I live in the UK, and I can tell you there is no way that premiums are based on actuarial risk. Premiums are related to percieved ability to negociate. If you live in a poor area, your premiums go way up. If you drive a 2 litre diesel (75HP), your premiums is the same as for 2 litre petrol (150HP).
If you buy a second car (so as to have a big one when you need it and a small one when you don't) you cannot use your no claims bonus on both cars, even if you can't drive two cars at once! If you get a minibus, you cant use the no claims bonus from a van on the minibus, or vice versa, even if both are the same Ford Transit body.
You have to declare the value of the vehicle when you apply for a policy, but if you write off the vehicle, they value it half what you did. I could go on, but no need... its pretty clear that these people are major league crooks. And they use the fact that insurance is compulsory to demand money with menaces. (Pay insurance or we send the boys in blue round to visit...)
How many fucking library dependancies do you need for a modern windowing system?
Quite a lot, and they are all pretty necessary.
Yeah, we really need all these dependencies on audio related crap to install a Windowing product on a machine with no soundcard.
Its pretty damn clear that nobody on the KDE design team knows what dependency means. There is absolutely NO reason to have ANY sound related functions whatever. Equally, why all the games dependencies? If I am building a radius server, and I want some tools to manage the data graphically, why do I need to install a bunch of GAMES?
If you ask "How many cookies in the jar?", most kids will answer one, two or plenty. It doesnt mean they can't count, just that its linguisticaly inappropriate to answer the question with a number when the culturally appropriate answer is a generic plural.
As others have pointed out, counting is TAUGHT and in cultures where it is not much is taught, many people will be extremely ignorant. (However, it might well be that in hottentot culture other things are taught than the three Rs - I am pretty sure they teach dancing and drumming. (Check Sky channel 280 and watch some Zairean music!)
In my experience, few people who can read palms can read books.
Oracle's support is actually extremely good (in my experience). Yes, but I found it easy to use pgsql with no support, but impossible to use Oracle with no support!
AFAICR the pggsql web site lists companies providing support.
No - he SHOULD BE FORCED TO PAY FOR THE DAMGE HE DID CAUSE.
And that can start with EUR6000 to me for business lost while our system was off line, removing his sh*te from the works.
Serisously, if no one rips his limbs off, he got of lightly, and he should have this rubbed in his face with a great deal of force every day for the next X years.
What about the model where your business really needs a program that doesnt exist. You know others could use it.
So you write it, and it works, but you dont want to maintain it, and no one else in the company can, although they need it!
Release it as open source - the payback is that you get to use the program, well maintained and all, even after the developer has moved to higher places, be he engineer or student on day-release.
IBM was under the impression that PCs would flop, and they were after ways to dump the whole concept like a hot potato.
The company was run by people who saw computers at 40 ton trucks, which were only good for business, and failed to realise there was a migration path through pick-ups to family saloons, to Nissan Micras for your teenage daughter.
IBM shareholders should have had the entire set of directors jailed for corporate criminal insanity, but just voted them out instead.
And now back to the original thread...
DEC could have slaughtered everyone by unbundling VMS from their open hardware, and trying to compete for both hardware and software markets. I could have had VMS on my 386, or a desktop PDP/11 I could afford instead of an Amstrad monstrosity, but Ken ("Unix is snake oil") Olsen would not have it.
I'm sorry Ken, I am writing this using BSD on my PC, and DEC is f*cked. You got it wrong, and no one benefitted except Bill Gates.
runs a quite a bit faster than the original - fastest benchmark is a G4/450 at about 22x Actually, if the app is still running, there is a good chance speed is not a big issue. If speed was an issue, they would have upgraded 20 years ago.
and people will never learn how to really build hardware if all they ever see is Dell kit.
I don't think the Black Box is going to read my mind and broadcast my thoughts for all the world to see. It's not going to track everywhere I go through GPS and inform some insidious 'Shadow Government' of my whereabouts.
Well, not until after the first "firmware upgrade" anyway. [PS: I have a shed load of tin-foil hats at really low prices]
It may not stop speeding, but it will make it more difficult for motor manufacturers to lie about defective tyres, steering, brakes, etc
You might want to know how many accidents are caused by ABS, and how many are saved from being worse.
Next thing, you Montana dwellers will want the black box removed from planes in case someone discovers why they crash.
Its not the black box and the data you need to worry about, its who get to use it, and when. I see no problem if the vehicle has to be destroyed to retrieve the box.
Remember: Its not guns that kill people, its Americans
No - it should be necessary to destroy the device (and possibly also the car) to get the data out. Thus ensuring that the data will only be extracted following a sufficiently serious incident.
I keep praying some Indian company will buy the tooling to go on making LJ4/5/Colour5M for the next 100 years, like they do with cars.
As you say, anything past 5 is barely able to outlast the warranty, and has an outrageous TCO.
I know they are slow, but I am happy to wait.
My only complaint its "Load Letter" Dont these people know THERE IS NO LETTER PAPER OUTSIDE THE USA THE REST OF THE GALAXY USES A4. (My CLJ5M uses A3) we cannot "LOAD LETTER" we either want the sodding thing printed on A4, or not printed at all (in which case, we would not have clicked on PRINT).
It may have been dead one, but now its the UNDEAD [cue blood curling screams and creaking doors]
Be afraid, be very afraid, indeed ye trolls, quake in your very boots, for hordes of undead BSD zombies will haunt you day and night, and not only that, probably serve your web pages and host your e-mail too!
