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.
Customers? Business operations?! SUPPORT?! SERVICES?!!!?
Man, I don't know what that guy is smokin' but it must be some hella-good shit!
I for one hope this is a trend. Its good to see big companies start to be sucker punched by the same BS tactics they've been using against the public for years. My hope is that once they find themselves being "nibbled to death by ducks" as it were, we might actually get this global laughing-stock of a legal system fixed before there's no one left in the world who will do business with the USA.
It would be great if every mobile email user in America sued NTP for making email on the go difficult and expensive and asked for $1000000 in damages. Even better if we all represented ourselves and walked into court and simply sang a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walked out.
I like your sentiment, but the real heroes work at NASA. These men and women almost certainly had a rough entry into adulthood at the hands of the ignorant doofuses who populate our schools only to be greeted, upon arrival, by a space program in decline, budgets cut to fund foreign wars, and a general "who cares about space, been there done that..oooh Paris got arrested!!" attitude from the public.
What did these people do? They took their limited budget and did their thing on another PLANET, and took us along for the ride!
I smile every time I hear mention of the rovers on tv or see the images. Its like a giant "up yours" to all of the worthless, dog-fighting "football stars" and useless "celebrities" of the world from geeks everywhere.
Roll on NASA engineers. Roll on rovers. You are my heroes.
Absolutely. I've seen a dozen or more corporate datacenters with racks and racks of outadated windows servers, mostly pentiums 2's and 3's that are nothing more than desktops turned on their sides with metal brackets from the harware store holding them in.
Literally dozens of those things could be displaced by single modern VMWare or Xen hosts. Its all a matter of manpower and know-how. (As well as convincing the PHB that his initial outlay will be made up quicky with power savings and administration cost savings). Add to this the fact that the department that pays for the power is usually different than the one ordering new servers and the politcal nonsense praticly guarantees another decade of PII's.
We've calculated that a single server running full blast can use up to $30 of power per month all by itself. That doesn't even count the power the AC's need to get rid of the heat it makes.
Ha! Then the phone company would just claim that there aren't enough subscribers in your area to make a broadband deployment feasible, then ask you if you'd like to be put on a waiting list to be notified if it ever becomes available in your area!
(Hint: There is no list, they just put your name on a giant board at the telco along with all of the other suckers on dail-up so everyone can have a good laugh.)
Agreed. There is yet no good reputation system among software engineers. Doctor, lawyers, civil engineers etc all have some sort of reputation system in place, MD, Bar, etc. What do software engineers have? MCSE?
Its no wonder its so hard for management to tell competent system architects from java monkeys who have "years of experience in the field." (Hint: if you do the same thing wrong for 20 years, your "years of experience" just tend to make you an ass who does things wrong and can't be taught.)
Thanks. A bunch of posts like that one is exactly what I hoped to see. I will now reluctantly remove my tinfoil hat! If worst becomes worst, I'll see you in the streets.
Who is really REALLY afriad of a "national emergency" that requires a "temporary extension of the current administration" happening in the next year or so? And not just in the sarcastic "it would figure" kind of way, but a "it might actually happen, then what?!" kind of way.
The purpose off most import taxes these days is simply to raise money. Its often possible for government (and even quasi-government) agencies to do these kinds of things with little or no oversight and certainly no voting by the people. Its just a good way to get a bit more taxation without representation past the unsuspecting sheeple.
The point of a free market is that BOTH sides profit from a mutually beneficial trade conducted without coertion of either party. Anything else is, well, something else.
Turns out, "antiquated recording schemes" and "broken media" are actually forms of copy protection. Scanning in this manner clearly violates the DMCA. Of course they will be asking for around 2.5 times the economic output of the entire planet in damages to make sure the original artists (who are of course dead) are fairly compensated.
On a side note, I wonder if the poor souls recorded on these mediums will now finally be able to pay back their record company advances... minus packaging and distibution fees of course.
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You said it, now where the hell am I gonna get a microwave big enough for my RealDoll?!
"Help Help I'm Being Repressed! come see the violence inherent in the system!"
Hmmmm... America made me do it.
This has potential!
Customers? Business operations?! SUPPORT?! SERVICES?!!!?
Man, I don't know what that guy is smokin' but it must be some hella-good shit!
I for one hope this is a trend. Its good to see big companies start to be sucker punched by the same BS tactics they've been using against the public for years. My hope is that once they find themselves being "nibbled to death by ducks" as it were, we might actually get this global laughing-stock of a legal system fixed before there's no one left in the world who will do business with the USA.
