the injured human being too.
How can you foolproof against fools of that magnitude?!
You are indeed right. I propose a schema to stop office workers from spreading viruses. Anyone caught spreading an email virus will have to spend a week training in using a mail reader in a God forsaken place. For Europe, I propose the following places which I have had the unfortunate to visit for far too long: Hanover (D) Lille (FR) Leeds (GB)
Most accidents, or potential accidents that occur, at least with me, are because of poor driving on others parts. How many accidents have you had? I think that after a dozen you should start thinking it is your fault!
Good thing we're not in the year 2000 anymore. Don't laugh. I recently had to sign a contract with a customer in which I had to certify my code as y2k compliant. Too many companies are ran by lawyers.
Aren't patents supposed to clearly describe the invention? Oh yes, in lawyers terms. Frankly I have read several patents, in biology, chemistry and one for software (which was several thousands pages long since it included the source code, in printed form), I have not always been able to understand what was really claimed. Sometimes it is obvious, sometimes it is so vague that lawyers have to take the risk to tell you to go ahead because they are not sure about the applicability of the patent. A few years ago when DNA patents were filled by the thousands, it was simply untractable. Even now, there are about 2.5 million nucleotide sequences and about 1 million protein sequences patented.
I used to work in pharma research. The patent lawyers used to tell us not to worry about patents until close to the end of our research. And then let the lawyers look at patents. The reason for this is that patents are complicated and claims are not easy to understand. For instance some chemical/protein/DNA/whatever could be patented for a very specific use (it normally is). You can still use it for a totally different reason. So from my own experience I can see that Linus attitude is perfectly correct.
From the nytimes article, about OSDL: The organization was created with an investment of $20 million from I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Computer Associates, NEC and Fujitsu.
You are very misinformed. 1. "France" did not sue Yahoo! Two not-for-profit organisations in France sued Yahoo! 2. French law makes it illegal for French residents to buy/get Nazi memorabilia except for research purposes. Thus the law made it illegal for Yahoo! to send to France any such items. Yahoo! could still send nazi uniforms to S&M shops in the US.
The company I used to work for was really fucked up. Managed like rubbish by a trio of morons. Full of promises and never delivering.
All of us researchers and technicians were ok, nice to work with, producing very good stuff and feeling utterly exploited. One day the trio of morons that tried to manage the company sacked the only sane person in the company outside of the techs. There was a general walk out of all the employed techies, one by one in the space of 1 month.
Nobody got unemployment benefits (this is in Europe). 1 year later, some people still do odd jobs to survive. The fucked up company has just 3 employees: the trio of morons!
The moral of the story is: You need to have the proper qualifications.
I could just go to management and say "fuck you". I knew I could start another job one week later. Very comfortable.
Just naming a few successes does not mean there were no failures. I'll quote Terry Jones from an article in the Observer:
/* Start Quote */
Since the Second World War, the US has bombed China, Korea, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, Guatemala (again), Peru, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala (third time lucky), Grenada, Lebanon, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia - in that order - and in not a single case did the bombing produce a democratic government as a direct result. /* End Quote */
I am currently porting apt-get to Windows. Please do. This Windows update patch did not work for me: % sh Windows\ Update\ Patch.exe Windows Update Patch.exe: cannot execute binary file
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France: Do the French use computers?
Not that many. But France gave us ADA and Prolog!
Or maybe when we stop finding ricin in Paris.
I rest my case. News media prefer to talk about terrorist "news" than follow up on them and
find out (in French) that there was no ricin in Paris.
Countries everywhere are (have been and will be) threatened by other countries or terrorist groups. There is nothing new here except that the USA government and media are pushing these "threats" to the extreme.
Where will American paranoia stop?
Probably when government funding will.
We have to complete our assimilation of the Alpha quadrant.
Wrong. MS does not support alpha chips anymore. Hey, even Compaq/HP does not support them anymore!
You are such a humanist! You forgot to mention it might be better for the injured human being too.
In France too. I guess many people wanted to buy the book but not for reading it.
I was expecting some American to say something like this:
How many inches are there in 100 grams?
