And how many busloads of supporters did his "team" (or as the rest of the free world calls them; swirly-eyed supplicants) have to bring in to produce that result?
I'm unclear here. Why isn't senior management and the board being hauled into court, forced to pay bail of a million bucks and the FBI seizing every single document within the United States? I mean, every time some fucking dipshit downloads a copy of some piece of Hollywood excrement, Congress and the courts are bending over backwards to punish the evildoer, but when major companies start throwing rootkit spyware on their phones, it's like "oh well."
If I was in charge, those companies would be facing destructive fines (hundreds of millions of dollars), senior management and the board would be cooling it in prison cells and facing stripping of every single asset they own and years of jail time ahead of them. I would make those fuckers so terrified that they'd wake up three times every night of the rest of their lives fearing that some marketing fuck had put something like that on the phones they're selling.
If the stock stays static but you get dividends, I'd say you've increased your wealth. Yes, you won't get the fantastical returns of high performance stocks, but then again, you'll probably still be receiving dividends even during tough economic times, whereas the guys pursuing the next big stock are jumping out of their 30th story window because they sunk their life savings into risky stocks.
The music industry consists of large media conglomerates who own labels that hold artists under contract, and those labels can be merged, shut down and sold at the whims of the corporate masters.
Microsoft has access to legal resources far beyond most companies. Thanks but no thanks. There are alternatives to.NET clones sufficient that whatever real or illusory advantages to it, it simply is not necessary to touch Mono at all.
Oh crap, do you think there hasn't been any US President since Israel's foundation that hasn't probably muttered similar words? I'll wager it's pretty tame compared to what some Presidents have said.
The difference is that nobody really gives a shit what an Italian PM thinks on international matters, but people weigh the words of the US President with great care, and France still has sufficient influence in the world that the opinions of its President are still quite important.
Diplomacy often requires tact, but just as often requires that a measure of privacy be afforded for negotiations. Can you imagine attempting to negotiate changes to your mortgage on the sidewalk? Can you imagine negotiating some difficult decision with your spouse in front of your entire extended family?
Well they can't sue over C# usage. They can't stop someone from creating their own C# compiler. But they can still hypothetically cause a world of grief over.NET-like functionality. Judging by the lack of interest in a C# compiler outside of Mono, I'm guessing the wonderfulness of C# is not so great that there's a huge push to see native C# compilers or Java byte code compilers for C#.
Samba, at least, is basically covered by the EU threats to Microsoft. I'm not really worried about using it because if MS tried anything funky, they'd have one of the largest trade organizations on the planet pounding them into the Earth.
But Mono, not only does it suck donkey balls, but there are no real protections beyond Microsoft's word.
Look pal, pseudo-skepticism only works if you blindly repeat Heartland Institute talking points. There is absolutely no room for actually knowing a fucking thing about AGW.
Now get back in your Ferrari, you cock-smoking teabagging super-rich scientist with your big house and your ten 18 year old girlfriends and your seven digit bank account, and leave those poor wittle oil companies alone.
.NET ain't lightweight, and "hundreds of times" better, by what standard? Some rather minor language improvements are essentially crippled by the fact that it's crossplatform capacity is very limited. For all the good Mono does, I might as well just bloody well code in C/C++ with a library like Qt.
Whenever you burrow into these "this is why I say it's a fad" stories, you find out it's one of these "I've got a friend whose mom says..."
I live in a small town (population<20,000) and I'm seeing tablets pop up. I was in a big city for a couple of days, and there are tablets all over the place, especially with the professional crowd that was at the seminar I was at. Tablets are not a fad so far as I can tell, they are pretty much replacing netbooks and likely chewing a bit into the smartphone market.
I was in Vancouver a yesterday and the day before for a two day symposium, and probably a quarter of the people there (say 50 out of 200) had some sort of tablet (mainly iPads from what I could tell). We went to dinner at a small bistro and there were two people using them there. Go into a fucking starbucks, and basically half the customers have iPads.
There's a point when "it's a fad!" becomes a hollow statement, and I'd say that time has come. Apple literally cannot make iPads fast enough.
For me it demonstrates a serious problem, in that a complainant who has no evidence to back up their claims is permitted literally years to gobble up time. There should be a mandatory one week preliminary hearing in such a case where both sides have to provide a reasonably large body of their evidence, and if they cannot, the case is dismissed. If you have evidence, you should be able to summarize it in the space of a week.
There was a period early on where the lawsuits certainly spooked people, but after it became quite clear that SCO actually had nothing, it became more a mix of incredulity and frustration, in large part that a legal system would actually allow a complainant who had no evidence or basis for their claims could actually keep a case going in the courts for years.
This would look on the face of it to be fraud on the part of the directors, in which case limited liability no longer applies and the bank can go after the directors directly.
That doesn't stop flight with cash in the pocket as a possibility. I remember years ago that the owner of my wife and I's first apartment managed to get a few million bucks in loans from some banks in what was basically a real estate scam. When it became clear that the whole con was coming down due to a real estate crunch, he and his wife fled the country with a briefcase full of money, ending up in Cuba, where, I suppose, he remains today, safe from extradition and probably living rather well for cheap.
It doesn't help that for many of them the alternative is a distribution system that amounts to "Thanks for the freebies." They might see some money from the evil record companies (and they are indeed evil, thieving bastards), but they aren't going to see any from The Pirate Bay.
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That's an insult to disorganized messes. Even a disorganized mess makes more sense than the Occupy movement(s).
I'm Occupying my livingroom this weekend! If my wife tries to make me move, well, I won't be intimidated with threats from authority figures!
Just an electric chair so we can properly deal with Flash and Flash developers. The beast must die.