Yep.. at last count it would become illegal to sell pencils and paper!
Anyway if they are not banned because you can use them to work in cryptography, they will probably be banned because you might draw/write your own porn.
America... the burning of books is coming to you soon!
I hope it isnt - people with this kind of attitude to their customers can expect to go out of business in less than 2 years. Its nice to know who they are so we can avoid buying from people out to sink their customers ships.
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If you buy a second car (so as to have a big one when you need it and a small one when you don't) you cannot use your no claims bonus on both cars, even if you can't drive two cars at once! If you get a minibus, you cant use the no claims bonus from a van on the minibus, or vice versa, even if both are the same Ford Transit body.
You have to declare the value of the vehicle when you apply for a policy, but if you write off the vehicle, they value it half what you did. I could go on, but no need ... its pretty clear that these people are major league crooks. And they use the fact that insurance is compulsory to demand money with menaces. (Pay insurance or we send the boys in blue round to visit...)
Quite a lot, and they are all pretty necessary.
Yeah, we really need all these dependencies on audio related crap to install a Windowing product on a machine with no soundcard.
Its pretty damn clear that nobody on the KDE design team knows what dependency means. There is absolutely NO reason to have ANY sound related functions whatever. Equally, why all the games dependencies? If I am building a radius server, and I want some tools to manage the data graphically, why do I need to install a bunch of GAMES?
As others have pointed out, counting is TAUGHT and in cultures where it is not much is taught, many people will be extremely ignorant. (However, it might well be that in hottentot culture other things are taught than the three Rs - I am pretty sure they teach dancing and drumming. (Check Sky channel 280 and watch some Zairean music!)
In my experience, few people who can read palms can read books.
AFAICR the pggsql web site lists companies providing support.
And that can start with EUR6000 to me for business lost while our system was off line, removing his sh*te from the works.
Serisously, if no one rips his limbs off, he got of lightly, and he should have this rubbed in his face with a great deal of force every day for the next X years.
So you write it, and it works, but you dont want to maintain it, and no one else in the company can, although they need it!
Release it as open source - the payback is that you get to use the program, well maintained and all, even after the developer has moved to higher places, be he engineer or student on day-release.
The company was run by people who saw computers at 40 ton trucks, which were only good for business, and failed to realise there was a migration path through pick-ups to family saloons, to Nissan Micras for your teenage daughter.
IBM shareholders should have had the entire set of directors jailed for corporate criminal insanity, but just voted them out instead.
And now back to the original thread ...
DEC could have slaughtered everyone by unbundling VMS from their open hardware, and trying to compete for both hardware and software markets. I could have had VMS on my 386, or a desktop PDP/11 I could afford instead of an Amstrad monstrosity, but Ken ("Unix is snake oil") Olsen would not have it.
I'm sorry Ken, I am writing this using BSD on my PC, and DEC is f*cked. You got it wrong, and no one benefitted except Bill Gates.
Maybe we can save everyone a heap of trouble: forward all spam to the IRS instead of saving it.
Bill Gates has a patent on arbitrary code. (Or maybe that was SCO).
and people will never learn how to really build hardware if all they ever see is Dell kit.
And for the rest of the time, there is always a PDP8!
Well, not until after the first "firmware upgrade" anyway. [PS: I have a shed load of tin-foil hats at really low prices]
You might want to know how many accidents are caused by ABS, and how many are saved from being worse.
Next thing, you Montana dwellers will want the black box removed from planes in case someone discovers why they crash.
Its not the black box and the data you need to worry about, its who get to use it, and when. I see no problem if the vehicle has to be destroyed to retrieve the box.
Remember: Its not guns that kill people, its Americans
No - it should be necessary to destroy the device (and possibly also the car) to get the data out. Thus ensuring that the data will only be extracted following a sufficiently serious incident.
As you say, anything past 5 is barely able to outlast the warranty, and has an outrageous TCO.
I know they are slow, but I am happy to wait.
My only complaint its "Load Letter" Dont these people know THERE IS NO LETTER PAPER OUTSIDE THE USA THE REST OF THE GALAXY USES A4. (My CLJ5M uses A3) we cannot "LOAD LETTER" we either want the sodding thing printed on A4, or not printed at all (in which case, we would not have clicked on PRINT).
No news here folks, move along!
One is expensive, the other is VERY expensive, now if only I could remember which is which!
Be afraid, be very afraid, indeed ye trolls, quake in your very boots, for hordes of undead BSD zombies will haunt you day and night, and not only that, probably serve your web pages and host your e-mail too!
Yeah, well just wait till you have to carry country to country VoIP carrier traffic - then you will see data flowing!
For those of you who work for Xerosx, you could upgrade to 10G at home, and take the 1G to work to upgrade their system which is still on 10BaseT
So when can I have my very own first stone henge then?
Anyway if they are not banned because you can use them to work in cryptography, they will probably be banned because you might draw/write your own porn.
America... the burning of books is coming to you soon!
1) 1970: "Every house should have a mainframe capable of 1 MIPS running Unix"
2) ???
3) Prophet
You bought that PCI stuff? If you went EISA instead, you would have no problems. Who needs Apple compatibility anyway?
I hope it isnt - people with this kind of attitude to their customers can expect to go out of business in less than 2 years. Its nice to know who they are so we can avoid buying from people out to sink their customers ships.