the one where Thailand announces a major plan to outfit all schools and public services with a massive rollout of Vista and Office 2007... all sponsored by a major price deal with Microsoft...
I had the opportunity to try this while sailing to Bermuda when the wind died completely. Hoped to get a nice bath after three days of no showering, but it didn't work.
you used the wrong soap... there are soaps designed for use with sea water... just google for it... yeah, I know you were caught out, but next time... take some along and you can then save your precious fresh water for drinking.
ah, but the money spent on lawsuits is still in the economy enabling the lawyers to purchase yachts and houses and thus paying the salaries of the house and yacht builders and then going on whatever they decide to spend it on. It's only "lost" money as far as IBM and their shareholders are concerned. The money is still going around the money-go-round being taxed at every opportunity...
how does Moblock compare against using the peerguardian plugin for Azureus on Linux? Whenever I start Azureus, it spends a short time fetching the "biglist" and then regularly updates that list according to how I've scheduled it. Moblock apparently has to be manually fed and launched
I wouldn't be... I've still got my boxed set of Dos 3.2 in my desk drawer at work and also have an old twin floppy "laptop" with cga screen that runs DRDOS GEM 2 just to prove to folks you don't require wizzbang hardware to run a gui on... here's the beasty...
that the patent office get a small percentage of the royalties that a patent earns... and that the patent office bears the costs of the winning side when a patent gets invalidated... they would have an incentive to get things done right then...
They'd have a decent revenue stream from high quality patents and an incentive NOT to just push things through a past a rubber stamp...
They'd have to employ real talent then for patent examiners...
1) It's already been fixed and released as stable, why are you still using such an outdated version? 2) It's already fixed in CVS... get that version or wait for the stable build 3) Wait for me to get around to it, I decide how urgent it is... 4) Pay me to fix it... I'm working on what I want to do and if you want me to drop everything, pay me. 5) Find something else that does the job 6) like it or lump it... 7) fix it yourself, please submit the patch 8) find someone else who'll fix it for you for free 9) Find someone else who'll fix it for you at a price
CSS, your choices are:
1) it's a feature, there may be a workaround 2) upgrade to the version that's already out and pay for it 3) wait for the next version to come out and pay for it 4) take out a support contract to get a hotfix 5) Find something else that does the job 6) like it or lump it...
The other week I bought a new pair of shoes. The girl at the checkout had to fill in some demographic data on the POS terminal. She typed my age as 38 which was two years too low. Maybe a boy selling software would be off a lot more but he is going to know the difference between 15 and 25.
and therein lies the problem... wtf do they need it for.. and why the heck did you give it to them...
any checkout clerk that asks for my demographic details gets rubbish given to them... I flat out refuse to give them my name, address, telephone number post code or whatever else they ask for as they have no need for it in order to make the sale... if their POS till gets upset, I give them daft things to get past the stupid error messages. If they claim it's for the guarantee, then I tell them the receipt is good enough. If they still get upset, then I tell them "NO SALE" and walk out leaving everything there on the counter (making sure I've got my money back and any credit card sale rescinded)
I normally only use loyalty cards that don't require a real address for the benefits... I give false addresses for those... My Matalan card has Mickey Mouse, Florida as the address
Tesco think I'm a 120 year old female... (I love screwing up datasets with garbage)
over 40 to buy a computer game without being challenged??? fsking stupid... 21 yes, 40 daft
anyway, getting back on topic, the problem with this data being gathered by the bars is that it's only a short step to the Police (and other authorities) harvesting it to track suspects, check alibis, checking your drinking habits, working out who you associate with (by agglomerating your visits with whoever else is in the bar). Of course they'll work out some way to justify it as preventing terrorism...
I think that is saying something huge that they would rather pirate MS Windows than take a free OS.
you do realise the vast herds of the unwashed masses do not know Linux exists... Microsoft has done a very good job of making sure that the OEMs and magazines toe the party line in order to receive their advertising revenue (including market development kickbacks). Linux magazines are hard to find in the shops. Articles about Linux are few and far between in the major magazines.
Just you try walking into a high street chain like PC World, Dixons or Staples and asking for a computer with Linux on it... you'll be greeted with "huh?"... or asking for a computer with no OS on it... I've had salesmen and their managers tell me that it's illegal to sell a computer without an OS...
personally, I wish there was some requirement in the GPL for software that is GPL licensed to have it displayed prominently on the outside of the box or case, then things that really have Linux running inside them would be more readily identifiable.
Notable quote: 'Mark Taylor, whose Open Source Consortium also exited the project in the early stages, said: "I have no idea how anyone could spend half a million pounds on 200 desktops, running free software".'
very bl00dy easily when "consultants" get involved...
ah yes... not getting your fingers wet... what really matters is not getting your skirt/pants/jeans or knickers wet either... or keeping it in the urinal and not getting it all over the floor...
You claim to be a technical writer? How many mistakes did you make in your post? It was pretty obvious to me that you didn't proof read before posting...
just what is the other photon doing while the first one is swanning off around the 10 mile delay ring??? They don't just stand around, these things move fast... my head has just assploded with the paradox...
