It sounds to me like the budget has already been ironed out and that the budget for these PC's includes a provision for Windows
I don't see that the Minister has started to talk to Compaq and Microsoft not that everything is set in stone. One looks at alternatives to see what is available just accepting the first possibility presented to you is not a very prudent thing to do.
Armand28 said: Take a LINUX pc and cut that 30% in half, then take the remaining 70% and DOUBLE it.
And I have got to ask where do your figures come from, I believe you have pulled these directly from your posterior. Not that I can provide accurate numbers myself, I just have my doubts about your ability as well.
I'll grant you that if you can get someone to change browsers to see your site they are probably malleable enough to be sold ice in a snowstorm. Of course you will have insulted and inconvenienced people who have minds of their own but if your company is run by people who think I want to be directed in my browser use then they probably aren't smart enough to have created anything a thinking person could use. I can't really imagine that if you are too lazy/stupid to code in a way that can accommodate at the least the major browsers that a site you put up could be of interest to me. Standards mean that certain elements are standard if you can't work with that maybe you aren't really meant to be a coder.
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Thanks AC.... for the gratuitous slap at LIBERALS, they are after all the sole source of evil in the world and incapable of rational thought
I stand corrected.
On further recollection, both Shrub and Gore were both in the NG,
Be corrected once more. Gore served in the US Army and went to Viet Nam. Chimpy was in the NG and went AWOL for a year.
Easy enough to say as AC.
I don't see that the Minister has started to talk to Compaq and Microsoft not that everything is set in stone. One looks at alternatives to see what is available just accepting the first possibility presented to you is not a very prudent thing to do.
And I have got to ask where do your figures come from, I believe you have pulled these directly from your posterior. Not that I can provide accurate numbers myself, I just have my doubts about your ability as well.
I'll grant you that if you can get someone to change browsers to see your site they are probably malleable enough to be sold ice in a snowstorm. Of course you will have insulted and inconvenienced people who have minds of their own but if your company is run by people who think I want to be directed in my browser use then they probably aren't smart enough to have created anything a thinking person could use. I can't really imagine that if you are too lazy/stupid to code in a way that can accommodate at the least the major browsers that a site you put up could be of interest to me. Standards mean that certain elements are standard if you can't work with that maybe you aren't really meant to be a coder.
All I can say to this is if you are ready to trade freedom for security, you get neither.