For all the crap he gets here, its never been about the money with Bill. He lives in relative modesty for his income and has always maintained that his kids would only inherit a small portion of his wealth with the bulk to be used for charitable causes.
My software testing method involves trying to do everything I can think of that the end user might try to do
You need to automate your unit testing and let someone else perform functional and integration testing, prefereably qualified testers. Developers almost always test only positive flow which is totally inadequate when end users get their illogical mitts on the application.
it is that you are Free to make changes to the code
A fact which is completely irrelvant to about 98% of the population.
For a single person, it may be cheaper to go with Windows. But for any company with an IT dept. it will nearly always be cheaper and better to go with OSS. The one place where Windows wins out is for specialized apps that run only on windows
You have this totally backwards. Who exactly do you think it is that has specialized apps? Companies do. If they have to be rewritten, thats greater risk and cost for them, so while it will generally cost the home user little except their time there is often a substantial cost for companies to go with OSS.
I am then stuck with some libraries I cannot modify or upgrade and a application that will have to then be redone from scratch
If your application has to be redone from scratch because you want to make some UI changes then you probably need to reconsider your career choice or invest some time in learning about patterns and tiered design.
They have been in financial difficulties for years, this deal gets them a big chunk of change and the MS marketing machine goes to bat for them. The royalty payments are likely to be insignificant compared to the markets they gain. Good luck selling that one to the shareholders as misconduct.
Of the resistance should get this kit in preparation for the day when Skynet goes live. Terminators who are depressed after being abused over their weight/appearance/incomprehensible Austrian accents etc will function less efficiently.
I guess this is perhaps why New Line didn't want to hang around for Jackson any longer
I think its more Jackson not being prepared to work with New Line again given he had to sue them for his royalties. Trying to stiff the person who created a cash cow for you is not exactly conducive to a harmonious working relationship.
Gandalf the brown (named because of his cloak) will guide young Baggins in the way of the Foot in his quest against the evil dragon master. Along the way Bilbo becomes an expert at fighting with light staffs. Gollum is going to become very ashmatic and have a penchant for black outfits with funny helmets. The 13 dwarves, or dwarf army as they will be referred to dont really feature.
Lack of competent politicians in the US. Its popular to poke fun at Bush but the only reason he is president is because he is an excellent fundraiser and extremely well connected flesh presser, not because he is actually capable of doing the job. Decision making is for his cabal of neo-con buddies.
Bill Gates on the other hand after his years at MS is used to having his instructions carried out as if they were the word of God, thats just not going to wash with either party in the US, not to mention that publically he comes across with all the personality of a fish. I applaud his charitable efforts but watching his response at a refugee camp in Africa recently was quite interesting. Bill seemed hugely uncomfortable with the fact that what he was seeing reality, that such desperation actually existed. Hes better off running his charity and the US might try developing some competent politicians who understand that politics are global these days and that the reality based community are correct more often than not.
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For all the crap he gets here, its never been about the money with Bill. He lives in relative modesty for his income and has always maintained that his kids would only inherit a small portion of his wealth with the bulk to be used for charitable causes.
Such an attack is doomed to failure when the terrorists encounter the first cyber actors.
The corporate intranet is obviously something you have never heard of.
Our newly welcomed new law making overlords of course.
I also need to test my posts for closing tags before I hit the submit button
You have this totally backwards. Who exactly do you think it is that has specialized apps? Companies do. If they have to be rewritten, thats greater risk and cost for them, so while it will generally cost the home user little except their time there is often a substantial cost for companies to go with OSS.
They have been in financial difficulties for years, this deal gets them a big chunk of change and the MS marketing machine goes to bat for them. The royalty payments are likely to be insignificant compared to the markets they gain. Good luck selling that one to the shareholders as misconduct.
when you can limbo dance all the way to the office.
Then they can declare war on Vapour.
provided details of these supposed exploits to Oracle yet?
Kimdude has set a new high for monthly purchases on ebay.
or "Handy" if you are German
Of the resistance should get this kit in preparation for the day when Skynet goes live. Terminators who are depressed after being abused over their weight/appearance/incomprehensible Austrian accents etc will function less efficiently.
Stop posting mature consideration of the whole MS Patent issue and get back to hysterical screaming about how MS plans to kill Linux with patents.
Is it to be made publically available or do you have to request it from the commission?
The Munich migration is more expensive than the windows upgrade would have been. They just made a deliberate decision not to use Microsoft.
Gandalf the brown (named because of his cloak) will guide young Baggins in the way of the Foot in his quest against the evil dragon master. Along the way Bilbo becomes an expert at fighting with light staffs. Gollum is going to become very ashmatic and have a penchant for black outfits with funny helmets. The 13 dwarves, or dwarf army as they will be referred to dont really feature.
as Surfer Dudes? We may finally be able to shed some light on kowabunga now.
Lack of competent politicians in the US. Its popular to poke fun at Bush but the only reason he is president is because he is an excellent fundraiser and extremely well connected flesh presser, not because he is actually capable of doing the job. Decision making is for his cabal of neo-con buddies.
Bill Gates on the other hand after his years at MS is used to having his instructions carried out as if they were the word of God, thats just not going to wash with either party in the US, not to mention that publically he comes across with all the personality of a fish. I applaud his charitable efforts but watching his response at a refugee camp in Africa recently was quite interesting. Bill seemed hugely uncomfortable with the fact that what he was seeing reality, that such desperation actually existed. Hes better off running his charity and the US might try developing some competent politicians who understand that politics are global these days and that the reality based community are correct more often than not.
You failed to use the term synergy once. You are clearly lying about working for a large consultancy group.
seriously hard to kill the peoples choice
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