Couldn't agree more. We've had plenty of conversations like this:
Customer: Joe Bloggs says his company can do it for (stupidamounts) in (notime)
Us: OK, we've got no problem being competitive. Can we just check that their system is being designed to the following standards ?
Customer: They didn't mention it, but I'm sure it must be included.
Us: I see, and is our support agreement in line with what they are offering?
Customer: * Thumbs their document * - Don't see anything about support. But they're cheaper - You must be trying to have us over!
Us:...
...and yes, I've been accused directly of trying to "Have one over" on a customer because our prices were higher than someone else. In those circumstances it's better just to walk away as you're never likely to have a successful relationship on your hands.:) It's the age old story for the customer, pay peanuts - get monkeys.
Dignity and (more importantly) a connection sniffing work weasel prevents me! Yet I still can't stop my mind being drawn to thoughts of Billie Piper and Terry Farrell. What a partnership that would make.:)
I think the UK version is better... mainly because you get to see those comedy robots getting absolutely torn to shreds by the nastier bots (Especially the house robots).
True enough... but it's not going to stop the bulk of slashdot viewers killing the main site. These cache links need to be put automatically into the submitted stories.
I think it's about time that slashdot AUTOMATICALLY posted mirrors for the static pages they link to. Either that or stop posting links to crappy little servers that can't handle the traffic!
...buying up everything with the word milka in it I think. I'm tempted to buy milka.ws on principle and give it to her. Anyone speak any French and want to sort it out?:)
But how do we as IT people explain the general public this would be a disaster to European economy? What could start some emotion going for this issue?
That should be easy. Inform the European public that the companies that will end up owning all of these patents and stifling future development will be American. It sounds like a troll, but if you want to mobilise the European public; telling them that the US is coming to patent everything under the sun will probably assist your cause.:)
Very quick response, I'm a techy at a small ISP that provides managed hosting services. I just had a quick look over the stats for some of the larger sites we manage (Using awstats) and unfortunately Firefox / Mozilla / Netscape doesn't have more than 6.5% on any of them.
I think Firefox is great, but it has a long way to go in terms of marketing before it can hope to attain anywhere near 20% market share.
Thankfully though, gun crime and murder in the UK is pretty low. I'd actually like to see a comparison of the type of crimes and the percentages per head of population (Across many countries). Violent crimes like muggings are pretty high in the UK, car crime too - but they aren't exactly the sort of crime that having a gun (Unless you are carrying it with you) is going to help against.
Oh come on! If you invaded the Swiss, who would you have to hold all your plundered gold!;) Besides that, there are actually a number of European countries that haven't lost a war or been succesfully invaded.
Well... unless you go back to the days of the Roman empire that is.
Thanks for a reasonable reply (I seem to have attracted a fair few flames which I'll ignore 'cos they aren't worth my time). It really, really wasn't a troll!
Anyway, I was mainly responding to the original posters statement of needing a gun for protection. I am aware of the constitutional rights in the US and actually have no problem with guns whatsoever (In the right hands). Of course, I don't actually agree that they are much good against a corrupt government, cos let's face it, the corrupt governments have been getting away with it for years already! I also wouldn't be too sure that a couple of people with small arms would do much good against the tanks, planes and nukes of the US army, but that's another story.
Back to the point, I think overall that I think it's really quite unfortunate that some people feel so under threat that having a gun is an absolute necessity. To answer the flamers, yes, I'm european, I have been a victim of violent crime (Hospitalised twice) and no, I wouldn't own a gun if I had the option to.
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Couldn't agree more. We've had plenty of conversations like this:
...
...and yes, I've been accused directly of trying to "Have one over" on a customer because our prices were higher than someone else. In those circumstances it's better just to walk away as you're never likely to have a successful relationship on your hands. :) It's the age old story for the customer, pay peanuts - get monkeys.
Customer: Joe Bloggs says his company can do it for (stupidamounts) in (notime)
Us: OK, we've got no problem being competitive. Can we just check that their system is being designed to the following standards ?
Customer: They didn't mention it, but I'm sure it must be included.
Us: I see, and is our support agreement in line with what they are offering?
Customer: * Thumbs their document * - Don't see anything about support. But they're cheaper - You must be trying to have us over!
