...that in the US, people don't seem to have a problem with a guy's brain blown out with a shotgun on TV, but when a nipple is shown, a big part of the US population is disgusted. It seems to me that some people in the US should check their moral and ethical priorities really.
This is a story a near pension accountant told me a few years ago. We are talking about a small company, say 35 employees and about 20 workstations. Back in the 70's, they bought a Unix system, which in the beginning cost them a large sum of money, but they were happy with it, because apart from the initial cost and some maintenance now and then (since they didn't have an indoor it-guy), it ran what they needed, and they used the system for about 25 years. The costs spread over that amount of time, was pretty low. But then came the day they had to modernize the whole system. So they started looking around, and that's when an MS-only company stepped in. They were lured by the typical MS-marketing talk (it's cheap, it's good, it'll work perfect for your company, Unix is old and out of time). So they bought new pc's and a server with windows NT, all the software they needed (accounting and such) and they set of. He told me that was the biggest mistake his company had ever made. Over the past 10 years, they spend 4 times more then in the 25 years before. In the beginning it all looked sweet, but then the trouble started. Since then they haven been on a constant upgrade scheme. Software becomes outdated, because the accounting software is updated regularly (first it was "requires" SP6, then it became win2k,...), and when the accounting software must be updated, the machines and OS soon follow. They are now in a "change-everything-every-3-to-5-years" cycle, from which they find it very hard to escape. And which costs them a shit load of money every time (not to mention downtime because of these upgrades). If he had known then, what he knows now, he would never have chosen for MS in the first place, but by now, they feel so tied to MS and have spent so much money on it, that they have no option then to tag along with MS, mostly against their will. This is just an example from my personal life, but i keep wondering how many more of these companies exist.
Novell thinks they made a great deal in cooperating with MS, i think they made a very big mistake. I'm very curious when we can start to pick up the pieces that will be left from Novell.
How the movie and music industry must long for the days of vinyl records and videotapes. In those days, they could produce movies and music, sell them to their customers and after 10 to 15 years, if you used the tapes and records enough, they could sell them again to you. Was there any piracy then ? Hell yes. Records were copied on to audio cassettes and with 2 videorecorders you could easily copy any videotape. Now, with media being spread in a digital form, they lost that kind of control over their sales. And the industry is going to do whatever it takes, to try to get the tapes and vinyl back, in the form of DRM.
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It's not a bug, it's a feature...
Again one step closer to that lightsaber. :)
...the lowest cost per launched kilogram for smaller payloads... What would be the price to get my 67kg mother-in-law into orbit ?
The pot calling the kettle black ?
>. news for chickens. Stuff that matters.
The idea of "remote interaction" sounds very promising. :D
Yes, I agree, but before you can activate the brain, some are going to need a brain.
... was dead wrong, it wasn't Jupiter, it's Saturn. :p
...that in the US, people don't seem to have a problem with a guy's brain blown out with a shotgun on TV, but when a nipple is shown, a big part of the US population is disgusted. It seems to me that some people in the US should check their moral and ethical priorities really.
The "Debian package of the day" seems to be the "Slashdotted of the day"!
It doesn't only delete your files, it also seems to eat you display.
Oh Lords of Cobol, hear our prayers... So say we all.
A lunapark and casino with hookers and blackjack... Ah, forget about the blackjack.
First, it isn't a made up story and second, my mothertongue is not English. How is your Dutch ? Your French ? Your German ? Thought so, knob...
This is a story a near pension accountant told me a few years ago. We are talking about a small company, say 35 employees and about 20 workstations. Back in the 70's, they bought a Unix system, which in the beginning cost them a large sum of money, but they were happy with it, because apart from the initial cost and some maintenance now and then (since they didn't have an indoor it-guy), it ran what they needed, and they used the system for about 25 years. The costs spread over that amount of time, was pretty low. But then came the day they had to modernize the whole system. So they started looking around, and that's when an MS-only company stepped in. They were lured by the typical MS-marketing talk (it's cheap, it's good, it'll work perfect for your company, Unix is old and out of time). So they bought new pc's and a server with windows NT, all the software they needed (accounting and such) and they set of. He told me that was the biggest mistake his company had ever made. Over the past 10 years, they spend 4 times more then in the 25 years before. In the beginning it all looked sweet, but then the trouble started. Since then they haven been on a constant upgrade scheme. Software becomes outdated, because the accounting software is updated regularly (first it was "requires" SP6, then it became win2k, ...), and when the accounting software must be updated, the machines and OS soon follow. They are now in a "change-everything-every-3-to-5-years" cycle, from which they find it very hard to escape. And which costs them a shit load of money every time (not to mention downtime because of these upgrades). If he had known then, what he knows now, he would never have chosen for MS in the first place, but by now, they feel so tied to MS and have spent so much money on it, that they have no option then to tag along with MS, mostly against their will. This is just an example from my personal life, but i keep wondering how many more of these companies exist.
No, as in those with not enough money to keep pace with MS.
Novell thinks they made a great deal in cooperating with MS, i think they made a very big mistake. I'm very curious when we can start to pick up the pieces that will be left from Novell.
How the movie and music industry must long for the days of vinyl records and videotapes. In those days, they could produce movies and music, sell them to their customers and after 10 to 15 years, if you used the tapes and records enough, they could sell them again to you. Was there any piracy then ? Hell yes. Records were copied on to audio cassettes and with 2 videorecorders you could easily copy any videotape. Now, with media being spread in a digital form, they lost that kind of control over their sales. And the industry is going to do whatever it takes, to try to get the tapes and vinyl back, in the form of DRM.
Maybe he married a geek/nerd from the opposite sex and they just checked things out together... In that case: better then sex. :)
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You're right. According to Sony the guy was a cracker for sure. :p
God doesn't play dice, he plays soccer...
Can't wait for a reaction of Jack Thompson on this one...
Hemorrhoids ?
I have to type this message from my laptop, because my hard disk needs chemo...