And... if you can only lease the jig, you can't buy them a new one!
So the easiest answer is, once you get one, use it to duplicate itself, and then you've got a backup in case it breaks.
Point. So, make a backup and if the original gets lost/stolen/broken or they revoke your license for some other reason, you can return the copy to them.:-)
Except it isn't your jig, now is it? It's their jig that you just broke and you'll probably have to buy them a new one.
But how does this affect insurance? If it's their stuff and you only license it, they should cover the costs for keeping the jig insured against theft, right?
I've never seen that on shelves over here. Did they just re-label the Office 97 SR-1 or something? On http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/default.a sp, there's no mention of an Office 98, although the term pops up in a few patches and there seems to have been individual 98 versions of Outlook, FrontPage and Project... Maybe it got a dose of history revisionism and was vanished for some reason?
but for only a few dollars more you can get -far- more performance.
It's just few dollars here and a few dollars there and pretty soon, it's added up to Real Money (TM). While I agree with you in principle, we were talking real low cost here. Student loans, remember?
Several of the suggestions I made were coloured by my local market, I recently got hold of a 10-pack of Duron 1300s for under $30 a piece and 8 refurbed Epox mobos for $10. Same thing with old GeForce2 or 4MX cards - they're almost free. The ATI 9x-series I have seen so far have been almost twice the price and with a loud fan.
The Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 runs me just a shade over $10 USD, BTW. It's really good value for money. On the RAM, we're not going to leave Office running in the background while playing bf1942 anyway. If you want to use VMWare instead of multi-booting between Windows Fisher-Price and Gentoo, then yes, then you'll need to shell out for the 512MB.
The box I proposed comes out at around $200 in local, Swedish prices which tend to be higher than in the US. Student loan budget? Absolutely. High performance gaming rig? Not really. Good enough for most students? I think so. YMWV.
AMD Duron 1300 or slowest/cheapest Athlon you can find
Any cheap Socket-A mobo with AC97 sound and LAN onboard, like the ECS K7S6a or Epox KH8a+
A nice quiet harddrive - cue the Seagate 40GB Barracuda
Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 - large slow CPU fan that's almost totally silent
Any noname nvidia Geforce 4MX board with 64 megs. Most of them have passive cooling = no fan
256MB DDRAM
Use your old monitor or get a new 17" CRT, they'd be practically free if it weren't for shipping and handling.
Add a floppy, CD-ROM and some cables in a Q-Tec smileycase, a Trekker mouse and a noname keyboard and you have a complete, brand new machine for peanuts
This box runs CS perfectly and even bf1942 in a reasonable screensize. No weird drivers either which means very good Linux support. I have built maybe 20 of these for customers, both office and home use. It's dead quiet, too. It has just the one fan in the PSU and the ones Q-Tec use are reasonably silent.
And everything's upgradeable. Need more RAM? Just add some more when you have the money. Disk? Put it in. Faster graphics? Swap the old one out. Better sound? Get an SB Audigy 2 Player and disable the AC97.
How else would I know when to begin the rabid orgy of drinking, sex, and general debauchery?
Why wait? You already know you're going to die within the next 100 years. That's not too long for a rabid orgy, is it? Are you saying that you can't take more than 80 years of rabid orgy? 70, even? Pathetic.
In my own life, I find I often want to verify that the art supply expert is ensuring that the blue pigment will not turn green in sunlight and that he is not just insuring that I can get my money back if my painting ends up ruined.
But do you feel assured that this is the case? *ducks*
Since Merriam-Webster seems to back you up I'll concede the point and colour myself suitably embarassed (I have been taught to stress the differences between these words and I shall now be forced to hunt down and kill my olde English teacher).
Main Entry: insure Pronunciation: in-'shur Function: verb Inflected Form(s): insured; i·suring Etymology: Middle English, to assure, probably alteration of assuren Date: 1635 transitive senses 1 : to provide or obtain insurance on or for 2 : to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions intransitive senses : to contract to give or take insurance synonym see ENSURE
Main Entry: ensure Pronunciation: in-'shur Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): ensured; ensuring Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French enseurer, probably alteration of Old French aseurer -- more at ASSURE Date: circa 1704 : to make sure, certain, or safe : GUARANTEE synonyms ENSURE, INSURE, ASSURE, SECURE mean to make a thing or person sure. ENSURE, INSURE, and ASSURE are interchangeable in many contexts where they indicate the making certain or inevitable of an outcome, but INSURE sometimes stresses the taking of necessary measures beforehand, and ASSURE distinctively implies the removal of doubt and suspense from a person's mind. SECURE implies action taken to guard against attack or loss.
Oh, I agree. Dave did a fairly good job of the kernel, it's just that it's been given the classic Microsoft treatment for so long now, I don't think anything's left of the original design... They stuck a graphics layer in where it had no business being and it's been downhill all the way since. In some ways, NT 3.5 with the shell preview rocked. Then again, I may be just nostalgic...
