I'm sorry but it is true. If all, or even some, of the Regional Offices run MS.NET then management is convinced that going homo. will make the costs of replacement, training and rewriting less than the cost of staying with Linux. This could be done by choosing one site as IT HQ and trimming headcount, ie. laying off, in the satellites. They could even move all servers to HQ.
NO DEVELOPERS ALLOWED ON PRODUCTION SERVERS. THIS IS A TERMINATION OFFENSE (WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE). Where I work, some of the production servers are also the development servers, just with two instances of the app running. No money for separate servers, unfortunately. Nothing is wrong with doing that as long as your company knows the risk and result of losing that server (i.e. it's not critical data.)
...I love how people can make garbage claims like this, yet there are companies that are running NTFS volumes that are 15years old without any incident. You know companies like EDS, GM, and other agencies like Lockheed and NASA....
Phew! What a rant. One for the books, eh? All I can say to that is: Is that you Mr. Gates?
Neutral. I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me. Almost like Democrats/Liberals/Labour eh?
"... So it's not out of the question on Wii, but we're not even to our second holiday yet, so it's kind of premature to talk about any revisions to the hardware itself.'" I think that it is interesting that time is measured in holidays and not weeks or months. Sorry for being so dense. The little light came on and reminded me that certain holidays are when the units really sell.
"... So it's not out of the question on Wii, but we're not even to our second holiday yet, so it's kind of premature to talk about any revisions to the hardware itself.'" I think that it is interesting that time is measured in holidays and not weeks or months.
Can't I just read the whole goddamn article? Put ads in both columns on either side all the way down, I don't care. That would be better then reading what amounts to four paragraphs with two screenshots and an ad to justify creating another page.
Do you really thing we all have ADD? I'm not going to click through 10 pages when it could be one page. Even magazines and newspaper articles give you something to bite on before they say continues on Page ***. Christ, I know you web people want to make money off of ads, but please knock it off with this crap. Search for the word "print" and you will find the "Printer Friendly Version" link. Click on this and you will have all ten pages in one long html file.
Why don't they just quietly stop advertising for the Game Boy product, stop it's production. Well, this is free advertising...But the real problem is the retail stock on the shelves. They just can't abandon the GB and let the retailers take the loss.
Why do we get so excited about linux gaining popularity among regular users? Won't this mean that it'll be more bloated for their point&click needs?
It's good that it's becoming easier to use, but I don't see how windows users switching to linux will benefit me. Well, I would like to see Microsoft go tits-up after everyone stops buying their products. Seriously, there is a lot of hardware I would like to use. I think it would be great if all hardware came with Linux drivers but this will never happen without more market-share.
Because a third party is writing the plugin, and they have no interest in protecting MS's formats, and a decent amount of interest in not making themselves look bad, so I'd expect they would try to do a good job. Sun generally puts out quality stuff. FWiW Sun also sells StarOffice, the commercial version of OpenOffice.
The one major thing to worry about though is that an item that can charge up incredibly fast, contain a lot of electricity, and store it efficiently, can also discharge rapidly and violently... Hmm, very interesting. Perhaps it could be used as a power source for a HANDHELD DEATH RAY!!!!How about a railgun?
...This problem was highlighted recently when the novelist Margaret Drabble had her car stolen from outside her home in Hampstead, North London. Her husband, historian Michael Holroyd, tried phoning the mobile phone in the car. A man answered, and said to Holroyd: 'I'm the thief who has stolen your car. Piss off!'... Well! He should have said, "I saw your ad in the paper; is your car still for sale?" Most thieves are too greedy to resist that.
Hmm... the end of the article says "top 10 open-source projects".
Someone forget a link to the first or did the author mess up? Perhaps the author is counting in base 5 because his other hand is busy...or perhaps the first five were done yesterday.
... 5) Apple regularly lies about the performance capabilities of its' machines... Haa! That's called marketing. When Macs were G4/G5 Power PCs, they were advertised as much faster than Pentium IVs but when they switched to Pentium, they were now advertised as much faster than the old Macs.
SO's that want to argue while you are trying to drive. that is far more distracting than any cell phone use. Unless it is your SO arguing on the phone.
In New Zealand PSP has ~75% market share for handhelds. Hardly indicative of the bigger picture. Hardly indicative of anything since we are talking about the Nintendo Wii which is a console, not a handheld.
Perhaps I'm just thinking greedy here, but $500 does not seem all that appealing to me. I mean, sure it's great incentive and a good gesture for advancement, but I'm sure people probably wouldn't get all stoked to try with a mere $500 reward.... It's worse: The $500 is split into $300/$150/$50 for the top three entries.
We just had one of our photographers come to us with a 4GB CF card that had failed between removal from the camera and insertion into a card reader. An entire day's worth of shots was lost. Thousands of dollars worth of event preparation, etc. and no documentation for posterity, and a lot of red faces. If we'd had something like this, we could have been beaming the images over to a portable system and made backups. I recommend that you become familiar with testdisk amd photorec, available at http://www.cgsecurity.org/ . If you can read the card with dd then most of the pictures, or other content, can be retrieved.
"To get rid of the blue screen of death all you have to do is hit it with something (like, a fist)." I would have thought the way to get rid of BSODs would be to install Linux.
...Other than gamers I really don't know of a question where Windows is a good answer.... Even this is not true. Microsoft is attempting to force all gamers and game companies to upgrade to vista by making directX 10 only for vista and not for XP.
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Don't fret folks. This is just a generic article that the MadPenguin could use with different titles, for shock value.
I'm sorry but it is true. If all, or even some, of the Regional Offices run MS .NET then management is convinced that going homo. will make the costs of replacement, training and rewriting less than the cost of staying with Linux. This could be done by choosing one site as IT HQ and trimming headcount, ie. laying off, in the satellites. They could even move all servers to HQ.
Phew! What a rant. One for the books, eh? All I can say to that is: Is that you Mr. Gates?
Do you really thing we all have ADD? I'm not going to click through 10 pages when it could be one page. Even magazines and newspaper articles give you something to bite on before they say continues on Page ***. Christ, I know you web people want to make money off of ads, but please knock it off with this crap. Search for the word "print" and you will find the "Printer Friendly Version" link. Click on this and you will have all ten pages in one long html file.
It's good that it's becoming easier to use, but I don't see how windows users switching to linux will benefit me. Well, I would like to see Microsoft go tits-up after everyone stops buying their products. Seriously, there is a lot of hardware I would like to use. I think it would be great if all hardware came with Linux drivers but this will never happen without more market-share.
...This problem was highlighted recently when the novelist Margaret Drabble had her car stolen from outside her home in Hampstead, North London. Her husband, historian Michael Holroyd, tried phoning the mobile phone in the car. A man answered, and said to Holroyd: 'I'm the thief who has stolen your car. Piss off!'... Well! He should have said, "I saw your ad in the paper; is your car still for sale?" Most thieves are too greedy to resist that.Someone forget a link to the first or did the author mess up? Perhaps the author is counting in base 5 because his other hand is busy...or perhaps the first five were done yesterday.
...5) Apple regularly lies about the performance capabilities of its' machines... Haa! That's called marketing. When Macs were G4/G5 Power PCs, they were advertised as much faster than Pentium IVs but when they switched to Pentium, they were now advertised as much faster than the old Macs.
...Other than gamers I really don't know of a question where Windows is a good answer.... Even this is not true. Microsoft is attempting to force all gamers and game companies to upgrade to vista by making directX 10 only for vista and not for XP.