So, you're a big government libertarian? How does that work exactly?
Ron Paul is a crank who likes woo-woo medical practices despite being a doctor.
Schiff predicted eight of the last two crashes.
Both believe in a now disproven philosophy that self regulated entities "know best" - hows that GFC and the Gulf oil spill working out for you?
I can't remember - it was back in the nineties when Sun was asking everybody to switch to 100% solaris and ditch their MVS mainframes.
Sun was running those (or as/400s or some combination I can't remember) for at least one accounting package, maybe payroll, and announced they were ditching it to "eat their own dog food". Now Sun are the dog food
It's kinda like the last act of every technology company that just realised they exceeded the bounds of their possible markets.
Gets them every time.
It never ends well. Sun tried weaning themselves off IBM accounting hardware at one stage - I never read a press release saying they'd accomplished it.
A million personal assistants at Google will all turn frosty pretty quickly if you try to tear MS Word out of their white knuckled little fists.
I second VBS - asking a customer to install Perl is just asking for trouble unless you're in Unix land. The reason Bourne shell is popular isn't because it's particularly good, but because you know it (or a close variant) will always be available on any *nix.
VBS isn't particularly nice to program in, but if you know what you're doing you can call most windows functions and even do database queries if that floats your boat. Networking stuff is a breeze and you can do a dialog based GUI if necessary.
Exactly. Plus the tech user / big downloader never rings the help line, while gramma is on there every second day. For an ISP, the best customers are the ones you never have to help.
Who is paying the bills at the ISP? The copyright holders or the guys using the bandwidth? And will the copyright holders offer to make up the shortfall after the ISP ditches all it's best customers?
Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton