Plus such a law will actually act as a deterrent. Upper management won't want to go to jail, Middle management and lower level employees won't want to lose their jobs, and investors will not invest in a company that potentially engages in criminal activity. It's in everyone's best interest to keep the company on the straight and narrow.
If only corporations don't have so much power now...
They are basically stabbing IBM in the back, and that seemingly for no apparent reason, except for the fact they want to hurt IBM's adoption of linux.
MS is not stabbing IBM in the back. IBM is not the target here, Linux is. They're trying to hurt the market's adoption of linux.
No, I don't think IBM's size is a deterrent to MS at all. Remember Windows vs. OS/2? Bill probably sees himself in a nimble pirate ship running circles around a big, lumbering Spanish galleon.
Wow! This is such a weird story! Totally against what I experienced.
I'm no linux admin but I had to configure DHCP on linux (among other things) for my very small office because no-one else could.
I don't have a stopwatch, but using the documentation, I set it all up in what must have been less than 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I actually RTFM.
It's true I figured it out faster with Windows and I didn't have to read any documentation, but our office got really fed-up with the instability. Monthly crashes were the norm. I set up our little linux server 14 months ago, and rebooted only once, in January, because I installed a new hard disk.
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Yeah well, still doesn't guarantee a clean reboot though.
My Win2k recently couldn't boot up because it couldn't find C:\WINNT after a power cut. Luckily I had Linux installed in a dual-boot, used that to rescue my files.
Well, at the very least, they should give us the source code for when the product expires. It's out of date right?
Their customers are companies, after all. You can't expect them to pay exorbitant licensing fees or force upgrades for an indefinite amount of time. They would go bankrupt!
When you use front wheel drive, you are prone to all kinds of handling problems when you try to apply power while in a corner.
Just wanna expand on this a little. Front wheel drive cars do have a tendency to understeer when accelerating out of a corner. It's only a tendency though, you can adjust the handling characteristics by playing with the front/rear brake balance, the front/rear spring rates and damper settings, using a stabilizer bar in the rear, etc.
There are some exceptions to this,some Japanese cars, e.g. Honda Integra (Accura?) type-R was FF (Front engined, front-wheel drive) but was very forgiving and responsive. Need some oversteer? Lift off the throttle. Need understeer? Put your foot down. The over/understeer was gradual too, giving you time to do your adjustment. Lots of fun!
Rear wheel drive cars can have very bad handling too. They do have a tendency to oversteer. Try driving a Lotus Elise and put your foot down in mid-corner. Your tail will slide out, especially in the wet. Sometimes, it'll oversteer when you brake. Depending on the car, you might never recover from a tailslide. Think old Porsche 911's.
Bottom line, it depends on driver skill and driving style, also the engineering that goes into a car, regardless of which wheels are driven. The one thing that a front-wheel drive car will ALWAYS lose out to a rear-wheel drive car is in acceleration, and that's why I feel there are no front-wheel drive racing cars-with some exceptions (as always!) - check out the grid for the British Touring Car Championship - one of the most popular sportscar racing series in the world.
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Plus such a law will actually act as a deterrent. Upper management won't want to go to jail, Middle management and lower level employees won't want to lose their jobs, and investors will not invest in a company that potentially engages in criminal activity. It's in everyone's best interest to keep the company on the straight and narrow.
If only corporations don't have so much power now...
They are basically stabbing IBM in the back, and that seemingly for no apparent reason, except for the fact they want to hurt IBM's adoption of linux.
MS is not stabbing IBM in the back. IBM is not the target here, Linux is. They're trying to hurt the market's adoption of linux.
No, I don't think IBM's size is a deterrent to MS at all. Remember Windows vs. OS/2? Bill probably sees himself in a nimble pirate ship running circles around a big, lumbering Spanish galleon.
Wow! This is such a weird story! Totally against what I experienced.
I'm no linux admin but I had to configure DHCP on linux (among other things) for my very small office because no-one else could.
I don't have a stopwatch, but using the documentation, I set it all up in what must have been less than 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I actually RTFM.
It's true I figured it out faster with Windows and I didn't have to read any documentation, but our office got really fed-up with the instability. Monthly crashes were the norm. I set up our little linux server 14 months ago, and rebooted only once, in January, because I installed a new hard disk.
Yeah well, still doesn't guarantee a clean reboot though.
My Win2k recently couldn't boot up because it couldn't find C:\WINNT after a power cut. Luckily I had Linux installed in a dual-boot, used that to rescue my files.
Well, at the very least, they should give us the source code for when the product expires. It's out of date right?
Their customers are companies, after all. You can't expect them to pay exorbitant licensing fees or force upgrades for an indefinite amount of time. They would go bankrupt!
Just wanna expand on this a little. Front wheel drive cars do have a tendency to understeer when accelerating out of a corner. It's only a tendency though, you can adjust the handling characteristics by playing with the front/rear brake balance, the front/rear spring rates and damper settings, using a stabilizer bar in the rear, etc.
There are some exceptions to this ,some Japanese cars, e.g. Honda Integra (Accura?) type-R was FF (Front engined, front-wheel drive) but was very forgiving and responsive. Need some oversteer? Lift off the throttle. Need understeer? Put your foot down. The over/understeer was gradual too, giving you time to do your adjustment. Lots of fun!
Rear wheel drive cars can have very bad handling too. They do have a tendency to oversteer. Try driving a Lotus Elise and put your foot down in mid-corner. Your tail will slide out, especially in the wet. Sometimes, it'll oversteer when you brake. Depending on the car, you might never recover from a tailslide. Think old Porsche 911's.
Bottom line, it depends on driver skill and driving style, also the engineering that goes into a car, regardless of which wheels are driven. The one thing that a front-wheel drive car will ALWAYS lose out to a rear-wheel drive car is in acceleration, and that's why I feel there are no front-wheel drive racing cars-with some exceptions (as always!) - check out the grid for the British Touring Car Championship - one of the most popular sportscar racing series in the world.
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Man, I jumped so high when the Ur-Quan music blasted out from my speakers I swear I must've grown at least 6 inches that day!