I was thinking more of Microsoft would be out of business because of the lawsuits brought by relatives - but yes word of mouth would spread to the extent that they would have no customers first.
I have a magical way of dealing with telephone spammers - I permanently have the ringer turned up. Anyone genuine will leave a message but the telemarketers don't. Trouble is people who hae the wrong number also leave a message but it's a pretty good system nontheless.
I think the poll's a bit unfair to those of us in a country that Star Wars hasn't been released in yet! There's no option of "couldn't see Star Wars without flying to America".
Here in the U.K. it was called DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) but then split up into Qinetiq plc (at least I think they've floated now although I'm not sure) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. I preferred DERA because they had all the patents they had in a electronic library on their website!
Wouldn't the lead shielding make your Palm Organiser a little heavy? Also the turbines and the water pipes to convert the nuclear power into electricity make it a little impractical don't you think?
Our computer teacher always said there was lots of "safeguards" imposed when software might kill someone - however like all software though there are always bugs. If every time Windows crashed it killed someone - Microsoft would be out of business now!
I remember watching a program about how they all thought they were going to get rich when the company floated (either that or merged I can't remember which) when the SEC intervened and stopped it. That was the problem with the.com entrepreneurs - a lot were only in it for the money.
But seriously - what is the point of knowing that there's a thumbprint on a clay tablet? Unless it's stolen and has the thief's fingerprint on there's no way you'd find out which person's fingerprint it was. My history teacher used to say that historians will have a hard time finding out things about the 20th century because in a century or so the magnetic media, CDs, videos etc will have degraded to such an extent as to be unreadable - whether it's true or not I don't know but I suspect it is for the magnetic media at least.
Going back to the story's original question though - does anyone have any idea of the approximate cost savings for an organisation of the size he mentions.
"under win98, my computer, properties, device manager, display adapters." - except on mine it lists the wrong one. I know because the person who built the computer told me so - maybe I'll just open it up and have a look.
I don't think they'll suceed as Lindows is sufficiently different from the word Windows - however much they're trying to cash in on Microsoft's trademark.
Open source programming may not result in fewer bugs - but they do get fixed quicker. If the program requirements are incorrect that's the customer's fault - it's not up to the programmers to change what they're asked to do!
One wonders why you couldn't just find a good ISP and stick with them? Reading the above story for the first time ever I felt a tinge of sympathy towards Jon Katz. But thankfully it passed pretty quickly.
There are still surprises in the console market though. When everyone thought Sony would lower the price of the PS2 in reply to the X-Box lowered price they lowered the price of the PSOne. A lot of people seem to be sitting on the fence until prices don't go any lower before deciding which platform to buy.
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I was thinking more of Microsoft would be out of business because of the lawsuits brought by relatives - but yes word of mouth would spread to the extent that they would have no customers first.
And for those who don't know Cebit is a European technology trade show.
I have a magical way of dealing with telephone spammers - I permanently have the ringer turned up. Anyone genuine will leave a message but the telemarketers don't. Trouble is people who hae the wrong number also leave a message but it's a pretty good system nontheless.
I think the poll's a bit unfair to those of us in a country that Star Wars hasn't been released in yet! There's no option of "couldn't see Star Wars without flying to America".
Or in slang terms valley girl speak.
Here in the U.K. it was called DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) but then split up into Qinetiq plc (at least I think they've floated now although I'm not sure) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. I preferred DERA because they had all the patents they had in a electronic library on their website!
Yes you're not - I had no idea what Shogi was either.
What's happened to all their automatic spy planes they're always so proud to tell us about?
Wouldn't the lead shielding make your Palm Organiser a little heavy? Also the turbines and the water pipes to convert the nuclear power into electricity make it a little impractical don't you think?
But what do judges know about technology? Surely 2600 know that they're doing their case no favours by pursuing these unorthodox tactics.
Our computer teacher always said there was lots of "safeguards" imposed when software might kill someone - however like all software though there are always bugs. If every time Windows crashed it killed someone - Microsoft would be out of business now!
The words sick & joke spring to mind.
Seriously in the U.K. pretty much every ISP's install CD changes your dial up settings - doesn't mean anyone's taking them to court over it though!
What effect would the bill have on non-American websites storing American's information though?
I remember watching a program about how they all thought they were going to get rich when the company floated (either that or merged I can't remember which) when the SEC intervened and stopped it. That was the problem with the .com entrepreneurs - a lot were only in it for the money.
But seriously - what is the point of knowing that there's a thumbprint on a clay tablet? Unless it's stolen and has the thief's fingerprint on there's no way you'd find out which person's fingerprint it was. My history teacher used to say that historians will have a hard time finding out things about the 20th century because in a century or so the magnetic media, CDs, videos etc will have degraded to such an extent as to be unreadable - whether it's true or not I don't know but I suspect it is for the magnetic media at least.
Going back to the story's original question though - does anyone have any idea of the approximate cost savings for an organisation of the size he mentions.
"under win98, my computer, properties, device manager, display adapters." - except on mine it lists the wrong one. I know because the person who built the computer told me so - maybe I'll just open it up and have a look.
I don't think they'll suceed as Lindows is sufficiently different from the word Windows - however much they're trying to cash in on Microsoft's trademark.
Open source programming may not result in fewer bugs - but they do get fixed quicker. If the program requirements are incorrect that's the customer's fault - it's not up to the programmers to change what they're asked to do!
One wonders why you couldn't just find a good ISP and stick with them? Reading the above story for the first time ever I felt a tinge of sympathy towards Jon Katz. But thankfully it passed pretty quickly.
There's a bigger market for the one entered in the story though. Most people don't want to go to the bother of programming a remote.
There are still surprises in the console market though. When everyone thought Sony would lower the price of the PS2 in reply to the X-Box lowered price they lowered the price of the PSOne. A lot of people seem to be sitting on the fence until prices don't go any lower before deciding which platform to buy.
You can still get into trouble - even if you just have a link to something.
"Experian: "Who would pretend they worked for Ford?"" - Is Ford's reputation that bad?