july 20th 2006, 14:04 - The city of Groningen wednesday agreed to a proposal to switch from Microsoft Office to the free OpenOffice suite.
by not renewing the current contract with Microsoft for the use of Office, the city safes 330.000 euro a year. This is based on licences for the 3650 PCs the city was using three years ago when the contract was signed.
Groningen wants to gradually move to open-sourcesoftware. The contract with Microsoft for the use of Windows will be renewed, because a switch to Linux would "not yet be opportune", according to the counsil.
The city of Groningen will use the money that was safed by not renewing the Office contract for the creation of a 'transition-team' that will concern itself with the transition to Openoffice.org and other open-sourcesoftware. Main task for this team is the preparation for a operating system independent workspace.
160.000 euro a year is freed for the transition, the other 170.000 euro the city saves yearly will be used to create a fund in case the city wishes to acquire the Microsoft licences after all.
Victory
According to Valentijn Sessink of Openoffice.nl, supplier of open-sourcesoftware, spending the money safed in the migration is important. "I feel the biggest victory is that the money that is safed will indeed be used to make the transition to open-sourcesoftware", says Sessink.
Sessink believes the renewal of the Windows-contract might not have been necessary. "Practically al ne PCs you buy have Windows pre-installed. Why would you pay so much money for a contract with Microsoft?"
"Prolonging a licenseagreement yields very little strategically. The treacherous part is that the "software-assurance" limits your freedom of choice of software to run on your PC" states Sessink to Webwereld.
also, the city of Groningen has a 5-year replacement cycle for is software, while Microsoft has a 3-year cycle for Office. This also makes the agreement inefficient.
The city of Groningen will still be able to use the current version of Office it is using, even after the contract ends. The contract with Microsoft, the software-assurance, added user support and the right to run new versions of Office. Ending the contract therefore has no influence on already purchased versions. The city of Groningen therefore has plenty of time to prepare for the switch to Openoffice.org.
So then I looked for evidence. We have a ton of anecdotes in which a mother knows when a child is in danger. However, we have zero anecdotes in which a father knows. This follows; the child spends 9 months in physical proximity to the mother, exchanging fluids; it's likely that entanglement is happening during that fluid exchange.
A friend of mine died in a motor crash e few weks ago. His son was at home on the couch, making motor sounds. Then he stopped and went silent. after some 15 minutes he started to repeat "Daddy? daddy no." An hour later they recieved the call from the authorities.
His father had crashed and died 15 minutes later. that was about an hour before the call.
This is not proof of telepathy. It is a story about a father and child though, even though the child knew, and not the father.
Thank you for being an accountant. accountants should be able te be nerds just like als those techies around here. Just like lawyers, managers and marketeers. I made you a friend instantly
Please tell me I'm right about this. Maybe then I will admit te be a marketeer myself...
Hauever, if Inglish woz tu bi chen'gd intu a fonetic len'gwich, it wood soon bikam eether simil'ar tu Dzhermun or Dutch in spelin'g were it origineited.
Probably similar to Frisian rather than Dutch. Frisian is related to English and completely un-understandable for a Dutchman
They were sweet! I played a game on ours that featured synthesised speech. True, only one 5-letter word (Weird, the name of the game) but still. To hear it you'd have to connect an external radio/amplifier, about the size of the TRS80 at the time...
However, if they changed their ways, some people would stop to consider them evil and do business with them. And since they would have changed their ways, that would be a Good Thing (tm). In your scenario, one of the reasons that would not happen is because they might be unaware of why you stopped doing business with them and what it would take to make things OK.
It all comes down to how much you care about the result. If a strangers views cause a problem for me, I may get angry but the best thing would be to just walk away. If my girlfriends (cue the jokes, no, i'm not a real geek, i just read this site anyway) views cause a problem for me, I will sit down to talk to her rather then just leave her.
whatever the speed, they sure won't beat the solar cars in australia, which didn't need a gallon of anything in the first place and raced a 3000km race at an average of 100 kph.
