I would love to see all 10,000 people show up at the office. Where are they going to put them all? There is a lot of infrastruture (phone, desk, computer, washrooms, etc) needed for each employee, and the cost of providing that infrastructure should be interesting to watch.
It's not just people not upgrading their XP to Vista, many top teir PC vendors have been forced by their customers to keep selling XP. This is an indication (at least to me), that there isn't really a huge demand for Vista, and that there must be something that is causing all these people to go out of their way to get XP, rather than stick with Vista.
Personally I haave found Lexmark lasers to be the least hassle, cheaper than HP, and generally better features. I've used them for years (even had an IBM laser before it was sold off).
I would have had no problem if the held it and let me re-register, but what it appears they did was wait for me to check on the registration, hold it, then charge me extra to register it.
I doubt they would have held it for 8 months, then a month after I inquired, release it. Also the other domain I checked first on with other companies, and it wasn't until I checked with goDaddy that it became held.
I have so far had good luck with register4less, http://uf.r4l.com/. I mainly started using them as a way to support User Friendly.
I had an interesting problem with GoDaddy. I had a number of domains registered with Domain Direct, and had good luck with them, though I started to find them expensive, so I started registering domains through GoDaddy. I had a domain expire that was originally on GoDaddy, but didn't really care about it, then about 8 months later I wanted a domain to do some testing, and figured I'd re-new my old domain. When I tried to renew through GoDaddy, they said that it was on hold, and it would cost $$$ extra to release it, tried some other domain registers, and they said GoDaddy had locked the name. A month later, I checked on it using register4less.com, and it was available, so I renewed through them. I then checked a different old domain name on Register4less, and Domain Direct, both showed the domain available. Went to GoDaddy, and it was held, due to it being expired, and would need extra $$$ to purchase it.
I will never use GoDaddy to register another domain again.
It has probably already been posted but I haven't noticed the open source COBOL compilers that already exist so here are a couple of free Cobol compilers that I've played with.
I like the OpenCOBOL the best, it takes your COBOL code, converts it to C, then compiles it using GCC. You might be able to kick start your project by looking at what these guys have done.
If they are being really loud, I like to join into their conversation, give them helpful advise about their hemorrhoid problems, which low security facility their Johnny would do best in. If they complain, I point out that if they didn't want me to participate, they should keep it quite:) .
Most people get the hint, though some of them comment that their conversation is "PRIVATE", to which my reply is always, then you should be making it private.
If I pay the "Pirate Tax" that means that the producers have been paid, and I never have to pay for another Universal song on my iPod. What a great idea no! No more RIAA suing, as everyone already has their cut for any pirated music.... Oh, you want a royalty, but still want me to pay for every song, and you still want to sue me if I have a song I can't prove I paid for? So what exactly is the royalty for?
Except of course for all the good company IT people who don't want some software, that is not required for the day to day operations of their systems, in their secure network phoning home reporting who knows what to some somewhat questionable company.
I've always found that the best deployment stratagy has been to get a couple of the more patient power users converted first. This will allow the major bugs to be caught and fixed. When it goes out to the unwashed masses you have a couple of users that can help the less knowledgable users. I've found that some users don't want to go to IT with some problems, but will talk to other users about it.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing when I read the original post. I would have thought that SOMEONE at Microsoft would have looked at external power supply problems from the past and made sure that they didn't repeat the same problems.
I remeber trying all sorts of things to keep my C64 power brick from overheating (though never thought of hanging it from a string). After the insides expannded and broke throught the case, I ended up buying a custom built power supply from the same guy who modified my diskette drive to fix the alignment issues. That power supply is still working great.
With construction you have set plans that don't change too drastically, with programming you'll find people changing their mind through out the build.
Think of it as your building a 4 bedroom single family house and the developer is constantly making little(to him) changes to the plan, you know, add a new bathroom, change the den into a formal dinning room, oh, and the garage is actualy supposed to be part of the house, not a seperate building (didn't we mention that?), and yes it wasn't on the plans we signed off on originally, but those plans just don't work anymore.
Now with 50% completion, the owners decide that what would work at this location, is actually a 4 family duplex.
Now that the building is finished and awaiting final inspection, we need 1 really quick change, insteaad of regular telephone jacks wired to each room, we need Cat 6, as we will be doing IP phones, but thats a real easy change right, a couple of plates is all? Now that you've done that, we talked to the guy who bags our grocerys and he had a great idea, move the hoy water tank from the basement to the attic.
Would you expect the contractors to just eat the difference, or not ask that the deadline change? You as a contractor would point out the changes are all going to cost time and money and aren't in the original thst you based you quote on, but the developer is convinced that it has to be done and pays the extra costs. of course once everything is finished, the developer will go on and on how expensive the project is, and how long it took, and how it still isn't exactly what he wanted (but is exactly what the plan and change orders asked for).
And yes I've seen this, I've provided IT to costruction and HVAC companies for over 10 years and see this all the time. They complain about delays annd costs, and compare it to how they build projects.
Actually it is moral to burn music for free in Canada, as we pay a surcharge on every blank CD, Cassette tape, and VCR tape to give to the artists. The reason it is legal and moral, is that the work has been paid for MANY times over due to the levy.
