America is a country where anything and everything is for sale. In America you can buy a kidney, you can buy a vote, you can buy a womb if you don't want to carry your own child, you can even buy a child, heck you can have children imported from other parts of the world.
All perfectly legal.
Americans used to think that it would be an abomination to buy and sell children, organs, or rent space in a woman's womb for 9 months but not anymore.
Why doesn't mozilla have a way to install it once on the network and give links to all the desktops? It sure would make it easier for corporations to adapt it.
Was he going to sell those shares anyway? Probably not. Was he going to sell them today? probably not.
Chances are he was going to leave those shares to his kids. He wasn't ever going to sell them. He is giving money that in all likely hood would have ended up in his kids hands.
Also as I said it did not "cost" him anything. It's not the same as you and me giving a few hundred dollars to the food bank. That would be a sacrifice for us. For him there is no sacrifice involved.
Yes. This is exactly like when bill gates gives money to charities. He is not giving real money, he is transfering stock he got for nothing to his foundation which then sells the stock and gives the money to a charity.
It doesn't really cost him anything, just future (potential) profit.
Right, because it's not fair to the poor little corporation to bash it. Now they might have to run that commercial two times to counteract all that bashing.
Poor little MS. Being beat up by those nasty slashdotters.
Thank god people like you are around to strike back!.
I might be wrong? Maybe, maybe not. According to the MS ireland web site they employ 1,200 people in three divisions. Two of those divisions are sales and operations.
1,200 people is not all that much considering the population of ireland if you ask me.
With debian (and most other distros) you build your own repository and each machine updates itself from that repository.
Of course there are also tools like radmind too.
But the most significant thing is that you use linux differently then you use windows. For example you may use thin clients which eliminate the need to manage desktops at all. You may choose to mount a common/usr/local so that you install the software once and it's on all the machines.
Unix was designed from day one to be mass managed. That makes a big difference. Studies show that a typical unix sysadmin administers way more machines then a typical windows sysadmin and there is a reason for that.
Seriously why didn't they just write it as an activex control and run it inside IE? How many people are going to click "no" when IE asks them if they want to run a signed AOL control?
Most corporations don't block activex controls because of windows update.
Frank Zappa had a song called "cocaine decisons". It was aimed at hollywood and was basically about how all the decisions in hollywood are made under the influence of cocaine.
One wonders how the decisions are being made in corporate america. Apparently there is some kind of powerful drug making the CEO scene these days.
My bet is crystal meth. It gives you the rush and you get to stay up all night with a wicked woody.
Just how many people does MS employ in ireland anyway. Also how many of them are highly paid programmers? I am sure they have an office and maybe some sales people but I don't think any serious development is taking place in ireland.
"Starwars (and missile defence) are so last century."
even nukes are so last century. It's so much easier and cheaper to wage chemical and biological warfare.
For example a terrorist could travel from canada to mexico and randomly inject cows with mad cow disease or foot and mouth disease and destroy the beef economy. A terrorist could poison the water supply of a medium size city in the midwest and cause panic all over the country. A terrorist can take out three or four bridges across the missipi and cause billions of dollars of damage. A terrorist can knock out two cranes in the los angeles port and cause a disaster for anybody who sells imported products.
No need for nukes. A little enginuity, a few buck, some fertilizer and boom lots bang for the buck.
According to Bin Laden the 9-11 attack was an attack on our economy. He has stated that his intention is to bankrupt the US not to kill every american or even a bunch of them.
That's why he attacked the world trade center.
So far it's been pretty effective. He spent maybe a 100,000 and the US spent 200 billion and virtually all of it was borrowed money. He also caused uncounted amount of economic loss to US industry.
the ripple effects of his attack are not over yet. The current deficit is already causing the dollar to drop and the interest rates to rise.
Expect an attack every five to ten years of similar magnitude until they reach their goal.
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I know you are kidding but it's no joking matter.
America is a country where anything and everything is for sale. In America you can buy a kidney, you can buy a vote, you can buy a womb if you don't want to carry your own child, you can even buy a child, heck you can have children imported from other parts of the world.
All perfectly legal.
Americans used to think that it would be an abomination to buy and sell children, organs, or rent space in a woman's womb for 9 months but not anymore.
It's funny but sick too.
Why doesn't mozilla have a way to install it once on the network and give links to all the desktops? It sure would make it easier for corporations to adapt it.
I agree. Too many preferences hidden in firefox.
I don't know anybody who uses firefox but doesn't use thunderbird.
If you are going to install both firebird and thunderbird why not just install moz?
I never liked the idea of splitting it up.
It depends on how you define cost.
Was he going to sell those shares anyway? Probably not. Was he going to sell them today? probably not.
