The difference is that Mom and Pop stores dont have to face Wal-Mart taking actions against their suppliers to force up the prices up.
However, I seem to remember in Europe, Wrigleys were fined a massive amount for refusing to supply stores that sold other brands of gum. The difference is Wrigleys did not try telling the judge "Dont fine us, it would hurt our bottom line!"
The UK government is almost certainly trying to figure out a system that will allow it to tax you when you move your money from one pocket to another. They are determined to tax you to death, and then tax your death.
As for control, implanting chips in your brain is probably discussed at weekly cabinet meetings. Blair, Straw and Blunkett are all power crazed maniacs, on a scale not normally seen outside of movies like "Public Enemy".And as for alienating voters, their record is looking good on that too. Unfortunately, the opposition is WORSE! However, between them, Blair & Co don't have the technical knowledge to write a "Hello World" program in VB, so we are probably saved.
If it it walks like a duck and talks like a duck Don't bloody well vote for it.
This is not the way it is. It is you that is making the mistake with your prejudiced view of the client. If the client is committed to the kind of bean-counter mentality you present, thenyou might not wish to do business with him. This kind of narrow-minded. short-termist view is one of the reaons so many businesses have gone bust recently, and you really don't need to design an application for someone who will go bust before the delivery date - especially if you have signed over the copyright to him, and might have to resort to law before you could sell it elsewhere.
Any rational and experienced client doesnt want a bunch of floppies with source code on, he wants an application which will solve his business problems.
Sure if the client is in the business of selling software, he wants exclusive rights to the copyright, and presumably will pay accordingly.
However, let us say he is in the business of selling day-old-chicks, he doesn't care a @£$% who has copies of the software, but, he would sure-as-hell want the software to migrate itself to any forthcoming release of the OS on which it runs.
Leaving copyright with the author, and putting it under GLP or BSDL will SOLVE HIS FRIGGING PROBLEMS, keeping floppies under the bed will not.It is your ethical duty to tell him this.
Of course telling the client you are doing one thing while doing another is unethical. Its also illegal, and might lead to a prison sentence or broken legs.
Failing to tell the client what is in his best interest is unethical, although probably legal in the USA, so, in simple language, The ethical thing is to tell the client that one of GPL or BSDL is his best choice, and why. I think this is one of the cases where BSDL loses out to GPL, since GPL will prevent his competors from enhancing the software and refusing him the improvements.
In my personal experience, many customers are happy to sign a contract that allows you to sell the software to competitors, if the price is right. They expect to compete in their own business, not in software, and if making it open source benefits them, they will expect to be told that its an option, and might sue you if you fail to tell them.
What was particularly unusual about the GEC/Marconi people was that they were found with "Umbrella marks on their legs" which poses the interesting question How would you know those marks were made by umbrellas, unless you were the one weilding the umbrella? It was also "leaked" to the tabloid press that the KGB were fond of using poison tipped umbrellas to assasinate people, even though the only cloak and dagger agent to regularly use an umbrella was John Steed of the Avengers.
Or for those of you with short attention spans, there was a lot of evidence/speculation that these cases were assasinations by MI5/6 with a less than credible attempt to implicate the KGB
My guess is that they realised that no matter how skilled you are as a computer professional, and even if your work is essential to the nation's security, in the UK you are still treated like piss, and killed themselves using the only implement available to C programers -the poison tipped umbrella.
The part about being able to just push you cart through a checkstand and having the totals come up seems like a good idea...and that's about it.
I suggested doing this by pattern recognition from the store's CCTV fifteen years ago (with schematics and algorithms). Avoids the need for tagging, and also recognises the customer - and charges him/her whether its in the trolley or up the jumper, makes no difference! My employers were not interested in implementing it.
Yes I did know the Jamaican woman who was caught trying to smuggle a frozen turkey out the store by holding it between her thighs - but had to drop it because the checkout queue was too long!
It may be illegal in America, but in Europe this law would not apply. In most of the world, its not even likely to apply, and if it did, the police are more worried about guns and drugs than MS file formats.You may wish to emigrate.
The mouse pointer ought to be updated in the interrupt service routine, like in OS/2, so your mouse pointer is fast, even when the machine is slow as hell.
Actually, about 30 years ago, a bunch of people in America, England, Holland, and quite a few other places I have not been to, decided to get off the boat. They were the Hippies. They did not subscribe to the "A million Lemmings can't be wrong" theory, and decided to try other ideas instead.
They got a very bad press from the lemmings, and the lemmings clearly just thought they were another bunch of lemmings with their own cliff. Since most people get their data from the Lemming Press (TM), they assumed that they might as well follow the blind man in front of them, rather than another, probably blind, man somewhere else.This is not surprising. America was founded by a bunch of rebels, and lets face it, they are mainstream lemmings now!
