If you are [...] think that the owner of computers should be in control of what they own, [...] <sarcasm> Well, Microsoft Corp. owns Microsoft Windows Vista, and by extension your computer (*), so, what's the point ? </sarcasm>
(*) I mean, are you a computer user or a Microsoft OS end-user bound by license terms ?
And we even know where her mom's basement is located, because he inadvertently leaked a website, that whois is happy to inform us about. You can phone him too, but I see he entered a fake fax number.
With a Packard Bell without a CD, only a floppy that would boot a hidden "recovery" partition. But the hard drive died, few months after the warranty expired...
Second, supply and demand. $52 may be all Dell is willing to pay to put Windows on their systems. Whereas for somebody going out and buying a boxed copy, they are apparently willing to pay more. You got that one wrong. And it's wrong because MS is a monopoly.
If Dell doesn't want to pay more than $52 and MS doesn't want to sell it for less than $53, what happens ?
The price is studied to maximize profit. If the price was higher, the final price of the whole computer would be higher, less would be sold, and both Dell and MS would get less profit. Well, see price point if needed, Wikipedia has more fluent English than me:P .
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To allow you to access to the Minitel services you need, in 2007, we suggest another of our products : Le Compte Achats. Minitel services haven't been closed, web-based "minitelfr" allowing access to Minitel services from the Internet has been. Minitel like BSD still is dying but not dead yet.
if you wish the drop the overhead of testing in 2K, then you stop supporting 2K, and to prevent consumers from installing your software and then coming back to complain about it, you simply block the installation of the software on the older OS. What's wrong with only showing a dialog box ?
Lots of programs in the win9x era would show a dialog box at installation when you tried to install them on a winnt system : Might not work, unsupported... Then, it's the user responsability to choose.
Solid-state drives are flash drives with a PATA/SATA connector, and will work like a regular hard disk, as far as the motherboard and the OS are concerned. Therefore working whatever OS you're using.
Hybrid drives, OTOH, are relying on two different technologies, and it seems the choice of using disk or flash is up to the OS. It means that if your OS isn't Hybrid-drive aware, you probably will end up with using the disk and losing its flash ability. Vista OTOH will be able to put some files on the flash part.
he BEGINS by defining: (infinity) = 1/0 and (-infinity) = -1/0 And that's already wrong.
lim (1/x) = +inf x->0+
but
lim (1/x) = -inf x->0-
Same for -1/x :
lim(-1/x) = -inf x->0+
lim (-1/x) = +inf x->0-
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English wikipedia says division is an arithmetic operation, while french wikipedia says it's not stictly speaking, it is a (internal) composition law, converse to the multiplication operation. Ironically, the "in other languages" links "loi de composition interne" to binary operation...
What is SQL 2005?A wild shortcut for "Windows Server 2003 with.NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005", as opposed to "Windows Server 2003 with.NET Framework 1.1 and SQL Server 2000".
The only area that Windows costs are cheaper in this study is "Labour".
Wrong, as answered by SkunkPussy. I've posted relevant numbers earlier and they tend to confirm the remainder of your post. Please read it before reading further this one.
Typically apache can handle more virtual domains more reliably
It's not the case here compared to the SQL 2005 setup. Looking at hardware and power costs, each physical host is hosting roughly the same number of virtual hosts. However Linux setup gets 171% as much traffic as SQL2005 setup (that is 71% more, but the report prefers larger numbers).
and requires fewer staff to manage. If you have 2 Windows staff and 2 Linux staff then Linux could be seen to be more expensive. The question is, do you really need 2 Linux staff, are they spending half their time idle? Are you using best infrastructure practice to manage your machines or are you installing each by hand? Are the Linux staff simply more senior within the organisation and therefore paid even higher?
They're employing unexperienced Linux staff.
Or if you break it down by domain rather than by server, do the costs come out the same?
That's what they're doing.
The study is deliberately oversimplified to hide the details of where the money's going. After all, it's propaganda.
... and deliberately misleading, I'm surprised how much people are falling for these percentages.
If you look at all the numbers Linux is lower on everything except Labor.You're not the first to fall for these meaningless values, but you're the highest moderated.
Percentages are meaningless if you don't take total cost in account.
Multiplying percentages by the given TCO you get (in eurocents per site/server/month):
But when you look at percentages, those for SQL 2000 and 2005 are quite similar. It means that one real server under SQL2005 hosts twice as much virtual servers as SQL2000.
I will let to others in-depth critics about the methodology. Just that quote from the full report (emphasis mine):
"Hostbasket experiences a lower TCO on Windows than Linux because our support cost for Windows is lower and because our developers and system engineers have better knowledge of Windows than Linux," notes Hostbasket Chief Operating Officer Alex Van Overloop.
Mandriva is as close to a French national distro as Red Hat is an american national distro or SuSe a german national distro. Red Flag is state-founded, others aren't.