Us:
:p
:)
Dignity and (more importantly) a connection sniffing work weasel prevents me! Yet I still can't stop my mind being drawn to thoughts of Billie Piper and Terry Farrell. What a partnership that would make.
Where does Curzon Dax fit in that list?
:)
I have a number of suggestions, but none of them fit to print!
Agreed... take a look at his filmography ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001772/ ).
:)
Classically trained too you know, a Thespian.
IIS 6.0 is pretty secure out of the box.
Also, I'd be interested in seeing a vulnerability comparison between that and Apache over the last 12 months or so.
I think the UK version is better... mainly because you get to see those comedy robots getting absolutely torn to shreds by the nastier bots (Especially the house robots).
The US version is WAY too serious.
True enough... but it's not going to stop the bulk of slashdot viewers killing the main site. These cache links need to be put automatically into the submitted stories.
Where's my flaming server icon?
I think it's about time that slashdot AUTOMATICALLY posted mirrors for the static pages they link to. Either that or stop posting links to crappy little servers that can't handle the traffic!
UK - Pound Sterling, monetary value equivalent to 1.90 US Dollars... Not lb, poor cousin of base 10 weight systems.
:)
But yeah, a lb of marbles would do nicely!
...buying up everything with the word milka in it I think. I'm tempted to buy milka.ws on principle and give it to her. Anyone speak any French and want to sort it out? :)
But how do we as IT people explain the general public this would be a disaster to European economy? What could start some emotion going for this issue?
:)
That should be easy. Inform the European public that the companies that will end up owning all of these patents and stifling future development will be American. It sounds like a troll, but if you want to mobilise the European public; telling them that the US is coming to patent everything under the sun will probably assist your cause.
Don't get me started on what it does to your doctype and meta tags either.... :(
Only because they stole it from Sybase in a typical M$ move.
:)
I can't argue with that.
I don't really think calling SQL server "half-arsed" is that insightful. It's one of the only truly decent applications that MS has ever released.
You've got it all wrong. The problem arises when you ask a Welsh person "So where in England is Wales?". I've had it done to me. :(
Don't mind being called British so much, but being called English is another story entirely.
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That's easy, it works in exactly the same way as in the Roman Empire. That is - Unless you're rich you have to pay! :)
Get the two of them together and we'll see if we can come to some sort of a deal! :)
AMD 65, because 64 bit was so 2004.
Very quick response, I'm a techy at a small ISP that provides managed hosting services. I just had a quick look over the stats for some of the larger sites we manage (Using awstats) and unfortunately Firefox / Mozilla / Netscape doesn't have more than 6.5% on any of them.
I think Firefox is great, but it has a long way to go in terms of marketing before it can hope to attain anywhere near 20% market share.
For the humour impaired... that was a joke. * sigh *
Those fools!
Didn't they see the option in the BIOS clearly marked as "Restart after power failure"? You just can't get the staff these days! * rolls eyes *
Thankfully though, gun crime and murder in the UK is pretty low. I'd actually like to see a comparison of the type of crimes and the percentages per head of population (Across many countries). Violent crimes like muggings are pretty high in the UK, car crime too - but they aren't exactly the sort of crime that having a gun (Unless you are carrying it with you) is going to help against.
Oh come on! If you invaded the Swiss, who would you have to hold all your plundered gold! ;)
Besides that, there are actually a number of European countries that haven't lost a war or been succesfully invaded.
Well... unless you go back to the days of the Roman empire that is.
Thanks for a reasonable reply (I seem to have attracted a fair few flames which I'll ignore 'cos they aren't worth my time). It really, really wasn't a troll!
Anyway, I was mainly responding to the original posters statement of needing a gun for protection. I am aware of the constitutional rights in the US and actually have no problem with guns whatsoever (In the right hands). Of course, I don't actually agree that they are much good against a corrupt government, cos let's face it, the corrupt governments have been getting away with it for years already! I also wouldn't be too sure that a couple of people with small arms would do much good against the tanks, planes and nukes of the US army, but that's another story.
Back to the point, I think overall that I think it's really quite unfortunate that some people feel so under threat that having a gun is an absolute necessity. To answer the flamers, yes, I'm european, I have been a victim of violent crime (Hospitalised twice) and no, I wouldn't own a gun if I had the option to.