No matter how incompetent civil servants you have, they will save you a lot HELL more money than those money grabbing machines now as Oracle, SAP or Microsoft. By a couple of orders of magnitude.
They have a tendency to walk away in Britain...being in a prison maybe someone hid it away in a dark place, who knows. Pity they havent invented yet backup servers...Who are providing the IT services? The felons?
Normally you could say that. As a couple of anecdotal stories, I was called in some more difficult cases...despite customers having access to reports and having automated warnings about exceeding the data caps, which were in the package and in the contract, they only complained after the fines. I found more than once opens wifis, wifis with their password cracked, with defaullt passwords, and I believe I found once a "hacked" wifi point (it was more certain probably someone unscrupulous neighbour bribed the servants to press the reset button in the wifi router). I was also a direct contact to some higher ups in a couple of government agencies, where, despite I telling them that they could save a lot of money moving to higher contracts, and they were paying a lot because they employees where abusing the connection with p2p, nothing was done about it and they preferred to pay the fines than intervening at the political level.
I once run the IT department of an ISP, and data caps were a substancial source of the revenue. Lets say it could reach to 1/3 of our Internet net revenue, some months exceeding it. To be fair, at the time the international bandwidth was severely constrained, and in a post p2p world, you would have a change without some form of control. However, we were very clear about it, those were data caps, period.What I should call it nowadays then? Voluntary taxes? Net speeding fine? Tax for changing to the competition? One is always learning...
my plugins block flash automatically and I wont bother to watch it actually. I was programmer in my late teens, and after 3 years hated being it full time. Still enjoy hacking some programs as hobby.
Arent they? I have seen PLENTY of restaurants with the POS running in Linux, and last time I was at the supermarket and they had a power failure in the line I was waiting, the POS rebooted showing a localized version of CentOS or RedHat... I also have seen some chinese stores with pos running some form of Linux too. On another note I have seen upper market restaurants using ipads to take the orders... Wake up and smell the coffee the days of only Windows POS systems, and dedicated portable devices are over.
I would be fine with metal detectors at theatres. While you are at it, besides shoving down their throat one hour of adverts as it already happens, whip them too. I am not going to theatres anyway, these people do not deserve our hard earned money. As for the proceedings of the movies trickling down to actors or people, or the actual book writers, dream on, Hollywood accounting makes sure they only get a pittance.
As I posted earlier. I am a linux sysadmin, and making extensive use of virtualization technologies in the last three years. Using paravirtualization technologies at the kernel level (i.e. XEN),or in in vmware virtual machines using paravirtualized devices like vmtools+paravirtualizing in disk acess+using vmxnet and paravirtualizing your network card gives you a huge performance boost, as the host does not have to emulate anymore the corresponding hardware. That, added to all the new capabilities of the latest processors, gives your a ballpark of 10% of the CPU lost. If then you lose more than that, if maybe due to contentions in I/O.
It is not only possible, but it documented Portuguese discovers, vikings, Chinese, and people far earlier where there. It was well known by Portuguese fishermen that using certain currents and winds you would reach certain places, however Portugal choose to keep that secret because of other European powers. So in reality, it would not be a one way trip for a few lucky ones.
I am running Mac OS and I refuse to install Office. I have been faring quite well with Pages, Numbers, keynote and Omnigraffle for Visio files. iPhone and iPad have shown the world at large the key is not the OS and the apps, but being able to work with the documents. And that is the downfall of the myth by which IBM and MS thrived back in the day.
This is a load of bolocks. MS products just do not work. period. Every time I visit someone non-technical their computers are all messed up. When they keep windows, you keep hearing from them at least twice a year, with Linux, it just keeps working. Either way, the arguments to go to Mac or Linux, are lack of viruses, reliability, and user friendliness. And yes, Mac and Linux truly "just work"
Cannot understand pretty much of it. I am in Europe, in a somewhat backwards country, and speeds between 30Mbps - 100Mbps are pretty much prevalent at prices ranging from 18 to 50 Euros.
And I had a seller in FNAC telling me "you have gotta to change to the new card, you just need to bring the old card, your ID, and your bank account number..." (the current one is not linked to the account number). When I asked, what do I gain with the change? "Well, you will have a new card..." Right, dream on...
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No matter how incompetent civil servants you have, they will save you a lot HELL more money than those money grabbing machines now as Oracle, SAP or Microsoft. By a couple of orders of magnitude.
They have a tendency to walk away in Britain...being in a prison maybe someone hid it away in a dark place, who knows. Pity they havent invented yet backup servers...Who are providing the IT services? The felons?
