All IT people at some point shutdown. They one day wake up and say "I have learned enough, I don't want to learn anything new". And these people simply work with what they have learned.
I work all day with people who are stuck programming with 20 year old methodologies. Our programs run on probably the best database system there is, but they take advantage of none of the features.
Just trying to get the boss to let you use something that was created within my lifetime is a major deal.
Have you given any thought to what these actions will do to your future business and your name as a company?
[When] people who have legitimate businesses and legitimate intellectual property that they want to protect see our code - and we've had a couple of dozen viewings now of the offending code - they just shake their heads and say: 'We can't believe [IBM is] doing this.' So we are already seeing the public opinion tide start to turn.
We're doing better business now than we have in the history of our company. From a pure business standpoint things haven't been better.
Who wants to bet that the original comment was "We can't believe they are doing this." Meaning SCO, not IBM.
That's all very nice and well. However, you cannot put a price tag on research until it is complete. It may take 2 weeks, but it may also take 20 years.
Can't mail servers become more intelligent, after all who sends 100 emails a day in one big batch from a hotmail account?
Unfortunately most if not all of the spam you receive marked as coming from hotmail never went within 100 miles of the actual hotmail servers. The distributed nature of the internet makes this virtually impossible.
If they use webalizer to analyze the log files, it can be run incrementally. All you have to do is every time your script decides to delete the logs, just do a quick webalizer run first, then delete.
Since there are 86,400 seconds in a day and we gain (in effect) a second every year, it would take 86,400 * 365 years before the earth stops rotating. So, roughly 31,536,000 years from now. I think.
After having read the decision, I believe that the text clears up why it is a freedom of speech issue.
The general gist is that people would not express their right to read and purchase what ever they want without protection from those who would persecute them for expressing certain interests.
It will mainly be to fill a new niche. For example, web servers which people want to be linked to thier internal database.
For regular interactive applications, people probably won't be willing to convert to Linux. Linux doesn't have the screens/menus functionality built in. It all has to be custom made.
One of the things that has made Linux so compelling against many other versions of Unix is the fact that it has not been forked. Once the kernel has been forked, it will only take time before the different versions are incompatible.
I don't really buy the argument that if you don't buy a Dell, you aren't doing W2k right. From my experience in working with pc's, Dell is the one manufacturer that customizes it's install of Windows the most.
So from my point of view, that is more akin to saying that if you don't get a computer with a heavily modified version of W2k, then you don't know how to do it right.
I do know that pretty much any system I've run Windows * on, there have always been problems. Including the two Dell's I've used on a regular basis for a year & half.
Being almost 21 I had to go through the whole dare program in elementary school.
Unfortunately I did not pass the dare program because I thought it was a waste of time and didn't do an essay that they required of us.
However, all of the people from my class that I have spoken to (and did pass the dare course) have done drugs, and several of them. They considered the class to be more of a shopping spree where they could learn which drugs were the ones that matched thier personality best.
The interesting thing is that I am the only one from my class who did not pass the dare course and the only one I know of to be completely clean.
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I work all day with people who are stuck programming with 20 year old methodologies. Our programs run on probably the best database system there is, but they take advantage of none of the features.
Just trying to get the boss to let you use something that was created within my lifetime is a major deal.
[When] people who have legitimate businesses and legitimate intellectual property that they want to protect see our code - and we've had a couple of dozen viewings now of the offending code - they just shake their heads and say: 'We can't believe [IBM is] doing this.' So we are already seeing the public opinion tide start to turn. We're doing better business now than we have in the history of our company. From a pure business standpoint things haven't been better.
Who wants to bet that the original comment was "We can't believe they are doing this." Meaning SCO, not IBM.
Seems pretty reasonable.
One suggestion though: the holder should be allowed to decrease the declared value at each filing but not increase it above inflation.
Aren't full paragraphs a good thing? I understand that soundbites are what the media needs, but still.
But cellular seems to be the only phone service with real competition right now.
Intel is a processor company. Well, they make nics and so on, but they really aren't in the business of pushing memory.
And what do they do when they are sued for copywright infringement?
What about the sites that get money via advertising? Wouldn't they want the traffic so they get the advertising?
That's all very nice and well. However, you cannot put a price tag on research until it is complete. It may take 2 weeks, but it may also take 20 years.
Can't mail servers become more intelligent, after all who sends 100 emails a day in one big batch from a hotmail account?
Unfortunately most if not all of the spam you receive marked as coming from hotmail never went within 100 miles of the actual hotmail servers. The distributed nature of the internet makes this virtually impossible.
If they use webalizer to analyze the log files, it can be run incrementally. All you have to do is every time your script decides to delete the logs, just do a quick webalizer run first, then delete.
If you are referring to Generation D as in the Worldcom commercials, we always referred to it at Worldcom as Generation Duh!
Did you mean AIBO?
Somehow, Star Wars news doesn't excite me anymore.
I don't think so. Your math seems to be flawed.
Since there are 86,400 seconds in a day and we gain (in effect) a second every year, it would take 86,400 * 365 years before the earth stops rotating. So, roughly 31,536,000 years from now. I think.
Sounds like a pretty easy thing to solve. Don't ride rollercoasters.
While that is true, it also seems true that Windows is more than happy to soak up all of the increasing cpu available.
After having read the decision, I believe that the text clears up why it is a freedom of speech issue.
The general gist is that people would not express their right to read and purchase what ever they want without protection from those who would persecute them for expressing certain interests.
Let me guess, the cd-roms will have all the emails in Outlook .pst format... :>
For regular interactive applications, people probably won't be willing to convert to Linux. Linux doesn't have the screens/menus functionality built in. It all has to be custom made.
Conversely, why are there so many municipal golf courses? I don't see any reason why they couldn't run some sort of internet infrastructure as well.
One of the things that has made Linux so compelling against many other versions of Unix is the fact that it has not been forked. Once the kernel has been forked, it will only take time before the different versions are incompatible.
Please, IBM is spending billions of dollars on Linux. More money I'm sure than Red Hat ever had.
I don't really buy the argument that if you don't buy a Dell, you aren't doing W2k right. From my experience in working with pc's, Dell is the one manufacturer that customizes it's install of Windows the most. So from my point of view, that is more akin to saying that if you don't get a computer with a heavily modified version of W2k, then you don't know how to do it right. I do know that pretty much any system I've run Windows * on, there have always been problems. Including the two Dell's I've used on a regular basis for a year & half.
Being almost 21 I had to go through the whole dare program in elementary school. Unfortunately I did not pass the dare program because I thought it was a waste of time and didn't do an essay that they required of us. However, all of the people from my class that I have spoken to (and did pass the dare course) have done drugs, and several of them. They considered the class to be more of a shopping spree where they could learn which drugs were the ones that matched thier personality best. The interesting thing is that I am the only one from my class who did not pass the dare course and the only one I know of to be completely clean.