We used to call this simply, "Machine Learning." Pattern recognition using neural nets, etc. Always was more than a database lookup. Now it's called AI.

This was already decided during the original trial. Two things will prevent Xinuos from succeeding:

1. SCO never had a license to the code they claim to own. They had a license to distribute it, but Novell owned the copyrights (such as they were).

2. The code SCO claimed was copied from Project Monterey wasn't in fact copied from there. It was original code IBM wrote and contributed to Monterey (while retaining the copyrights) and then subsequently contributed to Linux (which they had every right to do because the license granted to Monterey wasn't exclusive).

The only reason the lawsuit ended with a settlement was that SCO had lost on every argument and gone bankrupt, so there was no money to pay any judgement against them. I suspect some of the terms of that settlement are going to come back to bite Xinuos, because SCO had managed what everyone had considered impossible: they'd not only angered IBM enough they were out for blood, they'd managed to get IBM's law firm (Cravath, Swaine and Moore, who are a big name) personally angry at them too. I'm fairly sure there's terms in that settlement expressly to make sure that dead horse stays dead and buried. Given that Xinuos isn't bankrupt, and some of the figures behind SCO and the original lawsuit were involved with them last I heard, I expect IBM's attorneys to make great white sharks look cute and cuddly by comparison.

Darl McBride used to refer to the "spiffy agent technology" that was going to find the allegedly infringing code, so that particular grift is nothing new.

Well, the command line running in Terminal.app in a GUI :D

Lets say it like this, shell scripts I do in vi on a terminal and not in an IDE.

Java or Dart or C++ I would never do in vi ...

Git I mostly use in the terminal, but a terminal inside of the IDE ...

For Python I use the Spyder IDE. Which also has a build in terminal.

TypeScript is compiled, to JavaScript, and JavaScript is most of the time JIT (just in time) compiled to machine code.

If you want to run your code on a virtual machine/framework like Node.js, you have to use a language/toolchain that runs on it. TypeScript is one of the first choices.

We already have it: web-assembly (wasm) and 100ds of languages that compile to it.

Are you suggesting that Shor's and Grover's are the only possible quantum algorithms? I'm not holding my breath for commercial QC either, but I don't like being overly pessimistic or conservative either. Quantum computers now are a bit like the early electronic computers of the 1940s — proofs of a concept but not exactly commercial success stories. Sure, with those computers people could do the same old calculations much faster, but the really interesting and useful applications involved a bit more vision, and those didn't appear overnight.

While many people associate QC with breaking cryptography, in the end it's just a faster way to do classical math. There's a whole world of pure quantum problems that are more naturally solved with quantum computers; this is what Feynman meant when he conceived the idea of QC in the early 1980s. So instead of getting hung up on the number of qubits, consider for example what D-Wave is doing.

No idea bout the numbers.
But being above the upper threshold does not mean earners do not pay taxes on that.
It only means the percentage does no longer increase.

Interesting link.

Unfortunately half of his talk about "agile" is completely wrong :D

The software I mostly was working on pretty clearly has dimensions and units attached to its numbers. Java meanwhile has standards for that. Did not exist in my time.

Did not find the Ada article yet, but looking forward for it.

We talked about "bitter" Southern states cornmeal, assuming it s flour made from maize.

What has Trump to do with that?

I gave some very good points:
a) the heart does not care when it is pierces if a a weapon is technically considered "less lethal"
b) a weapon that fires a salvo instead of a single shot - is technically "more lethal" than a hand gun

No idea what there is not to comprehend about that.

Learn to read.

DUMB ASS.

When I watched the most wasted time of my live movie - called transformers - I was certainly not 11.

How farking stupid are you?

And except for the few trailers, what would I "have heard about it"?

If I heard what a farking shit kids movie it is: I would not have watched it in a Cinema and paid $40 for it, dumbass.

Well, I do not think that body activity versus cancer is well understood.

I guess it gets pretty quickly very complex:
- office worker
- doing martial arts nearly every day
- does not smoke

versus
- body worker (construction side?)
- no sports, only ruins his body with hard work (should do some sports to learn the do's and don'ts in body mechanics)
- smoker

What are the parameters/variables here?
Most - if not all? - cancer comes from environmental influences. Bad food, bad air, simply: poison or viruses.

No idea what is "over hyped" in an cloud based office suit with an AI interface.

"""
Please sent an email to all my customers who where served in the last 14 month and paid a bill over $XYZ, inviting them to our online seminar on Google Meet in 15 days.
"""

Oh, it does not even contain the the text of the invitation ...

And how do you formulate that in SQL when all "customer informations" is only in "text documents" - aka the equivalent of MS Word documents in the google cloud?

When do you stupid AI haters wake up?

When you are laid off? Probably not even then.