It would be great if every mobile email user in America sued NTP for making email on the go difficult and expensive and asked for $1000000 in damages. Even better if we all represented ourselves and walked into court and simply sang a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walked out.
UltraVNC and UltraVNC "single click" can do just what you want, is greatly customizable, and completely free.
I like your sentiment, but the real heroes work at NASA. These men and women almost certainly had a rough entry into adulthood at the hands of the ignorant doofuses who populate our schools only to be greeted, upon arrival, by a space program in decline, budgets cut to fund foreign wars, and a general "who cares about space, been there done that..oooh Paris got arrested!!" attitude from the public.
What did these people do? They took their limited budget and did their thing on another PLANET, and took us along for the ride!
I smile every time I hear mention of the rovers on tv or see the images. Its like a giant "up yours" to all of the worthless, dog-fighting "football stars" and useless "celebrities" of the world from geeks everywhere.
Roll on NASA engineers. Roll on rovers. You are my heroes.
I hear that the entertainment system in this thing will come standard with Duke Nukem Forever....
Check on an airplane?!?!?! Did you see the picture of that thing?! I have trouble getting my Treo through security!
Thier actions have left only one possible corse of action.
Egg the bastard like a 12 year old.
Stuff that didn't go wrong.
Everything worked today? The sysadmins were 100% productive.
Run or run not. There is no try.
My property is protected by a Smith and Wesson granted monopoly.
Absolutely. I've seen a dozen or more corporate datacenters with racks and racks of outadated windows servers, mostly pentiums 2's and 3's that are nothing more than desktops turned on their sides with metal brackets from the harware store holding them in.
Literally dozens of those things could be displaced by single modern VMWare or Xen hosts. Its all a matter of manpower and know-how. (As well as convincing the PHB that his initial outlay will be made up quicky with power savings and administration cost savings). Add to this the fact that the department that pays for the power is usually different than the one ordering new servers and the politcal nonsense praticly guarantees another decade of PII's.
We've calculated that a single server running full blast can use up to $30 of power per month all by itself. That doesn't even count the power the AC's need to get rid of the heat it makes.
Ha! Then the phone company would just claim that there aren't enough subscribers in your area to make a broadband deployment feasible, then ask you if you'd like to be put on a waiting list to be notified if it ever becomes available in your area!
(Hint: There is no list, they just put your name on a giant board at the telco along with all of the other suckers on dail-up so everyone can have a good laugh.)
on how much a session of congress costs. Keep in mind you'll be bidding against ma bell.
They're getting a pretty sweet deal right now so a few hundred million in lobbyists, campaign contributions and other misc bribes is nothing.
The cost of the actual wires vanishes when compared to the munny-munny-munny nonsense of the political side.
Agreed. There is yet no good reputation system among software engineers. Doctor, lawyers, civil engineers etc all have some sort of reputation system in place, MD, Bar, etc. What do software engineers have? MCSE?
Its no wonder its so hard for management to tell competent system architects from java monkeys who have "years of experience in the field." (Hint: if you do the same thing wrong for 20 years, your "years of experience" just tend to make you an ass who does things wrong and can't be taught.)
Yow! Do NOT sit too close to the tv kids!
(Boldly using to and too two times and getting it right too! They're not gonna believe their eyes when they see it there!)
Thanks. A bunch of posts like that one is exactly what I hoped to see. I will now reluctantly remove my tinfoil hat! If worst becomes worst, I'll see you in the streets.
Who is really REALLY afriad of a "national emergency" that requires a "temporary extension of the current administration" happening in the next year or so? And not just in the sarcastic "it would figure" kind of way, but a "it might actually happen, then what?!" kind of way.
...hang out with fat people.
The purpose off most import taxes these days is simply to raise money. Its often possible for government (and even quasi-government) agencies to do these kinds of things with little or no oversight and certainly no voting by the people. Its just a good way to get a bit more taxation without representation past the unsuspecting sheeple.
The point of a free market is that BOTH sides profit from a mutually beneficial trade conducted without coertion of either party. Anything else is, well, something else.
Turns out, "antiquated recording schemes" and "broken media" are actually forms of copy protection. Scanning in this manner clearly violates the DMCA. Of course they will be asking for around 2.5 times the economic output of the entire planet in damages to make sure the original artists (who are of course dead) are fairly compensated.
On a side note, I wonder if the poor souls recorded on these mediums will now finally be able to pay back their record company advances... minus packaging and distibution fees of course.
welcome our new messiah-bot overlords.
Sorry, just had to.