If Management is all pretentious pricks from Ivy league schools, then nothing but an Ivy league school has any value. Therefore Online Engineering courses have negative value to them, maybe even some "icky" factor as well.
If the place you work at requires a BA or BS degree for the receptionist position, They will see ZERO value in any online learning, or any education in general that did not have a high dollar amount attached to it.
Libre office works fine and if you have an exchange server you get a bajillion free licenses for outlook.
That is what we do for now. we install Libre office and our free copy of outlook on every PC. 100% legit.
i know a lot of other businesses doing the same thing. Although we will be ditching the Exchange server soon for Google Mail. It's stupid to run your own Email server anymore with a tiny business that has less than 2000 employees.
It is far cheaper for us to let google do it for us and eliminate the Exchange server manager position we had. Saves over $40K a year in operation costs in the IT budget, and the guy was a jerk.
"So if you're an employer who can hire a worker fresh out of college who is making $60,000 versus an older worker who is making $150,000, and the younger worker has skills that are fresher, who would you hire?'"
the graduates skills are NOT fresher. i have never EVER met a new grad that had "fresher skills" than someone who has actually worked in the field for even just a few years.
Who are these very poorly educated hiring managers that actually believe that a recent grad has "fresher" skills? I buy the "we are chepskates" angle but no way in hell a grad knows even 1/10th of what a experienced professional knows about a field.
Not it wont. everyone has moved to trackerless torrents. the guy is simply a idiot that is so far behind the ball he looks like an idiot to anyone in the know.
" Slashdot have ever elaborated a credible alternative for them"
you must be blind then.
Every single time the pirates state.. "make it playable on what I want to play it on and a reasonable price."
that means 30 minute TV shows are $0.25 1 hour are $0.50 and Movies are $1.99
But the rampant obscene greed from the MPAA refuses to even think of that. Sorry, that TV show you broadcast free over public airwaves is NOT worth it to me to pay $1.99 to watch it on my apple TV or other device.
I'll even give you $5.99 for first run just out of theater for the first 4 weeks. But a 1985 movie that made it's money 10 times over? it had better be very very cheap for me to watch.
That is a very viable and REASONABLE alternative. it's just that the people with very low IQ's or are blinded by pure greed refuse to see it as a reasonable response.
"The fiber just got laid 10-15 years ago, we've barely managed to start rolling out IPv6 (I'd equate IPv4 to square rigging...), piracy will be around for quite awhile, but it will eventually be marginalized just Jean Lafitte and his like have been."
That is the single most foolish statement ever made on Slashdot.
The reason Sea "pirates" dont have a chance is because they dont have Trillions of dollars to have massive balttleships built and they typically are low IQ types. If they had any brains they would get their hands on some old WW-II submarines and utterly own the US navy. a WW-II torpedo will take out a US ship easily. We are just lucky that the pirates out there are simply opportunists that are nothing more than petty thieves and muggers of the sea.
On the internet, a 13 year old kid has as much technology and power as the entire US government has. This scares the shit out of the governments of the world and big business. Even after IPv8 has been in place for 20 years and quantum processors have been in the iPad 12 and iPhone 47 a 13 year old that has been studying technology and the internet will STILL have as much power as any government on this planet when on the internet.
The internet is nothing like the physical world where it takes a lot of money and resources to build something.
I work with him, he breaks about 6 a week, he refuses to stop putting them in his shirt pocket. Problem is IT does not realize that we have completely ran through the stock of 27 iphones we had in case of breakage.
Your fingers are fleshy sausages. That is why it does not break.
and no I have not worn gauntlets while using my iphone cince they went out of style in California. Nobody wears gauntlets after June, it's a fashion faux pas to do so.
you are supposed wear fingerless gloves made of silk after june, thus the lack of breakage on glass phones.
A - too uneducated to realize the technology IS there and IS mature. but they throw around dumb statements like " Can you imagine if the government mandated that the model T had to have 10 airbags, and get 50 MPG? " And the US government DID require safety things on the Model T, the hand crank was mandated to be a cam type that would kick out when the motor started instead of whipping around and breaking an arm.
B - You are complaining about something that is not "Union" but general Politician. The Republicans do this as much as the dems. Hell your Republican Christ figure,Ronnie Regan himself said, "union labor is important to the United states" It seems you guys cant see the corruption and stink that is all over in your own party, but it's clear as day in the Democrats. Everything you say about unions are the fault of lobbying and ALL politicians being dirty. Republicans are as at fault as the Dems on this.
Both parties are nothing but corrupt scumbags. And you are foolish to align yourself with such people, it degrades what others think of you.
How about stop frothing at the mouth and regurgitating what others tell you to say and speak for yourself. Learn about something before you spout half truths and outright lies as if they were fact. You end up looking far more credible and people will actually pay attention to what you say.
