Do these fucking retards think that The World is their property?
In a word... yes
When you buy a smart phone, they collect something like 40 euros. They make more money on the smart phone than the manufacturer does! And they collect that because you "could" uses it to store and play music. But, if you were actually to do such a thing, which you have now paid for with the 40 euro surcharge, you would be committing a criminal act. And the smart phone is just the tip of the iceberg.
A friend of mine is a musician and plays in clubs. He plays his own music and the club still has to pay GEMA more money than he makes. So, yes, they at least think they own all music. This is my opinion, of course. (My lawyer says I have to write that so they don't sue me).
Can you post that on Vimeo so those of us in Germany can watch it? Most videos which have music in them are restricted here but they are stuck on youtube so usually Vimeo will work for a while.
I just put on headsets or in-ear plugs and listen to a youtube video of white noise, such as rain. Here's a link which works for me: http://youtu.be/GyUwg2fBg3k
I've found the same to be true that if I really want to be effective in almost any software task, I sit down and work it out on paper. I use a fountain pen rather than a pencil but that's irrelevant).
A recent study found that students writing their notes on paper had better retention than those using notebooks.
Yes, I would agree with that. I used to use Quattro Pro which was excellent but it had at least one annoying problem: when any part of the spreadsheet was obscured and then any or part of that became visible, the whole window would refresh. It turned out later that, according to an article I read, there was a Windows API which would only repaint the uncovered area, but that was hidden and only the Office people knew about it. More proof of the unfair advantage MS gave their office group and withheld from competitors.
Well... that and the fact that COBOL is actually very good at what it was made to do; batch file processing.
Not just that... COBOL is very good at interactive programming as long as you're using a character cell terminal. Also, it has a built-in report generator and with the right database preprocessor you can bind variables to a cursor making DB programming very easy. Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no open source version of COBOL, or does someone know of one?
How true. Sybase comes to mind. After Microsoft ended their "cooperative" venture, the Microsoft SQL Server was so similar to Sybase that you could use the sybase driver to access it. They didn't just copy the code, they stole it according to industry analysts at the time.
CFLs are not being given a bad name because they save electricity. Do some research. They have mercury in them.
True, but the amount of mercury in a CFL is about 1/4 of the amount of mercury that would be emitted into the air generating the additional energy to power an incandescent light-bulb using the current energy mix in the U.S. Additionally, here in Germany you can easily recycle the CFL's at the dump or at stores where you bought them. The mercury and other materials are recycled back into more CFL's.
But I agree that LED's are the future. They'll get cheaper.
if they can't get word processing done in OpenOffice, perhaps they should check their keyboard connections or hire staff that aren't complete morons because they will likely also have difficulties with Microsoft Word
Yes, how true. I work with Libre Office and I do anything my cohorts at work do with their MS Word and Excel. I don't do much in the way of presentations so I don't know there.
Well, it was well documented that MS offered Munich special conditions to not go with Open Office. And anyone who's been involved with corporate sales knows that "favors" are wide-spread. The council comes up with totally contrived reasons and says, basically, we have old versions of OO and MSO so it's obvious that we have to consolidate on a recent version of MSO. Huh? Why not consolidate on a recent version of OO? Or Libre Office?
I know we would consider a person with a technical degree. For us, it means that the person didn't just continue his education and go to college because Dad was paying and it was better than working. Usually people going to technical colleges go there because they are really interested in doing something specific. These are the people who actually remain interested in what they are doing after college and remain productive.
You probably won't command the big bucks in the job market but I think you'll land a job with a company that is about getting the job done (probably a smaller company) and it will be a more interesting job.
I think people run windows for a variety of reasons, some good, some not so good.
1. People run windows because it's on the PC's they buy. MS has done a good job at making sure it stays that way by offering the big sellers (Dell, HP, etc) discounts on Windows if they promote Windows and make alternatives unattractive. That's why a Linux notebook from Dell costs more than the Windows notebook.
