I can't tell people how many times I've written everything from swears to promises of money if people read my signature when I sign and haven't had a single person say anything to me. This problem is significantly greater when I sign electronic pads at businesses after swiping my card. They don't even ask to see the card.
And credit card companies complain about rampant theft and people filing bankrupcy... yet the security on these cards is ridiculous. They promise to pay ALL debt incurred due to a stolen card, yet they give out miniature sized cards to put ON YOUR KEYCHAIN and no one gives half a shit about what you sign when you swipe the damn thing. The whole system is a joke.
I smell a really shitty remake of The Cable Guy starring either a computer repairman raised by the internet.
With so many kids obese today, who wants to get off their ass and go outside? You can have the whole world to yourself. You can make "friends" and "girlfriends" without having to see them. You can turn them off with the click of a button. You can even share late night laughs in the comfort of your own chair while snacking on potato chips.
I remember when computers were fairly new in homes... back then if you heard of a kid that didn't watch TV you thought he was a complete loser who studied maps and the past presidents in his free time. It's basically the same thing with kids and the internet nowadays - for better or worse.
Maybe the real problem is the fact that more and more ignorant parents are buying cellular phones for 12 year old boys and girls?
Yes but he asked permission to use the GPLed code in the first place and was given the okay to do so. The company must thereby obey the terms of the GPLed code they asked him to work on. If the company OKed the use of GPLed code (even if modified) the company must still obey the terms under which the original code was released.
Otherwise wouldn't every company have their employees sign IP agreements and then simply turn around and copyright every piece of GPLed code out there?
Perhaps the key issue here is that the company okayed Daimaou's use of the code in question. This means they consented to the repercussions of doing so.
Well of course, Google likes to keep everything in beta as long as possible - you didn't really think they'd bring it out did you? Just because they are under immense pressure from other free-mail sites to move out of beta doesn't mean they will fight their long enduring trend towards beta forever.
Besides -- if they are always in beta then they can't ever be held responsible for bugs in their software now can they?
Figures from Northeastern University are similar. I am an undergrad, and women in my CS classes are extremely scarce (oh us poor CS-majors). Our professors say that females tend to transfer to our school in later years, but that by our Senior year there will still only be 25% female enrollment in our class in the College of Computer and Information Science. Right now I think they said it's below 20%...
I know a lot of CS majors that look like girls though - I don't think they were counting them.
Think about what you just said... the same case could be made for ever piece of OSS out there.
If accountable capable people wrote the OSS, then why not trust it? If OSS isn't good enough for your taxes then why would it be good enough for a corporation's web server?
Obviously you're not from the US... when is the last time the public actually stood up for their rights? How about when people were able to come to an intelligent decision? I'd say it only happens every hundred years or so... hell - it even took a massive fight between two large groups of people to decide something as simple as the idea of equality between two separate groups of people. Good luck convincing soccer mom's that freedom of speech has a purpose. Why not take away their SUVs while we're at it?
Time to start calling it "Was OS"...
BeOS is gone - get over it.
Everyone talks about Linux on the desktop, yet the one thing stopping it is the lack of all the things OS X and XP have - visual queues and easy to use interfaces.
Sounds like the only thing stopping Linux from dominating the desktop are the die-hard Linux fans...
I thought I read somewhere that they were waiting for developers to clean up composite and Chinese character support...
I was wondering the same thing because I wanted to upgrade my sid installs to Xorg... I ended up switching over to the ubuntu apt repositories *only* for the Xorg packages and then switching back to the debian repositories for everything else.
It's nice to see that people spend so much time trying to make an OS as awful as XP LOOK nice. If you want to be an artsy bastard, get a Mac. Me, I use Linux... and I think I'll stick to my 3d-desktop thank you.
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You have to remember that this is slashdot...
Think back to April Fools Day.
... something else we can use to make breakfast with!
... I thought for a minute maybe everyone was going to gang up on SCO.
I used this quite some time ago... fun to play but when I tried it, it was pretty laggy if you were playing over the net and not on a lan.
I can't tell people how many times I've written everything from swears to promises of money if people read my signature when I sign and haven't had a single person say anything to me. This problem is significantly greater when I sign electronic pads at businesses after swiping my card. They don't even ask to see the card.
