The very LARGE corporation I work for is still running more than 20K windows 2000 machines. We've found ZERO reason to upgrade to XP much less to consider Vista. The ONLY upgrades we've done is 2003 server on certain backend machines that can take advantage of the 64 bit architechture. For business XP and Vista are USELESS expenditures that provide nearly ZERO return for the dollar, while increasing operating costs by more than 20%.
Not at losing control and yelling at the child but at BEING CAUGHT doing it. Nice to see hypocrisy is not a nationally limited 'virtue' but alive and well worldwide:)
MSDOS and windows are great examples of TIMING, IBM would have put out the PC with somthing on it on the same time frame or very shortly after. Gates had the savvy to recognize the opportunity as it arrived, and make a running jump on it. OS/2 did windows BETTER than windows did windows, IBM was just incredibly short sighted in trying to control the market via hardware, and then tried to lock OS2 on to their hardware as well...
Digital's ALPHA running any number of OS's was a superior solution as well but they did not see any future in 'desktop' machines, and paid the price as well...
Hmmm I play and have played PnP RPG on a regular basis for 15 years in a group that has 10 members and a waiting list. We play World of Darkness, and a Fantasy game using the Gurps 3rd and some 4th ed rules. I've also played almost every mmorpg in creation, from the world of Norrath (EQ's mother) to DAoC,CoH/CoV,FFO,NWN, EQ2 and WoW, they are fun but they are NOT to be confused with RPing. True RPing is most akin to acting without a script and requires the kind of interaction not yet possible via the net even with voip software. The GM has to be able to respond to a total 180 degree plot twist on the fly and software does not yet exist that can support that kind of flexibility...SIGH someday in my lifetime I hope;D-
Innocent until proven guilty, in GB !!! Don't make me laugh... You don't even have the right, in the states it is written as such but has been ignored for a decade or so in lieu of trial by media...
economics...That is, until the hardware demands recoding, reuse is both financially and programatically a generally sound philosophy. Of course GIGO still applies:)
I've been on it for 6 months now and having nice results, it cohabitates peacefully, takes advantage of all my advanced HW, and as a bonus, contains none of the 'new Vista' features. I have no plans to (upgrade??) to Vista until forced to...
Blue ray is going to be a flash in the PAN..A FAILED flash in the pan I think as well, the new 18 gb disc from Toshiba I read about will be on the market soon, are compatible all the way around and can be made in existing factories at VERY LITTLE RETOOL costs. The industry is stuck on recovering their outlay costs before really tooling up for massive blue ray orders which aren't going to appear. Sony is in the end going to eat BlueRay and PSP format just like they ate the minidisc format here in the states.
for XP support. As the Vista License stands my employer already stated we WILL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES upgrade to the Vista client. We currently have more than 110,000 copies of XP and 4500 copies of 2003. We have turned down EVERY copy and trial offer that M$ has made to premier members and made it known to our M$ rep that Vista is a NO GO at our place. How long the management hold out is unclear but they are standing firm over the re-install issues, and their 'new' rip you off all the way licensing terms. We've been in serious talks with 2 or 3 unamed Linux providers for some BIG TIME migration *crosses fingers but doesn't hold breath*.
RMS may be an overbearing nitwit but at least HE IS TRYING and actually DOING SOMTHING. Forbes is a MAJOR contributer to the FSCK'ed business world as it is by perpetuating the corporate BS as they do so well. Both Forbes and Gartner have done WAY MORE HARM than good period...
and fight them with satire humor and MASS PUBLICITY. Someone talented needs to make a funny video that will get 10 million hits from google. THAT will hit Sony where it hurts, in the AD CAMPAIGN. They make money by default, give everyone somthing to laugh at them for and they will make another brand the COOL one and SONY will feel it. Not only would a VIRAL video hit them here in the US, but world wide exposure. The thing the CORPS fear the MOST IN THE WORLD IS INFORMATION. It is how they control us, using their game against them is the MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL.