2. People believe that the problems they have with Windows are normal. It's normal to have viruses, for example. Though I think with Windows 7 MS has improved that a lot.
3. It's what they know because of the 1 and 2.
4. Apple products are too expensive for most.
5. It has good-enough software for the home.
6. They know that their devices will work with it. (One of the reasons for not going with Linux, for example).
I mostly use Linux (currently Open Suse with Gnome 3).
I'm not an MS fan but a good friend of mine is a died-in-the-wool MS fan and even for him it's too expensive so he's going with an Android tablet for half the price.
I think there's an element of truth there, though I don't think it was paid my MS to take a dive, per se. I think the board was manipulated to hire Elop who essentially was brought in to make Nokia an MS Platform. It was ripe for that kind of takeover. IMHO Elop is still working for MS.
I am worried about the day when fuel efficiency is mandated such that larger vehicles are essentially no longer produced.
I agree, though I think these are average MPG requirements, so, while the demand for such cars would probably go down, they would still be produced and, I suspect, they would cost more. The hope would be that people who really don't need the gas guzzlers would buy more efficient cars. I don't like big government, but most of the western world is dependent on middle eastern oil which makes us vulnerable so reducing our dependence on that is probably a good idea. You could raise the gas tax to achieve it in a market-based approach, but that wouldn't fly with most Americans (I pay 1.7 Euros per liter in Germany which is about $8 per gallon), so it's in my best interest to not buy an inefficient car.
People in general want the big, powerful "cars" and don't care if they get crappy mileage.
Agreed. I now live in Germany and I'm always amazed, when I visit the states, at how people "need" a 4WD SUV or truck with 16mpg living in Florida! The reasons people give are pretty funny. Like a "what if I want to take a vacation in Alaska, then I need the 4WD" or people driving a 6-wheel AWD truck who need it in case the garbage people go on strike so they can bring their garbage to the dump or what if they need building supplies (even though this one guy lived in an appartment).
Actually, when I was living in Colorado Springs, if there was a snowstorm, it was fun to drive down the highway afterwards because you would see all these 4WD SUV's and trucks stuck in the median or off the road. These guys felt they were imune! Rarely did you see a regular sedan in the ditch. Every now and then when I would get caught in a snow storm I could see why. The people in the 2WD cars were driving carefully while the 4WD cars would speed pass you. You could literally watch 2 or 3 of these start to skid and slide off the road or, sometimes, into other cars in every snow storm.
I drive a 4 cyclinder 84hp honda fit (actually it's a "jazz" here in Germany). I drive it on the autobahn and anywhere else. My girlfriend has a 150hp Audi A4 with conderably more pickup. What I can tell you is that the jazz is every bit as safe and that neither car is perfectly safe. When driving the jazz I know when not to pass and I judge certain situations differently. You can find situations for either car that are unsafe.
You used the argument that merging into traffic at 60mph is unsafe at 30mph. I grew up in the states and can't think of a single onramp where my "whimpy" ford pinto (!) or my ford escort didn't have enough power to reach highway speeds on the onramp even if it was going uphill. Even my jazz with it's 1.4 liter engine reaches autobahn speeds of 80 or so by the time I have to merge.
I live in Germany and the government has forced the owner of the backbone to resell service to competitors so we have much more competition without a whole lot of government intervention. I have a 100mbit line down/6mbit up, with two telephone lines, unlimited free calls within Europe and to the US for 45 euros/month.
I'm not sure where you are getting your cfl bulbs but if they are not lasting any longer than your incandescents then something's wrong. Mine last for years (in fact most of mine I replaced about 5 years ago and they are still working fine). It's been a real money saver for me.
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Do these fucking retards think that The World is their property?
In a word ... yes
When you buy a smart phone, they collect something like 40 euros. They make more money on the smart phone than the manufacturer does! And they collect that because you "could" uses it to store and play music. But, if you were actually to do such a thing, which you have now paid for with the 40 euro surcharge, you would be committing a criminal act. And the smart phone is just the tip of the iceberg.