And credit card companies complain about rampant theft and people filing bankrupcy... yet the security on these cards is ridiculous. They promise to pay ALL debt incurred due to a stolen card, yet they give out miniature sized cards to put ON YOUR KEYCHAIN and no one gives half a shit about what you sign when you swipe the damn thing. The whole system is a joke.
I smell a really shitty remake of The Cable Guy starring either a computer repairman raised by the internet.
With so many kids obese today, who wants to get off their ass and go outside? You can have the whole world to yourself. You can make "friends" and "girlfriends" without having to see them. You can turn them off with the click of a button. You can even share late night laughs in the comfort of your own chair while snacking on potato chips.
I remember when computers were fairly new in homes... back then if you heard of a kid that didn't watch TV you thought he was a complete loser who studied maps and the past presidents in his free time. It's basically the same thing with kids and the internet nowadays - for better or worse.
Maybe the real problem is the fact that more and more ignorant parents are buying cellular phones for 12 year old boys and girls?
Pimp my pipe?
Yes but he asked permission to use the GPLed code in the first place and was given the okay to do so. The company must thereby obey the terms of the GPLed code they asked him to work on. If the company OKed the use of GPLed code (even if modified) the company must still obey the terms under which the original code was released.
Otherwise wouldn't every company have their employees sign IP agreements and then simply turn around and copyright every piece of GPLed code out there?
Perhaps the key issue here is that the company okayed Daimaou's use of the code in question. This means they consented to the repercussions of doing so.
Well of course, Google likes to keep everything in beta as long as possible - you didn't really think they'd bring it out did you? Just because they are under immense pressure from other free-mail sites to move out of beta doesn't mean they will fight their long enduring trend towards beta forever.
Besides -- if they are always in beta then they can't ever be held responsible for bugs in their software now can they?
Can you say ibmPod?
when will people start pronouncing SuSE correctly in the workplace?
I'm sure I'll hear Xen called "X-men" at some point.
Figures from Northeastern University are similar. I am an undergrad, and women in my CS classes are extremely scarce (oh us poor CS-majors). Our professors say that females tend to transfer to our school in later years, but that by our Senior year there will still only be 25% female enrollment in our class in the College of Computer and Information Science. Right now I think they said it's below 20%...
I know a lot of CS majors that look like girls though - I don't think they were counting them.
Think about what you just said... the same case could be made for ever piece of OSS out there. If accountable capable people wrote the OSS, then why not trust it? If OSS isn't good enough for your taxes then why would it be good enough for a corporation's web server?
Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. Hahahah. Bugs always won anyway :-)
Or better yet 216.250.128.12 - SCO... need I say more?
did they add this http://www.redsoxconnection.com/pics/trophy.jpg picture to the library yet???
Linux 2.6.11 SCO 0 Better luck next time
Obviously you're not from the US... when is the last time the public actually stood up for their rights? How about when people were able to come to an intelligent decision? I'd say it only happens every hundred years or so... hell - it even took a massive fight between two large groups of people to decide something as simple as the idea of equality between two separate groups of people. Good luck convincing soccer mom's that freedom of speech has a purpose. Why not take away their SUVs while we're at it?
Maybe IBM can buy whats left once they file for bankrupcy :-)
Time to start calling it "Was OS"... BeOS is gone - get over it. Everyone talks about Linux on the desktop, yet the one thing stopping it is the lack of all the things OS X and XP have - visual queues and easy to use interfaces. Sounds like the only thing stopping Linux from dominating the desktop are the die-hard Linux fans...
I thought I read somewhere that they were waiting for developers to clean up composite and Chinese character support... I was wondering the same thing because I wanted to upgrade my sid installs to Xorg... I ended up switching over to the ubuntu apt repositories *only* for the Xorg packages and then switching back to the debian repositories for everything else.
size doesn't matter, size doesn't matter, size doesn't ... shit
I had this teacher, damn I woulda logged her keystrokes any day.
I guess you can really say your dog ate your homework now.
It's nice to see that people spend so much time trying to make an OS as awful as XP LOOK nice. If you want to be an artsy bastard, get a Mac. Me, I use Linux... and I think I'll stick to my 3d-desktop thank you.