Motions for summary judgement are just part of the process; both sides file 'em, even when it's ridiculous (as SCO's are), usually the judge ignores them both, and life moves on.
But, IBM has already filed for summary judgement once and, at that time, Hon. Dale Kimball hinted that IBM might consider filing such a motion later in the discovery phase. So that's what IBM's legal team is doing here... what they've already been asked to do. Chances are, Kimball is going to grant the summary judgement on this one.
IBM hires outside counsel to do the litigating. The in house lawyers handle all the routine contracts, and things like that.
Ditto for SCO, and really for most companies in general. Even Microsoft hires outside attorneys for litigation; in fact, David Boies, who argued for Microsoft in the DOJ antitrust case is the lawyer who's spearheading SCO's case.
According to you. Plenty of professional photographers use Windows because native CMYK in the platform itself isn't the critical factor that you claim it is. No photo pro is going to do without Photoshop and CMYK support is there in either version.
GIMP has had support for CMYK color seps and has had that support for QUITE some time.
Is this really that useful for the public in general, or is this more of a tool for the authorities to use to better locate and document crime scenes, if the picture was taken at one?
Don't know about everyone else, but it would be a godsend for some architects. Many progressive architecture and/or exterior design firms are taking photos of an existing site and superimposing a 3D modelled rendering of the finished building or renovations over the site. In order for the modeller and/or renderer to get the photo match down (positioning, shadows, etc.), you need to specify stuff like time of day the photo was taking, geographic coordinates, measurements, camera angle, etc. The more information the camera can store automatically in EXIF tags, the less information the modelling person has to enter by hand. If the information is in some sort of standard format, the modeller may even be able to load the data automatically from the EXIF tags, saving tons of effort getting the photo to match.
I find it interesting that Linux is mentionned as a control platform from the start. I doubt that many professional photographers actually use it since the tools aren't quite up to par with the commercial stuff for a number of uses (no "but Gimp can do it too whining please").
You know, I'm tired of seeing people who say stuff like this. For the vast majority of uses, Linux + GIMP + gThumb and/or Picasa is just fine for professional photographers. Yes, there are a few things that GIMP doesn't do or doesn't do well (like Photoshop's Layer Effects), but most photographers don't use stuff like this very often, if at all. Mostly what they need is cropping, color/contrast correction, noise correction, and photo retouching capabilities. That's it. GIMP does all of that.
That being said, most professional photographers use Macs because they know the interface well.
The issue is most people don't care. They know an app, they are comfortable with it, and it doesn't matter what other apps can do. Until THAT app is available, Linux is a non-issue.
I disagree. I don't think most people even know what apps are on their PC. How many, when asked "What version of Microsoft Office do you have?" will respond, "oh, I have Microsoft XP" or I, worse, "I have Windows XP"?
A lot of big corporations make big money off it. That seems to be the current definition of "capitalist".
I hope you're not serious.
And I do hope, sincerely, that people understand that the reason they can buy the things that they buy and the reason they can work for any company they like and the reason that they can start any sort of legitimate business is that they live in a capitalist system.
It seems to me that if you create a format called "PlaysForSure", it should actually "Play for Sure". OTherwise your customers might - oh, I don't know - lose confidence in your ability to compete in the market? Instead, they'll go to a certain competitor that does "Play for Sure" despite not advertising such?... 3. Cede 95% of the market to Apple
Apple's iTunes play for sure everywhere? Like, on Linux, too? BeOS? FreeBSD? PalmOS? Symbian? (Without resorting to breaking the DMCA, of course).
Agreed 100%. They seemed to advocate that anyone could copy anyone elses intellectrual property without permission. Best summed up as the abolition of conventional capitalism.
'[A]bolition of conventional capitalism?'
Tell me, exactly, what is 'capitalistic' about the current 'intellectual property' system? Do you know what capitalism is? How is the scenario promoted by the Pirate Party, i.e., the legalization of 'piracy', causing the means of production to be somehow not private? Under the legalization of 'piracy', do you think that capitalists in a free market system would not find a way to make money? Did the popularity of Napster and later peer-to-peer networks put the RIAA and its member compannies out of business? Did it even come close?
Perhaps you should do some reading and understand what is captialism and what is communism before posting such comments.
Pair programming can be seen as a kind of code review, but with the reviewer in equal position with the programmer. Traditional code reviews tend to be frustrating for the programmers, because the reviewers are in position of authority.
Notice that he said 'programming peers' -- the coders on the development team sit down, without management, and peer review the code.
This is why the open source development model works so well -- all the developers are essentially peers working together on the same project. They review each others' code and a work out what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, etc.
