I think the American way is stupid (as European I can say that).
In (world) mathematics the . is commonly used as multiply (x) sign, the , is used to separate the whole numbers from the partial numbers.
And who says: I paid dollar three-thousand? You say: I paid three-thousand dollar, that's why the freaking $ sign is not supposed to be in front of the number!
Central Scotland Police has signed a three-year deal with Microsoft that will see the force standardise on Microsoft Server 2003 and Windows XP (SP2). The deal was struck under the Office of Government Commerce's (OGC) agreement with Microsoft to offer preferential rates for public sector organisations, and will cost the force less than £60,000 per year.
60000 pounds = +/- 60 pounds/workplace = +/- 108 USD
It is not because they could not read the other documents, it is because MS offered them W2k3 + Office2k3 for a mere 100 dollars! Where can I get their software that cheap?
Except for your toner (black) lasts about 5000 pages and color about 2000 pages. I can remember my very first inkjet (b&w) and later also the colors: between 25 (black) and 75 (color)$ for a cartridge that lasted maybe 100 or 200 pages if the ink was not harded by then. I have 4 b&w laserprinters (HP LaserJet II&III series) and I use toners that are approximately 6 years old (I got a bunch (20) of them when a company went out of business)!
TFA:
The cloud cover, although within NASA's safety limits for landing, was enough to make mission controllers uncomfortable about attempting a Monday touchdown in Florida.
They must be really scared. Whole mission long they are scared to land, scared to do this and that because of the previous accident. Get over it! Space is dangerous and if you are scared, don't go there, there are enough chinese/russians/europeans to go there without that fear.
If I can find that persons information through Google (his own company), compile a story out of it and publish it, then why are you mad? Why is your personal information on the internet anyway?
I installed my first Novell DOS on my 8th, OS/2 on my 10th.
My nephew of 10 just installed his own Gentoo installation.
MCP is really crap. We have MCP's here at my work and they are all in Sales. They do know shit about computers, how they work or Windows or Linux in common.
When they want to do that, they will have to recode all their software. There is virtually no code and/or ideas that Microsoft didn't steal or buy from other company's
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There are plenty of tools doing that. Xrandr is one of them. On my Gentoo system, I haven't changed my Xorg.conf ever. Please try something before you go rambling that it's bad or doesn't work just because you're stupid. There are plenty of people that can't find out to right click on the desktop, properties, settings under Windows which blows up your screen. you are too stupid to click in the under-right-corner of your screen to pop out a list of possible and safe resolutions especially for your screen.
It's not easy to test an IE update. There are six or seven supported versions and then we're dealing with all the different languages. Our commitment is to protect all customers in all languages on all supported products at the same time, so it becomes a huge undertaking.
1: languages shouldn't be a problem, that is (hopefully) not completely split up throughout the source code is it?
aargh!!!!
2: I know only a 3 SUPPORTED IE versions (IE 5, IE 6 and IE 7)
Instead of just believing the people that there is a problem, they have to test it out and develop a plan and then reprogram the piece. I hate that.
In my company they have implemented such system too and if you have a problem you have to wait a month before it is planned in (if it is accepted by a group of non-technical managers) and then another month before it is fixed making a problem sometimes last for over 6 months and after an endless amount of pointless meetings there is finally some kind of fix.
Programmers in corporation are under a lot of (time) pressure and that is not good as it makes them make mistakes. But they have to be able to make quick fixes (as is with most Linux projects) without any corporate meetings or managers.
They can do whatever they want without any judges or other laws having to say anything about it and when you go public (or to your lawyer) you go to prison? Isn't that a human rights violation?
It is just plain C++ open sourced and some assembler code, elegant enough (almost plain English) - I thought Windows was too (oh I forgot, Windows was built with Visual Basic wasn't it)
Give a perfectly working dualbooting system to a total n00b. Someone who doesn't have a clue what a computer is or what internet is. I did it twice already (to my uncle (+/- 35y) and an old friend (+/- 55y)) and I got an amazing result: they liked Linux better because it was:
Easier to use, more stable and more logical built-up. And all their software was already there while with Windows they still had to install everything.
