Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.
If, on the other hand, you choose, of your own volition, to pay the exorbitant fee for the data plan, you only serve to prove that the pricing was reasonable and correct.
And dont forget that the official UK sys admin day site is at http://www.sysadminday.co.uk/ I am confident that it wont get slashdotted. Mainly because nobody cares about sys admins
Although I must admit that lots in work liked that I took in cakes!
I'm thinking that it would be hard to snoop on IT workers this way. Unless the phone is moving when it shouldn't. This is ideal though for cleaning contractors who need to make sure their cleaners are cleaning and not just leaving the vacuum cleaner on.
Yeah and they have stopped reporting on System Administrator Appreciation Day http://www.sysadminday.co.uk/. Which is the most important day of the year! I wouldn't mind so much if people knew about it.
Most of my friends have opted for PS3s but out of 4 people I know with Xbox 360s 3 of them hav had the RROD. (two within the last week) One of them is a very big game player. He was the first one to have his 360 die on him. He has played the PS3 at least as much and watched both bluray and other media on it. The PS3 so far hasn't had an ounce of trouble.
For example, take the act of downloading and installing a piece of "free" software from the 'net. You spend time to download it. Time to work out how to install it and even time (hopefully beforehand) to read through it's features, bugs and abilities to find out if it will solve the problem you have.
So why does so much non-free software also include the process you just mentioned?
OK let me just change what you said for expensive software that I have had dealings with.
You spend time to talk to the salesman. Time to work out how to tell if he is lying and even time (hopefully beforehand) to read through it's features, bugs and abilities to find out if it will solve the problem you have. You buy it and too late find out it doesn't do what you want. You have spent a lot of money and time on this project and cannot look bad in front of your employees/bosses. You make the best of the situation and have to pay high support costs to try to get the software working.
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Tell you what, why don't I hire you and have you work for free and then I will pay you what I think the end product is worth, m'kay?
I think you find that most people produce free (both terms) for themselves. They usually give it away to. They don't tend to produce free sotware to make others (ie. YOU) money.
Although they might code something to offer people a free (both terms of the word again) alternative.
My father wrote some software for a company. They paid for it. That was that. I felt that others might want to use it. Against most others advice we let it go free. He is no poorer as he really wasnt going to advertise it and therefore sell it. There is a new version that he wants to start to sell. Now he has a user base because we gave it away for free. I think that free software helps small businesess to get software and grow and allows developers to prove that their software works.
I know I will get flamed for this post (due to being flamed in person by others) but it was the right thing to do under the circumstances. free opticians software
Oh... Fair point. Mind you could steal the admin password...of course, I did that once and had a written warning. That was the point when I decided that I had to become an admin. Much fun has ensued (from French ensuer, from Latin sequi to follow) since.
Then why not install IE8 on XP? Microsoft IE8 Page. Blah blah blah The taskbar for Vista isnt good enough to upgrade to. Actually I switch between XP and Vista and don't find any real difference in using the taskbar other than instead of using run and search for opening up cmd etc.
Now I have another weather based topic. In the UK all we really talk about is the weather. I will enjoy asking people "What do you think about this blank sun? Do you think it will last long?"
I kind of agree. We have an application for microsoft pcs that is completely free. It's for opticians and yet it isn't being used that much really. It's not a light weight app either. 3 user over a netwok and it does really cool stuff. (only cool if you are an optician)
I think it is suffering because it is free as in beer. If you want to have a look (If you are not an optician, then I wouldn't reccomend it)it is at www.optilett.co.uk
All this discussion anout whether symantecs products are any good is a bit null and void. When we used to sell their products our customers would be sent letters telling them to contact symantec to renew. (These were enterprise customers) Therefore cutting us out of the picture even though we had done all the work in getting these customers using Symantec. Since then we have never sold any of their products. (We didnt lose the customers because they passed the letters onto us without opening them)
The exact same thing happened to a friend that used to sell their products to.
That is the main reason we dont sell their products anymore!
"Ulrich went on to say that he and half a dozen friends were enjoying a bottle of wine each at his house and used a file-sharing client (the name of which eluded him) to download the album."
Slashdot Mirror
Can we just call it kickball?
That would remove all ambiguity and I think it sounds quite good to.
(Most people I suggest it to don't agree with me though, and get quite upset with me)
ooohhh, I wouldn't look like I was knocking Dr Who if I was you! (I know you are not) brace for the defence of the Dr
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Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.
If, on the other hand, you choose, of your own volition, to pay the exorbitant fee for the data plan, you only serve to prove that the pricing was reasonable and correct.
But the data wants to be free doesn't it?
Outside bad - Inside good
And dont forget that the official UK sys admin day site is at http://www.sysadminday.co.uk/
I am confident that it wont get slashdotted.