Ads, thats the ONLY 5 people LEFT on the planet that DO NOT HATE UNISYS, and have not had a crappy experience using their HARDWARE and heinously restrictive software and support.
yeah but a dl360 has crap for video, a TINY power supply and is as wide as a nissan, even though it is pizza box thick...Apple makes great hardware as long as you don't want to game..Personally anything I can do on a mac I can do on linux for less, my wintel box is for gaming and work.
then a representation of ANY card in existence would be acceptable. Instead you have to be lucky enough and rich enough to 'get' the good cards to make a competitive deck. I have the same objection to 40K, why must I pay for the miniature, a representation cut from cardboard could easily make a suitable army based on points and strategy, not $'s
that would be a fiscal cycle ? I thought the general corporate fiscal year ended like in October ? To allow them time to fake the necesary doc's for tax time...
How is this not legal ?? if you own a copy of the disc is that not just shifting the media format, somthing that is specifically allowed under fair use ?? I have 8-tracks with music on them that I cannot listen to but I AM KEEPING as my legal basis for having the MP3's on my hard drive. IANAL but IMHO that meets the RIAA's license vs purchase argument. Buy the media ONCE in a legal format then keep current with a digital image of the same. Either you buy the song and can do what you want with it, or you buy a license to listen to it, they can't have it both ways..unless they pay Uncle Sam enough I guess:(....
I thought I was the only one still playing with that title:) I reloaded it recently with limited success on a winxp pro X64 system, but I still have it on a old laptop I cart around for entertainment and DVD's
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The very LARGE corporation I work for is still running more than 20K windows 2000 machines. We've found ZERO reason to upgrade to XP much less to consider Vista. The ONLY upgrades we've done is 2003 server on certain backend machines that can take advantage of the 64 bit architechture. For business XP and Vista are USELESS expenditures that provide nearly ZERO return for the dollar, while increasing operating costs by more than 20%.
*shudder* I'd vote for Katz/Neil ticket first*shudder*
Not at losing control and yelling at the child but at BEING CAUGHT doing it. Nice to see hypocrisy is not a nationally limited 'virtue' but alive and well worldwide :)
MSDOS and windows are great examples of TIMING, IBM would have put out the PC with somthing on it on the same time frame or very shortly after. Gates had the savvy to recognize the opportunity as it arrived, and make a running jump on it. OS/2 did windows BETTER than windows did windows, IBM was just incredibly short sighted in trying to control the market via hardware, and then tried to lock OS2 on to their hardware as well...
Digital's ALPHA running any number of OS's was a superior solution as well but they did not see any future in 'desktop' machines, and paid the price as well...
I feel REALLY old now....
Hmmm I play and have played PnP RPG on a regular basis for 15 years in a group that has 10 members and a waiting list. We play World of Darkness, and a Fantasy game using the Gurps 3rd and some 4th ed rules. I've also played almost every mmorpg in creation, from the world of Norrath (EQ's mother) to DAoC,CoH/CoV,FFO,NWN, EQ2 and WoW, they are fun but they are NOT to be confused with RPing. True RPing is most akin to acting without a script and requires the kind of interaction not yet possible via the net even with voip software. The GM has to be able to respond to a total 180 degree plot twist on the fly and software does not yet exist that can support that kind of flexibility...SIGH someday in my lifetime I hope ;D-
Innocent until proven guilty, in GB !!! Don't make me laugh...
You don't even have the right, in the states it is written as such but has been ignored for a decade or so in lieu of trial by media...
Does this cover the customer when a company refuses support as well ? :D
I wish I had mod points for the parent.....
I vaguely remember being 'taught' somthing similar to this by a poli-sci major I dated college.
economics...That is, until the hardware demands recoding, reuse is both financially and programatically a generally sound philosophy. Of course GIGO still applies :)
besides business ? In japan the government and the mega-corps speak as one generally. For good or bad, this lends weight to their demands.
windows XP pro X64
I've been on it for 6 months now and having nice results,
it cohabitates peacefully, takes advantage of all my advanced HW,
and as a bonus, contains none of the 'new Vista' features.