The main difference between now and "the good old days" is that there is no longer anywhere you can go that is out of reach of lemming based civilisation. Even the Taliban's rather foolish attempt failed, and lets face it, they were armed and dangerous. You wont get far with a VW bus and some magic mushrooms today - but at least you can download "The Greatful Dead" with Kazaa.
Anybody know if "The Furry Freak Brothers" and Fat Freddies Cat" comics are available online?
Never fear, Whine is here! You can have your Linux and eat your Words! {Whats Half Implemented, Never Executes?)
Personally, I feel that with every release, MS Word gets worse! I only wish there was something else. Unfortunately, his does not look like the answer to my prayers.
She deserved it, look what she was wearing?
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I see a big danger here for cure looking girls:
Pilot watching cute girl go by gets too excited and presses trigger...
If they expect users to read the manual ITS DOOMED. The average PDA buyer is incapable of reading a manual. (Fortunately they are also incapable of reading WSJ (Which is only available in America anyway).
If there is a problem, (Like with firewalls) then it needs a popup to tell you what to do It looks like you are using Windows XP - either bin it and get a real OS, or turn off the firewall fucktion.
With a bit of luck, a good many users will get a Zuarus before they ever even see XP, and then they will think its XP that is naff.
For a limited range of uses, "hands free" operation is worth it. For input of text, NOTHING will ever beat a keyboard.
No matter how much refinement goes into predicting English, its still going to be hopeless when it comes to coding, or any other kind of specialist use where accuracy is important.
And if the state of the art is what they are using for subtitles on TV, then its not even going to replace using a random number generator for input.
With a few mods, this could be really useful to a different market...
Give it voice activation, and the ability to send and recieve to a database engine somewhere, like trafficmaster systems then...It would be ideal for tourists/backpackers.
How do I get to the Europa Hotel
Walk 200 yards to your right, then take the underground to Piccadilly Circus, then ask again
Where can I score some good weed
Look for the sign saying Princes Graacht, slightly to your left, and walk a few hundred yards...
You get the picture.
The potential for advertising is enormous...
Where can I get blank CD
PC World (end of the next street on your right) has a special offer on blank CDs right now
Dont forget I said it here first, specifically to make any patent on this impossible. If they have already filed for a patent on this, then it falls down because it is obvious to any suitably skilled person (ie ME), if they have not filed, then they cant cos its public knowledge.
And the same goes for MS's SQL based file system. I invented this over 15 years ago, and had the idea posted on a web site until last year, so they can't patent that.
There are internet cafes on almost every block, and some of them actually have internet connections:-)
Seriously, there's no lack of computers. Its the telephone system that sucks, and getting 1200 baud connections id very hard!
On the up side: If Nigeria decides that Spam is unIslamic, then, bearing in mind they are into stoning people to death for adultery, and chopping their arms off for theft, there is a reasonable chance that spammers might get the penalties they so richly deserve.
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However, I seem to remember in Europe, Wrigleys were fined a massive amount for refusing to supply stores that sold other brands of gum. The difference is Wrigleys did not try telling the judge "Dont fine us, it would hurt our bottom line!"
MS should be buying underpants by the palletload, but I cant see this scaring the Open Software movement a lot!
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck Don't bloody well vote for it!
As for control, implanting chips in your brain is probably discussed at weekly cabinet meetings. Blair, Straw and Blunkett are all power crazed maniacs, on a scale not normally seen outside of movies like "Public Enemy".And as for alienating voters, their record is looking good on that too. Unfortunately, the opposition is WORSE! However, between them, Blair & Co don't have the technical knowledge to write a "Hello World" program in VB, so we are probably saved.
If it it walks like a duck and talks like a duck Don't bloody well vote for it.
If Intel do this, then they lose 90% of the world market. I see a major opening for a Russian chip foundry!
If it walks like a duck, and walks like a duck, then don't bloody well vote for it
Any rational and experienced client doesnt want a bunch of floppies with source code on, he wants an application which will solve his business problems.
Sure if the client is in the business of selling software, he wants exclusive rights to the copyright, and presumably will pay accordingly.
However, let us say he is in the business of selling day-old-chicks, he doesn't care a @£$% who has copies of the software, but, he would sure-as-hell want the software to migrate itself to any forthcoming release of the OS on which it runs.
Leaving copyright with the author, and putting it under GLP or BSDL will SOLVE HIS FRIGGING PROBLEMS, keeping floppies under the bed will not.It is your ethical duty to tell him this.
Of course telling the client you are doing one thing while doing another is unethical. Its also illegal, and might lead to a prison sentence or broken legs.