Tea party hammered? LAST I saw it was national outrage spurred by the EFF and nerds. You Tea Party people were late to the game.
Where the hell were you and your members when the rest of us were screaming NO to it back in September and October?
The GOP did not Listen to you, they saw a giant mass of people angry about it and realized that in an election year it's stupid to piss everyone off. SOPA is "tabled" until everyone is distracted and it will pass quietly attached to a "limit puppy killing to two per day" law.
I am grateful that you guys finally got around to dealing with it, but dont you even think that you were the knights in shining armor. You were the horde that got in on it after the rest of us have been yelling about it for months.
Thor strike from orbit. Nothing like a terminal velocity steel I-beam buried in the center of the CEO's BMW as it sits in the parking lot to get the point across.
"market is rich people and that means the US for the most part."
The system is far more popular in the middle east. Saudi Arabia as well as a the UAE are two of the largest installed base of these systems in the world. In fact as a expert integrator I get offers all the time to spend a month reprogramming some rich guys home or land yacht over there. Saudis make the american rich look like poor paupers.
Dated technology? have you touched one lately? It's far more advanced than any of the crap any geek can build at home. They did a full DVD rip to try and satisfy the stupid MPAA.
The only thing that makes it dated is they tried like hell to keep the industry happy. The DVD images still have their CSS encryption on them, Which was their stupid mistake. You cant keep organized crime happy.
There are walmart only SKU's for TV's and items to avoid having to "price match" Best Buy does this as well. Luckily, red Laser is wise to this and will show you the other SKU's for the exact same TV set.
and none of them pop up the second you click on a text field. It's an epic fail that I have to go hunting for it or take up 1/5 of the screen all the time with it.
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If Management is all pretentious pricks from Ivy league schools, then nothing but an Ivy league school has any value. Therefore Online Engineering courses have negative value to them, maybe even some "icky" factor as well.
If the place you work at requires a BA or BS degree for the receptionist position, They will see ZERO value in any online learning, or any education in general that did not have a high dollar amount attached to it.
Here is a super secret link to it from the hyper secret search tool called google, it took 3 seconds to get it.
https://github.com/kmuto/latex2epub
there is a world outside of apt-get
Well google corperate mail is not free so add that cost +40K and you have your answer. Still overpaid for a MCSE.
Office 2010 does that to office 2003 files.
Only Libre office will open them for us and it even runs the Excel scripting perfectly.
I guess it depends on what special formatting ot scripts you have in the document.
"If we get rid of MS Office we have to replace Outlook, "
Why? you guys running an illegal copy of Exchange server? because that comes with as many Outlook licenses as you have user licenses.
Why?
Libre office works fine and if you have an exchange server you get a bajillion free licenses for outlook.
That is what we do for now. we install Libre office and our free copy of outlook on every PC. 100% legit.
i know a lot of other businesses doing the same thing. Although we will be ditching the Exchange server soon for Google Mail. It's stupid to run your own Email server anymore with a tiny business that has less than 2000 employees.
It is far cheaper for us to let google do it for us and eliminate the Exchange server manager position we had. Saves over $40K a year in operation costs in the IT budget, and the guy was a jerk.
It is. called latex. run tex2epub and have it in your favorite format.
Why? does every single dollar made before Internet distribution get's put in a pile and burned?
No wonder hollywood cant figure this out, it's full of morons.
"So if you're an employer who can hire a worker fresh out of college who is making $60,000 versus an older worker who is making $150,000, and the younger worker has skills that are fresher, who would you hire?'"
the graduates skills are NOT fresher. i have never EVER met a new grad that had "fresher skills" than someone who has actually worked in the field for even just a few years.
Who are these very poorly educated hiring managers that actually believe that a recent grad has "fresher" skills? I buy the "we are chepskates" angle but no way in hell a grad knows even 1/10th of what a experienced professional knows about a field.
Not it wont. everyone has moved to trackerless torrents. the guy is simply a idiot that is so far behind the ball he looks like an idiot to anyone in the know.
" Slashdot have ever elaborated a credible alternative for them"
you must be blind then.
Every single time the pirates state.. "make it playable on what I want to play it on and a reasonable price."
that means 30 minute TV shows are $0.25 1 hour are $0.50 and Movies are $1.99
But the rampant obscene greed from the MPAA refuses to even think of that. Sorry, that TV show you broadcast free over public airwaves is NOT worth it to me to pay $1.99 to watch it on my apple TV or other device.
I'll even give you $5.99 for first run just out of theater for the first 4 weeks. But a 1985 movie that made it's money 10 times over? it had better be very very cheap for me to watch.
