In a civil case, long before you get any chance to be go before any judge, you have to file a response to the plaintiff's claims. Fail to file a response and it is game over. Filing properly usually costs at least $1000. You can try to write one yourself or use a paralegal. A generous judge will then give it back to you with a brief explaination of what is wrong with it a few times, giving you a chance to correct it. Not sure what a judge in a bad mood will do.
You've got to remember that by definition all judges are lawyers. Go into court with a "I don't need no stinkin' lawyer" attitude, and your pretty much guaranteeing a judgement against yourself.
So, SCO's case now seems to be: They could have copied Unix code into Linux, but they didn't. Anyway, we want money.
That's an oversimplification. SCO's case actually appears to be "We own Unix AND any modifications that anybody has ever made to Unix or any of it's derivatives. IBM deleted some working copies of Dynix and AIX, thereby preventing us from determining if any of the modifications made to them also made it into Linux. This of course ignores the possibility that changes were copied FROM Linux TO AIX, because we all know Linux developers are too stupid to come up with good code on their own, therefore any improvements to Linux MUST have been stolen from Unix! And while we're at it, let's ignore that fact that you can't make a Posix-compliant OS without using well-documented Unix 'concepts and ideas', and that SCO itself placed the ELF standard in the public domain!" There... did I miss anything? I think one needs to be both a lawyer AND a crack addict in order for SCO's claims to make any sense at all!
Uh, Albertson's already has an LCD monitor with video and audio at every checkout register (except for the self-checkout)... it might be a little late to patent that idea!
In my experience, every self-checkout setup requires one employee to watch 4 scanners. I find it difficult to beleive that an experienced cashier isn't at least 4 times faster at running a bar code scanner than a rank amatuer... so wouldn't that employee be better utilized running a register? Plus, they now have 4 times as much equipment to perform the same job! The only reason I can think of to implement this system is to start training customers now for the day when all purchases will be rung up via RFID as you attempt to exit the store.
Aren't you supposed to have some evidence of wrongdoing BEFORE you file a lawsuit? SCO is now effectively saying "We know they infringed our intellectual property, but we can't prove it because they destroyed evidence after we filed a suit against them!" If SCO didn't have any evidence in the first place, on what basis could it file a suit? Also, isn't SCO effectively claiming that they are incapable of recognizing their own intellectual property? The only reason old copies of AIX or Dynix would be relevant is if you beleive the preprosterous claim that SCO owns all changes made to ANY Unix derivate -- even changes SCO doesn't know about.
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This would be a much cheaper, easier, and more direct method then say, changing the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards to curb emmisions! And of course, the fuel expended to boost millions of square miles of mirrors into orbit would have no effect whatsoever on the environment!
The telephone was the first device to allow people miles apart to communicate in real time. With the possible exceptions of the telegraph, smoke signals, semaphores (flags), yodeling, horns, signal fires, jungle drums, etc. Granted, most of these are line-of-sight, but I don't think remote communication is as revolutionary as you seem to think it is. The telephone was just an improvement in convenience over the telegraph.
I'd don't think I'd want to use a QUERTY keyboard... I'd keep accidentally hitting the U key when I meant W! Most keyboard I've seen say "QWERTY", not "QUERTY". You'd think you would have realized that as you were typing it!!!
To break yourself from looking at the keys, place a hand-towel or washcloth or something over your hands while you type. But... if my wife catches me doing this, she'll just assume I'm surfing the 'net for porn again!
The only difference is in how many people can view the copyrighted material at the same time. With a library, it is only one; with digital copies, it is theoretically infinite. If you had a license manager that limited simultaneous use to the number of copies purchased (they do this for software now), then a torrent would be funtionally the same as a library. However, I beleive MP3.com did operate on this principle, and was shut down anyway.
I don't know about you, but I trust software I've written myself a LOT more than I trust somebody overseas whom I've never met... although what I really distrust is closed source software written by somebody overseas whom I've never met.
'Theoretically,' says Azim Premji, chairman and founder of India outsourcing company Wipro Ltd., 'anything on a network can be managed remotely from India.'
Theoretically, anything on a network that can be managed remotely from India can also be managed by an expert system running on a CPU on that network... without the added expense of long distance communication and employees, and without the added failure modes of having your international links go down. Plus, the programming for the expert system should be around the same magnitude of difficulty as writing the scripts for the Indians to follow, and anything either one of them doesn't recognize is going to get escalated to a higher-up anyway. So why is outsourcing network management to a person in another country a big win over outsourcing to a machine? Neither one of them is capable of pushing the damn reset button!
How are they going to download an extra-large bottle of aspirin over the 'net? Surely that would be the most important component of any "Get ready for Vista!" kit, wouldn't it?
Obviously, streaming to a digital audio device with memory is completely different than broadcasting to an all-in-one radio/tape recorder with the tape recorder recording! The difference is: the RIAA has already tried suing regarding tape recording and lost miserably, but there is a very small chance they might be able to shop around for a judge stupid enough to beleive that a digital radio is really substantially different. I'm sure the RIAA lawyers honestly beleive that although it is perfectly legal to use analog equipment to time-shift a broadcast, it is blatant copyright infringement to use digital equipment to time-shift a broadcast -- or at least, that is what they will argue in court.
You don't need a lot of power for a wireless link. But you do need a lot of power for the servos to drive the control surfaces of an aircraft. So you are partially correct, wireless could make data collection from various points on the aircraft more robust. However, it does little to help the far more critical problem of controlling the aircraft from whence the phrase "fly-by-wireless" is derived. In short, if you can't control your rudder, ailerons, and landing gear, you probably don't really care what your fuel level or engine temperature is.
A wireless link between the pilot and the control surfaces, on the other hand, can't be cut by a fire in the cargo hold, or even by a shoulder-fired missle (as long as it missed the kablooie stuff). It seems to me that any damage that would cut off the wired link would also cut off the power necessary for the wireless link to function as well... sorry, no fault-tolerance advantage is gained from using wireless, just more failure modes.
Your numbers are spot on. I have over 700 CDs purchased at an average of about $12 each, so yes I have spent over $8400 on CDs. I know plenty of people that have over 1000 CDs. Bear in mind that I'm 45, I gave away my vinyl (all 5 albums) in 1980, and have been collecting CDs ever since.
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You've got to remember that by definition all judges are lawyers. Go into court with a "I don't need no stinkin' lawyer" attitude, and your pretty much guaranteeing a judgement against yourself.
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Is Apple sourcing their parts from Gateway 2000 now?
XNS, which nobody uses anymore, is an "innovative PC product", but TCP/IP, which everybody uses and which predates XNS, isn't even mentioned? WTF?!?
That's an oversimplification. SCO's case actually appears to be "We own Unix AND any modifications that anybody has ever made to Unix or any of it's derivatives. IBM deleted some working copies of Dynix and AIX, thereby preventing us from determining if any of the modifications made to them also made it into Linux. This of course ignores the possibility that changes were copied FROM Linux TO AIX, because we all know Linux developers are too stupid to come up with good code on their own, therefore any improvements to Linux MUST have been stolen from Unix! And while we're at it, let's ignore that fact that you can't make a Posix-compliant OS without using well-documented Unix 'concepts and ideas', and that SCO itself placed the ELF standard in the public domain!" There... did I miss anything? I think one needs to be both a lawyer AND a crack addict in order for SCO's claims to make any sense at all!
Uh, Albertson's already has an LCD monitor with video and audio at every checkout register (except for the self-checkout)... it might be a little late to patent that idea!
In my experience, every self-checkout setup requires one employee to watch 4 scanners. I find it difficult to beleive that an experienced cashier isn't at least 4 times faster at running a bar code scanner than a rank amatuer... so wouldn't that employee be better utilized running a register? Plus, they now have 4 times as much equipment to perform the same job! The only reason I can think of to implement this system is to start training customers now for the day when all purchases will be rung up via RFID as you attempt to exit the store.
Aren't you supposed to have some evidence of wrongdoing BEFORE you file a lawsuit? SCO is now effectively saying "We know they infringed our intellectual property, but we can't prove it because they destroyed evidence after we filed a suit against them!" If SCO didn't have any evidence in the first place, on what basis could it file a suit? Also, isn't SCO effectively claiming that they are incapable of recognizing their own intellectual property? The only reason old copies of AIX or Dynix would be relevant is if you beleive the preprosterous claim that SCO owns all changes made to ANY Unix derivate -- even changes SCO doesn't know about.