Chances are he was going to leave those shares to his kids. He wasn't ever going to sell them. He is giving money that in all likely hood would have ended up in his kids hands.
Also as I said it did not "cost" him anything. It's not the same as you and me giving a few hundred dollars to the food bank. That would be a sacrifice for us. For him there is no sacrifice involved.
PHP needs taint.
Yes. This is exactly like when bill gates gives money to charities. He is not giving real money, he is transfering stock he got for nothing to his foundation which then sells the stock and gives the money to a charity.
It doesn't really cost him anything, just future (potential) profit.
It's pretty easy to detect stego.
Right, because it's not fair to the poor little corporation to bash it. Now they might have to run that commercial two times to counteract all that bashing.
Poor little MS. Being beat up by those nasty slashdotters.
Thank god people like you are around to strike back!.
" No. That would be bad."
Why would elimination of an evil person be bad?
"Unless you have some desire to be somebody's pretty boy in prison."
Mmmm tough call.
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On a somewhat serious note perhaps this will give competitors the opportunity to base games on less popular but more fun to watch sports.
rugby, australian rules football, and arena football come immediately to mind.
Perhaps even made up sports. Calvinball anyone?
Obviously if you need disconnected stations you would not do a silly thing like mounting /usr/local remotely.
What you would do is use something like radmind which lets you set up configurations for individual or groups of machines.
I have both used it and admined it. I still prefer it to the exchange/outlook abomination.
OK but do I get to shoot the first MS executive that says the word "innovate"?.
" You might be wrong. "
I might be wrong? Maybe, maybe not. According to the MS ireland web site they employ 1,200 people in three divisions. Two of those divisions are sales and operations.
1,200 people is not all that much considering the population of ireland if you ask me.
WIndows is so easy to use even an idiot could use it!
With debian (and most other distros) you build your own repository and each machine updates itself from that repository.
/usr/local so that you install the software once and it's on all the machines.
Of course there are also tools like radmind too.
But the most significant thing is that you use linux differently then you use windows. For example you may use thin clients which eliminate the need to manage desktops at all. You may choose to mount a common
Unix was designed from day one to be mass managed. That makes a big difference. Studies show that a typical unix sysadmin administers way more machines then a typical windows sysadmin and there is a reason for that.
There are several alternatives to exchange. Suse has one, there is also bill groupware, kolab and citadel.
Of course there are commercial software too such as groupwise, lotus notes, hp openmail, bynari etc.
Exchange is no longer a barrier.
Use Groupwise on novell servers. Install windows groupwise clients.
Get rid of ms office and install OO on windows desktops.
use NDS with windows client for your directory.
Install ifolder on windows desktops and instruct users to put all their documents in their ifolder.
Once the users are comfortable with groupwise, ifolder, and OO switch them over to linux running the same apps.
Smart and painless. The idea is to keep them on windows on the desktop until the end.
Note that products like NDS and groupwise are not open source, they are proprietary novell products.
Seriously why didn't they just write it as an activex control and run it inside IE? How many people are going to click "no" when IE asks them if they want to run a signed AOL control?
Most corporations don't block activex controls because of windows update.
Frank Zappa had a song called "cocaine decisons". It was aimed at hollywood and was basically about how all the decisions in hollywood are made under the influence of cocaine.
One wonders how the decisions are being made in corporate america. Apparently there is some kind of powerful drug making the CEO scene these days.
My bet is crystal meth. It gives you the rush and you get to stay up all night with a wicked woody.
Just how many people does MS employ in ireland anyway. Also how many of them are highly paid programmers? I am sure they have an office and maybe some sales people but I don't think any serious development is taking place in ireland.
"Starwars (and missile defence) are so last century."
even nukes are so last century. It's so much easier and cheaper to wage chemical and biological warfare.
For example a terrorist could travel from canada to mexico and randomly inject cows with mad cow disease or foot and mouth disease and destroy the beef economy. A terrorist could poison the water supply of a medium size city in the midwest and cause panic all over the country. A terrorist can take out three or four bridges across the missipi and cause billions of dollars of damage. A terrorist can knock out two cranes in the los angeles port and cause a disaster for anybody who sells imported products.
No need for nukes. A little enginuity, a few buck, some fertilizer and boom lots bang for the buck.
According to Bin Laden the 9-11 attack was an attack on our economy. He has stated that his intention is to bankrupt the US not to kill every american or even a bunch of them.
That's why he attacked the world trade center.
So far it's been pretty effective. He spent maybe a 100,000 and the US spent 200 billion and virtually all of it was borrowed money. He also caused uncounted amount of economic loss to US industry.
the ripple effects of his attack are not over yet. The current deficit is already causing the dollar to drop and the interest rates to rise.
Expect an attack every five to ten years of similar magnitude until they reach their goal.