My only question is... Why only there? Why don't other nations use similar policies? Why they keep buying from foreign companies instead of using OSS?
Brcause it is a MAJOR change. Whether going from Oracle to Postgres, or SQLServer to Oracle, Windows to OSX, Windows to Linux....it is major. And not to be undertaken lightly. Whatever they are using now works, mostly. Business gets done. Changing the entire underpinnings brings the possibility of it not working. Yes, there might be a slight benefit in a new system, but it also might be a huge money pit. Ask the FBI.
Switching tens of thousands, or even millions of desktops, the servers that they connect to, and all the myriad of applications used daily, to "something else" is not to be thought of lightly. And woe to he who proposes a multiyear project, with any cost savings at least 5 years out, and it goes tits up after 3 years.
Well, I believe that Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what Google might be about to unleash. The only difference would be that Microsoft's costs more.
Actually, Sharepoint Sevices costs nothing, apart from the base Server2003 licensing. Sharepoint Portal, OTOH, does dig into your pocket. But I imagine most small/medium companies could get by using just the Services portion.
each child to receive a laptop instead of books as the books will be provided electronically. While good to get some tech in these kids hands, I can't help wondering about permanence. Without the printed page, past facts are easily changed to suit current attitudes.
I know this isn't quite the case yet. But as we go farther down the road with ebooks, it will be a concern.
But a knife, even several knives, won't work today. Probably not even a gun. The passengers would swarm, and take him down.
The only option left is to blow the aircraft up in the sky.
You may not believe in the boogeyman, but he believes in you. To the point of killing himself, and all those around him, to prove it.
Of course that is a bit of creative editing, but nonetheless an exact quote of the actual fact.
It's an 'actual fact' in that everyone used pencils early on. The Space Pen guy designed that pen with his own company's money, and sold several hundred to NASA and the Russians for a few dollars each.
After all, the 9/11 hijackers would have passed a chemical detection test, so they would have been fine to board, no? Again, the real problem here wasn't that the test systems failed, it was the human management of the system - people weren't serious enough about the tests that were already in place.
The 9/11 hijackers used the strongest weapons they could legally take on board. Knives/box cutters. Take away that option, and they move on to something else. Take away that option, and again, they move onto some other method. Now, it seems they are bypassing the hijack, and going straight to blowing the aircraft out of the sky.
Very few will buy Vista to reinstall over XP. Most will just get it with a new PC. And if they DO reinstall, most will probably completely blow away the drive, and do a full install instead of an upgrade install.
But NOT 200 tables in 30 mdb files. Way too much weirdness. Obviously, this...thing...needs a complete redesign from the ground up. Whoever allowed this clusterfuck to happen needs to be shot.
Whatever tool you decide on for the back end, (Oracle, SQLServer, Postgres, whatever), I've had great success using Access as a front end. No data stored in it, but just the GUI and some queries/procedures/functions.
He wants me to meet with the Vienamise project manager at 12 noon. It's nine AM. Good.
Too bad for the Vietnamese PM who has to be up at 2AM for this.
Her mother is planning a multi day train and bicycle trip to make the visit. She will be with a group of bicyclists who have met using a matchmaking web site that matches people who wish to ride from and to similar places in the country or state.
Until they run into the reality of a New Hampshire winter.
Don't get me wrong...I'm campainging HARD for telecommuting at my job. And my last two jobs, i rode my bike most days. Place of abode chosen specifically to be able to ride. But that is NOT the norm.
It's not like these people are going to bust into internet cafe's, pick the lock and change the keyboard without anybody noticing. Nor are they going to do it to somebody's personal PC ("Hey, my keyboard's different. Oh well...").
How about a stack of them at your next local computer show. "Free keyboard with any purchase over $40!" You'd take one. And so would I. And not think twice about it.
Well..maybe not now.
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My only question is... Why only there? Why don't other nations use similar policies? Why they keep buying from foreign companies instead of using OSS?
Brcause it is a MAJOR change. Whether going from Oracle to Postgres, or SQLServer to Oracle, Windows to OSX, Windows to Linux....it is major. And not to be undertaken lightly.
Whatever they are using now works, mostly. Business gets done. Changing the entire underpinnings brings the possibility of it not working. Yes, there might be a slight benefit in a new system, but it also might be a huge money pit. Ask the FBI.
Switching tens of thousands, or even millions of desktops, the servers that they connect to, and all the myriad of applications used daily, to "something else" is not to be thought of lightly. And woe to he who proposes a multiyear project, with any cost savings at least 5 years out, and it goes tits up after 3 years.
Well, I believe that Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what Google might be about to unleash. The only difference would be that Microsoft's costs more.
Actually, Sharepoint Sevices costs nothing, apart from the base Server2003 licensing. Sharepoint Portal, OTOH, does dig into your pocket. But I imagine most small/medium companies could get by using just the Services portion.