Of course you are not going to give them root access nor are they ever going to figure out how to run MS Office with Crossover but such people can not install anything, even not under Windows, they do not have a clue what the address bar in a browser is for or what the headers of an e-mail are for. Their internet starts with their startpage and everything not found in google is taboo.
@Both Linux and Windows can be easily configured to update but Upgrade any hardware device driver and you have to reboot in Windows Upgrade your hardware device, do rmmod module and modprobe module (can even be automated). The only way you have to reboot is if you have updated your kernel.
A fully updated mailserver (for about 1000 accounts - 1 processor server load 0.00,0.00,0.00) running Linux here has not been rebooted the last 250 days. The Exchange cluster (also for 1000 users - Exchange can't handle the load on 1 dual xeon server) needs to be rebooted every WEEK for a new upgrade or patch
@An average Linux patch takes about 2kb (a real patch, not a whole new version). Windows patches take at least 1MB.
@I have not seen a whole lot remote exploitable holes in Linux, in Windows there are still being exploits reported by a security scanner after all patches and upgrades applied
@With Linux you have the choice to have any kind of distributed patch management and all countries have at least 1 regional server with the updates for your flavoured distro where you can get at least 300kb/s. With Windows I have to connect daily with my SUS to 1 main Windows server in the United States and download my patches at a mere 50kb/s
Actually if Microsoft goes on the same way they are now, I think they are going to be the ones being in history books with a little flock of developers within let's say 10 years.
They are now already burning up their income cash on stupid projects so my guess is that they will be break even the next 2 years. All current profit is already virtual (meaning, it is profit because of (legal) smart calculations, not real cash)
Wait until they actually have to pay out dividends to their shareholders or actually have to pay out a descent fine for their monopolyposition
Not to mention the not-as-known company-specific software. Our company just installed a new voip telephone system that costs them about 15000 euro for 25 people for the software, installation of the software (not the server hardware) and some USB audio headsets disguised as telephones (without keypad). Guess what: it is based on Asterisk (very disguised, running on Windows) while Asterisk-consultants were also considered and they had an offer for about 10000 euro including full Cisco VOIP phones and the server hardware. The only thing was that the server was based on Linux and Microsoft doesn't like it.
There is currently as much proof that the world of today evolved as that the world was created.
There is always going to be the problem: Where and how started it, thousands, millions of years ago, how did God come into existence or how did the big bang come into existence. Just because we don't understand how it came there (and possibly cannot ever grasp it), we do not have to disbelieve in one or another.
Currently we know a lot of stuff. We know that cells start to stop reproducing after a while so we die, we know how DNA works (and the reproducing of species), we know that in certain conditions the reproduced species may have some improvements to cope better with the problems their ancestors had, built-in by birth but how and why it came into existence nobody can understand, explain or say.
In controlled conditions, everyone can say and proof anything. Changing a statistic from linear to logarithmic scale can also seem a better result at first sight but until it is confirmed there is no way to say what or how things happen in this world. For all we know we might be (and interact) in the imagination of some (very twisted and sick) computerprogram built by a smart specie but who will prove it?
Where is the freaking target? There at the lasershow
I can't see anymore... (crashes into building)
Hey, now they are not going to come after us with a jet as quickly, they'll just warn us!
Homing device for the white house
Now we can use laser-guided missiles to shoot them
How about we give them some work checking us all and become reknown criminals (our files might get flagged for terrorist action or even better, come on the FBI wanted list) by visiting those websites.
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I think the American way is stupid (as European I can say that). In (world) mathematics the . is commonly used as multiply (x) sign, the , is used to separate the whole numbers from the partial numbers. And who says: I paid dollar three-thousand? You say: I paid three-thousand dollar, that's why the freaking $ sign is not supposed to be in front of the number!