I don't do it for the karma. I don't need the karma. I just want to feel loved.
Well, you know we all love you. In fact, just the other day, I heard CmdrTaco and the new guy, kdawson, talking and they were saying "Gosh, I really love that neonprimetime. Yeah. neonprimetime is great, huh?"
lashdot users are pretty adept at spotting slashvertisements and astrotrufing (better than the slashdot editors, it would seem. Did anyone think "lonelygirl15" was real
What? There are astroturfers on/.? No way!
BTW-- I hear that everything on Google Video is real, because they don't do evil.
No. SuperKaramba will be built in (think Apple OSX Widgets). So your calendar, inbox contents, local weather, PC stats, whatever can be displayed on your desktop. Active Desktop was IIRC just a way of putting HTML or Animations on the desktop - they weren't programs per-se, that could tell you useful stuff.
Right. But aren't these things just combinations of XML and Python code? IOW, the grandparent's comment about ActiveDesktop really isn't too far off the mark.
In the U.S. everything is much further away than in Europe. I travel about 5 miles (~8 km) to go to the grocery store, 25 miles (~40 km) to go to work everyday, and the nearest convenience store is at least 1/2 a mile away. I can hardly walk anywhere. And there is no reliable, decent public transportation, at least not in my city.
That being said, for your Americans going 'wow!' at his countries gas prices, realize our gas prices are a direct result of our government's subsidizing of the oil industry. It could be a LOT worse. And it's going to get a lot worse -- oil supplies will continue to deplete. Sell that huge honkin' SUV now and get yourself a small hybrid. Now. Seriously.
You still have to install the package as an admin user. Lots of tools on Linux create admin user accounts without prompting for a password when run as root. The Debian Advanced Package Tool (APT), in fact, is one of them. It's perfectly possible to create a.deb package that sets up admin user accounts without prompting, as long as you are running as root. Does that mean you can hack Debian or Ubuntu with.deb packages?
How exactly does one Australian newspaper with a circulation of 365,000 (Wikipedia) count as the mainstream media?
Depending on how you measure, the Sydney Morning Herald is actually more widely circulated than USA Today.
How?
Well, if we consider that USA Today is a USA newspaper and SMH is an Australian newspaper, then we can say that the wideness of the circulation can determined as a ratio to the population of its respective markets. USA has a population of 299,360,879 (2006 est.) according to Wikipedia, and Australia has a population of 20,555,300 (2006 est.). Now, USA Today, the most widely circulated paper in the United States, according to Wikipedia, has a circulation of about 2.25 million newspapers per day. SMH has a circulation of 365,000. So if we divide the circulation by the respective population, we can 0.0075 newspaper per capita for USA Today and 0.0178 newspapers per capita for SMH. That would make SMH more than twice as widely circulated in its respective market than USA today.
There is practically no difference between the Islamic terrorists and the Neocons. Both have made their intentions clear -- to replace essential liberty in the U.S. with a theocracy. The only disagreement is whose religion and whose faction will the one in control.
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Yep. You're right. My bad. Boies argued for the DOJ.
But, IBM has already filed for summary judgement once and, at that time, Hon. Dale Kimball hinted that IBM might consider filing such a motion later in the discovery phase. So that's what IBM's legal team is doing here... what they've already been asked to do. Chances are, Kimball is going to grant the summary judgement on this one.
(IANAL)
Ditto for SCO, and really for most companies in general. Even Microsoft hires outside attorneys for litigation; in fact, David Boies, who argued for Microsoft in the DOJ antitrust case is the lawyer who's spearheading SCO's case.
Don't know about everyone else, but it would be a godsend for some architects. Many progressive architecture and/or exterior design firms are taking photos of an existing site and superimposing a 3D modelled rendering of the finished building or renovations over the site. In order for the modeller and/or renderer to get the photo match down (positioning, shadows, etc.), you need to specify stuff like time of day the photo was taking, geographic coordinates, measurements, camera angle, etc. The more information the camera can store automatically in EXIF tags, the less information the modelling person has to enter by hand. If the information is in some sort of standard format, the modeller may even be able to load the data automatically from the EXIF tags, saving tons of effort getting the photo to match.
You know, I'm tired of seeing people who say stuff like this. For the vast majority of uses, Linux + GIMP + gThumb and/or Picasa is just fine for professional photographers. Yes, there are a few things that GIMP doesn't do or doesn't do well (like Photoshop's Layer Effects), but most photographers don't use stuff like this very often, if at all. Mostly what they need is cropping, color/contrast correction, noise correction, and photo retouching capabilities. That's it. GIMP does all of that.
