get some little robots up there running around with big sticky mats in front of them... and a "mothership" for them to "recharge" at and change their mats
you've lost the plot haven't you, the OP I replied to had cracked an "In Soviet Russia, cars park you" and I replied that he was behind the times, they already could...
Big Pharma doesn't want cures... cures mean the problem goes away... Big Pharma merely wants symptom management... then you have to keep going to them for it...
they're doing it so that Linux users will be "legally" locked out from viewing the next gen content... Microsoft was extremely miffed when DeCSS enabled Linux users to view DVDs. I think you'll find they were the ones who were really pulling the strings to get DVD Jon tried.
I remember when Windows 3.1 came out. Home users willingly bought and installed it on their existing 286/386 machines in droves, which were running DOS up to that point. It was a good product introduced at the right time for the right audience.
they didn't buy it... they borrowed the disks from work and made copies to install from... same with Office 6, if you used copies to install from then you didn't mess up disk 1 with the registered users details. The only "protection" Office 6 had was that the disks were in a weird format and the ordinary diskcopy command din't work on them.
you do realise that as far as Bill's concerned, those 140,000 exploits don't exist anymore... When they put Vista out the door, they got to "reset" the Windows Exploit Counter... as of 30th Jan 2007, XP is no longer Windows... Vista is Windows
I had my own company for a while, doing training development for Dell in 1998 and 1999, and I didn't want to spend tons of cash on computers and operating systems and applications - thousands of dollars on software.
Those who can, do... those who can't, train... and his biggest problem is expecting Microsoft to play nice so none Microsoft applications can connect to Exchange Server...
although some experts are convinced it says... "First post"... and a few are convinced it says... *The henge "bluestoned" again... we're off to work on Hurd"
If I'm not mistaken, you can get a fresh ballot paper and try again... but you have to ask for one and hand over the spoilt one to be cancelled... if you put it in the ballot box, then tough...
The biggest monopoly in the world, the largest company in the biggest country in the world, run by the richest person on earth, that controls 90% of the desktop computers on the planet, and has the highest cash reserves of any commercial entity --- is being strong armed!?!?!
yes, willingly... because they know that these limitations also help to lock out Linux from playing the new content...
were they arrested airside? because this sets a dangerous precedent... I was always under the impression that as long as you remained airside and haven't cleared through immigration, you were in international territory while passing through.
this robot doesn't detect the sniper... it indicates where the shot came from... by then it's too late probably for the target... a good sniper will make one shot, one kill and then scoot to an alternate location... only an idiot with a deathwish holes up and stays where he is taking shots...
HP PSC 1350... has a hard disk as it is able to "photocopy" pages on the scanner bed and print them out without having to be connected to a computer to do the donkey work. Plus, you can stick a memory card full of photos in it and press the button on the card reader station and have the ones you've marked using your camera print out for you.
More likely a stripped down Linux... I assisted a service agent a couple of years ago and the fancy photocopier, scanner, faxer, emailer (it could scan and send the scans as emails... very useful) beast showed a Linux boot up sequence while booting into safe mode (he knew the secret jumper to set for this mode)... Also, my HP PSC1350 is running Linux, I know this because when I was installing Debian on my computer a few months ago, I had the printer connected and powered up and the Debian installer wanted to know if I wanted to install debian onto the ext2 partition it had found on the printer (connected via USB). I was rather surprised and thankfully I hadn't blindly accepted it.
Conclusions Our analysis has been performed on six organizations in different European countries. The majority of them are public bodies. The organizations have followed different types of migration on the base of their context. We have investigated the costs of migration, and the cost of ownership of the old and the new solution differentiating them between the costs of purchasing and the costs of ownership of the software solutions. Special attention has been put on the intangible nature of the costs. Costs have been classified in categories defined trough existing studies and selected by a top down approach called Goal Question Metric. This instrument has been also used to define the questionnaires used to collect the data. Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports of savings on the long term - costs of ownership of the software products. Costs to migrate to an open solution are relevant and an organization needs to consider an extra effort for this. However these costs are temporary and manly are budgeted in less than one year. The major factor of cost of the new solution - even in the case that the open solution is mixed with closed software - is costs for peer or ad hoc training. These are the best example of intangible costs that often are not foreseen in a transition. On the other hand not providing a specific training may cause and adverse attitude toward the new technology. Fortunately those costs are limited in time and are not strictly linked to the nature of the new software adopted. We also investigated the productivity of the employees in using Microsoft office and OpenOffice.org. Office suites are widely used and are a good test bed and representative for a comparison on issues like effort and time spent in the daily routine of work. Delays in the task deliveries may have a bigger impact than costs on the organization's management. Our findings report no particular delays or lost of time in the daily work due to the use of OpenOffice.org. 12.7.1. Considerations With our analysis we achieve a good level of understanding of the costs, benefits and productivity of a transition. The following are the considerations we have drawn upon. 1. Before buying, upgrading proprietary office software one needs consider that: OpenOffice.org has all the functionalities that public offices need to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations Upgrading office programs is time-consuming and expensive. It requires installation time, potential document conversions, and new training. It also poses a risk because some documents containing code or macros may not be readable anymore OpenOffice.org is free, extremely stable, and supports the ISO Open Document Standard. 2. In our study the motivations to transit to OSS are: the exchange of documents in an open shared format (ODS), reuse of old hardware in some cases, and being independent of software vendors even when creating a distribution or an application for local needs. Employees may perceive that their work is under-valued using 'cheap' OSS products or changing operating model to OSS is problematic.
