I have the impression that the BSA is in itself only costing money for the cooperations who make use of it. But I guess the feeling of making your costumers shit in their pants every time they buy your software is priceless.
Don't forget the extra revenue generated when your customers over-buy licenses out of fear of a BSA audit. Or the licenses they have to buy after "failing" an audit (which will probably be an over-buy).
Even if it does work out as a net loss for the BSA's members, it's a small price to pay to get all that extra revenue & claiming how many seats you have installed for a particular package.
I got a few spams on my phone (Verizon) a few years ago. Verizon's only attempt to help me was to offer to disable SMS on my account completely - not implement whitelist (which would be ideal). They didn't even offer to refund the message charges (10 cents each at the time).
In the past 5 days I've gotten 3 of them, at 15 cents each. And the rate will be going up to 20 cents each in a few weeks, I'm told. I rarely use SMS, so there's no point to paying $5 per line to get "unlimited" SMS, but do not relish the thought of having to cut it off completely just so I don't have to pay for spam.
The difference between the CoS and almost all other cults is that the other cults fade away when their leader dies. CoS is only getting stronger.
I heard the great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard on the radio last week, speaking out against the CoS. Scarier/freakier stuff than anything I'd previously heard.
And Lynx doesn't even try to lay the page out as the CSS demands.
"Demands"? The browser isn't required to obey the CSS at all. You can suggest lots of things in a CSS file, but my browser settings can override them all day long - colors, font sizes, font faces, etc.
Now, Microsoft is making this problem irrelevant, since their own software doesn't follow Windows guidelines anymore
MS has been doing this for years. Either Office 95 or Office 97 (and later versions) skipped the standard file dialog boxes (open, save, etc.) and implemented its own version of it.
They lowered the thermostats to 68 degrees during the winter to save energy, as requested, and then several weeks later they discovered that the air conditioning system had come on automatically to get the building down to 68 degrees.
Will these proposed new radio-controlled thermostats be designed well enough to avoid those kinds of mistakes?
My fairly basic programmable thermostat can avoid this mistake. It has a "heat/off/cool" switch on it. If the thermostat is set for 78 degrees and the switch is set to "cool", it won't turn the heat up to get the house up to 78 degrees if it's 70.
This could be made even more sophisticated with these radio-controlled thermostats. If the temperature at the base station is warm, set the thermostats to cool mode and don't turn the heat on at all. And vice versa if the weather is cool.
Oh, and the planned Fab that AMD was going to build in New York (but is probably not going to because its market capitalization is less than the value of a new fab post-Barcelona) has absolutely nothing to do with his "heroic" interests in going after Intel
Damn, I was just going to post something like this. AMD's been waffling on that project for over a year now. Some extra "incentive" for them to start the project, perhaps?
I had a keyboard not terribly different from this one. It had those same 3 keys, but in a row above insert, home & pgup (which shifted all of them down so end was right next to the up-arrow).
There was a second key that you needed to press to actually activate them (like the Fn key on most laptops), so you couldn't accidentally sleep/shut down your PC.
I didn't want to buy this keyboard, but it was cheap and my keyboard was broken. The cat managed to walk on the board and press the appropriate combo to power off my PC about 30 seconds after I unwrapped & plugged it in.
With luck we may get another two earth years from her.
I think we should consider it fortunate that Spirit has lasted as long as she has. Designed for 90 days, at this point it's all gravy - she could go offline tomorrow and still be a resounding success.
How many people per polling place? One toner cartridge could easily last the duration of election day with a sufficiently large toner supply in the printer itself. Or even multiple reservoirs of toner.
I'm not entirely sure why we haven't seen extremely vicious viruses yet but I'd like to think that it's because anyone competent enough to writing such a virus would be intelligent enough to put their efforts elsewhere for good use.
I think it's more because a "mildly irritating" virus will be removed, leaving the host to get infected again. An "extremely vicious" virus will take out the host and whatever replaces it will be better protected. Enough of this goes on and the number of available hosts drops significantly.
Plus, there's more money in writing an "irritating" virus which operates as part of a botnet than a really nasty one that just takes systems out completely.
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For letters, you could have just as easily pointed them at WordPad. It'll do the job just fine, without all the bloat of OOo.
Even if it does work out as a net loss for the BSA's members, it's a small price to pay to get all that extra revenue & claiming how many seats you have installed for a particular package.
I got a few spams on my phone (Verizon) a few years ago. Verizon's only attempt to help me was to offer to disable SMS on my account completely - not implement whitelist (which would be ideal). They didn't even offer to refund the message charges (10 cents each at the time).
In the past 5 days I've gotten 3 of them, at 15 cents each. And the rate will be going up to 20 cents each in a few weeks, I'm told. I rarely use SMS, so there's no point to paying $5 per line to get "unlimited" SMS, but do not relish the thought of having to cut it off completely just so I don't have to pay for spam.
Spoken like someone who has never, EVER, detected sarcasm.
He's lying. Everyone knows there's no farms in Jersey. All the land is either paved or polluted.
Well, they could, but that's one more thing to have to disconnect/reconnect.
Besides, isn't it more fun to make your legs move from across the room?
The difference between the CoS and almost all other cults is that the other cults fade away when their leader dies. CoS is only getting stronger.
I heard the great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard on the radio last week, speaking out against the CoS. Scarier/freakier stuff than anything I'd previously heard.
Doesn't make drive letters suck any less though.
I have Verizon. My options are crappy phone or less-crappy phone. In either case, I get a really crappy OS/UI.
Somebody missed the Simpsons joke.
Once something has been approved by the Government, It's no longer immoral.
"Any machine you like" may yield a much hotter, higher power draw device than buying a WHS box off the shelf. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PowerConsumptionOfTheHPMediaSmartHPHomeServer.aspx
This could be made even more sophisticated with these radio-controlled thermostats. If the temperature at the base station is warm, set the thermostats to cool mode and don't turn the heat on at all. And vice versa if the weather is cool.
Just change how you look for them. Instead of looking for signature noise, look for a "hole" in the background noise of the ocean.
I had a keyboard not terribly different from this one. It had those same 3 keys, but in a row above insert, home & pgup (which shifted all of them down so end was right next to the up-arrow).
There was a second key that you needed to press to actually activate them (like the Fn key on most laptops), so you couldn't accidentally sleep/shut down your PC.
I didn't want to buy this keyboard, but it was cheap and my keyboard was broken. The cat managed to walk on the board and press the appropriate combo to power off my PC about 30 seconds after I unwrapped & plugged it in.
The nipple goes far enough into the mouth that it bypasses most, if not all, of the taste buds.
If baby formula tastes anything like it smells, there is no baby formula that is "delicious."
Nope, I've got DVDs that lock everything out so you have to watch whatever crap they throw at you.
I think at least one of them is a Baby Einstein one, which as has been noted, can make for a tense extra few minutes.
How many people per polling place? One toner cartridge could easily last the duration of election day with a sufficiently large toner supply in the printer itself. Or even multiple reservoirs of toner.
That noise is going to pose a serious risk to your hearing in short order. Check various regulations & OSHA guidelines.
Plus, there's more money in writing an "irritating" virus which operates as part of a botnet than a really nasty one that just takes systems out completely.