RTFA They only have to pay 100$/seat for the Windows + Office deal.
Central Scotland Police has signed a three-year deal with Microsoft that will see the force standardise on Microsoft Server 2003 and Windows XP (SP2). The deal was struck under the Office of Government Commerce's (OGC) agreement with Microsoft to offer preferential rates for public sector organisations, and will cost the force less than £60,000 per year. 60000 pounds = +/- 60 pounds/workplace = +/- 108 USD It is not because they could not read the other documents, it is because MS offered them W2k3 + Office2k3 for a mere 100 dollars! Where can I get their software that cheap?
that they didn't do this already in other closed-source programs? It is known that Microsoft Windows has them...
Sure have big plans. Everything there is "made" big. Is it to make up for them being small or just a good economy (Economical Psychology)
Except for your toner (black) lasts about 5000 pages and color about 2000 pages. I can remember my very first inkjet (b&w) and later also the colors: between 25 (black) and 75 (color)$ for a cartridge that lasted maybe 100 or 200 pages if the ink was not harded by then. I have 4 b&w laserprinters (HP LaserJet II&III series) and I use toners that are approximately 6 years old (I got a bunch (20) of them when a company went out of business)!
TFA: The cloud cover, although within NASA's safety limits for landing, was enough to make mission controllers uncomfortable about attempting a Monday touchdown in Florida. They must be really scared. Whole mission long they are scared to land, scared to do this and that because of the previous accident. Get over it! Space is dangerous and if you are scared, don't go there, there are enough chinese/russians/europeans to go there without that fear.
If I can find that persons information through Google (his own company), compile a story out of it and publish it, then why are you mad? Why is your personal information on the internet anyway?
I installed my first Novell DOS on my 8th, OS/2 on my 10th. My nephew of 10 just installed his own Gentoo installation. MCP is really crap. We have MCP's here at my work and they are all in Sales. They do know shit about computers, how they work or Windows or Linux in common.
When they want to do that, they will have to recode all their software. There is virtually no code and/or ideas that Microsoft didn't steal or buy from other company's
There are plenty of tools doing that. Xrandr is one of them. On my Gentoo system, I haven't changed my Xorg.conf ever. Please try something before you go rambling that it's bad or doesn't work just because you're stupid. There are plenty of people that can't find out to right click on the desktop, properties, settings under Windows which blows up your screen. you are too stupid to click in the under-right-corner of your screen to pop out a list of possible and safe resolutions especially for your screen.
Well, I cannot apply to a company that likes Microsoft because of my tattoo. I tattooed tux the penguin on my arm and the BSD-devil on the other ;-)
It's not easy to test an IE update. There are six or seven supported versions and then we're dealing with all the different languages. Our commitment is to protect all customers in all languages on all supported products at the same time, so it becomes a huge undertaking. 1: languages shouldn't be a problem, that is (hopefully) not completely split up throughout the source code is it? aargh!!!! 2: I know only a 3 SUPPORTED IE versions (IE 5, IE 6 and IE 7)
Instead of just believing the people that there is a problem, they have to test it out and develop a plan and then reprogram the piece. I hate that. In my company they have implemented such system too and if you have a problem you have to wait a month before it is planned in (if it is accepted by a group of non-technical managers) and then another month before it is fixed making a problem sometimes last for over 6 months and after an endless amount of pointless meetings there is finally some kind of fix. Programmers in corporation are under a lot of (time) pressure and that is not good as it makes them make mistakes. But they have to be able to make quick fixes (as is with most Linux projects) without any corporate meetings or managers.
After him it is going to be his brother: Jeb Bush, who is governor in Florida according to some sources.
They can do whatever they want without any judges or other laws having to say anything about it and when you go public (or to your lawyer) you go to prison? Isn't that a human rights violation?
