But the meme in the U.S. right now is that all the little guys don't do anything and basically don't even deserve enough money to live.
I don't think there has been a time in U.S. history where people in the U.S. have believed the guy in the top shouldn't be paid the best, but right now as a country we seem to be believing the grunts aren't responsible for the success of these groups at all. At least that is what the CEOs are, as a class, believing. As a result many are saying that these people don't even believe a decent wage or deserve to share in the success of the companies they work for.
And there are plenty of people... people that hang on every word of the CEOs like they're super human, that are willing to believe it. Slashdot seems to get more of the CEO worshipers every day and are happy with the idea that corporations should be able to screw over anyone they choose as long as there is a "benefit to the shareholders."
And this article highlights another one... it's fine for a building to sit empty as long as some corporate entity is making money. The US has about 3 times the number of houses available then there are homeless people and many of those houses were obtained by the banks by nefarious means... but since a corporation benefits no one does anything.
We've got problems with morals in the U.S... but not the moral problems we constantly hear about.
Most managerial types haven't heard of anything else. *That's* the real problem. Google Docs is probably good for any non-advanced thing you want to do, but the managers are now too young to remember Lotus and Wordperfect, plus they tend to think being "computer savvy" means you can copy a file to a flash drive. And they don't want to learn anything new... and "Open Source" is bad because they can't "hold someone's feet to the fire," (an idiotic idea because NO company, no matter how large, is going to hold Microsofts "feet to the fire" for ANY reason).
Well, you are right and you're wrong. This is actually a problem with Office and Microsoft's own practice. If it was a decent open format and MS didn't try to make their formats like.docx proprietary this wouldn't be a problem. It's easy to blame Google for "not being compatible" (and I've seen this attitude in the wild quite often) but if Microsoft is being secretive (and sometimes can't even get the format right themselves) it isn't a surprise that Google doesn't get it right.
The real, non-imagined problems I've had in the past with attempting to get an office to be able to use OO has been with mail merge functions. I haven't tried Mail Merge for with it for several versions, but while OO had some really good functions that were like Crystal Reports it was way, WAY too hard for your normal office person do deal with. They might have a nicer way to do it now... but I had to abandon a changeover I wanted to do because of this. If *I* was doing mail merge I would want the more powerful functionality, but then I like to learn and many of the office-folk don't.
During the "stimulus" think a couple of years ago there were a lot of talking heads saying that stuff like this was wasteful.
I think it's exactly the opposite. There is nothing better you can do in rural and smaller areas. You can't have businesses anywhere without good Internet.
Here in the US we're going to see a 3rd world status in regards to networking by the end of our lifetimes (that is if it's not already that way yet).
Today that loud ITC logo is often associated with the fact that The Muppet Show is coming on, but I assoicated it with Space 1999. It wasn't until the late 80s that I saw the logo without thinking that Space: 1999 was coming on (and then being disapointed by a Muppet Show rerun).
I caught Space:1999 as a kid, but without knowing that I only ever saw epiodes from season 2. As kids do I got hooked on the ideas of the transport tubes, the pylons in the center of all the room that acted as a video phone, the eagles,etc.
A few years ago I got on a kick of watching Thunderbirds which in turn had me looking up all the Anderson shows. I didn't realize they were related until then and then I finally got to watch season 1.
Space: 1999 is really an odd bird. If you were a little kid you probably liked season 2 better, with that first episode with all the bombast of Brian Blessed and Maya the shapeshifter, but then the adults think season 1 is superior. It has all the better writing, the better plots, and the amazing freaking sets.
I also have to say during that same time I came across Terrahawks. It's a funny series and I don't know if I can prounce it good or bad, but I sure as heck watched every episode. Same with Captain Scarlet and "New" Capatain Scarlet...
I am different from most people around here as I don't mind Unity and I don't throw fits over it, but I don't think it's innovative. It's like they put all the mediocre aspects of OS X into one design.
This is all well and good, but Ubuntu and other Gnome based desktops still can not deal with retina displays well yet (unless you go to kubuntu, and even KDE is iffy). Why aren't they working on this? There are good laptops out there that we can't use yet, and I haven't seen any indications anyone a Canonical cares. IMHO this is a lot more important than getting it on the Nexus line (as cool as that might be).
