Some licensing schemes with oracle can wind up costing companies almost a million dollars per year.

I think they can cost almost that much to administer. I once got involved in trying to work out how much the hell we owed them and it was huge PITA to just extract the stuff out of our sales system. This was partly our fault (we hadn't captured some of the relevant info before) but mainly theirs because we hadn't needed to under the simpler old method.

In fact it was mainly our management's fault. One, for agreeing to the change (though perhaps they didn't have much choice) and two, because they only informed IT 6 months later when they expected a spreadsheet full of the magic lovely numbers to miraculously fall from heaven.

Because, as they say, if females were in leadership positions, there would be only peace in the world.

It'd last about three weeks.

Patents artificially sque the economies of scale.

[Spanish accent]Kew? [/]

At the very least, there should be an option for desperate travelers (like myself, who was stuck in Europe for over a week after planning to be in that miserable continent for less than 3 hours

My grandfather once went to Frankfurt - it wasn't planned to land at all - and he ended up stuck there in rather low-grade accommodation till 1945. And that isn't what you colonial types quaintly refer to as quarter "till" eight, of the p.m.

s/people/kids today/

Sometimes I bookmark posts to respond to; seems I sometimes forget that I already did. Shit, that makes it three!