1. Caldera sells OpenLinux.
2. Caldera sells company to a group of stupid, evil or evil & stupid investors.
3. SCO seeing Linux eating up their microcomputer Unix biz sells it to Caldera.
4 Caldera rebrands as SCO and the real SCO changes in to Tarantella.
6. SCO tries to get everyone who has linux to give them some money for a promise not to sue or something because they own Unix.
7. SCO decides that IBM and AutoZone are good targets for a bizarre lawsuit, despite both firms having at least as much money as God.
8. Somewhere along the line someone points out that SCO does not actually own the copyrights to Unix, and they distributed Linux under the GPL for a long time. And bragged to the public about it.
9. SCO sues Novel hoping that the judge will have a bad day and just give the copyrights to Unix to them and break a contract that they accidentally bought from SCO.
10 SCO sees that the judge is not going to have a bad day, and files for bankruptcy to get another judge, who may have a bad day and make SCO's fantasy reality.
11. Bankruptcy judge does not have a bad day.
12. SCO tries to appeal, but appears to have ran out of gas.
Unfortunately this is starting to look like one of those "B" movies where every time you think the monster is dead it gets up again. Is it coincidence that you stopped before 13?
Good question. IANAL, but I can think of three things: I seriously doubt many people genuinely used their PS3 for Linux - and Sony could easily dig up numbers to support that.
I don't think numbers using it should affect it. If you buy a device with a feature that you use that should be enough.
It is a sad fact that the ONLY rehabilitation that works on criminals is a bullet through the brain.
I remember reading somewhere that this is sadly right for hardened criminals, but there are a lot of "one time offenders". Often these were doing something that they had convinced themselves "wasn't really a crime", or thought that they were somehow special and would never be caught. In these cases prison does work, but so do a lot of other harsh punishments (reparations, curfew, large fines if they can afford it).
That way if they do something wrong it will be easier to prove and the "incarceration" can be switched on remotely. Add an integrated taser and you've got the ultimate means of population control.
Save this comment.... I have a feeling that sometime not to far in the future it could be "prior art".
Theres also the chance that a non MPEG-LA member will pull a patent out of somewhere and start charging fees.
The way the patent system is going at the moment there is a chance that when I taka a crap and wipe my arse someone will pull out a patent and start charging fees. This really applies to everything, not just H.264
Nothing wrong with holding us up to higher standards, unfortunately a lot of Europeans seem to use that as an excuse to abdicate responsibility for anything themselves.
But Europens have such a good record. Just take Germany... oh wait.
You might be able to pick up the feeds to TV companies. I knew someone who did this years back but they might be encrypted now. They would sometimes pick up presenters chatting during advert breaks, people waiting to go on air, etc.
There are notable exceptions that are grandfathered in like www.hp.com, but there will be no new two character domains allowed, and I am pretty sure that applies to all TLD's.
Not the.uk tld, though this is exceptional because sites canot be registered directly within the TLD. Registration is within second-level domains such as.co.uk.
Are really doing more silly things or is it just that they call in because they can. Would the same group of idiots just looked on the map for another spring, or decided that the water was only slightly salty if they had no means of contacting help. Would the people on the mountain found their way down without help? I can remember seeing idiots on mountains years ago, including a woman in high healed shoes about a mile onto a track up Snowdon. She probably gave up after another mile and walked back with wore feet, but today she might have summoned rescue services.
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Ok, let's see if I have the story right:
1. Caldera sells OpenLinux. 2. Caldera sells company to a group of stupid, evil or evil & stupid investors. 3. SCO seeing Linux eating up their microcomputer Unix biz sells it to Caldera. 4 Caldera rebrands as SCO and the real SCO changes in to Tarantella. 6. SCO tries to get everyone who has linux to give them some money for a promise not to sue or something because they own Unix. 7. SCO decides that IBM and AutoZone are good targets for a bizarre lawsuit, despite both firms having at least as much money as God. 8. Somewhere along the line someone points out that SCO does not actually own the copyrights to Unix, and they distributed Linux under the GPL for a long time. And bragged to the public about it. 9. SCO sues Novel hoping that the judge will have a bad day and just give the copyrights to Unix to them and break a contract that they accidentally bought from SCO. 10 SCO sees that the judge is not going to have a bad day, and files for bankruptcy to get another judge, who may have a bad day and make SCO's fantasy reality. 11. Bankruptcy judge does not have a bad day. 12. SCO tries to appeal, but appears to have ran out of gas.