That being said, most professional photographers use Macs because they know the interface well.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
X.org's nv driver will support your TNT, albeit without 3D acceleration.
I disagree. I don't think most people even know what apps are on their PC. How many, when asked "What version of Microsoft Office do you have?" will respond, "oh, I have Microsoft XP" or I, worse, "I have Windows XP"?
I hope you're not serious.
And I do hope, sincerely, that people understand that the reason they can buy the things that they buy and the reason they can work for any company they like and the reason that they can start any sort of legitimate business is that they live in a capitalist system.
omg n00b, reel piratez spk lyk dis, often on IRC chnls called #w4rez
l4m3 p0z3r n00b. scr4m b4 i pwn ur b0x!
Apple's iTunes play for sure everywhere? Like, on Linux, too? BeOS? FreeBSD? PalmOS? Symbian? (Without resorting to breaking the DMCA, of course).
'[A]bolition of conventional capitalism?'
Tell me, exactly, what is 'capitalistic' about the current 'intellectual property' system? Do you know what capitalism is? How is the scenario promoted by the Pirate Party, i.e., the legalization of 'piracy', causing the means of production to be somehow not private? Under the legalization of 'piracy', do you think that capitalists in a free market system would not find a way to make money? Did the popularity of Napster and later peer-to-peer networks put the RIAA and its member compannies out of business? Did it even come close?
Perhaps you should do some reading and understand what is captialism and what is communism before posting such comments.
Pair programming can be seen as a kind of code review, but with the reviewer in equal position with the programmer. Traditional code reviews tend to be frustrating for the programmers, because the reviewers are in position of authority.
Notice that he said 'programming peers' -- the coders on the development team sit down, without management, and peer review the code.
This is why the open source development model works so well -- all the developers are essentially peers working together on the same project. They review each others' code and a work out what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, etc.
Well, you know we all love you. In fact, just the other day, I heard CmdrTaco and the new guy, kdawson, talking and they were saying "Gosh, I really love that neonprimetime. Yeah. neonprimetime is great, huh?"
There. Feel better?
What? There are astroturfers on
BTW-- I hear that everything on Google Video is real, because they don't do evil.
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong!
Hmm. Another conspiracy by the evil cartographers? Did you know that more than 99% of all maps are made by cartographers? Definitely some sort of conspiracy going on here.
Right. But aren't these things just combinations of XML and Python code? IOW, the grandparent's comment about ActiveDesktop really isn't too far off the mark.
In the U.S. everything is much further away than in Europe. I travel about 5 miles (~8 km) to go to the grocery store, 25 miles (~40 km) to go to work everyday, and the nearest convenience store is at least 1/2 a mile away. I can hardly walk anywhere. And there is no reliable, decent public transportation, at least not in my city.
That being said, for your Americans going 'wow!' at his countries gas prices, realize our gas prices are a direct result of our government's subsidizing of the oil industry. It could be a LOT worse. And it's going to get a lot worse -- oil supplies will continue to deplete. Sell that huge honkin' SUV now and get yourself a small hybrid. Now. Seriously.
You still have to install the package as an admin user. Lots of tools on Linux create admin user accounts without prompting for a password when run as root. The Debian Advanced Package Tool (APT), in fact, is one of them. It's perfectly possible to create a .deb package that sets up admin user accounts without prompting, as long as you are running as root. Does that mean you can hack Debian or Ubuntu with .deb packages?
That is my phone number. ;)
Um, no. Your office newsletter is hardly a commercial newspaper targetted at the public.
How exactly does one Australian newspaper with a circulation of 365,000 (Wikipedia) count as the mainstream media?
Depending on how you measure, the Sydney Morning Herald is actually more widely circulated than USA Today.
How?
Well, if we consider that USA Today is a USA newspaper and SMH is an Australian newspaper, then we can say that the wideness of the circulation can determined as a ratio to the population of its respective markets. USA has a population of 299,360,879 (2006 est.) according to Wikipedia, and Australia has a population of 20,555,300 (2006 est.). Now, USA Today, the most widely circulated paper in the United States, according to Wikipedia, has a circulation of about 2.25 million newspapers per day. SMH has a circulation of 365,000. So if we divide the circulation by the respective population, we can 0.0075 newspaper per capita for USA Today and 0.0178 newspapers per capita for SMH. That would make SMH more than twice as widely circulated in its respective market than USA today.
There is practically no difference between the Islamic terrorists and the Neocons. Both have made their intentions clear -- to replace essential liberty in the U.S. with a theocracy. The only disagreement is whose religion and whose faction will the one in control.