It is just plain C++ open sourced and some assembler code, elegant enough (almost plain English) - I thought Windows was too (oh I forgot, Windows was built with Visual Basic wasn't it)
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse
Give a perfectly working dualbooting system to a total n00b. Someone who doesn't have a clue what a computer is or what internet is. I did it twice already (to my uncle (+/- 35y) and an old friend (+/- 55y)) and I got an amazing result: they liked Linux better because it was: Easier to use, more stable and more logical built-up. And all their software was already there while with Windows they still had to install everything. Of course you are not going to give them root access nor are they ever going to figure out how to run MS Office with Crossover but such people can not install anything, even not under Windows, they do not have a clue what the address bar in a browser is for or what the headers of an e-mail are for. Their internet starts with their startpage and everything not found in google is taboo.
@Both Linux and Windows can be easily configured to update but
Upgrade any hardware device driver and you have to reboot in Windows
Upgrade your hardware device, do rmmod module and modprobe module (can even be automated). The only way you have to reboot is if you have updated your kernel.
A fully updated mailserver (for about 1000 accounts - 1 processor server load 0.00,0.00,0.00) running Linux here has not been rebooted the last 250 days. The Exchange cluster (also for 1000 users - Exchange can't handle the load on 1 dual xeon server) needs to be rebooted every WEEK for a new upgrade or patch
@An average Linux patch takes about 2kb (a real patch, not a whole new version). Windows patches take at least 1MB.
@I have not seen a whole lot remote exploitable holes in Linux, in Windows there are still being exploits reported by a security scanner after all patches and upgrades applied
@With Linux you have the choice to have any kind of distributed patch management and all countries have at least 1 regional server with the updates for your flavoured distro where you can get at least 300kb/s. With Windows I have to connect daily with my SUS to 1 main Windows server in the United States and download my patches at a mere 50kb/s
Actually if Microsoft goes on the same way they are now, I think they are going to be the ones being in history books with a little flock of developers within let's say 10 years. They are now already burning up their income cash on stupid projects so my guess is that they will be break even the next 2 years. All current profit is already virtual (meaning, it is profit because of (legal) smart calculations, not real cash) Wait until they actually have to pay out dividends to their shareholders or actually have to pay out a descent fine for their monopolyposition
Not to mention the not-as-known company-specific software. Our company just installed a new voip telephone system that costs them about 15000 euro for 25 people for the software, installation of the software (not the server hardware) and some USB audio headsets disguised as telephones (without keypad). Guess what: it is based on Asterisk (very disguised, running on Windows) while Asterisk-consultants were also considered and they had an offer for about 10000 euro including full Cisco VOIP phones and the server hardware. The only thing was that the server was based on Linux and Microsoft doesn't like it.
There is currently as much proof that the world of today evolved as that the world was created. There is always going to be the problem: Where and how started it, thousands, millions of years ago, how did God come into existence or how did the big bang come into existence. Just because we don't understand how it came there (and possibly cannot ever grasp it), we do not have to disbelieve in one or another. Currently we know a lot of stuff. We know that cells start to stop reproducing after a while so we die, we know how DNA works (and the reproducing of species), we know that in certain conditions the reproduced species may have some improvements to cope better with the problems their ancestors had, built-in by birth but how and why it came into existence nobody can understand, explain or say. In controlled conditions, everyone can say and proof anything. Changing a statistic from linear to logarithmic scale can also seem a better result at first sight but until it is confirmed there is no way to say what or how things happen in this world. For all we know we might be (and interact) in the imagination of some (very twisted and sick) computerprogram built by a smart specie but who will prove it?
Where is the freaking target? There at the lasershow I can't see anymore... (crashes into building) Hey, now they are not going to come after us with a jet as quickly, they'll just warn us! Homing device for the white house Now we can use laser-guided missiles to shoot them
How about we give them some work checking us all and become reknown criminals (our files might get flagged for terrorist action or even better, come on the FBI wanted list) by visiting those websites.