Ah, that's a big difference. In your situation I take it all back, nettops are a better bet. Especially since Microsoft is basically giving XP away to keep linux off them.
We're academic, so Microsoft charges us $6 per device, plus $17.50 per user, plus $88.50 per server. A total of $558.50 for 20 users.
A business would pay $40 per device, $149 per user, plus $1024 per server. That's $4044 for 20 users.
And if you have uniform hardware with user data stored centrally, the administration headaches will be trivially worse or the same as L300s.
And a nettop runs windows, which makes it another point of failure. The L series primarily saves on support, since all software deployment is on the server, and all hardware is on-the-fly swappable. 2 redundant servers replacing 20 workstations means zero downtime for about the same cost.
I said elsewhere we use x550s, that's where you save money.
This is especially interesting to me since my employer voted years ago to stick with XP until something better comes along. Originally that meant, "anything but Vista," but now we interpret "something better" as "Linux, once we don't need IE6 for intranet crap."
Is there anything windows 7 can do that windows XP cannot? We'll continue to buy winXP on new machines until we cannot, then we'll upgrade to something new and shiny. But probably not Microsoft.
We put out for bid by task to be accomplished, not by tool used.
Flying a bid to revamp the electricity in one of our old buildings using DeWalt tools would be... inappropriate. It's incompetence if accidental, illegal if collusion occurred (this is an example, I only wish I got bribed with power tools).
This is subject to some caveats, since sometimes only one company makes the tool you want -- but generally that's means you reject other bids quickly/there are no other bids. Not that you get to circumvent the process by never presenting other bids to committee.
You confuse, "consider bids," with, "accept bids."
Anyone can bid, and gain consideration. But, "hur dur, my cousin builted this linux thing for free!" Will be rejected on practical grounds while, "This fully suppported opensource software hardware integrated package can meet 100% of needs for the tasks your workers perform on a daily basis, and costs 80% of a similar proprietary system."
At least here, the government uses windows XP stations to run proprietary software to telnet into an HP Unix box. I suspect this company could do that cheaper, without losing any features.
If you were right, it'd be the worst compromise in the history of the world. I hate being exposed to violence, it makes me both unhappy and angry, with distinct long terms consequences for my mental well-being. This includes fictional violence, and verbal abuse. Then again, sex improves my outlook, and has had no detectable long term detriment. This includes fictional sex, and sex words. So if we were to compromise and allow only one, I'd hope it could go the other way.
But I don't think you are right, either. I know plenty of people will not allow their children to see a movie including 2 seconds of boobies, but have no problem with an utterly unlimited amount of gore and torture. Every indication in literature and observed behavior is that Americans believe sex is evil, but that violence is fine, as long as it's not directed at anyone they know personally. So the "compromise" is to ban sex, and allow violence in media. A win-win for them, a lose-lose for me.
How do "caring for a 3 month old child" and "inability to parse nonverbal communication" work out together?
If you can tell, "happy," from, "screaming," you can take care of an infant. The real trick is keeping them in proximity, and keeping them away from actual dangers.
I must say, modding this guy flamebait for an honest query about the usefulness of textbooks in a modern society is especially poetic given his signature line.
No. You can get a pair of earphones and protect your right to not listen for yourself, without calling the cops down on me for exercising my first amendment rights.
while the popup title in firefox is only google.com, the statusbar shows the full address. I don't believe you can spoof the statusbar the way you could in IE4.
...car dealership using a movie clip with their dealership's name pasted over it in a crappy font for an advertisement that I'm pretty sure they did not license....
there's your problem. Since you don't know anything, mind your own business.
I've no idea what you mean by "hamstrung," since the password cracker would be internal to the machine and only exposed passwords to the root user (at least, that's how we did it). It was also trusted code written in house, not a script pulled of the net.
I also have no idea why he quit at 90%, we required 100% complexity compliance, where complexity means our cracker script cannot figure it out. That's password expiration that means something.
So, you're saying it would take you less than 10 hours to check all the plumbing in your house? Or is it that your time is worth less than $10 an hour?
Because that dude who fixed it in 1 minute gave me back my weekend, which is worth $100 in my book.
You can claim that there's no justice in Italy, but Guido here would like to assure you otherwise. He thinks it would be a shame if something happened to your website...
Seriously, your claim that Italy is some sort of totalitarian state where laws can never be questioned does not harm the argument that this is an unreasonable law.
You do realize you just quote a line from a pre-existing answer form that ookabooka did not check, right? So you need to find the guy who created that form, and ask him why he included it.
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Ah, that's a big difference. In your situation I take it all back, nettops are a better bet. Especially since Microsoft is basically giving XP away to keep linux off them.
We're academic, so Microsoft charges us $6 per device, plus $17.50 per user, plus $88.50 per server. A total of $558.50 for 20 users.
A business would pay $40 per device, $149 per user, plus $1024 per server. That's $4044 for 20 users.
