And you're talking about a political system where people were still allowed to charge for things. BTW just because something has zero reproductions costs doesn't mean it can't be classified as either goods or services.
I used to work for one of the UK's major retailers and they did just that for their web portal. The mainframe is just a big server now, all the green screen apps are slowly vanishing (\o/)
Dont remember AmigaDOS costing me anything. You're also missing the point that in a competitive market a $300 OS would have to be damn good to sell any copies.
Do you support the death penalty for other mentally-ill people too? Paedophiles are seriously sick individuals and the system treating them just as common criminals is why there is so much tragedy caused by them. Deal with them in the same way as the criminally-insane, namely sectioned away from those they are a danger too.
It also conveniently prevents Europeans like myself from ordering it from the US for far less money (or buying it if I can put up with the eternity it takes to get through your immigration to visit your country)
As someone who was a COBOL permie then contractor for many years all I can say to that is AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. My god it must be really awful in the Unix/Windows world if the horrendous shambles that are 90% of mainframe projects are being held up as an example of how to do it.
The way to run a perfect project (at least to my mind) is: 1) The senior managers are there to say how they want the app to interface with the business. They have no say in how the application looks since they aren't the ones going to be using it. 2) Some end-users need to be involved early in the process so that the developers see exactly how they do their jobs, not how the PHBs think they do 3) Any non-trivial change to a signed-off business spec should require a good justification just like IT people have to provide a cost justification when they want something from management and if the justification isn't good enough then they'll have to wait (and maybe learn to get their requirements right before starting the design and coding the next time) 4) Non-IT people DO NOT get to set the deadlines. They can request it but if we say it'll take that long then usually it will and any cutting of deadlines usually mean it taking longer, having less functionality and being an utter bear to maintain/enhance.
I've worked in maybe 12 different organisations and only 2 even came close to any of those. Most didn't even do one of the above.
Some guy in the UK has just got into an awful lot of trouble for selling modded X-Boxes. Mind you he was selling them with a bigger hard drive full of pirated software. However modding in the UK is illegal, so a few techies may be able to work out how to do it but they won't be able to do it for anyone else or even tell them how to do it.
Not using IE for browsing has solved my spyware problem pretty much and since that's the major headache for most Windows users I'd always advise people to use Firefox instead of IE.
The BBC has had many many fallings out with the various govts of the day, This isn't the UK Dept of Broadcasting its an autonomous corporation that gets its funding from a licence fee. The govt does have a say who gets to be on the board of governors (which I think sucks tbh) they don't have any say over what they do.
Not knowing much about the subject, perhaps QT or GTK could do the business for you since they are both cross-platform. No doubt I'll be shot down in flames by the "I know something you don't so you're stupid" brigade but at least have a look at them.
Open Office offers something MS don't. A full MS Office-compatible (YMMV for sure) suite at a fraction of the cost. Innovation cannot come in a market so dominated by one player since no-one will buy a productivity suite that doesn't open MS Office documents no matter how superb it is.
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Nah my point was that these things aren't for the general public most of whom can't even drive a car properly.
And you're talking about a political system where people were still allowed to charge for things. BTW just because something has zero reproductions costs doesn't mean it can't be classified as either goods or services.
Flying cars and jet packs do exist however letting the average IQ 90 SUV driver near one is a really really bad idea. Just think of the lawsuits.
Even in Soviet Russia people charged for goods and services. Honestly you're as bad as the GP poster.
I used to work for one of the UK's major retailers and they did just that for their web portal. The mainframe is just a big server now, all the green screen apps are slowly vanishing (\o/)
Dont remember AmigaDOS costing me anything. You're also missing the point that in a competitive market a $300 OS would have to be damn good to sell any copies.
If they called it Windows Garbage, would people still buy it?
If only Microsoft were honest......
Your government (and mine) scares the crap out of me.
Do you support the death penalty for other mentally-ill people too? Paedophiles are seriously sick individuals and the system treating them just as common criminals is why there is so much tragedy caused by them. Deal with them in the same way as the criminally-insane, namely sectioned away from those they are a danger too.
It also conveniently prevents Europeans like myself from ordering it from the US for far less money (or buying it if I can put up with the eternity it takes to get through your immigration to visit your country)
Not only that but corps haven't yet realised that making your customers poorer is not a very good idea if you still want to sell to them.
That the page doesn't render properly in the browser they're biggin' up.
As someone who was a COBOL permie then contractor for many years all I can say to that is AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. My god it must be really awful in the Unix/Windows world if the horrendous shambles that are 90% of mainframe projects are being held up as an example of how to do it.
The way to run a perfect project (at least to my mind) is:
1) The senior managers are there to say how they want the app to interface with the business. They have no say in how the application looks since they aren't the ones going to be using it.
2) Some end-users need to be involved early in the process so that the developers see exactly how they do their jobs, not how the PHBs think they do
3) Any non-trivial change to a signed-off business spec should require a good justification just like IT people have to provide a cost justification when they want something from management and if the justification isn't good enough then they'll have to wait (and maybe learn to get their requirements right before starting the design and coding the next time)
4) Non-IT people DO NOT get to set the deadlines. They can request it but if we say it'll take that long then usually it will and any cutting of deadlines usually mean it taking longer, having less functionality and being an utter bear to maintain/enhance.
I've worked in maybe 12 different organisations and only 2 even came close to any of those. Most didn't even do one of the above.
Some guy in the UK has just got into an awful lot of trouble for selling modded X-Boxes. Mind you he was selling them with a bigger hard drive full of pirated software. However modding in the UK is illegal, so a few techies may be able to work out how to do it but they won't be able to do it for anyone else or even tell them how to do it.
A better solution would be a web browser that didn't allow malicious websites to silently download this crap, but that's just me.
XP SP2 is an enormous improvement on 95, but then that's a very low standard to judge by.
For heaven's sake what do you need a nearly 7 litre car for?
On my SP2 machine it nags every couple of mins about shutting down. I wish there was an STFU button.
Not using IE for browsing has solved my spyware problem pretty much and since that's the major headache for most Windows users I'd always advise people to use Firefox instead of IE.
It's easy to do with a bash script
My reply was to that.
You could use Windows Scripting for such a task.
The BBC has had many many fallings out with the various govts of the day, This isn't the UK Dept of Broadcasting its an autonomous corporation that gets its funding from a licence fee. The govt does have a say who gets to be on the board of governors (which I think sucks tbh) they don't have any say over what they do.
Not knowing much about the subject, perhaps QT or GTK could do the business for you since they are both cross-platform. No doubt I'll be shot down in flames by the "I know something you don't so you're stupid" brigade but at least have a look at them.
We did step 2a a while back and while the bickering is never-ending Northern Irish Catholics no longer set off bombs in our cities.
Open Office offers something MS don't. A full MS Office-compatible (YMMV for sure) suite at a fraction of the cost. Innovation cannot come in a market so dominated by one player since no-one will buy a productivity suite that doesn't open MS Office documents no matter how superb it is.