Microsoft uses the same reasoning (higher TOC) as a reason to move from whatever blend people use now to 100% Windows...
You are right, TOC is not important when your system would crash more often, as the cost of the data most likely several millions time more expensive than the transaction cost.
I've found that usually sales rep answer from the top of their heads. Probably back then Oracle didn't have a stated policy about Linux, so she said what made sense to her.
I agreed with you she might just speak what's appeared above her head.:)
However, having been working closely with sales rep of some large corps. I found that sales rep are the most informed persons in their company next to management(surprise!).
Most technical persons, on the other hand, are relatively uninformed because they are usually blindfold and locked in development lab for the rest of their life.:) I mean, they usually don't get the big picture of their company vision, and always thought that what they are doing is the most important thing on earth.:)
someone used her account information to send a $1,800 US-made night-vision scope with infrared capability to an address in the United Arab Emirates
Let me get this straight: this author use two unique instances to conclude that 1) piracy helps terrorists, and 2) Internet merchant helps terrorists.
This is incredibly idiotic, how could/. even repost such an article written by people as dumb as ox? I'm sure this guy has a collection of Dummy's books on his shelf.
To author:get a clue! The goods was NOT magically shipped to Middle East electronically, it's sending to a real address physically. The supplier must be well aware what goods is to be shipped to what destination. Just because the paymant is done on the Internet and he concluded that Internet merchant is to be blamed?
Also I'm not convinced that piracy helps terrorists in any way in this case. If the supplier shipped suspicious goods to problematic countries without question, then they should take full responsiblity.
We have enough news sites that crowded with editors who have subliminal intelligence and clue. I'm very annoyed that/. even post this article, making people thought/. is standing in ths same line with such news sites.
Now Oracle can learn from RedHat to build an unbreakable system, and Redhat can learn from Oracle to develop yearly/perpetual per-seat/per-processor licenses. They could get the best out of each other and form a business alliance that can rival the biggest monopolist in this area, Microsoft.
*take a depth breath* oh wait.....
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Years ago, before RedHat IPO, I asked an Oracle sales rep why wasn't there a version of Oracle for Linux. She replied if a company couldn't afford to pay for an OS they probably wouldn't be able to afford an Oracle license.
Now they plan to take on IBM with something they considered cheap? Amazing.:)
Nevertheless the author cheerfully reports that "87 per cent of Human Resource managers surveyed believed that MCSE's are equally or more successful than college graduates."
Right you are! Why waste money on those useless traditional education system, while we could save a lot of money just to get MCSE for kids!
Look at thesekids, see how much money their parents have saved and they can obtain an employment straight out of grade school!
No, there'll be UnitedLinux-Caldera, UnitedLinux-Conectiva, UnitedLinux-SuSE, and UnitedLinux-TurboLinux; each with per-seat, per-processor, per-user, and free-as-in-beer-but-only-come-with-source license.
Not in US, though, in an asian city where office space were expensive. They locked us up in a tight room where no. of 3270 terminals is much less than no. of interns, contracts and supplementary staffs(yes, they called us supplementary) in this room. If you were late and couldn't find a terminal then you must search thru the building for an unused one "there's always one out there" they said.
It worked as the PHBs expected - in the beginning. In order to fight for a terminal which had no blind spot on the green screen and keyboard with no defective keys we had come up with all the dirty tricks a human could imagine. Some people took the aggressive approach like splitting on the keyboards and claimed that they had got some incurable infectable disease, some took a rather defensive tactics like taking sleep beds to office and stayed in the room overnight just to get a working terminal until their projects done; some are very organizational who formed gangs to create their own 'district' where no others could cross the lines to approach their terminals.
We could tolerate this because we didn't have the concept of 'sweatshop' and we didn't usually sue our employers here, but I'm sure those PH-cluebies finally learnt when all the good people left.
I once ran the Linux version of Ultima Online(for some reason one of EA's developer port it to Linux, dunno why). It actually run faster and smoother than Windows' version, except for a mouse responsive problem, which i solved it.
I didn't make it up to attack Microsoft, but back in those days UO has some memory leak problems and when it crashed I usually found my online character death when I finished reboot my windows and log back in. When UO crashed in Linux I can always restarted immediately and save my character in time.
This is not really a Wine related issue but in my opinion is that running online games under Linux is very desirable. I'm going to give WineX a shot if it could run my online games like in Windows.
The XBox is just the first part of the plan. Live is the second. Next, media boxes with interactive television.
Interactive TV? Many US people do not know Microsoft has partner with a Hong Kong telco and lanched iTV years ago.