That is a very viable and REASONABLE alternative. it's just that the people with very low IQ's or are blinded by pure greed refuse to see it as a reasonable response.
"The fiber just got laid 10-15 years ago, we've barely managed to start rolling out IPv6 (I'd equate IPv4 to square rigging...), piracy will be around for quite awhile, but it will eventually be marginalized just Jean Lafitte and his like have been."
That is the single most foolish statement ever made on Slashdot.
The reason Sea "pirates" dont have a chance is because they dont have Trillions of dollars to have massive balttleships built and they typically are low IQ types. If they had any brains they would get their hands on some old WW-II submarines and utterly own the US navy. a WW-II torpedo will take out a US ship easily. We are just lucky that the pirates out there are simply opportunists that are nothing more than petty thieves and muggers of the sea.
On the internet, a 13 year old kid has as much technology and power as the entire US government has. This scares the shit out of the governments of the world and big business. Even after IPv8 has been in place for 20 years and quantum processors have been in the iPad 12 and iPhone 47 a 13 year old that has been studying technology and the internet will STILL have as much power as any government on this planet when on the internet.
The internet is nothing like the physical world where it takes a lot of money and resources to build something.
You mean like the Microsoft IDE?
Go ahead and read that things EULA, Oh and you cant write anything that is anti microsoft with MS word. That is in their EULA for Office.
I work with him, he breaks about 6 a week, he refuses to stop putting them in his shirt pocket. Problem is IT does not realize that we have completely ran through the stock of 27 iphones we had in case of breakage.
Your fingers are fleshy sausages. That is why it does not break.
and no I have not worn gauntlets while using my iphone cince they went out of style in California. Nobody wears gauntlets after June, it's a fashion faux pas to do so.
you are supposed wear fingerless gloves made of silk after june, thus the lack of breakage on glass phones.
To me republicans are....
A - too uneducated to realize the technology IS there and IS mature. but they throw around dumb statements like " Can you imagine if the government mandated that the model T had to have 10 airbags, and get 50 MPG? " And the US government DID require safety things on the Model T, the hand crank was mandated to be a cam type that would kick out when the motor started instead of whipping around and breaking an arm.
B - You are complaining about something that is not "Union" but general Politician. The Republicans do this as much as the dems. Hell your Republican Christ figure,Ronnie Regan himself said, "union labor is important to the United states" It seems you guys cant see the corruption and stink that is all over in your own party, but it's clear as day in the Democrats. Everything you say about unions are the fault of lobbying and ALL politicians being dirty. Republicans are as at fault as the Dems on this.
Both parties are nothing but corrupt scumbags. And you are foolish to align yourself with such people, it degrades what others think of you.
How about stop frothing at the mouth and regurgitating what others tell you to say and speak for yourself. Learn about something before you spout half truths and outright lies as if they were fact. You end up looking far more credible and people will actually pay attention to what you say.
Tea party hammered? LAST I saw it was national outrage spurred by the EFF and nerds. You Tea Party people were late to the game.
Where the hell were you and your members when the rest of us were screaming NO to it back in September and October?
The GOP did not Listen to you, they saw a giant mass of people angry about it and realized that in an election year it's stupid to piss everyone off. SOPA is "tabled" until everyone is distracted and it will pass quietly attached to a "limit puppy killing to two per day" law.
I am grateful that you guys finally got around to dealing with it, but dont you even think that you were the knights in shining armor. You were the horde that got in on it after the rest of us have been yelling about it for months.
More glass cellphones with easy to break screens and backs!
Thor strike from orbit. Nothing like a terminal velocity steel I-beam buried in the center of the CEO's BMW as it sits in the parking lot to get the point across.
"market is rich people and that means the US for the most part."
The system is far more popular in the middle east. Saudi Arabia as well as a the UAE are two of the largest installed base of these systems in the world. In fact as a expert integrator I get offers all the time to spend a month reprogramming some rich guys home or land yacht over there. Saudis make the american rich look like poor paupers.
Dated technology? have you touched one lately? It's far more advanced than any of the crap any geek can build at home. They did a full DVD rip to try and satisfy the stupid MPAA.
The only thing that makes it dated is they tried like hell to keep the industry happy. The DVD images still have their CSS encryption on them, Which was their stupid mistake. You cant keep organized crime happy.
No the judge is a whiny bitch that cant afford a Kaleidescape system in his home.
There are walmart only SKU's for TV's and items to avoid having to "price match" Best Buy does this as well. Luckily, red Laser is wise to this and will show you the other SKU's for the exact same TV set.
I need to try the latest then, as the last time I tried it, it did not pop up for anything in firefox or Chrome.
and none of them pop up the second you click on a text field. It's an epic fail that I have to go hunting for it or take up 1/5 of the screen all the time with it.