As a child I had a ZX Spectrum. Most games where sold at £5.
When the Hobbit came out it was retailed at £15, then well out of my league. So myself and some friends formed a cartell and pooled our money and baught one copy that we then coppied amonst our selves.
I can't rember how meny of us where in the cartell but I'm sure that their where more than 3 of us. So insted of selling x units at £5 where x was > 3
the softwhere house sold 1 unit at £15
They went bust soon after.
The morral of the story; If companies want to protect their IP rights and make money on them then DONT place such a high valu on any individual coppy
You make a backup.
People add new data
Your Database gets currupted and you have no transaction logging
People add new data
You notice the database is currupted and role back to the last backup
Anny one who has added data since the last backup will loose it
In the UK Parents and others can train to become Teaching Assistansts. These are unpaid volantiers who donate their time to help out at their local schools.
I'm sure that with the vast expertease/.'s have with Open Source projects and the fact that they can leagally 'Upgrade' the entire schools network for free, we should be accepted with open arms.
Hell we my even be able to start socialising with real humans again;-)
1. Can you use Windows?
- No I can use Liniux BSD OpenBSD UNIX
2. Can you use Word?
- No I can use Star Office
3. Can you use Excel?
- No see above
4. What can you do?
- I can type make install really quickly
and then can go into the source code to fix the compatabilaty problem between this version and the version of the operating system the program was written from.
Oh and I can also program in PhP Perl C C++ Python Fortran
And I can Install and configure a web server, db server and email server.
I can design and maintain a database.
I can run a full security audit on all the installed software and hardware on the companies network
If you where in the UK with me I'd happaly pay for your kids education.
That way I'd know that when they become teeagers they woud have a balanced outlook on life and the possabilaty of a well paid job rather than sitting at the end of the street waitng with a baseball bat for your friends and relatives to walk past.
Good education is the cheepist way of reducing crime that I know.
And before any one goes on about well educated crimanels, note that I said reduce not elimanate.
Part of the problem is that when Rail Track (RT) took over thy found they wher paying all this people near retirment age to wandet up and down the line every night.
As they where spending all the time streaching their legs and they where so close to retirment age any way RT sacked them.
3 years on RT is wondering where all their enginears are and why no one seams to inspect/understand large sections of the inferstructure any more
In Hull in the UK.The City did own the TelCo. until about 5 years ago. Then they sold 51% to cable and wirless. Now they are expanding into BT's territry.
There is a much better form of advertising. Its called word of mouth.
I'm currently working for the Press Assoc. in the UK. When I arrived I switched my machine to Linux. People askem my what I was doing, and I toled them I like an OS that is easy to install and dosn't crash every 12 hours.
Having left my PC on all week and watched my colligues PC's continualy go down while they wher trying to develop their software. I finaly relented and installed Linux on their machines also.
Now we are about half Linux and half MS and I'm working on those still left.
Slashdot Mirror
try Indy Media
In that case why dont I go and beat up the first US citizen I find over hear in the UK. As they should'nt be afforded the same rights as a UK citizen
IIRC Space invaders used that to change the colour of the 'nasties' as they moved down the screen
In that case who owns the copyright to ROT-13
The UK law only applies to UK citizens.
A forigener who went to Bancock for child sex abd them came to the UK could not be arrested.
I think
Yes and then you get that helpfull little MS Dialog Box saying 'Installing the JAVAVM will allow unknown people to access your .NET account details'
As a child I had a ZX Spectrum. Most games where sold at £5.
When the Hobbit came out it was retailed at £15, then well out of my league. So myself and some friends formed a cartell and pooled our money and baught one copy that we then coppied amonst our selves.
I can't rember how meny of us where in the cartell but I'm sure that their where more than 3 of us. So insted of selling x units at £5 where x was > 3
the softwhere house sold 1 unit at £15
They went bust soon after.
The morral of the story; If companies want to protect their IP rights and make money on them then DONT place such a high valu on any individual coppy
I'm sorry bt we removed discussion of the national curiculum last year
You make a backup.
People add new data
Your Database gets currupted and you have no transaction logging
People add new data
You notice the database is currupted and role back to the last backup
Anny one who has added data since the last backup will loose it
Ok so you don't want to pay taxes and I do.
This means that I have a part share in the road between your house and the shops, where you work, the movieplex etc and you don't.
So when you leave your house I'm going to exercis my right to stop you driving on MY road and BAZOOKA your right wing arse into the next world
Sorry, miss read the parent post. You are right
In the UK Parents and others can train to become Teaching Assistansts. These are unpaid volantiers who donate their time to help out at their local schools.
/.'s have with Open Source projects and the fact that they can leagally 'Upgrade' the entire schools network for free, we should be accepted with open arms.
;-)
I'm sure that with the vast expertease
Hell we my even be able to start socialising with real humans again
Sorry you have broken the law. Win95 Licenses are non transferable
1. Can you use Windows?
- No I can use Liniux BSD OpenBSD UNIX
2. Can you use Word?
- No I can use Star Office
3. Can you use Excel?
- No see above
4. What can you do?
- I can type make install really quickly
and then can go into the source code to fix the compatabilaty problem between this version and the version of the operating system the program was written from.
Oh and I can also program in PhP Perl C C++ Python Fortran
And I can Install and configure a web server, db server and email server.
I can design and maintain a database.
I can run a full security audit on all the installed software and hardware on the companies network
Need I go on
If you where in the UK with me I'd happaly pay for your kids education.
That way I'd know that when they become teeagers they woud have a balanced outlook on life and the possabilaty of a well paid job rather than sitting at the end of the street waitng with a baseball bat for your friends and relatives to walk past.
Good education is the cheepist way of reducing crime that I know.
And before any one goes on about well educated crimanels, note that I said reduce not elimanate.
Mighty Morphing Flower Arangers ;-)
Part of the problem is that when Rail Track (RT) took over thy found they wher paying all this people near retirment age to wandet up and down the line every night.
As they where spending all the time streaching their legs and they where so close to retirment age any way RT sacked them.
3 years on RT is wondering where all their enginears are and why no one seams to inspect/understand large sections of the inferstructure any more
In Hull in the UK.The City did own the TelCo. until about 5 years ago. Then they sold 51% to cable and wirless. Now they are expanding into BT's territry.
Move to Hull then youll never have to talk to BT again
We have a law in Britain that stops individuals from mounting a large number of frivilous law suits.
I wonder if it works on lawers as well
Do you think they would charge the consumer or the manufacturer of the printer?
Both
Can they do this in Europe too?
There is a much better form of advertising. Its called word of mouth. I'm currently working for the Press Assoc. in the UK. When I arrived I switched my machine to Linux. People askem my what I was doing, and I toled them I like an OS that is easy to install and dosn't crash every 12 hours. Having left my PC on all week and watched my colligues PC's continualy go down while they wher trying to develop their software. I finaly relented and installed Linux on their machines also. Now we are about half Linux and half MS and I'm working on those still left.
Dont we allready have a Tux game
Developers like Microsoft you meen :)