The industry is not losing money in Sweden!
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Ring-Tone Royalties
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First I heard this I thought it was stupid. Then a couple of days later I heard that in Sweden STIM (the organization administrating all the royalties for music in Sweden) actually gets at least 10 cents (1 SEK) for each ring-tone sent out from the mayor protals that has these ring-tones!
I assume this will happen in more countries and I assume it already happened in the UK.
I agree, I think that UF describes the techie spirit very well. What I don't understand in this discussion is why everyone concentrates so hard on the tech support part of UF. That is actually a minor part, the stories about the people at the ISP is much more common in the strips and these stories far from stand-alone as the privious writer points out.
Ok, there are some strips that make fun of people needing support, but I never find them cruel. Illiad is very good at finding the truly funny situations, and won't lower himself down to using jokes about people that only is learning. There is a big difference between using the CD-player as cupholder once, and doing it twice.
Then we have the helpdesk strip that Scott finds so funny. I don't, it could be that I didn't read enough strips, but helpdesk seems far from the quality and humor of UF (but then I'm a techie and not a help desk person that only got two weeks of training to answer clueless questions).
Well, you are probably quite alone with not having problems with exchange. I now that Ericsson in Sweden changed to exchange some time ago, they used notes before. Anyway they went from a working mail system to a system that fails to handle at least 30% (probably more) of the mails correctly. It actually drops lots of the mail without a trace and the rest is delayed long times (sometime hours)! This is what you get when thinking that MS actually tells the truth when promoting their software.
I totaly agree with you. I don't say that that it would be a good idea for Mozilla to use GC, but after having worked with serveral languages with builtin GC I really can't understand why anyone would like to punish themselves by not using a GC.
Sure, a bad implemented GC is a pain in the *** but most modern implementations aren't that bad. And with todays computers, the small amount of overhead is really worth the robustnes you gain.
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I assume this will happen in more countries and I assume it already happened in the UK.
Ok, there are some strips that make fun of people needing support, but I never find them cruel. Illiad is very good at finding the truly funny situations, and won't lower himself down to using jokes about people that only is learning. There is a big difference between using the CD-player as cupholder once, and doing it twice.
Then we have the helpdesk strip that Scott finds so funny. I don't, it could be that I didn't read enough strips, but helpdesk seems far from the quality and humor of UF (but then I'm a techie and not a help desk person that only got two weeks of training to answer clueless questions).
Well, you are probably quite alone with not having problems with exchange. I now that Ericsson in Sweden changed to exchange some time ago, they used notes before. Anyway they went from a working mail system to a system that fails to handle at least 30% (probably more) of the mails correctly. It actually drops lots of the mail without a trace and the rest is delayed long times (sometime hours)! This is what you get when thinking that MS actually tells the truth when promoting their software.
I totaly agree with you. I don't say that that it would be a good idea for Mozilla to use GC, but after having worked with serveral languages with builtin GC I really can't understand why anyone would like to punish themselves by not using a GC.
Sure, a bad implemented GC is a pain in the *** but most modern implementations aren't that bad. And with todays computers, the small amount of overhead is really worth the robustnes you gain.