A friend of mine is a musician and plays in clubs. He plays his own music and the club still has to pay GEMA more money than he makes. So, yes, they at least think they own all music. This is my opinion, of course. (My lawyer says I have to write that so they don't sue me).
Can you post that on Vimeo so those of us in Germany can watch it? Most videos which have music in them are restricted here but they are stuck on youtube so usually Vimeo will work for a while.
I just put on headsets or in-ear plugs and listen to a youtube video of white noise, such as rain. Here's a link which works for me: http://youtu.be/GyUwg2fBg3k
I've found the same to be true that if I really want to be effective in almost any software task, I sit down and work it out on paper. I use a fountain pen rather than a pencil but that's irrelevant).
A recent study found that students writing their notes on paper had better retention than those using notebooks.
YMMV ;-)
Yes, I would agree with that. I used to use Quattro Pro which was excellent but it had at least one annoying problem: when any part of the spreadsheet was obscured and then any or part of that became visible, the whole window would refresh. It turned out later that, according to an article I read, there was a Windows API which would only repaint the uncovered area, but that was hidden and only the Office people knew about it. More proof of the unfair advantage MS gave their office group and withheld from competitors.
Well... that and the fact that COBOL is actually very good at what it was made to do; batch file processing.
Not just that ... COBOL is very good at interactive programming as long as you're using a character cell terminal. Also, it has a built-in report generator and with the right database preprocessor you can bind variables to a cursor making DB programming very easy. Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no open source version of COBOL, or does someone know of one?
I tried ext3 for usb devices that but when I plugged them into another USB device, it had a different user id and could only be accessed by root.
How true. Sybase comes to mind. After Microsoft ended their "cooperative" venture, the Microsoft SQL Server was so similar to Sybase that you could use the sybase driver to access it. They didn't just copy the code, they stole it according to industry analysts at the time.
CFLs are not being given a bad name because they save electricity. Do some research. They have mercury in them.
True, but the amount of mercury in a CFL is about 1/4 of the amount of mercury that would be emitted into the air generating the additional energy to power an incandescent light-bulb using the current energy mix in the U.S. Additionally, here in Germany you can easily recycle the CFL's at the dump or at stores where you bought them. The mercury and other materials are recycled back into more CFL's.
But I agree that LED's are the future. They'll get cheaper.
if they can't get word processing done in OpenOffice, perhaps they should check their keyboard connections or hire staff that aren't complete morons because they will likely also have difficulties with Microsoft Word
Yes, how true. I work with Libre Office and I do anything my cohorts at work do with their MS Word and Excel. I don't do much in the way of presentations so I don't know there.
Well, it was well documented that MS offered Munich special conditions to not go with Open Office. And anyone who's been involved with corporate sales knows that "favors" are wide-spread. The council comes up with totally contrived reasons and says, basically, we have old versions of OO and MSO so it's obvious that we have to consolidate on a recent version of MSO. Huh? Why not consolidate on a recent version of OO? Or Libre Office?
I know we would consider a person with a technical degree. For us, it means that the person didn't just continue his education and go to college because Dad was paying and it was better than working. Usually people going to technical colleges go there because they are really interested in doing something specific. These are the people who actually remain interested in what they are doing after college and remain productive.
You probably won't command the big bucks in the job market but I think you'll land a job with a company that is about getting the job done (probably a smaller company) and it will be a more interesting job.
I think people run windows for a variety of reasons, some good, some not so good.
1. People run windows because it's on the PC's they buy. MS has done a good job at making sure it stays that way by offering the big sellers (Dell, HP, etc) discounts on Windows if they promote Windows and make alternatives unattractive. That's why a Linux notebook from Dell costs more than the Windows notebook.
