How many people reading this intentionally pay more tax than they are strictly required to?
I do not have his immense wealth. I recently read an article about COSTCO, a competitor to Walmart. Their CEO only takes a reasonable salary, pays his employees a living wage and provides benefits.
Then there are all of the thing like what Rupert Murdock does. Going old school, look at what the Rockefellar family did for the country.
There comes a point where you need to realize you aren't an immigrant just off the boat struggling to stay alive on minimum wage.
I've seen many tech journalists over the years make the (reasonable) point that the multiplicity of Linux distributions hinders the popularity of Linux in some ways.
This situation is one place where those tech journalists are wrong.
Since there are choices, I will be choosing something other than Ubuntu when I replace my system in the spring.
I've been using Ubuntu since it first came out, but I found Unity to be too obnoxious and now this built in "spyware"/integration with Amazon.
I thought I was done with email clients. GMail is just that convenient. Then Google gratitiously changed the interface, horribly, to Google Groups. It was so bad I went back to Thunerbird for Usenet and discovered how refreshingly simple Thunderbird is. I hope it stays that way.
I think the frills are the result of a combination of looking for things to charge you more for and to substitute for a lack of MEANINGFUL, BIG innovations.........like running on alternative fuels.
Cops and other forms of authority are always telling people that if they are doing nothing wrong, then they shouldn't be concerned about a lack of privacy.
Right back at you Police Officers. If you are doing your job without breaking the law you have no reason to be concerned about me recording you.
Seriously, in every big org I've worked out there is some senile old asshole high up in the company that doesn't realize that people on the other coast don't need to know about his open golf date.
So, Hamas fires 200 rockets into Israel. Israel retaliates and "anonymous" cyberattcks their web sites. Yes, you are the villian if you do something about someone shooting rockets into your city.
Every time an issues likes this comes up liberals love to paint Israel as the villian, they swear they are not anti-semetic and they NEVER answer the question what they would do if someone fired rockets into their home town.
I never see American critiques turning over their land to a Native American foundation and moving to Europe. Ditto for Europeans, they have all lived on each others land ( after slaughtering for it ) for time immoralial. Lets not remind them of how Muslims are treated in their countries either.
Interesting that Papa Johns was willing to go to this expense and risk these fines when Papa John himself fought Obamacare claiming it would force him to raise each pizza by 14 cents and endanger his entire business.
People have been saying that Microsoft is just on the edge of falling for decades now. If Vista didn't kill it, nothing will. After the complaints over the Metro UI deafen their ears, they will do what a lot of people in the company probably wanted to do in the first place. Ship Windows with an option for choosing Metro or the Classic Windows interface.
Apple benefited from Vista. It convinced more people to give Apple a try. I convinced about 4 people shopping for a computer at the time to stay away from Vista.
Apple will benefit again.
Interestly, Ubuntus is doing the same thing with Unity, which forced to discover how nice the KDE has become.
So in the end, everyone will win and Microsoft will still be here.
Okay, this is what I got from Wikipedia when I Googled:
In microeconomics and management, the term vertical integration describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It is contrasted with horizontal integration. Vertical integration has also described management styles that bring large portions of the supply chain not only under a common ownership, but also into one corporation (as in the 1920s when the Ford River Rouge Complex began making much of its own steel rather than buy it from suppliers).
So, a vertically integrated company is a company that makes all of the parts for its product or has an ownership in the companies that make the parts.
So, what would it mean, to quote the person I originally replied to that
"and he is the reason that it took MS so long to get their products into a vertical integration"
???
That Microsoft provides a complete solution to their customers, without their customers buying other software? That Microsoft has *some* ownership in everything their customers would buy to work with Windows 8?
Americans voting in the same federal elections get different voting machines and different voting privileges ( early voting, same day voting, or not, etc... ) simply because they live in a different state.
Federal elections should have federal standards. Same machines, same hours, same processes, same deadlines for all American citizens.
I have been programming in Java for 12 years. I came to programming as an adult, with a life, in my late 20s. I did not grow up as a geek spending all my free time pouring over computer stuff. I have never found Java difficult and I have never understood complaints to that end.
I'm not an ubergeek, so maybe my view isn't as good as the guy who wrote this article, but aren't all large projects, regardless of language, harder to manage?
I've worked maintenance on projects done in an old procedural style. I can't believe anyone in 2012 would think that OO is not an improvement and actually makes managing a project harder.
I think this is a great conversation to have, not just with religious people but people into any kind of ism.
Publicly, loudly, clearly disagreeing with them raises charges of intolerance. No, intolerance is bulldozing the churches and killing people who believe x, y or z.
Endorsement and tolerance are two differnt things.
Intolerance is what you get from religious people and people into various isms if you publickly, clearly disagree with beliefs they know they don't have hard evidence for. They are intoleratnt of hearing it or letting other people hear it. They know they need silence or endorsement to preserve the illusion of a reality.
Though it isn't the way he meant it, Romney is spot on for warning American's about becoming another Greece.
While the people are suffering austerity measures, the rich are evading taxes.
Romney wants to impose austerity measures here in the USA, give tax cuts to the rich and so far austerity measures have only made the economies in Europe worse.
Yes, use your vote to help the US from becoming another Greece or Europe, vote against Romney and austerity measures.
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I do not have his immense wealth. I recently read an article about COSTCO, a competitor to Walmart. Their CEO only takes a reasonable salary, pays his employees a living wage and provides benefits.
Then there are all of the thing like what Rupert Murdock does. Going old school, look at what the Rockefellar family did for the country.
There comes a point where you need to realize you aren't an immigrant just off the boat struggling to stay alive on minimum wage.