I think your attribution to Guus Hiddink (with double u) makes most sense. He did the same trick 4 years ago with soccer no-no South Korea (now quite succesfully coached by another renowned dutchman, Leo "the general" Beenhakker).
The South Koreans didn't have the software and had a major performance boost also. I'm not sure it has all the effect we want it to have.
Being a web-disadvantaged group is not all about having a connection, but about having the skills to use it.
I just returned from a conference on patient rights. A dutch committee headed by one of our capatains of (telecom) industry has produced a report saying that patients should be more empowered by letting them arrange stuff on the internet.
To bad your average patient is a 55+ female. give her a connection, and she won't use it, because she never learned how.
One organisation is providing some interactivity trough a TV set. That is working. Why? because chronic patients often can still watch TV while being uncapable of doing other things, and because they are black belts on the remote control.
The inteview I read said that the animation was already there, but wouldn't have made a very good movie. Maybe Dyer approached Don Bluth with the game idea and he then "recycled" the footage? I don't mean to imply that the game was planned by \Don Bluth, just that the drawings were already made before the thing turned into a game.
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july 20th 2006, 14:04 - The city of Groningen wednesday agreed to a proposal to switch from Microsoft Office to the free OpenOffice suite.
by not renewing the current contract with Microsoft for the use of Office, the city safes 330.000 euro a year. This is based on licences for the 3650 PCs the city was using three years ago when the contract was signed.
Groningen wants to gradually move to open-sourcesoftware. The contract with Microsoft for the use of Windows will be renewed, because a switch to Linux would "not yet be opportune", according to the counsil.
The city of Groningen will use the money that was safed by not renewing the Office contract for the creation of a 'transition-team' that will concern itself with the transition to Openoffice.org and other open-sourcesoftware. Main task for this team is the preparation for a operating system independent workspace.
160.000 euro a year is freed for the transition, the other 170.000 euro the city saves yearly will be used to create a fund in case the city wishes to acquire the Microsoft licences after all.
Victory
According to Valentijn Sessink of Openoffice.nl, supplier of open-sourcesoftware, spending the money safed in the migration is important. "I feel the biggest victory is that the money that is safed will indeed be used to make the transition to open-sourcesoftware", says Sessink.
Sessink believes the renewal of the Windows-contract might not have been necessary. "Practically al ne PCs you buy have Windows pre-installed. Why would you pay so much money for a contract with Microsoft?"
"Prolonging a licenseagreement yields very little strategically. The treacherous part is that the "software-assurance" limits your freedom of choice of software to run on your PC" states Sessink to Webwereld.
also, the city of Groningen has a 5-year replacement cycle for is software, while Microsoft has a 3-year cycle for Office. This also makes the agreement inefficient.
The city of Groningen will still be able to use the current version of Office it is using, even after the contract ends. The contract with Microsoft, the software-assurance, added user support and the right to run new versions of Office. Ending the contract therefore has no influence on already purchased versions. The city of Groningen therefore has plenty of time to prepare for the switch to Openoffice.org.
Ik snap tenminste nog wat je bedoelt zonder dat ik daar een vertaalding voor nodig heb. Kan jij hetzelfde zeggen?
wow, you actually did get to read the article.
/. effect must be diminishing and fading into the west...
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but is it still Februari where you are?
So then I looked for evidence. We have a ton of anecdotes in which a mother knows when a child is in danger. However, we have zero anecdotes in which a father knows. This follows; the child spends 9 months in physical proximity to the mother, exchanging fluids; it's likely that entanglement is happening during that fluid exchange.
A friend of mine died in a motor crash e few weks ago. His son was at home on the couch, making motor sounds. Then he stopped and went silent. after some 15 minutes he started to repeat "Daddy? daddy no." An hour later they recieved the call from the authorities.
His father had crashed and died 15 minutes later. that was about an hour before the call.
This is not proof of telepathy. It is a story about a father and child though, even though the child knew, and not the father.