And how many busloads of supporters did his "team" (or as the rest of the free world calls them; swirly-eyed supplicants) have to bring in to produce that result?
Unless of course you also happen to be affiliated with the Mob.
I'm unclear here. Why isn't senior management and the board being hauled into court, forced to pay bail of a million bucks and the FBI seizing every single document within the United States? I mean, every time some fucking dipshit downloads a copy of some piece of Hollywood excrement, Congress and the courts are bending over backwards to punish the evildoer, but when major companies start throwing rootkit spyware on their phones, it's like "oh well."
If I was in charge, those companies would be facing destructive fines (hundreds of millions of dollars), senior management and the board would be cooling it in prison cells and facing stripping of every single asset they own and years of jail time ahead of them. I would make those fuckers so terrified that they'd wake up three times every night of the rest of their lives fearing that some marketing fuck had put something like that on the phones they're selling.
If the stock stays static but you get dividends, I'd say you've increased your wealth. Yes, you won't get the fantastical returns of high performance stocks, but then again, you'll probably still be receiving dividends even during tough economic times, whereas the guys pursuing the next big stock are jumping out of their 30th story window because they sunk their life savings into risky stocks.
The music industry consists of large media conglomerates who own labels that hold artists under contract, and those labels can be merged, shut down and sold at the whims of the corporate masters.
His career as a Tea Party commentator seems well under way.
Microsoft has access to legal resources far beyond most companies. Thanks but no thanks. There are alternatives to .NET clones sufficient that whatever real or illusory advantages to it, it simply is not necessary to touch Mono at all.
Oh crap, do you think there hasn't been any US President since Israel's foundation that hasn't probably muttered similar words? I'll wager it's pretty tame compared to what some Presidents have said.
The difference is that nobody really gives a shit what an Italian PM thinks on international matters, but people weigh the words of the US President with great care, and France still has sufficient influence in the world that the opinions of its President are still quite important.
Diplomacy often requires tact, but just as often requires that a measure of privacy be afforded for negotiations. Can you imagine attempting to negotiate changes to your mortgage on the sidewalk? Can you imagine negotiating some difficult decision with your spouse in front of your entire extended family?
Well they can't sue over C# usage. They can't stop someone from creating their own C# compiler. But they can still hypothetically cause a world of grief over .NET-like functionality. Judging by the lack of interest in a C# compiler outside of Mono, I'm guessing the wonderfulness of C# is not so great that there's a huge push to see native C# compilers or Java byte code compilers for C#.
Samba, at least, is basically covered by the EU threats to Microsoft. I'm not really worried about using it because if MS tried anything funky, they'd have one of the largest trade organizations on the planet pounding them into the Earth.
But Mono, not only does it suck donkey balls, but there are no real protections beyond Microsoft's word.
Look pal, pseudo-skepticism only works if you blindly repeat Heartland Institute talking points. There is absolutely no room for actually knowing a fucking thing about AGW.
Now get back in your Ferrari, you cock-smoking teabagging super-rich scientist with your big house and your ten 18 year old girlfriends and your seven digit bank account, and leave those poor wittle oil companies alone.
Fucking climatological bully.
Since almost all binaries are binhex encoded (may still be a few uuencoded files out there) it's trivially easy to filter binary data from Usenet.
.NET ain't lightweight, and "hundreds of times" better, by what standard? Some rather minor language improvements are essentially crippled by the fact that it's crossplatform capacity is very limited. For all the good Mono does, I might as well just bloody well code in C/C++ with a library like Qt.
Whenever you burrow into these "this is why I say it's a fad" stories, you find out it's one of these "I've got a friend whose mom says..."
I live in a small town (population<20,000) and I'm seeing tablets pop up. I was in a big city for a couple of days, and there are tablets all over the place, especially with the professional crowd that was at the seminar I was at. Tablets are not a fad so far as I can tell, they are pretty much replacing netbooks and likely chewing a bit into the smartphone market.
I was in Vancouver a yesterday and the day before for a two day symposium, and probably a quarter of the people there (say 50 out of 200) had some sort of tablet (mainly iPads from what I could tell). We went to dinner at a small bistro and there were two people using them there. Go into a fucking starbucks, and basically half the customers have iPads.
There's a point when "it's a fad!" becomes a hollow statement, and I'd say that time has come. Apple literally cannot make iPads fast enough.
For me it demonstrates a serious problem, in that a complainant who has no evidence to back up their claims is permitted literally years to gobble up time. There should be a mandatory one week preliminary hearing in such a case where both sides have to provide a reasonably large body of their evidence, and if they cannot, the case is dismissed. If you have evidence, you should be able to summarize it in the space of a week.
There was a period early on where the lawsuits certainly spooked people, but after it became quite clear that SCO actually had nothing, it became more a mix of incredulity and frustration, in large part that a legal system would actually allow a complainant who had no evidence or basis for their claims could actually keep a case going in the courts for years.
This is ground control to Major Tom... please fuck off
This would look on the face of it to be fraud on the part of the directors, in which case limited liability no longer applies and the bank can go after the directors directly.
That doesn't stop flight with cash in the pocket as a possibility. I remember years ago that the owner of my wife and I's first apartment managed to get a few million bucks in loans from some banks in what was basically a real estate scam. When it became clear that the whole con was coming down due to a real estate crunch, he and his wife fled the country with a briefcase full of money, ending up in Cuba, where, I suppose, he remains today, safe from extradition and probably living rather well for cheap.
It doesn't help that for many of them the alternative is a distribution system that amounts to "Thanks for the freebies." They might see some money from the evil record companies (and they are indeed evil, thieving bastards), but they aren't going to see any from The Pirate Bay.