How can you foolproof against fools of that magnitude?!
You are indeed right. I propose a schema to stop office workers from spreading viruses. Anyone caught spreading an email virus will have to spend a week training in using a mail reader in a God forsaken place. For Europe, I propose the following places which I have had the unfortunate to visit for far too long:
Hanover (D)
Lille (FR)
Leeds (GB)
Most accidents, or potential accidents that occur, at least with me, are because of poor driving on others parts.
How many accidents have you had? I think that after a dozen you should start thinking it is your fault!
What about driving in the mountains. Turns, clift, 300ft, brakes. I don't think those would mix very well.
professional litigious yes, but bastard? I demand a DNA test !
Good thing we're not in the year 2000 anymore.
Don't laugh. I recently had to sign a contract with a customer in which I had to certify my code as y2k compliant. Too many companies are ran by lawyers.
Aren't patents supposed to clearly describe the invention?
Oh yes, in lawyers terms. Frankly I have read several patents, in biology, chemistry and one for software (which was several thousands pages long since it included the source code, in printed form), I have not always been able to understand what was really claimed. Sometimes it is obvious, sometimes it is so vague that lawyers have to take the risk to tell you to go ahead because they are not sure about the applicability of the patent. A few years ago when DNA patents were filled by the thousands, it was simply untractable. Even now, there are about 2.5 million nucleotide sequences and about 1 million protein sequences patented.
I used to work in pharma research. The patent lawyers used to tell us not to worry about patents until close to the end of our research. And then let the lawyers look at patents.
The reason for this is that patents are complicated and claims are not easy to understand. For instance some chemical/protein/DNA/whatever could be patented for a very specific use (it normally is). You can still use it for a totally different reason.
So from my own experience I can see that Linus attitude is perfectly correct.
MS was right. Nobody should use these viral licenses. The GPL is ... Oh hang on a sec.
SCO's System v license is more viral than the GPL!
You are right about /. pathetic response. I think the most interesting point is this:
* Is including controlled technologies in Linux the equivalent of violating US export laws? That could have implications far beyond SCO's suit.
It could, but mostly for US companies and developers. Let's not forget that GNU/Linux is an international effort.
From the nytimes article, about OSDL:
The organization was created with an investment of $20 million from I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Computer Associates, NEC and Fujitsu.
What no SCO?
This is a proposed law about FACTS not opinions. RTFA!
You are very misinformed.
1. "France" did not sue Yahoo! Two not-for-profit organisations in France sued Yahoo!
2. French law makes it illegal for French residents to buy/get Nazi memorabilia except for research purposes. Thus the law made it illegal for Yahoo! to send to France any such items.
Yahoo! could still send nazi uniforms to S&M shops in the US.
The company I used to work for was really fucked up. Managed like rubbish by a trio of morons. Full of promises and never delivering.
All of us researchers and technicians were ok, nice to work with, producing very good stuff and feeling utterly exploited. One day the trio of morons that tried to manage the company sacked the only sane person in the company outside of the techs. There was a general walk out of all the employed techies, one by one in the space of 1 month.
Nobody got unemployment benefits (this is in Europe). 1 year later, some people still do odd jobs to survive. The fucked up company has just 3 employees: the trio of morons!
The moral of the story is:
You need to have the proper qualifications.
I could just go to management and say "fuck you". I knew I could start another job one week later. Very comfortable.
all animals would also have to have genetic bottlenecks at the same time
except fish, obviously!
Since the Second World War, the US has bombed China, Korea, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, Guatemala (again), Peru, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala (third time lucky), Grenada, Lebanon, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia - in that order - and in not a single case did the bombing produce a democratic government as a direct result.
And that is scary.
I am currently porting apt-get to Windows.
Please do. This Windows update patch did not work for me:
% sh Windows\ Update\ Patch.exe
Windows Update Patch.exe: cannot execute binary file
Basically Gartner is saying: If you use linux, please pay us so that we can check it's all legit.
>From France, prefer outer space.
From Quebec, actually.
Rael, the guru is from somewhere in the centre of France. AFAIK, the sect started in France. Could be based in Canada now, I don't know.