Normally you could say that. As a couple of anecdotal stories, I was called in some more difficult cases...despite customers having access to reports and having automated warnings about exceeding the data caps, which were in the package and in the contract, they only complained after the fines. I found more than once opens wifis, wifis with their password cracked, with defaullt passwords, and I believe I found once a "hacked" wifi point (it was more certain probably someone unscrupulous neighbour bribed the servants to press the reset button in the wifi router). I was also a direct contact to some higher ups in a couple of government agencies, where, despite I telling them that they could save a lot of money moving to higher contracts, and they were paying a lot because they employees where abusing the connection with p2p, nothing was done about it and they preferred to pay the fines than intervening at the political level.
I once run the IT department of an ISP, and data caps were a substancial source of the revenue. Lets say it could reach to 1/3 of our Internet net revenue, some months exceeding it. To be fair, at the time the international bandwidth was severely constrained, and in a post p2p world, you would have a change without some form of control. However, we were very clear about it, those were data caps, period.What I should call it nowadays then? Voluntary taxes? Net speeding fine? Tax for changing to the competition? One is always learning...
I once saw an SCO V server controlling a nationwide network of ATMs machines...I have never seen anyone as a POS, that was not my line of work anyway.
my plugins block flash automatically and I wont bother to watch it actually. I was programmer in my late teens, and after 3 years hated being it full time. Still enjoy hacking some programs as hobby.
I bet diapers are standard gear in space. You cannot shit properly without gravity.
The point is that he did not steal physical goods, as much as the media conglomerates spin it.
Arent they? I have seen PLENTY of restaurants with the POS running in Linux, and last time I was at the supermarket and they had a power failure in the line I was waiting, the POS rebooted showing a localized version of CentOS or RedHat... I also have seen some chinese stores with pos running some form of Linux too. On another note I have seen upper market restaurants using ipads to take the orders... Wake up and smell the coffee the days of only Windows POS systems, and dedicated portable devices are over.
Mind it I really do not like it as much as you, however ear plugs are part of my gear international flights with which I cannot do without.
Now they can sell Internet when phone calling abroad is already passé?
Picture archives? I suspect it is more users history probably. They store everything you ever published, wether you deleted it or not.
What did he steal, moron? This thread is full of media shills, gosh.
And was ripping off people, oh yeah. I completely agree with you that a 15 cents a piece, buying a DVD for between 20 - 40 Euros is a huge rip-off.
I would be fine with metal detectors at theatres. While you are at it, besides shoving down their throat one hour of adverts as it already happens, whip them too. I am not going to theatres anyway, these people do not deserve our hard earned money. As for the proceedings of the movies trickling down to actors or people, or the actual book writers, dream on, Hollywood accounting makes sure they only get a pittance.
They found it was cheaper to fake it from plastic.
As I posted earlier. I am a linux sysadmin, and making extensive use of virtualization technologies in the last three years. Using paravirtualization technologies at the kernel level (i.e. XEN),or in in vmware virtual machines using paravirtualized devices like vmtools+paravirtualizing in disk acess+using vmxnet and paravirtualizing your network card gives you a huge performance boost, as the host does not have to emulate anymore the corresponding hardware. That, added to all the new capabilities of the latest processors, gives your a ballpark of 10% of the CPU lost. If then you lose more than that, if maybe due to contentions in I/O.
It is not only possible, but it documented Portuguese discovers, vikings, Chinese, and people far earlier where there. It was well known by Portuguese fishermen that using certain currents and winds you would reach certain places, however Portugal choose to keep that secret because of other European powers. So in reality, it would not be a one way trip for a few lucky ones.
I am running Mac OS and I refuse to install Office. I have been faring quite well with Pages, Numbers, keynote and Omnigraffle for Visio files. iPhone and iPad have shown the world at large the key is not the OS and the apps, but being able to work with the documents. And that is the downfall of the myth by which IBM and MS thrived back in the day.
This is a load of bolocks. MS products just do not work. period. Every time I visit someone non-technical their computers are all messed up. When they keep windows, you keep hearing from them at least twice a year, with Linux, it just keeps working. Either way, the arguments to go to Mac or Linux, are lack of viruses, reliability, and user friendliness. And yes, Mac and Linux truly "just work"
It depends on the Office version, maybe he is using Office '95. ;)
You are doing it wrong then. My take is "I am only a Linux and Mac expert, you want to use Windows, you are pretty much on your own"
Cannot understand pretty much of it. I am in Europe, in a somewhat backwards country, and speeds between 30Mbps - 100Mbps are pretty much prevalent at prices ranging from 18 to 50 Euros.
And I had a seller in FNAC telling me "you have gotta to change to the new card, you just need to bring the old card, your ID, and your bank account number..." (the current one is not linked to the account number). When I asked, what do I gain with the change? "Well, you will have a new card..." Right, dream on...
Any URL for the documents?