Mainly because nobody cares about sys admins
Although I must admit that lots in work liked that I took in cakes!
I'm thinking that it would be hard to snoop on IT workers this way. Unless the phone is moving when it shouldn't.
This is ideal though for cleaning contractors who need to make sure their cleaners are cleaning and not just leaving the vacuum cleaner on.
Since I have moved from Windows to Android on my HTC it has been great. I finally have a phone that does what I want it to do.
Yeah and they have stopped reporting on System Administrator Appreciation Day http://www.sysadminday.co.uk/. Which is the most important day of the year! I wouldn't mind so much if people knew about it.
And I for one cant wait until they release Duke Nukem Forever on it!
Most of my friends have opted for PS3s but out of 4 people I know with Xbox 360s 3 of them hav had the RROD. (two within the last week)
One of them is a very big game player.
He was the first one to have his 360 die on him.
He has played the PS3 at least as much and watched both bluray and other media on it.
The PS3 so far hasn't had an ounce of trouble.
For example, take the act of downloading and installing a piece of "free" software from the 'net. You spend time to download it. Time to work out how to install it and even time (hopefully beforehand) to read through it's features, bugs and abilities to find out if it will solve the problem you have.
So why does so much non-free software also include the process you just mentioned?
OK let me just change what you said for expensive software that I have had dealings with.
You spend time to talk to the salesman. Time to work out how to tell if he is lying and even time (hopefully beforehand) to read through it's features, bugs and abilities to find out if it will solve the problem you have.
You buy it and too late find out it doesn't do what you want.
You have spent a lot of money and time on this project and cannot look bad in front of your employees/bosses.
You make the best of the situation and have to pay high support costs to try to get the software working.
Tell you what, why don't I hire you and have you work for free and then I will pay you what I think the end product is worth, m'kay?
I think you find that most people produce free (both terms) for themselves. They usually give it away to.
They don't tend to produce free sotware to make others (ie. YOU) money.
Although they might code something to offer people a free (both terms of the word again) alternative.
My father wrote some software for a company.
They paid for it.
That was that.
I felt that others might want to use it.
Against most others advice we let it go free.
He is no poorer as he really wasnt going to advertise it and therefore sell it.
There is a new version that he wants to start to sell. Now he has a user base because we gave it away for free.
I think that free software helps small businesess to get software and grow and allows developers to prove that their software works.
I know I will get flamed for this post (due to being flamed in person by others) but it was the right thing to do under the circumstances.
free opticians software
Oh...
Fair point.
Mind you could steal the admin password...of course, I did that once and had a written warning. That was the point when I decided that I had to become an admin. Much fun has ensued (from French ensuer, from Latin sequi to follow) since.
Then why not install IE8 on XP?
Microsoft IE8 Page. Blah blah blah
The taskbar for Vista isnt good enough to upgrade to. Actually I switch between XP and Vista and don't find any real difference in using the taskbar other than instead of using run and search for opening up cmd etc.
Is this another USA shotgun thing?
I agree.
Microsoft would probably like to have a slice of the Server making pie.
But would that scare off their software buying customers?
I for one welcome our Wiimote controlled Mower Overloards and hope I get to the Wiimote before my enemies do. (It's a valid concern.)
Now I have another weather based topic.
In the UK all we really talk about is the weather.
I will enjoy asking people "What do you think about this blank sun? Do you think it will last long?"
You mean people in government are supposed to give reasons for doing things!
I must have got confused somewhere along the line...
Oh well, at least Slashdot has stopped me from posting stories about System Administrator Appreciation Day
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/.ers are happy about that!)
Try as I might, I can't get the latest exciting news about this awsome event as a story on
(I think most
I kind of agree.
We have an application for microsoft pcs that is completely free.
It's for opticians and yet it isn't being used that much really.
It's not a light weight app either. 3 user over a netwok and it does really cool stuff. (only cool if you are an optician)
I think it is suffering because it is free as in beer.
If you want to have a look (If you are not an optician, then I wouldn't reccomend it)it is at www.optilett.co.uk
lol.
I was in a rush.
Sorry - steal.
There you go.
I always spell hey as hay, but thats another story.
All this discussion anout whether symantecs products are any good is a bit null and void.
When we used to sell their products our customers would be sent letters telling them to contact symantec to renew. (These were enterprise customers) Therefore cutting us out of the picture even though we had done all the work in getting these customers using Symantec.
Since then we have never sold any of their products.
(We didnt lose the customers because they passed the letters onto us without opening them)
The exact same thing happened to a friend that used to sell their products to.
That is the main reason we dont sell their products anymore!
"Ulrich went on to say that he and half a dozen friends were enjoying a bottle of wine each at his house and used a file-sharing client (the name of which eluded him) to download the album."
There you go - its fixed now