Please inform yourself before commenting or moderating inappropriately.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but it all looks like it works totally fine to me.
Well I'm not sure why I wrote "paragraphs", I meant titles. I want 1. to be style title 1, 1.1 to be style title 2 and so on.
Alternatively, from the Format menu, select "Bullets and Numbering".
That was what I was complaining about, I can't make it work with titles, although it works with open office :
I write : title 1 title 2
set title 1 as style Title 1 set title 2 as style Title 2
Go to "Bullets and numbering", select the good one, validate, and now I've
1. title 1 1.1 title 2
Doesn't work on MS Word.
Your solution also works on Open Office but text remain standard, doesn't become title (but given you were answering the wrong problem...)
I'm used to write structured documents : HTML, LaTeX... and usually working on the presentation as the last step. So using tabulations just seems wrong to me : why would a subtitle need to be to the right of the parent title ? Moreover, you wouldn't want to insert tabulations through the whole document when the writing is finished : I've tried to modify the style after numbering the first titles but MS Word has no problem with having two title 1 styles, one numbered and one not numbered.
I was talking about the Microsoft Office 2003 I need to suffer at work. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
If you want details :
Paragraphs numbering : MS Word. Most people here are using old canvas where numbering works. I asked to one guy how it was achieving it. He did tenths of tries clicking everywhere until it worked. Couldn't get a straightforward procedure. Out of curiosity, launched OpenOffice.org 2.0 at home. Did what seemed straightforward to me (selecting 1.1 scheme in bullets and numbering), almost same place as in MS-Office, and it just worked.
Locks : MS Excel. Import an XML file. Close Excel. Try to delete the directory in which the XML file belongs to. Doesn't work. XML file goes away but not the directory. AFAIK only two solutions : reboot MS-Windows or restart excel and import another document in another directory, to move the lock.
Document corruption : MS Word. It implied the integrated drawing tool. Just before crashing, funny things happened. I was writing in a text box and the text would be written to another text box at the same time. Seems two objects had the same index...
While I'm at it : Why does an Acces DB always grow, even when you're removing entries ?
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Well, Microsoft Corp. owns Microsoft Windows Vista, and by extension your computer (*), so, what's the point ?
</sarcasm>
(*) I mean, are you a computer user or a Microsoft OS end-user bound by license terms ?
And we even know where her mom's basement is located, because he inadvertently leaked a website, that whois is happy to inform us about. You can phone him too, but I see he entered a fake fax number.
With a Packard Bell without a CD, only a floppy that would boot a hidden "recovery" partition. But the hard drive died, few months after the warranty expired...
When you're installing things like solar panels for your house in France, you get tax credits, so it practically costs only a fraction of the price.
Are the same kind of dispositions existing in the U.S. ? other coutries ? TFA doesn't say (they're talking about sponsoring, though).
If Dell doesn't want to pay more than $52 and MS doesn't want to sell it for less than $53, what happens ?
The price is studied to maximize profit. If the price was higher, the final price of the whole computer would be higher, less would be sold, and both Dell and MS would get less profit. Well, see price point if needed, Wikipedia has more fluent English than me
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D) pretend the non-mainstream message is a lie.
(somewhat related to B : if you say something loud enough it becomes the truth...)
MS has a desktop monopoly.
Please don't redefine words as you wish.
I guess that by your own definition of monopoly, Standard Oil wasn't a monopoly, as they only controlled 91% of U.S. production at their highest ?
Lots of programs in the win9x era would show a dialog box at installation when you tried to install them on a winnt system : Might not work, unsupported...
Then, it's the user responsability to choose.
Solid-state drives are flash drives with a PATA/SATA connector, and will work like a regular hard disk, as far as the motherboard and the OS are concerned. Therefore working whatever OS you're using.
Hybrid drives, OTOH, are relying on two different technologies, and it seems the choice of using disk or flash is up to the OS. It means that if your OS isn't Hybrid-drive aware, you probably will end up with using the disk and losing its flash ability. Vista OTOH will be able to put some files on the flash part.
"Windows network(ing)" is an oxymoron in the first place, so you shouldn't be surprised...
When I see what british professors accomplishments are, I wouldn't fear too much about the future of U.S. science :)
lim (1/x) = +inf
x->0+
but
lim (1/x) = -inf
x->0-
Same for -1/x :
lim(-1/x) = -inf
x->0+
lim (-1/x) = +inf
x->0-
---
English wikipedia says division is an arithmetic operation, while french wikipedia says it's not stictly speaking, it is a (internal) composition law, converse to the multiplication operation. Ironically, the "in other languages" links "loi de composition interne" to binary operation...
You must be new here
Erm...
;)
Goscinny is dead... since almost 30 years.
And Asterix's adventures are sucking more and more since his death. Check the list.