I have no plans to (upgrade??) to Vista until forced to...
Blue ray is going to be a flash in the PAN..A FAILED flash in the pan I think as well, the new 18 gb disc from Toshiba I read about will be on the market soon, are compatible all the way around and can be made in existing factories at VERY LITTLE RETOOL costs. The industry is stuck on recovering their outlay costs before really tooling up for massive blue ray orders which aren't going to appear. Sony is in the end going to eat BlueRay and PSP format just like they ate the minidisc format here in the states.
I've been running windows xp pro X64 for some time without any of these issues. This is a 'Bonus Item' M$ has included/inflicted on Vista...
for XP support. As the Vista License stands my employer already stated we WILL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES upgrade to the Vista client. We currently have more than 110,000 copies of XP and 4500 copies of 2003. We have turned down EVERY copy and trial offer that M$ has made to premier members and made it known to our M$ rep that Vista is a NO GO at our place. How long the management hold out is unclear but they are standing firm over the re-install issues, and their 'new' rip you off all the way licensing terms.
We've been in serious talks with 2 or 3 unamed Linux providers for some BIG TIME migration *crosses fingers but doesn't hold breath*.
RMS may be an overbearing nitwit but at least HE IS TRYING and actually DOING SOMTHING. Forbes is a MAJOR contributer to the FSCK'ed business world as it is by perpetuating the corporate BS as they do so well. Both Forbes and Gartner have done WAY MORE HARM than good period...
and fight them with satire humor and MASS PUBLICITY. Someone talented needs to make a funny video that will get 10 million hits from google. THAT will hit Sony where it hurts, in the AD CAMPAIGN. They make money by default, give everyone somthing to laugh at them for and they will make another brand the COOL one and SONY will feel it. Not only would a VIRAL video hit them here in the US, but world wide exposure. The thing the CORPS fear the MOST IN THE WORLD IS INFORMATION. It is how they control us, using their game against them is the MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL.
Ads, thats the ONLY 5 people LEFT on the planet that DO NOT HATE UNISYS, and have not had a crappy experience using their HARDWARE and heinously restrictive software and support.
yeah but a dl360 has crap for video, a TINY power supply and is as wide as a nissan, even though it is pizza box thick...Apple makes great hardware as long as you don't want to game..Personally anything I can do on a mac I can do on linux for less, my wintel box is for gaming and work.
then a representation of ANY card in existence would be acceptable. Instead you have to be lucky enough and rich enough to 'get' the good cards to make a competitive deck. I have the same objection to 40K, why must I pay for the miniature, a representation cut from cardboard could easily make a suitable army based on points and strategy, not $'s
VM and MVS on an IBM/GiantFRAME used a virtual WINDOWS product long before Bill Gates stopped sucking his thumb, if he doesn't in fact still do so...
"I DON't LIKE SPAM...."
that would be a fiscal cycle ? I thought the general corporate fiscal year ended like in October ? To allow them time to fake the necesary doc's for tax time...
How is this not legal ?? if you own a copy of the disc is that not just shifting the media format, somthing that is specifically allowed under fair use ?? I have 8-tracks with music on them that I cannot listen to but I AM KEEPING as my legal basis for having the MP3's on my hard drive. IANAL but IMHO that meets the RIAA's license vs purchase argument. Buy the media ONCE in a legal format then keep current with a digital image of the same. Either you buy the song and can do what you want with it, or you buy a license to listen to it, they can't have it both ways..unless they pay Uncle Sam enough I guess :(....
stands out in my mind as an RPG I played the HECK out of repeatedly.
I thought I was the only one still playing with that title :) I reloaded it recently with limited success on a winxp pro X64 system, but I still have it on a old laptop I cart around for entertainment and DVD's
Maybe 5 years from when you 'discover' the alleged infringment, although that introduces a boatload of new issues as well.