As has been stated many times, the levy goes to the copywrite holders (in Canada) not to the government.
It is (IMHO) that it is immoral to take our money and then try to convince us that we can't use what we have purchased.
Most of the shooting was on sound stages, but you probably recognize some other location, like the dome ship, was really the Gardens @ QE park, SFU, as seen in almost every SciFi show shot in/around Vancouver (Slider, Stargate SG1, Andromeda, Outer Limits, etc.)
What impressed me the most was using a BC Ferry car deck for the Space Liners Cargo bay, where Apolo parked his Viper. I wonder who thought up that one.
IBM dosen't really seem to get advertising either, just look at what IBM with their advertising of OS/2. They showed the back of a computer monitor, with people Ohh and Ahhing at what OS/2 could do, but of course, they never actually SHOWED the front of the screen, and what it was doing that was so great.
And in the case of Canada, I believe it was a BC supreme court judge that said DTV had lost no money from Canadians decoding their signal, as no Canadian can legally subscribe and give them money.
I actually have had a basic subscription for over a year, and have been trying since early this morning to get the ISO's from the Red Hat Servers. I have both cable and ADSL and tried downloading with both. I have had yet to get a connection over 7kb (which reports 68 hours or something like that), and have had every connection drop at around 10MB. It doesn't matter which connection I try, I just can't get the files.
If I had decided to shell out $60 yesterday, thinking I'd have the CD's by the afternoon, I'd be really pissed off. If RedHat knew there would be this huge demand, then they should have ramped up their bandwidth, or offloaded the ISOs to someone with better bandwidth.
I finally went with BitTorrent on my ADSL connection. I now have all three ISO's from BitToreent (I'm leaving the client up so others can get it), while I'm STILL waiting for the first ISO from RedHat to complete.
So as a business person, I'd rather download from RedHat, but seeing as I can't, I'll get it were I can.
I would think that the next 'Big Thing' will be ads playing at the same time as the show. Kind of like on the news channels were they have the talking head in one window, short blurbs in another window, and a ticker along the bottom. We can look forward to a large main window with the show playing, a second smaller window with ads running non -stop, and maybe text ads running along the bottom. Of course if this does happen, how long will it be before the show is in the small window, and the ad in the main window?
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I would love to see all 10,000 people show up at the office.
Where are they going to put them all? There is a lot of infrastruture (phone, desk, computer, washrooms, etc) needed for each employee, and the cost of providing that infrastructure should be interesting to watch.
It's not just people not upgrading their XP to Vista, many top teir PC vendors have been forced by their customers to keep selling XP. This is an indication (at least to me), that there isn't really a huge demand for Vista, and that there must be something that is causing all these people to go out of their way to get XP, rather than stick with Vista.
Personally I haave found Lexmark lasers to be the least hassle, cheaper than HP, and generally better features. I've used them for years (even had an IBM laser before it was sold off).
I would have had no problem if the held it and let me re-register, but what it appears they did was wait for me to check on the registration, hold it, then charge me extra to register it.
I doubt they would have held it for 8 months, then a month after I inquired, release it. Also the other domain I checked first on with other companies, and it wasn't until I checked with goDaddy that it became held.
I have so far had good luck with register4less, http://uf.r4l.com/. I mainly started using them as a way to support User Friendly.
I had an interesting problem with GoDaddy. I had a number of domains registered with Domain Direct, and had good luck with them, though I started to find them expensive, so I started registering domains through GoDaddy. I had a domain expire that was originally on GoDaddy, but didn't really care about it, then about 8 months later I wanted a domain to do some testing, and figured I'd re-new my old domain. When I tried to renew through GoDaddy, they said that it was on hold, and it would cost $$$ extra to release it, tried some other domain registers, and they said GoDaddy had locked the name. A month later, I checked on it using register4less.com, and it was available, so I renewed through them. I then checked a different old domain name on Register4less, and Domain Direct, both showed the domain available. Went to GoDaddy, and it was held, due to it being expired, and would need extra $$$ to purchase it.
I will never use GoDaddy to register another domain again.
It has probably already been posted but I haven't noticed the open source COBOL compilers that already exist so here are a couple of free Cobol compilers that I've played with.
Cobol for GCC http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/ is dead
Tiny Cobol http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/index.php last release was in 2005
OpenCobol http://www.opencobol.org/ Still has one developer working on it.
I like the OpenCOBOL the best, it takes your COBOL code, converts it to C, then compiles it using GCC. You might be able to kick start your project by looking at what these guys have done.
If they are being really loud, I like to join into their conversation, give them helpful advise about their hemorrhoid problems, which low security facility their Johnny would do best in. If they complain, I point out that if they didn't want me to participate, they should keep it quite :) .
Most people get the hint, though some of them comment that their conversation is "PRIVATE", to which my reply is always, then you should be making it private.
If I pay the "Pirate Tax" that means that the producers have been paid, and I never have to pay for another Universal song on my iPod. What a great idea no! No more RIAA suing, as everyone already has their cut for any pirated music. ... Oh, you want a royalty, but still want me to pay for every song, and you still want to sue me if I have a song I can't prove I paid for? So what exactly is the royalty for?
