But it would probably be cheaper to get an OEM licence from somewhere and run it in a VM on Home Premium than it would be to buy Vista Pro or Vista Ultimate.
Perhaps you should try reading what the News Corp asshats have been up to. Hacking the Queen's voicemail was pretty tame compared to all the other stuff. Plus the Queen didn't lead us into an illegal war with lies about WMDs that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. If someone hacked into Bush's voicemail and found incriminating evidence about that then I'm not quite sure what would be more in the public interest to be honest.
How was it a pathetic attempt to justify terrorism? It was about a rebellion against an oppressive state and quite often people die in these kind of things. See the American Revolution for a real world example.
You really have no idea do you? Plenty of private sector projects fail too after many years of incompetence and it may shock you to know but governments hold companies to contracts, have clauses about non-delivery, incentives for early completion that sort of thing. Come back when you've actually worked somewhere large rather than talking utter bollocks.
Exporting the data isn't the issue. The issue is going through the codebase and altering all the MySql specific code and then making sure it all works.
It doesn't happen in the competitive private sector.
Yes it does. You just don't get to hear about it either because it's confidential or because private sector waste isn't a good story.
People do a project because it makes/saves money, and then make it work.
I have worked on many projects in the private sector and heard about plenty more where the IT director has believed what a salesman told them and ended up with an absolute disaster. What you say might be true for SMBs but big organisations are not too different to the public sector.
I've worked for both the UK government and the private sector and the failure of large IT projects has one thing in common. Shite external contractors who promise the earth without knowing the first thing about what's actually required. It would be far better to have people who know the area doing the work, but for some reason senior managers all seem to believe their staff are less competent than any of the external companies who all have a well-documented record of uselessness. Private Eye should be required reading for all senior executives and senior civil servants, so that they can't claim ignorance when someone like Capita lets them down.
BT's estimate will be similar to all other private companies' estimates for government work. Accurate if they were competent to do the job properly. However it will cost at least twice as much and take at least 10 years to get working properly.
Ask the people of Liverpool where a tragedy where nearly 100 people died was used as the backdrop for some horrendous lies about the people there trying to rescue the injured and dying. There are so many other examples of low ethical standards from this rag and its stablemate the News of the World that it really doesn't take too much digging to find plenty of examples. I have never watched Fox News but if its journalists are of the same ilk as those on the Sun and the News of the World then I'm not surprised that they are widely despised.
That sounds reasonable. The government will be instead be presenting you with a bill for all the services you use which you will be able to pay with your own damned money. I often wonder about libertarians. Do you go to a restaurant and refuse to pay because you don't like the wallpaper?
Who is this 50%? The low-paid, the unemployed and prisoners? The solution to the first is to pay more, the second is similarly to make it more worthwhile to get a job and the third is similarly to make it more worthwhile to have a job than to be a criminal. These are not easy solutions but I'm not sure what else would get these people paying taxes rather than being a burden on the state. Shipping jobs to the Far East may give their citizens an economic boost but there is a downside which is largely ignored or sneered at.
No they weren't I had to pay a fairly significant percentage of my income for them. Everyone takes things like roads, street lighting and not being invaded by foreign armies for granted. Doesn't mean they magically pay for themselves.
Because liberals realise that the things we take for granted have to be paid for by someone. They also realise that Amazon affiliates have a state-granted advantage over local brick and mortar businesses and has decided to remove that advantage. What is it with righties and their belief that they shouldn't have to pay anything towards the wonderful developed world lifestyle they enjoy?
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You have to install an app to save things to your iPad? Wow I must get me one of those [/sarcasm]
There's a lot of BS in Computer Science already we don't need any more.
Make sure you have a few VM images created before 2014.
But it would probably be cheaper to get an OEM licence from somewhere and run it in a VM on Home Premium than it would be to buy Vista Pro or Vista Ultimate.
Perhaps you should try reading what the News Corp asshats have been up to. Hacking the Queen's voicemail was pretty tame compared to all the other stuff. Plus the Queen didn't lead us into an illegal war with lies about WMDs that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. If someone hacked into Bush's voicemail and found incriminating evidence about that then I'm not quite sure what would be more in the public interest to be honest.
That's why people are still dying in of cholera and typhoid in filthy slums in the US and Europe isn't it.
How was it a pathetic attempt to justify terrorism? It was about a rebellion against an oppressive state and quite often people die in these kind of things. See the American Revolution for a real world example.
That's because they have God on their side.
Yeh this is all theoretical but the GP is over simplifying.
You really have no idea do you? Plenty of private sector projects fail too after many years of incompetence and it may shock you to know but governments hold companies to contracts, have clauses about non-delivery, incentives for early completion that sort of thing. Come back when you've actually worked somewhere large rather than talking utter bollocks.
Exporting the data isn't the issue. The issue is going through the codebase and altering all the MySql specific code and then making sure it all works.
No but there will be plenty of vendors promising such a thing.
You have no idea what it's like under the hood so 'just' plugging in a compatibility layer may be a real headache.
Gasp it's written in something that has a proven track record of working and being scalable. For fuck's sake rewrite it in Ruby on Rails immediately!
Or a big bank, or a big insurance company, or a big oil company.
Yes it does. You just don't get to hear about it either because it's confidential or because private sector waste isn't a good story.
I have worked on many projects in the private sector and heard about plenty more where the IT director has believed what a salesman told them and ended up with an absolute disaster. What you say might be true for SMBs but big organisations are not too different to the public sector.
I've worked for both the UK government and the private sector and the failure of large IT projects has one thing in common. Shite external contractors who promise the earth without knowing the first thing about what's actually required. It would be far better to have people who know the area doing the work, but for some reason senior managers all seem to believe their staff are less competent than any of the external companies who all have a well-documented record of uselessness. Private Eye should be required reading for all senior executives and senior civil servants, so that they can't claim ignorance when someone like Capita lets them down.
BT's estimate will be similar to all other private companies' estimates for government work. Accurate if they were competent to do the job properly. However it will cost at least twice as much and take at least 10 years to get working properly.
This is not the only criminal offence, just the worst (so far)
Ask the people of Liverpool where a tragedy where nearly 100 people died was used as the backdrop for some horrendous lies about the people there trying to rescue the injured and dying. There are so many other examples of low ethical standards from this rag and its stablemate the News of the World that it really doesn't take too much digging to find plenty of examples. I have never watched Fox News but if its journalists are of the same ilk as those on the Sun and the News of the World then I'm not surprised that they are widely despised.
Your southern border is several thousand miles across the Atlantic, so no.
That sounds reasonable. The government will be instead be presenting you with a bill for all the services you use which you will be able to pay with your own damned money. I often wonder about libertarians. Do you go to a restaurant and refuse to pay because you don't like the wallpaper?
Who is this 50%? The low-paid, the unemployed and prisoners? The solution to the first is to pay more, the second is similarly to make it more worthwhile to get a job and the third is similarly to make it more worthwhile to have a job than to be a criminal. These are not easy solutions but I'm not sure what else would get these people paying taxes rather than being a burden on the state. Shipping jobs to the Far East may give their citizens an economic boost but there is a downside which is largely ignored or sneered at.
No they weren't I had to pay a fairly significant percentage of my income for them. Everyone takes things like roads, street lighting and not being invaded by foreign armies for granted. Doesn't mean they magically pay for themselves.
Because liberals realise that the things we take for granted have to be paid for by someone. They also realise that Amazon affiliates have a state-granted advantage over local brick and mortar businesses and has decided to remove that advantage. What is it with righties and their belief that they shouldn't have to pay anything towards the wonderful developed world lifestyle they enjoy?