"We want to assure our customers and partners that they can continue to rely on SCO products, support and services for their business critical operations," said Darl McBride, President and CEO, The SCO Group. "Chapter 11 reorganization provides the Company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans."'"
Hold on a second.. future plans? Dude dude, you have no plans, you never did. You came in with the thought to make a quick buck, to flip the company and jump with your golden parachute, and it fell to pieces because you decided on fighting the tide with your sword, that tide being the future itself.
Do not cry for Darl, for his ruin is of his own making, and may whatever gods he holds dear take pity upon his soul, for noone else shall.
Microsoft was late to the party to begin with. Then it crashed in, and flailed around causing more damage than good. It tried to take on various bits at the party with little success, then this new guy comes in and does something that microsoft failed at, and Microsoft is now trying to claim the glory for itself?
Every time I see "the need isn't there" or "there's more than enough memory bandwidth" I check their figures, they're only measuring the CPU memory needs. Well, hate to break it to you, but there's more to a computer than just the CPU. Having that extra bandwidth means that those lovely PCI Bus Mastering devices (such as my SCSI 3 controller, and quad firewire card) aren't fighting with the CPU for memory access. Frankly, add in a game accelerator like the Phys-X and a high-end GPU fetching data from the main memory for local cache, and even DDR3 starts looking a bit narrow....
or to crash and burn, that is the question. Ubuntu might be making a brave move, or a bad move, but only time will tell. If their gamble pays off, they might be on the cutting edge, and with a marketable, noticeable advantage. If not, well... there's always Knoppix.
I've long suspected that the congressional attempt to limit fair use, or to create draconian IP laws, was causing more damage than not to the global economy. These numbers seem to reinforce that, and hopefully the fools on the hill will pay attention.
Richard has some points, but he remains a crusader, not an engineer. His ideas are good, and truth is, we wouldn't be where we are today without his ideology to assist us. Perhaps, rather than villify, or dismiss, we try and see it from his perspective, and from the viewpoint of the other side?
Me, I studied GPL v3, and for it's intended goal, it's well crafted. Is it the right choice for Linux? I don't feel so, but GPL v2 fits it fine. But, if Linus said GPL v3 tomorrow, I'd be fine with it. if he says GPL v2 forever, I'm also fine with it.
Hey Miguel, LTNS! And I see where you are coming from, I really do. I'll be honest, I don't know the OOXML standard from a hole in the wall, but if you'd recall, hardware is my thing, not coding. Personally, I don't care if OOXML, ODF, or even TeX is "the" standard. All I care about is, can I make documents using my pick of word processors, and then have it look the same on everyone elses? With.doc, I don't really get that. With ODF I do, but knowing the origin of OOXML I'd have a long, hard look at any IP issues with it first. If it's clean, hey, if it's better than ODF, welcome aboard. If it's not, then no thanks.
Ok, going back to trying to figure out another method of shading, to by-pass the patents. 8)
This reminds me of an issue we have at work. At work, we run OpenOffice now, it gave us flexibility and yet fully functional... except for one guy, the Editor. He installed it, and the next day went to me "Frankly, it sucks. I won't use it." So, we have this one Office 07 guy out there, and he keeps getting angry when he can't read any documents we send him, or we can't read his documents, yet it's our fault because we won't pay for Office '07 when everyone else is happy with Open Office.
I know this guy, he just went home, installed it, looked, went "this doesn't look like Office 07" and left it at that. Until we can woo this kind of person, however, I fear that OO, and any open standard wp for that matter, will never truely break into mainstream, because he is the Editor, in charge of a whole department.
Last time I checked, Copyright, was not a "god-given" or even constitutionally guaranteed right. Copyright is a right granted by the people, and it is a right that can be revoked by the people. The right was granted for a temporary (repeat, temporary) monopoly to a given work, in exchange for a public record to be kept in the library of congress, stored for future generations. In addition, copyright included provisions to not harm the common citizens for utilizing their own copies of such works as they see fit. Otherwise, copyright holders could impose ludicrus and rediculous limitations, such as "if you watch this... no, if you even recieve a copy of this, watched or not, you must agree to sleep with the director" and, if these guys have their interpretations of copyright forced on us, we would be obliged!