2. People believe that the problems they have with Windows are normal. It's normal to have viruses, for example. Though I think with Windows 7 MS has improved that a lot.
3. It's what they know because of the 1 and 2.
4. Apple products are too expensive for most.
5. It has good-enough software for the home.
6. They know that their devices will work with it. (One of the reasons for not going with Linux, for example).
I mostly use Linux (currently Open Suse with Gnome 3).
I'm not an MS fan but a good friend of mine is a died-in-the-wool MS fan and even for him it's too expensive so he's going with an Android tablet for half the price.
Paid by Microsoft to take a dive
I think there's an element of truth there, though I don't think it was paid my MS to take a dive, per se. I think the board was manipulated to hire Elop who essentially was brought in to make Nokia an MS Platform. It was ripe for that kind of takeover. IMHO Elop is still working for MS.
Thank you. Very well put.
How true.
I am worried about the day when fuel efficiency is mandated such that larger vehicles are essentially no longer produced.
I agree, though I think these are average MPG requirements, so, while the demand for such cars would probably go down, they would still be produced and, I suspect, they would cost more. The hope would be that people who really don't need the gas guzzlers would buy more efficient cars. I don't like big government, but most of the western world is dependent on middle eastern oil which makes us vulnerable so reducing our dependence on that is probably a good idea. You could raise the gas tax to achieve it in a market-based approach, but that wouldn't fly with most Americans (I pay 1.7 Euros per liter in Germany which is about $8 per gallon), so it's in my best interest to not buy an inefficient car.
People in general want the big, powerful "cars" and don't care if they get crappy mileage.
Agreed. I now live in Germany and I'm always amazed, when I visit the states, at how people "need" a 4WD SUV or truck with 16mpg living in Florida! The reasons people give are pretty funny. Like a "what if I want to take a vacation in Alaska, then I need the 4WD" or people driving a 6-wheel AWD truck who need it in case the garbage people go on strike so they can bring their garbage to the dump or what if they need building supplies (even though this one guy lived in an appartment).
Pretty funny!
Actually, when I was living in Colorado Springs, if there was a snowstorm, it was fun to drive down the highway afterwards because you would see all these 4WD SUV's and trucks stuck in the median or off the road. These guys felt they were imune! Rarely did you see a regular sedan in the ditch. Every now and then when I would get caught in a snow storm I could see why. The people in the 2WD cars were driving carefully while the 4WD cars would speed pass you. You could literally watch 2 or 3 of these start to skid and slide off the road or, sometimes, into other cars in every snow storm.
I drive a 4 cyclinder 84hp honda fit (actually it's a "jazz" here in Germany). I drive it on the autobahn and anywhere else. My girlfriend has a 150hp Audi A4 with conderably more pickup. What I can tell you is that the jazz is every bit as safe and that neither car is perfectly safe. When driving the jazz I know when not to pass and I judge certain situations differently. You can find situations for either car that are unsafe.
You used the argument that merging into traffic at 60mph is unsafe at 30mph. I grew up in the states and can't think of a single onramp where my "whimpy" ford pinto (!) or my ford escort didn't have enough power to reach highway speeds on the onramp even if it was going uphill. Even my jazz with it's 1.4 liter engine reaches autobahn speeds of 80 or so by the time I have to merge.
First Coherent (okay it wasn't "linux")
Then Slackware from floppies (this was pre-internet).
Redhat, Mandrake, Opensuse, Ubuntu.
I live in Germany and the government has forced the owner of the backbone to resell service to competitors so we have much more competition without a whole lot of government intervention. I have a 100mbit line down/6mbit up, with two telephone lines, unlimited free calls within Europe and to the US for 45 euros/month.
I'm not sure where you are getting your cfl bulbs but if they are not lasting any longer than your incandescents then something's wrong. Mine last for years (in fact most of mine I replaced about 5 years ago and they are still working fine). It's been a real money saver for me.
Thank you. My sentiments exactly.