And if you have uniform hardware with user data stored centrally, the administration headaches will be trivially worse or the same as L300s.
You ran explicitly unsupported software then.
And a nettop runs windows, which makes it another point of failure. The L series primarily saves on support, since all software deployment is on the server, and all hardware is on-the-fly swappable. 2 redundant servers replacing 20 workstations means zero downtime for about the same cost.
I said elsewhere we use x550s, that's where you save money.
what ncomputing client did you use? the L300 and x550 are the only ones I've used, and the first ones that list support for full-screen video.
This is especially interesting to me since my employer voted years ago to stick with XP until something better comes along. Originally that meant, "anything but Vista," but now we interpret "something better" as "Linux, once we don't need IE6 for intranet crap."
Is there anything windows 7 can do that windows XP cannot? We'll continue to buy winXP on new machines until we cannot, then we'll upgrade to something new and shiny. But probably not Microsoft.
We put out for bid by task to be accomplished, not by tool used.
Flying a bid to revamp the electricity in one of our old buildings using DeWalt tools would be... inappropriate. It's incompetence if accidental, illegal if collusion occurred (this is an example, I only wish I got bribed with power tools).
This is subject to some caveats, since sometimes only one company makes the tool you want -- but generally that's means you reject other bids quickly/there are no other bids. Not that you get to circumvent the process by never presenting other bids to committee.
You confuse, "consider bids," with, "accept bids."
Anyone can bid, and gain consideration. But, "hur dur, my cousin builted this linux thing for free!" Will be rejected on practical grounds while, "This fully suppported opensource software hardware integrated package can meet 100% of needs for the tasks your workers perform on a daily basis, and costs 80% of a similar proprietary system."
At least here, the government uses windows XP stations to run proprietary software to telnet into an HP Unix box. I suspect this company could do that cheaper, without losing any features.
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/100512.html
What you recommend that the author of, say, Homestar Runner use instead of Flash?
h.264?
If you were right, it'd be the worst compromise in the history of the world.
I hate being exposed to violence, it makes me both unhappy and angry, with distinct long terms consequences for my mental well-being. This includes fictional violence, and verbal abuse.
Then again, sex improves my outlook, and has had no detectable long term detriment. This includes fictional sex, and sex words.
So if we were to compromise and allow only one, I'd hope it could go the other way.
But I don't think you are right, either.
I know plenty of people will not allow their children to see a movie including 2 seconds of boobies, but have no problem with an utterly unlimited amount of gore and torture. Every indication in literature and observed behavior is that Americans believe sex is evil, but that violence is fine, as long as it's not directed at anyone they know personally. So the "compromise" is to ban sex, and allow violence in media. A win-win for them, a lose-lose for me.
"I am he and you are me and we are both together."
How do "caring for a 3 month old child" and "inability to parse nonverbal communication" work out together?
If you can tell, "happy," from, "screaming," you can take care of an infant. The real trick is keeping them in proximity, and keeping them away from actual dangers.
I must say, modding this guy flamebait for an honest query about the usefulness of textbooks in a modern society is especially poetic given his signature line.
Too bad Canadians don't...
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No.
You can get a pair of earphones and protect your right to not listen for yourself, without calling the cops down on me for exercising my first amendment rights.
Fuck you.
while the popup title in firefox is only google.com, the statusbar shows the full address.
I don't believe you can spoof the statusbar the way you could in IE4.
...car dealership using a movie clip with their dealership's name pasted over it in a crappy font for an advertisement that I'm pretty sure they did not license....
there's your problem.
Since you don't know anything, mind your own business.
Reproducibility is not accuracy either.
Records are more accurate than CDs, even though an MP3 from CD is probably better than a tape from a record.
I pay $55 a month for 768Kb internet access. Where do you live that internet access is free?
I've no idea what you mean by "hamstrung," since the password cracker would be internal to the machine and only exposed passwords to the root user (at least, that's how we did it). It was also trusted code written in house, not a script pulled of the net.
I also have no idea why he quit at 90%, we required 100% complexity compliance, where complexity means our cracker script cannot figure it out. That's password expiration that means something.
It wasn't important, or there would have been a backup.
So, you're saying it would take you less than 10 hours to check all the plumbing in your house? Or is it that your time is worth less than $10 an hour?
Because that dude who fixed it in 1 minute gave me back my weekend, which is worth $100 in my book.
You can claim that there's no justice in Italy, but Guido here would like to assure you otherwise. He thinks it would be a shame if something happened to your website...
Seriously, your claim that Italy is some sort of totalitarian state where laws can never be questioned does not harm the argument that this is an unreasonable law.
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That's certainly true of USA government.
Possibly linked to our last 4+ presidents being right-of-center, on a global-political scale.
You won't have success, if you don't ever ask for it.
You do realize you just quote a line from a pre-existing answer form that ookabooka did not check, right?
So you need to find the guy who created that form, and ask him why he included it.