Why is everyone here in the US hooked on the "false dillema" falicy?
Why can't there be multiple issues? We do have the people that overeat, but there's more that a few people that have had problems with obesity and no one quite understands what the real cause is. There can always be multiple causes and multiple solutions (or not one single solution).
I really wish I could mod this down as it is an attack from a corporate sycophant. We are talking about so-called "successful" corporations using a mechanism to keep other corporations and individuals from being successful. That's the real problem here.
And, again, I think the FOSS community needs to form a foundation to get bad patents invalidated so we can have a decent system again.
This is just crap. The first thing that happened when Linksys was bought was that the quality went down the toilet. It happened *immediately* and too quickly for it to be a coinicidence. If there was and "dilution" problem it was because Cisco wanted it to be there.
Linksys put out one of the first wi-fi routers that could be modified and had real power. The first outdoor wi-fi system I ever put out as a newbie was using WRS hardware. Linksys was a real competitor to Cisco as they were putting out very affordable hardware that wasn't garbage. Small business was using Linksys as an alternative to bloated and hard to use Cisco products.
I don't recommend any Linksys products these days from basic 5 pt switches on up because Cisco made sure they were crap for their own reasons.
But something needs to be said: the law in the U.S. is AMAZINGLY forgiving for multinational companies not fullfilling contracts to individuals. We live in a society that is completely hypocritical when it comes to contracts. The masses seem fine when a company violates contracts to individuals but not vice versa.
I wish I could be positive, but with the laws and the courts so scewed towards the rights of corporations, what realistic chance does the submitter have to get his rightfully earned money?
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For some reason I find this observation hilariously funny...
The educational line has a stylized Ralph Nader talking about Covairs.
It could be called "2 Unsafe 2 Speed"
And since they're always right, this is almost a certainty!
But the meme in the U.S. right now is that all the little guys don't do anything and basically don't even deserve enough money to live.
I don't think there has been a time in U.S. history where people in the U.S. have believed the guy in the top shouldn't be paid the best, but right now as a country we seem to be believing the grunts aren't responsible for the success of these groups at all. At least that is what the CEOs are, as a class, believing. As a result many are saying that these people don't even believe a decent wage or deserve to share in the success of the companies they work for.
And there are plenty of people... people that hang on every word of the CEOs like they're super human, that are willing to believe it. Slashdot seems to get more of the CEO worshipers every day and are happy with the idea that corporations should be able to screw over anyone they choose as long as there is a "benefit to the shareholders."
And this article highlights another one... it's fine for a building to sit empty as long as some corporate entity is making money. The US has about 3 times the number of houses available then there are homeless people and many of those houses were obtained by the banks by nefarious means... but since a corporation benefits no one does anything.
We've got problems with morals in the U.S... but not the moral problems we constantly hear about.
You're asking an H.R. person to think. That's way too over optimistic.
Most managerial types haven't heard of anything else. *That's* the real problem. Google Docs is probably good for any non-advanced thing you want to do, but the managers are now too young to remember Lotus and Wordperfect, plus they tend to think being "computer savvy" means you can copy a file to a flash drive. And they don't want to learn anything new... and "Open Source" is bad because they can't "hold someone's feet to the fire," (an idiotic idea because NO company, no matter how large, is going to hold Microsofts "feet to the fire" for ANY reason).
Well, you are right and you're wrong. This is actually a problem with Office and Microsoft's own practice. If it was a decent open format and MS didn't try to make their formats like .docx proprietary this wouldn't be a problem. It's easy to blame Google for "not being compatible" (and I've seen this attitude in the wild quite often) but if Microsoft is being secretive (and sometimes can't even get the format right themselves) it isn't a surprise that Google doesn't get it right.
The real, non-imagined problems I've had in the past with attempting to get an office to be able to use OO has been with mail merge functions. I haven't tried Mail Merge for with it for several versions, but while OO had some really good functions that were like Crystal Reports it was way, WAY too hard for your normal office person do deal with. They might have a nicer way to do it now... but I had to abandon a changeover I wanted to do because of this. If *I* was doing mail merge I would want the more powerful functionality, but then I like to learn and many of the office-folk don't.
