If they think that Open Source is the work of dirty commie hippie pinko fags bent on destroying the capitalist enterprise system, they would do much better to give their money directly to SCO and Microsoft rather than to EV1.
No, if your hosting company is purchasing unnecessary licenses, they aren't eating the costs -- they're passing the costs on to you, the customer. Going with a poorly managed hosting company is not a good long term business decision. They will cost more, be less reliable, and may eventually shut their doors without warning, leaving you scrambling to find a new solution. So even in straight bottom line terms, EV1 may not be your best choice.
And no, choosing the vendor who offers best service at lowest price isn't always the best business decision. Look at the clothing manufacturers that chose to contract out to sweatshops in developing companies, then got boycotted. Sometimes it is worth paying a little more so as not to get tainted with the sins of your suppliers.
Cheating being possible at all is a side effect of having the client know too much about the game state -- the position of other players, collision detection, etc. This is presumably done in an attempt to work around the lag introduced by the network. This means only real-time games are susceptible to cheating; turn based or casino type games cannot be cheated in. It also means that faster networks should enable game makes to validate inputs and make more of the decisions on the server side, thus making cheating obsolete even in FPS games. Until then, anything you do to stop cheaters is just a temporary stop-gap in a never ending arms race.
And the really wonderful thing about SCOX plumetting is... their lawyers "$9 million in fees" apparently consisted of $1 million in cash and 400,000 shares of SCOX stock! Uh, that would make it about $5 million as of today, Mr. Boies! Here's hoping the stock will be worth less than $40,000 before they have a chance to sell it!
35,000 people to watch console screens and transcribe the data from the screen onto legal pads 24x7. Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient to just use 35,000 printers? Using an LA-120 printer as a console was how we used to debug boot failures on the PDP 11/34...
If BYTE Magazine had adopted this "Give us money for a subscription, and we'll send you and issue whenever we manage to get one out!" business model, they would probably still be in business!
No, a boycott of their services is totally appropriate. Nothing gets a companies attention faster than a loss on their bottom line. Having the few companies for whom this is an important issue change vendors sends a clear and need message to others contemplating taking the easy way out and giving in to SCO's extortion demands. Ultimately everybody is worse off whenever anybody gives in, since it sends a message to criminals that extortion, kidnapping, terrorism, etc. actually works as a business model -- it wouldn't if all victims had the courage to fight for what is right.
Perhaps I'm quoting one of the 444 pages indexed by google that claim "Democracy dies behind closed doors" instead of the 822 pages that claim "Democracies die behind closed doors". Yes, by majority rule, your version is more correct.
if hundreds of seperate alarms went off at the same time at a nuclear power plant how is the operator supposed to repond to that? Don't know about you, but I'd start with the loudest one first, under the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" theory. Human factors are easily overlooked by programmers and designers. You mean like having to hit "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" to log in?
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Because intensity, area of exposure, and duration are all variable, and the hardware itself is incapable of doing multiplication?
Yes, playing against people of equal skill levels is more fun. But co-op is great for allowing less experienced people a chance to learn the game. About the 10th time in a row I frag my wife, its stops being fun... especially when she starts threatening a divorce...
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Can't we just let CIFS to die, already? As long as people are still running Windows and Windows is still using CIFS, it will be necessary to support CIFS for Windows interoperability. No argument from me that it is a horrible protocol for file sharing; but then NFS isn't much better.
Darl, the Chicken Fucker, Didn't some politician acuse his opponent of being a "pig fucker", because "I don't beleive it's true... I just want to hear him deny it!" Darl, we just want to hear you deny having sex with a chicken... it should be just as beleivable as all your other claims!
Well no, he's not taking money from people at gun point. However, theatening to sue people unless they fork over $699 per server does qualify as extortion in most states.
His firm, Boies Schiller & Flexner LP, and other law firms associated with the case have received $1 million in cash and 400,000 SCO shares. So, the lawyers don't have any vested interest in artificially inflating the value of SCO stock, do they? When are they allowed to sell these shares?
Security officials have told him that convicted felons are behind the death threats, McBride said. So, if he knows the identities of the people threatening him, why doesn't he a) get a restraining order against these people or b) have them arrested. Or could it be this unsubstantiated claim is yet another part of their FUD campaign? How could you know that they are convicted felons without knowing who they are?
Buy a list of names of state residents and add all of them to the database, therefore rendering it useless. Or better yet, go the AMA and get a list of all doctors, and add them. Seriously, what provisions does this thing have for separating malicious data from facts? Can I go ahead and add my neighbors when they piss me off?
I see SCO has a Price to Earnings ratio of 48.46... is that a bad thing, in the eyes of stock analysts? Wouldn't most companies with that high a P/E be considered seriously overvalued?
You can't extrapolate from a University network to the general community. Half the computers out there are in businesses, and most don't run any software not installed by the business. Oh, and if the spyware can be detected by scanning, it can be blocked by a firewall. Want to bet most competent IT departments have already configured their firewalls to do this? So really this is only a problem for naive home users. Even then, if there are ISPs out there that will automatically filter porn for customers, shouldn't there be ISPs that will automatically filter spyware connections?
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Why is he smiling in his mug shot?!? Oh, that's right... his daddy is a lawyer!
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If they think that Open Source is the work of dirty commie hippie pinko fags bent on destroying the capitalist enterprise system, they would do much better to give their money directly to SCO and Microsoft rather than to EV1.
