Comment Re:Wrong Wrong Wrong (Score 2) 227
I'll go shoot myself now.
I'll go shoot myself now.
The reason for Linux's success was due to the momentum that BSD/386 had built up. With the AT&T Lawsuit, everyone was looking for an alternative that AT&T could not claim was derivative work. Linux was in the right place, at the right time. They all jumped on, and ran! The rest is history.
Order business class internet, try to order TV with it.
Have fun!
Too much work for me, I skipped it. Plus, what a rip!
You'll see a picture of Carly right there.
Kudos to then for waiving this.
Although the call(s) really cost them virtually nothing, they had the legal right to demand payment.
Wisely, they ate it.
Due to a bug in the code, the data size became an order of magnitude larger than usual. This was a bug that sufficient memory would have obscured.
and ZEUS!
Zilog was a real Unix contender for a while.
On a windy day, the whole building sways. On the upper floors, you can really feel it. Last week it was so bad that we were getting sea sick from the motion.
It dies with its teeth in the enemy's throat,
It dies with its name on the enemy's tongue.
For just as mere life is not victory,
Mere death is not defeat;
And in the next world I shall kill the foe a thousand times,
Laughing,
Undefeated.
It would have worked a lot better if they brought over John Delorean instead.
The "Skyrocket" was basically an LTE SII.
This is far from over. This was just the first skirmish in a war that is going to last for some time. I have the feeling that a number of politicians are going to be surprisingly well funded in the next election.
You're basically being paid to keep it private until patched. Brute Logic blew it.
Groupon is an Open Source shop, and their staff is quite aware of good practices.
Had Brute Logic not disclosed, I am sure a check would be on its way.
What is management of that power worth? What is spare capacity worth?
Instead of few to many, the grid has to become many to many. The equations for worth are going to become very complex.
EU privacy laws. The US Government is at risk of losing safe harbour from the EU. If these companies did not locate somewhere in the EU, they would be at risk of being cut off from there customers. This is probably the greatest thing ever to happen to tech employment in Dublin.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis