Not that I necesarily agree with them myself but the cost of them is a poor argument for binning them. The £30million is but a drop in government buckets anyway...
The royalty actually contribute more back to the economy (via the Crown Estate)than they take out.
Last year they put 160million back into the economy and cost around 70million. This isn't including any extra tourism benefits they may or may not bring.
In the UK at least a persons salary is often quoted as a third of the actual cost of the person. They go to this figure after taxes, management (HR), pension, provision of facilities etc etc.
So the support person will probably cost the company even more than that!
Remember Python will not be the basis of Red Hat! or any other linux distro for that matter.
Why would you rewrite your "perfectly good" (well from the viewpoint of MS), operating system, just to say you've got.net as the basis of Longhorn?
There are plenty more uses of languages than creating operating systems... vb.net speeds up development for 3rd party apps and dynamic websites (as does python) and if you look at the job market you'll see that.net jobs are thriving, certainly in comparison to python and also new versions of vb.net are undergoing development, hardly a dead end.
Ubuntu supports the four main software archs, has seperate non-free, core and extras, has KDE (via kubuntu - the two have a common base, have the same documentation (except DE specific) etc etc
Each web page is by default cached on your hard disk, plus your bookmarks, plus your preferences, plus your history file. Your POP3 emails are kept, along with trash, drafts, sent items, preferences etc, any chat logs that they keep.
pirated software? A linux distro is free and most come with a host of compilers. You can get free compilers for Windows platforms too, even Microsoft give away the.net compilers.
Except that Windows CE which PocketPC/Windows Mobile is based on, was pretty much a new OS designed for embedded systems...so it's not as big an issue as what you make out..
sorry, I've just not saw COSE in use (I'm on CDS level 2)
There are two modules registered for CDS in blackboard for me - SAD and PED (both Dave Thomas owned modules).
Most staff I've encountered prefer to use their own websites to fulfill blackboard like functions. Thinking about it I guess that's because they're more likely to be html literate (although seeing the state of some of the sites you wouldn't think that!)
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Multimap have had a similar feature for a while too, take a look at their aerial view and then hover over the map..
Sure
The Crown Estate, worth more than £5 billion, is unique. Almost £185 million was generated for the Treasury and therefore the taxpayer, last yearPlus as I said; any tourism benefits as well as being a bunch of people trained since birth to be ambassedors for the UK.
Royals cost Britain £37m a year (not including security costs)
Not that I necesarily agree with them myself but the cost of them is a poor argument for binning them. The £30million is but a drop in government buckets anyway...The royalty actually contribute more back to the economy (via the Crown Estate)than they take out.
Last year they put 160million back into the economy and cost around 70million. This isn't including any extra tourism benefits they may or may not bring.
The rights of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords is being phased out, once this lot is dead, that's it.
In the UK at least a persons salary is often quoted as a third of the actual cost of the person. They go to this figure after taxes, management (HR), pension, provision of facilities etc etc.
So the support person will probably cost the company even more than that!
Remember Python will not be the basis of Red Hat! or any other linux distro for that matter.
.net as the basis of Longhorn?
.net jobs are thriving, certainly in comparison to python and also new versions of vb.net are undergoing development, hardly a dead end.
Why would you rewrite your "perfectly good" (well from the viewpoint of MS), operating system, just to say you've got
There are plenty more uses of languages than creating operating systems... vb.net speeds up development for 3rd party apps and dynamic websites (as does python) and if you look at the job market you'll see that
*burns karma*
I don't know anyone who does...
You actually got any facts to back that up? Or even a bit of anecdotal """evidance"""
should've used preview..
WRONG.
If you own a tv set which is recieves a television signal you must pay the licence every year.
You can own a TV for the purpose of video games, dvds are just as decoration if you like.
Rumoured. You're having an argument on an internet forum and your whole argument is based on a (very unlikely) rumour.
I bet you 3 coconuts Longhorn doesn't have this bug^H^H^H feature
Ubuntu supports the four main software archs, has seperate non-free, core and extras, has KDE (via kubuntu - the two have a common base, have the same documentation (except DE specific) etc etc
So, uhm. yeah....
There's more than 99 unemployed I assure you.
Virtual memory.
Each web page is by default cached on your hard disk, plus your bookmarks, plus your preferences, plus your history file. Your POP3 emails are kept, along with trash, drafts, sent items, preferences etc, any chat logs that they keep.
I'm sure there's more..
some of the brummies do the same though :/
I was just pointing out there's no need to pirate, not that it cannot be done.
pirated software? A linux distro is free and most come with a host of compilers. You can get free compilers for Windows platforms too, even Microsoft give away the .net compilers.
Oh, I never claimed it was :p
Except that Windows CE which PocketPC/Windows Mobile is based on, was pretty much a new OS designed for embedded systems...so it's not as big an issue as what you make out..
sorry, I've just not saw COSE in use (I'm on CDS level 2)
There are two modules registered for CDS in blackboard for me - SAD and PED (both Dave Thomas owned modules).
Most staff I've encountered prefer to use their own websites to fulfill blackboard like functions. Thinking about it I guess that's because they're more likely to be html literate (although seeing the state of some of the sites you wouldn't think that!)
Staffs Uni doesn't even use COSE theirselves though despite claims on the COSE site to the contrary.
At least I've never used it, or even heard of it in the two years I've been here, all of our course stuff relies on blackboard.
Well I say all, but most tutors prefer to simply stick up course information/documents on their uni web space..
Don't forget that the BBC tech part has already been privatised - Siemans now own BBCs tech department
The guardian already does make feeds available. This will just allow non tech savvy users to access it.
The grauniad at least already offers vanilla rss feeds for its website.
A 3rd party Ubuntu menu-editor can be found here
Generally as long as you don't "apt-get dist upgrade", you're fine afaik, I've never tried adding sid, but used debian mariallat with no problems.