Facts: 1) Microsoft built the whole infrastructure 2) they've already spent the amount of money they expected to profit in next ten years (~US$0.2 billions) 3) they lose money for every new client, because they give out ATM+Cabling in low price(just like XBox) 4) they are still losing money
Personally I think Register is being too surjective in judging XBox Live, but I won't have much confidence in Microsoft when it comes to interactive TV. I installed it before but it's too slow(although ATM), UI too clumsy and above all - it crashed too often!:(
Yes my friends are facing the similar challenge, that kids are smarter with computers than oldies. When you see it as challenge it wouldn't be problem at all.
First for normal tutorial session the Linux boxes, each shared by 3 kids, are connected to a main server which has nothing but the course materials and the server will be reloaded periodically that minimze the impact of being hacked. Actually they are encourage to do whatever they can do, and demonstrate the most creative things they could do to score extra marks.
For some tutorials which needs to have access to internet, we will install Debian which has decent default security level, and only give kids web-proxy to outside. Yes we know there are a couple of them who built private tunnels via web-proxy to play Quake, but we don't stop them - smart kids deserve privileges.:)
For those fewer boxes which are needed full Internet access, we build a rbash system for it.
because it's not really said by Voltaire. I put his name regardlessly but I got bashed, so I took it out. I don't have the link for this piece of information for the moment, but you can do a google search for it. You'll be amazed how many words has been put on Voltaire's mouth by someone else.:)
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I'm not the original poster, but imho firing a system admin is very difficult, and sometime dangerous. Do you have any experience in doing this?
Microsoft uses the same reasoning (higher TOC) as a reason to move from whatever blend people use now to 100% Windows...
You are right, TOC is not important when your system would crash more often, as the cost of the data most likely several millions time more expensive than the transaction cost.
I've found that usually sales rep answer from the top of their heads. Probably back then Oracle didn't have a stated policy about Linux, so she said what made sense to her.
:)
:) I mean, they usually don't get the big picture of their company vision, and always thought that what they are doing is the most important thing on earth. :)
I agreed with you she might just speak what's appeared above her head.
However, having been working closely with sales rep of some large corps. I found that sales rep are the most informed persons in their company next to management(surprise!).
Most technical persons, on the other hand, are relatively uninformed because they are usually blindfold and locked in development lab for the rest of their life.
someone used her account information to send a $1,800 US-made night-vision scope with infrared capability to an address in the United Arab Emirates
/. even repost such an article written by people as dumb as ox? I'm sure this guy has a collection of Dummy's books on his shelf.
/. even post this article, making people thought /. is standing in ths same line with such news sites.
Let me get this straight: this author use two unique instances to conclude that 1) piracy helps terrorists, and 2) Internet merchant helps terrorists.
This is incredibly idiotic, how could
To author:get a clue! The goods was NOT magically shipped to Middle East electronically, it's sending to a real address physically. The supplier must be well aware what goods is to be shipped to what destination. Just because the paymant is done on the Internet and he concluded that Internet merchant is to be blamed?
Also I'm not convinced that piracy helps terrorists in any way in this case. If the supplier shipped suspicious goods to problematic countries without question, then they should take full responsiblity.
We have enough news sites that crowded with editors who have subliminal intelligence and clue. I'm very annoyed that
Acer, China Airlines and Microsoft to make an Uncrashable Windows?
Now Oracle can learn from RedHat to build an unbreakable system, and Redhat can learn from Oracle to develop yearly/perpetual per-seat/per-processor licenses. They could get the best out of each other and form a business alliance that can rival the biggest monopolist in this area, Microsoft.
*take a depth breath* oh wait.....
Years ago, before RedHat IPO, I asked an Oracle sales rep why wasn't there a version of Oracle for Linux. She replied if a company couldn't afford to pay for an OS they probably wouldn't be able to afford an Oracle license.
:)
Now they plan to take on IBM with something they considered cheap? Amazing.
My question is, do we really want the dummies to reproduce?? (Not that most seem to need a manual, but..)
:D
but they don't read, even they bought lots of books?
I don't know why, but the title itself laugh my shit out. XD
The Dummy's Guide to Sex
Isn't it dangerous to read this book before ever read the pre-requisite one 'The Dummy's Guide to recognize opposite sex and your sexuality'?
would have cover like that
:)
WOooO I wanna read it!
Nevertheless the author cheerfully reports that "87 per cent of Human Resource managers surveyed believed that MCSE's are equally or more successful than college graduates."
Right you are! Why waste money on those useless traditional education system, while we could save a lot of money just to get MCSE for kids!