Failing to tell the client what is in his best interest is unethical, although probably legal in the USA, so, in simple language, The ethical thing is to tell the client that one of GPL or BSDL is his best choice, and why. I think this is one of the cases where BSDL loses out to GPL, since GPL will prevent his competors from enhancing the software and refusing him the improvements.
In my personal experience, many customers are happy to sign a contract that allows you to sell the software to competitors, if the price is right. They expect to compete in their own business, not in software, and if making it open source benefits them, they will expect to be told that its an option, and might sue you if you fail to tell them.
As a drinker, perhaps you might recognise the connection beteen "Irish" and "Guiness"
Is your grandmother for sale? How much?
How about a Beowulf cluster of ink carts then? Would that be smart enough to run H-Paq? VMS?
Or for those of you with short attention spans, there was a lot of evidence/speculation that these cases were assasinations by MI5/6 with a less than credible attempt to implicate the KGB
My guess is that they realised that no matter how skilled you are as a computer professional, and even if your work is essential to the nation's security, in the UK you are still treated like piss, and killed themselves using the only implement available to C programers -the poison tipped umbrella.
I suggested doing this by pattern recognition from the store's CCTV fifteen years ago (with schematics and algorithms). Avoids the need for tagging, and also recognises the customer - and charges him/her whether its in the trolley or up the jumper, makes no difference! My employers were not interested in implementing it.
Yes I did know the Jamaican woman who was caught trying to smuggle a frozen turkey out the store by holding it between her thighs - but had to drop it because the checkout queue was too long!
Any time soon, my lettuce will spoof the fridge's IP and order its own mayo, using the pizza's credit card.
It may be illegal in America, but in Europe this law would not apply. In most of the world, its not even likely to apply, and if it did, the police are more worried about guns and drugs than MS file formats.You may wish to emigrate.
The mouse pointer ought to be updated in the interrupt service routine, like in OS/2, so your mouse pointer is fast, even when the machine is slow as hell.
They got a very bad press from the lemmings, and the lemmings clearly just thought they were another bunch of lemmings with their own cliff. Since most people get their data from the Lemming Press (TM), they assumed that they might as well follow the blind man in front of them, rather than another, probably blind, man somewhere else.This is not surprising. America was founded by a bunch of rebels, and lets face it, they are mainstream lemmings now!
The main difference between now and "the good old days" is that there is no longer anywhere you can go that is out of reach of lemming based civilisation. Even the Taliban's rather foolish attempt failed, and lets face it, they were armed and dangerous. You wont get far with a VW bus and some magic mushrooms today - but at least you can download "The Greatful Dead" with Kazaa.
Anybody know if "The Furry Freak Brothers" and Fat Freddies Cat" comics are available online?
Its one of the reasons the rest of the world is so unhappy with America!
Personally, I feel that with every release, MS Word gets worse! I only wish there was something else. Unfortunately, his does not look like the answer to my prayers.
Pilot watching cute girl go by gets too excited and presses trigger ...
A million lemmings cant be wrong!
If there is a problem, (Like with firewalls) then it needs a popup to tell you what to do It looks like you are using Windows XP - either bin it and get a real OS, or turn off the firewall fucktion.
With a bit of luck, a good many users will get a Zuarus before they ever even see XP, and then they will think its XP that is naff.
No matter how much refinement goes into predicting English, its still going to be hopeless when it comes to coding, or any other kind of specialist use where accuracy is important.
And if the state of the art is what they are using for subtitles on TV, then its not even going to replace using a random number generator for input.
Then its time you got yourself an Intel Pentium, complete with Pentium Bug (tm)
Give it voice activation, and the ability to send and recieve to a database engine somewhere, like trafficmaster systems then ...It would be ideal for tourists/backpackers.
How do I get to the Europa Hotel
Walk 200 yards to your right, then take the underground to Piccadilly Circus, then ask again
Where can I score some good weed
Look for the sign saying Princes Graacht, slightly to your left, and walk a few hundred yards ...
You get the picture.
The potential for advertising is enormous...
Where can I get blank CD
PC World (end of the next street on your right) has a special offer on blank CDs right now
Dont forget I said it here first, specifically to make any patent on this impossible. If they have already filed for a patent on this, then it falls down because it is obvious to any suitably skilled person (ie ME), if they have not filed, then they cant cos its public knowledge.
And the same goes for MS's SQL based file system. I invented this over 15 years ago, and had the idea posted on a web site until last year, so they can't patent that.
either that or a new kid on the block has bought Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PS2.
don't you watch those scary movies on TV?
Seriously, there's no lack of computers. Its the telephone system that sucks, and getting 1200 baud connections id very hard!
On the up side: If Nigeria decides that Spam is unIslamic, then, bearing in mind they are into stoning people to death for adultery, and chopping their arms off for theft, there is a reasonable chance that spammers might get the penalties they so richly deserve.