Now, do whatever you want with Uderzo
You might want to look at Iznogoud, another serie of the great Goscinny...
What is SQL 2005?A wild shortcut for "Windows Server 2003 with .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005", as opposed to "Windows Server 2003 with .NET Framework 1.1 and SQL Server 2000".
;)
But I guess you did understand
Wrong, as answered by SkunkPussy. I've posted relevant numbers earlier and they tend to confirm the remainder of your post. Please read it before reading further this one.
Typically apache can handle more virtual domains more reliablyIt's not the case here compared to the SQL 2005 setup. Looking at hardware and power costs, each physical host is hosting roughly the same number of virtual hosts. However Linux setup gets 171% as much traffic as SQL2005 setup (that is 71% more, but the report prefers larger numbers).
and requires fewer staff to manage. If you have 2 Windows staff and 2 Linux staff then Linux could be seen to be more expensive. The question is, do you really need 2 Linux staff, are they spending half their time idle? Are you using best infrastructure practice to manage your machines or are you installing each by hand? Are the Linux staff simply more senior within the organisation and therefore paid even higher?They're employing unexperienced Linux staff.
Or if you break it down by domain rather than by server, do the costs come out the same?That's what they're doing.
The study is deliberately oversimplified to hide the details of where the money's going. After all, it's propaganda.... and deliberately misleading, I'm surprised how much people are falling for these percentages.
If you look at all the numbers Linux is lower on everything except Labor.You're not the first to fall for these meaningless values, but you're the highest moderated.
.Net 2005, Linux)
Percentages are meaningless if you don't take total cost in account.
Multiplying percentages by the given TCO you get (in eurocents per site/server/month):
(.Net 2000,
Hardware 5.49 2.75 2.77
Network infrastructure 5.06 2.53 2.41
Operations and Network Mgt. 17.48 8.76 8.40
Power 1.69 0.84 0.85
Bandwidth 43.39 21.19 36.34
System software 12.90 6.45 3.31
Application software 50.02 28.64 22.75
Back office software 44.22 22.09 22.10
Labor 211.76 105.77 348.12
Downtime charges 0.00 0.00 0.00
But when you look at percentages, those for SQL 2000 and 2005 are quite similar. It means that one real server under SQL2005 hosts twice as much virtual servers as SQL2000.
I will let to others in-depth critics about the methodology.
Just that quote from the full report (emphasis mine): "Hostbasket experiences a lower TCO on Windows than Linux because our support cost for Windows is lower and because our developers and system engineers have better knowledge of Windows than Linux," notes Hostbasket Chief Operating Officer Alex Van Overloop.
Mandriva is as close to a French national distro as Red Hat is an american national distro or SuSe a german national distro.
Red Flag is state-founded, others aren't.
Please inform yourself before commenting or moderating inappropriately.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but it all looks like it works totally fine to me.
Well I'm not sure why I wrote "paragraphs", I meant titles. I want 1. to be style title 1, 1.1 to be style title 2 and so on.
Alternatively, from the Format menu, select "Bullets and Numbering".
That was what I was complaining about, I can't make it work with titles, although it works with open office :
I write :
title 1
title 2
set title 1 as style Title 1
set title 2 as style Title 2
Go to "Bullets and numbering", select the good one, validate, and now I've
1. title 1
1.1 title 2
Doesn't work on MS Word.
Your solution also works on Open Office but text remain standard, doesn't become title (but given you were answering the wrong problem...)
I'm used to write structured documents : HTML, LaTeX... and usually working on the presentation as the last step. So using tabulations just seems wrong to me : why would a subtitle need to be to the right of the parent title ? Moreover, you wouldn't want to insert tabulations through the whole document when the writing is finished : I've tried to modify the style after numbering the first titles but MS Word has no problem with having two title 1 styles, one numbered and one not numbered.
Er... you must be crazy.
You didn't need to be rude.
Thanks for the tip.
I was talking about the Microsoft Office 2003 I need to suffer at work. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
If you want details :
Paragraphs numbering : MS Word. Most people here are using old canvas where numbering works. I asked to one guy how it was achieving it. He did tenths of tries clicking everywhere until it worked. Couldn't get a straightforward procedure. Out of curiosity, launched OpenOffice.org 2.0 at home. Did what seemed straightforward to me (selecting 1.1 scheme in bullets and numbering), almost same place as in MS-Office, and it just worked.
Locks : MS Excel. Import an XML file. Close Excel. Try to delete the directory in which the XML file belongs to. Doesn't work. XML file goes away but not the directory. AFAIK only two solutions : reboot MS-Windows or restart excel and import another document in another directory, to move the lock.
Document corruption : MS Word. It implied the integrated drawing tool. Just before crashing, funny things happened. I was writing in a text box and the text would be written to another text box at the same time. Seems two objects had the same index...
While I'm at it : Why does an Acces DB always grow, even when you're removing entries ?