I'm not entirely sure how Slashdot handles unicode postings
Not at all, apparently (imagine the trolldom it'd inspire):
XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location:/heyho.xml Line Number 2, Column 1:
www slashdot org ^
But I appreciate the effort.:-)
This all brings back memories from my TenFour days, working TFS Gateway support when we first introduced some semblance of Big5 and GB2312 support... At one point, I installed the Japanese version of Windows 3.11, just to see what it looked like. Fortunately, this was before Microsoft thought it'd be l33t to shuffle around menu items at random.
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Point. So, make a backup and if the original gets lost/stolen/broken or they revoke your license for some other reason, you can return the copy to them. :-)
He turned me into a pauper!
I got better.
I think that's the wrong analogy. If you rent a car, do you or Hertz buy the insurance for it?
Except it isn't your jig, now is it? It's their jig that you just broke and you'll probably have to buy them a new one.
But how does this affect insurance? If it's their stuff and you only license it, they should cover the costs for keeping the jig insured against theft, right?
I've never seen that on shelves over here. Did they just re-label the Office 97 SR-1 or something? On http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/default.a sp, there's no mention of an Office 98, although the term pops up in a few patches and there seems to have been individual 98 versions of Outlook, FrontPage and Project... Maybe it got a dose of history revisionism and was vanished for some reason?
Office 98, is that the Mac version or something? Windows' MS Office went from 97 to 2000...
You mean the "Exchange" mail client in Windows 95 that didn't work with... wait for it... Exchange?
It's just few dollars here and a few dollars there and pretty soon, it's added up to Real Money (TM). While I agree with you in principle, we were talking real low cost here. Student loans, remember?
Several of the suggestions I made were coloured by my local market, I recently got hold of a 10-pack of Duron 1300s for under $30 a piece and 8 refurbed Epox mobos for $10. Same thing with old GeForce2 or 4MX cards - they're almost free. The ATI 9x-series I have seen so far have been almost twice the price and with a loud fan.
The Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 runs me just a shade over $10 USD, BTW. It's really good value for money. On the RAM, we're not going to leave Office running in the background while playing bf1942 anyway. If you want to use VMWare instead of multi-booting between Windows Fisher-Price and Gentoo, then yes, then you'll need to shell out for the 512MB.
The box I proposed comes out at around $200 in local, Swedish prices which tend to be higher than in the US. Student loan budget? Absolutely. High performance gaming rig? Not really. Good enough for most students? I think so. YMWV.
AMD Duron 1300 or slowest/cheapest Athlon you can find
Any cheap Socket-A mobo with AC97 sound and LAN onboard, like the ECS K7S6a or Epox KH8a+
A nice quiet harddrive - cue the Seagate 40GB Barracuda
Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 - large slow CPU fan that's almost totally silent
Any noname nvidia Geforce 4MX board with 64 megs. Most of them have passive cooling = no fan
256MB DDRAM
Use your old monitor or get a new 17" CRT, they'd be practically free if it weren't for shipping and handling.
Add a floppy, CD-ROM and some cables in a Q-Tec smileycase, a Trekker mouse and a noname keyboard and you have a complete, brand new machine for peanuts
This box runs CS perfectly and even bf1942 in a reasonable screensize. No weird drivers either which means very good Linux support. I have built maybe 20 of these for customers, both office and home use. It's dead quiet, too. It has just the one fan in the PSU and the ones Q-Tec use are reasonably silent.
And everything's upgradeable. Need more RAM? Just add some more when you have the money. Disk? Put it in. Faster graphics? Swap the old one out. Better sound? Get an SB Audigy 2 Player and disable the AC97.
"-1 Unfunny" would be my guess. :-)
Linux?
Well, their safety record has certainly created jobs and market opportunities for numerous anti-virus and Internet security companies...
Mod Parent Up!
Why wait? You already know you're going to die within the next 100 years. That's not too long for a rabid orgy, is it? Are you saying that you can't take more than 80 years of rabid orgy? 70, even? Pathetic.
But do you feel assured that this is the case? *ducks*
And "insure" should be "ensure" unless you happen to work for Lloyd's. ;-)
Not really, but then again I only do it part-time, as a volounteer.
And electrical power from how many?
Oh, I agree. Dave did a fairly good job of the kernel, it's just that it's been given the classic Microsoft treatment for so long now, I don't think anything's left of the original design... They stuck a graphics layer in where it had no business being and it's been downhill all the way since. In some ways, NT 3.5 with the shell preview rocked. Then again, I may be just nostalgic...
Agreed. Unless it's the last breath, I'd really like to know about that one. And soon.
I consider organizing a good old-fashioned pitchfork-and-torches party, stay tuned for more information.
Not at all, apparently (imagine the trolldom it'd inspire):
But I appreciate the effort.This all brings back memories from my TenFour days, working TFS Gateway support when we first introduced some semblance of Big5 and GB2312 support... At one point, I installed the Japanese version of Windows 3.11, just to see what it looked like. Fortunately, this was before Microsoft thought it'd be l33t to shuffle around menu items at random.
Can anyone tell us what the Chinese symbols for "What not to do and how not to do it" are?