Microsoft are busy working on redefining the size of the shirt-pocket... rather like Sony did with the shirt pockets of their salesmen so that their pocket radio would fit a shirt pocket... here
We managed to produce our first transistorized radio in 1955 and our first tiny "pocketable" transistor radio in 1957. It was the world's smallest, but actually it was a bit bigger than a standard men's shirt pocket, and that gave us a problem for a while, even though we never said which pocket we had in mind when we said "pocketable." We liked the idea of a salesman being able to demonstrate how simple it would be to drop it into a shirt pocket. We came up with a simple solution. We had some shirts made for our salesmen with slightly larger than normal pockets, just big enough to sli
When Sony introduced what was the world's smallest transistor radio in 1957, it advertised it as "pocketable" but there was a problem -- it didn't actually fit into a shirt pocket. The solution was to issue salesmen shirts with slightly larger pockets.
except with the OEM version, the EULA covers the complete package... so if you disagree with it, you have to take the entire box back for refund. You can't just return the OS... unless the EULA just happens to be worded so that you can separate them, but that's exceeding rare...
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and basically their answer is... tough shit... we've got the power little guy...
the one where Thailand announces a major plan to outfit all schools and public services with a massive rollout of Vista and Office 2007... all sponsored by a major price deal with Microsoft...
and promptly demonstrated by the flamebait mode from an astroturfer with mod points
ah, but the money spent on lawsuits is still in the economy enabling the lawyers to purchase yachts and houses and thus paying the salaries of the house and yacht builders and then going on whatever they decide to spend it on. It's only "lost" money as far as IBM and their shareholders are concerned. The money is still going around the money-go-round being taxed at every opportunity...
how does Moblock compare against using the peerguardian plugin for Azureus on Linux? Whenever I start Azureus, it spends a short time fetching the "biglist" and then regularly updates that list according to how I've scheduled it. Moblock apparently has to be manually fed and launched
there should be plenty of these things going cheap soon when people realise just how borked they are with the default software...
this hoary crap about the money being better spent on food for the starving kids etc. is being posted by microsoft employees and shills...
I wouldn't be... I've still got my boxed set of Dos 3.2 in my desk drawer at work and also have an old twin floppy "laptop" with cga screen that runs DRDOS GEM 2 just to prove to folks you don't require wizzbang hardware to run a gui on... here's the beasty...
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make it a condition of being granted a patent that all cross-licensing deals are reported and given a monetary value
They'd have a decent revenue stream from high quality patents and an incentive NOT to just push things through a past a rubber stamp...
They'd have to employ real talent then for patent examiners...
OSS, your choices are:
1) It's already been fixed and released as stable, why are you still using such an outdated version?
2) It's already fixed in CVS... get that version or wait for the stable build
3) Wait for me to get around to it, I decide how urgent it is...
4) Pay me to fix it... I'm working on what I want to do and if you want me to drop everything, pay me.
5) Find something else that does the job
6) like it or lump it...
7) fix it yourself, please submit the patch
8) find someone else who'll fix it for you for free
9) Find someone else who'll fix it for you at a price
CSS, your choices are:
1) it's a feature, there may be a workaround
2) upgrade to the version that's already out and pay for it
3) wait for the next version to come out and pay for it
4) take out a support contract to get a hotfix
5) Find something else that does the job
6) like it or lump it...
and therein lies the problem... wtf do they need it for.. and why the heck did you give it to them...
any checkout clerk that asks for my demographic details gets rubbish given to them... I flat out refuse to give them my name, address, telephone number post code or whatever else they ask for as they have no need for it in order to make the sale... if their POS till gets upset, I give them daft things to get past the stupid error messages. If they claim it's for the guarantee, then I tell them the receipt is good enough. If they still get upset, then I tell them "NO SALE" and walk out leaving everything there on the counter (making sure I've got my money back and any credit card sale rescinded)
I normally only use loyalty cards that don't require a real address for the benefits... I give false addresses for those... My Matalan card has Mickey Mouse, Florida as the address
Tesco think I'm a 120 year old female... (I love screwing up datasets with garbage)
over 40 to buy a computer game without being challenged??? fsking stupid... 21 yes, 40 daft
anyway, getting back on topic, the problem with this data being gathered by the bars is that it's only a short step to the Police (and other authorities) harvesting it to track suspects, check alibis, checking your drinking habits, working out who you associate with (by agglomerating your visits with whoever else is in the bar). Of course they'll work out some way to justify it as preventing terrorism...
you do realise the vast herds of the unwashed masses do not know Linux exists... Microsoft has done a very good job of making sure that the OEMs and magazines toe the party line in order to receive their advertising revenue (including market development kickbacks). Linux magazines are hard to find in the shops. Articles about Linux are few and far between in the major magazines.
Just you try walking into a high street chain like PC World, Dixons or Staples and asking for a computer with Linux on it... you'll be greeted with "huh?"... or asking for a computer with no OS on it... I've had salesmen and their managers tell me that it's illegal to sell a computer without an OS...
personally, I wish there was some requirement in the GPL for software that is GPL licensed to have it displayed prominently on the outside of the box or case, then things that really have Linux running inside them would be more readily identifiable.
ah yes... not getting your fingers wet... what really matters is not getting your skirt/pants/jeans or knickers wet either... or keeping it in the urinal and not getting it all over the floor...
You claim to be a technical writer? How many mistakes did you make in your post? It was pretty obvious to me that you didn't proof read before posting...
just what is the other photon doing while the first one is swanning off around the 10 mile delay ring??? They don't just stand around, these things move fast... my head has just assploded with the paradox...
seems to be what I encounter when trying to do simple searches on product part numbers...
diamonds are not scare... DeBeers hoard them and create an artificial scarcity in order to keep the price high.
except with the OEM version, the EULA covers the complete package... so if you disagree with it, you have to take the entire box back for refund. You can't just return the OS... unless the EULA just happens to be worded so that you can separate them, but that's exceeding rare...
except you should not have to jump through ridiculous hoops to get the money back for a bundled OEM install you never wanted... that $500 PC should really be $400 without the "Windows tax"...