)-; emit eht lla lanoitceridinu ton si emit ebyam
She is, but she definately is not new to harsh meassures, and neither is her office.
In the Netherlands, she was one of the politicians that actually got things done when she was in the government.
Not my political colours, but effective nontheless...
PS: no, this isn't a joke.
It still is Funny(+3)!
Thank you for being an accountant. accountants should be able te be nerds just like als those techies around here. Just like lawyers, managers and marketeers. I made you a friend instantly
Please tell me I'm right about this. Maybe then I will admit te be a marketeer myself...
You could. when Karma was still measured in points someone sold a UID with 50 (maximum) karma on Ebay.
Taco couldn't appreciate it though, the karma was set to countdown to 0 along with the ebay-timer
You were around, or did you just buy that low uid on Ebay?
Hauever, if Inglish woz tu bi chen'gd intu a fonetic len'gwich, it wood soon bikam eether simil'ar tu Dzhermun or Dutch in spelin'g were it origineited.
Probably similar to Frisian rather than Dutch. Frisian is related to English and completely un-understandable for a Dutchman
100% leaves more margin of error than 99.999%
Just thought I'd point that out.
Nothing to see, move along...
Why, is "though" so hard to spell? "Site" seems harder...
They were sweet! I played a game on ours that featured synthesised speech. True, only one 5-letter word (Weird, the name of the game) but still. To hear it you'd have to connect an external radio/amplifier, about the size of the TRS80 at the time...
Oh, the memories...
However, if they changed their ways, some people would stop to consider them evil and do business with them. And since they would have changed their ways, that would be a Good Thing (tm). In your scenario, one of the reasons that would not happen is because they might be unaware of why you stopped doing business with them and what it would take to make things OK.
It all comes down to how much you care about the result. If a strangers views cause a problem for me, I may get angry but the best thing would be to just walk away. If my girlfriends (cue the jokes, no, i'm not a real geek, i just read this site anyway) views cause a problem for me, I will sit down to talk to her rather then just leave her.
You are right, that is about as feasable as touring through europe form finland to greece and from bulgaria to portugal.
Then again, they did do that after the 2003 race, through cities and all, and not even in mid summer.
whatever the speed, they sure won't beat the solar cars in australia, which didn't need a gallon of anything in the first place and raced a 3000km race at an average of 100 kph.
www.solarchalenge.com, if memory serves.
Depends on how much money you lose if your web site is down becuase of lack af a serious professional solution, as you call it.
I think money is not the main issue here.
way before the 486:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100_lin
So true. Sorry :-) I guess for a dutchie, soccer is relatively unimportant to me, but compared to US standards, I am a huge fan.
some opther great coach will probably take over, ass happened with South Korea 4 years ago. they are in the world tournament now.
I think your attribution to Guus Hiddink (with double u) makes most sense. He did the same trick 4 years ago with soccer no-no South Korea (now quite succesfully coached by another renowned dutchman, Leo "the general" Beenhakker).
The South Koreans didn't have the software and had a major performance boost also. I'm not sure it has all the effect we want it to have.
Being a web-disadvantaged group is not all about having a connection, but about having the skills to use it.
I just returned from a conference on patient rights. A dutch committee headed by one of our capatains of (telecom) industry has produced a report saying that patients should be more empowered by letting them arrange stuff on the internet.
To bad your average patient is a 55+ female. give her a connection, and she won't use it, because she never learned how.
One organisation is providing some interactivity trough a TV set. That is working. Why? because chronic patients often can still watch TV while being uncapable of doing other things, and because they are black belts on the remote control.
The inteview I read said that the animation was already there, but wouldn't have made a very good movie. Maybe Dyer approached Don Bluth with the game idea and he then "recycled" the footage? I don't mean to imply that the game was planned by \Don Bluth, just that the drawings were already made before the thing turned into a game.
I rarely drink anything aside from water and white milk
College experience: You are right, DO NOT DRINK MILK OF ANY OTHER COLOR!!!!!
Believe me, the green milk is not a college memory you want to carry with you.