So, I shall be publishing a short copywritten piece shortly with just this provision in it, and if anyone knows the guys behind this push, feel free to send copies to them, I insist....
The Bush admin wll just use their next atty general to prevent these cases from getting reviewed, appealing it all the way to the now-biased supreme court. This is a long fight.
I read this, then the comments, and realized that a lot of people see vid cards as just gaming accessories. This couldn't be further from the truth. Look at industrial graphics and video workstations! nVidia is dominating there, and AMD is hungry for a piece of that pie. Open up docs, get the geek that the office keeps in the closet to get excited, he sends the list of the part upgrade to the boss for the graphics workstations, bada-boom AMD market share of ATI video cards grow.
The help for gaming is just incidental, AMD is keeping its eyes on the real prize, the industrial market.
If Microsoft did force their "standard" on people, how much would it cripple the marketplace? Already at work we are dealing with Microsoft's proprietory components causing a severe case of "haves vs have-nots" in file sharing. And what is most fustrating, is how people do not grasp what they are doing, in that using the proprietory components, they are locking out their co-workers, reducing work output as we have to get them to export their documents into a more generally accepted form. And they turn around and blame the majority of the office. Too sad.
Right now, the opposition party has failed in it's watchdog duties. This resignation is only good news if they finally gain some moxie and push for a hard Atty Gen, one that will actually ensure oversight of the branches of government as the position is supposed to be doing.
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let's try this:
"We want to assure our customers and partners that they can continue to rely on SCO products, support and services for their business critical operations," said Darl McBride, President and CEO, The SCO Group. "Chapter 11 reorganization provides the Company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans."'"
Hold on a second.. future plans? Dude dude, you have no plans, you never did. You came in with the thought to make a quick buck, to flip the company and jump with your golden parachute, and it fell to pieces because you decided on fighting the tide with your sword, that tide being the future itself.
Do not cry for Darl, for his ruin is of his own making, and may whatever gods he holds dear take pity upon his soul, for noone else shall.
I remember when Microsoft was all "We don't do hardware"...
**looks at his co-workers X-box, microsoft mouse and microsoft joystick**
Microsoft was late to the party to begin with. Then it crashed in, and flailed around causing more damage than good. It tried to take on various bits at the party with little success, then this new guy comes in and does something that microsoft failed at, and Microsoft is now trying to claim the glory for itself?
It looks to me like a grasp at straws.
Every time I see "the need isn't there" or "there's more than enough memory bandwidth" I check their figures, they're only measuring the CPU memory needs. Well, hate to break it to you, but there's more to a computer than just the CPU. Having that extra bandwidth means that those lovely PCI Bus Mastering devices (such as my SCSI 3 controller, and quad firewire card) aren't fighting with the CPU for memory access. Frankly, add in a game accelerator like the Phys-X and a high-end GPU fetching data from the main memory for local cache, and even DDR3 starts looking a bit narrow....
or to crash and burn, that is the question. Ubuntu might be making a brave move, or a bad move, but only time will tell. If their gamble pays off, they might be on the cutting edge, and with a marketable, noticeable advantage. If not, well... there's always Knoppix.
I've long suspected that the congressional attempt to limit fair use, or to create draconian IP laws, was causing more damage than not to the global economy. These numbers seem to reinforce that, and hopefully the fools on the hill will pay attention.
My printer is working overtime tonight....
Richard has some points, but he remains a crusader, not an engineer. His ideas are good, and truth is, we wouldn't be where we are today without his ideology to assist us. Perhaps, rather than villify, or dismiss, we try and see it from his perspective, and from the viewpoint of the other side?
Me, I studied GPL v3, and for it's intended goal, it's well crafted. Is it the right choice for Linux? I don't feel so, but GPL v2 fits it fine. But, if Linus said GPL v3 tomorrow, I'd be fine with it. if he says GPL v2 forever, I'm also fine with it.