Except of course for all the good company IT people who don't want some software, that is not required for the day to day operations of their systems, in their secure network phoning home reporting who knows what to some somewhat questionable company.
I couldn't agree less.
I've always found that the best deployment stratagy has been to get a couple of the more patient power users converted first. This will allow the major bugs to be caught and fixed. When it goes out to the unwashed masses you have a couple of users that can help the less knowledgable users. I've found that some users don't want to go to IT with some problems, but will talk to other users about it.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing when I read the original post. I would have thought that SOMEONE at Microsoft would have looked at external power supply problems from the past and made sure that they didn't repeat the same problems.
I remeber trying all sorts of things to keep my C64 power brick from overheating (though never thought of hanging it from a string). After the insides expannded and broke throught the case, I ended up buying a custom built power supply from the same guy who modified my diskette drive to fix the alignment issues. That power supply is still working great.
It's hard to enforce this with programming.
With construction you have set plans that don't change too drastically, with programming you'll find people changing their mind through out the build.
Think of it as your building a 4 bedroom single family house and the developer is constantly making little(to him) changes to the plan, you know, add a new bathroom, change the den into a formal dinning room, oh, and the garage is actualy supposed to be part of the house, not a seperate building (didn't we mention that?), and yes it wasn't on the plans we signed off on originally, but those plans just don't work anymore.
Now with 50% completion, the owners decide that what would work at this location, is actually a 4 family duplex.
Now that the building is finished and awaiting final inspection, we need 1 really quick change, insteaad of regular telephone jacks wired to each room, we need Cat 6, as we will be doing IP phones, but thats a real easy change right, a couple of plates is all? Now that you've done that, we talked to the guy who bags our grocerys and he had a great idea, move the hoy water tank from the basement to the attic.
Would you expect the contractors to just eat the difference, or not ask that the deadline change? You as a contractor would point out the changes are all going to cost time and money and aren't in the original thst you based you quote on, but the developer is convinced that it has to be done and pays the extra costs. of course once everything is finished, the developer will go on and on how expensive the project is, and how long it took, and how it still isn't exactly what he wanted (but is exactly what the plan and change orders asked for).
And yes I've seen this, I've provided IT to costruction and HVAC companies for over 10 years and see this all the time. They complain about delays annd costs, and compare it to how they build projects.
Actually it is moral to burn music for free in Canada, as we pay a surcharge on every blank CD, Cassette tape, and VCR tape to give to the artists. The reason it is legal and moral, is that the work has been paid for MANY times over due to the levy.
As has been stated many times, the levy goes to the copywrite holders (in Canada) not to the government.
It is (IMHO) that it is immoral to take our money and then try to convince us that we can't use what we have purchased.
I would vote for the Professor from Gilligans Island. I always found it amazing the number of things he could make from Coconuts. :)
Most of the shooting was on sound stages, but you probably recognize some other location, like the dome ship, was really the Gardens @ QE park, SFU, as seen in almost every SciFi show shot in/around Vancouver (Slider, Stargate SG1, Andromeda, Outer Limits, etc.)
What impressed me the most was using a BC Ferry car deck for the Space Liners Cargo bay, where Apolo parked his Viper. I wonder who thought up that one.
IBM dosen't really seem to get advertising either, just look at what IBM with their advertising of OS/2. They showed the back of a computer monitor, with people Ohh and Ahhing at what OS/2 could do, but of course, they never actually SHOWED the front of the screen, and what it was doing that was so great.
Except that this web site is in CANADA, and not subject to the US laws, including the DCMA, so they aren't breaking any laws.
And in the case of Canada, I believe it was a BC supreme court judge that said DTV had lost no money from Canadians decoding their signal, as no Canadian can legally subscribe and give them money.
I actually have had a basic subscription for over a year, and have been trying since early this morning to get the ISO's from the Red Hat Servers. I have both cable and ADSL and tried downloading with both. I have had yet to get a connection over 7kb (which reports 68 hours or something like that), and have had every connection drop at around 10MB. It doesn't matter which connection I try, I just can't get the files.
If I had decided to shell out $60 yesterday, thinking I'd have the CD's by the afternoon, I'd be really pissed off. If RedHat knew there would be this huge demand, then they should have ramped up their bandwidth, or offloaded the ISOs to someone with better bandwidth.
I finally went with BitTorrent on my ADSL connection. I now have all three ISO's from BitToreent (I'm leaving the client up so others can get it), while I'm STILL waiting for the first ISO from RedHat to complete.
So as a business person, I'd rather download from RedHat, but seeing as I can't, I'll get it were I can.
I think it would be better if ALL trolls could see each others posts, but no one else could. That way they can troll each other and have there fun.
I would think that the next 'Big Thing' will be ads playing at the same time as the show. Kind of like on the news channels were they have the talking head in one window, short blurbs in another window, and a ticker along the bottom.
We can look forward to a large main window with the show playing, a second smaller window with ads running non -stop, and maybe text ads running along the bottom. Of course if this does happen, how long will it be before the show is in the small window, and the ad in the main window?