Yesterday my wife dragged me to an event at which we sat in on an informal lecture about animal totems and spirit guides. That may not sound so interesting on it's own - except that after the lecture, the discussion was rampant with questions and stories of none other than BIGFOOT! In the Mid-Atlantic region of the East Coast no less!
Well, imagine my suprise/distress as I stumbled upon this posting while catching up on what I missed yesterday!
This must be the explanation for that putred, foul odor in the air at night.;)
The obvious immediate advice to your grandfather would be to question the board if the ever continuing and increasing amount of money they spend on mandatory upgrades to the OS of each computer will eventually out way the one time cost of changing over to another less costly OS. The same point goes for office and collaboration software from the software giant - and emphasise the point that if the software and OS's aren't upgraded (ie., expensive upgrades and service contracts renewed), support will be discontinued!
Financial considerations aside, what about the educational value of teaching students that there are other functionally usable software platforms besides MS and Apple? And, does the board really want to have a commercial, monopolistic company dictate how they are allowed to use their computing resources, what software they are allowed to run to accomplish any given task? Also remind them that not only does MS do this at the OS level, but are diligently pushing forward at the harware level with the same idea - that they can dictate what software is "trusted" and allowed to be run on the system. Does the board really want MS to tell them that they can only use MS software when another brand might do the job better and for less?
Just some food for thought about what "higher education" should provide or be subject to... Tell him to tell the board to chew on those ideas!
Okay, so you think taken was "taken" from other filmworks, and you don't like Spielberg... that's okay. But also give credit where credit is due. Taken may well be the most cohesive alien-government cover up-human sci-fi series since the X-Files. And.. they used a different director for each of the 10 episodes, and left a gaping open end for future imaginative speculation of how the alien-human hybrid story evolves in a future film or series. With the current state of stupidity on television, we should all be happy when something of this calibur makes it's way into our television programing.
What will it take to get all the chatters to be able to talk to each other you ask? Well the answer is clear for all to see - M$ bullying everyone into using Netmeeting!!!
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Yesterday my wife dragged me to an event at which we sat in on an informal lecture about animal totems and spirit guides. That may not sound so interesting on it's own - except that after the lecture, the discussion was rampant with questions and stories of none other than BIGFOOT! In the Mid-Atlantic region of the East Coast no less! ;)
Well, imagine my suprise/distress as I stumbled upon this posting while catching up on what I missed yesterday!
This must be the explanation for that putred, foul odor in the air at night.
How much is M$ paying SCO to extort we inocent users...?!
The obvious immediate advice to your grandfather would be to question the board if the ever continuing and increasing amount of money they spend on mandatory upgrades to the OS of each computer will eventually out way the one time cost of changing over to another less costly OS. The same point goes for office and collaboration software from the software giant - and emphasise the point that if the software and OS's aren't upgraded (ie., expensive upgrades and service contracts renewed), support will be discontinued!
Financial considerations aside, what about the educational value of teaching students that there are other functionally usable software platforms besides MS and Apple? And, does the board really want to have a commercial, monopolistic company dictate how they are allowed to use their computing resources, what software they are allowed to run to accomplish any given task? Also remind them that not only does MS do this at the OS level, but are diligently pushing forward at the harware level with the same idea - that they can dictate what software is "trusted" and allowed to be run on the system. Does the board really want MS to tell them that they can only use MS software when another brand might do the job better and for less?
Just some food for thought about what "higher education" should provide or be subject to... Tell him to tell the board to chew on those ideas!
Okay, so you think taken was "taken" from other filmworks, and you don't like Spielberg... that's okay. But also give credit where credit is due. Taken may well be the most cohesive alien-government cover up-human sci-fi series since the X-Files. And.. they used a different director for each of the 10 episodes, and left a gaping open end for future imaginative speculation of how the alien-human hybrid story evolves in a future film or series. With the current state of stupidity on television, we should all be happy when something of this calibur makes it's way into our television programing.
What will it take to get all the chatters to be able to talk to each other you ask? Well the answer is clear for all to see - M$ bullying everyone into using Netmeeting!!!