I am a big fan of VLC. I've been using Linux for about 10 years and when other things fail to play videos, VLC succeeds.
When I am on a Windows box, there is plenty of software to play anything.
What benefit is there, for end users, for porting VLC to Windows?
I've seen many tech journalists over the years make the (reasonable) point that the multiplicity of Linux distributions hinders the popularity of Linux in some ways.
This situation is one place where those tech journalists are wrong.
Since there are choices, I will be choosing something other than Ubuntu when I replace my system in the spring.
I've been using Ubuntu since it first came out, but I found Unity to be too obnoxious and now this built in "spyware"/integration with Amazon.
Pass the MINTs ( KDE version ) please ....
I thought I was done with email clients. GMail is just that convenient. Then Google gratitiously changed the interface, horribly, to Google Groups. It was so bad I went back to Thunerbird for Usenet and discovered how refreshingly simple Thunderbird is. I hope it stays that way.
It wasn't the virus making him collapse, it was his immune system locking up all of his bodily resources.
Vegans have been on planet Earth for decades.
+ 1
I think the frills are the result of a combination of looking for things to charge you more for and to substitute for a lack of MEANINGFUL, BIG innovations.........like running on alternative fuels.
It isn't all that stressful.
You don't friend people you don't know somehow.
You have one Facebook page for family or work........and another where you be more relaxed about what you say.
Just like you have a personal email account separate from your work email account.
I love it.
Cops and other forms of authority are always telling people that if they are doing nothing wrong, then they shouldn't be concerned about a lack of privacy.
Right back at you Police Officers. If you are doing your job without breaking the law you have no reason to be concerned about me recording you.
Seriously, in every big org I've worked out there is some senile old asshole high up in the company that doesn't realize that people on the other coast don't need to know about his open golf date.
So, Hamas fires 200 rockets into Israel. Israel retaliates and "anonymous" cyberattcks their web sites. Yes, you are the villian if you do something about someone shooting rockets into your city.
Every time an issues likes this comes up liberals love to paint Israel as the villian, they swear they are not anti-semetic and they NEVER answer the question what they would do if someone fired rockets into their home town.
I never see American critiques turning over their land to a Native American foundation and moving to Europe. Ditto for Europeans, they have all lived on each others land ( after slaughtering for it ) for time immoralial. Lets not remind them of how Muslims are treated in their countries either.
If any Mozilla developer are reading, I concur.
I've used all versions of Netscape and Firefox. I'm a loyal fan. I would love to have Firefox be a sanctioned browser at work.
Please do this.
Interesting that Papa Johns was willing to go to this expense and risk these fines when Papa John himself fought Obamacare claiming it would force him to raise each pizza by 14 cents and endanger his entire business.
People have been saying that Microsoft is just on the edge of falling for decades now. If Vista didn't kill it, nothing will. After the complaints over the Metro UI deafen their ears, they will do what a lot of people in the company probably wanted to do in the first place. Ship Windows with an option for choosing Metro or the Classic Windows interface.
Apple benefited from Vista. It convinced more people to give Apple a try. I convinced about 4 people shopping for a computer at the time to stay away from Vista.
Apple will benefit again.
Interestly, Ubuntus is doing the same thing with Unity, which forced to discover how nice the KDE has become.
So in the end, everyone will win and Microsoft will still be here.
Okay, this is what I got from Wikipedia when I Googled:
So, a vertically integrated company is a company that makes all of the parts for its product or has an ownership in the companies that make the parts.
So, what would it mean, to quote the person I originally replied to that
???
That Microsoft provides a complete solution to their customers, without their customers buying other software? That Microsoft has *some* ownership in everything their customers would buy to work with Windows 8?
I'm not being sarcastic. I keep reading that term. What does it mean. What is "vertical integration"? Thanks.
Americans voting in the same federal elections get different voting machines and different voting privileges ( early voting, same day voting, or not, etc ... ) simply because they live in a different state.
Federal elections should have federal standards. Same machines, same hours, same processes, same deadlines for all American citizens.
Would you care to name those religions and provide hyperlinks to parts of their texts which claim that disagreement is an insult?
I have been programming in Java for 12 years. I came to programming as an adult, with a life, in my late 20s. I did not grow up as a geek spending all my free time pouring over computer stuff. I have never found Java difficult and I have never understood complaints to that end.
You may laugh, but people actually did that.
Back in my student lab assistant days I had a patron taking Ada programming classes and he used WP 5.0 ( pre gui ) for coding.
I'm not an ubergeek, so maybe my view isn't as good as the guy who wrote this article, but aren't all large projects, regardless of language, harder to manage?
I've worked maintenance on projects done in an old procedural style. I can't believe anyone in 2012 would think that OO is not an improvement and actually makes managing a project harder.
Here is your big chance. Why is it FUD?
I think this is a great conversation to have, not just with religious people but people into any kind of ism.
Publicly, loudly, clearly disagreeing with them raises charges of intolerance. No, intolerance is bulldozing the churches and killing people who believe x, y or z.
Endorsement and tolerance are two differnt things.
Intolerance is what you get from religious people and people into various isms if you publickly, clearly disagree with beliefs they know they don't have hard evidence for. They are intoleratnt of hearing it or letting other people hear it. They know they need silence or endorsement to preserve the illusion of a reality.
Though it isn't the way he meant it, Romney is spot on for warning American's about becoming another Greece.
While the people are suffering austerity measures, the rich are evading taxes.
Romney wants to impose austerity measures here in the USA, give tax cuts to the rich and so far austerity measures have only made the economies in Europe worse.
Yes, use your vote to help the US from becoming another Greece or Europe, vote against Romney and austerity measures.
Does anyone offer for free or sell software that Windows users can use to disable those "features"?