To overcome these pre-conception it is recommended to adopt a policy of both ad hoc and periodic training to fill the lack of knowledge/experience in relation to what OSS products are appropriate and how they might be deployed.
3. It is not always justified to base the migration on the promise of lower license costs, although in our study initial purchasing costs are lower for the OSS (they includes deployment and customization for the first run of the configuration). This is because these costs are too much influenced by factors like inflation and market flow.. 4. A model that differentiates between cost of migration and costs of ownership better respond to the managers' needs. The former involves high investment for a shorter p
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get some little robots up there running around with big sticky mats in front of them... and a "mothership" for them to "recharge" at and change their mats
just send up some very big sticky balloons or else use big arrays of fly-paper...
you only see gaps like that in movies...
you've lost the plot haven't you, the OP I replied to had cracked an "In Soviet Russia, cars park you" and I replied that he was behind the times, they already could...
too late... self-parking cars are already available... in Japan...
Big Pharma doesn't want cures... cures mean the problem goes away... Big Pharma merely wants symptom management... then you have to keep going to them for it...
they're doing it so that Linux users will be "legally" locked out from viewing the next gen content... Microsoft was extremely miffed when DeCSS enabled Linux users to view DVDs. I think you'll find they were the ones who were really pulling the strings to get DVD Jon tried.
they didn't buy it... they borrowed the disks from work and made copies to install from... same with Office 6, if you used copies to install from then you didn't mess up disk 1 with the registered users details. The only "protection" Office 6 had was that the disks were in a weird format and the ordinary diskcopy command din't work on them.
hey, whatever happened to the guy who pie'd Gates? I want to firstly shake his hand and secondly buy him several beers
video is here
you do realise that as far as Bill's concerned, those 140,000 exploits don't exist anymore... When they put Vista out the door, they got to "reset" the Windows Exploit Counter... as of 30th Jan 2007, XP is no longer Windows... Vista is Windows
Those who can, do... those who can't, train... and his biggest problem is expecting Microsoft to play nice so none Microsoft applications can connect to Exchange Server...
look up Catadioptric lenses... here. All they've done here is folded the light path a few more times... still the same concept though.
although some experts are convinced it says... "First post"... and a few are convinced it says... *The henge "bluestoned" again... we're off to work on Hurd"
"Killroy was here"...
If I'm not mistaken, you can get a fresh ballot paper and try again... but you have to ask for one and hand over the spoilt one to be cancelled... if you put it in the ballot box, then tough...
I used to have this DOS program that allowed me to do the same... hmmm what was it called... 4DOS? someone help me...
it is oo-bun-too. There is no You in Ubuntu
yes, willingly... because they know that these limitations also help to lock out Linux from playing the new content...
were they arrested airside? because this sets a dangerous precedent... I was always under the impression that as long as you remained airside and haven't cleared through immigration, you were in international territory while passing through.
this robot doesn't detect the sniper... it indicates where the shot came from... by then it's too late probably for the target... a good sniper will make one shot, one kill and then scoot to an alternate location... only an idiot with a deathwish holes up and stays where he is taking shots...
HP PSC 1350... has a hard disk as it is able to "photocopy" pages on the scanner bed and print them out without having to be connected to a computer to do the donkey work. Plus, you can stick a memory card full of photos in it and press the button on the card reader station and have the ones you've marked using your camera print out for you.
no, there was no card in the slot, and it showed up as a 2 gig ext2 partition.
More likely a stripped down Linux... I assisted a service agent a couple of years ago and the fancy photocopier, scanner, faxer, emailer (it could scan and send the scans as emails... very useful) beast showed a Linux boot up sequence while booting into safe mode (he knew the secret jumper to set for this mode)... Also, my HP PSC1350 is running Linux, I know this because when I was installing Debian on my computer a few months ago, I had the printer connected and powered up and the Debian installer wanted to know if I wanted to install debian onto the ext2 partition it had found on the printer (connected via USB). I was rather surprised and thankfully I hadn't blindly accepted it.