No doubt. You have to be able to open all the bad .docx files that the corporate H.R. drones send out so they they will actually import.
During the "stimulus" think a couple of years ago there were a lot of talking heads saying that stuff like this was wasteful.
I think it's exactly the opposite. There is nothing better you can do in rural and smaller areas. You can't have businesses anywhere without good Internet.
Here in the US we're going to see a 3rd world status in regards to networking by the end of our lifetimes (that is if it's not already that way yet).
He deserves it. He's a "maker" and not a "taker."
haw haw haw
You can always hurd them into airport runways.
Today that loud ITC logo is often associated with the fact that The Muppet Show is coming on, but I assoicated it with Space 1999. It wasn't until the late 80s that I saw the logo without thinking that Space: 1999 was coming on (and then being disapointed by a Muppet Show rerun).
There wasn't puppets in UFO, was there? I know he did that, but I thought UFO was a full live action series.
And there was some story explaination for the blue wigs on the moon station... but I don't remember it ever actually being brought up in the series.
I caught Space:1999 as a kid, but without knowing that I only ever saw epiodes from season 2. As kids do I got hooked on the ideas of the transport tubes, the pylons in the center of all the room that acted as a video phone, the eagles,etc.
A few years ago I got on a kick of watching Thunderbirds which in turn had me looking up all the Anderson shows. I didn't realize they were related until then and then I finally got to watch season 1.
Space: 1999 is really an odd bird. If you were a little kid you probably liked season 2 better, with that first episode with all the bombast of Brian Blessed and Maya the shapeshifter, but then the adults think season 1 is superior. It has all the better writing, the better plots, and the amazing freaking sets.
I also have to say during that same time I came across Terrahawks. It's a funny series and I don't know if I can prounce it good or bad, but I sure as heck watched every episode. Same with Captain Scarlet and "New" Capatain Scarlet...
Tired of the corporate sycophants on Slashdot.
I know that it is sacrilege in the U.S. to say so, but some things are worth doing even if you can't make a profit on them.
I am different from most people around here as I don't mind Unity and I don't throw fits over it, but I don't think it's innovative. It's like they put all the mediocre aspects of OS X into one design.
This is all well and good, but Ubuntu and other Gnome based desktops still can not deal with retina displays well yet (unless you go to kubuntu, and even KDE is iffy). Why aren't they working on this? There are good laptops out there that we can't use yet, and I haven't seen any indications anyone a Canonical cares. IMHO this is a lot more important than getting it on the Nexus line (as cool as that might be).
Version 2 was code named Jenna.
He was always good with codes...
Why is everyone here in the US hooked on the "false dillema" falicy?
Why can't there be multiple issues? We do have the people that overeat, but there's more that a few people that have had problems with obesity and no one quite understands what the real cause is. There can always be multiple causes and multiple solutions (or not one single solution).
I really wish I could mod this down as it is an attack from a corporate sycophant. We are talking about so-called "successful" corporations using a mechanism to keep other corporations and individuals from being successful. That's the real problem here.
And, again, I think the FOSS community needs to form a foundation to get bad patents invalidated so we can have a decent system again.
This is just crap. The first thing that happened when Linksys was bought was that the quality went down the toilet. It happened *immediately* and too quickly for it to be a coinicidence. If there was and "dilution" problem it was because Cisco wanted it to be there.
Linksys put out one of the first wi-fi routers that could be modified and had real power. The first outdoor wi-fi system I ever put out as a newbie was using WRS hardware. Linksys was a real competitor to Cisco as they were putting out very affordable hardware that wasn't garbage. Small business was using Linksys as an alternative to bloated and hard to use Cisco products.
I don't recommend any Linksys products these days from basic 5 pt switches on up because Cisco made sure they were crap for their own reasons.
Yes this is the typical answer...
But something needs to be said: the law in the U.S. is AMAZINGLY forgiving for multinational companies not fullfilling contracts to individuals. We live in a society that is completely hypocritical when it comes to contracts. The masses seem fine when a company violates contracts to individuals but not vice versa.
I wish I could be positive, but with the laws and the courts so scewed towards the rights of corporations, what realistic chance does the submitter have to get his rightfully earned money?
Enjoy your cease and desist notices!