Unfortunately this is starting to look like one of those "B" movies where every time you think the monster is dead it gets up again. Is it coincidence that you stopped before 13?
Good question. IANAL, but I can think of three things: I seriously doubt many people genuinely used their PS3 for Linux - and Sony could easily dig up numbers to support that.
I don't think numbers using it should affect it. If you buy a device with a feature that you use that should be enough.
The obvious solution is solitary confinement, each prisoner kept in their own little cell.
It is a sad fact that the ONLY rehabilitation that works on criminals is a bullet through the brain.
I remember reading somewhere that this is sadly right for hardened criminals, but there are a lot of "one time offenders". Often these were doing something that they had convinced themselves "wasn't really a crime", or thought that they were somehow special and would never be caught. In these cases prison does work, but so do a lot of other harsh punishments (reparations, curfew, large fines if they can afford it).
Apparently, neither does incarceration. ;-)
Well it does for the period that they are incarcerated.
That way if they do something wrong it will be easier to prove and the "incarceration" can be switched on remotely. Add an integrated taser and you've got the ultimate means of population control.
Save this comment .... I have a feeling that sometime not to far in the future it could be "prior art".
But the bad news is that it has no basic impact on crime, on re-offending, with many criminals comitting crimes while tagged.
You are blaming your body's natural tendency to cramp when forced to use an inferior tool?
I got cramp wanking off, you insensitive clod.
I made a post to this effect not long ago. For the most part, large corporations do not innovate.
That seems to be true now but it was not always so. Remember bell labs, Xerox PARC, IBM's Yorktown Heights? I wonder why things have changed
Theres also the chance that a non MPEG-LA member will pull a patent out of somewhere and start charging fees.
The way the patent system is going at the moment there is a chance that when I taka a crap and wipe my arse someone will pull out a patent and start charging fees. This really applies to everything, not just H.264
Me too. I sometimes have difficulty reading my own notes
SCORacle to buy MPEG LA. Spokesmen say that users have nothing to worry about.
Nothing wrong with holding us up to higher standards, unfortunately a lot of Europeans seem to use that as an excuse to abdicate responsibility for anything themselves.
But Europens have such a good record. Just take Germany ... oh wait.
Really? Salt Lake City is the same as Portland or Seattle? Not hardly.
I'll drink to that (.... but in Salt LAke City I will have to find an unadvertised, unposted club and become a member)
You might be able to pick up the feeds to TV companies. I knew someone who did this years back but they might be encrypted now. They would sometimes pick up presenters chatting during advert breaks, people waiting to go on air, etc.
There are notable exceptions that are grandfathered in like www.hp.com, but there will be no new two character domains allowed, and I am pretty sure that applies to all TLD's.
Not the .uk tld, though this is exceptional because sites canot be registered directly within the TLD. Registration is within second-level domains such as .co.uk.
That is because it is a .org address. Facebook only targets "*book.com" addresses.
If that were true there would be an easy solution:
teachbook.com => teachbook.org
http://www.theholybook.org/ (I would be very surprised if they did, as it would give the "religion of peace" an opportunity to show their own method of objection again)
http://flushaholybook.com/
http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/
http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/
http://www.hotelbook.com/
http://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/
http://adoptabook.bl.uk/
http://www.easytobook.com/
http://www.bid4abook.co.uk/
http://www.nielsenbook.co.uk/
That's just a few of them.
But I guess Facebook doesn't realize yet that Muslims have a Holy Book. The religions of the world will be sued next week.
What's the betting that facebook won't be going after http://www.theholybook.org/
Theres also the issue of colour affecting the look of the stuff being moved. A reddish tube might make someone think there was blood in another fluid.
You could have coloured bands round a tube, with the connectors also being colloured.
Are you saying that you think that year numbers exist somehow historically?
Exactly. Why bother to change the definition of UTC when computers could already use TAI if they don't want leap seconds.
1 BC was followed by 1 AD.
Not with ISO 8601 time representation, which is more logical having a year zero before year one.
Careful ... bitching about Oracle's patented.
Are really doing more silly things or is it just that they call in because they can. Would the same group of idiots just looked on the map for another spring, or decided that the water was only slightly salty if they had no means of contacting help. Would the people on the mountain found their way down without help? I can remember seeing idiots on mountains years ago, including a woman in high healed shoes about a mile onto a track up Snowdon. She probably gave up after another mile and walked back with wore feet, but today she might have summoned rescue services.