No, if your hosting company is purchasing unnecessary licenses, they aren't eating the costs -- they're passing the costs on to you, the customer. Going with a poorly managed hosting company is not a good long term business decision. They will cost more, be less reliable, and may eventually shut their doors without warning, leaving you scrambling to find a new solution. So even in straight bottom line terms, EV1 may not be your best choice.
And no, choosing the vendor who offers best service at lowest price isn't always the best business decision. Look at the clothing manufacturers that chose to contract out to sweatshops in developing companies, then got boycotted. Sometimes it is worth paying a little more so as not to get tainted with the sins of your suppliers.
Cheating being possible at all is a side effect of having the client know too much about the game state -- the position of other players, collision detection, etc. This is presumably done in an attempt to work around the lag introduced by the network. This means only real-time games are susceptible to cheating; turn based or casino type games cannot be cheated in. It also means that faster networks should enable game makes to validate inputs and make more of the decisions on the server side, thus making cheating obsolete even in FPS games. Until then, anything you do to stop cheaters is just a temporary stop-gap in a never ending arms race.
And the really wonderful thing about SCOX plumetting is... their lawyers "$9 million in fees" apparently consisted of $1 million in cash and 400,000 shares of SCOX stock! Uh, that would make it about $5 million as of today, Mr. Boies! Here's hoping the stock will be worth less than $40,000 before they have a chance to sell it!
35,000 people to watch console screens and transcribe the data from the screen onto legal pads 24x7. Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient to just use 35,000 printers? Using an LA-120 printer as a console was how we used to debug boot failures on the PDP 11/34...
If BYTE Magazine had adopted this "Give us money for a subscription, and we'll send you and issue whenever we manage to get one out!" business model, they would probably still be in business!
No, a boycott of their services is totally appropriate. Nothing gets a companies attention faster than a loss on their bottom line. Having the few companies for whom this is an important issue change vendors sends a clear and need message to others contemplating taking the easy way out and giving in to SCO's extortion demands. Ultimately everybody is worse off whenever anybody gives in, since it sends a message to criminals that extortion, kidnapping, terrorism, etc. actually works as a business model -- it wouldn't if all victims had the courage to fight for what is right.
Perhaps I'm quoting one of the 444 pages indexed by google that claim "Democracy dies behind closed doors" instead of the 822 pages that claim "Democracies die behind closed doors". Yes, by majority rule, your version is more correct.
if hundreds of seperate alarms went off at the same time at a nuclear power plant how is the operator supposed to repond to that? Don't know about you, but I'd start with the loudest one first, under the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" theory. Human factors are easily overlooked by programmers and designers. You mean like having to hit "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" to log in?
Because intensity, area of exposure, and duration are all variable, and the hardware itself is incapable of doing multiplication?
Yes, playing against people of equal skill levels is more fun. But co-op is great for allowing less experienced people a chance to learn the game. About the 10th time in a row I frag my wife, its stops being fun... especially when she starts threatening a divorce...
Can't we just let CIFS to die, already? As long as people are still running Windows and Windows is still using CIFS, it will be necessary to support CIFS for Windows interoperability. No argument from me that it is a horrible protocol for file sharing; but then NFS isn't much better.
Darl, the Chicken Fucker, Didn't some politician acuse his opponent of being a "pig fucker", because "I don't beleive it's true... I just want to hear him deny it!" Darl, we just want to hear you deny having sex with a chicken... it should be just as beleivable as all your other claims!
And paranoia would be a symptom of...
mental illness, drug abuse, or both?
Well no, he's not taking money from people at gun point. However, theatening to sue people unless they fork over $699 per server does qualify as extortion in most states.
His firm, Boies Schiller & Flexner LP, and other law firms associated with the case have received $1 million in cash and 400,000 SCO shares. So, the lawyers don't have any vested interest in artificially inflating the value of SCO stock, do they? When are they allowed to sell these shares?
Security officials have told him that convicted felons are behind the death threats, McBride said. So, if he knows the identities of the people threatening him, why doesn't he a) get a restraining order against these people or b) have them arrested. Or could it be this unsubstantiated claim is yet another part of their FUD campaign? How could you know that they are convicted felons without knowing who they are?
Buy a list of names of state residents and add all of them to the database, therefore rendering it useless. Or better yet, go the AMA and get a list of all doctors, and add them. Seriously, what provisions does this thing have for separating malicious data from facts? Can I go ahead and add my neighbors when they piss me off?
Hey, if they can put the web page address on the police cars, then they can put the email address on the police cars.
Anyone can update the wiki. Including Microsoft employees... anybody but me see a potential problem here?
That isn't all I need to know... I also need to know what the question is!
I see SCO has a Price to Earnings ratio of 48.46... is that a bad thing, in the eyes of stock analysts? Wouldn't most companies with that high a P/E be considered seriously overvalued?
How do I know Ad-Aware doesn't install spyware or a backdoor on my computer?
You can't extrapolate from a University network to the general community. Half the computers out there are in businesses, and most don't run any software not installed by the business. Oh, and if the spyware can be detected by scanning, it can be blocked by a firewall. Want to bet most competent IT departments have already configured their firewalls to do this? So really this is only a problem for naive home users. Even then, if there are ISPs out there that will automatically filter porn for customers, shouldn't there be ISPs that will automatically filter spyware connections?
Why is he smiling in his mug shot?!? Oh, that's right... his daddy is a lawyer!