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This would be a much cheaper, easier, and more direct method then say, changing the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards to curb emmisions! And of course, the fuel expended to boost millions of square miles of mirrors into orbit would have no effect whatsoever on the environment!
The telephone was the first device to allow people miles apart to communicate in real time. With the possible exceptions of the telegraph, smoke signals, semaphores (flags), yodeling, horns, signal fires, jungle drums, etc. Granted, most of these are line-of-sight, but I don't think remote communication is as revolutionary as you seem to think it is. The telephone was just an improvement in convenience over the telegraph.
I've got a copy of Doom3 at home, so if any demons escaped from hell turn up dead... that makes me a prime suspect!
I'd don't think I'd want to use a QUERTY keyboard... I'd keep accidentally hitting the U key when I meant W! Most keyboard I've seen say "QWERTY", not "QUERTY". You'd think you would have realized that as you were typing it!!!
To break yourself from looking at the keys, place a hand-towel or washcloth or something over your hands while you type.
But... if my wife catches me doing this, she'll just assume I'm surfing the 'net for porn again!
The only difference is in how many people can view the copyrighted material at the same time. With a library, it is only one; with digital copies, it is theoretically infinite. If you had a license manager that limited simultaneous use to the number of copies purchased (they do this for software now), then a torrent would be funtionally the same as a library. However, I beleive MP3.com did operate on this principle, and was shut down anyway.
I don't know about you, but I trust software I've written myself a LOT more than I trust somebody overseas whom I've never met... although what I really distrust is closed source software written by somebody overseas whom I've never met.
Can I run VoIP over this wireless connection, thus screwing these same companies out of any cellular revenue?
Theoretically, anything on a network that can be managed remotely from India can also be managed by an expert system running on a CPU on that network... without the added expense of long distance communication and employees, and without the added failure modes of having your international links go down. Plus, the programming for the expert system should be around the same magnitude of difficulty as writing the scripts for the Indians to follow, and anything either one of them doesn't recognize is going to get escalated to a higher-up anyway. So why is outsourcing network management to a person in another country a big win over outsourcing to a machine? Neither one of them is capable of pushing the damn reset button!
How are they going to download an extra-large bottle of aspirin over the 'net? Surely that would be the most important component of any "Get ready for Vista!" kit, wouldn't it?
Of course humans and chimpanzees of interbred recently... Darl McBride is living proof! And I'm a little suspicious about this guy too!
There used to be a saying "Cops always have the best drugs!" These days I think it has been replaced with "The NSA always has the best porn!"
Obviously, streaming to a digital audio device with memory is completely different than broadcasting to an all-in-one radio/tape recorder with the tape recorder recording! The difference is: the RIAA has already tried suing regarding tape recording and lost miserably, but there is a very small chance they might be able to shop around for a judge stupid enough to beleive that a digital radio is really substantially different. I'm sure the RIAA lawyers honestly beleive that although it is perfectly legal to use analog equipment to time-shift a broadcast, it is blatant copyright infringement to use digital equipment to time-shift a broadcast -- or at least, that is what they will argue in court.
You don't need a lot of power for a wireless link. But you do need a lot of power for the servos to drive the control surfaces of an aircraft. So you are partially correct, wireless could make data collection from various points on the aircraft more robust. However, it does little to help the far more critical problem of controlling the aircraft from whence the phrase "fly-by-wireless" is derived. In short, if you can't control your rudder, ailerons, and landing gear, you probably don't really care what your fuel level or engine temperature is.
A wireless link between the pilot and the control surfaces, on the other hand, can't be cut by a fire in the cargo hold, or even by a shoulder-fired missle (as long as it missed the kablooie stuff). It seems to me that any damage that would cut off the wired link would also cut off the power necessary for the wireless link to function as well... sorry, no fault-tolerance advantage is gained from using wireless, just more failure modes.
Your numbers are spot on. I have over 700 CDs purchased at an average of about $12 each, so yes I have spent over $8400 on CDs. I know plenty of people that have over 1000 CDs. Bear in mind that I'm 45, I gave away my vinyl (all 5 albums) in 1980, and have been collecting CDs ever since.