Hey Miguel, LTNS! And I see where you are coming from, I really do. I'll be honest, I don't know the OOXML standard from a hole in the wall, but if you'd recall, hardware is my thing, not coding. Personally, I don't care if OOXML, ODF, or even TeX is "the" standard. All I care about is, can I make documents using my pick of word processors, and then have it look the same on everyone elses? With .doc, I don't really get that. With ODF I do, but knowing the origin of OOXML I'd have a long, hard look at any IP issues with it first. If it's clean, hey, if it's better than ODF, welcome aboard. If it's not, then no thanks.
Ok, going back to trying to figure out another method of shading, to by-pass the patents. 8)
This reminds me of an issue we have at work. At work, we run OpenOffice now, it gave us flexibility and yet fully functional... except for one guy, the Editor. He installed it, and the next day went to me "Frankly, it sucks. I won't use it." So, we have this one Office 07 guy out there, and he keeps getting angry when he can't read any documents we send him, or we can't read his documents, yet it's our fault because we won't pay for Office '07 when everyone else is happy with Open Office.
I know this guy, he just went home, installed it, looked, went "this doesn't look like Office 07" and left it at that. Until we can woo this kind of person, however, I fear that OO, and any open standard wp for that matter, will never truely break into mainstream, because he is the Editor, in charge of a whole department.
Last time I checked, Copyright, was not a "god-given" or even constitutionally guaranteed right. Copyright is a right granted by the people, and it is a right that can be revoked by the people. The right was granted for a temporary (repeat, temporary) monopoly to a given work, in exchange for a public record to be kept in the library of congress, stored for future generations. In addition, copyright included provisions to not harm the common citizens for utilizing their own copies of such works as they see fit. Otherwise, copyright holders could impose ludicrus and rediculous limitations, such as "if you watch this... no, if you even recieve a copy of this, watched or not, you must agree to sleep with the director" and, if these guys have their interpretations of copyright forced on us, we would be obliged!
So, I shall be publishing a short copywritten piece shortly with just this provision in it, and if anyone knows the guys behind this push, feel free to send copies to them, I insist....
have 1 tank that feeds 4 propellants?
The Bush admin wll just use their next atty general to prevent these cases from getting reviewed, appealing it all the way to the now-biased supreme court. This is a long fight.
Now we all can live life like we are inside a comic book! Drop in the Comix plug-in, and bam!
I read this, then the comments, and realized that a lot of people see vid cards as just gaming accessories. This couldn't be further from the truth. Look at industrial graphics and video workstations! nVidia is dominating there, and AMD is hungry for a piece of that pie. Open up docs, get the geek that the office keeps in the closet to get excited, he sends the list of the part upgrade to the boss for the graphics workstations, bada-boom AMD market share of ATI video cards grow.
The help for gaming is just incidental, AMD is keeping its eyes on the real prize, the industrial market.
H.R. Geiger better be notified, the Eel is copying his Xenomorph Alien! Best get Ridley Sct and James Cameron involved too!
If Microsoft did force their "standard" on people, how much would it cripple the marketplace? Already at work we are dealing with Microsoft's proprietory components causing a severe case of "haves vs have-nots" in file sharing. And what is most fustrating, is how people do not grasp what they are doing, in that using the proprietory components, they are locking out their co-workers, reducing work output as we have to get them to export their documents into a more generally accepted form. And they turn around and blame the majority of the office. Too sad.
Right now, the opposition party has failed in it's watchdog duties. This resignation is only good news if they finally gain some moxie and push for a hard Atty Gen, one that will actually ensure oversight of the branches of government as the position is supposed to be doing.
Plus, need a hard drive? Why, there's this here USB port, just crying out to plug one into!
When there are good projects like the Neo that are on their way?
Would she infringe upon their patent? 8)
What was his setup? How did they access? And who had access?
Well, nobody ever said that Mr Fusion actually was a Fusion reactor.
I one day forsee this technology being paired with a highly efficient food processing machine, breaking down foods into their component sugars.
Turning your garbage, old moldy food, etc into your households electricity needs!
Sony just keeps addng feature after feature. What's next, a coffee brewer to allow you to keep playing without getting up for your caffine fix?