Now shipping as part of Windows Server 2003 R2 or available for download at no additional charge, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Windows Server 2003 is an integrated portfolio of blah de blah And Sharepoint/Office2003/2007 is FAR more integrated than what Google has produced so far. Doc managemnent, collaboration, customization.
The nurbs modeling program Rhino3D does this. The trial version is limited to 25 saves, rather than days or uses.
each child to receive a laptop instead of books as the books will be provided electronically.
While good to get some tech in these kids hands, I can't help wondering about permanence. Without the printed page, past facts are easily changed to suit current attitudes. I know this isn't quite the case yet. But as we go farther down the road with ebooks, it will be a concern.
Who are we at war with today?
But a knife, even several knives, won't work today. Probably not even a gun. The passengers would swarm, and take him down. The only option left is to blow the aircraft up in the sky.
You may not believe in the boogeyman, but he believes in you. To the point of killing himself, and all those around him, to prove it.
Of course that is a bit of creative editing, but nonetheless an exact quote of the actual fact.
It's an 'actual fact' in that everyone used pencils early on. The Space Pen guy designed that pen with his own company's money, and sold several hundred to NASA and the Russians for a few dollars each.
After all, the 9/11 hijackers would have passed a chemical detection test, so they would have been fine to board, no? Again, the real problem here wasn't that the test systems failed, it was the human management of the system - people weren't serious enough about the tests that were already in place.
The 9/11 hijackers used the strongest weapons they could legally take on board. Knives/box cutters. Take away that option, and they move on to something else. Take away that option, and again, they move onto some other method.
Now, it seems they are bypassing the hijack, and going straight to blowing the aircraft out of the sky.
Useless list.
Very few will buy Vista to reinstall over XP. Most will just get it with a new PC. And if they DO reinstall, most will probably completely blow away the drive, and do a full install instead of an upgrade install.
But NOT 200 tables in 30 mdb files. Way too much weirdness. Obviously, this ...thing...needs a complete redesign from the ground up. Whoever allowed this clusterfuck to happen needs to be shot.
Whatever tool you decide on for the back end, (Oracle, SQLServer, Postgres, whatever), I've had great success using Access as a front end. No data stored in it, but just the GUI and some queries/procedures/functions.
Not if you 'love' being a slashdot editor. And if you can convince the powers that be to let you.
I changed jobs and started programming for money at 37. I may change again later on if it suits me. Do what YOU want to do, and screw the norm.
He wants me to meet with the Vienamise project manager at 12 noon. It's nine AM. Good.
Too bad for the Vietnamese PM who has to be up at 2AM for this.
Her mother is planning a multi day train and bicycle trip to make the visit. She will be with a group of bicyclists who have met using a matchmaking web site that matches people who wish to ride from and to similar places in the country or state.
Until they run into the reality of a New Hampshire winter.
Don't get me wrong...I'm campainging HARD for telecommuting at my job. And my last two jobs, i rode my bike most days. Place of abode chosen specifically to be able to ride.
But that is NOT the norm.
Lightweight. This is why I don't have a cell phone at all.
I wish my life was this organised, but it's just not
Simple solution. stop screwing around on the computer, get your narrow ass outta that chair, and clean your room!
Yes, the cargo space is pressurized and mostly heated. That's where animals/pets travel. Wouldn't do to have Fluffy suffocated and freeze-dried.
Did I win?
It's not like these people are going to bust into internet cafe's, pick the lock and change the keyboard without anybody noticing. Nor are they going to do it to somebody's personal PC ("Hey, my keyboard's different. Oh well...").
How about a stack of them at your next local computer show. "Free keyboard with any purchase over $40!" You'd take one. And so would I. And not think twice about it.
Well..maybe not now.
I don't see the attraction of myspace.
You're evidently not 14.
.cm != .com
That is rather the point of the thing.
Just like any other telemarketing call. "No thanks" [click]
I'd rather have a connection for the x hours a day when I DO have power (which runs all the other stuff too) than no connection at all.
It doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing.
I'd say any way they can get an extra user on Firefox, even underhandedly, is a plus.
MS used "underhanded tactics" to get "an extra user" on Windows, and are universally reviled for it. Real uses underhanded tactics. AOL the same.
Why do you wsh the same for Firefox?
I'd say huzzah to the lesser of two evils.
hmm..lesser of two evils, Real vs. IE. That's a tough one.
How about if the fucking people who saw them climbing the tree talked to them instead of calling the fucking police?
Because the parents of said kids will then instigate a suit against the 'fucking people' for harassing thier kids.
Calling the cops is one thing ("Hey...there's some kids screwing up this tree!").....what the cops (and the legal system) then do is quite another.