Look at these kids, see how much money their parents have saved and they can obtain an employment straight out of grade school!
Seems that UnitedLinux is already divided.
No, there'll be UnitedLinux-Caldera, UnitedLinux-Conectiva, UnitedLinux-SuSE, and UnitedLinux-TurboLinux; each with per-seat, per-processor, per-user, and free-as-in-beer-but-only-come-with-source license.
Can I lie to my bank or the taxman and pay no penalty if I promise (when caught) not to do it again in future? Pleeeeeeeeease???? Just this once!!!!!!
Not before you sign this agreement like little Bill did.
(OK, I'm just KIDDING, don't click I AGREE before you really read the content for GOD's Sake)
Not in US, though, in an asian city where office space were expensive. They locked us up in a tight room where no. of 3270 terminals is much less than no. of interns, contracts and supplementary staffs(yes, they called us supplementary) in this room. If you were late and couldn't find a terminal then you must search thru the building for an unused one "there's always one out there" they said.
:)
It worked as the PHBs expected - in the beginning. In order to fight for a terminal which had no blind spot on the green screen and keyboard with no defective keys we had come up with all the dirty tricks a human could imagine. Some people took the aggressive approach like splitting on the keyboards and claimed that they had got some incurable infectable disease, some took a rather defensive tactics like taking sleep beds to office and stayed in the room overnight just to get a working terminal until their projects done; some are very organizational who formed gangs to create their own 'district' where no others could cross the lines to approach their terminals.
We could tolerate this because we didn't have the concept of 'sweatshop' and we didn't usually sue our employers here, but I'm sure those PH-cluebies finally learnt when all the good people left.
Finally Sun is catching up with this.
having sex with 4 condoms on
Having more than 1 condoms is always worse than one due to fictions.
I once ran the Linux version of Ultima Online(for some reason one of EA's developer port it to Linux, dunno why). It actually run faster and smoother than Windows' version, except for a mouse responsive problem, which i solved it.
I didn't make it up to attack Microsoft, but back in those days UO has some memory leak problems and when it crashed I usually found my online character death when I finished reboot my windows and log back in. When UO crashed in Linux I can always restarted immediately and save my character in time.
This is not really a Wine related issue but in my opinion is that running online games under Linux is very desirable. I'm going to give WineX a shot if it could run my online games like in Windows.
Sony P800
unfortunately you can't bid with 'free' (I work for government)
if we don't stop you'll post it again next week?...
oh wait, none of it shows that at all, you're a fucking retard.
I just responded to Quigley's quote, while you attempted to insult me by insulting the death. Who is fucking retard?
The XBox is just the first part of the plan. Live is the second. Next, media boxes with interactive television.
:(
Interactive TV? Many US people do not know Microsoft has partner with a Hong Kong telco and lanched iTV years ago.
Facts:
1) Microsoft built the whole infrastructure
2) they've already spent the amount of money they expected to profit in next ten years (~US$0.2 billions)
3) they lose money for every new client, because they give out ATM+Cabling in low price(just like XBox)
4) they are still losing money
Personally I think Register is being too surjective in judging XBox Live, but I won't have much confidence in Microsoft when it comes to interactive TV. I installed it before but it's too slow(although ATM), UI too clumsy and above all - it crashed too often!
Yes my friends are facing the similar challenge, that kids are smarter with computers than oldies. When you see it as challenge it wouldn't be problem at all.
:)
First for normal tutorial session the Linux boxes, each shared by 3 kids, are connected to a main server which has nothing but the course materials and the server will be reloaded periodically that minimze the impact of being hacked. Actually they are encourage to do whatever they can do, and demonstrate the most creative things they could do to score extra marks.
For some tutorials which needs to have access to internet, we will install Debian which has decent default security level, and only give kids web-proxy to outside. Yes we know there are a couple of them who built private tunnels via web-proxy to play Quake, but we don't stop them - smart kids deserve privileges.
For those fewer boxes which are needed full Internet access, we build a rbash system for it.
Like vendors revealing to public the secret keys to bring up secret characters in games in a hope to boost sales. What we'd see in Aibo's spec:
Tip its left ears, clap left left right right up up up up down up down down down - THERE YOU GET A SUPER-AIBO WITH A STRANGE SYMBOL ON ITS BACK!!!!
because it's not really said by Voltaire. I put his name regardlessly but I got bashed, so I took it out. I don't have the link for this piece of information for the moment, but you can do a google search for it. You'll be amazed how many words has been put on Voltaire's mouth by someone else. :)